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Itse olen yllättynyt, että jopa 44% on sitä mieltä, että Orpon hallitus ei tee tai ole tehnyt Suomesta huonompaa maata elää.

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*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

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I reblogged a comic the other day about a doctor watching House, MD and diagnosing toxoplasmosis, tagging it with "you're more likely to get toxoplasmosis from a salad than a cat". There's a story behind that.

I used to work in the kennel at a vet clinic. One day one of the vet techs came into the kennel in a tearing hurry, handed me two cat carriers, and said, "Find a cage for these two. Don't know how long, but you can put them together." And then she left.

This was not how that was supposed to happen. I had no cage cards--no names, no feeding instructions, no health information--they weren't on the schedule, and techs didn't usually intake boarders. Medical cases had a separate kennel, so a tech shouldn't be bringing me an animal in during office visit hours. But I had a cage in the cat room, so I tucked them in--two adult females, very friendly, apparently healthy.

Half an hour later the tech came back--with cage cards--and said, "It's okay, they're staying overnight and going home tomorrow." She slumped against the kennel wall and told the cats' story.

They had been brought to the clinic to be euthanized, to die.

These healthy, friendly, beloved cats had been brought in to be killed, because a woman's doctor, her obstetrician, had told her that they had killed her unborn baby. He told her if she ever wanted a child she had to get rid of the cats. He told her they should be euthanized before they killed any other woman's unborn child.

He said, with no evidence, that they had toxoplasmosis. He said that toxoplasmosis caused her miscarriage.

The woman was distraught. She had just lost her baby, she was dealing with the hormonal changes of the pregnancy loss, and now she had to euthanize her beloved cats. Fortunately no vet I've ever worked for will euthanize healthy animals brought in by a sobbing client without asking why!

The vet spent almost an hour talking to the woman, educating her on toxoplasmosis, telling her all the reasons her doctor was wrong.

Not all cats have toxoplasmosis, and even when they do they only shed the oocytes in their feces--they're only infectious--for the first few weeks. Most cats are infected as kittens and are no longer infectious as adults. According to Wikipedia, "Numerous studies have shown living in a household with a cat is not a significant risk factor for T. gondii infection,[61][63][64] though living with several kittens has some significance.[65]"

Most people get toxoplasmosis from raw vegetables, especially salad greens that grow close to the soil and are hard to clean. Raw or rare meat, raw seafood, and unpasteurized milk are also a risk.

Toxoplasmosis can be a soil-borne disease from feces in the soil. Gardening is a greater risk than cat cohabitation.

Toxoplasmosis infection is dangerous to the fetus in pregnancy, yes, causing birth defects and miscarriages. But only the first time the person is infected. If this this woman had lost her first pregnancy to toxoplasmosis--and the vet said it really didn't fit the symptoms--she would be at low risk in a subsequent pregnancy.

So basically the vet told the woman that 1) her miscarriage probably wasn't toxoplasmosis, 2) even if it was, she probably didn't get it from her cats, 3) even if her cats had given her toxoplasmosis, they weren't infectious anymore.

The woman kept her cats and got a new obstetrician.

Human doctors get a few lectures on zoonotic diseases--diseases transmitted from animals to humans or vice versa. Veterinarians get semesters. If a doctor ever tells you your animals have given you a disease, get a second opinion from your vet!

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Taru Gandalfin suurista luonnollisista

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waking up before sunrise

only it’s finland and it’s eight in the morning

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Suomiplorpoturnaus: Kierros 4 • Äänestys 3

Propaganda leikkauksen alla...

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Kari Grandi (Finnish Grocery Brand Cinematic Universe)

"#kaikkien janoisten sankari!" – @naapurinkissa

"#kaikkien janoisten sankari #tai kuten @tr00goblin asian ilmaisi: tumblrin suojeluspyhimys" – @skumppakeisarinna

"#KARI GRANDI!!!! #kaikkien janoisten sankari!!! #he is here!!!" – @junko-jinko

"#KARI VITUN GRANDI #KAIKKIEN JANOISTEN SANKARI EI LISÄTTÄVÄÄ" – @imnotacleverman

"#kari grandi the man the myth the legend" – @thewinterthyla

"#kari grandi on poistettu grandi paketeista mutta ei meidän sydämmistämme. #äänestäkää kari grandia. #kari grandi ansaitsee tämän sen pyhäinhäväistyksen jälkeen mikä on kari grandin poistaminen grandi paketeista" – @samisfalse

"#mitkä viikset #viiksikateus iskee #olisimpa hän" – @seksilelulaatikko

"sydämeni kuuluu Kari Grandille, kaikkien janoisten sankarille, tuolle khakiin verhotulle viiksiniekalle" – @seksilelulaatikko

"#vain kari mahtuu pääni sisäiseen mikroon pyöriteltäväksi" – @pajulintu

"Kari Grandi on yhtä paljon queer ikoni kuin Kakekin. Väitän, että Hra Grandi on bi-ikoni koska hän on, ja tahdon todella painottaa tätä: KAIKKIEN janoisten sankari. Ääni Kari Grandille on ääni meille kaikille thirstaaville sukupuoleen, suuntaumukseen tai mihinkään katsomatta. ÄÄNESTÄ KARI GRANDI VOITTOON! Myös väitän, että Karilla on yllin kyllin plorpolta vaadittavaa symppis-energiaa. Myöskään hän ei hahmona elä vain yhdessä vangitussa hetkessä, vaan seikkailee halki maailman erilaisissa tilanteissa, elävöittäen täysin oman tarinansa ja ollen sen aktiivinen sankari. No hate to Kake, mutta Kari on enemmän kuin symboli: hän on aikamme legenda!" – @imnotacleverman

– @samisfalse

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Pekka Routalempi (Pasila)

"On se jännä hahmo tuo Routalempi. Hyvin jännä... Puhuu pitkiä monologeja tavallisista asioista, joista jännästi löytää aina syvempiä, filosofisia piirteitä. Jännästi alkaa arvostamaan pieniä, arkisia asioita ja havainnoimaan mailmaa uudella, jännällä tavalla. Esimerkki:  ‘Aloin miettimään pyramideja. Miten ovatkin senaikaisilla välineillä saaneet aikaiseksi. Minulla on nykyaikaiset välineet enkä saa mitään aikaiseksi.’ Tämän lisäksi Routalemmellä on ehkä yksi sarjan mielenkiintoisimmista taustoista: Ensin intohimoinen taiteilija joka alkoholisoitui, myöhemmin raitistui ja ryhtyi poliisiksi, ja kerran pelasti Helsingin purkamalla pommin. Yleistäen semmoinen leppoisa hyvän mielen hahmo. Jännä ikoni.” – @teal-skull

"Pekka on nii neurodivergent coded" – @arctuuz

"#pekka on ainoo kyttä jota kunnioitan 🫡" – @dick-chugger

"#puhuu paljon mutta vain vähän asiaa #samaistun #jännä #menisin hänen kanssaan naimisiin ja viettäisin jänää elämää maalla katsellen lintuja" – @seksilelulaatikko

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i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

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*yrittää kääntää homoslangia suomeksi*

Oi sä näytät niin vittumaiselta! Surmaa se kuningatar! ❤️💯🔥

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Moomin | Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka (1990 - 1991) dir. Hiroshi Saitō and Masayuki Kojima

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in case you needed to hear it today:

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)

you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.

you are so brave and beautiful and smart and can do it. using your turn signal

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rip gideon nav you should've been drinking a baja blast from Taco Bell

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like