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Absolutely nuts
For fucks sake, put a fucking NSFW tag on this shit. I hated it, but for other people it could even be worse.
Your post is bad, and you should feel bad.
"Preparing a woodpecker for winter" 😂😂😂
Thanks I hate it
Perhaps you suffer from trypophobia.
Shower heads must be a nightmare.
Well i certainly know i do now.
Tree zits
Would love to have a wood pecker as a pet, but the last thing I need in my financial situation is another bill.
This is why I got chickens instead of ducks.
Trypophabia ⚠️
TIL I have Trypophobia!
Like most phobias I think most people experience discomfort with this imagery but to really have a phobia it needs to be an unreasonable level of anxiety I think.
IDK why we have a hard wired aversion to these. It might be a vestigial response to some kind of predator or danger which is no longer relevant.
I think it signals severe ailment, like blisters, pox diseases, etc
It looks like spider eggs and eyes.
Were you to wake up one day with something like this in the skin of your leg (it can happen), I think you would realize why it can become a phobia 🤣 Also, I hope that never happens!
I think that it disgusts me and makes me extremely uncomfortable. I would avoid it at all costs and I would probably freak out if I wound up unknowingly close to it. It is a weird type of fear. I can't explain why but my body will insist I stay far the hell away.
These kinds of pictures remind me of some type of weird infection
Gives me feeling of burning the sickness out!
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i guess woodpeckers don't get trypophobia
CMV: Trypophobia should be tagged as NSFW.
It's not a phobia, it's just gross. Everybody thinks it looks gross.
Genuine questions for the purpose of discussion: should photos of spiders also be marked as NSFW for arachnophobia? What other phobias should and shouldn't be considered in this?
I do not have any genuine phobias, so I concede that I'm speaking out of my limited knowledge coming only from years of solo and group therapy for other issues, but NSFW tags are intended to block images that you wouldn't want your boss (or mom, or general public) to see you looking at due to them being sexual or otherwise inappropriate. There are a lot of things that are going to trigger phobias and other very difficult feelings for a lot of people, but I don't think it's feasible to ask that everyone accommodate all possibilities when posting images or sharing stories. I think it's a positive thing to tag content warnings in bodies of text, for example, and at the same time I think that a person that can have an extreme reaction to what is otherwise an innocuous image due to a personal issue needs to take responsibility for it.
I hope this doesn't come across as minimizing the very real struggles that people with phobias have to deal with on a daily basis, and as a whole I support making public spaces more accessible.
ETA: my understanding of a phobia is having an irrational fear so severe that it causes very real and disruptive anxiety and panic upon being exposed to the phobia. If seeing an image like this causes you discomfort or unease, but doesn't really affect you severely or impact your life negatively, is that really a phobia?
I think trypophobia is a "meme" phobia on the internet.
Like how everyone says "oh that's my OCD". It's not really OCD (and it's somewhat demeaning to people that do really have OCD), they're just picky/finicky/particular.
Same with trypophobia. It may be a crippling phobia to a small amount of people, but it's unsettling at most to a lot of people. Like that. Lots of people don't have a serious phobia around a bunch of holes (some people do, I'm not saying it's not real)...it just makes them feel really uncomfortable in a weird and almost indescribable way.
Fun fact: Caulrophobia (fear of clowns) is way more common than arachnophobia (according to a quick glance at wikipedia), if we ignore how serious a reaction usually is in deciding what to cw, we better be ready to hide all Balatro screenshots.
I definitely think content warnings (not specifically "NSFW") are ideal for this. Sure, the line between what should and shouldn't be content-warned is blurry, and you don't need to go through every highly-specific issue someone might have with your post, but things like tripophobia (or arachnophobia) are pretty widely known so it makes sense to warn about it imo. Especially for image posts since you can't really just "not look at it" if it pops up in your feed.
And whether or not the warning is precisely about a "phobia" isn't relevant imo. It's just a nice thing to do, as it avoids causing others to feel suddenly itchy and uncomfortable for several minutes.
So no, I wouldn't tag spider images as NSFW, but I'd definitely add a "CW: spider" if Lemmy supported it 🙂
Part of the problem is the lack of tools/functionality. Lemmy doesn't allow for hiding images without the NSFW tag. It could/should function a lot more like mastodon in some ways in our opinion, allowing both the user to hide all images in their settings and having more specific CWs that could hide even the post image behind.
There is Lemmy RFC that addresses more CW tags
I think that sometimes CW are used incorrectly and it produces absurd situations like CW on a poem:
We have AI which is good at image recognition. Just use this little schmuck to add tags to posts and allow users to filter tags. Would also helo with Trump/Elon filtering etc.
Shouldn't this be: A Woodpecker Preparing for Winter? The order of words a in sentence, difference makes.
Yeah, sounds like a title to a recipe 😆
I stuff my woodpecker's holes full of acorns before I gobble it up. Doesn't everyone?
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Perhaps it's translated from another language. The whole thing seems a little stilted, so maybe.
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This is amazing. I have a question though: How come only the author woodpecker can remove the acorns but not other woodpeckers? What kind of ID tech are these guys using?
They jam the acorn in hard enough that you have to break the acorn to get it out. If they put it in too small a hole, though, it breaks and rots. Too big a hole and they get taken.
EDIT: clearly didn't read closely enough. PBS says that woodpecker families run security on their stashes. So they basically just attack anybody who tries stealing. So I guess the ID tech is 'eyes'.
'patrols and batons' classic
This hole is mine!
This is making me feel queasy cos that tree makes me think of skin and the things in it zits.
That's trypophobia . Don't Google it though, might come up with a lot of triggering pictures.
Why so many people are complaining and having trypophobia in this thread? Is that very common? I've never heard of it before
There's a study showing about 1 in 6 people have it to some degree, so relatively common. It's just that the images that trigger it are specific and rare, for me the clustering and the type of holes have to be just right, but if it is, ick
The way I learned about it was someone posted a picture specifically meant to trigger it on 4chan to troll people, and it haunted me enough to look into it.
Damn
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