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okay, so today has been an absolute wild ride, but I wanted to make a post and share what’s happened with everyone here, because it’s kind of a big thing.

I went out with my mother this morning to get some Necessities from the store. on the way back to the house, we found one of the outdoor stray cat’s we’ve been feeding, Dahlia, on the side of the road. she’d been hit by a car and hadn’t made it.

as heartbroken as we were, there was a bigger issue.

four days ago, Dahlia had a litter of kittens in the stormage ditch just off the side of our property.

pictured below, the ditch

it’s about twenty inches around, and twenty foot long. the far end of the tunnel is crushed and inaccessible. the kittens? fifteen foot into the tunnel.

below is a series of pictures of me, crawling into said tunnel.

second post with the rest of the story to come.

abalonetea

below is a picture my mother took from the outside of the tunnel.

this is right before I went in so deep, the flashlight couldn’t make me out.

there were six kittens in total. unfortunately, due to the confined space of the tunnel, and how the kittens were hunkered, I could only get them out one at a time.

it took me almost a full two hours of army crawling in, and then army crawling backwards out of the tunnel, to collect all of the kittens.

all six kittens, safe and accounted for!

they’re four days old, and presently don’t have eyes or ears open.

third and final addition to come!

magykaldealings-deactivated2022

I’m glad you saved them but crawling into that tunnel looks terrifying

abalonetea

it absolutely was terrifying. I went in so deep, my mom couldn’t see me even with the flashlight. those kittens were not easy to reach!

we couldn’t stand the thought of them just staying in there and starving, though, and i was the only one small enough to fit in the drain!

petermorwood

At a loss for words except:

Bravo, Katie! Bravo many times over!

dduane

This is amazing. !!!

redbeardace

Flattening The Curve

Tumblr has a feature hidden in their “Labs”, called “Reblog Graphs”. It’s a neat little thing that lets you see how influential you are, and also which blogs have large followings. It’s a great way to see why your post from three years ago is suddenly getting a thousand notes a day, too.

This is a graph of a couple hundred reblogs from a recent post somebody made.

The original post is the orange dot. I’m the purple dot one generation away. You can see how many people reblogged from me, but my following isn’t nearly as big as that large dot off to the right.

Only four people reblogged it from me, while that other person had a cluster of around a dozen. But you can see that my overall influence was greater. Their cluster died out quickly, while mine kept going and going.

You could say this post went viral.

That’s what I’m actually here to talk about today…

Let’s go back a slide and change the caption.

Now this isn’t a blog post we’re talking about, this is, say, a novel coronavirus that no one is immune to or something like that. Now we’re not talking about reblogs, we’re talking about infections.

I know this Patient Zero, they’re a friend of mine. We get together with another friend, whose sister works in a nursing home.

So now I’m infected. And so’s that other friend, whose sister works in the nursing home.

And I infect four other people.

It’s just a slight cough, and I feel silly for staying home over just a slight cough, so I go into work. Same goes for that sister who works in the nursing home.

It is week 1 of the pandemic.

It’s flu season, so none of my coworkers think twice about this fever and cough that they now have. Meanwhile, over at the nursing home, people start noticing that the flu is especially bad this year.

It is week 2 of the pandemic.

The nursing home realizes they have a huge problem. EMTs are taking several people to the hospital with trouble breathing every day. Two have died. And now Fire Station 27, the one near the nursing home, has several people who are sick.

Meanwhile, I’m feeling fine, and so are my coworkers who had the flu right after me.

And so on…

It is now week 9 of the pandemic.

Each of these circles represents another week in the spread of the virus, with more and more people infected. You can see that the nursing home and the fire station in the upper right were contained by week 3, because they quarantined and stopped it. That outbreak made the news. But what didn’t make the news were all the people in the lower left, the ones who continue to spread it to one or two, maybe three people. Once in a while, a large cluster flares up, but for the most part, it’s silent.

What you might not see is how much of this graph rolls back up to me and my actions.

Fully 2/3 of the reblogs cases are the product of my infection. If you take me out of the picture, it’s not just those four people I infected that don’t get it. It’s the 7 people they infected. And the people they infected. And the people they infected.

Without me, it is over in Week 5. My single infection in week 1 ended up causing this to run for another month. If I’d stayed home that day instead of reblogging going to the office, it would’ve made a huge difference. It doesn’t really matter who patient zero was, every person on this graph is essentially patient zero of their own outbreak.

This is why staying home when sick matters. This is why hand-washing matters. This is why social distancing matters. This is why schools are closed and why large companies are having people work from home and why March Madness is canceled.

Because just one infection matters.

ealasaidh

Important: asymptomatic carriers are a thing. Think Typhoid Mary. You might feel just fine but be infected. Between 25 and 50 percent of coronavirus cases are asymptomatic. That is a LOT, y'all.

This is why it turns out to be a good idea to wear a cloth mask in public (not the kind hospitals need, save those for hospitals). Not to keep you safe, but to keep other people safe in case you have it.

You could have COVID-19 and never run a fever, never have much of a cough. But if the pollen levels make you sneeze while you’re getting groceries and you aren’t wearing a mask? You could infect a lot of people.

We all need to act like we are infected, because we could be. And we need to act like everyone near us is infected, because some of them probably are.

ampervadasz

tell-the-stars-hello

this was cute until i realized the fish is probably trying to not get eaten

killhitleragain

A fish trying not to get eaten wouldn’t slow down when the “predator” slows down. It also wouldn’t constantly swim in a circle near the edge of the tank; It’d try hiding. Also a fish in a tank in a a public place that is constantly filled with people is not likely to see people as predators.

darkwingsnark

Animals, I think people tend to forget, also enjoy playing.

trollbait-moved-deactivated2020

Im sorry i cant fucking be her

cheaphalloweencostume

there is…. another juice

eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2

why are there so many words

totalariana

I’m such a fan of low soft lighting like turn off that room light and turn on a lamp bitch

gay-irl

notreewaits-deactivated20200806

Toddlers are so pure. She doesn’t understand that we help her with certain things because she’s little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.

pussysoupforthesoul-deactivated

i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no it’s ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldn’t budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol

taylorsblue-deactivated20220812

I tried to make a comic in 10 minutes. It shows.

commander-cullen-deactivated201

BETTER THAN EXPECTED

stridward

My salary is so shitty 😒

squidyword

have you tried the bbq ranch chicken salad from Wendy’s?

squidyword

OMG I THOUGHT THAT SAID SALAD

valtsv

*knife thrower throws their blades at me but i, a sword swallower, swallow them all perfectly*

valtsv

*eventually they run out of knives and i begin my first round of attack by spitting them back*

bisexuhellvevo

You fool, now they have more knives to throw

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

And so the cycle begins anew

julienbakr

harold, they’re lesbians

people are gay, steven

i’m a lesbian, carl

don’t be a transphobe, chad

we support the gays, david

i’m not jealous, flavio. i’m gay

spiderinthecupboard-deactivated

ah, the extended edition

exeggcute

any comparison between early 00s online youth culture and late 10s online youth culture is fundamentally incompatible as soon as you move beyond the similarities of "lol teens being cringey" or whatever because we are in a completely different media landscape these days. making heavily-edited cosplay tiktoks is nothing like curating a deviantart gallery full of anime blingees because the former is always, implicitly or explicitly, an attempt to cash in on internet fame while the latter was simply rooted in the deep twisted psyche of someone feasting on the dark side's cookies