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Mimi. 30s. Disgruntled PhD student. Icon by @ummmmandy

[squipdop]

every single fucking thing on earth exists solely to put a dent in your newly applied nail polish

[santanass]

"she's bad as fuck? is she able to improve?" has not left my brain for days

[duckdotcom]

You're a boy? Like backstreet?

[nyantara]

someone whose never lived anywhere where malaria / dengue / chikingunya is endemic: we need to love mosquitoes more!!! they're so important to the ecosystem you just need to get over those massive death tolls, the only disease that really needs to be cured is cancer

[nyantara]

i know its mostly contrarianism, but the rates at which mosquitoes breed in major cities in the tropics is just as destabilising to local ecosystems lol. surprisingly, every shallow pond, sewer and garden in new delhi was not meant to breed mosquitoes.

[nyantara]

to the people in my notes, no the problem with the vaccine against malaria is that it isn't very effective. its about 40% effective and reduces mortality only by 13%. there is basically no treatment for the viral illnesses like dengue or chikingunya. the widely agreed upon option is controlling the spread of the pathogen by its vector. these illnesses lead to about 600k deaths in 2023.

aedes aegypti the specific species that spreads about 53 pathogens is invasive outside north africa. the cutting edge of eradication efforts trialled in brazil is releasing genetically modified male mosquitoes (only the female bites) which self limits the population since their offspring can't survive to adulthood. similar trials for female sterility have been trialled with the malaria causing anopheles genus. these methods have neither the downsides of mass poisoning that insectides do, nor the widespread insectide resistance that mosquitoes eventually develop.

[jingle-knight]

I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[halfwar-halfpeace]

[feluka]

[Image ID: A screenshot of a tweet by Mohammed El-Kurd (@/m7mdkurd) that reads: "What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It's infuriating that we're pretending that there's a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel's endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land." /End ID.]

[sergal]

everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters

[tlirsgender]

I'm not immune to nostalgia for 2010s liberalism a la "this used to be the sjw website" but honestly ...... as much as the overton window has shifted into hell. What with the fascism. It did always kinda suck though didn't it

[tlirsgender]

We Are having such an insane wave of antifeminism in otherwise lefty queer progressive type spaces but it's easy to forget what we used to have was, like. Pussy hats

[tlirsgender]

That being said we did have Black people here before tumblr exploded their blogs. Women, even. And we had sex workers, too. Tumblr's political climate getting Worse can be pretty clearly traced to nuking all the Black women (2016) and sex workers (2018) and trans women (Right Now)

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[kittiescatlover]

Kitties dont relly have Breeds like doggies do but they have special types like Weird Baby, Angry Head, Sleeper Fatty, Yappy Meower, Orange, Sweetie Playful, and The Creep. If you collect them all, well. You will probably have too many kitties.

[b0nkcreat]

you can collect them like pokeymans

[ayeforscotland]

Protests against Kushner-linked resort in Albania enter second day

Environmental NGOs have long raised concerns that the project could threaten the area's biodiversity and disrupt bird migration routes. #Eur

All the support to the people of Albania fighting against their government allowing Kushner to purchase protected land.

[soymoss]

starling

[shouty-y]

Countess & Lady Kilmartin 🌹- Prints

[leighlew3]

[autisticcodex]

Happy pride month.

[fa3ryb0t]

do you mind if i witness ur tumblr situationship from a third party point of view?

[kimmariesembroidery]

These are patterns from Finnish embroidery.  It is typically referred to as “Käspaikka”  It is a technique also popular in the Karelian region of northern Russia.  It is always done in red thread on a white background.  As you can see the concept is quite simple - it is just a typical running stitch where you skip every other bit and then double back to pick those bits up.  It is basically the red version of blackwork.  The symbols are typically folk motifs.