GO DUCKS!!!!!

We continue to make progress in developing an enzyme replacement therapy for a rare disease called Batten Disease CLN1. This work has been funded by NIH/NINDS. Demonstrating the importance of renewing the SBIR/STTR program.

THEY SHOT THEM IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL FUCKING PARKING LOT

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

ok idk what to do so starting a thread of protests against ICE in various cities as i become aware of them—NONE OF THESE ARE TONIGHT

Good news on an otherwise extremely shitty news day

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Ha, ha! Give me to drink mandragora.

Oh my god.

Mods are asleep, post Storm Shadow and his ham tongs (sound UP)

car wreck next to me on the road. nabbed a loose dog who just. went and stood in the river. dog, I am fucking confused too. couldn't get the dog to walk with me unless I was walking one of the other dogs. fortunately the dog who disappeared took herself home. humans/dogs ok but vehicles smashed. wtf

Ume is officially 11 months old and already weighs 483 pounds! 💗 That’s more than halfway to mom Yuna’s impressive 800 pounds. This adorable Malayan tapir is gaining size, confidence, and curiosity by the day, still keeping close to mom while steadily growing into her almost-teen tapir era.

Pelagic Respite

when I was an exchange student, my Mexican host family thought my stories about local megafauna (we 100% have bears here) and Appalachianisms were quirky????? but when some car was following us in a parking garage and I said, looks like we got a vulture, they were like 😶 did you come from a zoo

[God creating dogs] Oh these turned out great. Im going to want all of these back at some point

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

this is what hacking the mainframe actually means

just startled a deer while taking out the trash ☹️ sorry, girl

I again wish to point out that it is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. has unilaterally ended CDC recommendations for many childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

[releases helium-filled heart balloon] Me: You're free now Balloon: Ima choke a bird

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

Little Mari on the way to help with the Schnabelpertchens duties (she doesn’t truly understand what the scissors do)

All 3 cats came over to experience/eat these fuzzy baby nuggets. Things got a bit tense on my desk.

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

without a doubt, "Spirited Away" (also my favorite movie, period)

Prices are as follows: $5 digital booklet only $7 UK digital booklet and print $10 Worldwide digital booklet and print I’m hoping that this makes my art more affordable

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

standing outside your window in the rain holding a boombox over my head that's playing Pumpkin Time Halloween Compact Disc VTG 45 Minutes Horrible Sound Music Voices

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

@endora-bullshit.bsky.social if only they'd stuck to their Manger Babies records

what proteinmaxing looks like to me

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable

Fuck MAGA and MAGATs everywhere.

Very good news: Judge dropped the bullshit RICO charges against #StopCopCity protesters. Georgia's republican AG might still appeal, but it's an increasingly unpopular stance, so this might be the end of it. www.gpb.org/news/2025/12...

one time my mom poured bleach into a pitcher because the neighbor asked for the jug for some art project for church kids. my brother drank a slug. she was like, aight, drink this egg to neutralize it. he threw up the bleach. he didn't die. his shirt got fucked up. moral is, ?????

hey. I'm an ocean rip current