digitaldiscipline:

systlin:

dracota:

systlin:

chesand:

systlin:

arandomblackbook:

systlin:

systlin:

systlin:

So some dude got sent to the hospital with cyanide poisoning because he was eating cherries and decided, for some fucking reason, to crack the pits open and eat the meat inside.

“I didn’t think nothin’ of it. Thought it was just a seed.”

“Deep breath”

I SWEAR TO THE FUCKIN GODS…..

(cue 25 minutes of unintelligible yelling)

….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.

I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man.

Fucking incredible.

LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y

Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.

Yes.

Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.

Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.

They all have cyanide in them.

Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.

I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.

To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.

I have been wanting to use these photos for months.

The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.

But then they say DON’T EAT MORE THEN 10 A DAY.

It’s not even FDA approved. “may be toxic”.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

that’s… darwin doing his population control magic, courtesy of sucker capitalism, right there.

“It contained herbs and all-natural ingredients. But belladonna was a herb, and arsenic is natural.”

–Terry Pratchett, Making Money

Late thistle, pokeweed and a butterfly.

Source: eccooperstein

African Americans in Appalachia fight to be seen as a part of coal country

artofnaturalflavor:

Endless green

Source: artofnaturalflavor

siranthonystank:

appalachianetiquette:

thenoraninja:

appalachianetiquette:

Saw this cool bug in the graveyard but I’m no good with identifying things of the bug variety.

That’s some sort of Fae. Offer it milk in a shallow bowl and fresh steel cut oats with cream and butter.

Finally someone gives me a straight answer. Cicada this and cicada that, I knew there had to be more to it.

Is no one going to point out that the binomial name of cicadas is Magicicada cassini

Magicicada cassini

Source: appalachianetiquette

becausebirds:

kingsleyofficial:

This bird from Afghanistan cries on command

This is the most disturbing bird.

Something you won’t be shown at Super Bowl

samthemanwithshoeson:

trebled-negrita-princess:

ifyisnotfunny:

thestray:

rebellloudwiththecrowd:

love the solidarity of seeing this reblogged by blacklivesmatter

Just change the damn name!

SMH

even when I was little, like four or five years old, I never liked this team because I didn’t think their name was very nice.

hungwy:

When y’all fake conversations in your heads do you sometimes say random sentences out loud too? I was just tying my shoes and said very sternly and loudly “I DO know how ants work, fucker”

dragon-in-a-fez:

sadiie:

bisexualr2d2:

SMALL TALK TIP FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE SMALL TALK: Ask people if they have any pets. This is light and impersonal enough to offend no one. People who have pets are usually pretty excited to talk about them and show off pictures, so there’s a good chance that you will be looking at kitties and doggos. People who don’t have pets will usually talk about the pets they wish they had, or have had in the past. People who neither have nor want pets are pretty rare.

It’s a neutral topic to talk about but be prepared for the weirdest shit. I once spent an hour listening to a financial manager who kept tropical velvet earthworms

that sounds like an excellent reason to try this strategy

emmeetslawschool:

Researching cat trees. This review is my favorite.