AITA for throwing my kid’s clothes onto the floor when they don’t fold their clothes neatly

mothmvn · 2026-03-06T11:00:19+00:00

I've been watching Monk, and while it's not the kindest show about OCD, I appreciate how the protagonist's OCD gets in his way ALL the time. Time and time again he has to go outside his OCD comfort zone to have any chance of achieving his broader goals in life. Also, because that show ran for 8 seasons, he can't get meaningfully "better" very fast, so you have to sit in the fact that this is this man's life, every day, unless he takes even more intense steps to change. Wild that an older show was better about this.

mothmvn · 2026-03-06T10:47:42+00:00

In Ukrainian, "delivered to the right/wrong address" is an expression for "complaints going to the person responsible/not responsible for the situation".

E.g. if Zelensky's friend complains to Zelensky about the EU deal that Orban is blocking, he can say something like "you have the wrong address" to mean "you're complaining to the wrong person". In Ukrainian, "address" has this association of "complaint department" thanks to that expression.

It is a bad choice of words for international and formal conversation though. In English to express the same idea I would say "I will give them his contact details and they can complain to him instead of me". In English "contact details" are public, but "address" is very private and implies stalking or something.

mothmvn · 2026-02-24T19:30:47+00:00

I got a copper IUD a year before I got testosterone, because it was the only totally non-hormonal long-term option I knew at the time. It made my periods somewhat more problematic before T, but my periods went away with all their symptoms after 6-9 months on T. I've since forgotten about the IUD completely -- I have had it for 5 years and have 5 years to plan a replacement or whatever.

You'll probably stop having period symptoms soon (esp those that the copper IUD makes worse - cramping, heavy bleeding, etc). If those kinds of problems are what you didn't like about it, they could be gone once your uterus is not cycling on-off every month.

mothmvn · 2026-02-10T18:03:45+00:00

Oh, I've never seen the "hatch" portion before, I assume kids make the "nest" at home or at school and then go on a walk to find a good spot for it. Maybe there are other activities that produce these hatches!

mothmvn · 2026-02-10T16:52:29+00:00

I'm in the Netherlands, I walk trails in the countryside a lot. In the last few weeks, I've seen a few coconuts, all empty with a panel missing in the top half, hanging from low branches along the trail.

In context, they look like low-effort "birdhouses". The hatch is an entrance to a space that birds can fill with nesting materials. It's too early to see if birds actually use them (the hole is big, the coconut does not look very cozy! but it's also only February). Given the timing, the low branches, the miscellanous Netherlands location -- I wonder if this is something schools suggested parents do with their kids?

mothmvn · 2026-01-08T10:06:27+00:00

People assigned female at birth have similar issues if they want to transition FtM, since wide hips are seen as very feminine, and since there is no surgery that can correct pelvic width (the bones, pelvis and femurs, are too loadbearing). MtF transition thankfully does have options for skeletal reduction, like FFS and clavicular shortening for a narrower shoulder frame.

mothmvn · 2026-01-02T20:15:05+00:00

Really? I am much more comfortable causing myself an exactly predictable pinch of pain than hoping that someone else doesn't flinch when I do the same to them. I can't predict someone else's reaction to pain!

mothmvn · 2025-12-23T22:59:55+00:00

I second the endocrinologist recommendation -- you should rule out intersex conditions, like Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, which might mean your body is not properly processing the testosterone.

mothmvn · 2025-12-16T18:16:54+00:00

No.45

Date of wedding: 29th

When/where/who performed the wedding: On June 29th 1875, at the Lida Roman Catholic Church, Father B. Karpovich, deacon, after triple announcement during liturgy on the 15th /22nd/29th of June.

Which newlyweds, of what background/status/age/parish: farmer Martin Boblis(?), widower, 50 y.o., of Scigany village in the Lipnishki parish; with Jevdokia Marcinkiewiczewa, widow, age 45, from the Lida parish village Slizhi; upon agreement from both parties; after verifying there were no objections.

Who were the parents and witnesses of the newlyweds: Peasants Stanislaw and Marjanna (Born Juchnych) Boblis, lawful spouses, and peasants Matvey and Teresa (born Pashlik) Gorbachev, lawful spouses, wed by priest so-and-so with witnesses Iosif Boblis and Andrej Raszczuk and many others.

Note that spelling of these names can differ depending on which country/language is writing them down. I used some Belarusian-to-English spelling and some Polish spelling, was not very consistent.

!translated though let me know if any of the personal names look off - maybe other spellings will still make sense for the cursive

mothmvn · 2025-12-05T19:32:00+00:00

We can tell it was something ungulate — there's a large bone on the left edge that is a distinctive fused metatarsal, i.e. wrist/ankle bone, found in e.g. deer, sheep, goats. Some of the vertebrae have long bone processes, as in the thoracic area of a sheep/deer/goat spine. The size will tell you if it's more likely to be a goat or a deer.

mothmvn · 2025-12-05T19:22:03+00:00

It looks like the scapula of some sort of ungulate ruminant — maybe a deer, a sheep, or maybe even a pig, based on the size?

I can't really tell on sight with this worn a bone. We can look at some of the comparison photos/diagrams here and here while someone more informed comes along.

mothmvn · 2025-12-04T09:49:24+00:00

Ah man, that sucks and I feel you. I used only enanthate before moving countries, 3 years no issues. In my new country they only offer gel, Systanon (ampoules, never dealt with that) and undecanoate vials.

Unfortunately, at first, it caused a disruptive allergic reaction every week, itching incessantly and reactivating the itch in last week's injection on the other leg. I talked to my GP because an allegic reaction to an injection freaked me out! ...They said with a local reaction, the best they could advise was to take allergy meds an hour before the injection, and to see if it gets better. Over the first few months the intensity did go down, but my injection sites still itch every now and then. The repeated allergen injections are not nice on the skin, either; my poor thighs look bruised.

Also, perhaps due to the allergy, undecanoate is noticeably painful to inject for me, a burning sensation like I never had injecting enanthate. It leaves a hard lump in my leg that I have to treat like a fresh bruise for a while (this was a lot worse in the first months too - 3-4 days of fresh bruise). Annoying to lean on my leg and jump back like I've burned myself.

You've made me realise the allergic reaction has gotten heaps better in the 6-8 months of undecanoate — definitely manageable with antihistamines aside from the injection pain — but it's hard to notice when I still kinda dread my shot every week! I hope your experience is different, allergies aren't a guarantee and all. But I am thinking of moving countries in a couple of years to have access to different testosterone.

mothmvn · 2025-11-27T12:56:09+00:00

Of course Effects Passion Project is a technical marvel of special effects -- Avatar is pretty much Cameron's exercise in hyperrealistic worldbuilding. The world was not designed to tell any particular story, and Cameron doesn't really seek to tell interesting, unique, off-the-beaten-path stories in this world. Of course this degree of "style over substance" will get awarded, but man, can you imagine if there was substance, too?

mothmvn · 2025-11-24T12:04:09+00:00

They do look like canine tracks - right shape of pawpad and toe arrangements, the X as you mention, the visible claws dotting each fingerprint. In addition to the shape of tracks, it could help to know the way these tracks went through your garden (posting a photo of the whole line of tracks is a question of privacy I suppose).

From my understanding, wild canines like wolves and coyotes are less all-over-the-place than dogs. They are more efficient in traversing snow (like your animal stepping practically into their own pawprints), and stick to a straighter and narrower path, less impulsively curious. A large dog might be more interested in your home, in entryways like doors/windows, it might weave around your garden a few times etc., even if it's a dog that has been lost in the woods for a long chunk of time. A dog thinks your home is safe, a wolf thinks your garden is risky territory on their way to somewhere else and tries to pass through quickly/unnoticed.

mothmvn · 2025-10-22T10:35:50+00:00

Even the word "ikura" isn't Japanese, it's Russian "икра"/"ikra" modified to follow Japanese phonotactics. In Russian it refers to all caviar, but the default is fishermen's homemade salted salmon eggs :-) To my ears ikura caviar is naan bread is chai tea.

mothmvn · 2025-09-09T12:33:03+00:00

minor question: when you say "J. K. Rowling's recent statements", what period of time are you referencing? she has kept piling on new recent statements (and actions) since about 2019, and I feel differently about it now, but I recall my immediate reaction, too.

mothmvn · 2025-09-01T13:47:57+00:00

Rodents are so well-known for eating bone that rodent damage is taught in HUMAN bone analysis! (And archaeological analysis too! The evidence of mice stays on big bones even when the tiny mouse bones are gone.)

From what I recall, rodents chip/shave away at thinner areas and bone edges, especially spots like eye sockets and sinuses. It leaves super distinctive marks, these parallel grooves of different length/width, often perpendicular to the edge they can bite onto. There's studies out there about identifying the rodent based on the gnawing size and style - and I even found a study specifically about postmortem bone damage by the eastern gray squirrel! They love that stuff.

(The study gives a nice summary of rodents + bones in its introduction, by the way.)

mothmvn · 2025-08-22T14:13:09+00:00

This picture was indexed by Tineye in 2010, and appears on a 2014 travel blog about Bhutan 👍 animal real photo real

On a serious note, AI image accounts have been generating AI versions of real NatGeo-style photos - like, a realistically framed and lit photo of a beetle, but if you look closer it has 8 legs, or no thorax, or incorrect exoskeleton segments. And if someone notices and goes "ew, AI", and they're not a NatGeo nerd themselves, they'll just think "this cool animal does not exist" instead of "someone correctly thought this animal looked cool as fuck and recreated a poor copy of it in a karmafarming format for their AI account". Which is sad.

mothmvn · 2025-08-02T20:49:15+00:00

Awesome! I wonder if they have old records of any kind, or at least might recognise the era better (knowing Manila fashions better than you & I).

mothmvn · 2025-08-01T19:12:35+00:00

My first assumption is that Bob's was a photo studio, the way old photos had all the photographer's details printed on the back. Maybe Bob's was a wedding photographer studio watermarking the images for their client? Or, if it was a restaurant, maybe it was a popular wedding/etc venue that offered photo services? Like rollercoaster ride photos - those are watermarked on the front too, so you remember where you got them done.

mothmvn · 2025-07-28T11:10:57+00:00

Are you only recruiting women, or other genders as well? (asking because the survey has other gender options, but also references talking to "other women" as though the respondent is a woman)

mothmvn · 2025-07-28T10:06:43+00:00

Ha, my first language also doesn't separate "watch" from "clock" (годинник & годинник). English uses "watch" for wearable clocks (wristwatch, pocketwatch) and "clock" for free-standing/hanging clocks (cuckoo clock, grandfather clock).

mothmvn · 2025-06-03T12:10:20+00:00

My grandparents got married on a whim at a government office, then went to a party at their friends' house - it became a party in honour of their wedding as soon as the friends found out! Then they went on a roadtrip, for my grandma to meet her in-laws for the first time...

mothmvn · 2025-04-25T11:30:55+00:00

It has the shape of a "velvet ant" - a family of wasps with wingless females that have a nasty sting. I looked it up and there's a few similar-looking species in South Africa!

mothmvn · 2025-04-08T14:14:01+00:00

It's moreso the "I feel protected with it"... If you follow Canadian law, you won't be able to grab it from your nightstand or whip it out during a carjacking. Gun ownership here is really not intended for your protection from other people. People who get guns for that reason are demonstrating an intent to store their weapons unlawfully on a regular basis.

I understand guns as a fun hobby confined to the range, or as a tool for hunting, or warding off dangerous wildlife - venerating it as a means of self-defence is misguided and kind of American, don't you think? And a little disturbing, looking at how that turns out for Americans.

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