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[–] lime@feddit.nu 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its a family photo, they don't need to be blood relatives.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes it is a nightshade. According to Wikipedia, nightshades are plants in the family Solanaceae, and

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae.

I was shocked too. Maybe ToMacco wasn't so farfetched after all.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that one messes me up as well. Who of these birthed the cat? Who of these did the cat birth?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You never heard about mom having kittens?

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

ooh! that reminds me of that time a lady pretended to give birth to rabbits by shoving baby rabbits up her coochie and then pulling them out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft