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patch notes for EarthAnimals.v.12.09

Fixed male cat urethras to be less narrow (now 3.5x wider). Same correction made in male goats

Made alterations to equine cardiac sphincter- horses can now vomit

Scrapped french bulldogs and performed full overhaul of skeleton and soft tissue

Fixed panda GI tract and enabled diet options other than bamboo

Koala populations no longer dripping with chlamydia

Added 5,000 vaquitas to the Gulf of Mexico

Fixed cheetah coefficient of inbreeding. Note: organs can no longer be transplanted freely among population!

All dogs are now born with stomach tacked in place on body wall, preventing lethal twisting (gdv)

Fixed incorrect placement of legs in loons (they are now able to walk)

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Baby Clifford & baby Snoopy

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Inflatable lizzer

Chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater), male, family Iguanidae, found in the southwestern U.S. and NW Mexico

photograph by Greg Risdahl/USFWS 

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shoutout to the bismarck boobook. 10/10 most ridiculous name AND appearance. love them to death

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If you can understand the ways in which manhood, masculinity, and male identity are weaponized against trans women in direct relation to their womanhood in a manner that intersects transphobia, misogyny, and sexism and is unique to them as a class of individuals (transmisogyny) -

Then I really don't get how you can't understand that womanhood, femininity, and female identity are weaponized against trans men in direct relation to their manhood in a manner that intersects transphobia, misogyny, and sexism and is unique to them as a class of individuals (transandrophobia).

The Patriarchy will always use gender and sex as a means for control, especially over people it deems are deviating from it's norms. Especially over people it decides "should" be women and "shouldn't" be women, and under Cis Patriarchal norms trans men "should" be women and trans women "should" be men.

As trans people, we are all punished by the Patriarchy in a way that intersects with misogyny and sexism because misogyny and sexism are the main tools of gendered subjugation! We're all failing at Patriarchal Gender so of course we are all having the full toolkit thrown at us from multiple different directions!

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San Diego Zoo is primed to officially make the first real de-extinction possible, using surrogate southern white rhinos to bring back the Northern White Rhino from collected genetic material.

They've had over 100 southern white rhino calves, are perfecting implantation of in vitro embryos in southerns to preserve the extinct genetic material, and the next step is making Northern White Rhino babies.

This isn't just wishes and dreams about thylacines (an animal with no suitable surrogates and milk as a huge hurdle, as marsupials are more complex that way), this is the first real de-extinction.

(Pyrenean ibex clone doesn't count, it only lived seven minutes and re-extincted. And yes, there are two living Northern White Rhino. Both are female and both unable to breed anyways. The species is functionally extinct. BUT NOT FOR LONG.)

the older i get the more frustrating i find it how little people recognize or acknowledge it when massive problems start to get solved... i get the concept of focusing on unsolved problems and injustices to keep up the pressure of public opinion, but we should also acknowledge it when great things are accomplished. we just started rolling out the first-ever malaria vaccine which will likely save millions of children's lives. about half a million people die of malaria every year and over half of those deaths are children 5 years old and under. ive seen literally no one i know talking about this huge triumph for humanity

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It's a consult, not a Dx. Which is literally what doctors do all the time. They ring up another doc with a specialty in the subject saying "Hey, my patient has symptoms ABC, any ideas?" and the specialist goes "Hrmm, did you do [test]? XYZ is a possible cause of ABC. Do tests 1 2 and 3 and you can go from there. Thank you for the interesting consult."

This is literally how medicine works. And then you do the testing and the checking results and then more discussion. It's not crazy to do that between a doctor who is not treating you discussing your symptoms. I know a lot of patient groups who do it among patients with similar issues, too.

While I'm here, being Autistic and/or ADHD makes for a broken Interoception system, which messes up feelings of thirst, fatigue, hunger, pain, etc. It took me 33 years to figure out that my heart rate is not in fact normal, my heat regulation sucks and that I've had dysautonomia/POTS the whole damn time (a common comorbidity). Took me ages to figure out anemia, too. My Autistic brother has the worst hangry known to man because he can't pick up on hunger signals well and gets irritable instead.

This is also why many ADHDers straight up forget to pee when they're doing something engaging.

hey! so i hope this isn’t too creepy/nosey, but im a medical student and i was reading your possible fibromyalgia post and have a couple ideas lol. full important disclaimer that im only partly into my studies and im currently in the hypochondriac phase and also your summary was amazing but a real doc would ask way more questions, so please consult with an actual doc and take everything i say with a grain of salt! but like your symptoms aren’t nothing so i would def encourage finding a doc that you trust to do a proper exam and run some tests. also im operating under the assumption that you’re under 50 lol, bc if you’re over 50ish that’s a whole diff list of possible diagnoses.

so the thirst thing you’re talking about is often called polydipsia and is commonly associated with diabetes insipidus. that’s not the normal diabetes you think about, but happens when your body can’t regulate fluids in your body properly. id think of this if you’re also peeing a lot lol. your doc would have to do some kidney tests for that, which wouldn’t be part of the blood panel you mentioned. i’m a little skeptical that it’s hypokalemia bc that would’ve showed up on your blood test results. it could be transient electrolyte imbalances when you exercise so have one of those electrolyte packets when you exercise lol, bc it never hurts to try the easy solutions first, but chronic low potassium should’ve shown up? tho eating sweet potatoes has never hurt.

other things it could be is a lower motor neuron problem bc you mentioned twitches and muscle weakness which is typical for those. i def can’t say more without tests, but look into/get your doc to look into myasthenia gravis or LEMS and see if either of those fit. i think it’s possible bc these often also start with face/upper body symptoms, but would need way more questions/tests to know. it’s unlikely but could also be a glycogen storage disease called McArdle disease bc you describe a second wind thing when you exercise along with exercise intolerance. that’s super rare tho so it’s unlikely unless someone in your family has it/has similar symptoms.

also look into autoimmune stuff like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjögrens disease. i have way less useful info on that bc we haven’t gotten to it in class yet lol, but sjögrens looks promising bc you often get dry mouth with it, and it often goes along with rheumatoid arthritis which could explain the joint stuff possibly.

it’s also totally possible this is fibromyalgia, but i would be cautious diagnosing it bc it often comes with fatigue and cognitive stuff which you didn’t mention. it’s also more of a pain thing, and doesn’t include your twitches/dry mouth. it’s def possible, and it was def something i thought of when i saw your symptoms, but personally i would want to rule out other stuff first bc fibromyalgia is pretty vague and often a diagnosis of exclusion when other things don’t fit.

sorry for overwhelming you!! i just saw your post and was like hmmm those symptoms sound like Something. again take my advice with a big grain of salt, but i do really think it’s worth asking your doc about it and getting tests done, bc even if there aren’t cures there are def treatments to help with a bunch of this stuff. it doesn’t sound urgent, but at least from your post your symptoms don’t sound like run of the mill aches and pains. hope you figure stuff out!!

The problem with 'muscles don't work right ouchy and I am also tired' is that it's a symptom for Absolutely Everything That Can Be Wrong With The Body. Is it cancer? Is it a terrible diet and sleep schedule? Who knows!

The doctor ran a diabetes test with the blood panel and it came up negative, but I don't know if that checks for weird kinds of diabetes. (Diabetes does not run in my family until we get very old.) That test was memorable because I have stupid fragile veins that freak out and collapse at the mere sight of a needle so I had to get stabbed nine times, they didn't manage to get the middle reading at all, and in the end they resorted to just stabbing my thumb with one of those diabetes home blood test thingies and manually squeezing my blood out into a tube drop by drop.

I looked up polydipsia and I don't think I have that. I think I just prefer my mouth to be wetter than my salival glands want it to be. 🤷‍♀️I think most of my problems are probably not related to any rare chronic disease, but just run-of-the-mill autism making it hard to look after myself or properly notice and process my physical condition and adapt accordingly. I don't eat enough fresh foods because it's hard to plan with the very short timeframe to prepare and eat them in. I'm uncoordinated and damage my body a lot through overwork or using muscles incorrectly because autism makes it hard to keep track of those things. My mouth feels dry and my skin feels itchy and my muscles feel sore because that's what being autistic feels like. My sleep schedule is garbage because my executive function is garbage and even once I do manage to get myself into the bed I can't just "go to sleep", I pass out when I'm ready to pass out.

I'm not saying it's impossible for anything else to be going on, but I think the known factor is the simplest explanation here. It's 2:30pm and I've been putting off breakfast for five hours. Every time I go into the kitchen I get distracted by housework instead. I am very hungry. This is not behaviour that is conducive to a well-functioning body.

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Yes, I believe Jewish people have a right to live in their ancestral homeland -

- but I don't think anyone had a right in 1948 or 1967 to turn even a single Palestinian into a refugee in that process - much less hundreds of thousands, whose descendants are now in the millions.

I'm absolutely 100% in support of the Palestinian Right to Return. I don't see how anyone can claim with good morals in their heart that Jews have a right to return there but Palestinians don't, that Jews have a right to their homeland but Palestinians don't.

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i know this isn’t original at all but Holy Fucking Shit

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i truly cannot believe there are people whose interpretation of the social model of disability is "well if we lived a perfect society everyone would basically function exactly the same and disability would go away" like. not that it's the perfect universal model at all! but the point of the social model was always to redirect the narrative from "it's disabled people's responsibility to figure out how to live in society" to "society is actively hostile to disabled people and the responsibility should be placed on society to improve accessibility." like yes for SOME people, an accessible society would make them functionally abled and they would no longer having disabling experiences. but like while I would say, in general, every disabled person is socially disabled, that doesn't mean everyone's disabilities are EXCLUSIVELY social.

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Really wish words like “crossdresser” and “transvestite” didn’t get pushed out of people’s vocabulary cause now we’ve got 20yr olds who genuinely believe the two modes of expression are True Transgender and Valor Thief. Seeing takes like “men dressing as women is making a mockery of the transfeminine experience” (predominantly regarding F1nn5ter or celebs in skirts). Like ohhhh you are so right! We need to protect the divine feminine from any measure of mockery. You know what? We should gather weapons and storm our nearest Drag Story Hour and teach those degenerates a lesson.

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im also a little bit extremely angry about the assumption - by my family or doctors or the government or whatever - that my number one priority wrt to my health would be anything other than "feel as good as possible"

it feels almost transgressive to say like "actually, if working isn't going to contribute to my quality of life, I don't care about it" and "The only reason I would want to reduce my amount of medication is if it's impacting my quality of life."

my neurologist said in our first appt like "obviously we want you to be on as few medications as possible" and i did not succeed in mentioning that, actually, i will take 50 pills every day for the rest of my life if it means i get to feel okay most of the time.

like i don't even really care about being healthy. "being as healthy as possible" is not my #1 priority. my #1 priority is feeling good, followed closely by being able to do things i want to do. 'taking fewer pills' and 'exercising' don't even make the list. those are not ends, those are means.

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I think one of the hardest struggles of adhd for me is the lack of automaticity. Neurotypical people seem to be able to do things automatically. For them, get dressed consists of one step--get dressed.

But with adhd, it's hard to do things automatically because your brain is elsewhere, both consciously and subconsciously. "Getting dressed" isn't just one step, it's many. It's getting up, going to the closet, opening the closet, throwing the clothes on the bed, changing, put old clothes in the hamper, etc. etc.

And your brain can stop paying attention at any one of those steps. If you're not careful when you get up, you might go to the kitchen instead of the closet. If you're not paying attention, you might forget to put the old clothes in the hamper.

I think this is one of the reasons that compensating for unmedicated adhd is HIGHLY energy consuming. With anything you do, there are a million little micro steps where you can get derailed. I think this is why anxiety is often comorbid with adhd: it's one of the only conditions that forces you to always, always stress about what step you fucked up on.

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seeing ppl on this website unironically put shit in their bio like "i'm very weary of transmascs" or "i only follow transmascs who actively deny transandrophobia" like yeah bro you're totally not transphobic you're definitely not regurgitating radfem gender essentalism at all

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Which wolf clipart?

this fucker:

I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.

here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.

it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.

here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):

jewelry:

clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:

random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:

a tattoo:

and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):

anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.

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Guys I’m going to make a hot take

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shoutout to lions for being so cool they got named king of a biome they don’t even live in