[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[puppygirldick]

Trichomes are specialized epidermal tissue

Glandular vs Non-Glandular

Glandular trichomes: have cells that can secrete or store specialized chemicals compounds (secondary metabolites). Above, Urtica dioica stinging nettle has glandular trichomes that pierce your skin, and the pressure of contact injects a mixture of irritating chemicals (including histamine, formic acid, acetylcholine, and serotonin)

Non-glandular trichomes: lack this secretory ability and often serve as physical barriers or for insulation. Above Cannabis sativa with hair-like non-secretory trichomes that do not produce cannabinoids or terpenes. Below Cannabis sativa with glandular capitate trichomes storing secondary metabolites in a cuticle at the apex

[tinyideastuff]

ann is asleep

[whysosirris]

[horsegirlboy]

[ID: a tag reading, “#don’t eat citrus if you have any mental health problems #the vitamin C is so bad for you” end ID]

losing my fucking mind over how people will come on here and say just the easiest to disprove absolutely inane lies. for no reason at all

[stranger-nights-ahead]

This is so funny because of how long a chain of telephone it is. The starting point is that grapefruit juice SPECIFICALLY can interact negatively with several mental health medications (notably, not amphetamines). Then this tumblr post* and MULTIPLE NEWS ARTICLES got popular, stating that consuming anything acidic (including vitamin C) within an hour of taking your ADHD meds would render them ineffective. In reality, a large dose of vitamin C taken directly with an amphetamine-based ADHD medication has the potential to cause a minor dampening effect, but has no effect on other ADHD meds. 

These presumably got filtered/combined into the idea that vitamin C is bad to take with ANY mental health meds, which then got turned into the idea that if you have mental health problems, scurvy may be right for you!

[ashelyskies-deactivated20241121]

also turned into the myth that citrus nullifies HRT

[jasperwocky]

if you have any sort of chronic inflammation take your damn vitamin C please it's so important i'm begging uou please

[mutopians]

to make this statement extra wild: vitamin c actually helps with symptoms of fatigue and depression. and if you don't want to just look at the mayo clinic's website, you can check out papers here and here (both peer-reviewed) that basically say the same thing. vitamin c deficiency can actually cause mental health problems, not the other way around.

[brightlotusmoon]

Vitamin C helps your collagen. It helps with wound repair. It helps with so much. Do not neglect Vitamin C. Vitamin C is so good for you.

[weaselle]

also this kind of misinformation muddies the waters and makes it hard for the actual true part

that specifically grapefruit can have negative interactions with certain blood pressure drugs, certain cholesterol controlling medications, and certain anti-depressants.

This is usually less about making the drugs ineffective, and more about changing how your body absorbs it such that it can enter your blood all of a sudden instead of over time, and could intensify negative side effects or even cause an overdose. Which is important to know. Because you don't want the medication that keeps your blood pressure down by slowing your heart a little to suddenly slow it to almost no heartbeat at all. That's bad.

here is an entry about it from Harvard but a simple search will give you sources from the world health organization to the fda to the national institute of health. But if you take medication and you like grapefruit, really you should ask your doctor or the pharmacist who fills your prescription about it.

[ixa193]

[catgirlforeskin]

THAT’S WHERE THIS IS FROM??

[byjove]

resteraunts will call themselves gastropubs and eateries so they don’t have to spell restarunt

[dapperdonuts]

[byjove]

[3000s]

[wizardarchetypes]

disturbed by how little ppl acknowledge the secondary health risks of vampire bites. if your vampire lover is drinking your blood you MUST be up to date on your tetanus shot. puncture wounds are at especially high risk for tetanus infections. just because your partner was born in 1312 doesn’t mean you have to die like it.

moreover they should be prepping the bite point with an alcohol wipe.

and while I’m at it, I’ve noticed a blithe disregard for health & safety when it comes to blood pacts. can’t believe I have to say this but you should absolutely NOT be cutting your palm open with the pocket knife from your belt holster (??????)

if you’re expecting to be in a blood pact/oath situation please just pick up some sterile finger lancets from the pharmacy. cannot stress this all enough.

[wizardarchetypes]

Please y’all!! tetanus is NOT caused by rusty metal. It’s a bacteria found damn near everywhere, and wounds infected with saliva are especially high risk for tetanus infections.

it’s also a common misconception that vampire saliva is antiseptic. Vampires spread that myth on purpose. They also CAN cross running water. Make them bathe and brush their teeth!!!!

[wizardarchetypes]

all the vampires in the tags saying they won’t do this bc the alcohol will make the skin taste bad are just telling on themselves. talk about a red flag.

[wizardarchetypes]

comparing your human lover’s body to an inanimate utensil & misreading this as a PSA for the vampire’s safety rather than the human’s. smh vampires continue to be so toxic 🤦🏼‍♀️

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

[yorhaw]

Hi I’m op of the twitter post. I was referencing this tumblr post I saw ages ago. I didnt expect it to blow up.

[footlongdingledong]

hi I’m the guy that made that post. Yours is funnier

[cosmic-crasher]

I never even considered how this might look to someone unfamiliar with the katamari game series

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

[simplysnaps]

Sapphic Dynamic where the popular queen bee type is hopelessly in love with the weirdo girl that runs Anime Club. She's so down on herself, writing in her diary "Erin is so cool. She can beat Super Mario Brothers in under five minutes, she learned Japanese to read imported manga, and she runs an Anime Club even though nobody shows up. She's committed to that club longer than I've committed to a hair style. I just know about clothes and makeup, she'd be so bored by me. Oh what would I do for her attention?"

Her cheerleader friends are supportive, like "Are you kidding, girl? You played Sonic on your iPhone once! She's not out of your league!" but she still doubts if she'd be enough to keep up with Erin's zest for life.

"I went to Paris over Summer break, like some normie loser. Erin spent the entire Summer decompiling an abandonware point-and-click Nancy Drew game so she could port it to her Android phone. It's hopeless, she'd get bored of me in a week!"

[softieskywalker]

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

[david-talks-sw]

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

[comebackali]

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

[lokaror]

GOUGAR CLAIMS COOL ROCK

[ubersaur]

God forbid women do anything

[justpastsaturn]

She had a good time, too

[ivy-michaels]

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

[purlty23]

[sapphling]

people love the social cantagion/"only contagious mental disorder" model of restrictive disordered eating because it's a very clean comfortable pleasant way to ignore the fact that disordered eating is quite often just the most logical response to being inundated with the message that fatness is morally and medically repugnant, socially unacceptable, sexually repulsive, a fate worse than death -- and you can see this in the very way people express concern for the visibly anorexic, lamenting that they "weren't even that fat" and "didn't even need to lose weight." these are things you will never, ever hear if you're fat and your anorexia almost kills you, btw

[sapphling]

like i think that "role modeling" and the glorification of dangerous thinness play a part in this, i do think it's irresponsible to model this behavior for young women, but placing the whole weight of disordered eating as a phenomenon on the shoulders of ariana grande or any similar figure falsely locates the problem within the superstructure. your average teenage girl is being put less at risk by waiting starlets than they are by constant, grinding, "well-meaning" daily fatphobic jabs about food and their weight by their parents, teachers, doctors, siblings, classmates, friends etc.

[lizarin]

when my cholesterol came back SLIGHTLY high, my doc said "consider exercising."

I've worked out five days a week, for the past FOURTEEN YEARS. (Minus a few small breaks like my dad dying, covid lockdown, and a couple surgeries) Which my doc already knows.

This is a societal problem.

[bnha-smashcomics-deactivated202]

Just found out Brahmas chickens exist. Seeing those dudes really reminds me that they’re related to the t-rex. Look at this dude:

You must be saying, but that is just a regular rooster.

WRONG

At this point you’re probably sweating, maybe shaking and crying saying, surely that child is just short, but again you’d be

WRONG

They are big.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I got tagged in this and I should note: Of all the chicken breeds I've met, these are the gentlest and friendliest. Also very somft. All three I've gotten to handle have wanted to cuddle, and they're very warm, like cats.

[oncillaphoenix]

I love how at first it looks like a normal chicken coming out of the house:

but then it keeps coming

[podcastwizard]

every day i walk into work and my manager says “here is the rule you must enforce” and i go “got it bossman” and i spend a couple days enforcing the rule and then my manager comes up to me and says “why are you enforcing the rule? we changed the rule yesterday and didn’t tell you” and i go “ok bossman new rule it is” and then a customer comes in asking to break the new rule and i say “sorry you can’t it’s the rule” and they say “but you don’t understand the rule doesn’t apply to me” and then my manager comes out and says “they’re right the rule doesn’t apply to them” and i ask why and my manager says “it just doesn’t.” and then the next day we get rid of the rule entirely and no one remembered it existed in the first place.

anyway this sounds like a metaphor for neurodivergence or something but it’s not this is just my fucking life

[orochislayer]

Positive affirmations:

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way