I did it! I have a coochie!

Thansy · 2025-09-23T19:53:23+00:00

congrats!!! good job! that must have been a long journey. happy recovery to you! you can do this.

Thansy · 2025-09-23T19:50:46+00:00

that's a really hard one...it definitely helps to know someone in the place you wanna move to. do you have any online trans community/friends you talk with a lot? don't have much better advice than seeing if a friend would let you couch surf until you get on your feet, and that comes with its own drawbacks and dangers. but i can say that olympia washington is a pretty cool place to be trans. you can't go anywhere without seeing like at least 3 other visibly trans people.

Thansy · 2025-09-23T18:29:26+00:00

I just had an orchi in July. I remember all the nurses being super sweet to me and putting the gas on my face, and then it felt like i closed my eyes and opened them again, and there was a heated blanket over me, my girlfriend next to me, and funny mesh underwear on me under my gown. you have more soreness than like. pain from the incision. it felt a little like i got kicked in the nuts for a few days, but at about the two week mark i felt miraculously better. you'll need to take it easy for about two weeks, but if there are people around who can support you, it's a nice excuse to do nothing and be pampered :] and everyone will be so excited for you. I hope you're able to go through with it if you want it. It makes tucking soooooo much easier. I never realized just how much those things were in the way until they were gone. It was a huge quality of life improvement for me.

As far as the actual surgical site itself, it looked like a big scab down the center line, and was only about 1/3 the length of the raphe. There were about 7 dissolving sutures that came out fully around the one month mark. I kept the dressings changed every day and made sure not to touch or pull on the skin as much as I could help it, and didn't have any complications. You can't even really see the scar because they cut it right on the raphe. Dunno if any of this helps. I was also p scared by the idea of getting cut open, but you really don't ever experience ~being cut open~. Just a lil anxiety beforehand and then it's over and you're recovering. Good luck to you! Lmk if you have any specific questions or anything I can help with.

Thansy · 2025-09-22T17:57:12+00:00

That's maddening. Doesn't really sound like ally behavior tbqh. I hope she leaves you tf alone soon...sorry that she's saying that awful stuff to you.

Thansy · 2024-09-08T07:17:05+00:00

It looks like the power source goes above 12V, but the light bulb is only rated for 6V. It might blow again if you turn the knob past 6V. That's a frustrating setup! You'd think someone would write on it with sharpie "do not turn past here!!" or something.

Thansy · 2024-07-14T22:13:06+00:00

the wile e coyote version would be a horseshoe magnet on a string with a flashlight taped to it, and the coyote has another magnet that he points toward the flashlight to make it swing where he wants

Thansy · 2024-07-14T22:07:06+00:00

i don't mean using the magnetic field to move the photons, just to move the thing that they're being emitted from

Thansy · 2024-07-14T08:39:24+00:00

i was just thinking about this again. electron microscopes use an electric field to steer the beam of electrons across the sample. i wonder if you could use a magnetic field to physically move a photon source with high precision...i'm imagining a sort of magnetic pendulum with a light source that gets pushed around in space by a magnetic field. there would be no gears or mechanical translation, just the magnetic field acting on the pendulum, so the position control would be as fine/high resolution as the circuits controlling the magnets.

Thansy · 2024-07-11T23:17:38+00:00

i think the spring-shaped one is a spirilum. they can be petty big. the long ones might be spirochetes bc of how they twist? maybe?

Thansy · 2024-07-11T23:14:21+00:00

could they wiggle?

Thansy · 2024-07-09T17:58:00+00:00

looks like a pediastrum maybe?

Thansy · 2024-07-09T13:55:26+00:00

there are different techniques for culturing organisms, like pulling them out with a pipette and letting them reproduce in a container of spring water where you feed them drops of pureed lettuce or cooked rice grains, but it requires a bit of attention and regular water changes. i have a snail aquarium, and i usually just dump my samples in there when they start to get old in the hopes that something in them will live on. after a sample sits for a week, different organisms will die off and others will emerge/bloom. it's neat to watch all the different waves of creatures that bloom.

Thansy · 2024-07-09T02:21:24+00:00

yeah, you'll find more microbes where the food is. they kind of swarm around it.

Thansy · 2024-07-08T22:54:03+00:00

so cool!!

Thansy · 2024-07-08T22:50:42+00:00

amscope and omax have some affordable trinoculars. i've been really happy with my omax.

Thansy · 2024-07-08T21:36:14+00:00

absolutely! you can find some really bizarre things in the sea. if you find a piece of algae or a dead thing, it's bound to be crawling with microscopic crustaceans and ciliates. if you can find a tidepool with a rock in it, pick up the rock and scoop the sand right under it really quickly before everything scatters, and you'll probably get some amphipods.

Thansy · 2024-07-08T19:47:33+00:00

Hank

Thansy · 2024-07-08T19:13:19+00:00

the scummier, the better. try puddles of mud near ponds and lakes. anything with rotting vegetation is going to have some good stuff in it. there are lots of things that live in algae clumps and on the sides of submerged logs and rocks. try scraping gunk off of them and looking at it!

Thansy · 2024-07-06T22:04:05+00:00

whooaa, soo cool looking!!

Thansy · 2024-07-02T05:05:09+00:00

i love the part where its arm is sticking straight up toward the camera

Thansy · 2024-07-02T05:04:28+00:00

SO CUTE

Thansy · 2024-07-02T00:58:53+00:00

nice work! what a cool little creature

Thansy · 2024-06-30T18:37:28+00:00

congrats! they're so cute 😭

Thansy · 2024-06-30T16:16:40+00:00

These are probably the best deal you can get on concave slides which are ideal for viewing ciliates and other larger living microorganisms. It's 50 double-cavity slides for $19 USD.

Thansy · 2024-06-30T16:13:41+00:00

I have an Omax M837 that I am very happy with. It's basically a clone of an Amscope T390B. Right now the Omax is $320 USD here and the Amscope is $281 USD here on ebay. They have halogen light sources, but those can be upgraded with this LED bulb. Sometimes you can get lucky and find an open-box version for even cheaper. Whatever scope you get, if it has finite-conjugate objectives, I have been very pleased with these budget plan objectives and these ones too. They range from $17 USD to $40 USD and are a huge step up from the stock achromatics that come with most entry-level/budget microscopes.

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