[herpsandbirds]

GET ABSOLUTELY SHRIMPED!!!

[anxietyproblem]

[friendraichu]

NBC News: Outbreaks of rabies rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance suggests

'They would never have known:' New warnings about rabies outbreaks as cases rise in the U.S.

The CDC's rabies team says it's tracking 15 different likely outbreaks from New York to Oregon.

"As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs — and their owners — becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism."

jesus christ are people stupid about vaccines. you think your dog can get autism??? so you'd rather risk it dying from rabies?????

[ralfmaximus]

Every pet owner who hesitates about vaccines should be forced to watch video of late-stage rabies infection.

And then they should be told that instead of a rabid skunk or raccoon, that shaking drooling creature in such obvious distress could be a human child instead. Or even YOU! Because you failed to get your dog vaccinated.

Because I'm pretty sure these chuckleheads don't understand rabies, think it's overblown, and that it's probably just like chicken pox or measles.

[misanthropemom]

Yeah like measles is not a bad thing. Just a fucking cough right? Not that it could survive outside a host for hours suspended in the air and completely strip your body of any immunity that it might have and I don't know cause a fetus to become blind or deaf. Totally not a threat that anyone needs to give a shit about at all.

Jesus Christ we are in the worst timeline ever

[theriverbeyond]

why don't you do arts and crafts for 5 hours and then you'll calm down

[thezombiegeekinthehawaiianshirt]

[giant-bear-cat]

Hehua and her apples.

[virgosenterlude]

“Scent” by Kior_____ on twitter

[karlovycross]

Happy New Year 🍎

[haaarpb]

she rolled.

[shacklefunk-deactivated20220623]

yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out

but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53

but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone

there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow

[talkgentlytome]

This is the most comforting, warm and important piece of text I have ever read, and it is so true. No life is wasted that is spent sharing and loving.

[jehanneargentee]

My mother never became a professional artist. She became a social worker, then later taught emotionally disturbed children. But our home was filled with photographs of wildflowers and wildlife. Spice racks, shelves, and other useful objects were adorned with small paintings. She taught me and my sister that we could make things beautiful, even if in small ways, and let us glue glitter and fake gems on our cheap kids furniture and make it ours. Capitalism tries to say that art isn’t successful unless it makes money. But that’s not why humans make art. We make art to convey emotion. To make an object or a moment or a story OURS. And making someone smile when they hear you sing, or look at something you made for them is as valid a reason for creating as any other.

[infinitemachine]

“Capitalism tries to say that art isn’t successful unless it makes money. But that’s not why humans make art.”

[rzmryn-deactivated20240214]

Marcel Mariën, Star Dancer, 1991

[archivegeo-deactivated20260222]

got a major pest problem this year actually

[chap1579]

[tyger-land]

ᴇᴢʀᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴀᴛs Artwork from his 1962 book The Snowy Day.

[zegalba]

Yoshitaka Amano: the girl with wings (1994)

[ryebreadgf]

’cold showers are actually much better for you’ I don’t care if they gave me the power to manipulate time. you can pry scorching hot showers out of my dead hands. and even if I got time manipulation powers I would just use them to take more hot showers. btw

[danielcalmdown]

the news presenter is weird today