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by hn_throwaway_99 2197 days ago
Lol, just to make you sleep better: https://scottolewiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eyelash...
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Eh, not that weird looking. They look like they could be tiny mammals. Just with strange eyes.
That's pretty cute to be honest.
It can have my sebum for all I care. It doesn't even poop apparently.

I've had worse critters along for the ride.

After reading your comment I did some research, and you're right, they don't have anuses, so they just store all their poop in their abdomens until they die, when they decompose and release that poop all at once. So there's that to look forward to.
"Mark Twain" had a posthumously published essay in which God points out that, just as one builds a boarding-house for the benefit of its boarders and not of the building, man was created for the benefit of his microbial population.
They look a little like tardigrades.