Ali Lagarto

A blog about the random things I care about.

[mountain-man-cumeth]

Oooh, spooky… The most terrifying cheekbones in Vesuvia.

[kevinwada-deactivated20230323]

Some pin-up commissions for your #ThirstyThursday!  It’s almost the weekend, let’s celebrate!

[dajo42]

what if in thor 4 they just have him lose his eye again

[dajo42]

the rest of the mcu is just the russos giving thor bigger weapons and new eyes in the ensemble movies and taika waititi getting rid of them in the opening scene of the next solo movie

[meangirlnurse]

People are being flippant about the Ariel casting but I think they bring up good points. I know you’re a transformers fan. How would you feel if they cast like Idris Elba as Megatron even though he’s always been white? Or what about Channing Tatum as black panther? I think they just need to stay true to the source material.

??????? megatron is a robot who turns into a gun 

[meangirlnurse]

finally some caucasian representation

[meangirlnurse]

anyway i hope they cast idris elba as megatron

[domirine]

🏳️‍🌈 MY PRIDE LIST IS COMPLETE! 🏳️‍🌈

i am so happy i managed to get it all done, thank you guys for your suggestions and words of encouragment, and yay to the creators for their canonically queer characters!

you can view the separate arts by browsing this tag, or on my twitter!

and if you wanna support a queer artist and view all of these in their bigger, original size, you can buy them on gumroad!

💕 happy pride month! 💕

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[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance

[mindblowingscience]

A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

Continue Reading.

[island-living-vetmed-chronicles]

Yes. All the yes. Women in STEM deserve ALLLLLLLL the applause. All of it. And cake. All the cake, too. 

[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance: from Edward the Booble http://bit.ly/2MABk2O via IFTTT

[andrewiam]

I love this solution because it’s just… So simple. Everyone is getting deeper and deeper into pharmacology trying to find new stuff and new combos that’ll overcome bacterial resistance (while Big Pharma rakes in the profits) and this student was like “what if.. We just.. Physically rip it the fuck apart?? What’s it gonna do? Develop resistance to me cutting a bitch?”

Iconic

[slapspert]

Medicine: How do we defeat anti-biotic resistant super bugs?

Shu Lam: What if we just beat the shit out of it?

[grandmistress-of-the-greyhunt-d]

Women! Of! Color! Amazing!! Say her name!!! I’m so proud of her!!!

[imfemalewarrior]

Did Shu Lam just invent microbial Martial Arts? 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[momochanners]

“Because you deserve nice things.”

High-res artwork files and full process video will be available soon to Silver Tier @sadsausagedogs patreon patrons and up! - link

This Big Boi is also available at my online store for traditional media art collectors :3c - link

[soddingcloudgazer]

I just want one thing from DA4 ;;A;;

- Please don’t repost

[feetdavidson]

I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

[feetdavidson]

this same idiot: what kind of animal is the pink panther

me, already taking off my clothes: benjamin you’re so fucking stupid

[danahatesyou2]

This boy is trying to get a nude from my friend but she’s just acting like she doesn’t know what “a nude” is.

[flaming-fruitcake-deactivated20]

Lawful chaotic

[hawflake]

[curtisretherford]

Reminder: June 16th is Captain Picard Day.

[twoofcups]

gordon ramsey: is the food good here?

underpaid server: 

[b0ggyb1tch]

[dadmech]

[twinky-dinky-doo]

[seasonallydefective]

God bless the poor servers in that circle of hell.

[biomic]

this bit from hbomberguy’s new video on climate denial is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen

[randomslasher]

Just as a PSA, I’ve never reblogged that “your mom will die” post. I’ve seen it half a dozen time so or more and I’ve ignored it every time. My mom’s doing great. 

You’re safe. I’ve done the test for you. You can safely ignore it. It is a failed curse. It doesn’t work. 

[kiiboi-v3-blog]

Lmao they really took that chance tho

[randomslasher]

No, I didn’t. In my mind it wasn’t a chance. 

But for some people, it would feel like one. There are people for whom posts like that cause great distress. Not because they think those posts actually work, but because those posts prey on anxiety disorders by exploiting the way anxious brains function. It’s an inherently cruel thing to do and I do not blame anyone who is unwilling to take the ‘chance,’ because regardless of whether or not they genuinely believe their mom will be affected, the emotional distress caused by having seen and not reblogged the post is not worth it. 

I do not suffer from this particular brand of anxiety. But I do have anxiety about other, equally unlikely things. So I can empathize with people for whom these types of chain posts cause genuine distress, and I can recognize how needlessly cruel the posts themselves are–particularly because people who DO reblog them often do so at the expense of followers, or at the risk of getting rude comments about how ‘gullible’ they are, or even angry remarks from other anxiety sufferers who start blaming the victim instead of blaming the person who created the damn post in the first place. 

My point in creating this post was simply to attempt to ease the anxiety of those who are negatively impacted by those types of chain posts. It has nothing to do with whether or not I actually believe that ignoring that post puts my mom in danger. I don’t. If I’d had even a modicum of doubt about that, I wouldn’t have taken the chance. 

But hopefully a few fellow anxiety sufferers now have ammunition against the part of their brains that torments them with that whispered “but what if…?” every time they see the post (or others like it). 

That’s all. 

[photochoco]

hey op you’re a good person

[tryforce-deactivated20211211]

the courier after joshua graham runs up and delivers his big bible speech to them in the middle of a canyon standing in ankle deep water and high as a fucking kite

[taragrimface]

sarah lyons, fawkes, and charon drag the kicking, screaming teenaged lone wanderer towards the purifier airlock door, all chanting “PROPHECY” in unison