Lost Vegas

Mostly inactive, currently. I sometimes post but I usually private them shortly thereafter. Artist in theory, posts bullshit in practice. 26 || they / he

[l0stvegas]

I feel like I probably post so infrequently on this acct nowadays that when I do half my audience is probably like “wait who the hell are you again” lmao whoops

[l0stvegas]

Coming out of my hibernation yet again to ask my fellow artists here who sell prints what they think of Inprnt currently.

I remember a while ago they were having issues with paying out artists and I’m curious if that’s been rectified at all. I and another artist I know of are currently looking into POD options and that seems to be the most popular.

(I’m fed up with Redbubble and their exorbitant fees lmao)

[klapollo]

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

[klapollo]

Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.

[borrelia]

also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!

[gourde]

Another note: YOU CAN'T WASH IT OFF!

Only high temperatures will kill cyclospora. It resides in what is like a shell, which is highly resistant to water and most cleaning chemicals. The substance it uses to cling to food is so strong we don't even fully know what its limits are. It may be best to avoid fruits and veggies you can't cook. Scrubbing only works if done hard enough and on foods with no hiding places (Like cucumbers and grapes). Peeling the skin off is your best bet at avoiding it however, scrubbing is not guaranteed.

Thank you OP for posting! Usually washing does work on most sicknesses, just not this one.

[l0stvegas]

Hey y’all a friend of mine has had storms ravaging their area and it knocked out the power + made all the food in their fridge spoil. They’re pregnant, their partner is between paychecks and they have a young child that needs food to eat. Please consider lending a hand so they can replace their groceries.

They make their income from art freelance work and the storms have impacted their ability to do digital art so the past couple weeks have been financially difficult for them in general from that as well.

Please consider lending a hand via ko fi (takes PayPal and debit/credit card) if you can!

(Sorry I don’t post much anymore/am coming back just to try and help someone fundraise, but if you like me and my art please consider helping someone I consider a pal!)

Buy ponycide a Coffee

Kair’s virtual gallery and tip jar via Ko-fi

[l0stvegas]

There haven’t been any more donations since I posted this and it’s becoming urgent, please consider helping!

[l0stvegas]

Hey y’all a friend of mine has had storms ravaging their area and it knocked out the power + made all the food in their fridge spoil. They’re pregnant, their partner is between paychecks and they have a young child that needs food to eat. Please consider lending a hand so they can replace their groceries.

They make their income from art freelance work and the storms have impacted their ability to do digital art so the past couple weeks have been financially difficult for them in general from that as well.

Please consider lending a hand via ko fi (takes PayPal and debit/credit card) if you can!

(Sorry I don’t post much anymore/am coming back just to try and help someone fundraise, but if you like me and my art please consider helping someone I consider a pal!)

Buy ponycide a Coffee

Kair’s virtual gallery and tip jar via Ko-fi

[l0stvegas]

Hey y’all a friend of mine has had storms ravaging their area and it knocked out the power + made all the food in their fridge spoil. They’re pregnant, their partner is between paychecks and they have a young child that needs food to eat. Please consider lending a hand so they can replace their groceries.

They make their income from art freelance work and the storms have impacted their ability to do digital art so the past couple weeks have been financially difficult for them in general from that as well.

Please consider lending a hand via ko fi (takes PayPal and debit/credit card) if you can!

(Sorry I don’t post much anymore/am coming back just to try and help someone fundraise, but if you like me and my art please consider helping someone I consider a pal!)

Buy ponycide a Coffee

Kair’s virtual gallery and tip jar via Ko-fi

[l0stvegas]

Some time ago (I think in 2021) I had to go see a neurologist over really scary symptoms that resembled seizures. I was a nervous wreck about what I was feeling and had barely slept all week, which seemed to be apparent to the doc’s assistant when I sat down in the exam room for questioning or whatever. Dude was pretty young and soft spoken, around my age. He was laser focused doing something on one of those tablet-laptop Surface things as I spoke, presumably writing down my symptoms.

Midway through talking about my symptoms my voice audibly started shaking as I was describing them, clearly upset.

In the middle of my monologue he turns the tablet to face me, closes whatever program he has open and the wallpaper is this fucking collage of pictures of lord farquaad from shrek, lovingly decorated. Dude just sat there placidly smiling at me until I noticed and stopped dead in the middle of a sentence. We sat there in silence like this for like a solid minute before I started wheezing laughing. Before I could even say anything else or process it he picked up the tablet and wordlessly left the room, and I just sat there dumbfounded until the doctor showed up. 10/10 doctor experience tbh

I didn’t own a cell phone at the time to get a photo so this rendition from memory is all I can provide you

[snow-nose]

ID: a digital drawing of a man in scrubs sitting on a wheeled stool, serenely smiling with his elbow on a rolling cart, where a tablet is flipped open to show an approximation of the Lord Farquaad screensaver. end ID

[enigma-absolute]

[l0stvegas]

Reblogging this bc it’s making rounds again

[l0stvegas]

Hey y’all a friend of mine has had storms ravaging their area and it knocked out the power + made all the food in their fridge spoil. They’re pregnant, their partner is between paychecks and they have a young child that needs food to eat. Please consider lending a hand so they can replace their groceries.

They make their income from art freelance work and the storms have impacted their ability to do digital art so the past couple weeks have been financially difficult for them in general from that as well.

Please consider lending a hand via ko fi (takes PayPal and debit/credit card) if you can!

(Sorry I don’t post much anymore/am coming back just to try and help someone fundraise, but if you like me and my art please consider helping someone I consider a pal!)

Buy ponycide a Coffee

Kair’s virtual gallery and tip jar via Ko-fi

[l0stvegas]

(Potential spoilers in the replies, but please try to avoid them)

I never log onto this account anymore but felt like saying that, for the record, I did indeed watch the backrooms and boy do I have… thoughts lmao. What did everyone here think about it?

[existennialmemes]

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

10/10 post bringing it back for 2026

[l0stvegas]

I wonder if there’s a service that exists where you can feed your writing into it and it scans the words used for the date they were first documented to be used, to make sure you’re not using anachronistic words in historical / period story dialog

If this doesn’t exist, it really should. I’m sure programming something like this would probably be a massive undertaking but it would be an indispensable resource for me

[l0stvegas]

Did you deleted all of your posts except for the last 4?

Sort of— they’re not deleted deleted, just privated for now because I was debating making a new art account, I might change my mind and un-private them at some point. I’m not sure yet.

[l0stvegas]

Still trying to figure out what I wanna do with this whole side of my internet presence, thanks for bearing with me while I’m being indecisive abt this acct

[l0stvegas]

I don’t smoke but I accidentally just mistyped coffee as covfefe and the sight of my typo immediately made me want to set my phone down and go outside to take a drag

[l0stvegas]

hey PSA with this round of Epstein files stuff please don’t tag me in photos of it making black square jokes about the monoliths again, it was kinda rough for me mentally last time

I tried to play along with peoples jokes last time so people would stop tagging me but I honestly really regret doing so and found it an insensitive choice that didn’t ultimately sit well with my personal morals

thanks in advance for understanding

[l0stvegas]

last time around I think my train of thought was more a general “mocking the absurdity of the political climate” kind of thing but I’ve reached an event horizon where no amount of joking helps me process the current state of affairs in America rn and what vulnerable people are being subjected to anymore. I’m like past the point of comedy doing anything for me even as a survivor of abuse and if I feel like this in *my* position I don’t have business making any light of it knowing there’s people going through infinitely worse due to this administration, or already have and are now no longer able to share their stories