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(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,
inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.
can we focus on the gnome for a second
wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat
these are the people i have to share a highway with
I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin
A popular antidepressant is being recalled because it may contain elevated levels of a cancer-causing substance.
Click the link! The drug treats several things, including fibromyalgia.
Article dated June 14, 2026.
Thousands of bottles of Duloxetine delayed-release capsules are being voluntarily recalled by Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. The pills are commonly used to treat depression, anxiety, and fibromyalgia, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website
handing out flyers to transmascs about estradiol cream (can be used to keep your pussy wet and healthy but without triggering periods or having any feminizing effects) and transfemmes about Cialis (works even post-orchi)
and then telling both to start prep too
new blog same sexual health advocate. since making this post i’ve switched from cialis to topical testosterone cream though.
‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ trust me, if white people know you aren't safe to be racist around, we'll notice! Your ACTIONS will speak for you!
It's no surprise that shark skin is such a good topic for the phenomenon called smooth-sharking.
Sharks having rough, sandpaper-like skin is a pretty widely-known piece of trivia; I learned that as a kid. But it's not so widely-known that people who know it can assume everyone else knows. From a moderate distance, they certainly look smooth.
So you have a substantial number of people who are confident in their shark knowledge, but not confident in other people's shark knowledge. And also, they haven't been smooth-sharked yet. Every day, more nerdy kids join Tumblr than get exposed to the "smooth shark" meme.
And the first time they see someone say sharks are smooth, they chime in to correct what looks like an ordinary misunderstanding. But plenty of their digital neighbors know about smooth-sharking, and descend on the well-meaning nerd, like a wounded seal being attacked by some kind of smooth-skinned fish.
The feeding frenzy often attracts other nerds unfamiliar with smooth-sharking, and the sheer number of people who get tricked by smooth-sharking turns into a spectacle for those in on the joke. Thus the smooth-shark arguments get spread far and wide, encouraging other tumblrinas to follow in their footsteps.
And as the meme spreads, the circle of life continues.
Sharks have skin?!?
Yes; most animals do. It's important for keeping your insides in, which is a universal struggle across the animal kingdom.
They don't have scales? I thought they were fish!
First off, skin and scales are not mutually exclusive. Some creatures have skin under their scales, some have skin over their scales, but I am not aware of anything that has scales instead of skin.
Second, "fish" are an extremely diverse group of organisms. (Tuna are more closely-related to every reptile, bird, and mammal than they are to sharks, and more closely-related to sharks than to jawless fishes. Many fish have scales (IIRC, usually under their outer skin layers), many do not.
Third, "scale" is not a well-defined term. Sharkskin is rough because sharks have dermal denticles, which are basically small teeth. (Complete with pulp and enamel.) Structure and origin aside, though, denticles are small rigid plates which grows from the shark's skin; they are scale-like, and sometimes called "placoid scales".
Biology is complicated sometimes.
Yeah, sharks have scales. Just like I thought. Just like a snake or slamon
Well, yes and no. A shark's placoid scales are basically little teeth, which means they are very different in structure from most scaly animals' keratinous scales. But keratinous scales come in many forms, too.
Most reptile scales form from the epidermis, the outer layer of skin. There's variation within reptiles—osteiderms with bony plates under the keratin, scutes which form deep in the dermis, etc—but that's what snakes have.
By contrast, slamon skin tends to be covered in hair and basketball jerseys.
Fish scales make reptile scales look samey, but most bony fish have scales which grow from the mesoderm (the middle skin layer). They usually don't protrude through the epidermis. Salmon specifically have cycloid scales, a round smooth scale whose structure is defined by bony ridges.
Biology is complicated sometimes.
So what your'e saying is, sharks are smooth?
So I've heard that one of the risks of diy gene therapy is increased cancer risk and danger of the viruses used to genetically modify cells spreading to non-targeted tissues. What if I took some of my skin cells, cultured them in vitro, did gene therapy on them there to say, produce a certain pigment or glow or something as well as limit their ability to reproduce, then implanted them back into my skin using tattoo needles. The viruses couldn't spread to other tissues, the cells would be locked in with my other skin cells and would have a hard time migrating, and the slowed or halted cell division would limit their risk of becoming cancerous (while also making the effect temporary-ish)
Has anyone tried smth similar?
I don’t know of anyone who has tried that exact method, but I know that Josie Zayner has done some pretty extensive work with CRISPR CAS 9. She even injected herself with CRISPR CAS 9 at one point.
My initial concern would be just how long it would last if the cells weren’t dividing very much/ at all. But if the method to do it is easy enough, maybe it could be sustainable.
Fair, yeah, would be interesting at least. Wish I had the time/money to do biotech. Tho it's certainly falling rapidly in price
Seems legit
we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means
these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"
It was Bad.
Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.
For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.
A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)
Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.
Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.
The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.
Me, at the local coffee shop: Hey, can I get an objective experience of reality? Blue-haired feminist barista, pronounedly: Oh, you mean a construction of the intellect according to its a priori principles? Me, rolling my eyes: No. I said an objective experience of reality. Barista, too addled by college to understand: So... a phenomenological reality whose grounding in a world of noumena is bracketed? Me: No, an objective experience of reality. Barista: A representation, made of relations to yourself as a subject? Me: No! I want a frickin' objective experience of reality!
Barista: *stares blankly* Person behind me in line: Hey, could you hurry up and order? Some of us are trying to experience a series of mental events which we interpret as going places!
My notifications look so much more fun this way
Scrolling past this lowers this website's fps to 2.
Mutuals please stop putting this post on my dash
not a chance
I can and will disable reblogs
No you won't
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someone should give me 400 dollars so i can repair my computer i hate being disabled and making like No money and it BROKE from a power surge
update i have set a new goal. it costs about 650 usd to fully replace the parts borked.
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hi beloved tumblr. im still in need here. im a disabled trans girl who's often unwillingly mostly housebound and working from home and i use my pc and programming as a way to self-regulate and Not Having That has done a huge number on my mental health. luckily, the DDR5 ram escaped unscathed (i was able to test), but the system needs a new Everything Else. if you can help me, i will love you for ever and ever. while i do work fulltime, i live in South Africa and my salary translates to less than 600 usd :/
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Not to kinkshame, but I do view chastity cages with the same level of claustrophobia and dread that I view Cave Diving with.
"Oh it's ok, if you need to squeeze past this rock, you can just exhale all the air in your lungs"
"Oh its ok, you can fit your dick into this saw trap and it will stop your boners via physical compression"
are we for real
I'm honestly so mad people conflate caving, a safe, fun activity for friends and family, with cave diving, IE caving underwater, a thing that *will* kill you eventually. I guess, be glad you don't gotta wear your chastity cage while on a limited oxygen supply, risk of blinding yourself by kicking up sediment, and the dangers of Decompression sickness if you didn't do your calculus right
are bots making communities now??? some of the ones i get recommended feel like it
like the admin of this one is deactivated and at least 95% of the members are bots
can you imagine you wake up one day in a dark room chained to a radiator with your phone at 1% and you unlock it and find that you've been added to this community
The first thing you do in that situation is open Tumblr?
Where the hell else would I post about being chained to a radiator, fucking Bluesky?
two disabled trans women in a tight spot, and really in need of some asistance
I feel small and pathetic asking again, but. this is all I can currently do to help us. my girlfriend and I are living out of a hotel after she saved me from becoming homeless again in February. we've been able to barely scrape by on the hotel's weekly rates, but it's really not sustainable, especially as rates continue climbing in the summer. we had to book two separate stays for this week, and we simply don't have the money to cover the rate as well as the 2 deposits. each deposit is $100, and it would be mostly fine if it didn't take several days for that hold to be returned to my girlfriend's account. the stay itself is $740 for just this week. if I didn't have food stamps we actively wouldn't be able to survive off what she makes. look I... I don't want her to start selling off her treasured possessions to keep me off the street. she's sold so goddamn many magic cards already. I'm just asking. if anybody can spare it, to help us make it through what I'm desperately hoping is the last few hurdles before we find more stable housing, you'd be added to the ever-growing list of people I owe my life to. thank you for reading, info below the cut
