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18+ They / them. Likes Darksiders, Sonic, The Witcher and Postal. Idk why more to say

[voidspark-shadowart]

Hi there! UwU

Slowly changing my blog over to watchful void :3 You can find me there <3

[watchfulvoid]

A gift to my friend, @deadly-kitten-design. They asked me to make them sticker designs of different DnD classes as cats, so here is series 1 all together ^w^

Image ID: 14 anthropomorphic cats dressed as various Dungeon and Dragon character classes handing out in a forest. The mountains can be seen in the distance, with two moons hanging in the sky.

[ahmedalresh]

Help me so I can cover my university expenses.

I’m vetted by association I’m ayoosh gaza brother

Help Ahmed pay for university and finish his degree

Hello, I'm Ahmed, 23 years old. I was studying computer science at the Islamic University in Gaza before the war. I aspired to build a brigh

Hello friends, I thank you very much for your continuous support, but right now I am in urgent need of you and your help. We are now in the holy month of Ramadan, which requires a lot of expenses, and there has been a significant rise in prices.

I also need to pursue my dream after losing everything. I need your support greatly—I need more than $1,500 to pay my university fees so I can receive my certificate and apply for scholarships.

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Therefore, I am in great need of your help. I support my family, and at the same time, I am trying to achieve myself and continue my education.

[dimonds456]

Tumblr hates trans women so REBLOG IF TRANS WOMEN ARE WELCOME HERE!! We love you!

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[megafaunatic]

see her fabulous

[just-otter-thoughts]

See her fabulous!

[gayteensupreme]

SEE HER FABULOUS!!!

[beemovieerotica]

the cognitive dissonance from people who want the products of modern medicine but get weird about animal research. like im sorry but this is necessary for the survival of the society we currently live in. and the scientists who work on these things are not evil cackling psychopaths. anyone you talk to in animal research has incredibly complex feelings about their work and incredibly complex relationships to the animals in their care. there are regulations and oversight and penalties in place to make the work as humane as possible and scientists are overwhelmingly the ones enforcing and advocating for better care.

[beemovieerotica]

@velvetdemon I'm doing a full reply because I want to give this question the time and space it deserves, and I really do appreciate your curiosity about this.

The short answer: It is deeply unethical. There are nowhere near enough willing patients in the world to be able to do this, and it would be criminal to put them through this.

The long answer: The one side of the equation you're focusing on is: how much of a drug is too much, to the point where it will cause negative side effects or even death? And this is crucial to know. But it's not just a matter of finding out the lethal dosage of a heart cholesterol medication, you need to know that it can actually lower the cholesterol of any living thing. There is no way to know this without giving it first to...a living thing.

But beyond this, I need to emphasize: The goal of a drug trial is to effectively cure people who are already suffering from disease, who are living on limited time.

Drug trials don't just happen on any member of the public, they need to happen specifically on people affected by the disease you're trying to treat. There is at any time a very limited and very marginalized population of the world affected by early onset, familial Parkinson's disease. Because you cannot ethically induce disease in a human being, you are working with, speaking with, and helping patients and their families who are hopeful and desperate for a cure.

If you were to jump straight to human trials from petri dishes, not knowing absolutely anything about how the drug functions in a living, breathing animal body, it would look like this:

We didn't know that minute quantities of the drug interact lethally with x, y, z medication that people are commonly also taking. X number of patients have died as a result.

We didn't know that the drug is fatal to people with [common variant] in their genetics. X more patients have died.

We didn't know the drug exacerbates x, y, z chronic illnesses. X number of people have acquired permanent, lifelong disabilities.

We didn't know the best way to deliver the drug, so we tried multiple ways: the people who received it intravenously are now suffering from a painful, costly, and debilitating condition that did not happen with the ingested form.

I could go on, and on, and on.

The vast majority of these problems can be nearly or almost entirely averted by testing other animals first.

These are all people who possibly could have waited for the normal progression from animal testing to human testing and thus received better outcomes. Some people will pass away in the time it takes to get to that point, and that's heartbreaking, and we all wish science could be faster.

But the cost of expediting science could mean a life of profoundly greater suffering or an even shorter life than the one where no intervention happens at all. And at that point, you have completely exhausted your trust, your goodwill, and your patients' hope, after you've failed to do anything or even worsened the lives of people who are already deeply suffering.

[manslaughter]

hi, i’m an animal research professional. making sure laboratory animals stay alive, healthy, and enriched has been my full-time job for several years now.

animal research is not the mad scientist wild west that PETA wants you to think it is. there are extremely strict federal laws in place to protect the well being of these animals. animal welfare organizations like AAALAC ensure that lab animals are treated with dignity & respect and are given enough specialized care & enrichment to be happy and content in captivity, just like AZA accreditation with zoos.

not a single animal from a zebrafish to a mouse to a dog to a macaque goes unaccounted for. if an animal gets moved to a new cage, paired for breeding, has a procedure performed on it, gives birth, gets sick or injured, dies, etc. it is legally required that this information is recorded and kept on file for the US federal government to access. failing to record & retain this information is very much punishable by US federal law.

let me tell you - if you abuse or kill an animal, even a mouse - you are almost certainly getting both fired & blacklisted from the industry. if you abuse or kill a more ‘advanced’ animal, such as a dog or monkey, you will likely face criminal charges. killing a monkey is as serious and disastrous as a nuclear meltdown. you are expected to reasonably explain every illness, injury, or death of an animal under your care. you must record all of this information. animals that are clearly suffering with low QOL are required to be euthanized according to AVMA guidelines.

research animals are highly expensive. yes, even the "lesser" animals like mice. the cheapest mice will run you a few hundred $ per individual, with some of the most expensive mice i've cared for being $25,000 per individual. in research we have the "three Rs" - reduction (reduce amount of necessary animals to a minimum), refinement (refine processes to ensure research is accurate and animals feel no pain or distress), and replacement (replace animals with non-living research models as they become available). i can assure you no proper research team is wasting animals (*do not* say "b-b-but elon musk--" his research team is actively being investigated for animal abuse by the government).

research methods that do not require live animals are currently being looked into & efforts spearheaded by - you guessed it - the animal research industry itself (notice how the animal rights people are strangely silent & unhelpful when it comes to this?) but current technology is rudimentary and does not compare to live animal models.

some research animal fun facts (US edition):

all species of animals are only allowed to have one single major surgery performed on them in their entire lifetime.

institutions with nonhuman primates must have a behavior program in place (run by knowledgeable primate specialists) to ensure that they are happy and receiving enough daily enrichment and social interaction.

institutions with dogs are required to have physical exercise programs in place. this means every individual dog gets a substantial amount of leashed AND free-roaming exercise daily, including playgroups with other dogs.

a majority of nonhuman primates get to retire to sanctuaries like peaceable primate sanctuary, and almost all dogs get retired and adopted out by organizations like homes for animal heroes. some institutions will also adopt out unneeded young rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, etc.

some strains of mice glow neon green (or orange or blue) under UV light. this is not harmful to them and is commonly seen in cancer research.

so yes, you can rest knowing that laboratory animals are treated with the utmost respect by their caretakers. and you can stop this awful, ignorant talk of human experimentation that will only end in the abuse of nonwhite people, LGBT people, disabled people, indigenous people, and so many others. please just take a look at this wikipedia page if you think “ethical” human experimentation can exist.

[greenlabcoat]

can you let me in pleeeeeaase. i promise i wont use my raptorial limbs to attack and kill you

[xurkitry]

Lordite but Rewritis

i have a personal take of Mortis that comes from Lord X specifically, so teehee still Lordite!~

[r0tting-fish-flowers]

Is it weird that i like the angst of this guy?

He's (or "has been" in the context of Lord Mortis) absolutely horrible. Diabolical creature. By every technicality, he got what he deserved.

And yet deep down, it still strikes. A thin thread of pity.

Curse my heart.

[xurkitry]

love this but also using this as an invite to actually go in depth on my Mortis take and also Rewrite's involvement here.

Like I said, this version of Mortis came from Lord X, which is unlike the original version which comes from a very young and inexperienced X. Lord X lost to Bandado because of a lot of blunders and miscalculations and the fact that the Bandado of this universe is very cunning and tricky, he used Lord X's games against him and fucked him over to the point of not being able to reclaim his position.

I feel like X to Mortis is always going to create a desperate and somewhat more mature being, hes still childish but hes not stupid. Hes sometimes is and sometimes isn't willing to partner with souls of victims. Sometimes he is too prideful and sometimes he is desperate enough. But I feel like more often than not, this version of Mortis is going to fail or at least be stuck in an endless chase for Bandado. This version of X grows some but not enough, never enough.

But Lord X to Lord Mortis I feel is different. Lord X has matured some already, he has experience that X would never have and he isn't so arrogant and entitled to think he could take Bandado on alone or with just one person, no. Lord Mortis is forced into a position exactly like his victims and not in a fun way, he has no control here and that really instills fear and dread into him.

This forces Lord Mortis into a position where he has to learn empathy, especially for his own survival. Base X and Lord X don't have any empathy, theres no need to learn it for them, but Lord Mortis here knows that if he wants to return to power, he needs help and he will need to rally together souls that he knows would rather see him dead and for that he needs to better understand them.

And thats exactly what happens, granted its a slow process, but he does learn empathy, he does connect with and genuinely befriend some of the souls trapped in the realm and is able to rally others to the cause, not everyone likes him but that doesn't matter, they have the same end goal.

And then you have Rewrite, who is just referred to as Sonic here.

Hes from a different realm, knew a different X that he was falling in love with. But this X became Mortis and was too prideful to seek help and he died. So Sonic left that realm, traveled through a bunch of others trying to find a new X he could connect with because he couldn't move on, but when they all seemed to just fall down the same path, its hard to connect.

Then he finds Lord Mortis, who is already rallying together help, who has a good chance to survive, and Sonic decides he can let himself get attached to this one. Lord Mortis has no idea what Sonic actually is, he just assumes he is another soul who has been through a lot and is desperate for comfort, which he can give.

Lord Mortis at this point has not yet fully learned love, he has some grasp on platonic but nothing romantic. Human emotions are different from the emotions Lord Mortis has, very different, so it takes a lot for him to understand, but with Sonic, hes going to be learning romantic love. Slowly.

[charmsterz]

Well they’re both earnest

[mauhawkman]

[ like strawberry pancakes ]

[findingmindely]

Blob

[stahsm]

cartoon by Charles Barsotti.

[catragemiau]

The liveliest girl and the deadliest weapon 🌸🤖

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

feeling bored i’m gonna dox a fish

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

ok here goes

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

ocean

[unknown-fish]

what the fub

[tsaikonautz]

thinking about this amy wip

[oddarette]

New environment drop. I call it Dolphin Corridor. Not quite sure how I feel about it tbh. I’m still figuring out how to draw night time scenes. I also need to learn blender so I can plot out more complex perspectives. I’ve tried following tutorials and idk, they are confusing. I’ll be honest, this piece was not fun to make but I learned a lot.