Absolute Link

Been a while since I've done any Beat Saber uploads. Here's my playthrough of "Animal" (MiComet cover version). Mapped by Spectral -- pretty challenging but fair, and extremely fun! youtu.be/fT-8V5B2Cy4

@PinaPengin Do you have orange slices?

Alright PenPals, get into the car! I will take you all to the soccer practice 😉

@PinaPengin Rental places are the worst for literally never giving you what you explicitly asked for. I'm not sure how they keep getting away with it!

I find it funny how they gave me a 155cm petite woman a 2026 gmc acadia suv 😅 I was like “wait… seriously? I asked for a small car 😂” I had to adjust the seat forward and up almost to the max cause my feet and arms are too short

@amiyaaranha Next episode Bulma's gonna be like "Slayyyy 💅"

Omg bulma just said it's getting vicious but I misheard it as it's giving vicious and I almost had a heart attack

What the heck is a hantavirus? 🗒️ Everyone's asking if we have a new pandemic on our hands, but it's important to break down the facts that we know about the virus, and understand the developing information as it comes. But also I'm having flashbacks to 2019 in MS2 year microbio where our professor quickly went over poxvirus, coronavirus, or hantavirus and said they were low-yield because we'd never see them in clinical practice... Ok, so if you're a nerd, hantaviruses are (-)RNA segmented, enveloped viruses with a helical capsid (shoutout to the bunyaviridae SketchyMicro vid). They're a zoonotic virus that are transmitted from rodents (like the western deer mouse or the bank vole) to humans through droplets that contain the virus particles. The viruses are found in the animals' droppings, urine, and saliva, and become airborne when cleaning or sweeping up the area of infected rats. Hantavirus has the highest clinical incidence in South America and the Southwestern US, and worse in rural areas with less controlled sanitation. In humans, hantavirus infection causes generalized inflammation, leading to endothelial damage causing increased vascular permeability ("leaky capillaries"). Two unique diseases that it can cause are Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) and Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Failure Syndrome (HRFS). In HPS, a few days of flu-like symptoms spiral into full-on pulmonary edema and shock, requiring ICU-level care. This carries a 30-40% mortality rate. In HRFS, the namesake triad of fever, internal bleeding, and kidney failure occur. This has a 3-15% mortality rate. The most common causes of HPS are from the Sin Nombre virus (SNV) in North America, and the Andes virus (ANDV) in South America. SNV is transmitted by the western deer mouse and behaves as most other hantaviruses do, having a big outbreak in the Southwestern US in 1993. ANDV is transmitted by the long-tailed pygmy rice rat, and had a bad outbreak in Argentina and Chile in 1995-1996. This is significant because it revealed the FIRST EVER human-to-human transmission of hantavirus and remains of big concern for this cruise ship situation. So the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak is an ongoing case, but the short of it is that the ship left from Argentina on April 1st, and a passenger died on April 11th. The body was removed from the ship on April 24th (my birthday...) in Saint Helena, a small island in between South America and Africa. At that time, the passenger's wife and 29 other passengers also disembarked the ship. The wife then flew to South Africa, and was shortly admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg. She died on April 26th. Of the remaining people on the ship, a third passenger died on May 2nd. There are currently 8 suspected cases, 5 confirmed cases, and 3 deaths. As of today, May 7th, the WHO has confirmed that the hantavirus strain identified in 2 of the deceased victims is the ANDV strain that can transmit between humans. The ship is still sailing, and as of yesterday is en route to Tenerife, where they expect to disembark the remaining passengers and evacuate them to their home countries for treatment. So far, the WHO has done a good job of tracking the passengers and close contacts, but a droplet transmission disease is always precariously staged to get out of control, especially in close contact situations like in airplanes. One of the flight attendants on the initial patient's wife's flight was already admitted to a hospital due to infection suspicion. As a viral disease, there is no specific cure at the moment, other than provide aggressive medical support in an ICU setting to fight off the impending cardiopulmonary collapse. For now, we have no evidence to support that this situation points towards pandemic levels. The passengers have all been tracked, and in America, the CDC has already began to closely monitor the 6 (asymptomatic) American passengers that have returned to Arizona, California, Georgia, and Virginia. It is certainly an outbreak, but the public health risk is still much lower than what we were dealing with during COVID.

@PoorpleSpam Yes, very sweet and easy to talk to! Which was great since it was my first proper 1-on-1 M&G!

@absolute_link wowowow so cool!! Raki is always so sweet to us and makes it easy to talk with her 🥺

Early Saturday morning, first thing to do at OshiUplink for me was the #RakiKazuki M&G! It was very lovely to meet her, she's super sweet, and she liked my hat! Also including pics of the Raki section of the Sunday Music Relay, which was amazing, and some merch I bought.

@feebeechanchibi Happy Birthday, Cogimyun!

Ohachi!!! 🐝🌸 And HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR BELOVED OSHI, COGIMYUN! 🌾 Our flour fairy who deserves it all~ I always feel most in my element 1) surrounded by flowers and 2) immersed in cute things 🌷🎀 So I had a particularly magical day at Sanrio Puroland, where they were having their springtime celebration! Despite getting there an hour earlier than opening, I wasn't able to snag a ticket for Cogimyun's birthday meet and greet... But I enjoyed lots of themed food and grabbed goods and basked in the atmosphere ✨️ I'll have a recap for you guys at some point! I've been encouraged to start vlogging and finally saved up to get a small hand camera (baby's first camera!) so please look forward to some fun new kinds of content 👀 What kinds of vlogs or shorts would you like to see me film???

@ganbaraki Good morning! (read: evening)

trashpans it’s almost 5 but it still feels like 11 AM so OHARAKI

@valvesoftware @Steam Good approach, please do the same from the start when the Steam Frame releases! And importantly, please keep the April 27th account restriction, don't make it closer to the Frame release, otherwise scalpers will be churning out accounts right NOW for it and for the Machine.

Steam Controller update: Reservations will be available on @Steam beginning tomorrow. Details here: store.steampowered.com/news/group/454…

@tenmamaemi Hope you feel better soon!

in bed

must...............stream.........even if dying

@merruru Good morning smail!

good morning sunshine the smail says hello! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. ✨☀️

@amaimiart Oh there was an item of yours I really wanted but somehow missed at the con! ...so I order online now and PRETEND I got it properly in the artist alley lol

wait why is my catalogue taking off the past few hours? the con was last weekend and I'm already back home... 😂😂

I really wanted to play Silksong and talk with everyone but I think I'm just going to have to take the day off. I'll be back soon so be good everyone. Thank you for all that you do💙

@yukinoshitapeo Yep that's him! Holy what a mic drop LOL!

?!!??!!?! Did he get my standee?! 👀✨ (This will probably be the last standee before my Ver3.0 design!)

Everyoneee, I need more energy! Please pat pat my head ૮⁔. ̫ .⁔ა

@wilhelminafr0st You're gonna have to get her back good for this! Daresay... maybe even a Minecraft training arc to get the skills needed for payback...?

Argh! This damn wolf!!! 💢

@Kumachi_alamode Yes, they do actually! 😅

Guy: *posts veiny arm* My first thought: I bet phlebotomists love you

@merruru Ice cubes, croutons... crunchiness fan in general?

i love eating croutons!

@amiyaaranha Exciting!

okay it was a lot of print bed tetrising but kit cards are printing!!

i love u!!!

@Lukas03032 Thanks, I appreciate the perspective! 🙏

@absolute_link @pillowdearASMR I don't think you said anything impolite :) Pillow just wanted to see all her fans (even if you're not the most active)

I did pass by PillowDear when she was doing the iPad tour, but she had a line and I figured I'm not enough of a regular to take up any of her time. Instead, here's a cute double-sided charm I got from the artist alley!