in her own right

If you are reading this,please be gentle with yourself.

[ID: Animated illustration of a girl with pale skin and long blond hair in a pony tail. She is wearing a pink shirt and jeans, and has four pink wings moving. Behind her are clouds and the sky with stars and there is text saying “You are loved and cherished. You are irreplaceable in this universe.” ]

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LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!

They left the best one off

our downstairs neighbor has a motion activated doorbell camera and recently made a snip on how we come home with takeout all the time and commented on our spending habits (its not btw. its people giving us leftovers and groceries)

so now that i know she watches the footage daily of the hallway we have to walk through to get to our room i make sure to deliberately stop in front of the camera and show her everything we get like a makeup/skincare influencer

today i went to a gardening ceremony for my deceased loved one to show support and won a porcelain chicken at bingo with 40 something old ladies

^ pov recreation you are my downstairs neighbor getting a load of my awesome fucking chicken

she saw it btw and said “um…. what was the chicken about” do you not appreciate her?

she stands very well her name is sweetling and she protects our sweet things

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) | Dir. Joe Wright

SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️

51. Destiny fact: all guardians have worked at least one retail job in their past lives and that's why theyre the traveler's strongest soldiers

has this been done?

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2007 eBird gem

love poem beginning with a yellow cab by José Olivarez

The shelter staff said they do this ALL DAY

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

im telling you all... its so worth it to spend a whole evening make 100 million homemade gyoza (even though it takes so long) and freezing them all to have perfect delicious gyoza just the way you like them anytime you want at a moments notice. they seriously take like 10 minutes to prepare from frozen and they are so good. i just had a dumplings and noodles feast you wish you were me

heres teh gyoza recipe ive been using and heres the dumpling sauce recipe ive been using and here was the noodles recipe i ate. in case even 1 person on earth wanted this information

Hey @squimp it looks like the link to your gyoza recipe is broken, and I was really looking forward to trying it. Would you happen to have an alternate link?

A few ppl have said this even though it still works for me, so at this point just take these lol

I love you so much. I hope you find $20 in your pocket every month for the rest of this year

"For most people, a rat is at best an unwelcome guest, and at worst, the target of immediate extermination. But in a field clinic in Tanzania, rats are colleagues—heroes even.

Far from a trash bin-dwelling NYC street rat, the African giant pouched rat is docile, intelligent, easier to train than some dogs, and for East Africans, the performer of lifesaving tuberculosis diagnoses every day.

400,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) were estimated to have been prevented by these rats, whose sense of smell would make a bloodhound take notice. As [TB is] the number-one killer among infectious diseases worldwide, many of those 400,000 can be translated into lives saved.

“Not only are we saving people’s lives, but we’re also changing these perspectives and raising awareness and appreciation for something as lowly as a rat,” said Cindy Fast, a behavioral neuroscientist who coaches the rodents for the nonprofit APOPO.

“Because our rats are our colleagues, and we really do see them as heroes.”

APOPO uses giant pouched rats to sniff out traces of TB in the saliva of patients. In parts of Tanzania, a saliva smear test under a microscope by a human may only be 20-40% effective at detecting TB.

By contrast, a giant pouched rat like Ms. Carolina, a now-retired service rat who worked for APOPO for 7 years, raised the rates of detection on TB samples by 40% in the clinic where she worked.

Pictured: An APOPO employee with one of their trained rats

It would take 4 days for scientists to analyze the number of samples that Carolina could screen in 20 minutes. For that reason, when Carolina retired last November, a party was thrown at the clinic in her honor, and she was given a cake.

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past—a disease for which doctors used to prescribe “dry air,” leading a modern sense of humor to muse at the antiquated, pre-antibiotic medical advice.

But it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single infectious pathogen, and Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, told National Geographic that once people see what the nonprofit’s rodents can do to slow the spread, they “fall in love with them.”

3,000 times in her career did Carolina detect one of the six volatile compounds that can be used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and she got a hero’s send-off to a special compound to live out the rest of her days with her closet friend and sniffer colleague Gilbert, in a shaded enclosure dubbed “Rat Florida.”

“We’ve made special little rat-friendly carrot cakes with little peanuts and things on it that the rat would enjoy,” Fast said. “Then we all stand around and we clap, and we give three cheers, hip hip hooray for the hero, and celebrate together. It’s really a touching moment.”

APOPO has made headlines for its use of these rats in other lifesaving tasks as well: landmine clearance.

One of the world’s great underreported scourges (a lot like TB, coincidentally) is landmine contamination. There are 110 million landmines or unexploded bombs in the ground right now in about 67 countries, covering thousands of square miles in potential danger. Thousands of civilians are killed or injured by these weapons every year.

GNN reported on APOPO’s demining efforts using pouched rats back in 2020. One rat named Magawa alone identified 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance across an area the size of 20 football fields.

If at the start of this story you didn’t like rats, maybe Magawa and Carolina will have changed your mind."

-via Good News Network, March 31, 2025

I had the pleasure of designing the "Calpis Water Art Label" for Asahi Soft Drinks Co., LTD., collaborating with Calpis and illustrators Rei Kato and Saigetsu 🎉

Once you finish the drink, the illustrations on the front and back combine to form a single image 🤍

This limited edition is available at convenience stores nationwide! 🏪 If you see it, be sure to check it out! 💙

jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969

#actual wizard like ACTUAL#you could take the absolute most cutting edge deepfake with every hi-res freckle and hair in place so you could zoom in to the atomic level#and it would not be as Real as this felt egg#with 2 puppeteers clearly visible (via @harrietvane)