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[gaysie]

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

[gayagendaofficial]

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

[gaysie]

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2

ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 

Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)

They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)

Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 

The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb

From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”

If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well

 References: (1) (2)

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

[mahalidael]

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist

[illyadolatry]

just like. for the crowd.

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion, (this is what the termination email is warning you about)

sharing content without content labels isn't either

[charlesoberonn]

Female Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beard

Remaining time: 3 days 35 minutes

[charlesoberonn]

Child Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Remaining time: 3 days 35 minutes

[charlesoberonn]

Baby Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Remaining time: 3 days 36 minutes

[charlesoberonn]

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

[yourfaveisintersex]

what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm

[icewingassasin]

Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Oh my god?????

Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????

[yourfaveisintersex]

:)

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

For anyone curious, the controversy around his inclusion in Cat Shows was because he was incredibly dominant in the first few shows he was put in. So much so that other Maine Coon breeders competing in the same shows complained to the organizers that while tri-color patterns are acceptable in female Maine Coons, they are ambiguously unaccepted in males.

Purebred cats in the cat show circuit have to be fertile. They can't be desexed (spayed or neutered) and they can't have genetic conditions that would render them infertile, sterile, or unsuitable for breeding purposes. The point is to identify the best individual examples of a breed to maintain or improve the breed over time. It's eugenics, but those are the rules.

Essentially all male tri-color cats are sterile due to the fact that the genes for orange and black color in cats are located on the X-chromosome. Male cats typically only have one X-chromosome so typically can only have either black OR orange coloration (white fur and dilute colors are actually caused by a pigment suppressing gene that is located on a somatic chromosome, and the pattern of white patches is controlled by yet other genes).

So, typically, a male cat that has both black and orange in his coat has to have an intersex condition called Kleinfelter Syndrome, where his sex-chromosome genotype is XXY, rather than the normal XY. The extra X-chromosome renders these male cats infertile or sterile.

But Dawntreader Texas Calboy (DTC) is not an XXY male. He is a chimera!

Basically, very early on in development two male embryos in DTC's mother's uterus fused together. This happened so early that the new chimeric embryo developed into a normal kitten. But, because one of those original embryos had a orange X-chromosome and the other had a black X-chromosome, DTC was born with a tri-color coat.

His breeder assumed he was sterile and left him housed with her female cats without neutering him. When some of his female roommates were found to be pregnant, the breeder decided to take DTC to the vet and look deeper.

When she discovered that this beautiful cat was a chimera, rather than intersex, she decided to start entering him into the shows her other cats were in, and he started winning A LOT.

But when those jealous competitors complained DTC was barred from further shows on the basis of his coloration being a "defect" that was "undesirable in the breed".

But chimerism cannot be passed down! It is a random, extremely rare event that happens after fertilization.

Basically, jealous rival Maine Coon breeders nit-picked and rules-lawyered an exceptional cat out of competition on the basis of his gender presentation.

[mollyjames]

Actually, I rather like being trans

[mollyjames]

I suppose being cis would be nice and all, but it doesn’t quite have the same “I will sieze Destiny by the throat and force it into the shape of my choosing” kind of verve

[drdaanvondutch]

Disco Elysium (2019) // Fear and Hunger 2: Termina (2022) // Pathologic 3 (2026)

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[entomologize]

Random fact: Although jumping spiders can't move their eyes, they can move their retinas to change their field of view. It's as if they're looking through a window.

If the spider is clear enough, you can even see the retinas moving through the cephalothorax:

Image sources: Melvyn Yeo, M.F. Land, and wmaddisn

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[shmowder]

The alphabet mafia strikes again

[yellowbird-flying]

[shmowder]

[ot3]

i think a new rule of engagement we should have for discourse is that any time someone says "the lesbian community" "the trans community" "the queer community" or something of that ilk you just dead stop the conversation in its tracks until they have successfully explained what group of people they're trying to refer to with this. because there is no such thing as a 'community' that every lesbian, or every trans person, or every queer person automatically belongs to/participates in, and acting like there is, or that we are all otherwise on the same page about which people these 'communities' actually consist of, lets people do a whole lot of lazy generalization that doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

[trankinstein]

Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.

[earhartsease]

start an onlyacolytes account to pay for tuition

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bocceclub]

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

[trickstertime]

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

[commie-cosmo]

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

[shofarsogood]

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

[dilemmaverse]

The fact that this was in place when my parents were born is fucking insane. You shouldn’t have to be Irish to find this disgusting.

[r0zeclawz]

alright, thats the fourth page youve collected, youre a natural! but dont get too cocky now kid, we're only halfway there, and according to the sensors it seems like our skinny friend has increased in activity, im struggling to pinpoint his location, expect things to get a little chaotic from now on, nothing you cant handle im sure harhar! our scans indicate you might have some luck finding the next one in the, mmm... ah, the oil tankers huh? lovely, putting down a marker in your map, you know the drill. dont forget, you see anything weird, you get the hell out of there, got it? dont get killed out there kid, we're counting on y- hey buddy, me again, that the fifth page you got there? good stuff, we'll get this done in no time! hey, youve been spending your skill points right?

[lanfan]

Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.

[tsscat]

I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.

[thebleeding-heart]

their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!