I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.
Street walking kitty!
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
this cyndaquil plush is amazing
The point is, conditions can present differently in different groups of people, and can have different causes, when exclude major swaths of the population in testing you are leaving more blind spots and less trust in the medical system as a whole for many.
Autistic women and to some extent other minorities are notoriously under diagnosed because the original study only focused on white boys. There have been more studies but the damage has been done and many doctors even now are still withholding valid diagnosises based off of faulty research.
A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
Black and white photo of a blonde, white toddler sitting in a toy wagon with “Oh boy” painted on the side. In the child’s lap they snuggle a shorthaired grey cat and both look at the camera.
Oh Boy! Photo from my collection, 1925.
a still life with whiskey bottles, black apples, martini glasses, cigarettes, and dice. A white luminescent curls around the composition
original sinners
A small black cat sleeping on a bed. She is so curled up she looks like a void has appeared, like in a looney tunes cartoon.
Oh no my bed seems to have a hole in it
And since we’re doing this conversation again for the umpteenth time, and since people tend to associate the Middle East with “medievalness” because they’re illiterates, a reminder that smallpox inoculation was first brought to Britain via the Ottomans, thanks to Mary Montagu, an ambassador’s wife.
FOSTER PEARL SAT ON MY HAND this is a first! Success!
friends, always remember that every day is a gift, even if you didn’t really want it, you didn’t ask for it, you didn’t get a gift receipt, and now you’re stuck with it until you throw it away or die 🌞
Stylized illustration of a woman in profile with an elaborate golden piece of jewellery around her head, painted by Eleonor Piteira
Another one for the Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space series (that still doesn't exist, really)
Me, a white guy with glasses and a beard zoning out, I am cradling a black and white cat in my arms. I have a tattoo of a skeleton on my right forearm
staring into the void with this chubby cat
My photo of myself and a domestic European wolf called Anja at Wolf Watch UK. I’m offering her blueberries through the bars of a very large natural enclosure
Wild wolves will often partake in feasting on blueberries and Anja has been seen enjoying the blackberries in the autumn. However I tried to offer some blueberries one winter and she was not at all impressed
He's hiring a ship
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town
SIMPLY HAVING A
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
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In the 2000s we would've had at least 100 janky but very emotionally satisfying "CEO assassin simulator" Flash games in the Newgrounds portal by now.
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
A digital drawing of lots of cute stuff scattered on a page: birds, a chicken, a cat wearing a jacket and a backpack over one shoulder, a dog, flowers, a mushroom, a fish, a slice of cake and some beets. The background colour is a warm white.
That cat is such a cutie.
#art #illustration
Tanuki is in a very diggy mood today. Lots of tunnels to be dug.
going through life like
