#coliformes

[briarpatch-kids]

Huh, apparently you can get latex underwear that protects both front and back for oral. There's often talk to protect the receiver from coliform bacteria entering the vagina but I don't often see anything that protects the person performing oral too.

One of my irl friends just made a safe sex kit that has like... Condoms and plan B and lube and stuff like that for her teenage bonus kid. She included a pair, said she learned about it from sex workers educating civilians on tiktok.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

And the award for Grodiest Test Tube of The Day goes to: tube 1 of sample 022, "clean" tube for comparison. This is only one day of incubation, I can't wait to see how gross it gets tomorrow

[tauforged]

nothing wakes me up better than accidentally misjudging the amount of pressure behind one of the collection taps and accidentally spraying myself directly in the face with a concentrated blast of water from the penguin exhibit. ESPECIALLY if you’re running late and don’t get to it until after the aquarists have already started scrubbing down the exhibit so all that stuff has been washed into the water supply you just covered yourself with. mmmm yummy veterinary disinfectant

“this job isn’t very glamorous don’t get too excited” i think you’ll find that hooking my arm around a ‘railing’ that’s basically a section of leftover metal piping drilled into the wall and is also the only thing supporting all my weight as i lean precariously over a 20,000 gallon display tank in order to collect a water sample at the start of every morning makes me feel alive actually

[the-name-stealer]

No oue names but we are gifting them to you, hope someone gets the reference

Copi-Copi, Elemento, Adjetivo, Mente en Blanco, Chaucha, Yo Soy, Calugoso, Duquesa, Reina, Coliforme, Tepo-Tepo, Yo no Fui, Fierro Malo, Palmerita, Neumatex, Cortachurro, Etcétera, Maletín, Duque, Guasón, Jefe, Moneda, Cucky, Pelusa, Tía, Legui, Reality, Chester, Chu, Ro, Playita, Palmera, Señor, Re Frito, Pescado, Chamuyo, Calendario, James Bond, Rata, Cabeza de Chaya, Neumático, Repetido, Añico, Rucia, Gonzo, Chino, Cortéz, Albertito.

Also Cabecita, Bigote and Mutante

oh! Thank you! NAME TAKEN! My name is Copi-Copi, Elemento, Adjetivo, Mente en Blanco, Chaucha, Yo Soy, Calugoso, Duquesa, Reina, Coliforme, Tepo-Tepo, Yo no Fui, Fierro Malo, Palmerita, Neumatex, Cortachurro, Etcétera, Maletín, Duque, Guasón, Jefe, Moneda, Cucky, Pelusa, Tía, Legui, Reality, Chester, Chu, Ro, Playita, Palmera, Señor, Re Frito, Pescado, Chamuyo, Calendario, James Bond, Rata, Cabeza de Chaya, Neumático, Repetido, Añico, Rucia, Gonzo, Chino, Cortéz, Albertito. Also Cabecita, Bigote and Mutante.

[kazieka]

pokemon game about microscopic organisms in the pokeverse. microbiologists battling e coliforms and feeding heart shaped agar chunks to their favorites. pokemon egg & sperm

[badluckinawasteland]

you drop me the way burning hot beer bottles slip through my fingers when im hanging out too high on 13th floor balconies. and i cut my fingers picking me up off black asphalt. on nights like these i lay in the dark, running possibilities, flipping through if-thens like coins into mall fountains and late night tv channels. it makes me sick thinking that maybe if i was prettier, skinnier, less of an addict, talked less shit and dropped my bad habits, cut the tears and the beers and got out of backlick run, maybe id have a shot at ditching the bullshit, wouldn't end up a convict of my own dumb-as-shit stunts. guess its too bad i like how i look when i'm bruised and locked in, waterloggged and full of toxins. half strung out and half sobering and sick, shining peroxide blonde on thick virginia mud. chipped up red nails tangled and trailing in ripped up thank you bags. faded denim turning slate from river water and sweat and puke and too-sweet-drinks. dead butterflies and live worms kiss my cheeks. good luck sticks like god's love for me. and my white wine guts leach coliform. so spit it out. admit it. i make you sick when you look at all of me. close yr eyes and walk away. everything in me matters. everything matters.

[beardedmrbean]

The federal government has fined Oakland and four other East Bay cities along with regional water districts for violating a settlement regarding untreated sewage reaching San Francisco Bay, according to a news release Thursday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board announced $372,876 in penalties against the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the Stege Sanitary District and five East Bay cities: Oakland, Alameda, Albany, Berkeley and Piedmont.

Oakland is responsible for a majority of the total combined fine.

The EPA says all the entities violated a settlement under the 2014 Clean Water Act in which they had paid a combined $1.5 million penalty for past sewage discharges and agreed to upgrade their 1,600-mile-long sewer system infrastructure over 21 years.

Since that settlement, about 114 miles of sewer main pipe have been upgraded and about 650 miles of private sewer pipes have been certified as leak-free, the EPA said.

"These East Bay cities and utilities made commitments to upgrade aging sewer infrastructure, which is a necessary step for protecting the waters of San Francisco Bay and surrounding communities," said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Martha Guzman. "We’re taking this action to ensure they live up to those commitments and undertake the efforts needed to renew wastewater infrastructure."

The violations occurred between July 2021 and June 2023, the EPA says. Here's how the fines break down by entity:

City of Oakland, $278,200: Failure to prevent 67 sanitary sewer overflows from reaching waters.

EBMUD, $28,000: Failure to prevent a sanitary sewer overflow from reaching waters and failure to meet effluent limitations for coliform.

Stege Sanitary District (serving El Cerrito, Kensington, and a portion of Richmond), $25,000: Failure to prevent a sanitary sewer overflow from reaching waters.

City of Piedmont, $15,876: Failure to timely rehabilitate the required footage of sewer mains.

City of Alameda, $200: Failure to prevent a sanitary sewer overflow from reaching waters.

City of Albany: $25,000: Failure to prevent a sanitary sewer overflow from reaching waters.

City of Berkeley, $600: Failure to prevent three sanitary sewer overflows from reaching waters.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

E. Coli and coliform bacteria activities liberate fuchsin from the fuchsin-sulfite compound in the ENDO agar, the fuchsin then colours the colonies red. In the case of E. Coli, the reaction is so intense that the fuchsin crystallizes out giving the colonies a permanent greenish metallic sheen (fuchsin sheen)

(text paraphrased from Merck Microbiology Manual 12th Edition, on ENDO agar)

Or, I cleaned up some expired petri dishes today

[meret118]

If you like history, you should check out the website for "Perspectives on History," the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association. More specifically, I've been enjoying a recurring column called "Everything Has a History," which provides the histories of everything from 20-sided die to elevator sounds to Big Mouth Billy Bass, and much more.

The latest entry, written by Sherri Sheu, the Haas Curatorial Fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia and an at-large member of the AHA Council, is about the "Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit," a toy for budding environmental scientists manufactured by Parker Brothers in 1971 that capitalized on the growing interest in environmentalism and ecology that was ignited after the first Earth Day in April, 1970.

Sheu describes the kit:

The kit contained 10 experiments for children to test the air and water in their neighborhoods. Youngsters could take samples from their local waterways and culture a petri dish to test for fecal coliform contamination or dip pH strips to test acidity and alkalinity. They could test smoke density in the air or use sticky paper to find and count air particles. In the spirit of the scientific method, the experiments could be repeated multiple times, with refill kits also available for purchase.

More at the link.

[cursedmiette]

is it difficult to make art being colorblind? it says your colorblind in your bio

I wouldn’t say it’s difficult to make art, it’s difficult to make it look coherent sometimes, especially when the colors are where I have trouble differentiating them. Sometimes I interpret colors wrong (for a long time I thought Kunikida from bsd had a green color palette).

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I’m protanomaly, so I’m not that bad. It doesn’t make much problems with my art, besides when I struggle with skin tones. I tend to make skin tones look really dull.

Digital art has a lot of resources to make it easier, and I have friends with shrimp eyes I can ask for color advice.

Other mediums like when I do beadwork I struggle a lot more because if those beads mix I can get lost easily. Sometimes I have to check with others to make sure I picked the right color.

My biggest struggle with protanomaly actually comes from my job lol. Endo agar plates for identifying coliforms are nearly impossible for me to interpret.

Also, Gram stains that are done shittily can be hard to interpret, but Gram stains are so easy that you can just try again.

[jbfalcon]

NÃO POSSO PRIVAR OS MEUS AMIGOS DESTA NOTÍCIA...

INFORMAÇÃO:

Foi comprovado em pesquisa científica que se beberem mais de 1 litro de água por dia, durante 1 ano, no final do ano terão ingerido mais de 1 quilograma de coliformes fecais que estão diluídos na água, ou seja:1 quilo de Merda!!!!!!

Já bebendo vinho... não se corre esse risco uma vez que esses coliformes não sobrevivem ao processo de fermentação.

Por isso peço que comuniquem a todos os que bebem água que essa porra faz mal!

Está dado o alerta!

Depois não digam que eu não avisei!

Quem tiver consciência vai chegar à conclusão de que:

"É muito melhor beber vinho e dizer umas merdas, do que beber umas merdas e não dizer nada!"

Sejamos razoáveis...!!!

[ventismacchiato]

also idk how i succeeded in this might be cause im kinda half asleep (IM NOT EVEN SURE WHAT COLIFORM IS?? my englishbisnt englishing)

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WHOS COLIFORM THATS DILUC MF

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

Who wants to see some very overcrowded plates that I'll probably have to redo my dilutions for cause the colonies are so abundant?

Shhh I'll show you anyway. Note: Don't rush while you're doing spread plates. They'll come out goofy.

It's E. Coli on Eosin Methylene Blue Agar. A selective media meant to detect coliform bacteria. Like E. Coli.

[thelucasmcguire]

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[frostybearpaws]

Oh. My. God.

okay so I’m taking this biodiversity class rn and there are two things to back this the hell up that I think people need to hear

one: we ran an experiment where we collected samples of water and grew cultures in them. More specifically the gel it was mixed with contained a dye that reacted with both E. coli and Coliform which are both present in mammalian and avian digestive tracks and are typically an indicator of fecal matter being in the water to come degree. A group sampled some of that stagnant water and oh boy their entire petri dish was covered in pink colonies (E. coli colonies)

two: we did a hay infusion project where we had mason jars and filled them with pond water and a wad of hay. Those jars STINK which means they are TEAMING with bacteria and when we looked at them under the microscope things were moving. There were living organism thriving and living their best life in that water

so yeah don’t drink stagnant water. There IS bacteria that can make you sick in it and more than likely there’s animal shit residue in it as well. Neither of those you want to purposely expose yourself to

kids these days don’t know how lethal stagnant water is

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Here's all the medium in the lab! I get to work with like 5 of them. The red capped one looks eye-catching innit

It's EC broth, "for selective enumeration of faecal and non faecal coliforms in water". It's also 3 years past expiration date. The medium, as seen through the box, is dark and solid. It's supposed to be a fine, dry pale yellow powder. Well!

Nothing else to do but crack it open I suppose!

Ah. So this is what Pandora felt