Major global victory in stopping illegal poaching: a tiny little European charity group managed a sting operation which resulted in the conviction of four kingpins responsible for half the global trade in endangered pangolin and other creatures. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://futurecrunch.com/r/cc25d1df?m=d62c57a4-125a-4b9d-b04d-bdfd23b8627c
Haha I love this Australian anti-COVID PSA.
AVOID INFECTING PEOPLE YOU DRONGOS
Edit: OK this is making numbers, and I now think it’s more than likely that this is a clever edit of the original. Welp. It’s hilarious anyway. Enjoy it for what it’s worth!
Edit: The numbers seem to have come from this article:
“People who had more than one COVID-19 infection were three times more likely to be hospitalized and twice as likely to die than those who only had one infection. Those with multiple infections were also more vulnerable to other dangerous conditions; they were 3.5 times more likely to develop lung problems, 3 times more likely to have heart conditions, and 1.6 times more likely to have brain changes requiring care than people who had only had COVID-19 once.”
https://time.com/6232103/covid-19-reinfections-effects/
Underlying study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3
There is discussion on the credibility of these numbers here: https://mastodon.social/@Schouten_B/111651451265780835
Shutting the graphics software down for a couple of days, so one last bit of nibbly joy that I couldn't resist after @babe posted their bunny videos, then that's me.
I'm not quite sure what's happening here, but they both seem to be enjoying it so it's all good.
Have fun folks.
Christmas Eve. Time to jazz up the fluffy advent with some festive dancing heilan coos.
Here's wishing a fun festive season to my fellow fediversians. x
#xmasScribbles #festive #animation #fluffyAdvent #heilanCoos #highlandCows #cows #dance
It's Christmas Eve Eve. Time for a bunny-based double-hatted fluffster (although tbh when *isn't* it time for a bunny-based double-hatted fluffster?)
#xmasScribbles #festive #photoshop #fluffyAdvent #oddCreature
Obsessed today with the genetics of The Muppets Christmas Carol. The movie depicts a truly mixed society of humans and Muppets. Families seem to be one or the other, suggesting two fully separate lineages living side by side. The majority of characters are either human or Muppets of a vaguely animal or creature shape. However, there are also a few human shaped Muppets. Could they be rare hybrids? Then there's the Kermit-Ms. Piggy pairing, which produces only male frog and female pig offspring.
Week 29 of adding a dancer a week & this is becoming absolute CHAOS. On reflection the hats & bells have not helped calm it down, but not to worry.
So time to wish everyone a very happy weekend, & if you celebrate Christmas I hope your festivities are exactly what you want, & if you don't celebrate I hope your non-festivities are exactly what you want.
Right. I'm off to jingle some bells.
#FridaySparklyDancers #xmasScribbles #sillyScribbles #animation #dance #silly #drawing
For fluffy advent day 22 we learn that sometimes it can be hard to find a hat that fits properly, but where there's a will there's a way.
#xmasScribbles #festive #photoshop #fluffyAdvent #oddCreature
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.