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8 Sep, 14 tweets, 4 min read
Eh, it’s one study, but it does show both minor and severe reduction in sperm quality, and a lot of two-headed albino wigglies.

Also another study shows that it shrinks the balls of male rats!
And also screws with the rat sperm quality. Although rams apparently have no problems, even at double the dose.

The moral of this story may be that unless you’re a sheep, ivermectin appears to be hard on sperm.
Mind you, the first study assumes normal human treatment doses. Chow down on ivermectin three times a week and your semen may soon resemble the Dead Sea…salty, lifeless, and shrinking fast.
Hmm, journal immediately questionable, so take that initial study with a grain of salt.
Rat study: bibliomed.org/?mno=198997
But the rams are great! If you are a breeding ram, you get down with your bad fertile self! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3553595/
Also male beagles appear to do fine. In case you were worried about the quality of beagle sperm.
Rabbits may not, though. Some reports of testicular shrinkage.

But damn, if you’re a dung beetle, this stuff actually makes your testes BIGGER!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22458228/
…you know, maybe I should put down my phone and go to sleep rather than looking up papers on the effects of ivermectin on sperm quality in various species.
WAIT, I AM NOT THE ONLY FREAK OUT THERE @MxErinBlackFogg DID IT ALREADY
INCLUDING A VERY CRITICAL UPDATE ON RAMS! Ignore everything I typed! Rams, do not take this stuff during breeding season! CLINCH BEFORE DRENCH!
(@NeolithicSheep will probably wake up eventually and tell me I’m an idiot who doesn’t understand ovine reproduction OR veterinary studies, which is entire possible, of course.)
You’re right, that’s a terrible slogan. Errr…how about BE FIRM BEFORE YOU DE-WORM?
Have that sex BEFORE treating Demodex?

…I’ll stop. I blame the excess Old Bay at dinner.

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WHO WANTS TO HEAR THE SAGA OF ME ATTEMPTING TO ARRANGE A REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION DURING AN PANDEMIC?

Of course you do. Buckle up.
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Great, we can do that. I contact my local real estate agent and am like “we have a couple years, this is NOT urgent, this is what I’m looking for, if something happens to cross your desk, let me know.”

This was back in…oh, December of 2019? Ish?
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It’s gonna sound weird, but what really brought this home to me was hatching chicks from eggs. Chickens externalize everything, and lots of eggs just don’t hatch at all, or get far enough along that it looks like something’s happening, but it stops.
And a fair number of chicks get as far as hatching, then keel over because something is wrong internally. You really see the numbers game in action when there’s eighteen or twenty eggs from under the hen and you get maybe six that survive.
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The comic quite rightly does not mention size, which is absolutely variable by region and can be very hard to tell from a distance, (though my usual mnemonic is “if you ask if it’s a raven, it’s a crow, if you ask if it’s a small plane, it’s a raven.”)
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I like eco-friendly things, I think. I examine this product.

It is a pad that claims to be infused with essential herbs.
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This advice has served me well in life.
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I just…I…what…no…
Incidentally, according to the Mayo Clinic, the human dose for a 200lb individual to get rid of roundworms is 18mg or so. ONCE. (That’s what I took that one time.)

For river blindness, it’s less, and may be repeated in 3-12 months.

I shudder to think what daily is doing.
*idly looks it up* Persists in the intestines for up to twelve days. Hmm, so if you’re taking 6mg 3x a week, you’re maintaining around a 36mg dose in your intestines, which is twice the recommended amount for a human to take once.
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So yesterday I was in this thread chatting about ADHD and the problem of writing drafts because writing drafts has never been a thing I understood at all and would usually fake during high school, and then it struck me like a bolt from the blue why drafts existed.
It was because people wrote longhand, or on typewriters. You had to do a second draft because when you thought of the clever thing you should put over there, you had to rewrite the whole goddamn thing from scratch.
Now, you are probably thinking "Thanks, Captain Obvious," but let me point out that I learned to type on a Commodore 64, lo these many, many ages of the earth ago, at the age of about seven. And I hated writing longhand.
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