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My main account is solo@slrpnk.net. I'm also using the one here because I really like the feed feature.

Btw I'm a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

  • TIL South American's had the same survival rate at skull surgery with US Civil War doctors, some 2000 years before

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  • You forgot to include the last segment of this paragraph!

    Still, Binello calls the survival rate of trepanations in Peru "astonishing." "It's a credit to what these ancient cultures were doing," she says.

  • TIL about the nuclear physics in fission (actually, just nuclear energy in general)

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  • Welp! Guess my feet are stuck there! 🤷🏻

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  • The good life for the both of you!!

  • Looking for some reassurance

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  • Great of you to notice this, and that you went to the vet - you already know you saved Wirt's life.

    My understanding is that dry food is not really ideal for cats. In the wild, these small carnivores, eat small prey and get the liquids they need from their food. This is why where I live, people say that cats don't drink water. The simple urinary dry food, makes them drink more, so by peeing more the crystals don't get formed. The medicinal food for struvite, on top of that it has also has something that dilutes the crystals.

    The water fountain you got sounds like a great idea. Since you have more than one cats and if you don't live in a tiny studio apartment, please conciser having - if you have for example 2 cats:

    • 2 sources for drinking water in different places. One can easily be a bowl with fresh water in the sense to change it daily.
    • 2 litter boxes, with plenty of sand in them, cleaned on daily basis
    • the litter box and water not be close to each other

    Currently I have only one cat and he had the same issue twice during the summertime. Both times he had to do a procedure with full anesthesia. Since he can go out almost whenever he wants and during summer whenever he wants, and because we live in a neighborhood that we feed the strays, during summer he was also eating low quality dry food. This is -most probably- why he had the second, perhaps even the first incidents. Something that worked in our case was the following: during winter he eats the simple urinary and during summer the medicinal for struvite. Several years have passed since the last incident, but it's true that during summer I am super alert.

    Of course double-check what I say with your vet, and if you are told something different, please let me know!

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    Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals

    www.latimes.com /environment/story/2025-08-26/methane-leaks-at-california-oil-facilities-are-also-spewing-toxic-chemicals
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    Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance

    earth.org /barclays-joins-wall-street-led-exodus-from-net-zero-alliance/
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    How reducing the U.S. military budget would also reduce emissions

    grist.org /climate/how-reducing-the-us-military-budget-would-also-reduce-emissions/
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    The Reality Behind JP Morgan’s 'Net Zero': Billions Flow to Big Oil

    www.desmog.com /2025/07/14/the-reality-behind-jp-morgans-net-zero-billions-flow-to-big-oil/