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five out of the six lab techs i work with are planning to quit or leave for grad school in the next like eight months so it’s going to be. i am going to have a time
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
severed from the world - pam wishbow - oct 2020
growth is pausing as i go to open twitter and thinking "actually we don't need to do that"
Civil Defense might be the funniest episode of ds9 to me... the way the camera keeps cutting to closeups of characters' shocked faces every time something new goes wrong. dukat's stupid little "attention bajoran workers. pleaseee stop rioting pleasepleaseplease ❤️ ok thanks" message playing on repeat until everyone's sick and tired of it. the fanfic plot of quark and odo getting trapped in odo's office and thinking theyre about to die. kira's iconic "Time for a less subtle approach" before just shooting a door with a phaser. jake sisko climbing through a tube. garak dramatically waltzing into ops just to tell everyone he has high enough security clearance to do that, but he can't do anything to help the station Not self-destruct. but he's here now :) the Science Fiction Device that looks like a cartoon bomb that materializes in the replicator and starts blasting indiscriminately in ops. gul dukat beaming aboard in the You Know I Had To Do It To 'Em pose and proceeding to have a calm and collected conversation with everyone in ops who's currently being shot at. ordering a tea from the replicator and allowing it to continue shooting at everyone while he and garak insult each other. garak brings up dukat's dad. still getting shot at. dukat realizing he's gotten himself stuck on ds9 about to blow up and making the walter white D: face. garak telling dukat to stop flirting with kira. "I should've executed you years ago" "you tried".
Round 1 Match 10
Mexican Mole Lizard weirdness: "LOOK AT THIS THING. It has legs in a family of completely legless creatures. It is neither a mole or a lizard yet is spiritually both at the same time. It is so long and so skinny."
Pelican Eel weirdness: "big mouthj"
I feel like the weirdest part is that I didn’t see people saying ‘I find Dukat’s sex crimes to be disgusting so he is repulsive to me. I do not want to fuck this man. pass.’ which would be entirely fair, imo. Instead it was like ‘ugh he was a shitty dad and evil’. which. I mean some of the great DILFs of all time fit that description
people who think like this also need to put those stick-on bird decals on their glass patio doors so they don't get bloody noses every day
what if we pronounced testosterone like minestrone
lingua ignota closed out with Do You Doubt Me, Traitor which I was absolutely not expecting to hear and. jesus christ, etc
How to Decay Gracefully (ink redux)
Siskoshir: Battle Lines / Past Tense
BASHIR: I'm sorry, Commander, but I've discovered we can't afford to die here. Not even once.
SISKO: Remember, Doctor, we can't interfere.
FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT
rivers?? creeks???? hello???
People who selected the first 2 options please put in the tags whats the most famous lake or ocean you've swam in.Please reblog i want a bigger survey size
Melanistic Maned Wolf
one can instantly free oneself from the chains of identity discourse by simply conceiving of sexuality as something that is dialectical and not metaphysical
Attn: People With Cervixes!
When was your last Pap smear?
Because I am tired of seeing young people (think 40 year olds!) die horribly of an almost completely preventable disease, and I haven't seen the obligatory Tumblr PSA about it, so I'm making my own.
1. CERVICAL CANCER IS REALLY BAD
Cancers that have a good prognosis are usually cancers that can be caught early--like skin cancer, which is easily seen, and therefore usually treated very early. Cervical cancer does not give you symptoms until you have very advanced disease, which means unless someone is regularly testing your cervix, you will likely not be diagnosed early. More than half of people diagnosed with cervical cancer present with advanced disease. 75% of them will be dead within 5 years. For comparison, when caught in the earliest stage, there is a 90% 5 year survival rate. Treatment for those diagnosed is chemo and radiation, and believe me, those are not fun. If you do happen to be in the lucky 25% of survivors, if your cancer comes back, you have an 85% chance of dying within a year. Also! We think of cancer as something that happens to old people, but the average age of diagnosis for cervical cancer is 50.
2. WHO GETS CERVICAL CANCER?
Cervical cancer used to be the most common cause of cancer-related death in women in America, but at this point it's basically a disease of People Without Pap Smears--developing countries, immigrants, low socioeconomic status, BIPOC, rural communities, LGBTQ, etc.
3. HOW DO PAP SMEARS SAVE YOUR LIFE?
A Pap smear is a screening test for two things: HPV, and your cervical cells. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. Literally half of the people in America have some strain of HPV on their body. Most HPV infections go away on their own (in people with healthy immune systems), but some strains are Very Bad, and some people are just Very Unlucky, and the HPV starts causing your cervical cells to turn cancerous. 91% of all cervical cancers are caused by HPV. So a Pap smear looks to see if your have HPV, and if so, is it one of the bad ones? And also, do you have any cancerous cells hanging about in your cervix? And! It takes 10-30 years for HPV to turn those cells into cancer, which means you have a really really long time to catch it before it becomes cancer and cut those pre-cancer cells out!
4. WHAT ABOUT THAT VACCINE?
The thing my dad said I shouldn't get because it might make me a slut. Yes! There is an HPV vaccine! You should get it! It protects you against the nine most common cancer-causing types of HPV. It's recommended starting at age 11, and you can get it up to age 45 now! (It used to be 26, but as of 2020, it's now extended.)You can get it from most primary care doctors, or from Planned Parenthood, CVS, Walgreens, etc. If you get the vaccine you still need Pap smears.
5. I HEARD YOU CAN ONLY GET THE VACCINE IF YOU'RE A VIRGIN
Fake news. While the vaccine does not treat old infections of HPV, it does prevent new ones, so while the benefits are theoretically decreased in those who have already been sexually active, it does not mean you will not benefit from having it!
6. WHO GETS PAP SMEARS?
Everyone with a cervix starting at age 21, until you lose your cervix or until you're 65. You should get them every 3-5 years (depending on your exact age and what test your doctor does).
7. BUT I GOT THE VACCINE
Nice! You still need Pap smears.
8. I HAD ONE AND IT WAS HORRIBLE/I'M SCARED OF THE EXAM
Talk to your doctor about this in advance! Good gynecologists (and other providers) will work with you to minimize discomfort as much as possible. They can use a small speculum and lots of gel, prescribe anti-anxiety medications to take in advance, and some people will even use numbing creams and/or laughing gas.
9. BUT I DON'T HAVE/CAN'T SEE A GYN
Most primary care physicians can do them! So do a lot of urgent care centers!
10. BUT I'M A LESBIAN
HPV can be transmitted through oral/genital contact, hand/genital, and even hand-to-hand-then-genital, so you still need Pap smears.
11. BUT I'M A VIRGIN/ASEXUAL
You still need Pap smears. HPV can be transmitted not just through penetrative sex, but also through oral/genital, hand/genital, and hand-to-hand-then-genital, and also 9% of cervical cancers are not caused by HPV.
12. BUT I'M A TRANSGENDER MAN
If your cervix was removed, then congrats! You do not need Pap smears. Otherwise, unfortunately, you are still at risk for cervical cancer and need to be screened.
13. BUT I'M A TRANSGENDER WOMAN
Neovaginas do not need Pap smears! Congrats! Consider getting the vaccine, though, to prevent spreading HPV to others.
14. BUT I'M A CIS-GENDERED MAN
Congrats! You do not need Pap smears! You should still consider the vaccine though, not only to prevent the spread of HPV to others, but also because HPV causes 50% of all penile cancers as well.
In summary: please please please go get your pap smear. Go get vaccinated. The spread of HPV can be prevented, and cervical cancer can be caught and treated before it even becomes cancer.
DON'T FEAR THE SMEAR
soup recipes are incomplete without the human bone marrow
who was your original blorbo? Like the first ever blorbo that you felt Blorbo Induced Emotions for
bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior
i want to see old men with full beards learning ballet and i want to see terrible art from people in their 30s who have only just got their first tablet and i want to see mothers picking up their old hobbies from before they were told it wasn’t okay to have hobbies and i want to see people in their early 20s figuring out how to be alive by making bad music in their bedrooms and i want zines to be handmade paper pamphlets of devotion and i want creation to be fun again instead of a competition where we all have to monetise joy until we lose the invaluable currency of unashamed love again
today at work i was walking a particularly large specimen from the OR down the hall to the lab and experienced what i can only describe as the exact emotion a dog feels when they’ve found something fucked up by the side of the road and are about to bring it home and drop it on the porch