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#Tommy said 🤨❔🏳️‍🌈

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i want the whole SEASON of bucktommy

i want buck being wooed - flowers and being taken out and a little protective hand on the small of his back

i want to hear all the soft ways tommy can say evan and the look on buck's face when he does

i want to see them at tommy's karaoke trivia place because holy shit buck would love it (and didnt oliver say that we're getting buck singing this season cause uhhhhh)

i love that this is such a fling, such a happy thing for buck - he is finally feeling that puzzle piece click into place and it is freeing

and i cant wait to see all the small ways we see that play out!!!

let buck be happy challenge 2k24!!!!

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"I present Nikolai Lantsov" // inspired.

BONUS:

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Man but the notes on that post really are just tumblr showing they have no idea how anything works.

"report to your local animal abuse people not to cops" local animal abuse people would be animal control. Animal control officers are cops.

"rabies is treatable if you go to the doctor right after the bite" rabies is PREVENTABLE, not treatable. There is no cure for rabies. If you suspect you came into contact with a rabid animal, you need to get a series of rabies vaccinations to prevent the virus from taking over your body. This is not a treatment and it only works if you go right away. If you show any symptoms of rabies it is too late.

"rabies is fatal in animals but treatable in humans" rabies has a 100% fatality rate and is not considered a survivable disease at this point in time. If you contract rabies YOU WILL DIE. The "treatment" in humans is called the Milwaukee Protocol, only 14% of people survive it, and it leaves you with massive brain damage and effectively turns you into a vegetable. You do not return to a normal life afterwards. Very few people who have undergone this process are capable of doing more than laying in a hospital bed and eating and breathing through tubes. To my knowledge only one person was able to live a semi-normal life after years and years of ongoing therapy and was not expected to have made it even through her first year after treatment.

I cannot stress enough how rabies is unlike any other disease you may be thinking of. It's required on a federal level in this country to vaccinate pretty much any domestic animal that comes into contact with wildlife for one reason and one reason only: it is not considered possible to cure rabies and the spread of disease would threaten all mammalian life including our own if allowed to continue to propagate.

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Could we fucking not?

Is it really so hard to get a different VA?

Like maybe my complaints are weird but I'd love it if we could fucking just let the buried stay buried and if y'all need to make a biopic or a new movie/game with the character or a documentary just hire an actor.

Then again CDPR and Bioware are both union busting scumbags so who's shocked by any of their scummy behavior?

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Italy weirdly did only a dubbed version of the Usian one, but changed the name of the show to "Sesamo, apriti" which translates to "Open Sesame" (cause why not) and "muppet" was changed to "Babau" that are one of the oldest folklore monsters that had an undefined appearance

Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

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Can people please understand how transplantation works before spouting nonsense? because UNFORTUNATELY transplantation is an area of medicine that works in a constant state of oversaturation with more patients than organs available, this means that some people will unfortunately die while waiting for an organ because we cannot cure all.

So how do we decide who gets an organ and who doesn't? There has been a huge internal debate in the scientific community about this but it has been decided that we treat preferentially those who could get THE MOST YEARS out of an organ (basically until the donated organ fails due to long term reject but we got better at managing this) and have the most advanced stage of a malady. Is it a horrible thing to say? YES, we all recognize it, if we had unlimited organs we wouldn't have to do this but unluckily this is not the case.

the reason we do those types of research is to do the exact opposite of what you thing they are doing, we are asking "Is obesity GRADE III (not being fat) enough of a detrimental factor during and after surgery to LOWER transplant candidacy without prior loss of weight?"

And do you know why HIV+,HBV+ people (many times they get organs with HBV or HIV because it won't worsen their condition) and those with diabetes are higher in the list in general? Because those are UNMODIFIABLE conditions, but if properly treated and at full regime have low risks, while obesity IS a modifiable factor, as it is smoking, alcohol consumption, sedentary life.

Also complications CAN and ARE different both DURING and AFTER surgery and some complications have LOWER RELATIVE RISK.

The reasoning is simply "How much of the population having X conditions is going to survive the most years after transplant?" and we go from there, with a PANEL of people we consult to get approval for the organ transplant.

AND THAT'S WHY we do this type of research, to be able to say "Yes, this condition is a risk for graft failure and death but not as much as to drop a patient" and we are working to reduce those issues (wound complications, lymphoceles and comoborbidities development post surgery) and point to a weight loss post transplant that can HEAVILY improve graft functionality and survival.

We are not unhuman to ask those questions, we ask them to have a way to better treat people.

HOW DO YOU ALL THINK SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND MANY LIFESAVING DRUGS ARE STUDIED IN POPULATIONS?

We have people that are blindly divided in two groups those that get normal procedures/treatment/placebo and those that get the experimental thing and we watch which ones survive the most and have less complications. Medicine is a complex and many times HORRIBLE field, but this is how we got advancements because the scientific method is still less horrible than what we did before.

We need data, and for us to have data we need to test (yes on humans too). There were patients that literally got their liver explanted, filled with a BoronChemiotherapic, PUT IN THE NEUTRON BEAM OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR and reimplanted to see if it was a better treatment for disseminated liver cancer.

Fat and thin people with kidney failure experience similar benefits to health and longevity when they receive a live donor kidney transplant. 

Yet fat patients are routinely denied kidney transplants until they lose weight, a delay that can increase the risk of serious complications like graft loss by as much as 68%. 

#it's my queuetapine #medicine #it's ALL fucked up #but GET A FUCKING GRIP

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in Standard Italian it's "coccinella" or "scarlet red" but in many dialects it varies, ranging from "God's/Mary's hen" to "Saint Nicholas" or "Saint Lucy" and "God's cow"

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

#it's my queuetapine

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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homophobic clown

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I got a "Boris Vallaud", not bad but god why politics and not something fun like the life cycle of some critter or strange disease

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

#it's my queuetapine #could be far worse tbh

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Fireflies are present in many parts of Europe natively tho??? Even Dante described them (<i>Lucciole</i> in Italian), the reason we don't see them anymore is due to HEAVY pollution and habitat destruction.

In more rural areas in northern Italy they are still common enough to be seen near rivers and fields.

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

#it's my queuetapine

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#it's my queuetapine

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Absolutely losing it over this comment under a Nimona and Ballister dance party clip

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Crab Day

okay, so here's a new info post from the top.

the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.

solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)

the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)

i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.

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And that's why in Italy you keep a buddie with ADHD close when protesting /hj

if you see a suspicious looking ford explorer and can’t tell if it’s an undercover cop or not, look for the roof rails

these mfs

police model explorers don’t have them, the roof will be completely smooth other than possibly a fin or antenna at the back

i’ve found it to be the quickest and easiest way to tell, once you know what you’re looking for

#it's my queuetapine #i always go by vibes honestly and never got fucked over #the main thing here it's ALWAYS BE CAREFUL ABOUT THE BOOMERS #i found it's harder for younger agents to go plainclothes/undercover