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Ben Sabelhaus

@bpsabelhaus.bsky.social

Late diagnosed autistic. Interested in ethnobotany, pre-settlement lifeway's, human migrations etc.I breed livebearers, Bettas, goldfish and propagate native plants for restoration work. Tend to follow locals, advocates, indigenous.Nothing against others.

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my kiddos friends mom, a nurse and shouldn't have called out a mobile mechanic a week ago and still be borrowing a truck. I'm going to deal my social anxiety and see how I can help. I have the tools, knowledge and connections with Kia to do anything to it.

Sorry, thank you, appreciate you.

28.05.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I will, but I do want to apologize. I didn't intend to offend or mansplain. I am sorry. I respect you and appreciate your posts and interactions. My brain does the same game, I just stopped doing good with it.

Which you just made me realize. Thank you. I've let a neighbor down for too long. She's

28.05.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, like I said just now genuinely interested. You hit the special interest. Now the brain must figure things out and go into service mode :) It was my favorite part of the job. Explaining and often showing the client how it all works, the exact cause etc... Sharing knowledge is more fun.

28.05.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Like I said, special interest and a 60k replacement interval when I started in the industry lol Didsny replacements. The anxiety trigger of a brown seal on an idler pulley... "Those were recalled 4 years ago for seizing before 60k..."

:shudder:

28.05.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh and minor point, but I think I'm Autistisplaining. You hit what was my main special interest that resulted in good employment for a long time πŸ˜‰ I've heard and seen a lot. The timing belt idler pulleys are what make the noise. The belt eventually shreds and starts smacking the cover as it breaks.

28.05.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm more curious what kind of racket a timing belt can make lol I worked in that world as an honest person. I enjoyed when people came in insisting they needed an expensive repair but I could send out relieved with knowledge cheaply. What was the car / noise? You piqued my curiosity here dammit! lol

28.05.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

suddenly start running on two cylinders? Then IIRC the left timing belt broke. If it's the other side it shuts down lol

Timing belt makes many metallic sounds at once. So much energy spun freely into many spinning metal pieces that make sparkly oil drain out. I wonder if I still have my "trophies"

28.05.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure it was a timing belt? The tensioner will make a rattle / tick noise when it's going. A timing belt just breaks without warning (excluding the tensioner screaming for weeks prior to it seizing) So probably alternator unless it only did it on turns then it's power steering.

Or did an old Subaru

28.05.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

prepare my ancestors foods using modern techniques etc...? How did they preserve foods for the lean times? Still trying to work my way around weaving though. Survivorman has me beat there lol Fire will be made by any means if I can't light my weed or tobacco;)

28.05.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They need to rewatch Survivorman and remember how often he failed lol I've gathered wild foods since I was holding my grandfather's hand and gathering with him. When Les Stroud started doing wild harvest I was like "finally, he's catching up to where I was when Survivorman started" lol How can I

28.05.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#herps Baby salamander from the dried up vernal pond. Brought 6 or so back to hopefully grow up. They were under a large rock at the lowest point where there was still a little moisture. Everywhere else was dry.

28.05.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now that you typed it, I'm surprised Alf didn't have a cameo at some point in that movie lol

28.05.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I got out for a bit today and encouraged some black cap raspberries to root their long canes in front of the invasive blackberries. Found an old well pump while working:)

28.05.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Broken record indeed. Still failing to redress grievances and provide accommodations to redress my grievances because the barriers are that bad. You could respond and fight these allegations. You could look at all the receipts already posted. Or we can do new ones.
I'm Alexa stuck on replay.

28.05.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm looking for whoever is running against @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov and @adamsmith.house.gov to assist. They've been in the job too long and are too comfortable being stuck in the past.

28.05.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet the barriers are still there. Notice "she" only posts news but never a reply to anyone? It's not her, just another third party company that is a huge hole in national security and automatically commits FCC 502 violations at $500 per day per violation for failures to redress grievances.

28.05.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thing is, I was ahead of it before Trump was shot in PA due to the exact communication policy barriers to access I had been reporting for years. She knew about the possibility of fraud before Deloitte was brought up on charges in TN and GA and knew damn well about Signalgate being possible as well.

28.05.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, several years ago was the time.
But you, can'twell and generic white guy down to the name Adam Smith hide behind barriers to access and fail to redress grievances of ongoing barriers to access.

28.05.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should be. But they don't do proactive they are reactive. She needs to get her ass in line and experience things herself. Her ongoing failures to redress grievances of barriers to access should put her out of job.

28.05.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wouldn't have had to try contacting the head of national security oversight if @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov and @adamsmith.house.gov would come out from behind the same barriers instead of posting "news" we already know about and never once reading our replies or responding.

27.05.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn right, especially people like @raskin.house.gov who hold or at least held a few years ago when I tried to talk about outdated communication policies.

But the same outdated communication policies are inherent in the system if the FCC doesn't know they're in charge and set communication policy.

27.05.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You know who pays your bills.

Now how about talking with the disabled community about your ongoing ADA violations, failures to redress grievances and your gatekeeper Nicole.

27.05.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yawn,
Get in line at the local food bank, get expired milk, moldy bread and dry beans.

Then come talk when you actually have real world experience.

27.05.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Doing things my way is how I survived and thrived. But eventually I got an employer where that stopped working because his way was the only way and it was very wrong. Ford and Chevy trucks guy bought a multi franchise import dealer and expected it to profit the same way. That led to full diagnosis.

27.05.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our senses exist for a reason. We sense that which others don't. Vision for motion and colors, picking up sounds, smells and tastes. When those are triggered properly they are amazing tools.

But they can also be a jackhammer on a Saturday morning when on 24/7

27.05.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You would be seen as the one reliably bringing home the ripest berries, finding the most tubers or spotting / tracking the game first. You're the one adding extra points to your fish spear or designing a better trap.

You're also the one not getting eaten by a big cat πŸ˜‰

27.05.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Palm oil detective....

Gonna guess greasing themselves up with Palm oil lol

Mom ape: "Ugh, again? Lemme go get the palm oil. Do it again and I leave you there for the humans like your father!"

"But Mom! He's a famous movie star!"

27.05.2025 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heat packs in a small but large enough for the critter container that's ventilated with a blanket.
Cotton swabs and eye drops for infections.
Tooth brush for stuck sheds.
Beyond that you kinda need a vet. They don't tell us until too late.

27.05.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember finding little ones like that around a family friends farm when I was younger. So cool.

27.05.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is frying. Might as well be napalm lol

27.05.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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