See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is one of the biggest threats facing us over the next 50-100 years. Antibiotics are honestly one of the biggest things that have improved life expectancy and reduced child mortality over the last 70 years or so. The less effective they become, the more we are screwed, especially but not only the immunocompromised.

If everyone can get antibiotics every time they have a cold without going to see a GP, this has potentially disastrous consequences.

In general, I’m very much against gatekeeping things, but antibiotics are precious. 

When bacteria is able to shrug off every potential avenue of treatment, you are, and I cannot express this enough, absolutely fucked. Doctors have been so willy nilly with antibiotics (and the general patient population isn’t finishing the courses consistently) that these bacteria are becoming supercharged.

Have you ever dealt with a wound that had MRSA in it? It’s nasty. That’s not to mention the infections that become necrotic, or when you go septic. They’ve isolated whole floors of hospitals for a single patient that has a drug resistant strain of pneumonia, and speaking of! Drug resistant pneumonia? Yeah, that’s a lung transplant or death. Those are your options.

This praying mantis standing its ground 

SO YOU WRITE DOWN A WORD

BUT ITS NOT THE RIGHT WORD

SO YOU TRY A NEW WORD

BUT YOU HATE THE NEW WORD

AND YOU NEED A GOOD WORD

BUT YOU CANT FIND THE WORD

OH WHERE IS IT

WHAT IS IT

WHAT IS IT

WHERE IS IT-