u/BeckSews

I’ve discovered a Planotectidae, and it’s very different from what I’ve sorted before.

-I believe it’s a Psammofelis Vexativus

I’m just more confused on where the community stand with Planotectidae. HORG mentions that the genus is currently described from a single specimen, but I figure that must be outdated.

Panid found while:
-I was digging through my friend’s pantry, because if I go to your house, your bread will be baked when I leave.
-he goes to his junk drawer and gets a whole bunch of tags
-all were in the Toxodentidae family besides this guy.
-I severely doubt that my friend has any other information on it, but I’ll ask.

I’m very new to this field, so I apologize if this is a stupid post.

I feel like I’m going insane, or going faceblind because I can not for the life of me figure out who this actor is. I can’t recognize him from the list of actors, and I can’t figure out who his character is supposed to be in the myth.
-I feel like Robert Pattinson was calling him: Eres/Eris/Aris/Ares, something like that, but I can’t find anything like that in the cast list.

Also ignore the subtitles, my very legal site had them burned in.

This is my domestic short-medium hair, Bruce.

-12lbs
-1 year and 9 months old
-indoor/outdoor
-USA, Pacific Northwest
-neutered male
-regularish checkups from a vet
-past conditions: one time he ate an entire spool of thread and had a very expensive tummy ache, over a year ago.
-one other neutered male in the house with him
-up to date on vaccines

I’m 18, but he’s still financially covered by my parents, who can afford to take him to the vet (and we likely plan to)

1st picture is 7 months ago.
2nd picture is around a week ago.
3rd picture and beyond is from today.

About a week ago I started noticing that the hair was thinning around his eyes. Looking back at previous photos, it could have been in the process of thinning for several weeks, but I’m not confident about that. At that time it wasn’t red, scaly, swollen, or raw. I also did not notice him itching his face, or being bothered by it at all. Because of this, I decided to wait it out.

Cut to today, he is more bald now, and it’s starting to look a bit painful. On the inner corners it almost looks like a bit of tissue is growing up into his eyes (a little bit, maybe a mm or two). But on his left outer corner, it looks raw, and like it’s split. I still have not seen him itching at all, and he doesn’t seem to be bothered by it, but if it’s raw it must not be comfortable, and I’m trying to make an appointment with my vet.

My best guesses (I am not a vet (obviously), but I do have a doctor mom, so I know just a bit about what different skin things look like)

Allergies
-I’ve heard that it might take a cat a year or two to grow into or develop their allergies, and he is coming up on two years. We did move houses (same town, like 5 minutes away) about a year ago now, but I would be surprised if it’s connected to that.
-it is prime time for grass allergies in the PNW.
-we’ve fed him foods based off of chicken, salmon/other fish, pork, etc with no issues in the past. He’s currently eating chicken

Dry Skin?
-when I brush him, I notice a few white flakes, but it’s not noticeable any other time.
-his outer corner looks like when my face is really dry, and I stretch my eye to put contacts in

Infection
-it’s still NOT: red, scaly, flakey, or oozing/pusy. It’s possibly a bit swollen, but aside from the raw crack, it doesn’t really look irritated.
-He does go outside so he could have picked up a bacteria, since the eyes are so sensitive.
-If I had to pick an infection, I would say fungal, not really sure why. It just really doesn’t look bacterial

Mites/Fleas
-god I’m really hoping it’s not this.
-I haven’t noticed any fleas on either cat, and I haven’t noticed more itching than normal.

Just wondering if anyone has seen this before, because I’m really curious while we’re waiting to take him to the vet. We also have a wide array of creams and ointments, (antihistamines, etc) if you think that would help.

Thank you so much in advance!

Just to be clear, I have no idea if this is a dead animal or not, or if it’s even an animal. r/whatisit and r/whatisthisthing both have rules about posting dead animals, so I wasn’t sure.

Recovered old photos from my iPhone 6, and I found this thing that stumped me as a 12 year old.

Found washed up on a grassy shore in Fort Steven’s state park in Oregon. It’s cylindrical, about 2-4 inches in diameter, and about a foot and a half in length.

The outside almost looks like tree bark? It had almost uniform node like markings. In case anyone is confused by the close ups, those divots are bubbles, not suction cup things like from an octopus. The outside (we poked it with a stick) was firm, but we could pierce it.

The inside was a super mushy light brown stuff? In some of the close ups, you can maybe see string/worms.

It smelled SO BAD, it reeked from 10+ feet away. It’s been over 6 years, so I don’t remember what exactly it smelled like. If I can remember, it was a general rotting things smell, but POTENT.

Google says it could be a clump of cynobacteria, but I really doubt that because of its difference in textures. My only guesses are a dead sea cucumber, or a SUPER SUPER rotted piece of wood.

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I think he thinks he’s a human. He’s started using my pillow as a pillow and he figured out how to open our doors.

I have almost zero tech experience, but I’ve become really interested in this future project. I miss my flip phone from my childhood, and would love to get that experience back

The problem: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the look of the Nokia 7373 or 7390, but every modern flip phone company has moved away from the shape I’m wanting. I’m wanting a more pill shape like the one on the 7373. The idea of a custom case doesn’t work for me, because I want the actual shape to be different, and I don’t want to add any more bulk.
Since 2G and 3G have almost completely shut down in America (likely for a full shutdown in the near future) these options would not work for a functional phone.

The Idea: I take a modern phone like the TCL Flip 2 and build a completely custom shell (most likely this model because it runs on android 11, and I like the idea of being able to change the displays with emulators (again I really don’t know what I’m talking about at all, this is just from research)). Because I am making the shell from scratch, I could customize the colors, and add very similar ridges and grooves to the Nokia 7373

The inside of the shell would be modeled entirely after the existing electronics, and the cutout for the screen modeled after the existing screen. Instead of the 180 swivel design of the 7373, I would take the flip mechanism from the TCL.

What I want (ideally):
-text and calls made through 4G LTE or 5G network that work with modern smart phones
-it to be AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. I know it would most definitely be larger than a phone from the early 2000s from the increasing complexity of modern computers. But I would like to maybe rearrange the inside components. I don’t mind “bulk” as 2000s flip phones were pretty chunky. I just want the overall side of the phone to be as small as possible.
-physical buttons
-no touch screens
-I would like to keep the same type C charging system that the TCL uses
-I would like to keep my same number/SIM card if possible

I completely aware that the shape would have to be changed dramatically, 4G and 5G wouldn’t support the swivel system. But none of the phones on the market feature that “pill shape”

I would also like the change the touch pad if that’s possible. The touch pad seems very sensitive, and again, I don’t know what I’m talking about. But I would love to make the touch pad match more with the 7373.

I would really just like any tips, advice, or information. I have no idea how difficult this would be, but I would not make this my first tech product.
Thank you!

My Nebs legs point outwards, and his ankles point in. He’s otherwise healthy, and the vets didn’t even point it out (he was in for kidney failure, so it could have been lowest priority). I’m pretty sure this is a genetic defect, and I was curious if this is a breed thing, or just a my neb thing. He does seem to have trouble jumping up on things, and he lands REALLY heavy whenever he jumps down from things. I’ve tried giving him easier paths or ramps, but he’s DETERMINED to throw himself off of things.

Anyways, just wondering if anyone else has duckfooted nebs?

My (18F) parents (40s) have a very large friend circle, and we are always going on getaways and vacations with them. I’m significantly older than all of their friends kids, so I’m fairly used to hanging out with all the kids. There is one kid (6M) who is legitimately the worst child I have ever met. He has absolutely no concept of sharing, is prone to HIT the other children, and is constantly yelling at and insulting the other children. I’ve been trying to be empathetic, because he is a kid, and his parents (at least in front of me) repeatedly try to correct the behavior.

But one instance completely changed my stance. We were on vacation, and I was messing with my brother (8M) at the top of the stairs. I was blocking his way, and not letting him go down. We were playing, and he was laughing. Evil child comes over and announces: “I’m gonna touch you in the privates.” I immediately just said “okay I’m out of here.” And I turned to leave. He then SLAPPED ME ON THE BUTT.

I didn’t tell my parents or his parents right away, because I was lowkey ashamed that I got harassed by a six year old. A few weeks later I told my mom about it, and she proceeded to inform me that he got expelled from 1ST GRADE for repeatedly inappropriately touching other female students, and looking under the bathroom stalls.

Mom told me that he’s just a difficult child, and likely has ADHD, and that he’ll probably grow out of it. She and I went back and forth, but she got really upset when I said that I hated him.

I agree that this is not normal or natural behavior for a young child, so I’m really worried that this is learned behavior, and it’s made me start looking at his parents differently. She suggested that I just don’t come on vacation with them. I really do like all their other friends, and all the other kids are just normal annoying.

I’ve had a few people telling me that it’s unfair to hate him, especially because he could be neurodivergent. It reminds me a lot of this book I read in middle school called “Joey Pigza swallows the key” that was meant to humanize kids with ADHD. But in the book he CUTS THE TIP OF HIS CLASSMATES NOSE OFF.

Am I overreacting?

Edit: I also remembered an instance where I was wrestling with my brother. Child wanted to join in (this was before the incident so I didn’t dislike him quite as much) so I took turns throwing them on the couch. I put my brother in a fake headlock, and child comes over and grabs my hair and pulls HARD. I told him: “yo, we’re just playing, that’s not how you do play fights.” He just laughed and ran to a different room. Later I’m have a nerf battle with my brother, and he comes back to join our battle. At one point he runs up and hits me HARD in the head with the back of the nerf gun. Whole time he’s laughing, so I’m sure he thought this was okay play behavior. I said: “dude, that’s not cool, I don’t want to play anymore.” He just said “okay” and ran away.

2nd Edit: I AM OKAY, I don’t feel threatened by a 6 year old. I am more worried for him and the other kids