fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country

please, actually, get fucking mad over this, the entirety of australia basically just banned all social media for anyone who doesnt want to give up their privacy to the government, there was no vote on this, no nothing, they just went ahead and fucking passed this ridiculously privy law and barely anybody’s talking about it the actual fuck

okay so to actually explain what exactly is happening, it’s an age thing. theyve used ‘protect the children’ and ‘let kids be kids’ as a weapon again. anyone under 16 is banned from social media, but to enforce this they have openly admitted everyone will need to link their government id to their social media. this whole ‘protect the kids’ thing was a very obvious trojan horse for getting ppl to give up their privacy.

and yknow, that alone is a very shitty law even without the whole surrendering your private information to the government thing.

theyve made outside uninhabitable, there’s nowhere left to go. public areas have degenerated, theyve turned hanging out into a crime with loitering, streets feel unwalkable sometimes, parents are more wary of letting their kids walk around on their own than they used to be, and now theyre trying to ban one of the main ways kids manage to distract themselves inside the house.

when i was 15 i was depressed and lonely, unable to leave the house very far, no friends, nobody. the one place that helped me feel less alone was online communities. i wouldve killed myself if it werent for the support i recieved on there. and now theyre trying to ban that for future generations, in a world that hates them being both outside and inside.

and even still, this is still a fucking trojan horse to get you to give up your privacy.

some proper info on this bullshit

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Poem by Leslie J Anderson.

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

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Tagging the Dichotomy of Man there (I love that for us)

dash is dead im teleporting to the past

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Reblog this post :) Especially if you’re on mobile, you’ll lose the post if you click the link without thinking. Take a note from your elders before you

You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

the real takeaway here is that organizing movements is *not* what most people think it is. This is where ideological purity on the front end destroys movements. This is why the left loses. If you want change, you need power. If you want power, you need people. If you want people, you need a collective goal or objective.

You pick a target, something the left is garbage at. NOT EVERYONE NEEDS THE SAME TARGET AND YOU CANT DO EVERYTHING AS A SINGLE GROUP. You pick a target that is immediate, specific, and salient. This usually involves actually working with fucking people. You have to understand what they want and need to unite them around a common goal. You can’t just come in and say “I care about a walkable city and so should you, dumbass.” You have to come in and listen and learn about what people actually would unite around. Maybe they’re sick of having to pay so much time and money to commute because they can’t afford to live near their work.

Then you work together to develop a solution. With specifics. And goals. And tangible milestones. The “things should be better!”rallying cry is true, salient, and fully fucking useless. You find out what solution is most acceptable. What’s going to make an impact that people are going to feel and care about and fight for. The bigger the fix, the longer and harder the fight. Maybe it’s better public transit. Maybe it’s higher wages. Maybe it’s rent caps. Maybe it’s renters unions. You build a coalition of people around a common goal. They might not be from the same background, political ideology, etc. AND THATS OK. IN FACT, *THATS GOOD AND NORMAL AND HOW IT SHOULD BE.* (more on this later)

Then starts the hard, frustrating, boring slog of work. It takes WORK. It takes lots of people lots of time to attend meetings, develop talking points, work to get more people on board, develop plans and suggestions.

All the while people are still STRUGGLING. This is where so many orgs fall flat on their fucking faces. YOU NEED MUTUAL AID. Provide for people. Help them tangibly. Get them bought in. So many orgs either want to provide services but have no endgame, or want to fight for change but have no way to keep people in the fight. This is exactly how the Black Panther Party built power and truly threatened the status quo. MAKE PEOPLE LESS RELIANT ON CURRENT POWER STRUCTURES THAT ARE KILLING YOU.

Ok, but you’re not all ideologically pure. But you know what? This is where you build solidarity. Maybe your pro life coworker sees a single mom of 3 get pregnant and wrestle with what to do. She sees the humanity of people who are in these situations and how the world is shades of grey. Maybe the guy who isn’t homophobic but isn’t super comfortable with trans folks has car trouble and someone in the community helps out. That person has a trans sister and talks about how scared she is right now. This helps humanize the problem and help people see why they should care. Maybe this guy isn’t gonna fistfight a nazi, but maybe the next politician who starts trans bashing isn’t going to get his vote.

Now you’re building power. You’re getting momentum. You’re building community and you’re getting somewhere. But maybe you’re only still just dozens or hundreds in a sea of millions. Well boy howdy welcome to mutualism. Look across and see your fellow communities who are fighting their fights. See where there are bridges and common goals. Maybe the next city council meeting to discuss the budget for public transit gets your group AND the folks fighting for rent caps. And then you attend their city council meeting to shut out the bitching landlords complaining about new regulations.

NOW YOURE BUILDING REAL POWER. And not just in your movement. In your mutual aid too. Now people have more help. More folks who they can uplift and be uplifted by. And the power of the city council seems pretty small by comparison. In fact, the next election may see many of your group win seats.

But this is not easy. This takes time. This takes flexing communal muscles many have all but lost (definitely the case for us in the US). And it takes patience. And the willingness to put community over self. Yeah there are people who you don’t agree with now. But life isn’t about surrounding yourself on a bed of pillows to never struggle. I get it. It’s already hard. And getting harder by the day. So that bed looks really appealing. But we’re only digging the hole deeper. And the first rule of holes is to stop digging.

I really do love when I get called a fujoshi because, like. Look, it's not a cool thing to call any gay trans guy, but with me in particular, it is REALLY apparent that that's just your catch-all insult for gay trans guys. Really obvious that you were just throwing some spaghetti at the wall and hoping it stuck. You didn't even look at my blog. There's not even real life guys kissing on here. Or anime guys not kissing. I was just talking to my spouse about anime boys I am capable of naming, and here is the full list: Goku, Sasuke, Naruto, etc. That's all of them. Ain't a holier-than-thou thing, either. Just not my scene. And it's also a thing where, like. Let's strip away the porn and romance parts of it. I didn't transition to be a twink. If you did, I am hootin' and hollerin' and crushing beer cans against my forehead, but I'm fat and hairy and covered in tattoos and I often find myself in a hunting supply store staring at the novelty T-shirts and thinking, "That's a solid pun and a beautiful wildlife painting. I can't pass up the opportunity to wear this to a chili cook-off or perhaps to a different hunting supply store." Just the way it worked out for me, you know? I think maybe if you asked the people who know me to rank things they'd be likely to find me doing, they would all put "gnawing on a human corpse buck naked on the side of the road" slightly above "rubbing one out to anime boys kissing". But yeah. I definitely transitioned because I want to pretend that I am Sasuke kissing Goku. That's what I'm up to for sure, you ribbonless county fair hog.

Thinking maybe this post came off a little harsh, so I do want to clarify that if you're reading this and you want to kiss Goku so bad that you're thinking about going down to your local Planned Parenthood and doing some steroids about it because you feel like that's really gonna help you get into the zone Goku-wise, you might actually be the coolest dude on the face of the earth. I think you really know what you're about, and I'm into it big-time.

In 2024 hyper realistic graphics are no longer impressive. You know what impresses me? A fully complete and functional game at launch

This shit was so funny

Lls

Im screaming at the way the other woman signed vagina

i’m the kids 

Satirical newspaper The Onion bought conspiracy bullshit InfoWars. I have been laughing for 5 minutes.

The Onion gains all their intellectual property, social media accounts, product inventory, and subscriber lists.

Source

From the CEO of The Onion

Inspired by my coworkers being baffled at me getting up 2 and a half hours before I come in despite living 20 mins away

(Add reasons why you do or don't get up early in the tags if ya want)

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

So there's a medication called hyaluronidase. It's used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

tl;dr: They won't inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say 'eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees' and try to kill you anyway.

The world is full of such beauty and wonder. Thank you for that sentence.

Derin Story Guide - November 2024

@derinthescarletpescatarian I had to add another layer just to fit them all :D!

Yall have whipped me up so much I had to finally put down my thoughts on centaur skeletons. Also it’s practically spooky season, so enjoy this doubley spooky skelington!!

The few centaur skeletons I have seen constructed/illustrated always have the spine just continuing smoothly up into the human half, but I argue the pelvis is too important for core muscle attachment(particularly important when your default position is upright but leaning slightly forward!!), organ support, and also some extra protection for what would be a very delicate area filled with all sorts of important vessels and valves flowing through there!! Also the fused vertebrae of the back of the pelvis would help support the spinal cord through that hard right turn the spine takes into the human portion.

As usual, I have a lot of thoughts.

@pagerunner

A new treatment combining ReCET and semaglutide could eliminate the need for insulin in type 2 diabetes, with 86% of participants in a study no longer requiring insulin therapy. The treatment was safe and well-tolerated, and further trials are planned to confirm these results.

Groundbreaking research presented at UEG Week 2024 introduces a promising new treatment approach for type 2 diabetes (T2D) that has the potential to greatly reduce or even eliminate the need for insulin therapy.

This innovative approach, which combines a novel procedure known as ReCET (Re-Cellularization via Electroporation Therapy) with semaglutide, resulted in the elimination of insulin therapy for 86% of patients.

Globally, T2D affects 422 million people... While insulin therapy is commonly used to manage blood sugar levels in T2D patients, it can result in side effects... and further complicate diabetes management. [Note: Also very importantly it's fucking bankrupting people who need it!!] A need therefore exists for alternative treatment strategies.

Study Design and Outcomes

The first-in-human study included 14 participants aged 28 to 75 years, with body mass indices ranging from 24 to 40 kg/m². Each participant underwent the ReCET procedure under deep sedation, a treatment intended to improve the body’s sensitivity to its own insulin. Following the procedure, participants adhered to a two-week isocaloric liquid diet, after which semaglutide was gradually titrated up to 1mg/week.

Remarkably, at the 6- and 12-month follow-up, 86% of participants (12 out of 14) no longer required insulin therapy, and this success continued through the 24-month follow-up. In these cases, all patients maintained glycaemic control, with HbA1c levels remaining below 7.5%.

Tolerability and Safety

The maximum dose of semaglutide was well-tolerated by 93% of participants, one individual could not increase to the maximum dose due to nausea. All patients successfully completed the ReCET procedure, and no serious adverse effects were reported.

Dr Celine Busch, lead author of the study, commented, “These findings are very encouraging, suggesting that ReCET is a safe and feasible procedure that, when combined with semaglutide, can effectively eliminate the need for insulin therapy.”

“Unlike drug therapy, which requires daily medication adherence, ReCET is compliance-free [meaning: you don't have to take it every day], addressing the critical issue of ongoing patient adherence in the management of T2D. In addition, the treatment is disease-modifying: it improves the patient’s sensitivity to their own (endogenous) insulin, tackling the root cause of the disease, as opposed to currently available drug therapies, that are at best disease-controlling.”

Looking ahead, the researchers plan to conduct larger randomized controlled trials to further validate these findings. Dr. Busch added, “We are currently conducting the EMINENT-2 trial with the same inclusion and exclusion criteria and administration of semaglutide, but with either a sham procedure or ReCET. This study will also include mechanistic assessments to evaluate the underlying mechanism of ReCET.”

-via SciTechDaily, October 17, 2024

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Note: If it works even half as well as suggested, this could free so many people from the burden of the ongoing ridiculous cost of insulin. Pharma companies that make insulin can go choke (hopefully).