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[ronstad987 @ronstad987]

@Kitsugambas gorgeous character design!!!

[Avocado Animations @AvoAnimations]

birds for some reason

[ronstad987 @ronstad987]

@offsrambledegg I love how blinky he is

[Arie yipyap @ArieFox75]

That meow meow pilot :3

(I kinda overdid the background lol)

#furry #furryartists

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Elai @elaifresh]

“Can you name these flags?”

“I don’t think you’re allowed to call them that”

[ronstad987 @ronstad987]

@moowsiie CANON VOICES👀

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe that US soldiers fight and die to protect their country and its citizens.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe US military interventionism in the middle east has anything to do with women's rights or making life better for women.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe good things come from the US military attacking middle eastern nations and toppling their governments.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government tells the truth about its wars and the reasons it wages them.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US are the Good Guys who are fighting evil Bad Guys like the heroes in a children's cartoon show.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government is less murderous and tyrannical than the Iranian government.

It's not okay for grown adults to swallow obvious atrocity propaganda about horrific actions allegedly perpetrated by a US-targeted government.

It's not okay for grown adults to consume western news media about a war without extreme skepticism about all the information they're being fed.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US fights wars for self-defense.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the government that allows its own citizens to die of poverty and disease cares deeply about the plight of the Iranian people.

It's not okay for grown adults to support this war because of some shit that was written in the Bible.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the life of an Iranian matters less than the life of an American.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US military is used to make the world a better place.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe this war will make Iran more free and democratic.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe this war will benefit anyone besides Israel and western oligarchs.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.

If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.

[ronstad987 @ronstad987]

@shayseraphs I think a Samoyed

[Cheng-Ren🦊🐺 @chengren21]

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[Kitty-Bit Games & Cosplay~ @kitty_bit_games]

This is what GenAI is going to bring you.

-First they phase out consumer access to local compute by pricing you out and forced scarcity.
-Then you have to pay for all processing power to them for working, game/video cloud streaming, they want it to be your only option.
-Then they will charge you, by month, by hour, then by minute.
-Then they will monitor it all and censor it as they please, like Sony wants to do with PlayStation.
-Their Terms of Service will dictate it all and without the power of choice, they won't care how you feel about it.

Full control
Everything As A Service
Surveillance and charging you by the minute for it.
It all will stem from GenAI and data centers, the Trojan horse.
Don't normalize it, don't let it in the gates.

Resist.

[GrayWalf @gray_walf]

The Conversation of All Time

[Paul's Psychic Artilleryman 🟡🟡🟡🟡🛰️🟡 @ironcrakka]

extremely funny bit to have a victims of communism memorial with nobody on it

[freetofic (on 💙🌌 ) @freetofic]

WE FIGHT ON, because we DO care. Kids deserve *real* safety, & that includes access to information & MORE privacy, not LESS!

—no SCREEN act
—no KOSA
—no Section 230 changes
—no age verification/restrictions
—no online digital ID

CALL 202-224-3121

[Age Veri fication Hater 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻 @chloetankahhui]

this is a five-alarm fire!!!

section 230 is called "the 26 words that made the internet" bc the internet would not exist today if user-made content on a platform is considered speech of the platform

repealing section 230 means every site would endlessly censor to avoid lawsuits

[LAnDo NIFFIRG™️🇨🇦 @llandoniffirg]

Sound on! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[宮城蔵王キツネ村(公式)🦊 @kon_fox_village]

角にギュッとなりながら眠るカヌレちゃん