what is THE worst thing you’ve ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why
Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.
So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y’know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I’d finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can’t knock it back quickly – it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was “sterile rot”. A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube’s inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
(for science.)
You have a fitting blog title
this post is getting 50k easy
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This WOULD be how humanity would go out though tbh
So many people are finding screenshots of celebrities allegedly doing a ‘nazi salute,’ to try and discredit what people have been saying about Elon Musk.
My favourite most recently has been a picture of Sabrina Carpenter which can easily be discredited.
This is the picture:
And this is the video:
Yep, it’s just a young woman waving to her fans.
And this is why when you ask any of them who post the screenshots for a video, they refuse to add it in. Because they know the video is of somebody doing something very normal.
Hamsters baffle me. I don’t think we keep them in Australia (I’ve never seen one in meatspace) and they make no sense to me as pets. Everything I’ve learned about them makes them seem like a shittier discount version of a pet rat.
I understand that meatspace is a perfectly cromulent description, but i hate it on a visceral level
I refuse to call half of my life “in real life” and the other half what, my fake life?
Honestly I think part of the point of them (as pets) is that they get around the “ick” reaction some people have to rats and mice.
I had hamsters as a kid, and mice as an adult; I can confidently say that mice are better in every way, as a pet for a kid. (For starters, they’re awake during the day.)
But most people have never had wild hamsters invade the pantry, chewing through food containers and shitting on everything they don’t eat. They’d do if it they could, but they don’t live here. Mice do, and hence mice are associated, in many people’s minds, with filth, while hamsters are not.
Other than that, they are worse in every way.
(Hamsters and mice are both clean animals on their own terms–they don’t shit in their own pantries. Yours, they don’t care about.)
Yeah we aren’t allowed hamsters, or gerbils. I always thought hamsters were the size of a guinea pig, but no, they’re just spherical mice that can deep throat carrots.
I was very shocked when I learned how fucking tiny they were. I too thought they were basically antisocial guinea pigs.
Okay are guinea pigs really big or are mice really small? I thought they were roughly the same size.
Mouse:
Guinea pig:
There is some variation in size between breeds, of course.
NONE OF THESE ANIMALS ARE THE SIZE I THOUGHT THEY WERE????
If you want a more reasonably sized rodent, try rats.
@derinthescarletpescatarian I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your mouse picture is a picture of a hamster
Dear god
As someone that breeds mice, it’s 100% the tails. For whatever reason, more than any other single complaint I hear about mice and rats, is that people largely think their tails are “gross,” and hamsters don’t have that problem. Can’t be gross if they ain’t got one, I guess
and yes I know they have a stub tail it does not count when I’ve had mice look like this
This is, by the way, what mice look like, Derin, although they also come in Fuzzy Bastard
I also hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your image of a rat is NOT always the size of rats. That’s a young rat. Adult rats can weigh upward of 500g, that one looks maybe 250. Rats are easily as big as guinea pigs
Anyway. You should still get pet rats. They are very awesome. But if you want a reasonably sized small rodent for children, it’s pet-bred mice. If you get them from a halfway decent breeder, they’ll be about twice the size of pet store mice (50-60g instead of 30-35), and very friendly and soft like a hamster (rats have coarser fur than mice) without the behavioral problems hamsters often have (biting you biting you biting you). They also take up WAY less space than rats.
Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations.
The actions ramped up in the last two weeks, and were especially noticeable in the last two days, abortion pill providers said. Content from their accounts — or in some cases, their entire accounts — were no longer visible on Instagram.
CNN host Pamela Brown appeared stunned on Tuesday after Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) brushed off concerns about students being able to get lunches at school thanks to President Donald Trump’s freeze of federal loans and grants.
In a sweeping and unprecedented attempt to seize power reserved for Congress, President Donald Trump’s budget office on Monday directed government agencies to freeze all grants and loans for a wide range of programs that could include domestic infrastructure projects, health care programs, housing assistance and a host of other initiatives that depend on money authorized by lawmakers. The order was issued in a leaked two-page memo first obtained by Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist.
Matthew Vaeth, Trump’s acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote that the pause, which will take effect on Tuesday evening, is being imposed to ensure that the government is complying with Trump’s policy agenda and will not affect Social Security, Medicare or “assistance provided directly to individuals.” Possible exceptions will be reviewed and granted on a “case-by-case basis.” Agencies have a Feb. 10 deadline to submit appeals on any program targeted for suspension.
The memo by Vaeth lays the groundwork for Trump’s nominee for OMB chief, Russell Vought — who is awaiting confirmation by the Senate — to implement deep cuts detailed in Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint he played a key role in assembling.
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“They say this is only temporary, but no one should believe that,” he said. “Donald Trump must direct his Administration to reverse course immediately and the taxpayers’ money should be distributed to the people. Congress approved these investments and they are not optional; they are the law.” Later Tuesday morning, he told reporters that a group of state attorneys general are going to challenge the order in court.
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The memo, while light on most administrative details, broadly attacks “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies” that are a “waste of taxpayer dollars,” singling out infrastructure and clean energy projects, foreign aid, funding for nonprofits and diversity-related programs for permanent elimination.
F—king Patriot Front neo-Nazis. You notice I had to go to the Times of India for this. US news outlets covered the March for life but glossed over or omitted altogether that Patriot Front was there.
This was all over Twitter yesterday with people filming scores of those masked cowards getting off the subway. In the US press it was virtually non-existent.
Meanwhile Elonia Musk is attending a meeting of Germany’s far-right neo-Nazi party the AFD. Why would an American support that unless they were working for Putin who wants to destabilize the West.
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