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for anyone who wanted an update on this guy!!
From the zoo:
The fin-tastic story about our French angelfish receiving a CT scan is making waves! Here’s an update on the post we shared last week including more information about the diagnosis and treatment, along with photos of the highly requested CT images!
Earlier this year, Tropical Discovery Animal Care Specialists noticed this angelfish was swimming abnormally, tilted to one side. They brought it to the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Animal Hospital where the Veterinary Medicine team performed a CT scan and ultrasound and found that the fish had enteritis (inflamed intestines). This resulted in increased intestinal gas that was affecting its buoyancy. The angelfish was treated with a course of antibiotics that resolved the enteritis and is now doing much better and swimming normally.
Our Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Animal Hospital is one of the most comprehensive zoo veterinary hospitals in the nation, fully equipped with an onsite CT scanner. We’re honored to invest in the highest quality veterinary care for all our animal patients, including CT scans, which are essentially 3D x-rays! Whether an angelfish or an elephant, our team of veterinarians—who are Board Certified Specialists in Zoological MedicineTM and Veterinary Pathology—and Certified Veterinary Technicians are available 24/7 to provide expert care to every animal that calls Denver Zoo home! 🐠
Photo 1: Photo of our angelfish receiving a CT scan. Our Veterinary Medicine team sedated the fish and ran water intermittently over its gills during this brief scan.
Photo 2: This set of images (transverse, sagittal, and coronal views) is what our Veterinary Medicine team uses to evaluate CT scans.
Photo 3: 3D Reconstruction of scales and skeleton of the fish
Photo 4: 3D Reconstruction of the fish’s skeleton
Photo 5: 3D Reconstruction of gas-filled structures including the fish’s normal swim bladder and abnormal gas in the intestines.
I cannot stop thinking about this fish at Denver Zoo getting a CT scan.
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I was absolutely befuddled when I saw someone say they loved your Eunuch so I went on your page and saw it was your cat and I was like "oh okay that makes sense now." I must say your Faithful Eunuch is exceedingly adorable.
LOL honestly it's really funny seeing how much tumblr loves my cat bc he has that effect on people irl too, including but not limited to the vets
#it's so funny vets who aren't treating him will come into the room to say hi to him n see how he's doing#and YES everything about my cat has to be fake-ass 16th century now#i need a tag for this i cant keep using adventures of normalgirl that's my Me tag#lady normalgirl and her eunuch#< ill think of smthn better eventually#thanks for the ask!#cats#my doods
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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!
#humans are good actually#humans are strange#hopecore#honey prose#respectfully do not fill my mentions w Christianity references this is NOT a capital G god friendly post#fuck the concept of original sin and also Thomas Hobbes#also for all the vet ppl in the tags saying don’t take a wild animal to the vet pls refer to ‘just so it doesn’t suffer’ IM A VET TECH.#THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WE CAN DO FOR A SMALL WILD ANIMAL THAT IS INJURED .#I’m talking about humane euthanasia for a creature that is clearly suffering when there’s no wildlife conservation for 60+ miles#I’ve actually never had a client that didn’t call to ask to bring it in that didn’t already know and understand euthanasia was all we’d be#able to do.#that’s the kindness part. that’s the love. ‘I can’t do anything except make sure you don’t suffer any longer than u already have since some#asshole ran over your back legs’
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gang whats the most thorough list of vetted fundraisers for gaza?
also, if someone is NOT already vetted, whats a good way to submit names/users for vetting?
#i have a lot of them in my inbox. i wanna sort as best as i can#for the record that does NOT mean dismissing anyone who hasnt been vetted!#it just means trying to earnestly figure out what to do with them#ask to tag /#free palestine#gaza#gaza fundraiser
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Bringing attention to this campaign again
[verification done by gaza-evacuation-funds]
I have previously written posts [1, 2] for @aburakhiaibrahim and his family's campaign. Since the first post from over a month ago (25 Oct), they campaign has only raised an additional $1686 CAD. As of now, the campaign is at $7801 CAD / $30,000. Donations are slow, with only 1 donation in the past 24 hours from 9 hours ago and only 8 donations in the last 5 days.
Just to add pertinent information about this campaign, this is for the daily needs of a family comprised of 28 people, 15 of whom are children. His mother also has hypertension and diabetes. With food, medicine, and other basic needs being exorbitantly expensive, they need donations to come in faster.
Please support this family.
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reblog if you’re an illegal alien going in for transgender surgery in prison
#actual sugar post#HEY IF YOURE SEEING THIS GO CHECK OUT THE VETTED FUNDRAISERS TAG ON MY BLOG#I hate both of these people but GOD is trump just absolutely off the rails batshit#fuck america#us empire#presidential debate#us politics#2024 presidential election
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day 7
ough i wish i had time to render this properly but im obsessed with felix helping eugene bleach his hair. he did NOT hire a professional he is a box dye in your bathroom with your roommate girlie. just like me fr
#day 7#year 6#eugene finch#felix drawtectives#drawtectives#drawfee#i guess his full name is probably felix finch huh?? idk that thats an established tag tho lol#ough thats cute tho i love the alliteration#my late pup had my grandmas last name on all her paperwork at the vet#so her full name was Tippy Tipton and EVERY time we went in#the vets and techs would read her FULL name out loud with such genuine delight#bc it was in fact very fucking cute#anyway thats felix also probably thats my headcanon now
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i don’t think there’s a better example of leftist antisemitism than the time i was explaining antisemitism i had personally experienced and was told “i’m sorry that upset you but also it makes sense to say that. you should read theory”
#this happened back in early october but i still think about it#it wasn’t outright antisemitism like i wasn’t called a kike or anything bit it had to do with someone invoking the dual loyalty trope#in the way where i could tell i was being vetted and they were trying to see if they could consider me a ‘good’ jew#did the person realise they were doing this when it happened? probably not#does that also say something about leftist antisemitism that the person didn’t realise they were being antisemetic#and then other leftists later agreed that actually that is fine and normal and makes sense to say#oh for sure#antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#the way there’s already a tag for that lmao#y’all can rb this btw
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📰Khawla's Family Campaign Update: 34📰
$4,646/$20,000 as of September 17th [10pm CDT]
Only $354 away from $5,000! this would take the campaign to a 4th of the way to it's goal!
Please Help reach the campaign goal as soon as possible by clearing $5,000 as a short term target! Donating even just $5, $10, or $20 and reblogging/sharing the campaign can help push it forward!
It would take about 800 people donating $20 to reach the campaign's goal! so spreading the campaign further really can help!
[for more information about the campaign: check the pinned post of this blog, the campaign page itself, or feel free to dm me directly if you have any questions]
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how am i meant to ha wahoo yippee through life in these conditions
#vu talks shit#in this past week i have#gone to urgent care without insurance#paid about half my bills#been reminded that i still owe someone another near 200 for a trip i leave for in TWO DAYS#AND i paid for a rental space for something that i am ADMITTEDLY VERY HAPPY ABOUT BUT STILL SO BROKE NOW#and i have done ZERO grocery shopping#and im not sure i have the money to do grocery shopping right now#but im scared to look at my bank account after shelling out nearly 1k on everything else#AND i have to take my cat back to the vet soon cause she's starting to have asthma attacks again#i need to put everything new in my shop and put shit up for pre order cause i got charms im working on#but mAn i just#cannot afford the distractions rn#vent#AAAAAAAAAAUGH#i didnt wanna put that but i am stressing in the tags now
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My sister needs our help
My sisters service dog got hit by a car, and this info was purposefully kept from us for hours by our brother. (we had to force a friend of his to tell us, the others didn't say a word)
We went to an emergency vet but they screwed us over, Sent him to a different vet when he wasn't ready or got the care he needed. He got worse and it costed us $1,100
He is currently staying at an er and getting a chest tap, a dnr was signed. At the time of posting this the cost of treatment is $3,700.
This has not only been heartbreaking but is causing loads of financial stress on my sister, I want to help. The goal amount may fluctuate with charges added on, any amount given or shares helps.
If you have the means to/want to donate, you can do so here (click)
I usually don't make posts like this or ask for help, as I feel horrible taking donations but when it comes to my sister I want to do anything I possibly can.
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Please keep supporting Ahmed's family
I have made a post about Ahmed @ahmedfamily900 and his family back in November. Their campaign has made progress (from €797 to €3,397 raised of the €100,000 goal, only 3% funded), but it remained very slow, sometimes going days with minimal increase.
[verification: gaza-evacuation-funds, gazavetters (#37)]
This family is trying to raise funds for their daily needs of around 20 members and for the treatment of several members who have been injured during the current campaign of genocide by the settler state. Two of those injured are children. Another child has cleft palate which needs prompt surgical correction to prevent speech and feeding difficulties. Ahmed's twin brother had been taken by the IOF and released in September. (Details in the post linked in par. 1)
With the impending truce, Ahmed and his family may be able to return to their home in the north of Gaza, and they would have been happy to return to a even broken down structure with dilapidated rooms, but some of their acquaintances have informed them that there is not even rubble to return to. They still need our support. ETA: Ahmed is also requesting others to sponsor/make their own posts/regularly share his campaign. If you can, please do not hesitate to do so.
Please keep supporting this family. Thank you.
Tagging for reach. Respectfully requesting to boost and tag others s well so it may reach other bigger blogs/get enough exposure/etc. Please reply or reach out in other ways for tag removal. Thank you.
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TIL the Australian guy that put on the single greatest piece of improv theater ever caught on camera during his wrongful arrest passed away this August from cancer.
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For those who don't know: in 1991 an investigator who suspected this man of credit card fraud called the cops on him at the Chinese restaurant where he was dining with a friend. To expedite the arrest, he led the police to believe they were arresting a high profile criminal of some sort.
Police surrounded the restaurant, corralled the waiting media (who had somehow gotten wind), and interrupted Karlson's lunch.
"He was as calm as anything," former police detective Adam Firman says of the moment he arrested Karlson in the restaurant.
"He was happy to go with us. Well, as happy as you can be, to be arrested. Until he saw all the media. And that's when he just went berserk."
The lines Karlson delivered have since become classic quotes in internet culture.
"Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!" Karlson declares to the cameras as he's wrestled into the police car.
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"As soon as we drove away, he stopped and he said, 'That was fun,'" Firman says.
"There was no fight getting him out of the car. Nothing. It was all put on for the cameras."
The drama behind the rant
The Brisbane police who arrested him that day didn't know that Karlson had been a criminal and a serial prison escapee. He was also a part-time actor.
By the time he was 34, Karlson had spent most of his life in homes and prisons.
His first escape was in 1966. He was on a train going from Boggo Road Gaol to face a breaking, entering and stealing charge at Maryborough Magistrates Court. He got out of his handcuffs and jumped off.
Two years later, after he had been locked up in McLeod Prison Farm on Victoria's French Island for another theft, he convinced a local fisherman to give him a lift to the mainland.
Three months after that, he was picked up in a stolen car carrying safe-breaking tools in Parramatta. Just before his trial, he impersonated a detective and walked out of his court cell. Finally, he was captured in an apartment on Sydney's North Shore.
That's when his life took a dramatic left turn.
Sentenced to eight years in Parramatta Gaol, Karlson was put in an unusually large cell with an inmate named Jim McNeil.
This chance encounter would become destiny manifest.
McNeil had heard about Karlson impersonating a detective, and he thought it was hilarious.
He welcomed Karlson into his cell. The two men bonded over making foul-tasting alcohol in the cell's washbasin from raisins and yeast, and shared histories.
They had both grown up poor, even by the standards of their rough-and-tumble neighbourhoods. Adults had abused them physically and sexually. And they'd both stolen and scammed a few shillings for their families when they saw the chance.
After encouragement from Karlson, McNeil wrote a play about cellmates who brewed grog. They put it on in prison, and Karlson played a leading role.
Both had discovered talents they didn't know they had. McNeil kept writing on his smuggled typewriter, and Karlson kept acting. The plays became a hit among young Sydney intellectuals, many who had been campaigning for prisoners' rights.
Within four years, their work got them out on parole a combined 13 years early.
Best friends
Karlson and McNeil's friendship continued outside the prison gates and they moved into a house in Richmond together.
The two men stuck out like sore thumbs in their new-found scene of artists and intellectuals.
Neither man had set foot in a theatre, but McNeil's plays were already being performed across Australia. He felt that, with the success of his plays, he'd never need to resort to crime again. On radio and in the press, he would give didactic rants about the brutality of the justice system.
Karlson, meanwhile, got parts in the prime-time crime dramas Homicide and Matlock Police.
They remained close.
"The lovely bloke. I love him," McNeil told an interviewer around the same time Karlson named his son Jim McNeil Karlson.
Karlson described them as best friends.
But McNeil's alcoholism killed him in 1982.
Karlson couldn't travel to the funeral in Sydney for legal reasons.
"I … with a bodgie [fake identity], booked up hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of flowers and wreaths," he says.
Final days
McNeil's plays weren't subtle. They were screeds aimed at a society that arrested and tormented unfortunate men for petty crimes.
"The message is: look what you're doing to people," he told one interviewer.
He went on to tell a story about an Aboriginal cellmate. "He was illiterate, he was poor. He had nothing. And he stole thruppence ha'penny. And then he got three and a half years. That's a penny a year.
"Prison is the best way to show what's wrong with the outside."
His final play was about two cellmates in Parramatta. He named it 'Jack', and finished it in a drunken haze.
"Do you know I'm here?" shouts Jack the character. "Do you give a f*** where I am? No. No, you don't give a f*** where I am. Pricks. Democrats."
Fifteen years later, Jack Karlson declared "Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!" to the waiting cameras and an enduring audience.
It would be his most unforgettable performance.
From 7news:
So how did Karlson improvise a performance so poetic, so theatrical and so amusing?
“Of course, I was somewhat influenced by the juice of the red grape."
Karlson spent his last years as a painter, incidentally selling many paintings of his own infamous arrest, and helping make a documentary about his life that's yet to be released. He died aged 82, surrounded by family and was widely mourned.
"Tata and farewell" legend. Hope the internet never forgets you. ACAB forever.
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DC x DP Prompt *30*
If anyone would ask Bruce how he could have known, he would tell them that it is obvious. Phantom - the new part-time member of the Young Justice - who seemed to be forever young and their new engineer Danny Fenton who is in his early twenties have perfectly fitting schedules. When Fenton is working in the Watchtower, Phantom will be unavailable for the Young Justice and vice versa. Also, the pranks started after both of these figures appeared. Of course one could argue that they could just be related or somehow knew each other otherwise, but the pranks that were pulled on all of the mentors of the Young Justice were only possible with Phantom Powers. And because of the new Ghost Shield the young hero wouldn't be able to just fly into the Watchtower and had to use the Zeta-Tube, what would mean that they should be able to look at the logs. But Phantom never entered the Watchtower while the pranks were under way. And as soon as his team really needed him, Fenton would make an excuse to leave work early.
What he wouldn't tell anyone, is that he saw how Fenton had transformed himself into Phantom, shortly before the Flash got up to run for a snack, just to fall down because his ankles had been cuffed together.
And maybe he helped him from time to time, with a well timed question to distract his fellow heros. Because the motive became clear really fast. Everytime someone got pranked, that someone had done something to ignite the wrath of the younger heros.
All of that also meant two things.
First of all, as soon as Danny was at work, Batman would be extra aware of his surroundings. The pranks never worked on him, which meant he had to dodge more attempts for the rest of the day.
And secondly: He should talk to Tim, after he found out how he had put his foot in his mouth this time, since he just saw his spoon move in his coffee mug without anyone's involvement. He just let his (probably salty) coffee go cold, brooding. Maybe he should go home early today and spend some quality time with his son...
#skylers prompts#dcxdp#dcxdp prompt#dpxdc#don't tag the danny phantom fandom#bruce wayne#justice league#young justice#Danny is a part-time member of the young justice#he doesn't like it when his new friends are hurt/sad#so he pranks the adult hero responsible#bruce knows#everyone else is losing their mind#but Bruce now knows that he upset Tim somehow and tries to talk things out#Tim knows that Bruces knows but it works either way#Danny the engineer getting a text from Kon that they really need his help: “My sister just texted me that Cujo ate a entire Chocolate cake!#I have to bring him to the vet!“
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