Object of Self

* M * trans * ace/grey/gay * disabled * My personal blog, a mixture of interests, my cat Vex, and random thoughts. ++ Random questions welcome as long as it's not disrespectful shit. ++

[elysiumkitsune]

I drew this years ago while homeless.

I recently found the sketch and decided to ink and color it for practice. It's supposed to be my interpretation of Leviathan.

[elysiumkitsune]

Recent raven studies. :)

Inspired by @tornfeathers aka "Mom Bird."

[curseworm]

this is not my beautiful circus..these are not my beautiful monkeys

[curseworm]

[libertineangel]

And you may find yourself crammed into a very small automobile...

[millenniallust4death]

If you could use a bit of good news - and honestly, who couldn’t right now - here’s something worth knowing:

There’s a vaccine for the deadly EBOLA virus called rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP.

Researchers studied how well the vaccine worked during a major EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2018 and 2020 - right in the middle of an active conflict zone. Amid the conflict, health workers tracked who got sick and whether they were vaccinated.

Here’s what they found:

Among 2,279 confirmed EBOLA patients, those who weren’t vaccinated had a fatality rate of 56%.

For people who were vaccinated, that risk dropped by half — or even more if they got the vaccine more than three weeks before getting sick.

Even people vaccinated only a few days before symptoms appeared were less likely to die, with a fatality rate around 27% instead of 56%.

It’s a small piece of hopeful news to hold onto when everything else feels overwhelming.

Source:

Daniel, A. (2024, Feb. 15). "Ebola vaccine cuts death rates in half — even if it's given after infection". NPR. (URL)

The NPR article has links to the primary literature in journals such as The Lancet and The Lancet Infectious Diseases. I found reading about how the vaccine was developed fascinating.

[millenniallust4death]

A reader asked me to explain this line from my post:

For people who were vaccinated, that risk dropped by half — or even more if they got the vaccine more than three weeks before getting sick.

Here's what the data showed:

The study followed 2,279 people who got EBOLA during the outbreak.

Among people who weren’t vaccinated, 56% died. That’s what “fatality risk” means - it’s the chance someone will die after getting sick. In this case, out of every 100 unvaccinated people, 56 died.

For people who got vaccinated just a few days before symptoms started, the fatality rate dropped to 27.3% - meaning about 27 out of every 100 people died.

For people vaccinated more than three weeks before symptoms started, the fatality rate dropped even further, to 17.5%.

So when I said the risk was “cut in half,” that’s just shorthand - if the fatality rate had been exactly cut in half, it would have dropped from 56% to 28%. The actual number (27.3%) is very close to half, so that’s where the phrasing came from. I was just trying to avoid traumatizing my math-fearing mutuals!

Numbers aside, the important thing is - the vaccine made a difference, and the sooner people got it, the more likely they were to survive.

Hope that helps!

[nudityandnerdery]

Remember: the more difficult you make it for them to realize a report is false, the more useless you make the portal.

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[pissvortex]

WHITE PHARAOH ALIVE IN PITTSBURGH

[ethicallysourcedsustainablepolls]

pick one

leather jacket*

denim jacket

Voting ended onFeb 26, 2025

*faux leather no animals were harmed! :)

[roach-works]

faux leather is pleather, which is plastic. the process of mining, refining, and fabricating plastic causes enormous environmental damage at every step of the way. oil refineries regularly cause massive die offs of birds, small mammals, and EVERY local invertebrate. the degrading plastic from pleather garments (which break down after only a few years) produces microplastics and leads to groundwater contamination, killing off amphibians and, later, sea life. faux leather can't be repaired or recycled, only replaced by a new, equally toxic product.

tanneries are not exactly fountains of health, but a leather jacket uses the skin of a domestic cow that was already killed for meat. leather jackets can also be refurbished or recycled. once entirely discarded, leather will rot in place, rather than fragment into toxic forever particles.

leather is the product of an animal's death in a tangible, recognizable form that you can immediately assess. one jacket, one cow. you touch the skin of that dead animal and you flinch from it.

pleather can tell you that no animals were harmed, because it harms animals that you will never see. it outsources responsibility. you're not touching the skin of the birds that drowned in oil spills and the tadpoles that hatched into toxic rivers. the fish that will choke on the microplastics of your new jacket aren't born yet when you walk out of the shop. the material of the jacket is so abstract and your culpability is so obscure that you can believe what you are told: it is clean. you are clean. no harm, no foul.

but that's still not true.

[radicalgraff]

"The Trans agenda is an average life expectancy"

Sticker spotted in Kingston, NY

[goldenasirpa]

Yall sleeping on this Sam L. Jackson interview about trump lmfao.

[soapaipillas]

It’s your uncle, Sam.

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

[mutant-distraction]

Aerial Shot of an alligator gliding through the crystal-clear waters of the Everglades.

📷 Shelly Collins

[odddogblog]

He’s saying “it’s time for a walkie”

[indigosfindings]

netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

[indigosfindings]

character in a movie: buddy, i'm gonna tell you what i've got to do

netflix subtitles: i'll say what i must do

[indigosfindings]

character in a movie: *exhales*

netflix subtitles: (blows raspberry)

[indigosfindings]

character in a movie: ciao!

netflix subtitles: (in italian) bye!

[beemovieerotica]

*character in a movie: ciao!

netflix subtitles: (speaks foreign language)

[yourheartinyourmouth]

IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA

THIS IS ILLEGAL

REPORT THEM TO THE FCC

THEY HAVE A LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE TO RWPORT IT

ITS REQUIRED BY THE ADA THAT SUBTITLES EXACTLY MATCH THE DIALOGUE

i reported basically every Star Trek show on Paramount+ because the subtitles were all fucked up. they sent me auto emails to let me know they were working on it, and then a real life human being got in touch with me after they had fixed it, to ask if i was still experiencing the issue. they WILL do something, they are required by FEDERAL LAW to do something.

[starsdreaming]

I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD REPORT COMPANIES FOR THIS!!! YEESSSS

[atheoryofmind]

[brovgsd]

[itsuswatchingtheworld]