Apytele
@Apytele@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon was a cub scout 1 week ago:
so, so many things
- Comment on Anon was a cub scout 1 week ago:
2and (afaik)
- Comment on Anon was a cub scout 1 week ago:
My mother asked my sister if she was trans because a cub scout leader molested her.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a mistake 1 week ago:
See I was a teenage girl reading RimmerxLister on FF.net under the Christmas tree so my main takeaway from this is that “men are just more visual” is just what gets the male porn addicts caught.
- Comment on Anon gets in a bad mood 3 weeks ago:
You’ll get a similar adrenaline / endorphin combo hit with much less lasting harm to your body if you run or do jumping jacks for five minutes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
oooh that’s a thought. I thought it was gonna be more like what their poop / excretions smell like because maybe some of them smell like those things they don’t like but now I’m wondering if it’s the other way around?
- Comment on Keep them secret 4 weeks ago:
Yeah like. I’ll google stuff on his phone if it’s within reach and mine’s not but like. I’m not combing through his messages or anything that seems exhausting.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The good bit from the article (not that the methodology isn’t interesting):
What mosquitoes did – and didn’t – like
Each species showed clear preferences when it came to the odors and skin bacteria.
Aedes aegypti showed a slight preference for men over women, while the other two mosquito species did not discriminate on the basis of sex. The reasons for this are not clear, and the differences in odors and skin microbes between men and women were too great for us to tease out any individual factors driving mosquito attraction.
Aedes aegypti preferred people that had less of certain odors like cyclic alcohols, which are ingredients in some fragrances and cosmetic products. But they were attracted to people on whom Staphylococcus bacteria was more abundant. Meanwhile, lower attraction was associated with certain Pseudomonas bacteria.
Aedes albopictus was a little less picky, preferring people with plenty of odors. They particularly sought out people with high amounts of organic compounds called ketones. One of their favorite ketones was mesityl oxide, which has a sweet, honeylike odor. These mosquitoes also preferred people with more skin microbes, particularly when bacteria like Streptococcus intermedius and Anaercoccus octavius were in higher abundance.
But they also avoided certain bacteria, like the Mogibacterium genus. We suspect that these bacteria may produce odors that these mosquitoes don’t like.
Much like Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus picked participants that had fewer odors overall. They were attracted to monoterpenes like alpha-pinene, which are organic compounds often found in essential oils.
Interestingly, there were no bacteria that were associated with high attraction for Culex quinquefasciatus, but there was a high abundance of the bacteria genus Actinomyces on the participants that were low attraction to these mosquitoes.
The results weren’t all differences: Some odors and bacteria were attractive across all three species. For example, all three were attracted to participants with the odor chemical ethyl 2-methylbutanoate, a fruity scent often found in fragrances. And all three species were less attracted to participants with lots of the odor 1-penten-3-ol, a chemical typically used in fresh- or crisp-scented products.
We also found that some skin bacteria were attractive across all three species. For example, people with more Corynebacterium kefirresidentii living on their skin were highly attractive to all the mosquitoes.
- Comment on now you're worth 4 weeks ago:
You know what’s an underrated ship? Rick Sanchez and Stanford Pines.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 4 weeks ago:
In fact sex being used as the indicator is actually a clue to one of the largest contributors. There’s a very wide reaching assumption that men should get most of their emotional support from their female partner. This is often very stressful to the female partner and is a fragile way to meet a basic need; if she gets sick or dies he’s probably not far behind her. Men need to learn how to compliment and hug each other. It’s 2026 ffs.
- Comment on why im switching up my deanposting 4 weeks ago:
Should’ve also had “I’m a teenage boy trying to impress his girlfriend in the passenger seat.”
- Comment on Killing time in the doctor's waiting room 4 weeks ago:
You know, most multicellular organisms don’t have a vagina, but most of them DO have an anus. Something to think about.
- Comment on SBA #227 Sins and Virtues 4 weeks ago:
Chris Hansen corrupting evidence. I’m serious having worked with child sex offenders I find most people’s hatred to be either slightly performative or just as an excuse to hate someone lesser (not that they’re wrong) but in a way that prevents the label from being applied accurately and prevents the actual victims from receiving justice.
- Comment on Knife horse 4 weeks ago:
That’s how they get you.
- Comment on Hazelnut 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 5 weeks ago:
I was gonna say, if your other options are poverty / prison, this isn’t actually a bad deal practically speaking. Not gonna get into the ethics of military service other than to say blaming individuals for trying to escape poverty isn’t the answer. When I teach about chronic institutionalization in a psychiatric context, the military is one of the susceptible demographics alongside prison and long term hospitalization.
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 5 weeks ago:
Get as much support out of them as you can stomach. Try to at least graduate a trade school if you can. Use them to get to a point where you can reliably pay your own rent and other bills needed for daily life. Then move to a new address and change your number and don’t tell them the new ones.
- Comment on Oh my! 🫘 👁️🫦👁️ 5 weeks ago:
I was gonna say, those beans aren’t horny, they’re being molested.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 5 weeks ago:
yeah you basically never wanna do psych stuff in an ER unless the behavior is unsafe enough that they’re likely to end up there anyway. The only psych interventions ED staff know how to do is emergently drugging a person unconscious which is rarely necessary. You more likely want some kind of specific psychiatric crisis services but you still need to be able to communicate effectively enough to let them work out a basic safety plan because if you go in with “I wanna die nothing will ever get better and you can’t talk me out of that” they’re gonna get you sent to an ER.
- Comment on Me attending "AI University" at work today 1 month ago:
I made myself a password generator where you input how long the password needs to be, + other requirements (length, number, special characters (there’s an input box for which ones are allowed) then it subtracts the number / special character from the total required length, chooses a random combo of 3-7 letter words that will make exactly the required length, then adds back in a random number and special character and capitalizes one of the words. Probably not as safe as a completely random password but waaay easier to remember.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 month ago:
There’s basically two side effect profiles:
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It makes you fat, sleepy, confused, constipated / diarrhea / both, and your genitals stop working, but possibly in a different way than your usual everyday hell so maybe it’ll be a little better?
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It only has one side effect that only happens 0.00001% of the time: instant horrifyingly painful death.
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- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 1 month ago:
Uber, lyft, etc also do a lot of hospital-to-home transport for otherwise ambulatory / self care patients. Wondering if theyre gonna stop picking up my Psych patients too.
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 1 month ago:
Ty! This the the longer answer I was really looking for. I figured it was probably a scale problem but it’s nice to have that confirmed.
- Comment on if only people knew how based He is 1 month ago:
o hai
!gnostic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on if only people knew how based He is 1 month ago:
!gnostic@sh.itjust.works lol
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 1 month ago:
just randomly on the topic of Kessler syndrome. could we make a big sticky thing to just throw into orbit and like. Stick to everything. like a space lint roller or one of those slimes people use to clean car vents. Just turn it all back into one big garbage ball somehow.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 1 month ago:
Peeping Tom is a character from the story of Lady Godiva. Basically Lord Godiva was an asshole / tyrant and Lady Godiva begged him to have mercy on her subjects.
He was all “well if you like them all so damn much go ride a horse naked across the whole land so they can all see yo hoeass”
and she was like “OK then you’ll stop being an asshole? Bet.”
and he was all like “do it then bitch.”
So she fuckin’ did and all the subjects averted their eyes and/or stayed indoors except peeping Tom who was subsequently struck blind.
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 month ago:
☝️
Especially the thing about tumblr
- Comment on Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens. 1 month ago:
I think this meme might predate the internet, brb gonna do some research.
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 month ago:
Or, hear me out, sometimes dudes are bi.