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‘the pre-born* have RIGHTS!!’
ok! *files suit*
‘NOT LIKE THAT’
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Back to my Wolfwood being the oldest sibling bs, I’m thinking about how he has definitely done a joke or a prank that he didn’t know it would make the one at the end of it cry or something, so he would low key panic while instinctively trying to make them calm down and also bribe them into not telling about it to anyone else
This brings me to thinking he would do something like that to Vash, and paired with the fact that he tends to overreact as a comic relief (we know why we dont talk about thisrn) to whatever is going on, Vash would probably cry over it or act deeply offended
Now, while I think WW would know it was an overreaction just for comedy’s sake, I also think his older sibling instinct would kick in and would be like “hey hey calm down- it was a joke I promise I’m sorry- don’t tell anyone about this- no don’t cry- stop that- hey it’s okay shit sorry no- do you want a lollipop- I have one of those- don’t cry-”
#yeah yeah I’m at risk of it being a little OOC due to the fact that for the moment I’m a tristamp only#but you can never go wrong with the oldest child of at least 40 assumptions#i might not be the oldest sibling of 40 but I sure am the oldest sister of one and I know you can never escape it#it’s funnier if you consider that Vash is older but at the same time he is the youngest out of him and Nai#Vash may already have gone past the line of becoming petroleum and WW is basically an embryo by his side#but WW is still old brother Nico and Vash is lil Vash if we water things down by a lot#you WILL consume and believe in my agenda#might draw this later if I get to it OWBEJ#lenssi rambles#trigun#nicholas d wolfwood#nicholas trigun#vash#vash the stampede#trigun stampede#vash trigun
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Okay I’ve made it to the end of the Alex/Izzie romance (minus the whole him infamously leaving to be with her in s16) and now I can confidently say that if you think Alex deserved better than Izzie instead of vice versa, you might just hate women.
#Alex really has the audacity to call himself a good man because of Izzie’s cancer???#I’m sorry is this not the same man who decided to freeze embryos and get married without discussing it with Izzie at all??#is this the same man who got all pissy cause Izzie was grieving the tragic death of her best friend???#like idk my takeaway from the cancer arc was not ‘wow Alex is really stepping up’#it was wow ‘alex and Izzie are so scared of her dying they’re making endless stupid decisions’#anti alex karev#s watches greys
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The definition of not safe for work content that would be censored under KOSA is vague and would of course target the LGBT community.
#not art#I'm so tired okay#A Tennessee Governor has allowed public officials to deny same sex marriages if it makes them uncomfortable#Alabama ruled that frozen embryos count as children#and would make it so women trying to get pregnant through IVF can only do so one egg at a time#Even if the egg is knowingly not viable#This process takes months and would be for nothing#Cops can open fire on you or run you over and joke about it with no consequences#As well as cop cities opening over the majority of states and being supported by Israel where they can better train our police in abuse#The industry I want to go into is experiencing massive layoffs and people simply aren't valued as it's all about shareholders and investors#And to top it all off the planet is still dying due to climate change caused by oil and gas companies and their CEOs#Both me and my mom are unemployed and we definitely couldn't afford the place we've been provided if it weren't for assistance#And I'm worried something will get screwed up and we'll just get evicted and this'll all be for nothing#I just don't see the point anymore#I only exist to provide shelter to my family as the apartment is in my name and to hopefully try and pay back those have donated to me#Besides that I just go through every day not seeing any upside to continuing to live but not committed to die
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I'm pretty sure some data entries you get from scanning suggest that the life in 4546b can, in fact, self fertilize and possess both male and female parts.
My guess is it's more common for Leviathans to self fertilize since their numbers, as apex predators, would need to stay fairly low and thus have small clutches along with tending towards being quite territorial about their claimed hunting grounds, but they could also mate as normal if they wanted.
yeah! according to the wiki, a majority of fauna are simultaneous hermaphrodites, and i didnt make celestial leviathans an exception to this. i wouldnt be surprised if they were capable of being autogamous but i expect that it wouldnt be as common as sexual reproduction
but yeah, i expect sexual reproduction >>> autogamy. kind of the whole point is to swap genes and get a good amount of genetic diversity. if too many generations self-fertilize, then the offspring would have more homozygous genes
lets assume this gene is Aa, so Aa x Aa = 25% AA, 50% Aa, 25% aa
and if the offspring turns out to have AA or aa for this gene, then any further offspring gotten from self-fertilizing would have the exact same copy because theres really no other variation from that point forth. do that to enough genes, and that becomes a problem with the low genetic diversity
so yeah! asexual reproduction is still on the table, just that i imagine sexual reproduction would be the more common of the 2, even if the leviathans are territorial
#ask#anon#asexual reproduction is still of a hell of a valid strategy though#look at those female-only lizards!#however they have 2 strategies at least for the new mexico whiptail#which is the species im currently looking at#and its to either asexually reproduce via parthenogenesis#or to fuck the males of a different lizard species thats also in the same genus#wait parthenogenesis is pretty interesting#its when a gamete (sex cell) doesnt combine with another gamete and still produces an embryo#the resulting offspring can have either all or half of the parents clones#and are called full or half clones respectively#oh there are so many breeding strategies. good lord#whatever i wrote in the main post might not be entirely true because there is just. So Many#and i am but one person furiously googling a lot of things#coasting through using my childhood obsession of biology#i mean. yeah i took bio classes but i wouldnt count them because i hardly remember a thing from those#and they were more for fun#reproduction past gametes and diploid haploid etc was just not covered#feel free to correct me if im wrong on any front! please correct me#i dont want to give misinfo and also im fucking vibing over here chilling with my pulled up google pages
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on one hand yes a fetus requires nutrients from the parent’s body but on the other hand. sometimes people calling it a parasite feels a little strange
#idk maybe it’s because i was raised by a midwife#abortions are an incredibly important part of healthcare but also if someone decides to keep their baby and you’re only thinking about it#as some sort of parasite instead of something the parent is choosing to do and excited about it seems very dehumanising#it just seems weird and off to me#plus i hope no one in healthcare has that view but if they did i would think it could potentially also affect the parent’s care#because yes carrying a child will absolutely strain the body more than it might be otherwise but if it’s something the parent wants to do#then calling it a parasite or something. idk ive just been thinking about this#because viewing a fetus or embryo as some sort of 100% viable life form from the moment of conception is completely wrong. but also if#someone wants their child and is excited about it don’t be weird?#OH it’s because it feels the same as those people who are like ‘i hate All Kids i love when kids cry i would punt a child’#that’s it. yep. that’s why it feels weird#just thinkin out loud here bc people can be really strange about pregnancy#pregnancy is fucking wild though i remember having a conversation with my mum where she was like ‘yeah it can make a vagina change colours’#like what the fuck is that about#i know more abt pregnancy than the average person and it is weird as hell and kinda scary
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This is absolutely an ADHD/Adderall train of thought but I was just listening to "Bleed Out" by the Mountain Goats and it just occured to me - Kaji, Ritsuko, and Misato all die of gunshot wounds. Seems like a deliberate choice, that.
#die#tangentially - Rei and Asuka and Shinji all while fully merged with Adam or one of his clones#(they get better tho)#Rei (as the giant Lilith construct) dies physically after merging with the Adam embryo in Gendo's hand#Asuka is by the MP Eva Units whilst fully synchronized with Unit-02 (as evidenced by her sustaining the same physical wounds as her Eva)#Shinji is implied to dissolve into LCL like everyone else when he says 'everyone should die' - leaving him merged with 01's core
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#last night my son asked me why I don’t make babies like Mommy#and then he asked me why I’m not a boy#which wasn’t his real question obviously his real question is more like… why are you gay#why do I have two moms#and I’m like bruh I DID make you#and he’s like nooooo you didn’t and he was all sad about it lol#and I’m like yeah mommy made you into a baby but I made that embryo#then he asked why mommy didn’t make the embryo this time and I make the baby#the truth is that my wife doesn’t want to pass on her genes lol#but that’s pretty harsh for his age so I just said we liked him so much we wanted to use another embryo like his 😂#in fact this will be the closest you can get to fraternal twins without sharing a womb#because all the embryos were made at the same time#so the eggs are from that specific cycle when I was 27#and that specific vial of donor sperm#all the embryos are the same ‘age’#my kid keeps asking about the one that exploded when they tried to thaw it lmaooo#and I’m like bro I dunno why it happened but we’re gonna be happy it did#because it means they went to the next one which is gonna be your brother lol
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two 13-hr days in the lab in a row doing sequencing library prep, somehow my whole body is worn out
SCIENCE 🧬
#I’m prepping libraries for enzymatic methylation sequencing#so basically to map how my specimens’ DNA methylation patterns compare with reference specimens of the same chronological age#the hypothesis is that methylation patterns in fish that developed faster as embryos will have a higher relative epigenetic age#so their DNA methylation patterns will look like those of fish older than them#the idea here being that epigenetic aging could underpin the trade off between developmental rate and aging in vertebrates#SCIENCE
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quick and dirty “synethic” embryos ethics guide:
are they a living member of the human species? then they have a soul.
#- HK#mobile#x#gotta big disagree with Allie’s speculations on this#it is WAY more speculative to say a synthetic embryo might not be a person than to say otherwise#there’s no reason God would not perpetuate the human race by the slightly rawer materials of DNA#when He already does with the raw material of sperm and egg#no intercourse required#not defending IVF and CERTAINLY not defending the creation of synthetic embryos#but there is no such thing as a living human being with no soul#and I just had a conversation with someone who believes that because women gestate life they ‘create’ life#we don’t. God does. same goes for the scientists in their lab coats.#pro-life#very serendipitous that I reblogged a Frankenstein post earlier today
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I recently found out a show I liked is 10 years old now so to not be the oldest thing on this blog I'm talking coelacanths for Wet Beast Wednesday. Coelacanths are rare fish famed for being living fossils. While that term is highly misleading, it is true that coelacanths are among the only remaining lobe-fined fish and were thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago before being rediscovered in modern times.
(image id: a wild coelacanth. It is a large, mostly grey fish with splotches of yellowish scales. Its fins are attached to fleshy lobes. It is seen from the side, facing the top right corner of the picture)
Coelacanth fossils had been known since the 1800s and they were believed to have gone extinct in the late Cretaceous period. That was until December 1938, when a museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was informed of an unusual specimen that had been pulled in by local fishermen. After being unable to identify the fish, she contacted a friend, ichthyologist J. L. B. Smith, who told her to preserve the specimen until he could examine it. Upon examining it early next year, he realized it was indeed a coelacanth, confirming that they had survived, undetected, for 66 million years. Note that fishermen living in coelacanth territory were already aware of the fish before they were formally described by science. Coelacanths are among the most famous examples of a lazarus taxon. This term, in the context of ecology and conservation, means a species or population that is believed to have gone extinct but is later discovered to still be alive. While coelacanths are among the oldest living lazarus taxa, they aren't the oldest. They are beaten out by a genus of fly (100 million years old) and a type of mollusk (over 300 million years old).
(image: a coelacanth fossil. It is a dark brown imprint of a coelacanth on white rock. Its skeleton is visible in the imprint)
Coelacanths are one of only two surviving groups of lobe-finned fish along with the lungfishes. Lobe-finned fish are bony fish notable for their fins being attached to muscular lobes. By contrast, ray-finned fish (AKA pretty much every fish you've ever heard of that isn't a shark) have their fins attached directly to the body. That may not sound like a big difference, but it actually is. The lobes of lobe-finned fish eventually evolved into the first vertebrate limbs. That makes lobe-finned fish the ancestors of all reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, including you. In fact, you are more closely related to a coelacanth than a coelacanth is to a tuna. Coelacanths were thought to be the closest living link to tetrapods, but genetic testing has shown that lungfish are actually closer to the ancestor of tetrapods.
(image id: a scientific diagram depicting the taxonomic relationships of early lobe-finned fish showing their evolution to proto-tetrapods like Tiktaalik and Ichthyostega, to true tetrapods. Source)
There are two known living coelacanth species: the west Indian ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth (L. menadoensis). Both are very large fish, capable of exceeding 2 m (6.6 ft) in length and 90 kg (200 lbs). Their wikipedia page describes them as "plump", which seems a little judgmental to me. Their tails are unique, consisting of two lobes above and below the end of the tail, which has its own fin. Their scales are very hard and thick, acting like armor. The mouth is small, but a hinge in its skull, not found in any other animal, allows the mouth to open extremely wide for its size. In addition, they lack a maxilla (upper jawbone), instead using specialized tissue in its place. They lack backbones, instead having an oil-filled notochord that serve the same function. The presence of a notochord is the key characteristic of being a chordate, but most vertebrates only have one in embryo, after which it is replaced by a backbone. Instead of a swim bladder, coelacanths have a vestigial lung filled with fatty tissue that serves the same purpose. In addition to the lung, another fatty organ also helps control buoyancy. The fatty organ is large enough that it forced the kidneys to move backwards and fuse into one organ. Coelacanths have tiny brains. Only about 15% of the skull cavity is filled by the brain, the rest is filled with fat.
(image id: a coalacanth. It is similar to the one on the above image, but this one is blue in color and the head is seen more clearly, showing an open mouth and large eye)
One of the reasons it took so long for coelacanths to be rediscovered is their habitat. They prefer to live in deeper waters in the twilight zone, between 150 and 250 meters deep. They are also nocturnal and spend the day either in underwater caves or swimming down into deeper water. They typically stay in deeper water or caves during the day as colder water keeps their metabolism low and conserves energy. While they do not appear to be social animals, coelacanths are tolerant of each other's presence and the caves they stay in may be packed to the brim during the day. Coelacanths are all about conserving energy even when looking for food. They are drift feeders, moving slowly with the currents and eating whatever they come across. Their diet primarily consists of fish and squid. Not much is known about how they catch their prey, but they are capable of rapid bursts of speed that may be used to catch prey and is definitely used to escape predators. They are believed to be capable of electroreception, which is likely used to locate prey and avoid obstacles. Coelacanths swim differently than other fish. They use their lobe fins like limbs to stabilize their movements as they drift. This means that while coelacanths are slow, they are very maneuverable. Some have even been seen swimming upside-down or with their heads pointed down.
(image: an underwater cave wilt multiple coelacanths residing in it. 5 are clearly visible, with the fins of others showing from offscreen)
Coelacanths are a vary race example of bony fish that give live birth. They are ovoviviparous, meaning the egg is retained and hatches inside the mother. Gestation can take between 2 and 5 years (estimates differ) and multiple offspring are born at a time. It is possible that females may only mate with a single male at a time, though this is not confirmed. Coelacanths can live over 100 years and do not reach full maturity until age 55. This very slow reproduction and maturation rate likely contributes to the rarity of the fish.
(image: a juvenile coelacanth. Its body shape is the same as those of adults, but with proportionately larger fins. There are green laser beams shining on it. These are used by submersibles to calculate the size of animals and objects)
Coelacanths are often described as living fossils. This term refers to species that are still similar to their ancient ancestors. The term is losing favor amongst biologists due to how misleading it can be. The term os often understood to mean that modern species are exactly the same as ancient ones. This is not the case. Living coelacanth are now known to be different than those who existed during the Cretaceous, let alone the older fossil species. Living fossils often live in very stable environments that result in low selective pressure, but they are still evolving, just slower.
(image: a coelacanth swimming next to a SCUBA diver)
Because of the rarity of coelacanths, it's hard to figure out what conservation needs they have. The IUCN currently classifies the west Indian ocean coelacanth as critically endangered (with an estimated population of less than 500) and the Indonesian coelacanth as vulnerable. Their main threat is bycatch, when they are caught in nets intended for other species. They aren't fished commercially as their meat is very unappetizing, but getting caught in nets is still very dangerous and their slow reproduction and maturation means that it is long and difficult to replace population losses. There is an international organization, the Coelacanth Conservation Council, dedicated to coelacanth conservation and preservation.
(image: a coelacanth facing the camera. The shape of its mouth makes it look as though it is smiling)
#wet beast wednesday#coelacanth#marine biology#biology#zoology#ecology#animal facts#fish#fishblr#old man fish#lobe-finned fish#sarcopterygii
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ok does anyone else know what embryo wallace is because i need someone to help me solve it
#i think it might be an arg since it’s the same thing over and over again but with ciphered codes and random things in the description ->#every now and then. help#•bambi rambles•#embryo wallace
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Thinking about Danny being reincarnated into Jason and Talia's child (since she canonically slept with teenaged Jason after his resurrection *blech*)
Talia getting pregnant the natural way but moving the embryo to an artificial womb so it wouldn't hinder her (because she would have hated her child more if she'd been forced to carry him to term, she already doesn't like him, this is not the child of her beloved, if her father hadn't thought the boy as useful leverage)
Jason having no idea this kid even exists until Talia informs him he's missing (of course Danny ran, he's surrounded by monsters, but with the few years of training he's gained and his powers that are starting to manifest again, he escapes to find his own way, not to find his father and burden him with his existence)
Bruce struck with horror that his son and grandson share a mother (he has a grandson, talia assaulted his boy, damian is a brother and an uncle to the same child, a child that is missing, a child that may be dead-)
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dpxdc#dcxdp#reincarnated danny fenton#child danny fenton#c: danny fenton#c: jason todd#c: talia al ghul#c: bruce wanye#c: damian wayne#cw sa implied#cw child sa#cw rape
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I hope I never need one but I’m so fucking sad and angry and scared for abortion/reproductive rights.
#I will NOT have another baby with the same genetic condition as my son#it is unfair to the baby’s life and to me and my husband#I wouldn’t want to but if it happened I think I would get an abortion#also terrified that they’re going to start limiting genetic testing with IVF since that��s the only way I want to have a second baby#I might try to see if we could freeze some embryos before shit gets even worse#don’t have the money for it now but fuck everything I guess
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But once the babies are here, the state provides little help.
When she got pregnant, Mayron Michelle Hollis was clinging to stability.
At 31, she was three years sober, after first getting introduced to drugs at 12. She had just had a baby three months earlier and was working to repair the damage that her addiction had caused her family.
The state of Tennessee had taken away three of her children, and she was fighting to keep her infant daughter, Zooey. Department of Children’s Services investigators had accused Mayron of endangering Zooey when she visited a vape store and left the baby in a car.
Her husband, Chris Hollis, was also in recovery.
The two worked in physically demanding jobs that paid just enough to cover rent, food and lawyers’ fees to fight the state for custody of Mayron’s children.
In the midst of the turmoil in July 2022, they learned Mayron was pregnant again. But this time, doctors warned she and her fetus might not survive.
The embryo had been implanted in scar tissue from her recent cesarean section. There was a high chance that the embryo could rupture, blowing open her uterus and killing her, or that she could bleed to death during delivery. The baby could come months early and face serious medical risks, or even die.
But the Supreme Court had just overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion across the United States. By the time Mayron decided to end her pregnancy, Tennessee’s abortion ban — one of the nation’s strictest — had gone into effect.
The total ban made no explicit exceptions — not even to save the life of a pregnant patient. Any doctor who violated the ban could be charged with a felony.
Women with means could leave the state. But those like Mayron, with limited resources or lives entangled with the child welfare and criminal justice systems, would be the most likely to face caring for a child they weren’t prepared for.
And so, the same state that questioned Mayron’s fitness to care for her four children forced her to continue a pregnancy that risked her life to have a fifth, one that would require more intensive care than any of the others.
Tennessee already had some of the worst outcomes in the nation when measuring maternal health, infant mortality and child poverty. Lawmakers who paved the way for a new generation of post-Roe births did little to bolster the state’s meager safety net to support these babies and their families.
In December 2022, when Mayron was 26 weeks and two days pregnant, she was rushed to the hospital after she began bleeding so heavily that her husband slipped in her blood. An emergency surgery saved her life. Her daughter, Elayna, was born three months early.
Afterward, photographer Stacy Kranitz and reporter Kavitha Surana followed Mayron and her family for a year to chronicle what life truly looked like in a state whose political leaders say they are pro-life. [...]
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Extremely long post about how you’re now allowed to erase your neopets faces (NEOPETS IS GOOD AGAIN: YOU CAN ERASE THEIR FACES.)
I have just learned that neopets recently added some wearable (neocash only though) items called the “be-gone cans” that let you hide different body parts, so there’s like eyes-be-gone and wings-be-gone.
There’s a lot of caveats (the mouth one for some reason is locked behind a gacha capsule, the “body” one only removes minor extra details from the torsos of a few species, they don’t all work on all pets and they don’t even work on the same exact parts of the same species in different colors because of how they were coded) but at minimum ALL pets can at least have the eyes and mouths removed and this alone improves countless, countless designs. For instance if you didn’t like some of the invertebrate variants stuck with the pet’s usual face, now you can fix it:
Same for the fruit and vegetable chias, they're SO good without faces, for reference here’s the mushroom chia with the horrible face all chias normally have:
Awful. Just ghastly.
Now you can correct him and make him good:
Look how fucking cute some of the other chias are this way:
This is a fucking game changer, I actually care about neopets for the first time in a decade because I can take their faces off. They were born for this. They were waiting almost 30 years to be freed from their disgusting foul orifices. “Help me, mother” they say, “I am cursed with a mouth and can therefore all too easily scream!” as their famous catchphrase always went I think. At last their salvation is here.
I mean, look at this sad lenny:
We all know exactly why he’s canonically always so miserable! If there’s one thing he hates more than having legs to touch the earth’s filth and corruption it’s being able to see it.
Now he’s happy! He wants this!
And now he’s even happier i’ll bet!!!!!!!!!!
If you take the muzzle piece off the scorchio it even liberates their whole head from their neck as their god intended:
Legit though some pets actually make better serious designs besides the nudibranch one, like if you take the eyes off any of the (already badass) transparent pets you get their deep abyssal cave version:
Now look at some of the transparent pets with everything taken away that can be taken away:
The uni is finally almost unrecognizable as an equine, its life long dream
This isn’t like any of the dog designs in any of the silent hill games but it could exactly have been a dog design in a silent hill game, you know??
God bless whatever artist refused to give the insectoid Ruki a normal vertebrate skeleton so you can make this gelatinous flying space angel
But god bless whoever DID give the insectoid Buzz a vertebrate skeleton so you can make this HR Giger parasite embryo. Actually cannot pick between the two bug pets here as my new favorite neopets that are still technically available.
THESE WINGS HAVE BEEN RETIRED SINCE 2012 OR I WOULD MAKE THIS PET:
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