#or from cholera

[volixia669]

I...What.

Why the fuck the 1830s? "But without the racists" Okaaaaaaaaay, even if we set aside all the other bigotries alive and well, that's still a very simplified way of looking at slavery, white supremacy, and colonialism.

Also if the song isn't about those topics, that I'm sure she doesn't give a fuck about, why bring up racism at all? It just sounds like the songwriter was like "oh right the 1830s had slavery, let's just rhyme this with racists aaaaannnd perfect." Which again, whyyyyy the 1830s?

One thing is for sure, I'm still side eyeing my cousin who ADORES Taylor Swift and thinks her music is the best thing ever.

i can't believe this is real this sounds like it was pulled directly from the "i wanna have straight sex" tiktok

[osteochondraldefect]

"But the two of us are performing admirably!"

barebones lineart + effectless version+the continuing bit of hungarian hale

[sailormoonsub]

Happy new year everyone! We just had our Christmas yesterday (don't worry about it) and I need to show you what majesty @beauxoiseaux has handcrafted this time.

Also I have been using @xosailormars's usagi bun tutorial for like a decade now and it never steers me wrong

[sob-dylan]

i’m probably going to, finally, at long last, finish the neapolitan quartet/my brilliant friend series today. i don’t have that much more left, but i am considering slowing down to one page a day so i can drag this out. i’ve fallen so deeply in love with these girls and idk what i’m gonna do without them 😭

[heckyeahponyscans]

imagine being less competent than the Fyre Fest guy

[ofpd]

i often like to think that the bad oyster grantaire ate today gave him cholera. it's not remotely thematically compelling but boy is it funny to me

[quotesfrommyreading]

According to the popular theory of “epidemiological transitions,” first articulated by the Egyptian scholar Abdel Omran, the demise of infectious diseases in wealthy societies was an inevitable result of economic development. As societies prospered, their disease profile shifted. Instead of being plagued by contagion, they suffered primarily from slow-moving, chronic, noncommunicable conditions, like heart disease and cancer.

I confess to once being a true believer in this theory. I knew from visiting places like the south Mumbai ghetto where my father had grown up that societies that suffered significant burdens of infectious diseases were indeed crowded, unsanitary, and impoverished. We stayed in south Mumbai every summer, crammed with relatives into two-room flats in a dilapidated tenement building. Like the hundreds of other residents, we flung our waste into the courtyard, carried our own water in aging plastic buckets to shared latrines, and fitted two-foot boards over the thresholds to keep out the rats. There – as in other crowded, waste-ridde, poorly plumbed societies – infection was a constant reality.

But then, thanks to the same conditions that brought cholera to the shores of New York City, Paris, and London in the nineteenth century, writ large, the microbes staged their comeback. Development in once remote habitats introduced new pathogens into human populations. A rapidly changing global economy resulted in faster modes of international travel, offering these pathogens new opportunities to spread. Urbanization and the growth of slums and factory farms sparked epidemics. Like cholera, which benefited from the Industrial Revolution, cholera's children started to benefit from its hangover: a changing climate, thanks to the excess carbon in the atmosphere unleashed by centuries of burning fossil fuels.

The first new infectious disease that struck the prosperous West and disrupted the notion of a “postinfection” era, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), appeared in the early 1980s. Although no one knew where it came from or how to treat it, many commentators exuded certainty that it was only a matter of time before medicine would vanquish the upstart virus. Drugs would cure it, vaccines would banish it. Public debate revolved around how to get the medical establishment to move quickly, not about the dire biological threat that HIV posed. In fact, early nomenclature seemed to negate the idea that HIV was an infectious disease at all. Some commentators, unwilling to accept the contagious nature of the virus (and willing to indulge in homophobic scapegoating) declared it a “gay cancer” instead.

And then other infectious pathogens arrived, similarly impervious to the prevention strategies and containment measures we'd long taken for granted. Besides HIV, there was West Nile virus, SARS, Ebola, and new kinds of avian influenzas that could infect humans. Newly rejuvenated microbes learned to circumvent the medications we'd used to hold them in check: drug-resistant tuberculosis, resurgent malaria, and cholera itself. All told, between 1940 and 2004, more than three hundred infectious diseases either newly emerged or reemerged in places and in populations that had never seen them before. The barrage was such that the Columbia University virologist Stephen Morse admits to having considered the possibility that these strange new creatures hailed from outer space: veritable Andromeda strains, raining down upon us from the heavens.

By 2008, a leading medical journal acknowledged what had become obvious to many: the demise of infectious diseases in developed socieites had been “greatly exaggerated”. Infectious pathogens had returned, and not only in the neglected, impoverished corners of the world but also in the most advanced cities and their prosperous suburbs. In 2008, disease experts marked the spot where each new pathogen emerged on a world map, using red points. Crimson splashed across a band from 30-60° north of the equator to 30-40° south. The entire heart of the global economy was swathed in red: northeastern United States, western Europe, Japan, and southeastern Australia. Economic development provided no panacea against contagion: Omran was wrong.

  —  Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Sonia Shah)

[smol-blue-bird]

not to be an annoying crotchety back in my day boomer, but American Girl dolls really were better when I was a kid, right? like, they used to have actual stories and stuff. now every American Girl doll is like “Her name is Generic Blue-Eyed Straight-Blonde-Hair Girl #128838. She comes from a painfully ordinary, modern-day upper-middle-class household, she has exactly two (2) Conventionally Feminine Girl Hobbies, and she has experienced zero real problems ever in her life”

[cinnamonfknbuns]

it's so cold but I don't wanna get properly dressed bc im scared of running out of my good clothes... water please come back I miss u......

god if ur hearing this CLEAN WATER. FROM THE PIPES. IN MANAGEABLE QUANTITIES. 🫷😳🫸

[rpfisfine]

@vzajemnik

[techmomma]

OHHHHHH YEAH IT CAN, BABEYYY

and that’s not even mentioning the other carcinogens that go into casket-making, varnishes on coffins, etc. etc.

embalmed bodies decay. caskets decay, no matter what they are made of--yes, metal too. ALL of EVERYTHING that made up what you put in the ground during the funeral becomes... well, we’ll call that mixture of “grandma and everything she was buried in” something like “compost.” (funfact! the actual term of all of... that is called “necroleachate!”)

just runoff from farms gets into groundwater

burying bodies sure as hell gets into groundwater

oh! and that doesn’t even include the gallons of arsenic they used to use when embalming bodies between about the civil war and world war one! which were often an undertaker’s top secret mix of formaldehyde, arsenic, and a bunch of other decay-stalling bacteria-killing chemicals like borax and mercury! that they kept as trade secrets. <3 so we still have no idea WHAT exactly went into a bunch of people embalmed during this era <3

[raceweek]

the fluro yellow +44 life vests for the floating grandstand would slap actually

[myclutteredbookshelf]

Current Reading List

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

[elxgantcaptain]

huffs a little.

"i don't just drink milk religiously. yes it is halal but that's beside the point. milk is very healthy compared to other non-nutritious drinks. i also drink water and juice in case you haven't noticed."

Hook smirked. "Its only that I only really see you with a glass of milk in your hand, my love."

"And where I'm from, milk is only healthy straight from the farm or breast for a babe, swill milk was foul and I refused to drink it as a child."

[quotesfrommyreading]

The loss of species diversity in northeastern forests of the United States similarly allowed tickborne pathogens to spill over into humans. In the original, intact northeastern forests, a diversity of woodland animals such as chipmunks, weasels, and opossums abounded. These creatures imposed a limit on the local tick population, for a single opossum, through grooming, destroyed nearly six thousand ticks a week. But as the suburbs grew in the Northeast, the forest was fragmented into little wooded plots crisscrossed by roads and highways. Specialist species like opossums, chipmunks, and weasels vanished. Meanwhile, generalist species like deer and white-footed mice took over. But deer and white-footed mice, unlike opossums and chipmunks, don't control local tick populations. When the opossums and the chipmunks disappeared, tick populations exploded.

As a result, tickborne microbes increasingly spill over into humans. The tickborne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi first emerged in humans in an outbreak in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in the late 1970s. If left untreated, the disease it caused – Lyme disease – can lead to paralysis and arthritis among other woes. Between 1975 and 1995, cases increased twenty-five-fold. Today, three hundred thousand Americans are diagnosed with Lyme every year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. Other tickborne microbes are spilling over as well. Between 2001 and 2008, cases of tickborne Babesia microti, which causes a malaria-like illness, increased twentyfold.

Neither West Nile virus nor Borrelia burgdorferi and its kin can spread directly from one person to another, yet. But they continue to change and adapt. And elsewhere, the reordering of wildlife species that precipitated their spillover into humans proceeds. Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.

  —  Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Sonia Shah)