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• NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Personally I find it pretty neat that as megafauna we are host to entire little ecosystems. It’s a calming thought to imagine yourself like some large tree, home to little families of various creatures, bacterial and fungal colonies growing on you. We are thoroughly integrated into the ecosystems in which we live.

  They’re not harmful, they’re just living their mitey little life.

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I, personally, am wholly against most of my DNA existing solely it can replicate itself. So what if getting rid of it is more effort than keeping it? I want it gone from my body. Goddamn freeloaders…

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  • TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty much everything looks horrifying on a scanning electron micrograph.

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  • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks now I want to rip my skin off

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    • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hope you’re just acting the fool because of tumblr brain. You aren’t being harmed, knowledge of something that wasn’t hurting you being uncomfortable should convince you your attitudes are wrong. Not that the situation is bad.

      Fix yourself, don’t be a child.

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• perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex

  My fave parts (edited for brevity):

  The adult mites are 0.3–0.4 mm (3⁄256–1⁄64 in) long. Each has a semitransparent, elongated body that consists of two fused parts. Eight short, segmented legs are attached to the first body segment. The body is covered with scales for anchoring itself in the hair follicle, and the mite has pin-like mouthparts for eating skin cells and oils that accumulate in the hair follicles.

  … and …

  The mites are transferred between hosts through contact with hair, eyebrows, and the sebaceous glands of the face.

  Ohhh good.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, 0.3mm is huge, you should be able to see that. I don’t think this is right.

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    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      0.3mm in length, not diameter. Yes, you can see them, but they just look like dead skin/gunk to our eyes.

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      Gallery with visible accumulation of mites on hairs

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe we do see them, but mistake them for bits of skin or dirt.

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    • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agreed. 1/64th of an inch is .016". An average human hair is .003" in diameter, that would be as long as five hairs wide. You wouldn’t even need a magnifier to see the largest ones.

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Combine the size with the fact that they are semi transparent and live in hair follicles and sebaceous glands, both of which are essentially under the skin, and that’s why you don’t generally see them.

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  • TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3⁄256

    Who uses inches at this scale? I mean, really.

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I learned recently that machinists used to use fractions to indicate tolerance, like a dimension given as 5/16 could be ±1/32 of an inch, because anything less than 9/32 would round to 4/16, and anything more than 11/32 to 6/16.

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3⁄256

    Please don’t let the Amish at my work know that such small increments of size exist. They’ll ask me to cut my trim to that level of tolerance

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why it’s okay to make out with randos at parties and such. You get mono for 6 months plus accretion of zillions of new friends.

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  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    mouthparts
    Josh & Chuck just got a tignle down their spines

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fitting username :P

    Although tbh they look kinda cute!

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Found out about these when I was a kid. I was thrilled. When I was very little, my mom owned a grooming shop, and I basically had 1 million pets. Then she closed down, and we just had our dog and a cat. Weird little 5 year old me loved the idea that I had thousands of little pets that’s slept on my face and came out to play while I slept

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the best possible reaction to this :)

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I will admit that since I’ve started wearing glasses, my eyes often burn really badly (I don’t know if they’re related or just weird timing), and I sometimes wonder if my little friends are pissed about the change and getting into my eyes. Lol

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  that picture is actually a cute silk worm: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32CF9LC

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks just like me if I don’t shave. :3

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  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t shave

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s too late midterms are here and now i’m a demodex

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Little homies up in there cleaning things and living their best lives. I ain’t mad at that.

  Besides, all the yeast and bacteria maken good company for them, so it’s all good.

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  • Cenotaph@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just make sure you wash your face still, otherwise they build up and cause problems

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• hate2bme@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He looks like a cute lil garbage pail kid type of thing.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ugly cute. I like the little guy.

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• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Time to scrub my face with a cheese grater

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• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

  Shit

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  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t stop laughing, I’m going to share this with so many people.

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• EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AaaaaAAaaaaaaaAaaAAaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaaa

  breathes in

  AAAaaaaaaAaaaaaAAAaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaaaaa

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lovin u is complicatED, lovin u is complicated 🎵

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• obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s cute, like a version of the tardigrade.

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• tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ballsack looking ass

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it too late to drown myself in napalm?

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• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How come there’s never little ape like creatures.

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because the fanfic would lead us further away from our path to god.

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ogs know this is a repost

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OGs see a repost and understand that’s how meme culture is, because that’s how language is, how art is.

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• Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  cat-com

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  looks like hillary clinton without makeup

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You into throwback ad hominem politics or just general misogyny? Why not both? Check out… I won’t even say the name. Fuck you.

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  friend shaped

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Adorabibble.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am the planet now

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