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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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> bites victim
> injects stir bars through fangs
> drag them back to my lair
> throw onto the stir-floor
> suck up organ smoothie in flesh cup
> take nap
Today was a good day.
Lab Shelob behaviour
Ah, so this is what they mean about PIs cannibalising graduate students.
Don’t go for an MRI. Intestine smoothie.
well at least that smoothie will have a stir bar to mix it up...
Wtf am I looking at?
Probably someone who's had major bone reconstruction
Someone smuggling drugs. Given we have a medical image something has probably gone wrong.
An x-ray image of the abdomen of a child or maybe a pet that swallowed quite a few plastic-coated magnetic stir bars (intended to go into some solution to be automatically stirred by a device in a laboratory) which appear to fill their colon in the foreground of this picture.
Edit: at least I think so but someone will surely correct me if I'm wrong
do you know they're stir bars? they look puffy and the magnet would be opaque...
- those are huge stir bars
- my body is about to become organ smoothie 😱
Children eat weird stuff
Where does a child come across hundreds of lab stir bars.
My guess was backseat of car. Parent has lab supplies back there, including a few 10-pack boxes of these, which also work as an improvised distraction/toy just like rare earth magnets or monkeys in a barrel. Unfortunately they weren’t checking rear view mirror because work it’s stressful, so kid put quite a few down without their knowledge. They didn’t even notice until day 2 migration to large intestine and rectum. This parent is overworked and under-appreciated and I’m so glad I’m not responsible for children.
Wherever their parent left them unattended, presumably.
to be fair, stir bars are totally forbidden food - they look delicious
Oh! Stir bars are the magnetic things at the bottom of lab jars when you're mixing stuff, right?
I thought Stir Bar was a nutrition bar or a chocolate bar like a Boost. Stir isn't a great name for a protein bar, but it's not the worst.
In the UK we have a chocolate bar called the Star Bar - it's a LOT like a Boost - and it kinda has the same shape. I honestly thought it was a typo at first and I was like, "the fuck have Cadbury's changed now?".
I'm stealing this idea fyi. Science themed energy bars.
Please tell me these are cocaine condoms and not actual stir bars like I thought when I first woke up and saw this
Sadly this is probably from a child who ate a bunch of magnets.
Is it not cocain smuggling via eating pods?
Maybe you're right, but the hips look very small and the objects very uniform.
Lab stir bars are Teflon coated and look like candy. No idea where anyone could find that many stir bars.
Take your child to work day? Shouldn't be doing that if you work in an industrial lab tho.
Maybe the storage room of a college chem class or smth?
Mmm magnets.
You spin me right round...
What is happening?
I find this pretty unsettling.
sailors hate them!
If they're not supposed to be eaten, why do they look like mints?
And implanting them all over the place, apparently.
What are you, the waste container?
Whoa, that's way too many magnets. You're only supposed to use one, and they go in the second stomach so they don't impede the passage of food