I got my cat during the covid lockdown, around the same time I decided to refresh my French with the downtime. Now I have a french cat.

I was trying to make a disgusting joke. I failed.

But I have a visceral, dreamlike memory of dissecting a sea slug while high on codeine for my intense cramps (it did nothing,) where the image of gelly-like brown flesh and rusty, marbled organs was reinforced immediately after when using the washroom.

Thank you for sharing your visceral memory, it raises a lot of questions. I’m happy you’ve embraced peace because slugs are neat.

Fun facts:

• A few mollusks do have haemoglobin, so their haemolymph(blood-stuff) is red. The reason most mollusk blood is green/gray/blue is because they have copper while we have iron.

• Slugs are all creamy because they don’t have a circulatory system, they’re more of a bag of fluids with some organs sloshing around inside.

• Banana slugs have the highest penis volume to body-volume ratio of any animal. When they mate, they generate flesh spears to stab into each other, which serve no apparent purpose. Whoever wins the mating (gets pregnant first) gets to eat their partner’s penis for nutrients, but it grows back.

Used tampons are supposed to be red?

You’re fine, used tampons look more like filleted slugs.

To make them more like cigarettes you could use a bit of cocoa or food grade activated charcoal for ash, or just burn the ends with a lighter. Bright yellow or orange sprinkles could be embers. Wrap brown paper around the other end for the filter.

To make them more like tampons, use them to skewer marshmallows, lightly roast over a flame until marshmallows melt together and turn yellowish with a few bubbles, then slather in cranberry sauce.

I have some biology under my belt and did a few partner projects with community bio labs.

Are there any community bio labs near you? A PCR/gel electrophoresis shindig is pretty cheap and easy to pull off, and anyone working there would know how to do it. They might even have community workshops for just that.

You’re right about privacy too, no matter what a company’s policies are now, they could change ownership, go under, or laws can change.

If you’re into making this more fun, here’s some info on how to do your own PCR for cheap: https://bitesizebio.com/23899/build-your-own-pcr-machine/

There’s a link in there for DIY gel electrophoresis, too.

Looks like the majority of Jewish organizations consulted on this supported the Nakba exhibit, it was just the squeaky wheel who got the attention.

It’s a bold claim that a museum thought up by a famously Jewish head of a media empire to feature stuff about Jewish people and funded in part by the efforts of his Jewish sister is somehow not about Jewish people.

This is funnier if you know about the museum guides who had to censor their tours for groups who only wanted a tasting menu of human rights. To only learn about the people they think deserve rights and skip the rest, like those damned women and gays.

That sucks and I’m sorry. Did you dm the head mod? She’s said her dms are finicky so @ing her would probably get a response.

They’re not supposed to ban by default as far as I know, could have been an overzealous mod or a mistake. I get the same thing online, so I find it fucking infuriating to gender personality traits and tone. As an active poster on that sub I don’t want to see things go that way.

Depends if you’re a Germanic incel or an Irish one.

In trans-inclusive spaces we use “woman,” in reference to the gender, as opposed to female, which usually designates sex.

Like a nature documentary, for example: “The female meetkat seeks out her pack,” as opposed to “The woman meetkat hollers at the girls.”

Probably 'cause they commented to the same thread.

So you don’t have data.

As you can see, women have trouble keeping men out, too.

I’d like to see your data.

Thank you! I have mental health problems so even negative attention is fulfilling.

AND I don’t think rehashing someone’s minor mistake for public theater is cool without the user names removed. People were shitting all over him when he already got clapped back, so I said something.

Absolutely! I encourage support spaces for everyone. I’m calling out the irony that this user is up and down this thread arguing against the women’s community and spouting female priviledge ideology, while now complaining that men can’t have the same thing… or else people will complain and spout male priviledge ideology.

There are many ways that sexism hurts men, which is why I’m down with support spaces and actively discourage all men bullshit when I see it.

Claiming those spaces doomed from the start, because of people behaving exactly like Tittyfrog here, is bad faith as hell.

I believe the eth is the soft ‘th’ like thought, where your tongue is behind/on your top teeth, while the thorn is the harder, tongue in front of your teeth sound in the.

Removed by mod

Oh good. I don’t follow this com, another comment tipped me off.

While I do enjoy a little bit of chaos and schadenfreude, it would be nice to block out user names. Call out the mistake, not the person.

Most people here are lovely, but it only takes one match to start a fire. Might as well address some bullshit in these comments since I’m gonna get trolled by incels anyway…

side note: I’m not a mod there.

• The women’s com is trans and non-binary inclusive. Anyone who feels at home there (and is respectful) is welcome.

• It’s not all bitching about men. Looking at the last twenty posts, one was about men and two were related to men. We talk about pads and health and essays and positivity memes and do fun activities on fridays.

• I support men making their own support groups. Although the internet itself often feels like a menfolk support group(to me,) I’m sure there are plenty of things an easy to find, curated space, could offer men who want to be just a little more vulnerable, knowing they would be supported by the mods if any toxic women came in to devalue their opinions and experience.

Oh god. Had to look for that since I don’t follow the com.

The guy fucked up but it’s a dick move not to block his user name. And mine. I guess I can look forward to a week of angry incel trolls.

Anoþer shæke-up in þhe fuðark community!

User call-outs are (usually) bullshit, especially for someone who brings me as much genuine delight as the Thorn Guy.

I agree your post didn’t fit the community, I get why you did it though, and think it’s pretty awesome of you to defend someone else on principle. The mods just aren’t trying.

You could start one on another instance. There aren’t any rules against it.