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Pet sick is so stressful T_T

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

tam--lin

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

#concrete action item

ownencyclopedia

☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)

#pre-Columbian Cinna Cat!?!?!?#art and embroidery

climbingthefloors

good god.

#figure skating

The fun thing about waiting for a new Red Velvet music video is if a man appears in the trailer, all the fans just smile knowingly and say, "Oh, he's going to die."

#Red Velvet #emotional support k pop girls #The minute we saw the song was called Surfin' Boy we knew the surfin' boy was toast

fawntastic

Well. If the shoe fish

#art and illustration

drtrinitysantos

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.

movementnudge

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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ruffboi-mags

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

creations-by-chaosfay

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

ashesinthewest

😳

Add in wrist exercises and 6+ hours of crochet time are back on the table.

michaelnordeman

Eurasian red squirrel/Sciurus vulgaris/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (30 July 2023).

literarymagpie

I don't know what Greenies puts in their pill pockets, but I'm glad for it.*

*Cinna's okay. Just a UTI. Which, at her age, nothing is *just*... but she's doing ok for now.

literarymagpie

SHE FIGURED OUT HOW PILL POCKETS WORKED FML

literarymagpie

You have to picture me following her around the apartment being like, "Would you like green eggs and ham?"

baoshan-sanren

#The Untamed

frankhermann

actually annoyed by long distance friends again. i want to go for a walk i want to get drinks i want to sit in the grass and write i want to go to the fucking store together

#T_______T

literarymagpie

I have a feeling I'm going to have to remove this whole subplot from my manuscript, but I'm leaving it in for now even though it's much more work and will make it harder to finish this damn project this year, because what if I can salvage it???

literarymagpie

No, I'm going to remove this whole subplot from my manuscript.

#REKT myself