muttluver

Muttluver, internet dweller. Into comics, books, ideas, psychological aspects and daily conundrums.

[Clean Air Dyke @FullLaneFemme]

For me it's not

[Michael Fiore - Garden Center @Michaelfiore]

Yeah, don’t do this. I quit selling ladybugs years ago for several reasons:

1) Ladybugs are not farm-raised like other beneficial bugs are. They are wild collected. People go out with scoops and shop vacs in the mountains of California when ladybugs are hibernating en masse and gather them up. They then refrigerate them and package them for selling. This means that the ladybugs you buy are not native to your area and will wake up very disoriented, which leads to my next point-

2) They leave (fly away) as soon as you release them. Not only are they confused upon release, but they’re also territorial. If you release 1,500 of them you’ll be lucky if even a few of them stick around. You’re basically just paying to relocate ladybugs from California to your state.

Instead of buying ladybugs, you can attract native ladybugs to your yard by planting native plants and other pollinator friendly plants around your property. Also, make sure you aren’t using insecticides in the garden.

If you want to purchase and release a beneficial insect in your garden, green lacewings are a much better alternative.

[Derek Franks @Derek_a_Franks]

The number of people who still don’t know C0VlD damages every organ and organ system and can lead to permanent chronic illness in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning.

[muttluver @missmuttz]

Fuckit.
If you've been thinking about getting TikTok, here's a link. If that sounds stupid given everything going on, that's reasonable, have a good day.
I could use $50. This is a predatory marketing tactic. Make of it what you will.
https://t.co/Zxeao3012i

[ConcernedApe @ConcernedApe]

"SMAPI turns 10: a decade of Stardew Valley modding"
An interesting look back on the quintessential modding framework, written by @Pathoschild I can't believe that SMAPI came out just 2 days after Stardew launched... we've come a long way together
https://t.co/8VeqfHPZ8O

[Ginkgo @RoboSharkArt]

@BriocheDelivers Reminded of that time somehow my cat fell asleep like this when she was a kitten

[brioche & biscotti @BriocheDelivers]

That’s not where like any of your body parts are supposed to be

[eisha 🍒 @meishato]

If a man’s testosterone dropped to menopausal levels overnight... He’d be hospitalized. But when a woman loses her progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone, has a sluggish thyroid and insulin resistance? She’s told to go vegan, do more cardio & take magnesium. Meanwhile, her metabolism tanks, joints ache, and brain fog sets in. This isn’t wellness.

[muttluver @missmuttz]

@fineboikp @oakcliffjiggy I can't find anything either. I asked more than one person and only one responded, saying that they scrubbed the evidence. I know this happens, and people are often left with only memories, but I need at least a screenshot or something.

[Fe. @NoHealthNoFun]

How to hide a plague in plain sight:

[Mwangi Kimani @123kimani]

@aakashgupta Best advice I got from my academic advisor:

- MAX 7 hrs of focused research, including mandatory lectures (with breaks)

- AT LEAST 1hr 30 min moderate exercise

- MIN 7 hrs sleep

Buy B-Vitamin supplements

YOU CAN'T CHEAT THE BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM, it's a finite system

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is one of the most important studies in sleep science.

Van Dongen et al. ran the experiment that changed how we understand chronic sleep restriction. They had subjects sleep 4h, 6h, or 8h nightly for 14 days, testing cognitive performance every 2 hours.

The 6h group’s reaction time deficits by day 14 matched subjects who had been awake for 24 hours straight. The 4h group? They performed like someone awake 48 hours.

But here’s what makes this study terrifying.

The Stanford Sleepiness Scale ratings in Panel B plateau after day 3-4. Subjects stopped feeling more tired even as their cognitive performance continued deteriorating through day 14. Your subjective experience of fatigue is a lagging indicator that eventually just… stops updating.

This explains why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable. You’ve adapted to feeling tired. Your prefrontal cortex hasn’t adapted to being impaired.

The PVT (Psychomotor Vigilance Task) in Panel A measures lapses in attention. These are the moments where you’re staring at a screen and your brain simply checks out for 500ms. Every additional day of 6h sleep adds more lapses. The curve never flattens.

Panel C and D show working memory and processing speed. Same pattern: continuous degradation with no subjective awareness.

The practical implications:

If you’re sleeping 6h and think you’re functioning fine, you’ve lost the internal calibration to know you’re not. The subjects in this study would have told you they felt “okay” while performing like they’d pulled an all-nighter.

For anyone doing cognitively demanding work, this means you cannot trust how you feel. You need to track objective markers: error rates, decision latency, problem-solving throughput.

Sleep need is biological, not negotiable. Most adults require 7-9 hours, and the research shows no population-level adaptation to chronic restriction. “I only need 6 hours” is almost always “I’ve forgotten what baseline cognition feels like.“

[nana @naneinstein_]

I won’t shut up about this, pancreatic cancer kills a person in 4 months btw, it’s resistant to radiotherapy, and fucks two essential parts of the metabolism. this could change the world

[The Nostalgia Queen @Snow_Blacck]

@BaileyDevine20 They were only doing CT scans but it took an MRV and MRA for them to find it

[The Nostalgia Queen @Snow_Blacck]

Had a crazy headache. Husband rushed me to the ER. We went through 3 hospitals of being told “it’s just a migraine”

Dude wrote in my chart ‘seeking pain meds’

I was so dizzy and off balance and had to google a doctor (a woman) who got me in same day…and found the BLOOD CLOT and small ANEURYSM in my brain.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Had a hysterectomy in my twenties.

Years later I was in ER for a cardiac issue.

Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”

Me: “I had a hysterectomy”

Dr: “Are you sure? Maybe it was your appendix”

Me: “I’m sure”

Dr: Orders pregnancy test.

Writes “patient claims hysterectomy” in chart

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

It will never make sense to me that so many people are not making an effort to prevent being reinfected by a virus that keeps being linked to neurodegeneration.

A mask is slightly inconvenient. Neurodegeneration is very inconvenient.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

I'm heading into my 12th year of working in social services and I cannot overstate how often the answer to our social ills boils down to "just fucking give people the money they need to survive"

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

when i say "covid is a mass disabling event" i'm unfortunately not making it up and i take no pleasure in being correct about this horrifying shit and i wish i was wrong

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

How to prevent airborne transmission in hotels with central air going into the room.
1. Bring portable air purifiers
2. Bring Readimasks to affix to the vents