Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right

oldmanyellsatcloud:

bogleech:

Part of attempts to ban all research that involves human fetal tissue, because the superstitious feelings of anti-choice fanatics over useless, garbage corpse flesh is apparently more important than any number of entire human lives.

Not to draw away from the impact on HIV research at all, but in fact to add to the depth of this issue: acquiring fetal tissue affects many more forms of medical research as well. Vaccines, degenerative disease research, and other immunology related conditions rely on this technology. While advances in pluripotent stem cell research to replace it as a medium is well underway, we just aren’t there yet. This halt on funding will ripple through our community.

tententeteten:

hachiwarenohachi:

鼻悪いから、ぷーぷーぷーぷー、うるさいわ。でもそれもまたカワイイ

確かにうるさい

tententeteten:

密かに日向ぼっこしてました

mountainbro:

Lighting up the endless night sky.

A Geminid meteor came into frame.

noaasanctuaries:

Don’t be jelly of this moon jelly’s gorgeous pink hues!

These lovely jellyfish are common in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from August to October. Their sting tends to be mild, but still best to look and not touch!

(Photo: Katy Danca Galli)

[Image description: A pink jellyfish floating in the ocean over a coral reef.]

Source: noaasanctuaries

lilbittydragon:

spacehussy:

broliloquy:

quasi-normalcy:

Hot Take: Satan’s actual aim in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was to trick Johnny into committing the mortal sin of pride. Since he succeeded, the Devil gets his soul anyway. But enjoy your functionally useless golden fiddle for the next few decades, I guess.

Even hotter take: Johnny seems like the kind of cool and fun person who was going to go to hell for enjoying life to the fullest anyway, so all the Devil really achieved was a truly impressive self-own in the form of an immortal folk song commemorating Johnny absolutely destroying him in a fiddle duel, despite the fact that the Devil cheated by summoning an entire band of demons to back him up.

#hottest take: the devil was just trying to flirt with johnny

#ultra hot take: The Devil Went Down On Johnny

lanthir:

wenamedthedogkylo:

thealpacalypse:

do you know what I really hate? early morning culture. the misconception that getting up early is inherently better than sleeping in. that people who stay in bed longer than 8 am are lazy and have an unhealthy life rhythm and that apparently they “miss the best part of the day”. that causes so much unnecessary shame and guilt, especially in young people whose inner clock doesn’t work that way – scientifically proven, teenagers can’t reach their mind’s full potential before 10 am. And more generally speaking: why should we care if someone gets up at 10 or 11 am and goes to bed far after midnight? I would get so much more shit done if I wouldn’t feel so guilty for staying up late and sleeping in.

100000% this. Also Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder is a thing. But mostly just yes.

And like, night shift exists? And jobs with wildly irregular schedules?? If every single human woke up at 6 AM and was in bed by 10 PM the fucking world would grind to a screeching halt, and many people would literally fucking die????