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I wander around in the woods taking pictures of mushrooms.
That's not to say I don't forage mushrooms, I do, but I stick to softball sized or larger giant puffballs and chicken of the woods. I'd eat morels if I ever found them, but I've never been so lucky.
I'll check the photos later against my mushroom guides at home. I wanted to point out that running four different photos of these mushrooms through different identifiers gave me four different identifications. Two edible, two non. I'm not taking chances with mushrooms I'm not certain about.
Everything that isn't a turkey tail is finally getting growing! My best guess is that these are poplar field caps (cyclocybe agarita), but I'm far from certain.
And by "not a huge fan of annuals", I mean that time, as a concept, is difficult.
Portulaca. I'm not a huge fan of annuals, but these are colorful enough to win me over.
I would never be able to access my phone, as everyone in my life who has been accidentally hit by my phone can attest.
i have accidentally thrown my phone out of my own hands multiple times while trying to switch hands
instagram apparently has a thing where if you shake the phone it asks if you need help - i have accidentally triggered it multiple times
there's no way i wouldn't brick this phone within a week.
The park I'm in today used to have houses on it. A neat side effect of that happens to be surprise daffodils.
Peniophora rufa? I think? A first for me and very tiny, I thought this was lichen of some sort before I got closer. #fungifriends
You're right. I think the difference is the response to that-- there have been changes in how restraints are handled specifically because off how wrong and unacceptable it was/is (still happens).
Anyone who isn't a cop who performs physical restraints on a daily basis has the risk of killing the restrainee hammered into them. It is well and fully known that it's easy to accidentally kill someone in a restraint!
I used to teach physical intervention and restraint. I cannot express how utterly unsurprising this is. *Any* restraint carries a risk of death. When you're sedating someone and affecting their breathing, of course the risk of death is going to skyrocket.
Wild plums are starting to blossom. Here's hoping for a good harvest this year and more excellent jam!
Insane. My rescue pup had a litter at 9 months before we adopted her. Foster mom said she was so happy to be away from the puppies!
One of my favorite spring flowers, bloodroot. They have caustic sap, so I have no plans to grow them myself. But the woods are full of them right now, getting ready to bloom.
Stretching the old illustration muscles. Cats really are the best, and of course, all cats are beautiful.
In spite of the snow and below freezing Temps, spring is is still coming. Bloodroot flowers budding in the woods
It's been a while since I've made any papercuts, but the urge struck me this morning. Sometimes you have to be the adult/bigger person, and it suuuucks. This is laser cut, and I'm proud of myself for completing *any* illustration during this long art dry spell.q1
The snow is gone, and the mushrooms are visible again. It's nice to hear the frogs getting started up, and even better to skip the winter gear. Turkey tail mushrooms. #fungifriends
Nothing that motivates sketching like some good work by the U of M protestors. I wasn't sure about including images with cursing, so the image with the original text is in reply to this one.
Should be readable by humans, less sp by machines. Anyone who wants this should have at it, I don't have a Twitter account.
I had spring fever a couple of weeks ago when it was warm out and started some zucchini.
That may have been a mistake.
people performing the restraint. Why do police forces continue to use methods with a high risk of death for the person being restrained? Because the cruelty and the deaths from positional asphyxia are the point.
Positional asphyxia is a real thing that kills people, has killed people, will continue to kill people, and we've known it's a thing that needs preventing for a very long time. There are alternative methods of restraint that present a significantly lower risk of death while still being safe for the
couldn't breathe was an immediate call to break the restraint. Not that we'd just walk off, but the person was immediately released for an airway check. Our agency felt that preventing someone from serious injury (staff or client) was not as important as NOT KILLING THEM.
Anyone who has ever had me as an instructor would likely remember the same thing, or my folder of articles about people who had died in mental health institutions, hospitals, jails, and police interventions from positional asphyxia. They might remember that at our agency, someone saying they
on a bed or other very yielding surface. Almost 25 years ago it was repeatedly emphasized that it is, unfortunately, easy to accidentally kill someone in a prone restraint. That positional asphyxia is a real risk, and never worth restraining someone face down.
When I was learning how to perform restraints in 2000, the instructor made a point of giving examples of individuals dying in restraint (in the mental health field) and gave us instructions on safer practices, like never holding someone face down, never touching their chest, and never restraining
It is most likely to occur when a person is prone--face down--with pressure on their shoulders or back. The person is able to breathe out, but due to the pressure on their lungs and diaphragm, cannot breathe in. Which means they can, at least for a limited time, call for help or scream.
One of the main ways it happens, however, is when an individual is being restrained by others. It can occur when a child is sitting up and being bear hugged by an adult-- pressure is put on the chest and the child cannot breathe in.
There was a terrible accident a whe back where a high school student became caught in a seat in his car and died of positional asphyxiation.
This can happen to infants who are not properly secured in a swing or carseat- they slump into a position they can't get out of, blocking their airway. It can happen if children wedge themselves into an upside down position while playing and are not properly supervised.
One of the things I learned when I first started physically intervening with (restraining) people in crisis, was the risk of positional asphyxia. Positional asphyxia is what happens when someone's body is placed in a way that their anatomy impedes their ability to breathe.
I worked for more than 20 years with individuals who were physically aggressive towards those around them when upset, and eventually became a physical intervention instructor. This is to say, I have a background in this.
In my working life, one of the things I am best at is crisis intervention and restraint reduction when working with mentally ill individuals. As in, I provided technical support to teachers and staff to have more successful interventions with people in crisis, defined by not restraining them.
Apropos of a discussion I made the mistake of getting myself into, I want to take a break from mushroomposting for a second and talk about positional asphyxia.
Ah, this was my mistake in thinking this was a good faith discussion.
But it doesn't need to be beyond a reasonable doubt for *you*. It needs to be beyond a reasonable doubt for the jury deciding the case.
Positional asphyxia is a regular, frequent cause of death for individuals in prone (face first) restraint positions, to the point that in some places prone restraints are banned specifically to prevent the elevated risk of death that comes with a prone restraint.
Coral fungus I photographed in the fall. My fave. #fungifriends
This is the only one of these guys I've ever seen in person. Some sort of stinkhorn, but i missed the veil. #fungifriends
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