Hey

I'm a 31 year old Oregonian in California. She/her working on being a better person. I try to be the best intersectional feminist I can be. As long as everybody is an adult and consents I don't care what or who you do with your genitals. I don't even care what genitals you might have, you are whatever you are. Pro-choice, prophilactic, pro-education, and support after birth care for families that WANT to be families. My cat is older than some people on this site.

[thebibliosphere]

My neck subluxated while on a video call with my therapist, and her reaction was akin to when the child's head starts spinning in The Exorcist.

She went white as a sheet. I saw her pupils contract.

And there was me muttering "mother fucker" under my breath and slotting my neck back into place like a mild inconveinance.

It's wild the shit you get used to.

[thisusernameisunique]

Is subluxation just a fancy word for internal decapitation

You just... plopped your head back on your neck

[thebibliosphere]

Subluxation is a partial dislocation, not total. Decapitation implies things are being severed, which isn’t the case. Just crushed and pinched.

My cervical vertebrae slips out of place and my skull crunches a bunch of nerves. It’s why I have so much chronic and debilitating nerve pain in my face and head.

Which brings us to our regularly scheduled reminder: Don’t let chiropractors touch your neck. You might die or be left with severe injuries that make you wish you were dead.

[dduane]

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

[dduane]

And one thought in passing: those of you who followed him for his Caturday posts, please make tomorrow special in his memory by tagging them #GNU Peter Morwood. I don't know if he had anything already queued up: he often didn't do that until quite late on Friday nights. But there will be no more of those...

[correctopinionhaver]

[thebibliosphere]

oh right i should ask the local Tumblr "knows why bodies do weird things" person about this :P

you wouldn't happen to know why my skin will sometimes go pale white (like lose the red undertone) and then develop leopard spot style red splotches? usually when I'm nauseous or getting near to passing out either from pain or a panic attack. I've talked to doctors before about it and they've just went "┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌" in the past

There are quite a few things that can cause mottled skin—dysautonomia is one of them, but have you ever heard of Raynaud’s syndrome?

[cinamun]

What a time to be alive.

Happy Black History Month to all and to all a good night ❤️🖤💚

[nudityandnerdery]

Thiiiiiis is what journalism is supposed to be. The media shrugs at GOP hypocrisy every fucking day, good for this reporter for calling it out instead.

[locura-azul]

[creepyscritches]

Trying to cause an asthma attack at my family's gift exchange. The gobbler. I made 3 of these bitches.

[casually-dancing-fairy]

I need 10.

[texasbama]

BEYONCÉ | 2025 Grammy Awards Best Country Duo/Group Performance, Best Country Album and Album of the Year

[zmpl]

Can I Please Eat In The Computer Room Tonight? by Nicole Nikolich (2025)

[escuerzoresucitado]

[typhus-andronicus]

[slorty]

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

[silver-tongues-blog]

skill issue. i understand it completely

[celestial-fang]

Why can’t real life cities be 10 mile tall gothic metropolises with red and black and skulls and statues of weeping saints everywhere

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Can confirm

Also this works surprisingly well with the "Gotham is Chicago while Metropolis is NYC" theory (though isn't Gotham canonically in southern New Jersey?)

[kaijutegu]

come to chicago we have:

the council of owls (on the library downtown)

carbon and carbide

goth target

wayne enterprises

you can study here but it's at u chicago so. not worth it, probably.

our normal streets

the shadow realm (lower wacker)

the forbidden zone (lower lower wacker)

public art with threatening auras

one of our many fine gothic revival apartment buildings (i picked this on bc it's red and black)

newspaper building and chewing gum building

i could go on but you get the point, yeah? chicago's got some incredible broody architecture. we're lucky to live here.

[socialistexan]

Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Siletz Tribe Receives Major Grant to Aid Tribes in Returning Sea Otters to Oregon and Northern California  - Elakha Alliance

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Press ReleaseJanuary 21st, 2025 Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz I

This is HUGE news! Sea otters have been absent from Oregon shorelines for more than a century due to overhunting for fur. While Washington and California have healthy populations, Oregon hasn't seen any new otters move in, other than the occasional transient. This is due largely to the fact that they are not normally migratory animals, and so are more likely to stick around relatively close to their birthplaces. Since all the sea otters of Oregon were exterminated to make coats and other fur products, there was no remaining population to rebuild locally.

However, reintroduction could make a difference by deliberately relocating sea otters from other areas to Oregon, particularly in places that have lots of food for them, like sea urchins. This grant would fund research in finding the best places to reintroduce them and the best existing populations to draw from, among other tasks that need to be addressed before the otters can meet their new homes.

This grant is an incredibly important move forward in returning this keystone species to a part of its native range. Bringing back sea otters would vastly improve the health of kelp forests in the ocean, which are currently being decimated by an overpopulation of sea urchins. In turn, healthier kelp forests means better marine biodiversity offering more food and shelter for a wider range of species, giving them more resilience in the years to come.

[liminalweirdo]

Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections

The peptide, which is a short chain of amino acids, has shown effectiveness in experiments involving various coronavirus strains.

[magz]

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Article Title: "Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections" (The Japan Times)

Article Date: January 23, 2025

Main Highlights:

Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University said that they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections. [...]

The peptide comprises 39 natural amino acids, and it is inexpensive and easily synthesized," Institute of Science Tokyo Distinguished Professor Yoshinori Fujiyoshi said. "It only binds to spike proteins, so it can be considered to have no side effects."

The peptide can be stored in powder form at room temperature and be administered to patients through inhalation by dissolving it in physiological saline and converting it into a fine spray using a nebulizer. [...]

The peptide can in theory deal with any mutant strain, as the main chain of spike proteins that bind with ACE2 remains unchanged even if spike proteins themselves mutate. [...]

Researchers are working to develop a peptide with a similar function to prevent influenza infections, as the flu virus also uses a spike protein, called hemagglutinin.

[dancinbutterfly]

GIVE IT TO ME! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!

[brightlotusmoon]

Me with a special interest in peptides:

[peach-foxgloves]

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

[lavender-lily]

oh thank GOD

[andypantsx3]

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[baddywronglegs]

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

[madlori]

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

[thecommunalfoolboy]

Never trust an asexual who says “for fuck’s sake.” They do not hold stock in the sake of the fuck they are lying and manipulating you