Notices by Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)

@fesshole I'm on fesser's side and am surprised by the replies saying that 'kink-shaming' is bad. You're allowed to have whatever kink, but I'm allowed to not like it. Why do I have to be okay with something just because it gives someone else a boner?
'OP could have been nicer' - BF could have been nicer about springing such a big ask on someone before checking whether they were okay with that kink.

Imagine if nipples had 'foreskins' that you had to pull back to breastfeed. Would it still be taboo to show boobs in public if you kept the 'foreskin' closed and the nipple covered?

Coming home from my job (staring furiously at a computer) to relax with my hobbies (staring furiously at a computer).

@fesshole You dumb fuck.

Apparently to harvest fish roe you have to kill the fish - I thought you just squeezed them and made them squirt the eggs out. (You can do that but you have to give the fish an injection first to make the eggs detach from the lining of the roe sack, and it gives the eggs a hard texture that's not as nice.)

Elgin is no more. A neighbour found him on the street 'in a bad way' and took him to the vet.

He had cardiomyopathy and a big blood clot - nothing to be done. He hid his pain well; I saw him only 3 days ago and he was his usual sassy squirmy self. Either it was genetic or it was some ailment he picked up when he lived as a stray.

Bye bye Elgin - you weren't a very good pet but we liked you anyway.

Does anyone have period tracker apps (or websites that look okay on a mobile screen) to recommend? I use Clue and it's so needy! Always asking me to journal my feelings and asking me to pay for the 'pro' experience. I just want something simple where I can punch in the days I'm dropping clots and it extrapolates when it's likely to happen next.

I used to use a website called My Monthly Cycles but it was pants on mobile.

Wheelbarrows are fuckin brilliant. The essence of a bucket (probably the first human invention - how can you forage if you can't carry your food home?) combined with two simple machines: the lever and the wheel. Same form factor for thousands of years. Perfection. Cannot be improved.

@anon_opin I disagree because a) they can pick something they'll actually like, instead of something well-intentioned but useless because you have only a surface-level understanding of their hobby, and b) it's money that they have no choice but to spend on something fun. If you gave them cash, it would get absorbed into household expenses.

I have a Synology NAS. I can manually move stuff from my PC to it, which is okay but I'd like something more automated. Is there an app/package where I can select some folders on my PC and tell the NAS 'keep backups of these'?

Edit: Yes - 'Synology Drive Client' was what I was after. The NAS isn't difficult to use per se; it just assumes you already know everything. There needs to be a Noddy Mode for scrubs like me.

@fesshole You dumb fuck.

Some cunt in the break room at work is watching videos on their phone with no headphones. Die.

The first time I encountered the word 'shipping' in a fandom context, I had no idea what it meant, so I thought sea captain AU was inexplicably popular.

@HauntedOwlbear I thought it might be something like your second paragraph, with the phrasing of 'pain' being used as lazy shorthand. (Maybe it further spreads because people who don't do PIV take it at face value and parrot it?)

A theme I often see in written smut is someone inserting an unwisely big dildo/penis up their chuff, and getting off from the pain. Is that an actual commonplace thing or just a fantasy trope (or just bad writing)? It only makes me think 'yeowch, oh nooo, no thanks, minge cringe'.

I have a retroverted uterus, which means my mutton tube is tilted funny and makes PIV painful in general. Maybe that affects my perception of this trope.

@fesshole Why are so many fesses based on hiding the fact that you wank from your partner? Your partner sees you naked, holds your hair when you puke in the toilet, watches you pick dead skin off the soles of your feet, etc. You can wank in front of them.

With the enshittification of search engines, please extend more grace to people asking for information. "Just fucking Google it" - yeah, we tried that already, fucko, and it told us to drink piss.

If I wanted to make a webpage that triggers a particular event (playing a sound file or whatever) when the viewer presses a key, what should I research to learn how to do that? Basically I want to be able to make stuff like Buffy's Swearing Keyboard.

Thinking about those dollies that piss themselves. How do you stop black mould building up inside it? Or do the manufacturers bank on the child outgrowing the toy before it starts to stink?

Respect your elders? No, I said respec your elders. Granny's a paladin now.