If anything, this report from Rachel Maddow understates what health care workers are going through and have been going through. It doesn’t matter how many parking garages you fill with beds for Covid patients if you don’t have nurses to take care of those patients. Nurses are already suffering acute moral distress that will have very serious long-term consequences. People are leaving the profession. People like me, who are training the next generation of nurses, are suffering from our own kind of moral distress at the idea of sending our new grads out into the hospitals to face things even the most experienced nurses are unable to handle.
I’m sorry for screaming but as of today WE HAVE A CONFIRMED MALE CALICO KITTEN AT MY RESCUE! I did his intake 5 weeks ago (when he was 4-5 weeks old) & all I saw was diarrhea, but he came in today for a URI recheck with an obvious set of testes! we’re all extremely excited and I now have about 10 too many pictures of kitten genitals on my phone, but AHHHH MALE CALICO! I had to share with someone who would actually get it! :D
Oooh, a male calico, that’s so rare! Here’s some info as to why it is so rare:
First of all, calico cats are basically tortoiseshell + white. Here’s a pic of two torties in case you don’t know what I mean:
Tortoiseshell cats have a mix of black and orange fur. Now, the thing is, the colors black and orange are coded for on the X chromosome, with orange being dominant (it’s a bit more complicated than that, but for simplicity’s sake I’m gonna stay with this explanation). However, in each cell only one of the X chromosomes is active – which one gets deactivated is random, so in some cells the active X chromosome has the information for orange, and in some cells the active X chromosome has the information for black.
So that means that you need two X chromosomes to get a tortie (or calico, or torbie, or any other coat pattern that is dependent on the tortie pattern). Obvioulsy, male cats only have one X chromosome – so they either get the information for orange or black, but not both (by the way, this is also the reason why most orange cats are male! Because a female cat needs two X chromosomes with the information for orange to have a completely orange coat).
well… maybe not of the genitals, but of the kitten???
here’s his beautiful face!!! his back has a lot more black on it, he’s almost an even 1/3 of each color. even my director who’s been working here for 17 years hasn’t seen a true male calico/tortie, so we’re all stoked!!!
It’s the Boy! :D
the boy!!!
Apparently its a 0.1% chance for there to be a calico boy.
@shifuto
THIS CAN HAPPEN!?!?! I LITERALLY THOUGHT CALICOS AND TORTIES WERE STRICTLY FEMALE LIKE????? IM SO FLABBERGASTED
Male torties are usually XXY! So they have one extra X chromosome, a result of a very rare event called non-disjunction, which can happen during meiosis.
Hey just a heads-up for anyone who, like me, woke to the news of Biden’s win and promptly burst into tears and is spiraling or feeling depressed instead of ecstatic, even though you wanted this result?
You’re okay. We have been through 4 years of hell, and this year in particular has been awful. Your emotions are all over the place because there’s part of you that has relaxed with relief that 45′s out, and that’s okay.
We’re okay. Take this weekend to give yourself some aftercare. Soft clothes, warm baths, comfort food. Hydrate and get plenty of rest. Get a hug if you can. Be kind to yourself.
The work’s not done, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to take a weekend to rest.
There’s a post somewhere, which I am too tired to find rn, about how long-term trauma gets buried inside like a fire burning down to embers in a room with no air. When a good thing happens, it’s like firefighters opening a door into that room: all that heat flares up suddenly, from a place you thought was safe. You’re not crazy, and this will pass, but you have to take time to put out the fire
Remember it is perfectly possible to both be aware that the struggle is going to continue and there is always more work to do AND feel deeply, profoundly relieved and even celebratory right now.
Let yourself enjoy any feelings of happiness, comfort or relief you have. Life is short and hard, and joy is a worthy and wonderful thing.
people are on twitter throwing shade at Texas and Louisiana as if Texan republicans didn’t just file a federal lawsuit to throw out 127,000 votes – Texas (which could fit the entire UK in it 2.8 times need i remind you) also closed hundreds of polling sites, leaving one county with only two sites. TWO. Louisiana also ordered hundreds of polling places to close early ON ELECTION DAY.
i don’t want to hear people going “oobloobloo these boomers” and “oobloobloo the south” and “oobloobloo these hillbillies”
IT’S DIRECT VOTER SUPPRESSION.
so stop making jokes about sleeping when southerners need help during hurricanes because your middle class white ass was able to safely get in your subaru to drive to your local polling place on your lunchbreak meanwhile voters on their way to their polling places in north carolina were pepper-sprayed by police.
Queer folks and disabled folks and brown folks and so on live in Southern states and it’s shitty to write us off because, you know, we live in a place that is dangerous to us and are TOO POOR TO MOVE.
Also: Did you know that Texas voted for Biden more than a full percentage point higher than Ohio did? And that that represents a hell of a lot more than 1% of Ohio voters?
