Instructions not clear. All I got was goatse and a stinky after taste.

2/10

I heard when it’s “that time of the month”, his innerds get sensitive so he needs to rest by his heat lamp and ingest meals rectally—whole, of course.

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Japanese and Mexican for the sake of the question. It’s what I grew up eating, and I hate the idea of being without my familiar comfort foods.

Truthfully though, I love eating too much to limit myself regionally or to just two countries. There’s so much I haven’t tried.

“fetid” is great descriptor. It to me feels more visceral than “rancid”.

I think I disagree with “grape” being the worst though. Artificial grape flavor is the most honest one, be it medicine or soda. It’s the distant cousin that shows up to the wedding or funeral in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops; it’s the octagenerian emeritus faculty member that shows up to seminar and sits in the front row and sleeps through the presentation; it’s the Kazaa (or Morpheus or Limewire) file labeled “Blink182.mp3.exe”—you look at it and you know exactly what you’re gonna get.

The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.

I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought “A PhD is a good idea”

It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.

I CHOOSE YOU, BALLSACK FR- I mean, turtle frog! https://share.google/2q4ew0HzbeLWAjPfm

Do lizard-people have hemipenes and cloacas?

Adding to this: XX and XY works for mammals, but not for other vertebrates (fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians). Birds and reptiles have Z and W chromosomes, and unlike in mammals where females are homozygotes, males in these groups are homozygotes. Some reptiles have temperature dependent sex determination, where ambient temperature above some value will produce males or females (depends on species). Some reptiles are composed entirely of females.

Some fish will straight up change sexes depending on age and male-female ratio in a social group.

In other groups it’s not even different chromosomes but simply copy number of specific genes.

Plants can do all sorts of whacky things like produce seeds and pollen in the same individual.

Fungi are an entirely different cluster fuck because they have mating types which are not simple binaries.

Eukaryotic sex determination isn’t a binary and it isn’t even a nicely categorizable spectrum. It’s a grab-bag of whatever doesn’t perma-fuck your genome.

Source: me, I’m a biologist. Though admittedly I work on animals so my understanding of fungi and plant stuff is fuzzy at best.

What the fuck is a sewer slide?

Somewhat related—oldies stations are like this, except with “new” songs entering the rotation periodically. Of course, when the end of the year rolls around they play the “Top 100 songs of the year” which are essentially the same set of songs in a haphazard order.

I didn’t mind it so much because it was much better than listening to the low hum of showcase coolers of a mom-and-pop grocery store. However, it was pretty jarring when I heard them play a song I distinctly remember hearing on the radio as a kid riding in the back of the van getting dropped off for 1st grade (or some such young age)

Maybe it’s haunted by a drunk cow?

I’m a fan of ‘your inner fish’ by Neil Shubin. Slightly dated, but the information is still good.

Yeah, it’s generally between Science and Nature in terms of greatest publication prestige. Most scientists work their butts off to get their works published in either of those, only to get their work desk-rejected and ultimately published in “less prestigious”, field-specific journals.

That’s not to say the Science and Nature are the end all be all of scientific journals; there are many journals specific to each field that is also prestigious.

Many biologists (myself included) don’t anthropomorphize animals because it’s impossible to objectively quantify things like “culture”. So, my opinion is that some fish change sex, and not their gender (because fish don’t have genders, which are human social constructs).

Happy to be corrected if I’m off-base. I’m not an ichthyologist.

Looks like a side blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) to me.

The Midas’ touch of Sally shit fingers

All of Francoise Hardy’s album Soleil. Absolutely lovely singing voice.

Only in Payne County.