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Gatik

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🌱They/Them🌱 ✨I’m trying to keep things alive✨ Artist/Writer, care provider ☮️ Lover of little creatures. Studying plants, insects, and people. 🌲🌵🌴🌳🌱🪴👁️👁️✨🏳️‍🌈🌚🌝🏳️‍⚧️✨

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · Jan 15

Here is some of my digital art, abstracts, squiggles, and insectoids for your viewing pleasure.

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 14h

We need to be hitting this guy up
California should be leading the charge on environmental action. These companies are poisoning our bodies and polluting our environment !!!

Gavin Newsom’s veto on bill to ban Pfas hands industry a win, advocates fear

Decision from governor, eyeing presidential bid, could echo across US as similar bans considered in states like New York

www.theguardian.com

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 14h

Remove the forever chemicals from our consumer goods also

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, get the forever chemicals out of California please !!!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 15h

The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Summary
A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn't. Researchers from the University of Florida and MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that the vaccine's immune-activating properties may boost cancer-fighting responses, acting like a nonspecific "flare" that reawakens the immune system.
The work was funded by the National Cancer Institute and foundations. Sayour, Grippin and Mitchell are listed as inventors of patents related to UF-developed mRNA vaccines licensed to iOncologi Inc., a university spinout company.

Abstract
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) extend survival in many patients with cancer but are ineffective in patients without pre-existing immunity.
Although personalized mRNA cancer vaccines sensitize tumours to Cls by directing immune attacks against preselected antigens, personalized vaccines are limited by complex and time-intensive manufacturing processes.
Here we show that mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to ICIs. In preclinical models, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines led to a substantial increase in type I interferon, enabling innate immune cells to prime CD&+ T cells that target tumour-associated antigens. Concomitant ICI treatment is required for maximal efficacy in immunologically cold tumours, which respond by increasing PD-L1 expression.
Similar correlates of vaccination response are found in humans, including increases in type I interferon, myeloid-lymphoid activation in healthy volunteers and PD-L1 expression on tumours. Moreover, receipt of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines within 100 days of initiating ICI is associated with significantly improved median and three-year overall survival in multiple large retrospective cohorts. This benefit is similar among patients with immunologically cold tumours.
Together, these results demonstrate that clinically available mRNA vaccines targeting non-tumour-related antigens are potent immune modulators capable of sensitizing tumours to ICIs.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 7d

good luck kitty

a small, tired-looking cat standing next to a factory building with a smoking chimney. the cat says: “hope I don’t have a long day.” the factory has a sign that reads: “LONG DAY FACTORY”

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günni @n4chtsonn3.bsky.social · 2d

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 26d

The Art of Evan Cagle → bit.ly/2TmIW9Q

#artist #portfolio #illustration #art

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根本順次 @www-marinetraffic.bsky.social · 3d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re feeling sick, please stay home.

If you can’t stay home, please wear a mask. Ideally an N95.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations cost money. Many can’t afford the protection they need.

If you’re able, donate to a mask bloc. Carry spare respirators. Help protect each other!

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Combotron @combotronrobot.bsky.social · 3d

Pokemon Legends ZA has some unhinged dialogue

Edited screenshot of Pokemon Legends ZA with THE ALMIGHTY LOAF saying "even now, the evil seed of what you have done GERMINATES within you." to a trainer.

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ネヲ @newo1022.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 3d

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

I miss bomberman

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🔞 Deez Ghoulz 🎃 @supermattym8.bsky.social · 4d

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 3d

Cool.

Put it back.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: the Ivalice Chronicles, in which a party member Dragoon brings back a creepy doll.

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

She was a huge spider
I moved her from the children’s play structure

A spotted orb weaver spider crawling up the bark of a pine tree

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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

A black and white cat near a window
A lemon tree and a large cactus 🌵 can be seen through the window

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

I noticed the Kanji for ‘Book’
The remaining two kanji are mysterious to me. Google says it says 100 Books.
Can anyone explain the Kanji to me please 🙏 I’m learning

A clear case with a gold sticker
There are three Japanese Kanji

Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

A tan Labubu wearing a saw mask (bear trap design)

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Róisín 🏳️‍⚧️ @roisin.bsky.social · 3d

That's gotta be over 100 inches circumference right? Anyone feel like getting the Urban Forestry folks to harras them over removing a heritage tree?

Urban forestry in DC
If you suspect Special and/or Heritage Trees are being removed illegally, call our office at: 202-673-6813

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András Gáspár @andrasgaspar.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently they also cut out trees. Look how big it was.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

ACLU @aclu.org · 3d

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 3d

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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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Gatik @gatik.bsky.social · 3d

Needs desk plants but otherwise perfect

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting

apnews.com/article/pean...

Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies

A study that upended medical practice by recommending feeding babies peanut products early to prevent allergies has had a big effect in the real world.

apnews.com

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