Anne. 38. Nerd, scientist, teacher. She/her. Many loves: MCR, The Expanse, The Old Guard, Black Sails, Winchesters, Sense8, TVD, Buffy, SGA, The Martian, etc... Sidebar gif by dinasbracelet (Joe/Nicky).
there's something really fun about how like. according to all Sources i have found many sailors abandoned the royal navy for piracy because the navy was so hierarchical and the officers were given so much power and piracy was the more egalitarian and democratic option. but flint comes from the navy as someone who managed to work his way up to officer and as someone who seems to prefer to function inside those rigid structures, or at least to be most at home there. so even as he is ostensibly fighting for the greater egalitarianism of the pirate world and of progressive values in general it's just not something that he personally is able to value. he doesn't have a democratic bone in his body. he went to the pirate republic talking about kings and wanting to quite literally run it like the navy and tried to fight for that pirate republic while acting like his word was law and every democratic proceeding was an annoying hinderance to his dictatorial rule. it's so good. i like him
#yessss. i have written a few mini essays about this in the tags of posts but#this is one of my favorite things about flint. and it's so interesting to see toby stephens reference coriolanus#where being a great commander does not make you a great politician. and that is exactly flint's deal#he has that whole speech in s1 about how the crew needs certainty. and with the way he runs his crew he's absolutely right#he is such a brilliant commander and that let him rise thru the ranks despite not being a lord#and now he's stuck in nassau and he's making a lot of calls that are correct but now he needs consensus to do things#and you can see it drive him mad. bc he's really fucking smart. he knows what to do he just needs the crew#to listen to him instead of needing to lead them to the right decision. this is why flint always needs a partner#he needs someone to bridge the gap between him and the crew. to get them to listen to him so he can do his thing#his frustration with everyone being so many steps behind him brings so much friction to s1 and 2 especially. and it slaps
I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)
if you didn't watch the cabo verde v argentina game holy shit you missed out. it was intense. it was peak television. a first-time team from a tiny country came within a hair (3-2) of dethroning the reigning champions. their 40-year-old goalie had messi looking like he was having a panic attack. it was fucking brilliant. i need a cabo verde jersey now.
so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias
1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)
2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.
3. Why does a random guy in Texas have a herd of giraffes? Because it's Texas and we have basically no exotic animal regulations. No really. If you have enough land out in the hill country, you can just own stuff. It's fuckin nuts.
☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.
Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.
One of the things I've struggled to explain to my friends back in the States is how much of a difference being in the sun vs shade makes. Like, yes, we all know the shade is cooler than the sun; I grew up in Maryland and lived in North Carolina and Georgia, places where the air is hot soup for many months of the year, and you sit in the shade. It's cooler. To keep your rooms from becoming a greenhouse, you block out the sun. This is understood!
But here? In northern Germany? It feels like a literal 10-15 (Fahrenheit)-degree difference in temperature when you walk into the shadow of a tree or when the sun goes behind a cloud for a few minutes. The north side of my building is COLD until mid afternoon when the sun finally hits it. I've gone from "comfortable in a t-shirt" to "I wish I had a sweater" in the span of 5 minutes because of the presence of the sun.
Also the second paragraph? Yeahhhhh, I couldn't open my windows last night until 8 pm because it was still warmer outside than in (and the sun was still up, but on the other side of my building). I had to close them before 8 this morning because the sun was already in my window and heating up my apartment. (It's currently 27C inside. With the windows closed and as much sun blocked as I can, because my building doesn't have those awesome rolling shutters.)
For millions of people managing type 2 diabetes, mornings begin the same way — a needle, a dose, and a quiet mental note to do it all again
"For millions of people managing type 2 diabetes, mornings begin the same way — a needle, a dose, and a quiet mental note to do it all again tomorrow.
That routine just changed.
On March 26, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Awiqli (insulin icodec-abae), developed by Novo Nordisk, as the first and only once-weekly basal insulin ever approved for adults with type 2 diabetes in the United States.
This is not a minor update to an existing drug.
It is the first entirely new class of basal insulin to reach U.S. patients in more than two decades.
Instead of injecting insulin every single day, people with type 2 diabetes using Awiqli will only need one shot per week, on the same day, every week.
That means reducing from 365 injections a year down to just 52.
For anyone who has ever felt the weight of that daily ritual — the anxiety of forgetting, the physical discomfort, the constant reminder that their body needs help — this approval represents something much bigger than a dosing schedule.
It represents relief.
How the Drug Actually Works
Understanding why this injection lasts a full week requires a quick look inside the body.
Most traditional basal insulins are absorbed into the bloodstream and begin breaking down within 24 hours, which is why patients need a fresh dose every day to maintain stable blood sugar levels.
Awiqli works differently.
Its active ingredient, insulin icodec-abae, is engineered to loosely attach to a blood protein called albumin, which is found naturally and abundantly in the bloodstream.
This attachment creates a slow-release reservoir.
Instead of flooding the system and fading fast, the insulin releases gradually and consistently over an entire seven-day period, keeping blood sugar in a healthy range around the clock...
The FDA reviewed and ultimately declined to approve it for people with type 1 diabetes, citing concerns about a modestly increased risk of hypoglycemia in that population specifically.
Some regulatory agencies in other countries, including the European Union, Canada, Australia, and Japan, have approved Awiqli for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but for now the U.S. approval is limited to type 2...
What Comes Next
Awiqli is not standing alone in this space for long.
Eli Lilly is developing its own once-weekly basal insulin, called efsitora alfa, which is currently in late-stage clinical trials.
If that drug also earns FDA approval, it would give patients and doctors two once-weekly options to choose from, allowing for personalized decisions based on a patient’s health profile, insurance coverage, and individual response.
The broader direction of travel in diabetes care is unmistakable.
Fewer injections, smarter formulations, and better integration with digital tools like continuous glucose monitors and insulin-tracking apps are all converging toward a future where managing diabetes requires less daily mental effort without becoming any less medically precise...
A Small Shot With Large Implications
It is easy to look at a once-weekly injection and see only a scheduling change.
But the science behind Awiqli, the scale of the ONWARDS trials, and the consistent satisfaction reported by patients all point toward something that matters far more than convenience.
Diabetes management has always asked a lot of people.
It asks for daily vigilance, daily discipline, and a daily willingness to confront one’s own condition, sometimes in uncomfortable or inconvenient circumstances.
Anything that reduces that load, without reducing the quality of care, is worth taking seriously.
For the more than 37 million Americans living with diabetes, and the hundreds of millions more around the world, a simpler weekly routine could mean the difference between a treatment plan that works on paper and one that actually works in a person’s life.
That is the real significance of what the FDA approved on March 26, 2026.
Not just a new drug.
A new way of keeping people healthy, one week at a time."
I love it when the Buffy writers give characters painfully ironic names. Glory for a god who's fallen from grace and no longer has the status she's used to. Harmony for a mean girl who constantly judges others. Faith for a girl who no longer trusts anyone on Earth let alone any kind of higher power. Dawn for a girl whose beginnings turned out to be completely false. Scott Hope for a character who makes me feel nothing but despair anytime he shows up. Really incredible stuff.
they’re having an auction of ALA “Read” posters and I need everyone to get in on this:
SIGNED Spike Lee? the iconic Nicolas Cage one? Xena and Gabrielle? the one that just says “SEX”? LeVar Burton?? and there’s so much more on the site like Fabio and a signed one with Mikhail Baryshnikov and one with Brandy, etc., etc. I wish I had money to drop on this
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