Roberts Island

Ellen. 31. Queer. Zone 6b. Spends a lot of time thinking about plants and cooking. TERFS/Nazis/tradwives not welcome here

[herpsandbirds]

Vernal Fairy Shrimp (Eubranchipus vernalis), family Chirocephalidae, order Anostraca, NE US

note the egg sacs, full of eggs.

photographs by Twan Leenders

[storm-of-feathers]

a severe thunderstorm warning that doesnt follow through is worse than orgasm denial

[dogglegog]

dominant things you can say during sex

i didnt hear what you said

hold on i need to blow my nose

wow

i feel kind of nauseous

is this anything

i don't know

this kind of reminds me of that one song

we can probably ignore that noise if you want to

why is my sock wet

it smells bad in here

that was weird

where are my glasses

ow

this is normal

sorry

just 2 chill people chilling

this is cool

can you say that again

are we good

youre actually naked

[weredragon-broodmother]

girls is bugs

[roberts-island]

Planted my radishes way too late but at least I got these two and they are SPICY. Not sure what variety but maybe Cherry Belle? Bea gets the greens. It’s been hotter than I’ve ever experienced this week but we finally got a thunderstorm and some rain this evening

[creatingblackcharacters]

We're watching clips on cheetahs, and Mr. CBC made a good point that there's a Black South African talking about the cheetahs, and how we never get to see that. And it made me wonder... Yeah, actually. We almost never get to see all the African conservationists and animal caregivers that put in all the work with the big cats and animals in these Savanna documentaries. They're usually just narrated by some British person.

[paulcirigliano]

[beardedmrbean]

[seabeck]

I don’t know about kink at pride but you know where there shouldn’t be kink? my fucking hoses

[proteusolm]

The Ojibwe nailed it. Wawa is exactly the right name for a goose.

[rimonoroni2]

i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

[rimonoroni2]

basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……

[kittydesade]

There’s a WHAT.

For WHAT.

[sweetdreamspootypie]

It's been amazing!

My ward is the respiratory ward - CF is one of the things we specialize in.

Since this med came out we haven't had a SINGLE CF admission to the ward

There used to always be a CF patient spending a couple of months with us at a time

There's a man who is 23 years old who I was sure would not survive his next admission (aim saturations 85% is end stage lung disease)

There's a set of the local frequent flyers that we all know so well

Except

No we don't

On the CF specialist ward (with reasonable staff turnover)

Half the staff have probably never even seen a CF patient

They are going to live

[anartificialsatellite]

For the people asking "well how do we know people are living that long if it's so new????" Here's a page from the CF foundation about life expectancy.

Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.

But the fact remains that the odds are better now than they have ever ever been before, by leaps and bounds. It isn't cured, and many patients still need significant treatment in addition to Trikafta, but it is so much better than anyone could have dreamed of twenty years ago, and that is a triumph.

[kittyoverlord]

Yes! My sister has a serious form of cf and finally is living a more comfortable and active life. She was also part of many of the clinical trials leading to these breakthroughs due to the nature of her cf. It's been very exciting to see.

[64mpg]

it has always been a dream of mine to relax

[smsomah]

Cree; Saskatchewan, Canada, around 1930. Paul Coze

[grendel-menz]

life is very personal

[middlering]

My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

[polarcell]

for the reverse, take this image of Tove Jansson about to murder the moomin characters

[househunting]

$547,000/3 br/1 ba

New Ipswich, NH

Built in 1790

[shinraalpha]

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