I want to find something to love every day. Even if it’s something small. Even if I’m the only one who notices. I want love and kindness and empathy and good relationships to define my life. And I want people to know that there is always something good, something worth loving, and moments in life that are beautiful.
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insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women
in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.
every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.
My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.
as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”
There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature
the cognitive dissonance from people who want the products of modern medicine but get weird about animal research. like im sorry but this is necessary for the survival of the society we currently live in. and the scientists who work on these things are not evil cackling psychopaths. anyone you talk to in animal research has incredibly complex feelings about their work and incredibly complex relationships to the animals in their care. there are regulations and oversight and penalties in place to make the work as humane as possible and scientists are overwhelmingly the ones enforcing and advocating for better care.
@velvetdemon I'm doing a full reply because I want to give this question the time and space it deserves, and I really do appreciate your curiosity about this.
The short answer: It is deeply unethical. There are nowhere near enough willing patients in the world to be able to do this, and it would be criminal to put them through this.
The long answer: The one side of the equation you're focusing on is: how much of a drug is too much, to the point where it will cause negative side effects or even death? And this is crucial to know. But it's not just a matter of finding out the lethal dosage of a heart cholesterol medication, you need to know that it can actually lower the cholesterol of any living thing. There is no way to know this without giving it first to...a living thing.
But beyond this, I need to emphasize: The goal of a drug trial is to effectively cure people who are already suffering from disease, who are living on limited time.
Drug trials don't just happen on any member of the public, they need to happen specifically on people affected by the disease you're trying to treat. There is at any time a very limited and very marginalized population of the world affected by early onset, familial Parkinson's disease. Because you cannot ethically induce disease in a human being, you are working with, speaking with, and helping patients and their families who are hopeful and desperate for a cure.
If you were to jump straight to human trials from petri dishes, not knowing absolutely anything about how the drug functions in a living, breathing animal body, it would look like this:
- We didn't know that minute quantities of the drug interact lethally with x, y, z medication that people are commonly also taking. X number of patients have died as a result.
- We didn't know that the drug is fatal to people with [common variant] in their genetics. X more patients have died.
- We didn't know the drug exacerbates x, y, z chronic illnesses. X number of people have acquired permanent, lifelong disabilities.
- We didn't know the best way to deliver the drug, so we tried multiple ways: the people who received it intravenously are now suffering from a painful, costly, and debilitating condition that did not happen with the ingested form.
I could go on, and on, and on.
The vast majority of these problems can be nearly or almost entirely averted by testing other animals first.
These are all people who possibly could have waited for the normal progression from animal testing to human testing and thus received better outcomes. Some people will pass away in the time it takes to get to that point, and that's heartbreaking, and we all wish science could be faster.
But the cost of expediting science could mean a life of profoundly greater suffering or an even shorter life than the one where no intervention happens at all. And at that point, you have completely exhausted your trust, your goodwill, and your patients' hope, after you've failed to do anything or even worsened the lives of people who are already deeply suffering.
hi, i’m an animal research professional. making sure laboratory animals stay alive, healthy, and enriched has been my full-time job for several years now.
animal research is not the mad scientist wild west that PETA wants you to think it is. there are extremely strict federal laws in place to protect the well being of these animals. animal welfare organizations like AAALAC ensure that lab animals are treated with dignity & respect and are given enough specialized care & enrichment to be happy and content in captivity, just like AZA accreditation with zoos.
not a single animal from a zebrafish to a mouse to a dog to a macaque goes unaccounted for. if an animal gets moved to a new cage, paired for breeding, has a procedure performed on it, gives birth, gets sick or injured, dies, etc. it is legally required that this information is recorded and kept on file for the US federal government to access. failing to record & retain this information is very much punishable by US federal law.
let me tell you - if you abuse or kill an animal, even a mouse - you are almost certainly getting both fired & blacklisted from the industry. if you abuse or kill a more ‘advanced’ animal, such as a dog or monkey, you will likely face criminal charges. killing a monkey is as serious and disastrous as a nuclear meltdown. you are expected to reasonably explain every illness, injury, or death of an animal under your care. you must record all of this information. animals that are clearly suffering with low QOL are required to be euthanized according to AVMA guidelines.
research animals are highly expensive. yes, even the "lesser" animals like mice. the cheapest mice will run you a few hundred $ per individual, with some of the most expensive mice i've cared for being $25,000 per individual. in research we have the "three Rs" - reduction (reduce amount of necessary animals to a minimum), refinement (refine processes to ensure research is accurate and animals feel no pain or distress), and replacement (replace animals with non-living research models as they become available). i can assure you no proper research team is wasting animals (*do not* say "b-b-but elon musk--" his research team is actively being investigated for animal abuse by the government).
research methods that do not require live animals are currently being looked into & efforts spearheaded by - you guessed it - the animal research industry itself (notice how the animal rights people are strangely silent & unhelpful when it comes to this?) but current technology is rudimentary and does not compare to live animal models.
some research animal fun facts (US edition):
- all species of animals are only allowed to have one single major surgery performed on them in their entire lifetime.
- institutions with nonhuman primates must have a behavior program in place (run by knowledgeable primate specialists) to ensure that they are happy and receiving enough daily enrichment and social interaction.
- institutions with dogs are required to have physical exercise programs in place. this means every individual dog gets a substantial amount of leashed AND free-roaming exercise daily, including playgroups with other dogs.
- a majority of nonhuman primates get to retire to sanctuaries like peaceable primate sanctuary, and almost all dogs get retired and adopted out by organizations like homes for animal heroes. some institutions will also adopt out unneeded young rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, etc.
- some strains of mice glow neon green (or orange or blue) under UV light. this is not harmful to them and is commonly seen in cancer research.
so yes, you can rest knowing that laboratory animals are treated with the utmost respect by their caretakers. and you can stop this awful, ignorant talk of human experimentation that will only end in the abuse of nonwhite people, LGBT people, disabled people, indigenous people, and so many others. please just take a look at this wikipedia page if you think “ethical” human experimentation can exist.
got held up on the way to work today because there was a big snake trying to sun herself on the highway right on the way out of town & the lady in the grey subaru in front of me put her warning lights on & got out to try & shoo her into the grassy sunny verge on the other roadside. & it was afternoon and busy but the logging trucks stopped & waited & the family cars stopped & waited & the long haul truckers stopped & waited for that snake to cross the road. nobody so much as honked. & when the snake was safe the road was backed up in both directions but a fellow in a pickup truck waved at me to go ahead (i was waiting to turn right onto the highway) even though he could have made me wait until the whole long line of cars passed. what i am trying to say is: there is still love in this world. what i am trying to say is: happy pride to me & to that big old bull snake who will live to see another sunrise & to every person on that highway who decided that saving her was worth five minutes of delay
Isekai with male protags: "I was a loser on earth but now I'm super fucking strong and gettin mad bitches"
Isekai with female protags:
- Reincarnated princess uses earth knowledge to make magitech a thing and romances sad girl
- Girl romantically pursues her video game waifu
- Girl is tasked to teach actual fucking gods to be more empathetic to humans
- Woman reincarnated as the daughter of a magic item crafter uses earth knowledge to advance her trade
- "Straight" girl is sucked into a world with zero men and lesbians everywhere and finds out she's sapphic (there's like actual plot but the gay is what matters.... to me)
- A ghibli film. Need I say more
- Woman reincarnated in video game as doomed villainess desperately tries to change her story
- Girl reincarnated as a tiny baby spider kills monsters to level up
- Like the male protag one but the lame guy's mom got isekaid with him and she's the op one.
- Two normal girls fight urban legends in terrifying danger dimension
Right, should have thought of that.
In order:
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (Light novel, manga, an anime has also just barely started)
- I'm in Love With the Villainess (Light novel, manga, an anime has been announced)
- Kamigami No Asobi (Anime, manga and visual novel)
- Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More (Manga)
- The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me (manga)
- Spirited Away (anime movie)
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (Light novel, manga, anime,)
- So I'm a Spider So What (Light novel, manga, anime)
- Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? (Light novel, manga, anime)
- Otherside Picnic (Light novels, manga, anime)
I'm annoyed by what SAO did to isekai again so here's some more
- Girl in fantasy world responsible for executing dangerous isekaid kids falls in love with an isekaid girl who cannot die (The Executioner and Her Way of Life)
- Girl who has never played a video game before builds a terrible character in full-dive VR game but accidentally exploits game loopholes to become unstoppable (Bofuri)
- Fucking Inuyasha
- Adorable bookworm is reincarnated as a commoner in a world where books are extremely rare and decides to make books accessible for everyone (Ascendance of a Bookworm)
If you'd consider Korean isekai, there's even more variety!
This chart is several years old and I've been in and out of the girlsekai community so I don't have the freshest recs, but some others:
- What if you isekaied. What if you kept isekaing. What if you kept isekaiing the same exact year, as the same exact person, trapped in the same plot that would murder you (often brutally) on the exact same day? At some point you'd have to become a serial killer, right? Resetting Lady = Finally someone makes a girlsekai horror story
- What if (the above) except it was a silly comedy? If You Lay A Hand On My Brother, You're All Dead
- Some moony-eyed girl keeps dying during a zombie apocalypse and initially thinks it's some divine test of her devotion to her man. Except honestly. Is he worth this. Do I know this guy enough to warrant the trauma I've woken up to a thousand times. Survive Romance is shockingly more about friendship than anything
- The first few chapters of My Mom Entered a Contract Marriage - you are the abused daughter of a fallen villainess - once the hottest royal bitch in the kingdom, she's now a commoner, an alcoholic, and extremely bitter. One day she wakes you up, screaming that she's burning. She's shocked you're alive, sobbing and begging your forgiveness. Tbh this is one that's more fun if you've read a lot of princess isekais, because fans will totally pick up on what happened, but her child cannot. Visual treat, I stopped reading because I don't trust artists like this to last long. But what a starter it was!
- The Holy Grail of Eris - we need more Scarlet Castiels. Look at me when I talk to you, I don't care if you don't like me type princess. If only she could possess us all
Villains in Addams Family movies go to really unnecessary lengths to defraud them of the family fortune. These people just give it away on whims all the time. If I just walked into the house and started wearing their clothes and spending their money, they wold start introducing me as Cousin Intruder and forget there was ever a time I didn’t live with them.
There’s a whole plotline in the Addams Family Musical where Morticia and Gomez realize at the same time they each thought Grandmama was the other one’s parent and no one knows who the hell she is, and literally nothing changes because, well, she’s Grandmama now.
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Gomez’s life’s ambition is to be a failed investor, just walk up to him and say “I’ve got this crazy idea, it’ll probably never work, but I need 5 million dollars to try” and he’ll just shout “brilliant!” Then sword fight you and give you the money
And because it’s Gomez whatever you do with the money will end up outrageously profitable
i find it impossibly funny that this is the canon reason for the adam family fortune. gomez desperately wants to be a failed investor and lose it all, but every single unhinged thing he throws money at *somehow* ends up becoming wildly successful
So
Cristobal and Hank
As summer is approaching, I’d like to share this bird-friendly beach etiquette reminder. A lot of people let their dogs roam freely on the beach, but dogs that chase wildlife can have a detrimental effect on the animals that have no choice but to share the shoreline with us. Please enjoy the summer with your pets and make sure to give wild animals plenty of space!
Potentially controversial opinion here, but this goes for any other natural place too. Your dog shouldn't be running off-lead and disturbing wildlife outside of specific designated dog areas. The amount of damage free-roaming dogs cause to the rare ground-nesting birds on the heathland near me, despite constant appeals for people to keep them on-leash, is disgusting. And for the love of FUCK, stop letting your dogs run off-leash in fields with livestock. Especially pregnant ewes and young lambs.
"But my dog is a nice dog and my dog would never hurt any animal!"
- I don't believe you.
- The other animals don't know that. Stress is enough to make ewes miscarry. Having to panic and flee costs precious energy. Dogs trampling nests is enough to destroy eggs.
- Keep your fucking dog on a leash.
Important generally but also specifically for shorebirds. Many are endangered or threatened and nest in very specific places, and one loose dog among eggs or chicks can devastate a colony.
The time this woman is taking to educate is much appreciated!
I’ve got mad respect for the effort that goes into taking care and styling these hair types 💜
Considering black ladies and girls start a intense hair routine as early as three, they get all my respect.
Help For Canada
Here are some ways to help out some of the Canadians who's lives have been forever changed by the wildfires. (From @mugsy, someone who's there, in the country, and feeling pretty damn scared.) United Way Halifax (https://www.unitedwayhalifax.ca/give/united-way-halifax-wildfire-recovery-appeal/)
Alberta.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.alberta.ca/disaster-assistance-and-recovery-support.aspx)
RedCross.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.redcross.ca/how-we-help/current-emergency-responses/atlantic-canada-wildfire-responses)
And a GoFundMe for their coworker (https://gofund.me/f30934aa)
I would also highly recommend donating to victims from East Prairie Métis Settlement and Little Red River Cree Nation in Alberta, which were hit extremely hard by the fires.
You can find a collection of links for EPMS here (https://linktr.ee/epmsfire)
Little Red River has an official GoFundMe here as well (https://www.gofundme.com/f/fox-lake-fire-evacuees)
Indigenous communities have been some of the hardest hit and least assisted. If you have the means to donate, please please give directly to impacted communities. It goes a long way
comic from a trip in summer 2021. happy pride month
