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Uncle Sam is my sugar daddy, I don't need a second one
I block transphobes and bootlickers
whenever i see an ex-anything make a huge deal out of said ex-identity and politicising their experience and renouncing their former mistake and the evil influences that had led them astray with great pathos and so on and so forth i think about how the original ‘roe’ from roe v wade got baptised on national television and became a huge pro life and ex gay darling activist for a good many years and then shortly before her death admitted that she simply said anything the christian orgs payrolling her wanted her to for more money, never actually opposed abortion and also maintained an open-secret relationship with another woman for over 30 years. grift is hardly the right word anymore because she made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of it. though few are quite this successful - many, many, many, many, many such cases
as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter’s. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site’s actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.
HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.
here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:
and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn’t received the update:
it’s hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it’s also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it’s a good fix.
the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit “create new script”, and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.
Historian finishing a dissertation on the ice industry here. For once, I am not here to take away your joy!
“Oh no, the ice man is too sexy and he’s going to fuck my wife while I’m not home” was a legit moral panic for DECADES. So much so that if you were fancy, you could get an icebox built into your wall so the dirty, sexy ice man didn’t have to come inside your house with your delicate, impressionable wife.
This pic is going in the diss if I can chase down the correct citation for it.
Probably a stupid question but, can invertebrates become overweight? Animals kept as pets can get too "loved" and become overweight, but can this also happen to, idk, slugs, millipedes, etc.?
depends on the bug! in general most bugs will just not eat if they don’t feel hungry. quite often my amblypygi and centipedes refuse food, and will do so for long periods of time when close to molting.
many herbivores or detritivores like slugs, caterpillars, millipedes, isopods, or cockroaches will eat plant matter all day until they meet their needs. however, for certain animals. captive diets can be too rich in nutrients. most roaches are adapted to eat low-protein diets and therefore store protein efficiently as uric acid crystals. in captivity, too much protein essentially give roaches gout and can kill them, so dog/cat/fish food should be given in moderation (depending on species, 20-30% protein is more than enough and less is fine, I raise B. dubia entirely on vegetable and fruit scraps).
predatory bugs also can be overfed. some tarantulas can become obese which is concerning for them since they have thin, soft abdomens which rupture easily, so obese tarantulas are more susceptible to injury and molting failure. my A. chalcodes Cassandra hasn’t eaten since the previous autumn and not lost any weight, so it seems to depend on the species and individual’s metabolism if they’ll overeat. some centipedes can look awfully bloated in captivity, but not enough is known about them to say if that’s unhealthy. I try to keep my centipedes fairly slim, and mine seem to not feed if they’re not hungry as well.
in general, my advice for feeding arthropods is to try and mimic natural diets as much as possible. slugs and caterpillars need to eat constantly to extract nutrients from their watery, fibrous plant diets, so should always have food available. cockroaches, millipedes, and isopods are detritivores, so should always have dead leaves or vegetable bits to eat, and protein can be offered in moderation as needed. predators should be fed plenty after molting, and maintained not-at-bursting for the rest of that instar
