i am no longer trying

28. now / my snake is my literal child / american midwest

[mpaglamas-deactivated20250505]

“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

Mao Tse-Tung

[futw]

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) dir. Rose Glass

[87sukiyaki]

[vewn]

Panic sell everything now

[tumblerculosis]

I’ve been obsessed with this tiktok for days now

[coffeedcait]

Person: "Hello sir." he pets the frog with one finger.

Person: "Have a good day. Actually wait a minute. You missed a bug, but I got you home boy. Hold on." he picks a bug up and throws it next to the frog.

Frog: turns around and eats the bug.

Person: "OHHHHH-" sings high pitched and angelic like he witnessed a miracle.

[scienceyoucanlove-deactivated20]

As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”

read more from A Mighty Girl

[thejunglenook]

Reasons you should adore Elizabeth Holmes:

She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.

Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)

She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)

Her fear of needles served as a motivator for launching Theranos. (x)

[magnetic-deflection]

i love this post so much. i wonder how shes doing

[doshmanziari]

Can't even remember at this point what's been shared and what hasn't, but -- whatever. Some photos of Dark Souls 2 on a CRT TV. Most of these are probably from 2018. As expressed before, I feel these form a far better aesthetic argument for a "demake" of the game than all of the fan modding projects focusing on lighting effects or texture packs.

[nobrashfestivity]

John Singer Sargent The Black Brook 1908

[engygeron]

[coachplayer]

[yamuiro]

Essentia

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

for day 9 of daily reading of toxic yuri vn jam submissions: "Lingering Taste of Oil" by indecisiv on itch; this vn follows mechanic yejin who is NOT turned on by the brutalized sex robot & does NOT spend a week straight of having sex with the brutalized sex robot; they:re a professional!

the first entry to have a gameplay element and multiple endings; i like plain jane kinetic VNs with no choices, no thinking, but i had fun with it

[twotheleft]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[homoidiotic]

Nino: Trans Joy! Feral Magazine, Cape Town, 2024 by Steve Marais

“A raw, documentary-style interview and photo essay detailing the life of a black trans man in South Africa. The interview with Nino covers his entire journey: being kicked out of his home, experiencing homelessness, working on the docks, navigating the healthcare system for his transition, and becoming an accidental social media activist.” Ayanda Nino’s instagram

[pmamtraveller]

Alexander McQueen Anemone Print dress

[theegoist]

R. B. Kitaj (American, 1932-2007) - Crosses, oil on canvas, 91.00 x 91.00 cm (1962)