becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

old-manrupee:

Watching @becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys fight tumblr in real time, because all they want to do is be informative about a beloved local walrus, but every 5 minutes they have to AGAIN tell someone that childhood character “Where’s Wally” is the original version, and “Where’s Waldo” is the cursed regional variant.


I hope you one day find peace.

For reasons I absolutely do not understand, Tumblr has only just notified me of this tag today, 15th February 2024

Thank you, my friend. I have found peace

PSA for Switch owners

cadenceofhyrule:

The latest 11.0 update means that Google Analytics is a thing on the switch and turned on. What that means is that Nintendo has a deal with Google to share with them your data for advertisement purposes.

To turn it off

  1. go to the eShop
  2. go to your profile where your funds and account info is
  3. go down to the bottom of the page
  4. there you will see “Google Analytics Preferences”
  5. select the Change
  6. select “Don’t Share”

Please spread the word. Really shitty of Nintendo to just quietly start allowing Google to spy on users for advertising.

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follow-up-news:

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles with biotech company accused of exploiting her cells
In their complaint, Lacks’ descendants argued that her treatment illustrates a much larger issue that persists into the present day: racism
NBC News

More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.

Tissue taken from the Black woman’s tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to be successfully cloned. Reproduced infinitely ever since, HeLa cells have become a cornerstone of modern medicine, enabling countless scientific and medical innovations, including the development of the polio vaccine, genetic mapping and even Covid-19 vaccines.

Despite that incalculable impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated.

Doctors harvested Lacks’ cells in 1951, long before the advent of consent procedures used in medicine and scientific research today, but lawyers for her family argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known.

Attorney Ben Crump, who represents the Lacks family, announced the settlement late Monday. He said the terms of the agreement are confidential.

“The parties are pleased that they were able to find a way to resolve this matter outside of Court and will have no further comment about the settlement,” Crump said in a statement.

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lilacbreastedroller:

wild how like PCOS, endometriosis, vaginismus & hell, even frequent yeast infections are “mysterious” with no well known cause and little to no decent treatment, but we have tons of supposedly well researched body fat removal methods, about 20 different kinds of breast implants, laser hair removal, and 100 different dermatologist recommended anti aging creams. we sure had the money and brainpower to cure those “diseases”

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lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that’s really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that “I’m me! No! No!” as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

When I made this post I did not expect it to be an effective test of which Tumblr users actually read a post fully before reblogging, and yet

britcision:

All of the early Watch books can be scaled thusly:

Carrot has Plot Armour and doesn’t know it, so genuinely believes the world works the same way for him as it does for everyone and all he has to do is remind them to be good people

Colon and Nobby can see and acknowledge Carrot’s Plot Armour (after a few experiences during which they are certain he’s about to die) and are completely certain that they don’t have Plot Armour and will face consequences

Colon and Nobby ABSOLUTELY also have Plot Armour but they’ve seen what happens to people without it enough to avoid testing it at all costs

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