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I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.
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Street walking kitty!
January 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Street walking kitty!
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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this cyndaquil plush is amazing
January 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
this cyndaquil plush is amazing
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A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website
A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
www.npr.org
January 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.
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Oh Boy! Photo from my collection, 1925.
January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Oh Boy! Photo from my collection, 1925.
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Oh no my bed seems to have a hole in it
January 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh no my bed seems to have a hole in it
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And since we’re doing this conversation again for the umpteenth time, and since people tend to associate the Middle East with “medievalness” because they’re illiterates, a reminder that smallpox inoculation was first brought to Britain via the Ottomans, thanks to Mary Montagu, an ambassador’s wife.
January 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And since we’re doing this conversation again for the umpteenth time, and since people tend to associate the Middle East with “medievalness” because they’re illiterates, a reminder that smallpox inoculation was first brought to Britain via the Ottomans, thanks to Mary Montagu, an ambassador’s wife.
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FOSTER PEARL SAT ON MY HAND this is a first! Success!
December 29, 2024 at 8:49 PM
FOSTER PEARL SAT ON MY HAND this is a first! Success!
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friends, always remember that every day is a gift, even if you didn’t really want it, you didn’t ask for it, you didn’t get a gift receipt, and now you’re stuck with it until you throw it away or die 🌞
December 4, 2024 at 3:23 PM
friends, always remember that every day is a gift, even if you didn’t really want it, you didn’t ask for it, you didn’t get a gift receipt, and now you’re stuck with it until you throw it away or die 🌞
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Another one for the Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space series (that still doesn't exist, really)
December 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Another one for the Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space series (that still doesn't exist, really)
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staring into the void with this chubby cat
December 14, 2024 at 5:37 PM
staring into the void with this chubby cat
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Wild wolves will often partake in feasting on blueberries and Anja has been seen enjoying the blackberries in the autumn. However I tried to offer some blueberries one winter and she was not at all impressed
December 14, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Wild wolves will often partake in feasting on blueberries and Anja has been seen enjoying the blackberries in the autumn. However I tried to offer some blueberries one winter and she was not at all impressed
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He's hiring a ship
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town
December 14, 2024 at 6:35 PM
He's hiring a ship
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town
He's packing his cloak
He's moving to England
To follow some bloke
Dracula is coming to town
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Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
www.science.org
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
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In the 2000s we would've had at least 100 janky but very emotionally satisfying "CEO assassin simulator" Flash games in the Newgrounds portal by now.
December 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM
In the 2000s we would've had at least 100 janky but very emotionally satisfying "CEO assassin simulator" Flash games in the Newgrounds portal by now.
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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December 11, 2024 at 12:19 PM