Had a call from a doctor 3 minutes after waking up this morning. They're going to try some new antidepressant combinations on me, and if shit won't start working they should probably do a genetic screening on me to see if there's any hereditary DNA things going about, influencing how I metabolise medications. When I asked him to confirm that this actually is something that they can do, he misunderstood where I was coming from with this and tried to reassure me that it's not a bad thing or anything to be afraid of.
No, I was just astonished to learn that not only is this a thing that doctors know of and practice, but that there's actually a legit way to be medically tested for something that I've suspected all along: With the combined powers of natural selection and unhinged, untethered alcoholism, my bloodline has developed an inherent genetic resistance to poison damage.
Poop Qu—no, wait, sorry—POP QUIZ! Birds can fart: true or false? 🤔
It’s true! But it doesn’t happen often. While birds, like these pelagic cormorants, have the anatomical ability to fart, they don’t carry the kinds of bacteria that produce gas in their stomachs (unlike humans 😅). So it would be abnormal for them to toot but not impossible—the more you know! 🌟
“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.” ― Vera Nazarian