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for the past two years i have been sponsoring a tuberculosis detection rat in tanzania, her name is carolina. she sniffs sputum samples & alerts her handlers when she detects TB. recently she turned 8 & aged out of the program, so they held a retirement party for her & sent me photos.

while carolina moves on to live a life of rest & luxury in the retirement kennels, her role is being passed on to her successor, tamasha. she is 2 years old & was named after the grandmother of one of her handlers.

(with her handler priscus)

here is a description of tamasha:

"Tamasha is also quite playful! She enjoys jumping, climbing, and sometimes does a joyful little dance when placed in the TB evaluation enclosure – as if celebrating her enthusiasm for the work ahead. She’s also a big fan of avocado, her favorite treat for a job well done."

im not afraid to admit that this email made me cry like a stupid baby. you can sponsor your own big beautiful TB- or landmine-detecting rat through APOPO HeroRATS. they send you an update on how your rat is doing each month, including photos.

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Images from Leonard Nimoy’s The Full Body Project (2007)

The Full Body Project is a book of photography by Leonard Nimoy that features a group of women involved in fat liberation. They were the Fat-Bottom Revue—women who worked in film, theatre, and art and who formed the first all-fat burlesque performance group. The founder of the Fat-Bottom Revue, Heather MacAllister, was an advocate in the LGBT rights movement, the fat acceptance movement, and in particular was a champion for fat lesbians.

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Mariette Pathy Allen, TransCuba (a series capturing the daily lives of the transgender and GNC community in Cuba), 2012-2014.

In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive free, legal sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender.

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Bold thought of the day: if we're going to compare My Stubborn to Love in the Air, the two characters that really parallel are Sorn and Rain. Both of them are being driven by a powerful craving for a D/s dynamic which they are not at all consciously grappling with, leading to a lot of unhinged and contradictory behavior.

Things go much more smoothly for Rain, partly because he's angling for the sub role but mostly because his partner is experienced and understands what's going on. Payu sees the signals Rain is broadcasting on every channel and leads him around to a settled relationship they're both happy in. He plays his role as a dom and gives Rain the prodding and support he needs to understand himself and his own desires.

And then we get Sorn flailing all over the place because he wants control, he craves it, and he wants it in a specifically eroticized way, but he doesn't seem to have the language or framework to set up a stable dynamic. He doesn't realize (although maybe as of ep 4 he is beginning to see) that the role he desperately wants to occupy also comes with responsibilities. And Jun has even less of a clue what's going on so he cannot steer things or lay boundaries the way an experienced sub might be able to.

I'm having a GREAT time watching this disaster unfold.

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FINALLY

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CONGRATS OP 🎉

Man I just know the year Kim was with X-Hunter he would just have his head in his hands half the time witnessing Charlie and Babe’s relationship. Like Charlie would be telling him about a fight Babe and him had and be like, “but then we had sex so it was okay” and Kim’s like, “but… did you resolve the issue?” And Charlie would be like “ehhhhhhhhh” and Kim would just go and lie down in the middle of the track

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Big week for mustaches in BL Land

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Congratulations to Joong for catching them!

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Peanut(s)

snoopy of the day

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its awesome theres a vampire on sesame street because you need to introduce children to the concept as early as possible

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Belinda and Donna parallels

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Just being a passenger princess scrolling insta and coming across this:

THE WAY I SCREAMED

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@mrpinniped

my dad just exploded into laughter out of nowhere and told me ‘imagine the lion king but with sea lions’ he has been chuckling about it for 5 straight minutes now

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Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

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Crazy that people are popping off about the American pope but not commenting about the fact that he has spent a good chunk of his life in Peru, has Peruvian citizenship, and also took time in his first speech to address the crowd in Spanish and specifically thank everyone from Peru. He didn't speak English at all.