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Theo's OC/ Art blog! for fun! Main Blog is @/OhAngelOfMine !! header by @LOVE_RIVALS icon by yours truly!

[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.

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@skirtlifts Murasaki please answer my calls...the kids miss you

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@lofiamaryllis AHHHHH

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@lofiamaryllis THAT SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I CREATED JUNKYARD FNBDJEKE Mellow reawakened my lovefor rock music

[TAI 🍊 @toydrill]

everyone needs to have an OC that is essentially a self insert but worse and worse and worse and worse and worse

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@skirtlifts I'd be happy to!! I have many a clown I could submit (literally only Rumi and Lovelace)

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@skirtlifts Same...

[Anon @Greynxgga69]

People are literally doing looney tunes gags on ICE and we’re supposed to feel really bad about that

[Art-Eater ➡️⬇️↘️🐲👊 @Richmond_Lee]

"It's inevitable!"

"Adapt or Die!"

Nope. Audiences don't want AI slop. Not in the long term. It's just not impressive or engaging. People tire of it quickly. Props to Comic Con for making the right move here!

[dead domain (OF 50% OFF 🏳️‍🌈) @DomainDead]

The thing Zohran can make everyone on any side realize is how easily policy can be advanced when the people we vote for WANT to.

The people in power right now just don’t give a shit about you.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

it's genuinely inspiring to watch ordinary americans fearlessly call ICE agents "Nazi pieces of shit" wherever they go

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

This is a photo of me at the UN from 2015. Over 150 countries have recognized Palestine since 1988, and the UN granted it observer state status in 2012. Recent Western declarations are largely symbolic, aiming to quell outrage without meaningful change. In reality, the PA remains a subcontractor to the occupation while there’s less and less to recognize as Israel kills more Palestinians and steals more land.

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Think i'll go through my archives and delete every single post on this account and get rid of this account

[Avis Favaro @Avis_Favaro]

Some people living with disabilities are worried about the stress of facing unexpected questions about whether they have considered #MAID. Some are drawing up cards, like the one below. Others suggest ID bracelets that say "No MAID".
"So many of us are worried about this," said one disabled woman. A story in a Thread 🧵1-

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@girlprotag HAVE FUN!!

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I also have my Winslow i think? Phantom of thr Opera/ Phantom of the Paradise inspired character that writes music for some of my ocs and is very obsessive w/ their work

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I wanna make an oc thats like... old Eros childhood friend (also chuuni in a dangerous way) i had ideas this morning I wanna develop it

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NOW I REMEMBER!! I got the idea cuz of the Frankenstein announcement. I want them to create a Monster that they fall in MESSY obsessive love w/ I am BREWING