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TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

iheartvelma

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

dragon-in-a-fez

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

#worcester ma #U Mass CHAN #Worcester Mentioned

asterkid-deactivated20150106

tomorrow……… is august„„„„,?????

its augu…….st?? tomorrW???????????

8th monTH???????? 4 ,more mont hs of 2013?????????????

what??????????????????????????????………………………..

massachusetts-official

massachusetts state primary mail-in ballots need to be posted by Aug 25, make sure to request a ballot/update your address asap! or do in person voting on Sept 1!!!

Important FYI!

avasillva

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE dir. Steven Spielberg

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A lovely little find I picked up from my friend Oliver at Collinge & Clark Books in London. Before he became one of England's greatest printers and type designers, John Baskerville (1706-1775) earned his living in Birmingham as a writing master and stonecutter. This inscription, known as Baskerville's Slate, originally hung in the window of his workshop, advertising: "Grave Stones Cut in any of the Hands By John Baskervill Writing Master." It is one of the earliest surviving examples of his work and foreshadows the precision and elegance that would later define his famous typeface. This is a rare, high-quality cast resin reproduction from the 1960s, formerly in the collection of renowned typographic historian James Mosley. A wonderful little addition to my collection.

faithandarisadventures

Grave of Harvey Ball (The Inventor of the Smiley Face) Notre Dame Cemetery Worcester, MA November 1, 2025

graphicsgirlie

nobody tell him the way we pronounce "bar harbor". correct reaction btw.

massachusetts-official

how do you pronounce worcester? (im going to wpi for college and i dont wanna sound like an idiot)

Wooster, or Woostah if you're being pretentious about and insist on the Boston accent

faithandarisadventures

Sewer Grate Sidewalk Art Worcester, MA November 9, 2025

love-and-hisses

Big doin's in the foster room yesterday! Not only did Calliope move the kittens out of the crate (to the other side of the room) but ALSO I walked into the room to see Zephyr bellied up to Calliope's plate of canned food - and actually EATING it. And THEN he used the litter box. TWICE! He's the poopin' king, apparently. (Not quite 4 weeks old is definitely earlier than I'm used to seeing a kitten eat, and eat so well at that. Usually they don't even start showing interest in Mom's food until at least 5 weeks. Hopefully his siblings won't be too far behind him.)

#I love this orange knucklehead

ladygrinninghole

obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.

first it was the klingons—they’re originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed people—and then tng comes along and it’s like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.

hey these are the ferengi and they’re supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; they’re greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that they’re PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.

this is the borg, they’re a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and they’re incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we can’t commit genocide we’re woke and communists and in space.

hey these are the cardassians, they’re part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, they’re a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and they’re known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassians…….. except, here’s a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, and……. fuck. he’s a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actually……. bad.

this is the jem’hadar, they’re genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. they’re all born addicted to a synthetic drug that’s manufactured by the state and administered by their masters—this is how they’re kept subservient. they’re ruthless and powerful and they’re incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCK….. what if they’re actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.

hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting