shellebelle's sea shells

Hi! I'm rather older than most of the people on tumblr but don't let that scare you away! I mostly reblog things, but occasionally post fic and suchlike. I'm a big fan of Homestuck and the Hunger Games...but mostly I'm Homestucking. Feel free to ask all the asks!

[catasters]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[depsidase]

[spicymochi]

choose your fav tiny cat

[witchy-subversive]

the lil guy with the croc on his head always seems so proud of himself

[wholesome-animal-images]

[lonnson]

The feared sting-ray

[bright-cherry-bombzz]

The elusive and mysterious StingRug

[copperbadge]

SNUG RAY

[spicymochi]

your month, your cat!

[sevserez]

Soldier, Poet, King

They’re on their way to see Jade btw.

[neenarchive]

companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

[neenarchive]

learning to ask 'is this an ad' will save your life

[robdogrbs]

"guys i just got this new" it’s an ad

"let me show you what i just bought from" it’s an ad

"how am i just now discovering" it’s an ad

[nonstickwaffleiron]

as an archivist I am begging you

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!

[scorpionlafemme]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

For people who only have the use of one hand/arm or know or live with someone who only has the use of one hand/arm, what are some adaptive items that have made household tasks easier? Anything from cooking and cleaning to getting dressed and hygiene or anything else you can think of.

A family member recently lost the use of her non-dominant hand, and I am looking for things to make her life easier when she gets home, as I won't always be there to help her.

Reblogs appreciated so this reaches people who may have input. Thank you!

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[sergle]

the thing that makes this really fucking cool is that, ALLEGEDLY, this isn't supposed to be a luxury treatment for cats, Dr. Miyazaki specifically wants it to be accessible and affordable for all cats. big if true

[vintage-tigre]

[thevisualvamp]

In spite of the odds

[sergle]

are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?

[sergle]

turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

Could the macrophage-derived protein AIM save cats from kidney disease?

As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i

Cat Kidney Disease Cure Nears Reality: Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM Therapy

Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc

[moki-dokie]

whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!

[fluxxdog]

"But I don't want to turn people into dinosaurs. I wanna cure kittie kidneys!"

[itsluckytiger01]

[hurglewurm]

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes