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And as for the long hair short hair thing: That can happen because the father carries genes for one and mother the other, or similar genetic shenanigans. But also, an interesting quirk of cat reproduction is that eggs produced at different times in the estrus cycle can be fertilized by different males. So kittens within a litter can be half-siblings!

I’m dying to know about my babies — these are Powder (gray) and Violet (calico). They’re a year old and likely came from the same feral litter (they’re the same age and were found with two other same-aged kittens, but as far as the shelter told me when I adopted them months ago, no mother was found). I’d love to know how it’s possible for one kitten to be long furred and the other short furred from the same litter

(I’d also love to know if I could get away with calling Powder a “blue cat,” if only so I can say “these are my daughters, Violet is the pink one, Powder is the blue one” to fans who know where I got their names from)

((Also — please don’t judge how fur covered that chair is. I swear I clean it often, but every time I do, they just shed twice as much fur on it to spite me lmao))

powder is a longhaired blue self and violet is a blue mackerel tortoiseshell tabby with low white!

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I highly recommend sound for this one, it's not what you're expcting

Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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Source: Millennial Memes by Existential Extremes on FB

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Also a lot of y'all too frickin old to get drafted. The cutoff is 20-something, I forget what it was exactly. But the whole aging Tumblr userbase thing blah blah

No this is still not WW3. Not every conflict is WW3. It could escalate to something bigger depends how Iran responds and America responds back. I’m guessing Iran will attack American bases in Iraq but the US seems aware that will happen based on the evacuation. At most a regional war though the idea of boots on the ground hasn’t been floated yet. But in the end Iran is not well liked and its biggest allies Russia is busy and China doesn’t get involved this way.

No you aren’t getting drafted, the draft is not needed US has big army already, the draft is super unpopular and it actually makes a worse army then volunteer. If the draft happens it’s because Trump thinks it’s cool despite all that and goes ahead, all the republicans would have to fall in line but they are stressing the whole time because they know it’s a bad idea and Republicans will lose for 20+ years., it would likely not help with any and make the situation worse. But no one got drafted Afghanistan or Iraq war so they wouldn’t now.

The biggest thing to expect is gas prices going up.

Anyway this was inspired by a relative complaining he’s going to get drafted and thinking we literally entered a nuclear war which we have not. I was feeling annoyed

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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ART FIGHT TIME LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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It actually makes sense that it isn't weed: the amount needed to contaminate one batch of gummy bears sufficiently to cause even kids to get that high would be astronomically expensive. It would also make the gummies taste weird, which the adults would probably have noticed. It takes around 20mg of THC for the average adult to get high, which isn't a lot if you're dealing with a high-THC strain. But it still costs a lot of money to get that much, and when you spread it out over a whole batch of gummies, it's gonna take so much extract that one wonders how someone got hold of that much in the first place, and why they dumped it in the candy.

I'm wondering if it's not a case of deliberate contamination, but rather a freak accident in the factory environment. Mold or fungus, for example.

🇳🇱haribo gummy bear recall in the netherlands due to marijuana contamination🇳🇱

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) confirmed cannabis contamination in kilogram bags of Haribo’s Happy Cola F!ZZ candy, prompting a nationwide recall. The discovery followed reports that multiple members of one family became ill after eating the product. The contamination first came to light after the family reported their symptoms to police. The NVWA took samples of the candy, which tested positive for cannabis. The exact cause of the cannabis contamination remains unknown.

the gummy bears have weed in them. they are not supposed to do that.

several members of one family got high which prompted an investigation, and that investigation found weed. and nobody seems to know how that happened!

So far, only three affected bags have been identified, but Haribo is recalling the entire batch as a precaution. An investigation into the matter is ongoing, with close cooperation between the regulator and the candy company. Haribo warned consumers not to eat the 1,000-gram bags of Happy Cola F!ZZ with the production code L341-4002307906 and an expiration date of January 2026. The company urged customers to send the products directly to Haribo for a refund, instead of returning the product to stores.

some emphasis mine.

the bags to avoid are 1kg happy cola f!zz production code L341-4002307906 with expiration date of january 2026. only three contaminated bags have been found so far, but the entire production code is getting recalled just to be safe. if you eat haribo gummy bears and get high, please reach out to the company.

do not return the bags to the store. send them directly to haribo.

Haribo stressed that other production codes of Happy Cola F!ZZ are not affected, seeing products not subject to the recall are safe. Consumers with questions can contact Haribo’s Consumer Service at 076-5878950 on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., or by email at info-NL@haribo.com.

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Help me, a disabled transmasc with no income, save my traumatized cat

Bug, who survived October 7th, is currently being hospitalized for liver failure and possibly blockage in his bile ducts and/or jaundice. The minimum cost of his hospitalization is 2000 USD, but since they told us that it's unlikely that we'll get him back in under 3 days the cost is closer to 3000 USD, and may go all the way up to 4000. My only income is my disability check, which goes to cover rent and utilities and leaves very little to use to cover such a huge and unexpected expense. Please if you can, donate to my ko-fi to help save my boy:

@not-the-blue is offering some commissions to people who've donated WITHOUT A MINIMUM AMOUNT. Contact her for details, she is a fantastic artist and I've commissioned her multiple times. Below the cut are some of my favorite pieces of hers & my commissions (including one I forgot to post oops) as well as more details about Bug's life so far

More Bug details:

My boyfriend and I adopted Bug last summer, with the hopes that having a friend would calm my other cat down a little. Originally I was going to call him Spike - my other cat's name is Buffy - but what we got was not the skinny boy he looked like in the pictures, but an overweight, tail-less creature that looked, well, kind of bug-like. Over the past ten months he has been slowly - SLOWLY - losing weight as he has been playing with Buffy and eating a steady healthy amount of food.

He came to us deeply traumatized, having been found locked in a room in the south on October 7th with shrapnel in his tail, necessitating its removal (there's not even a nub!). At first he was quite skittish, although over the past ten months he has warmed up to us steadily, and a few weeks ago he actually sat on me for the first time! Kind of hilariously and also tragically, he's afraid of the dark, and when we go to sleep he spends a good half hour every night crying at the top of his lungs, and guys - you've never heard a cat that sounds more like just straight up a baby, it can be so distressing to hear.

Over the past week he very suddenly started deteriorating fast. He started coughing, throwing up this green foam, stopped crying at night, spent most of the day hidden under the bed, wasn't eating as much and eventually at all. We took him to the vet the moment we could, and they said he needed to be taken to the ER to be hospitalized *now*. So we rushed him there, and were eventually told he's probably going to need several days of hospitalization. The itemized bill made me cry even harder than I was already crying - I can't afford to take care of my boy.

Buffy also got sick earlier this year, although in a much less serious manner, and she has an appointment that will probably result in most of her teeth getting taken out next month, in itself not a cheap process but nowhere near as expensive as this. And because of the war with Iran, my one source of income for this month was literally canceled - no public events when missiles could land at any moment.

We're already at over 25% of the goal reached, which means the world to me. Still, the goal is a minimum - it may very well end up being much, much more expensive. Your help has been so appreciated - I've gotten some very generous donations, but also just the people who've shared it and the kind words people have sent with their donations. Thank you thank you thank you

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Hope is the last thing we should lose. Keep believing and stay strong. Your friends will help you get better.

Those are messages Final Fantasy XIV has taught me. I wish you can find some comfort on them in these really hard times.

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Been seeing advice for dealing with the heat dome and I wanna add, as someone who's lived in a humid sub-tropical area her whole life:

Evaporative cooling does not work in humid weather.

This is everything from swamp cooler AC units to wet towels. Once the air is saturated the water is just going to sit there being hot. Putting cool water on your skin will still work because the water will still draw heat off you, but it won't go anywhere which means it won't cool you long term. You'll still be hot, but also wet.

After a certain combination of temperature and humidity, your body will not be able to cool down by sweating or being wet with water because water won't evaporate. Stay indoors in air conditioning (only refrigerant-based AC works in this situation), hydrate because even if it doesn't evaporate you're still going to sweat, and don't assume a towel is going to help just because it's wet. You'll need to cool your wet towels for them to be useful.

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NEVER GIVE UP

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...