#new donors

[jcsocialmarketing]

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[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 301

Ellie, during one of her stints of what do I do with my life right now, decides to, with the help of her Original Dad-Person (Look he’s aging and she’s not and it gets less questions the older he gets if he says daughter instead of sister with how the Fentons are getting older too) creates a Boo-Tube channel. No, not a Youtube channel, those are stuck to a single dimension.

Bootube on the other hand? Due to being through the Realms (and wow is Tucker getting so much income from creating it) is interdimensional. Which is so cool honestly. And she doesn’t know what to do at first, and honestly there’s already so many travel blogs that she kind of just… decided to do something that she wished someone had done for her and her brothers and Danny when she was new to the world. 

So she creates the channel CAAW: Clone Awareness, Accommodations, and Welfare. They had to learn things through trial and error, but maybe she can help someone out there learn how to find their own selves, or even help someone not melt. 

[crazyw3irdo]

okay, i think any time anyone asks what superpower we’d like to have most everyone on this website would say shapeshifting but what kind of shapeshifting would you like

type 1- wild shape, you can turn into any animal, real or fictional

type 2- mystique, you can turn into any real person

type 3- cosplay, you can turn into any humanoid fictional character

type 4- jake the dog, you’re super stretchy

type 5- character creator, you can alter your own appearance- like changing voice hair length texture color, changing height and weight, transing gender, etc, but you can’t add anything non-human (ie horns, wings, claws, etc)

type 6- additional features, you can add things like snake eyes, horns, cat ears, tail, claws, wings, mermaid tail, but you remain humanoid overall and can’t change things like height or gender presentation or hair color. you can still change your voice tho

type 7- were-wolf, we all know what a werewolf is, lads. can be any kind of animal. can be straight up wolf or more monstrous wolf form that’s up to you.

type 8- furry, you just become your fursona. or any kind of fursona really you can change between them

type 9- antman, can become small or big

type 10- other, say what kind ya want

[reasonsforhope]

"For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in addressing the critical crisis worldwide of kidney donor organ shortage.

The University of Alabama’s pre-clinical human study at Birmingham also advances the science and promise of xenotransplantation as a therapy to potentially cure end-stage kidney disease—just as a human-to-human transplants can.

“It has been truly extraordinary to see the first-ever preclinical demonstration that appropriately modified pig kidneys can provide normal, life-sustaining kidney function in a human safely and be achieved using a standard immunosuppression regimen,” said UAB transplant surgeon scientist Jayme Locke, M.D., director of UAB’s Comprehensive Transplant Institute and lead author of the paper...

The peer-reviewed findings published last month in JAMA Surgery describes the pioneering pre-clinical human research performed on a recipient experiencing brain death...

The pre-clinical human brain death model developed at UAB can evaluate the safety and feasibility of pig-to-human kidney xenografts, or transplants, without risk to a living human. It is named for transplant pioneer Jim Parsons, an organ donor whose family generously donated his body to advance xenotransplant kidney research, like the latest patient did.

A Critical Need

Kidney disease kills more people each year than breast or prostate cancer, while more than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list. More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure and 240 Americans on dialysis die every day. The wait for a deceased donor kidney can be as long as five to 10 years, and almost 5,000 people per year die waiting for a kidney transplant.

Groundbreaking Study Details

The 52-year-old study subject for this research lived with hypertension and stage 2 chronic kidney disease, which affects more than one in seven U.S. adults, or an estimated 37 million Americans. As part of this study, the subject had both of his native kidneys removed and dialysis stopped, followed by a crossmatch-compatible xenotransplant with two 10 gene-edited pig kidneys, or UKidney.

The transplanted pig kidneys made urine within four minutes of re-perfusion and produced more than 37 liters of urine in the first 24 hours. The pig kidneys continued to function as they would in a living human for the entirety of the seven-day study. Also, the kidneys were still viable at the time the study was concluded.

“In the first 24 hours these kidneys made over 37 liters of urine,” said Dr. Locke. “It was really a remarkable thing to see.” ...

Gene editing in pigs to reduce immune rejection has made organ transplants from pigs to humans possible. The natural lifespan of a pig is 30 years, they are easily bred, and they have organs of similar size to humans. Genetically modified pig kidneys have been extensively tested in non-human primates, and the addition of UAB’s preclinical human research model—the Parsons Model—now provides important information about the safety and efficacy of kidneys in human transplant recipients."

-via Good News Network, September 17, 2023

[mohammedhasouna]

Please help me to save my family 🙏

My family and I are about to embark on this journey of hope, but we cannot do it alone. We humbly appeal to you, kind souls, to extend your hands to help. Your generosity may pave the way for us to escape this nightmare, and give us a chance to start again.

With gratitude overflowing from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for every donation, every engagement, and every ounce of compassion you provide to our cause.

My family and I are looking forward to evacuating to Egypt, but as you know, a lot of money is needed to pay for the coordination costs in order to cross the border, and we still need money to get the total amount required so that we can travel.

With each passing day, our burdens grow heavier, and our pleas for help become more urgent. We long for the warmth of a safe haven, an opportunity to regain what we have lost and forge a path toward a brighter future

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ohhhh! Ohhhhh!

So you know how the well call was about Eddie - how Chim was the second character involved (as in went into the well) but the call back was about Chim.

And how the lightning strike was about Buck - how Eddie was the second character involved (as in also up the ladder) but the callback was about Eddie.

How Eddie had to lower Buck to the ground to save him and had to watch on before he could take action - how in the call back buck is the one watching on as Eddie is able to wake up the stunt man who is hanging.

How Chim found his certainty about his family growing in the callback - much like Eddie found certainty about his own family dynamic changing in the well (hello will). How Chim went home and spoke to Maddie - how they had an open and honest conversation after all the miscommunication leading up to it. How Chim and Eddie’s take aways from the well calls were basically positive ones.

How the lightning strike call back is a play on Eddie’s needing to wake himself up. In the same way Buck needed to figure out things for himself in his coma dream, Eddie needs to learn from the lightning strike parallel that he has to be the one to wake himself up.

How Buck will stand at Eddie’s side - silently mourning as he plans to leave in the same way Eddie stood at bucks bedside silently mourning as buck lay in a coma - because there aren’t the words and it’s something each of them had to do alone.

How the callback is foreshadowing Eddie waking himself up - panicking and then worrying about if his sacrifice was worth it (did they get the shot).

How after the lightning strike Buck was looking for himself and ultimately went to Eddie’s for peace - how he was able to be silent (as he slept on the couch) - but how they then had a conversation. How they actually had two conversations (kitchen and graveside) and we had miscommunications in those conversations.

How in the aftermath of the callback Eddie has been looking for himself (risky business dance) and how he ended up in the couch in silence with buck (Eddie being in the same place as buck was in s6 when he went to Eddie’s). How Eddie found a connection with someone outside of the firefam with a unique perspective on the situation (a Brad Natalia parallel was not on my bingo card but here we are) and how that has lead to Eddie’s decision and then a conversation with Buck.

[witchofthesouls]

I have the image of the Fusion cannon wedding of Tarn and the Nurse witnessed by not just the DJD but Decepticon HC, Soundwave with Cassettes, the Comand Trine, Deadlock, Deathsarus, etc. Tarn's high enough ranked the rest on the Nemisis are coming in for it. During the lead up to the ceremony while Tarn and the nurse are painting each other up it's super akward and high tension.

And the only ones oblivious are Deathsarus and Skywarp who risking life and limb to fuss over the newsparks. Tense Posturing and veiled threats broken by Deathsarus' "Who's a pretty bitty? Who's a pretty bitty? You're a pretty bitty. Yes, you are." And Skywarp's "Awww look little guy has his pede in his mouth! Come on Soundwave you gota catch this for posterity!"

:: You think they're clanging right now? ::

Helex spoke in the shared internal channel as the Justice Division, missing their leader, stood at attention at the Altar. Tarn had disappeared behind the side door to the private room.

Helex wisely left Tarn out of this conversation, and Kaon didn't loop their Commander into it.

As in, the private room with no windows and a closed ventilation system because more than one Conjux-to-be attempted one last-ditch futile run before getting dragged to the terribly named Love Chapel.

Vos responded, and the many layered tones flood the channel in an easy flow of lyrical noise. Almost a million years, and it was still hard to identify certain glyphs, but the lecherous tones were unmistakable.

:: Don't be crude. :: Kaon cut into it, and Vos twitched, his side spasmed from the subtle release of an electrical surge.

Of course, ever the sadomasochist, Vos purred, and deliberately opened seams for the attack to flood his protoform.

Nickel smacked knee guards. :: Knock it off, you lot! The big boss is watching. ::

True enough, Megatron, along with Soundwave, was watching their byplay, but it wasn't Lord Megatron of the Decepticons. With the bright fuscia facial markings carving down his cheeks and neck and helmet done away, a relic of a sword on his hip, a scroll in one hand, and a chisel in the other along with those panels furled toward the sun. Megatron stood dressed in the greatest of authorities bestowed outside of a championed Prime: High Priest of the Fallen, Speaker of the Shadow, the Voice of Megstronus Prime, the Prime of Chaos; He who was the spark-twin to Prima's Light, and bonded to Solus' Creation.

Lord Megatron was the only one who could be adorned in the sacred trinity of Rule and Bindings. Not even Optimus, the current Prime, was allowed to utilize this particular trio. The honor solely belonged to Chaos' Chosen.

Suddenly, the main doors were kicked in by a purple and black pede, thruster-heel guttering-

:: Which one of you stripped-geared slaggers locked the fucking door!? :: Kaon shrieked as the Justice Division inwardly grimaced as negatives flooded the comm channel.

Unlike Light and His cloistered, shiny temples, the Shadow was in one and all for everything fell in His Domain from the highest peaks of the Manganese Mountains to the depths of the Rust Sea to the churning slag of Cybertron's forge-core; all lingered in the Great Shadow.

Megatronus claimed Solus in the open. Unrepentant and unshamed to bind them together, and His followers were the same. It didn't matter the location nor the mechs' statuses, His High Priests officiated conjugal bindings the same, standing as a divine witness to the bonding and divine judge to any Challenges at the site.

"I told you it was true!" Skywarp howled with delight as the Command Trine made their way to the steps down to the loosely packed gravel, an ode to their deities' far more wilder natures when the Thirteen walked the still new planet and shaped Cybertron for their mortal kin and kith to survive and thrive.

Thundercracker quirked an optic-ridge at the newest 'lucky groom,' and Starscream gave the thoughts life as the Air Commander said, "I still can't believe it's Tarn out of you sorry lot."

"Starscream," came the warning from the High Priest over the ominous noise of a burbling sink and clacking blades.

Starscream frowned, lips pulling a near-sneer, but he acquiesced to the rebuke. It was one thing for the SIC to argue with Decepticon Warlord, but it was another matter when High Priest Megatron was steeped in Rule and Bindings upon the Altar.

:: He may be a near treacherous glitch, but Screamer's right. I thought we would stand here for Helex or Vos. :: Tesarus commented.

The gunformer shrugged. They all knew his violent delights. Helex, however, scoffed. :: I make sure my baffles are up-to-date, and just because I have an in-built smelting pool that doesn't mean I fuck with my chassis wide open! ::

Nickel audibly snorted, a strange mix of contempt and amusement, as she pinched a wire behind Helex's kneecap. The mech grunted as that leg went numb. :: I'm the one that hounded each of you to get updated. Made sure it's substantially far more capable at handling the completed charge of a combiner orgy. I don't want to vacuum out another spark chamber any time soon. ::

The medic's words sank into the Justice Division about the ridiculously high spark compatability between Tarn and you. The surprise shocked Tesarus into speaking, "Are you saying that those-"

The door the side room opened, and no one expected the soon-to-be-bonded couple to walk out of it with fresh Energon dripping upon them. Tarn had artful, whorls of blue flames, whereas you carried jagged, pink angles and peaks.

"Bitties!" Skywarp immediately teleported to get close to the cradle-pod of sleepy and well-feed meeps and squeaks to properly coo at them.

You immediately pulled the bitties to the side, those doorwings flicked back, hitched up, and you looked like you were about to fist-fight the Seeker right then and there. Bets were being made on the outcome before Tarn, ever the spoiler, intervened by his sheer bulk. He deftly slid between you and Skywarp, who still held his hand out as if to tickle the soft protoform-like armor of the newsparks from the short distance.

You hissed, something guttural and sharp that clawed nails across their senses, your armature clacking in warning, but Skywarp switched his focus. Optics brightening, wingspan perked, and Tarn stilled-

Skywarp was then hauled away by Thundercracker grabbing a wing, sinking talons into it to puncture the metal.

Thundercracker's expression was cold, projecting apologies-rebuke as he forcibly dragged Skywarp back to position.

You elbowed Tarn's side, whispering something, and the mech uncharacteristically huffed. He placed a hand at your lower back and guided you to High Priest Megatron with the cradle-pod floating its way to Kaon's side. The Pet poked its head into it, indulgent in its allowance for repeated ear-yanking and nose-bopping.

:: The Pet is to bite anyone that attempts unauthorized touching. :: Tarn's cultured voice spoke in the channel. :: Consider any approach to them outside of Justice Division as a breech of conduct to maim, not Listed. ::

Skywarp seemed jittery, bleeding as Thundercracker refused to let go. Starscream was indifferent. Only there as it was a commissioned officer of a special tasks force under Megatron's direct purview.

Starscream and his trine, along with Soundwave with a freshly-welded Ravage, were the only ones available to witness the event as the Decepticon Armada was constantly in motion to ensure the Autobots wouldn't have an ensured victory with the entire structure of High Command in the same ship.

Unlike before, your deep bow, kneeling before Megatron, didn't phase anyone as the High Priest must engrave the intendeds' frames: a blend of their glyphs or a matched pattern in the open and made by a specialized chisel only known to their order to ensure it rejected fillings and disrupted repair nanites.

The question about an eventual divorce and the betting ring went up in flames by your insistence at having it carved at the support arches of your sensory panels...

And Tarn didn't deny you.

[aahanna]

Archana Kamat, a 33-year-old lecturer from Bengaluru, tragically lost her life after donating part of her liver to her husband's aunt. The donation, made on September 4, 2024, was a selfless attempt to save her husband's 65-year-old relative, who had been waiting for a liver donor for 18 months. Despite the surgery initially being successful, Archana developed complications, including a severe infection, after being discharged from the hospital. She passed away a few days later, leaving behind her husband and a four-year-old son.

This incident has sparked widespread debate on social media, where many users praised her sacrifice, while others questioned the decision, given her role as a mother to a young child. Some voiced concerns about the family's role in the decision, criticizing the risks involved and the personal cost of such a noble act.

Moreover, discussions have highlighted the broader issue of how women, particularly in India, are often expected to sacrifice for their families, which reflects societal norms that place the burden of giving disproportionately on women. The fact that 80% of organ donors in India are women, while 80% of recipients are men, further emphasizes the cultural expectations of women to be the caregivers and givers, often at great personal cost. This case has reignited conversations about the emotional and ethical considerations of organ donation, especially when it involves young mothers.

[peachdues]

Are Sam and I sitting front row at the upcoming performance of the nutcracker ballet this Friday night, right behind the live orchestra?? Yes. Did he also just inform me that he booked us a $200 four course dinner with a custom menu inspired by the nutcracker right before, a dinner that includes a sugar plum fairy cocktail (which has me SOLD??) also yes

[ranticore]

everyone clap I'm drawing revelation

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Ira Stoll

“Who Are the Biggest Donors to Trump and Harris?” a New York Times headline asks, over an article about “the billionaires that are powering the campaigns.”

The first two donors mentioned in the article are Tim Mellon and Elon Musk. Neither one is Jewish. Also mentioned is Linda McMahon. She’s not Jewish either. The article further mentions Reid Hoffman, who describes himself as a “mystical atheist,” and Dick and Liz Uihlein, who aren’t Jewish, either.

So what in the world was the New York Times thinking when the newspaper chose to illustrate its story about “the most influential givers” with a photograph of six Israeli flags, former President Trump, Dr. Miriam Adelson, and an unidentified bearded man wearing a kippa?

Screenshot of headline and photo of New York Times article from Sept. 1, 2024 headlined ‘Who Are the Biggest Donors to Trump and Harris?’

Peter Dreier, a professor at Occidental College, wrote in a Facebook post that the photo selection was “egregious.”

Dreier wrote, “The Times story was not about religion or ethnicity. It was about the ‘biggest donors.’’By using that photo, the Times played into ugly antisemitic stereotypes. You’d think that some editor up the chain of command would have noticed this and replaced the photo. But there it is, in blue and white.”

At a moment when Columbia University’s Antisemitism Task Force is trying to educate students about “antisemitic tropes about Jewish wealth and hidden power,” for the Times to come out with a picture choice like this one is pretty clumsy.

The newspaper already ran a front-page profile of Adelson describing her as “rabidly partisan,” prompting a formal complaint to the paper from Eric Goldstein, the CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York, a longtime partner of the New York Times in its Neediest Cases Fund.

Goldstein also complained about a Times online headline that said US Rep. Jamaal Bowman had been “Overtaken by Flood of Pro-Israel Money,” which Goldstein said fed “a dreadful antisemitic stereotype.”

[undergroundusa]

"In dismantling the Deep State we will vanquish the puppetmaster because the puppetmaster is a common ideology, not a person. It's a 134-year cultivation that began with a grassroots effort only to mature into the highest levels of our government…"

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[pochapal]

"boo we love your pussy" <- all the time renal transplant coordinators love to say this to me

[imwritesometimes]

not me looking at donating plasma for $ lol does anyone else have any experience donating via BioLife??

[phoenixyfriend]

New York is just plastered in organ donor ads these days.

(Inb4> this predates the UHC assassination)

[silvermoon424]

I just actively chose to not get involved in Discourse with stupid people online and I'm being SO brave about it!!!