*puts in earrings with malicious intent*
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yuriwinged
maybe your cat is meowing bc it wants a cigarette
Reblogged librarycards
So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”
7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.
The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.
Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.
Reblogged futchdoctor
you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern. it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this
Reblogged butch-garfield
A whistleblower at the fascist DHS has released the names of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents, providing an unprecedented means to monitor and counter their local presence
Reblogged lemondoddle
This is a staunchly pro-bug zone. I may have contentious relationships with the ones that enjoy eating me or my food but that's life baby. The great web...
Minnesotan lesbian. Every day since Wednesday last week has been increasingly hard. Monday was the most difficult day I have ever lived through in my life. I have multiple friends in hiding with their families. I have been injured at a protest. I have been driving on ICE watch and getting supplies to people trapped in their homes. Please, understand, we are under siege. Nothing is normal right now. Every night I go to bed to so terrified and I wake up and go to work and these stupid rich white assholes pretend nothing is wrong. They aren't reporting what is happening and everyone is in danger.
"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
- ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
- ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
- ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
- They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
- They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
- ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
- They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
- Protests are happening every day.
- Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
- Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
- Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
- Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
- Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
- Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
- Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
- Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
- Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger
Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.
Civil rights pioneer
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.
Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
Reblogged deadweightjackstauber
nurse: doctor... the patient is flatlining... we dont have nearly enough yuri to sustain them!
doctor: tch... i guess theres no choice...!!
*doctor pulls in nurse for a tender embrace and a beat passes before they kiss passionately*
*pulse starts again*
nurse: i cant believe it...! doctor youve saved yet another patient through your unorthodox methods!
doctor, looking out the window to avoid the nurse's adoring gaze: suppose i have...
doctor, thinking: sigh... will i ever get to approach her not out of obligation but out of ...love...;!
nurse, thinking: i hope she doesnt realize ive been manufacturing the yuri shortage to engineer these kinds of scenarios
moral of the story: the doctor was a woman
Reblogged stephanos-spaceopera
Trevor Dubois, an indigenous man who was in the hospital for chemo following a brain cancer diagnosis, was murdered by Saskatoon hospital security via. forceful restraint on Friday over a plastic lighter that police are publicly calling an “imitation firearm”. The cops are now trying to make it seem like Trevor had methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia in the hospital room with him after security murdered him to justify what took place.
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Reblogged tlirsgender
Are you currently in a headspace to receive my long creepy witch finger?
Reblogged pathos-logical
Free my woman she did all of it but I don’t care
Reblogged apocalypsegay
Naturalist manga reading list
There's a lot of manga, some somewhat obscure, that panders a lot to amateur naturalists and people working in fields of biology/ecology, but I've never really seen them compiled in ways that don't include works that are very tangential just because they feature cute animals or something.
My criteria for these is that they should present aspects of working with wildlife in a grounded way, or if featuring fantasy creatures, go deeper into ecological worldbuilding and speculative biology.
If anyone has suggestions feel free to add on!
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — I think everyone knows this one, but it feels wrong not to include in a list like this.
- Dungeon Meshi — again, not obscure at all, but Laios is practically the autistic amateur naturalist mascot and it does its fantasy wildlife worldbuilding in a way that's hard to get elsewhere.
- Deep Sea Aquarium Magmell — beautifully illustrated and written manga about, as the name implies, a deep sea aquarium. Various sea life featured, along with some of the realities of working in animal care, also canon trans representation! Really good main cast. Officially published translation in French only but scanlations online.
- Mushishi — more fantastical than everything else on this list but I thought the relationship between humans and mushi mirrored real life human-wildlife interactions a lot, and so does Ginko's job. Really atmospheric.
- Last Karte — manga about forensic veterinary science, a really cool niche. Some domestic animals featured but it's in majority about the wildlife of Japan. For anyone disappointed with Laios' dislike of parasites, this one has a parasite-lover in the main cast. DMCA'd off mangadex but scanlations are out there, only a bit hard to find. French scanlations are easier to find if you happen to speak it.
- Hen na Mono Mikke! — slice of life about museum work with edutainment aspects. Unfortunately untranslated but the raws are out there and it has furigana so it's a bit less of an intimidating read.
- Mai no Mushigurashi — yuri heavily featuring Japan's entomofauna, with comparisons to the bugs often furthering the romance. Set mainly on a farm so there's a lot of IPM notions too.
- Dinosaur Sanctuary — Jurassic Park if it were an accredited facility. I was surprised at how realistic the tone was (it's not just fun with cute animals: understaffed, overworked, struggling for funding, and getting unprofessionally close to large carnivores due to anthropomorphisation leads to disaster) in regards to portraying zoological facilities despite it being about speculative reconstructions of extinct animals.
- Heaven's Design Team — I haven't read this one myself yet but it was recommended, lighthearted series featuring a lot of animal facts
