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This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".

im so tired of this, i understand both opinions but yall just make it worse.

yes, ive seen a lot of people who said "im friendly to transmen but i hate transwomen". but it's not transmen's fault, they didn't do anything. it doesn't mean that transmen are "centered" or smth. please direct your anger toward transphobes who said this thing.

yes, ive seen a lot of transfems who said "decenter transmen" and who felt offended because of transmisogyny. but they are just victims of transphobia, i still understand them and ask you to understand them too. try to change their opinion without hating.

guys we all are victims of transphobia, we have the same enemy. yes, some transphobes hate transmen/transwomen more but it's only transphobes' fault. 😭😭😭 we have to help each other, not fucking hate. be tolerate and love your ftm brothers, mtf sisters and enby siblings.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%

Most hopeful is a new tradition, the anatomical memorial service. In the 19th century, the Medical College of Georgia and other schools blindly tossed the bones of African-American dissection subjects into its basement, but today's medical schools provide anatomical subjects with burials. Many medical schools also hold Memorial services at the conclusion of each anatomy course. Family members are invited and students offer prayers, poems, thanks, and remembrances. There are candles and tears.

One would be hard pressed to distinguish these services from the memorials for any beloved friend or family member."

Chapter 5- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

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