Bubba Bullock

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[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@OldAPG Where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop bottles is all we would kill

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@huligan_wolf @buggy_con While I agree he fits too well, but I can't ever see him not as the Tick. Severely underrated

[Manlet Thorin @ManletThorin]

“There’s goblins over there.”

“Thanks again, Sting.”

“No problem. I’ll be watching you.”

[Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969]

@Mattzwolinski https://t.co/NsWMDuSxG2

[Andrew Cooperrider @KYCooperrider]

🚨 Breaking: Tonight a data center developer in Kentucky is going to try to get around the county government and ram through a new data center at a city council meeting.

This developer has offered the city of Burgin up to $25,000 to rush through the proposal and hold the vote tonight.

They are pushing hard to bypass Mercer County planning & zoning by annexing the Van Arsdall property into Burgin city limits.

Burgin has no Planning & Zoning Commission, so annexation lets them skip the county process that already killed their earlier attempt six months ago. They’re in a major rush because the developer has to cut a big check to KU by August 1st to secure materials and power allocation. Without fast annexation and approvals, they lose their spot in line. That’s why the developer is offering to pay the city up to $25,000 to expedite everything and cover the costs — including a special meeting and quick votes while the city attorney is on vacation.

Why the obsession with forcing this through when the community has made it clear they don’t want it? You knew the land wasn’t properly zoned for this when you started.

If the people of Mercer County don’t support a massive data center on farmland, why not move on to a site where it’s actually wanted instead of trying to ram it through with money and rushed procedures?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Someone broke into a Wilmington garden in 2013 and stole over 1,000 Venus flytraps. About 90 percent of everything in the place, gone overnight.

The garden had been named for its founder the year before. His name was Stanley Rehder, and he'd spent decades growing flytraps from seed and planting them in a soggy corner of a development site that was too wet to build on but had exactly the right soil.

When development started threatening the longleaf pine bogs where wild flytraps grow, he lobbied for protection. When poachers hit the wild populations, he replanted.

By the time he was done, the patch had a conservation easement, viewing decks, and free public plant walks every Saturday.

The theft made enough noise that North Carolina passed a law making Venus flytrap poaching a felony.

The flytraps grew back. The garden is still there, still free, still running walks on Saturday mornings. Stanley Rehder's name is on it and the plants he kept replanting are in the ground.

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@themaddierune I thought Albert Finney did a great job in Big Fish. Sounded exactly my uncle John from Georgia

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@OsheaJacksonJr I wish this kid would have been on Letterman

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock2]

I really love this footage of a Pershing fighting a Panther in 1945 Cologne

To this day some of the cleanest tank warfare footage from WW2 ever

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@VerizonSupport I've been calling all morning but your stupid "digital representative" keeps hanging up on me or getting stuck in a loop.
You're online chatbot is just as bad. I just need my final bill!!!!

[John Greenewald, Jr. @theblackvault]

Here is a thread of each of the UFO videos released today by the Department of War.

[Dr. Hunter S. Thompson @GonzoVice]

I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a lifelong Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. The first time I managed to pick up a basketball, I knew I was destined to lead the University of Kentucky to another National championship.… Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@tOSUWRU @BearsPurgatory @rece_messmer Has anything I said been factually untrue? Make a single cogent point or cease your ad hominen attacks

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@tOSUWRU @BearsPurgatory @rece_messmer Well they've never won in the NBA either.
Players from the state?

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@tOSUWRU @BearsPurgatory @rece_messmer The state of Indiana has not had a National Championship in Bball in 35 years

[Bubba Bullock @BubbaBullock]

@DrewSav T59gop7 xc 546t

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

American, never let foreigners shame you about how we protect our wildlife.

Americans invented the field of wildlife biology (Aldo Leopold) integrating biology, ecology, and management. We were the first to create a national university system (starting with the University of Wisconsin’s program) to systematize the discipline of wildlife biology and grow our impact across species and systems. This professionalized wildlife science and management worldwide.

Americans created the world’s first national parks establishing the idea of setting aside public land for wildlife and recreation. Our model is emulated globally. I have half a dozen senior fish and wildlife professionals at any given time that come to study with us to learn how we do it and bring what we know back home.

Americans invented the idea of wildlife as a public trust (you own all of our wildlife, not a lord or a private land owner like in much of the old world). We passed laws to require rigorous science based management to inform hunting seasons. We saw the early errors of our ways and ended commercial game markets that decimated our big game. We invented the “user pays” system where hunters and anglers fund conservation via licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammo to the tune of $50 billion since our programs began.

All of these innovations enabled the most dramatic and remarkable wildlife population recoveries on record. Bison, reduced to ~1000 now number half a million thanks to public land, science, and management. White tailed deer were nearly eliminated by 1900 now see numbers greater than 30 million. Wild turkey, my favorite example of a major conservation innovation in our trap and transfer programs (paid for by hunters) recovered spectacularly. Elk, beaver, birds of prey, pronghorn, the list goes on and on. America has also done more than any other nation in human history to fund global wildlife conservation as well. Billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Africa, LatAm, and Asia to protect wildlife and train local scientists, a largely thankless gift from the US taxpayer.

Saying that our wildlife has been “exterminated” is just an insane and ignorant claim to make but don’t let that stop you from weighing in on our affairs!

[corb @awshuqs]

Dear Rian Johnson,

Please consider making a Muppets Knives Out film.

Thank you.