#MS in Australia

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[debdarkpetal]

[the-bad-guys-2-reportage]

Glad to see more of Aaron Blabey's books are getting movie adaptations. My man used to struggle, but now he is succeeding!

And he got more coming up.

[0riginal-sharing]

Crux and Carina at Nambung, Western Australia by Trevor Dobson

[nando161mando]

This man resigned from MS just to become a farmer🤓

[starburst0822]

Blueberry's Grand-mere came to Australia to visit. Here she's spending time with her granddaughter Blueberry and Charlotte (Bingo and Chucky's only daughter). (Grand-mere is French for Grandmother, at least on Google Translate)

[adventuressclubamericas]

A glimpse of life in Melbourne in the mid-60s (the Peregrine era). This is part of a series of films made to promote Australian immigration.

[tahere-ravenwick]

I’m taking part in The May 50K challenge this May to raise funds for life-changing research into multiple sclerosis!

MS strikes young people in the prime of their lives. The average age of diagnosis is around 30 years old, although myself and many others I know have been much younger. There is no known cure, yet.

With how amazing and fast the medical field and the knowlage we gain evolves I hope in my lifetime to see MS be a thing of the past. As an example of how much this research is truly impacting on our live in th MS community let me share a part of my story:

Five years.

If I had been diagnosed five years earlier(and I could've been since I had been exhibiting symtoms for well over a decade) I would be dead right now.

The kind of MS I have was a death sentence only /Five Years/ prior to my diagnosis but thanks to how fast medical science progressed and the timing of when my symptoms were noticed(thanks to some "awesome" seizures)I am here now, alive and breathing.

At the time of my diagnosis there was no treatment I could take to manage the symptoms, all the doctors could do was prescribe strong anti-epileptic medication to prevent seizures but that medication didn't prevent the damage, the demyelination and subsequent haemorrhaging, that caused the seizures in the first place.

But! Two years after my diagnosis there had come a new medicine that I was abe to take and that managed my symptoms for nearly a decade, now when that one stopped working(as is sadly the usual with autoimmune disorders) I have almost six different medicines to chose from to treat my rare form of MS.

In such a short time so much has changed and it gives me so much hope that we can oneday be free of this illness.

So please donate, participate yourself, spread the word and please support my challenge to leave MS where it belongs, in the past far behind us.

Your donation will support research into the prevention, treatment and finding a cure for multiple sclerosis to change lives.

Thank you!

[debdarkpetal]

[the-bad-guys-2-reportage]

🟢NEWS: Aaron Blabey saw a recent cut of The Bad Guys 2:"It's insane."

In an interview with the Today Show Australia, while promoting his newest movie adaptation "Thelma the Unicorn" & talking about the final book of The Bad Guys series releasing this fall, author Aaron Blabey gave a small update regarding The Bad Guys 2 currently in the works at Dreamworks:

"The reason they're so excited is because the first movie, under the worst possible condition, went so well. It literally came out the week omicron hit. And still did- I think it was $250M, which under those circumstances, was insanely good. So I think the air around #2 which is- I saw a recent cut the other day & it's insane. It's bigger than before." -Aaron Blabey

The full interview has not yet been officially released, as it was recently broadcasted live. The clip was provided by Craig Miller on X/Twitter.

[gmatonlinetest]

MS in Australia for Indian Students - Top Universities & Admission Guide

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[wastelesspantry]

Savor the Sweetness of Chocolate M&Ms at Wasteless Pantry Mundaring

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[sopedits1]

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[corporalkiheart]

I only have 2 regrets about moving to Australia and they are 1) miss my dad and 2) no giant easy-open bottles of 1000 ibuprofen or Tylenol

wait americans can just. buy massive bottles of ibuprofen what the fuck

[cass-cain-wayne23]

Well it's certainly an interesting m&m