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If you haven't, make sure to give it a good oiling.

I have pets and bought a new vacuum just a couple years ago. I went with Sebo airbelt k3 after hearing Miele had gone down in quality and I love it. This vacuum fixes every single annoyance I've ever had with a vaccum:

• the canister rolls easily on carpet
• the cord retracts perfectly every time and rachets out as you pull the canister
• it's easy to take apart to clear clogs and even has a little spring flap behind the brushroller to quickly clear the most common place a clog will get stuck
• the roller is trivial to remove and clean
• the bags are easy to change and hold a lot of dust and pet hair before you need to change them

The K3 is a little out of your price range but the K2 and E2 are a bit cheaper. I will say that if you've got a lot of thick carpet, it's worth investing in a vaccuum with a powered brushroller like the K3.

The Empress Dowager is certainly holding on to some extremely complicated feelings she can't even tell anyone about. What a morally challenging character, I think I'm gonna have to chew on this one for a while.

Or slime molds which are, in fact, an ameoba.

Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans

They also depict a mushroom that only grows in Japan growing in China but the show is pretty anachronistic overall.

Someone had to eventually to tell them they need to stop pretending they aren't dating and "he's a coward and you're a child" was an amazingly blunt way to do it. What a good big sis.

works the same for all mushrooms as far as I’m aware

Only mushrooms which grow on grains (in grass), mushrooms that naturally grow on wood like oysters need different substrate.

I would encourage you not to grow Agaricus Bisporus in your garden outdoors if it's not native to wherever you happen to live. Mushrooms can't really be contained as easily as plants so it could become invasive very easily. Or it will just die if your climate is too far off from what it's used to.

If you're looking for an easy way to get started with mushroom cultivation, you might want to try one of those oyster mushroom kits you can find online. Just follow the directions and grow the initial crop of oysters, then if you're so inclined, you can use the block of mycelium from the kit to start again. To reuse the kit you need a plastic turkey bag, alfalfa pellets (rabbit/guinea pig food from a pet store), and Timothy hay or newspaper pellets (both used as rabbit/guinea pig bedding so same aisle as the alfalfa).

Sterilize the turkey bag and boil the mix of alfalfa/hay/paper (the substrate). When the substrate cools layer chunks of mycelium from the kit with layers of wet substrate and pack it down tight so there's no air in between.

Leave the bag in a warm dark place until the mycelium covers the substrate (a couple weeks or so, check about once per week). Then bring it out and cut holes in the bag and put it in a tub or box. From there it should be the same procedure as the kit, mist it a couple times per day and fan it to get some fresh oxygen in there.

You can keep repeating this process to get more oysters. If you want an oyster log, you can stick piece of a dowel in your substrate (sterilized of course) and wait for the the mycelium to grow on to it. Drill a hole in your log and stuff the dowel in, with any luck the oysters will take over the log and you'll keep getting oysters until they eat the whole log.

I felt so bad for her in that scene, when the emperor starts making fun of you there's no choice but to sit there and take it.

Leolines on Etsy has a bunch of different swimsuit styles for transfemmes. It's a bit pricey but they make quality stuff.

"Farinaceous" is the term used in mycology for mushrooms that have a grain-like smell/taste.