AwkwardElke

Simp. Simple.

[AwkwardElke @awkward_elke]

@Dexerto American companies need to start paying their employees a living wage man. If you cannot afford to pay people decently you shouldn’t be running a business.

[AwkwardElke @awkward_elke]

@CDawgVA Happy Birthday! 🥳

[AwkwardElke @awkward_elke]

:/

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Instagram now allows users to create AI images using other people’s public photos.

Users can generate AI images from public profiles by tagging accounts in their prompts.

(https://t.co/YRMa3DoYce)

[bbno$ 👶🚫💰 @bbnomula]

this is genuinely terrifying wtf are we doing

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

An injection that can double a cat’s lifespan to 30 years has been developed

Clinical trials have begun, with regulatory approval projected in 2027

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.

Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.

The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.

Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.

The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.

The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

The drama, the music, the sheer mysticism, even the sound effects and that POV shot....

I could watch nine seasons of this

[Connor @CDawgVA]

$1,470,000+ raised for the immune deficiency foundation. Cyclethon 5 done. 🫡

Thank you for all the support.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A game where you try to brush a cat without getting caught is going viral

'Brush Jjaemu' is a free browser game that is "surprisingly difficult"

[Yana Boyko @_yanaboyko]

Please help spread the word:

I’m honestly shocked to see my illustration being used on T-shirts sold at the Monte-Carlo Masters without my permission or a licence.

I never expected something like this from such a major tournament.

If someone from the organisers sees this, please contact me so we can resolve this properly.

@montecarlorolex @atptour

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Now Virginia has a chance to help level the playing field. If you live in the Commonwealth, early voting begins March 6, and Election Day is on April 21. Vote YES.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The New York Times just confirmed reports that Donald Trump's Justice Department tried to cover up reports that indicated Donald Trump assaulted a minor in the 1980s. Wow.

[AwkwardElke @awkward_elke]

@Xbox U ok?

[🇵🇭Homoludens Pro Deluxe🏳️‍🌈🌏 @a_space_alien]

@nocontextmemes And remember, your local water was nearly depleted and your monthly electric bill spiked because of this.🙃

https://t.co/Sw08353uCU

[Ben Dziobek @BenDziobek]

A data center in New Brunswick was canceled tonight when hundreds of residents showed up. When fight big tech and private equity we win.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in acute and long covid.

Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic
https://t.co/UU0Zcjvu2r

[bbno$ 👶🚫💰 @bbnomula]

I am becoming progressively more worried for our humanity due to extensively terrifying improvements to AI generated content media.

From blatant misinformation to even the recent commercial adaptations of AI (acquisition of Suno into the music industry) WHICH NOBODY NEEDS.

We need artists to thrive - not feel discouraged.

Please be weary with what you see or hear online, contemporary media feels like nothing is real anymore.

AI sucks and we need to stand up against it.