Rowan’s Talent

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have you played Disco Elysium?

still haven't finished it, but yup! quite a lot of it.

“Sweet Dreams”

Martin Gregus captured a once in a lifetime moment of a Polar Bear sleeping on a bed of fireweed.

Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Our little stupid conversation means more to me than you think

just got called out of work and I got so excited I put clothes on my dog

Hideaki Anno Greatest Hits:

anno listing “tom and jerry” as one of his top ten anime, unironically

when he admitted to forgetting rei existed not even halfway through the making of evangelion

“i feel like star trek is american imperialism itself”

when anno’s highly anticipated australia visit had to be cancelled because he fell down a tokyo escalator during rush hour and cracked his forehead

“we have to put a little repulsive things in our works, especially for the children. it’s like poison: we need to give it to kids little by little to establish an immunity, so they’ll grow up with the ability and mental strength to resist”

when he called an american fan a “fool” for spending textbook money on anime

“i don’t listen to the beatles”

when he accused disney of casual fascism for “portraying nazis as fashionable”

“disney is simply not capable of handling the wide range of stories we see in japanese anime”

when he compared animation to “masturbation shows”

when he justified his veganism not for political or religious reasons, but because he has “no interest in ordinary life, including eating”

“when i first met anno in college, the first thing he told me was how he knew every line in space battleship yamato, except for the first episode, and the reason he didn’t know every line in the first episode was because he didn’t record it, and the reason he didn’t record it was because he didn’t know if the series would turn out any good”

“i dislike western civilization. i don’t place much trust in western civilization”

“i have an attachment towards deformity. i can’t love something if it’s not broken somewhere”

“maybe i have multiple personality disorder. i don’t even understand myself”

How do you start your day?

Livin la penis smoka

i forgot to post this here

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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have you considered being like a mother to your actual fucking children

before and after we taught him Frost Shield 🥺🥺