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[moonfurthetemmie]

It. It just. Fell off???? It wasn’t bumped, the wall wasn’t hit so it didn’t rattle it

What the hell??????

[dumbassv32]

2023 summarryyyy wooooo

[woe-is-corvus]

Why is being genderflux kinda embarrassing especially if i only go by he/him irl to stay safe like yea i like it/she/he rn because you are in The Know ok just put me out of my misery already 💛

[waterinthegalaxy]

The best niche crossovers can be found on Fanfiction dot net, change my mind

[littlemut]

[reasonsforhope]

"Tim Friede’s YouTube channel is home to a collection of videos depicting the Wisconsin-native truck mechanic subjecting himself to purposeful snake bites, blood slowly dripping down his arms.

For the past 20 years, Friede has been one of the most notorious “unconventional” medical researchers, undergoing over 200 bites from the world’s deadliest snakes — and more than four times as many — 850 — venomous injections. 

He did it all in the name of science.

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 100,000 people are killed by snake bites each year, with countless more being disabled by the venom of the deadly reptiles. 

While life-saving anti-venom is available, very few countries actually have the capacity to produce it properly, given that most bites occur in remote and rural areas, and anti-venom requires arduous sourcing and accuracy. 

But Friede’s blood is now full of antibodies, following decades of strategic exposure to the neurotoxins of mambas, cobras, and other lethal slithering critters.

His blood is now the source material researchers are using to develop an anti-venom capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of snake bites...

Friede started this hobby — which he is indeed adamant no one else tries at home — out of sheer curiosity in childhood. After playing with harmless garter snakes in his youth, he began keeping more dangerous species of snakes as pets. At one point, he had 60 of them in his home basement.

In 1999, he began extracting venom from his snakes, drying it, diluting it, and injecting himself with tiny doses — keeping meticulous records as he went.

He had one major hospitalization in 2001, when he was paralyzed and in a coma for four days. But instead of giving up, he doubled down. 

“In hindsight, I’m glad it happened,” Friede told The Times. “I never made another mistake.”

Jacob Glanville, an immunologist and founder of biotech company Centivax, stumbled on Friede’s videos.

Now, Friede is the director of herpetology at Centivax and serves as something of a “human lab” to Glanville.

“For a period of nearly 18 years, [Tim] had undertaken hundreds of bites and self-immunizations with escalating doses from 16 species of very lethal snakes that would normally a kill a horse,” Glanville told The Guardian.

“It blew my mind. I contacted him because I thought if anyone in the world has these properly neutralizing antibodies, it’s him.”

To develop the new anti-venom, Glanville and his fellow researchers identified 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes — in the elapid family — which kill their prey by injecting neurotoxins into their bloodstream, paralyzing muscles (including the big, important ones, like the heart and lungs).

The trouble is, each species in the elapid family has a slightly different toxin, meaning they would each require their own anti-venom.

But Friede’s blood contains certain fragments of each of these toxins; protein molecules seen across the various species. Because of his decades of service to science, his blood also contains the antibodies required to neutralize these toxins, preventing them from sticking to human cells and causing harm.

Combining the antibodies LNX-D09, SNX-B03, and a small molecule called varespladib that inhibits venom toxins, Centivax has successfully created a treatment effective against the entire range of 19 species’ toxins.

Their work, which was recently published in the journal Cell, will soon be tested outside of the lab. 

Trials will start with using the serum to treat dogs admitted to Australian veterinary clinics for snake bites. Assuming that goes well, the next step will be to administer human tests.

Researchers also believe that because the serum stems from a human, this should also lower the risk of allergic reactions when being administered to other people. 

“The final product would be a single, pan-anti-venom cocktail,” Professor Peter Kwong of Columbia University, a senior author of the study, told The Times.

Or, he added, they could make two: “One that is for the elapids, and another that is for the viperids, because some areas of the world only have one or the other.”

As for Friede, he maintains his affinity for snakes, though his last bite was in November 2018, when he said “enough is enough,” according to The New York Times.

By then, he had certainly done enough. His pursuit of immunity could feasibly save countless lives.

“I’m really proud that I can do something in life for humanity,” Friede told The New York Times, “to make a difference for people that are 8,000 miles away, that I’m never going to meet, never going to talk to, never going to see, probably.”

-via GoodGoodGood, May 2, 2025

[bbbbbbbbatman]

I think it'd be funny if the identity reveal was super anticlimactic. Clark has an interview scheduled with Bruce Wayne about some new project or initiative the company is doing and he walks into Bruce's office and sits down and through a combination of sounds/smells/matching injuries/whatever just immediately recognizes him as Batman and is so surprised he can't contain his reaction and he's just like "Batman...?"

And Bruce loses the Brucie Wayne posture immediately, rolls his eyes and just says, unsurprised and a bit condescending, "Superman."

And then they just sit there in silence, staring at each other, Clark very confused and Bruce clearly annoyed at how quickly Superman recognized him. And when it becomes clear Bruce isn't going to say anything further, Clark looks down at his notes where he has some questions written down and, without knowing what else to do, just awkwardly starts with the first question.

The following interview is one of the strangest he's ever done. Bruce gives some very typical Brucie Wayne answers but all completely deadpan, hardly any inflection. He's also clearly grumpy the entire time. Aside from Bruce not acting like Brucie Wayne, there is no further mention or acknowledgement of their superhero identities. Clark goes back to Metropolis in a daze and still isn't convinced that the whole thing wasn't a fever dream.

[stardust948]

I can't believe they unfounded Found Family the movie.

[stargirl230]

thanks for the light

I was just trying to figure out how procreate works but then the op brainworms got to me and 35 hours later here we are! can you tell I miss home-cooked meals :')

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[egophiliac]

did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

[pinkravat-art]

i cannot keep my identity secret anymore. I am harrier du bois

[mintbees]

I only had a passing familiarity with Kendrick Lamar until this morning so this is how im reading the genius lyrics annotations

[crowleybrekkers]

MAAN 2011 FOR MY FELLOW PEOPLE WHO ARE DEPRESSED ABOUT IT GETTING PRIVATED ON YOUTUBE

[musubiki]

balor 🥰

[clumsypuppy]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[glassgasoline]

hc that clark has many names in the bat family vernacular, most often just his name -clark- (usually used by jason, babs, steph and duke), but also frequently ‘superman’ (by a sleep-deprived tim who isn’t quite sure if anyone’s com is on or off…. he’s being safe), ‘alien’ from damian on a bad day, ‘kent’ on a good one, and a rare and soft ‘supes’ from cass

but dick. that is dick’s FATHER. his second dad. the one who raised him alongside bruce and alfred, the one who taught him how to ride a bike, took him flying for the first time, helped him with his english assignments even if he was off-world. he was there for everything bruce was, from the very start.

so dick calls him ‘dad’ sometimes and the others know he always has done. refers to him as ‘my father’ in conversation, and no one in the mansion bats an eye, no one pries; they’ve seen the photos of clark and dick in matching baseball jerseys from dick’s 13th birthday, and the muddy drawings from before even jason was on the scene of a patchwork family all holding hands and bright crayola smiles to match, however locked away bruce has them (in high-security vaults where they can’t be hurt or broken)

clark got to be ‘dad’ on days where bruce was nothing more than ‘batman���.

clark still gets to be ‘dad’ when everyone’s in the manor kitchen on a sunday morning and all anyone cares about is coffee - and even the way he says it now, all these years later, is different to the way he calls bruce ‘dad’, the love behind it the same, but somehow different and so so so exceedingly familiar that it makes bruce’s jaw ache.

it’s a thing the three of them share, close to their chests and wound around their hearts.

dick grayson has two fathers, and he is their eldest son.