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Edit: *Ended up cleaning thoroughly and waiting to put socks on until right before I left, put on slides and got out of the slides when I got there. As far as I could tell there was no odor and everything went perfectly fine.

May have overthought this a little bit, but im glad i didnt put on my sneakers because normally i sweat within an hour of wearing them. Thanks for the tips :)*

Im getting an ornamental design on both of my ankles today. I dont know if my shoes will be on or off, but either way I really want to prevent my artist from having to deal with stinky feet. Now dont get me wrong, I cleaned my feet, but it takes me 3 hours to get there so obviously im gonna sweat in my shoes before arrival and im well that might be enough to create an odor. I have a pair of NEW socks so i wanna wear those but I sweat fast. Whats the best way to go about this?

Im Emma/Elisabeth, 19, and Id like to have some more people to talk to when im bored. I cant talk when im at work but other than that im quick with replies, I can talk pretty often. My life mostly revolves around my pets (geckos, snake, invertebrates), plants/biology and taxidermy/vultureculture. Also love antiques. Feel free to ask me questions loll

I see a lot of people on here saying 2016 was amazing and others saying its so overrated. I personally do have really good associations with that year despite being 9 because it was the summer after I moved from the city to a town. I was settled enough to actually explore outside for the first time. Something I couldn't really do when we lived in an apartment. That in combination with the aesthetics and kind of idolizing all of those cool girls and making pinterest boards was so fun.

Hi! I'm Emma (Maria Elisabeth), 19 years old, Dutch and I'm looking for 1 or 2 online friends of age 17-19! I've been in online friend group chats in the past but I couldn't really get to know anyone, especially because most were a lot younger than me, so i just wanna have 1 on 1 chats instead.

My interests: I'm obsessed with nature/biology

Im very interested in (ethical!) taxidermy/vultureculture, antiques etc. I actually have a TikTok account for this and have grown my own little community on there, content creation is definitely a hobby of mine as well now :) I also love fantasy and would love to do more with that when i have more time.

My favorite movies are Pride and Prejudice and the LOTR trilogy! I love being creative and would like to start reading more as well.

I wont be friends with you if you are sexist/homophobic/racist etc. 'Manhating' will also get you blocked. Fuck the patriarchy but sexism is still sexism.

I dont love calling/voice chats but if it would make you feel more comfortable and youre fun im down. It would be nice to be able to talk about deep stuff/trauma etc as I have PTSD and CPTSD and it affects my everyday life 😅 I do not expect you to be a therapist (!), but you need to know about it to know me.

Artist: vino.inks in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

I was following a tattoo artist for a while and today he posted his rules. Normal stuff like the appointment being cancelled if youre very late, having to repay the deposit when rescheduling within 48 hours etc. However, one of the rules was that he doesnt tattoo people when theyre menstruating and that if you get it unexpectedly, your appointment is cancelled but you still have to pay for the ENTIRE tattoo. Is this normal?? Ive never once even had an artist refuse people on their period, let alone having to pay for everything despite it.

I would understand asking people to schedule when they dont have their period but sometimes you genuinely cant help it, why would you charge the full amount?

When i tried to contact the artist about this he was instantly unprofessional so just for that im never going to him, but am i strange for thinking this is really weird ?

Not asking for a diagnosis or actual medical advice on here, just wondering what the best course of action is/how I should go about this.

I only just found out about MCAS. I saw someone post symptoms they had and I was like ‘omg same’ and then someone responded to that ‘for me this ended up being MCAS’. I’m currently looking into it. Timeline:

Age 5-7: realised I had allergies for fruits and some nuts. Got tested and a OAS diagnosis.

Age 11: Started feeling ‘faint’ when standing up sometimes.

Age 12: Started experiencing that type of ‘fainting’ more often, not just when standing up. Decided to go to a doctor and got tested. Everything seemed normal.

Age 13: Still experiencing that stuff a lot, it’s making it quite hard to just.. live life. People around me would get scared if they didn’t know I experienced this sometimes and I kept having to explain I’m fine, it just happens.

Age 14: still going strong, went back to the doctor and brought it up again. Got sent to a doctor in the hospital, still no answers. Also started having a hard time swallowing food sometimes, started off with meat, but also started happening to bread and other softer foods.

Age 15: The swallowing issue now happened to other kinds of food as well, would have to puke my food up in order to get rid of the pain and even experienced it drinking sometimes. Went to the doctor and got lots of appointments after that.

Age 16: Went back for the fainting stuff because that still didn’t go away. Kept getting answers like ‘you’re a young woman, you’ll grow out of it’ etc. Practically gave up on that. Went to the hospital for the swallowing issue and got diagnosed with EoE, a chronic infection due to milk allergy (not lactose intolerance!).

Age 17-19: I now don’t eat milk, fruit or nuts anymore, and the swallowing issue has (almost) passed. Im STILL struggling with that ‘fainting’ stuff (it’s not actual fainting), and have since gone back 1 time. Got another blood test and they tested me for POTS. I don’t lack iron, my blood pressure is normal (slightly on the low side, but normal for a ‘young woman’, I dont have pots.

Other things I experience and have mentioned to my doctor:

I cough/wheeze a lot, and have gotten medicine for that to temporarily use

I have acid reflux regularly and have medicine for that

Things I have sometimes but have never mentioned to my doctor because it never came up and didn’t seem relevant:

I sometimes lose control over my bladder out of nowhere, tho it’s only happened at home and it rarely happens.

I’ve gotten diarrhoea a couple times the past few months.

I get nauseous quite often, to the point where I’ve thought I could be pregnant a couple different times.

I get itchy rashes sometimes, they come and go

Altogether, reading about MCAS felt like reading a description of me, but it feels like I’m trying to diagnose myself now when my doctors seemingly can’t. Is it worth bringing up MCAS to my doctor and asking for their opinion on it?

Trigger for murder, abuse, assault etc.

First of all, yes a lot of men suffer as well. Yes a lot of men mean well. Yes a lot of men don’t kill, rape or abuse women. But why do so many men only ever bring this up when it’s about our struggles as women? Why do so many men only talk about that to undermine and invalidate our experiences? Why can’t we stand up against the violence together, why can’t the vast majority of men respond respectfully rather than dismissive? Almost every time I don’t laugh at a sexist joke, almost every time I talk back when someone says something inappropriate to me, almost every time I simply talk about assault, abuse or murder against women, I get dismissed or even shamed. ‘It’s just a joke’ ‘it’s just a compliment’ ‘don’t be a bore’ ‘it’s not that deep’ ‘what about us?’ ‘It’s really not that bad’.

YES IT IS THAT BAD. I’ve had to remove myself and others (strangers) out of situations because of a sexist and/or dangerous man. I’ve had to run because men followed me. I’ve covered myself fully, wide sweatpants, closed shoes, a hoodie with the hood ON and STILL got assaulted and/or harassed, I got touched as a child. I’ve had to take care of traumatised friends because literal family members RAPED THEM. In my country, a woman gets murdered every 8 days and over 60% is domestic homicide, whereas in men this is only 4%. YES men get murdered more but they generally do not get murdered by the people in their own home so STOP acting like it’s the same thing. Both are horrible, but these aren’t similar issues. In the UK a woman gets murdered by a partner or ex EVERY 4 DAYS. And this doesn’t take into account the suicides that resulted from domestic abuse.

Not to forget that lesbians get shamed because ‘lesbians are the most abusive’ when that wasn’t what the statistics said. The study was ‘have you ever been abused’ and this was found most often in lesbian couples, DUHUH lesbian couples have 2 women and women are most often the victims of abuse. That doesn’t make lesbians abusive. And once again I’m NOT saying that men don’t suffer abuse, I’m NOT saying men don’t have huge issues, I’m not even saying lesbians aren’t abusive but I AM saying that I’m tired of people drawing false conclusions just because they are sexist and homophobic.

And STOP blaming all of that on immigrants. Yes a lot of immigrants aren’t good to women, yes a lot of violence comes from asylum seekers but what makes so many people believe white men don’t do the same fucking bullshit? I truly think a lot of men just blame immigrants so they don’t have to do anything themselves. ‘It’s them, it’s them, it’s them!’ Yeah sure it’s a lot of ‘them’ but it’s also your 40 year old male coworker flirting with the 18 year old apprentice. It’s also your buddy making jokes about how many bitches he cracked or talking about how his ‘friend’ has a huge ass and how he’d love to slap it. It’s also your own 16 year old son that’s slutshaming his classmate because she kissed someone when she was drunk. Call them out. Speak up. Do something. And don’t FUCKING DISMISS US.

Hi! I have some specimens that have been injected and stored in ethanol, but I want them to be formalin fixed. I saw some people say that simply rinsing thoroughly and replacing the storing liquid with formalin should be enough to get the specimen fixed, but is that accurate?