just keep smiling

hi my name is vicki im 27 years old and from New Zealand.

[genericpuff]

Some Kore sketches to tide y'all over <3

[npr]

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images

[jessicalprice]

Using computer models, they found that the number of measles cases in these countries predicted the number of deaths from other infections two to three years later.

“We found measles predisposes children to all other infectious diseases for up to a few years,” Mina says.

And the virus seems to do it in a sneaky way.

Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.

VACCINATE. YOUR. DAMN. KIDS. 

[bravadopinfire]

Everyone please re-blog this. It’s very important.

@takashi0 You re-blogging things tends to get them spread far and wide. Please help us out on this one.

[fyeahgothicromance]

[quasi-normalcy]

Everyone's thinking "witch" but the owl was actually going as a cowboy.

[raphfish]

haven't seen anyone post those here so please look at the covert art for the new lp vinyls

[patproductions]

Thrawn is really out there collecting companion humans to explain his brilliant plans to

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

[goblinwithblankets]

Drinking spiders??!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.

And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.

[thecybird-deactivated20250228]

I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.

[kitstacean]

I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#WE HAVE SPIDERS IN AOTEAROA and they serve CUNT#im gonna steal ice cream from work this weekend and make spiders with it. i will steal the fizzy from work also#i fucking hate my boss 

Living your best life I see

[blatantescapism]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,

[rat-daddy]

ALSO this is NOT a south Australian thing only it is in EVERY state

[bugsnbites]

Which idiot said it was only south Australian?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Nobody said that. Read the post again.

[naamahdarling]

In the US they are a float unless made with root beer (possibly cola) and are then sometimes called a brown cow.

[hallowedlore]

this is targeted tumblr content

[koloocheh]

forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[koloocheh]

I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️

[luisonte]

Inventacos

[something-truly-evil]

me and my friends at the thingamabob and doohickey convention

[voidsentprinces]

Alisaie: You have NOTHING THEY WANT! They won't fight you just because you WANT TO BE FOUGHT! Zenos: ...I see...so I must needs provide them with a better reason to fight me. Alisaie: That's not what I-- Zenos: Hear me then, hero. And know by fighting me, I shall guarantee an increase in your glamour dresser slots, an additional retainer free of charge, a new glamour of separate pieces, free of gender AND dyable of course, and lastly, I may or not drop a mount or minion that you may collect. Jullus: JESUS IT THERES LIKE TWENTY OF US, HOW CAN WE NOT HOLD THEM DOWN!? Warrior of Light: *dragging an entire army of people as well as the Scions* Zenos: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AT LONG LAST! COME HERO! LET US SET THE STARS ABLAZE AND PERHAPS YOUR HOUSE INVENTORY SHALL INCREASE AFTER OUR BRAWL!

[kaijutegu]

Ever hear an Andean cock of the rock before? Probably not, or maybe you have and didn't realise it, because they sound quite a bit like a kookaburra!

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Kookaburra laugh: just absolutely losing it at some silly nonsense

Cock of the rock laugh: you are about to die to an Evil Scientist Device

[reikacchan]

don't give up

[mornington-the-crescent]

[princessnijireiki]

https://twitter.com/archeometrie/status/1170031822614474752?s=12

[edderkopper]

Classic rock

[why-bless-your-heart]

BTW I saw this and immediately thought “what if that’s what Stonehenge was for” and then I looked it up and apparently it’s an actual theory that holds up, they sound like massive dull bells that carry for a few miles.

[mabeltanaka]

George of the Jungle (1997)

[angel-starbeam]

[emwheezie]

Happy black cat day!!

Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Do your dinos do this to you?

All six, in fact

[mochisquish]

Thank you, Snoop Logg...