#sterilize

[shreddheir]

The new Acht art is a parallel of their first album cover I’m gonna CRY.

I’m frustrated that the only posts of mine that get reblogs are low effort. Please go look at my art.

[inkdsythe]

And I thought black people smoked the most weed...smh

According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 43.5 million adults (or 15.9% of the population) in the United States used marijuana in the past year. This represents a significant increase from previous years, and is likely due in part to the legalization of marijuana in several states.

The NSDUH also found that marijuana use is more common among men than women, with 19.5% of adult men and 12.9% of adult women reporting past-year use. In addition, younger adults are more likely to use marijuana than older adults, with 29.9% of adults aged 18-25 reporting past-year use, compared to 12.5% of adults aged 26 and older.

The NSDUH also found some differences in marijuana use by race and ethnicity. The highest rates of past-year marijuana use were reported among adults who identified as two or more races (28.9%), followed by white adults (17.5%), Hispanic adults (14.5%), and black adults (12.7%).

It is important to note that statistics on drug use should be interpreted with caution, as they can be influenced by a variety of factors such as social and cultural norms, access to drugs, and differences in reporting and data collection methods. Additionally, it is important to avoid making assumptions or stereotypes about individuals based on their drug use or their race and ethnicity.

[gcmonsterappreciation]

I think it's funny how trans activists are always like "BuT wHaT aBoUt InFeRtiLe wOmEn?!?". As an infertile (technically sterile) biological woman who had my fallopian tubes removed at 22. I have never once not felt included in any definition of woman? Like wtf are they talking about?

[c-rowlesdraws]

/blows off a cassette hand-labeled "headcanon Tali" and slams it into the tape deck

if the boy quarians at least get to have those cool bundles of cables coming out of the backs of their helmets, surely the girl quarians have something similar under the hoods they wear. The way I draw Tali and her people might be stubbornly different from canon in some ways, but I can believe it's not too far off.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Scala ad Caelum

[kensatou]

“we haven’t done this in a while”... sid and army have 100 hundred percent explored each other's bodies

[laurapetrie]

Oh, bedrooms were made to dream in! And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

[canisalbus]

This might be a strange question, but do you think it would be cathartic for Machete to have a tamagotchi in the modern AU? One of those things where it heals his inner child but he isn't sure why?

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[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS THING IS SCUUUFFED AS HELL & ITS ALSO THE BEST THING I HAVE ANIMATED THUS FAR. IM SO IN LOVE WITH EMIZEL. JUST WISH I GAVE HIM MORE STUPID TATTOOS. NEXT TIME THO. NEXT TIME. I ALSO LOVE VEX&VIV SOOOO MUCH. charlies flavor of Deranged is my FAVORITE!!

[inkdsythe]

Cloning a store-bought mushroom

Cloning a store-bought mushroom involves taking a tissue sample from the mushroom and transferring it onto a nutrient-rich medium to encourage the growth of mycelium. Here are the steps to clone a store-bought mushroom:

Materials needed:

Store-bought  mushroom

Sterile  scalpel or knife

Sterile  petri dishes

Sterile  agar medium

Sterile   gloves

Incubator

Instructions:

Select     a healthy and fresh mushroom from the store. The mushroom should be free     from any visible signs of damage or contamination.

Sterilize     the scalpel or knife by dipping it into a 70% ethanol solution or by     heating it until it glows red hot. Allow the scalpel or knife to cool     before use.

Using     the sterilized scalpel or knife, cut a small piece of tissue from the     mushroom cap or stem. Make sure to avoid touching the tissue with your     fingers or any other non-sterile object.

Quickly     transfer the tissue sample onto a sterile petri dish containing the     sterile agar medium. Seal the petri dish with parafilm or sterile tape.

Incubate     the petri dish in a warm and dark place, such as an incubator, at a     temperature of around 20-25°C (68-77°F). After a few days, you should see     mycelium growth on the agar medium around the tissue sample.

Once     the mycelium has grown out sufficiently, you can transfer it onto a new     petri dish or into a container of sterilized substrate to encourage     fruiting.

Continue     to monitor the growth of the mycelium and the development of the fruiting     bodies.

By following these steps, you can successfully clone a store-bought mushroom and grow your own mycelium for further cultivation and experimentation.

[ayyy-pee]

Suguru teaching himself how to do nails so he's always able to do yours. He loves the look on your face when he finishes them. He tries so hard and at first, he's so ass at it. Nails are crooked, lines are jagged, little bubbles in the polish after it dries. Oh it's a fucking mess. He's embarrassed and always promises to do better the next time. But you love them regardless because even though it took 6 hours for Suguru to do, he made the effort for you. Now after months and months of you letting him practice on you, it's nothing for him to throw his hair up in a loose and messy bun and get your nails looking right.

And all your friends always ask for your nail techs info but you gatekeep so bad 😭🤭

[herbaklava]

I love you handmade crown moulding, I love you arched doorways, I love you stained glass, I love you bay windows, I love you brass hardware, I love you teak wood, I love you quirky chandeliers, I love you crystal doorknobs, I love you brightly colored tiles and appliances! Petition to bring back apartments and houses with CHARACTER!!

[whereserpentswalk]

Remember that reproductive rights don't just mean the right to an abortion or other contraception. They mean the right to reproduce just as much. It's only really ever exclusively been the right not to reproduce for cishet, white, able bodied (especially able bodied) people.

When you hear someone talk about the poor having too many children or talking about overpopulation do you understand that that's an attack on reproductive rights (and also eugenics rhetoric)?

Do you consider the fact that many women have to have their reproductive organs surgically removed to be legally considered women an attack on reproductive rights? Do you consider it weird that this is what many democrats consider a "reasonable middle ground"?

Do you consider the fact that many neurodivergent people are put on medication that removes sexual function and essentially chemically castrates them, and most doctors don't see this as an issue (especially when the patient in question is afab) an attack on reproductive rights?

Do you consider the fact that people's wombs are being removed in the American concentration camps that continue to operate on American soil an attack on reproductive rights? (And have you thought about the concentration camps since it stopped being a talking point about an individual politician?)

If you do not understand attacks on the marginalized's right to reproduce as attacks on reproductive rights, than you do not get to call yourself pro choice. Your just pro abortions for privileged women.

[anetherealpoetess]

thinking about haladriel. thinking about heroines and villains and the insistence that love in stories is only love if it is virtuous and selfless, and therefore the villain can never love the heroine because of all the reasons he is a villain in the first place.

hate to break it to you, but love that is plagued, hounded, and haunted is still love. love that is obsessive, cruel, and selfish is still love. at some point, you have to face the fact that stories are not crafted to reinforce a neat, overarching set of morals. once you accept that fact, you'll find love exists in deeply interesting places--like in the flaws and complexities that make a character compelling.

how boring if only heroes are allowed to love.

[skunkes]

[applesauce42069]

With people like Candace Owens spreading misinformation about medical experiments at Auschwitz, it is important to be literate in this aspect of Holocaust history.

TW below the cut for: medical experimentation and malpractice, forced sterilization, antisemitism, anti-roma and sinti racism, discussion of concentration camps and the Holocaust. I will not include any photos. My source for everything is this book, published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

There were more Nazi "doctors" at Auschwitz than I will be able to cover in this post. It is important to note that these "doctors" did not just perform experiments, but they also played a direct role in the genocide of the Jews at Auschwitz by participating in "selections." During these "selections," prisoners or prospective prisoners were chosen to be sent to the gas chambers. I say prospective prisoners because a selection usually took place at arrival upon the camp, with most children, the elderly, and anyone unfit for work, or for some people,just because, were sent immediately to the gas chambers without even being registered in the camp. This is a process that is unique to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Josef Mengele is by far the most famous SS "doctor" at Auschwitz. He was the head physician of the sector of Auschwitz II - Birkenau which held Roma and Sinti families, before the camp was "liquidated" which mean that every man, woman and child in it were sent to the gas chambers. Mengele performed experiments related to twins, people with dwarfism, and a disease called noma (don't look it up its gross).

Lorenc Andreas Menasche and his twin sister were experimented on by Josef Mengele. Menasche testified about undergoing experimentation with his sister:

"They also gave us injections all over our bodies. As a result of these injections, my sister fell ill. Her neck swelled up as a result of a severe infection. They sent her to the hospital and operated on her without anesthetic in primitive conditions"

Elzbieta Piekut-Warszawska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with Mengele's experiments, describes experiments on Jewish twins:

"Drops were also put into their eyes. I did not see the procedure itself, since they took the children into the next room. Some pairs of children received drops in both eyes, and others only in one. I was ordered to observed the reactions, and not to intervene in any way in case of any changes... The results of these practices were very painful for the victims. They suffered from severe swelling of the eyelids, a burning sensation, and intense watering of hte eyes"

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was also forced to assist Dr. Mengele. He describes being forced to perform autopsies on a pair of "small twins" who:

"... died [were killed] simultaneously... Their death makes it possible to carry out autopsies on them, intended to solve the mystery of reproduction."

Nyiszli says that Mengele was interested in twins with the aim of "increas[ing] the birth rate of the 'higher race'"

At the same time, two separate "doctors," Carl Clauberg and Horst Schumann, were performing sterilization experiments on Jewish prisoners in order to find an effective method of mass sterilization.

Clauberg's experiments involved introducing chemicals into the reproductive organs of Jewish women. Alina Białostocka, an Auschwitz prisoner who was forced to assist Clauberg testified that

"[the] procedure was carried out brutally, and often caused complications"

When it "worked," the procedure left women forcibly sterilized for life.

Horst Schumann's experiments involved the use of x-ray on male and female genitalia. According to Felicja Pleszowska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with experiments, Schumann's experiments were

"very painful and dangerous to life. There were frequent cases of men dying immediately after such procedures"

From the combined victims of these two men, only very few individuals survived.

Eduard Wirths, Friedrich Entress, Helmuth Vetter, Fritz Klein, Werner Rhode, Hans Wilhem Konig, Victor Capesius and Bruno Weber all tested pharmaceuticals on Auschwitz prisoners on behalf of companies like Bayer (which still exist and operate).

I cannot stress enough the mortality rate of all the medical experiments that took place in Auschwitz. I cannot stress enough the harm done to those who survived. I cannot stress enough the fact that the information I have provided here is just the tip of the iceberg, and that these experiments were VERY well documented BY THE NAZIS THEMSELVES.

This is horrifying. This is real. And we cannot let people insult the memory of these horrors by manipulating historical fact for selfish gain.