It Rhymes With Broken

Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.

Anchicaya Harlequin Poison Frog (Oophaga anchicayensis), family Dendrobatidae, Colombia

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point

The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.

But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.

And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.

The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.

However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.

Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.

Once you have the fireproof container:

Gently pick up the phone and put it in the fireproof container. If possible, gently tape the phone to the bottom of the container to prevent it from bouncing around. Don’t put any padding in there, that’ll just make a fire worse if it does happen. Put the lid on and tape it shut.

Put a label on the container, something like “DEFECTIVE LI-ION BATTERY – FIRE HAZARD”.

It is now reasonably safe to move the container around. However, if the battery does explode, the container is very likely to leak smoke and get hot, so keep it in a well-ventilated area and away from things that will be damaged by heat. Don’t leave it exposed to the weather, either.

You need to find either a hazardous waste disposal site, or an e-waste recycler that will accept defective Li-ion batteries. I can’t help with that because I have no idea where you live.

However, your local fire department, if you have one, will probably be happy to help. Call their non-emergency number. Nothing is on fire yet, so this isn’t an emergency, but things that can easily start a fire are still within the fire department’s responsibilities. Tell them you have a phone with a bulging lithium-ion battery, you put it in a fireproof container, and you want to know how to dispose of it safely.

If the fire department tries to tell you this isn’t dangerous or it’s okay to throw it out in the regular trash (with or without fireproof container), hang up on them and write a cranky letter to your local government representatives, then keep looking for a proper disposal site.

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Ok, so here are some frog color schemes i greatly enjoy...

Santa Fe White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus laticeps), family Leptodactylidae, Paraguay

Poisonous.

photograph by Daniel Kane

Klappenbach’s Red-bellied Frog (Melanophryniscus klappenbachi), family Bufonidae, found in the Gran Chaco in northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil 

Poisonous.

Captive frogs that are fed low alkaloid diets are much less toxic than wild toads.

photograph by Rudy van Santen

Splendid Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Milan Zygmunt

Splendid Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla calcarifer), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Milan Zygmunt

Purple Harlequin Toad (Atelopus barbotini), family Bufonidae, endemic to the uplands of central French Guiana

This species status is in dispute amongst herpetologists, some consider is to be a subspecies of A. spumarius. A few otheer species are considered to form a “species complex” with A. spumarius.

This species does not have a CITES listing, but the population is in decline, and may be CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Josh’s Frogs

Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), “Northern Bakhuis” morph, family Dendrobatidae, Regina, French Guiana