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it’s very clever when a musician does a countdown before the song starts that way you don’t get scared when the music comes on because you now know what’s coming

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when I finally get rich and famous I'm gonna make some sort of fiction project and write a character that's just an extremely thinly veiled self insert so I can take notes on their legions of fans psychoanalysing them and crowd source the explanations for all my problems. I'll also make a few anonymous fan accounts to start discourse by posting "uhhh it's actually really disrespectful to imply that this character is a self insert, that's delegitimizing queer women's creative abilities..." and then use some other sock puppets to link this post and say "they literally said they were gonna do this verbatim"

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I saw this and I thought Tumblr might enjoy it

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By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journal Cell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.

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Happy Mermay from the Pacific sea nettle mermaid!!

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

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Happy Mermay from the Pacific sea nettle mermaid!!

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

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Always great when this is the thumbnail of the weeks forecast

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I'm starting a collection

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idk if i told the full story on here but i signed up for a research study where they were testing a new opioid, and it was supposed to be up to 5 injections increasing the dose to see what people could tolerate

i got the first dose and almost immediately fainted. they had to call in a whole medical team and it was a huge fucking deal

i was kicked out of the study and got a phone call later where they were supposed to tell me what the drug was, so i could avoid it in the future. they told me it was saline water. a placebo. i fainted from the placebo effect.

anyway, it's been a few months and i just got an email from the same department asking me to be a research participant in a new study: testing the effects of open-label placebo.

open label placebo is when the subjects and the researchers all know it's a placebo. they're testing the power of my mind. my power to imagine anything.

i like to think that they chose me for this specifically based on their past experience with me. "get the guy who fainted like a little bitch boy from saline water." anyway i just submitted all my info and i'm looking forward to getting started.

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Mouse Armor by Jeff de Boer

Etsy Mouse armor necklace and earrings available as well as other work by Jeff de Boor.

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To reduce my screen time, I have weaponised my overactive and entirely impractical levels of empathy for inanimate objects. Wym you’re picking it up again? While it was sleeping? You complete and utter monster, let it rest!!

And it works. It works like a CHARM. Silly problems require silly solutions!

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What the hell is that thing and how is he driving

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you knock on my door and hear loud barking and scrambling noises and me yelling "no!! down boy!! down!!!" and then when i open the door there is a single crab on the floor