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Steve Valeika

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1h

This little Chiweenie couldn’t get enough of my mouth kazoo noises. That radar dish of an ear!

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 2h

I guess you didn’t read the article.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3h

You have a gift. An incredibly useless yet entertaining gift.

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar 🎗️ @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh! Framing inhalers as “drivers of climate change” is lazy journalism. They’re life-saving medical devices, not SUVs.
Exaggerating a 0.006% emission source while guilt-tripping asthma patients is moral theater, not science.
Statistical telescoping (aggregation fallacy) on full display too. 🛟

Rethinking Inhalers in the Era of Climate Change

Portable, fast-acting, and highly effective, metered-dose inhalers have transformed the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over the past 70 years. But alongside their...

jamanetwork.com

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

Ivermectin doesn’t treat COVID. Any doctor who says it does is a scientifically illiterate grifting quack. Sincerely, someone who knows what they’re talking about.

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

⬆️ one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen in an interview. I almost clapped when I read it.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

Other eye opening comments that obviously didn’t fact checks include blaming alpha-gal on a bacterium, and stating that Bartonella is transmitted to people via tick bites. Sad for this poor kid being treated for something she doesn’t have.

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

Yes Tom, everything in life is all or nothing. In every authoritarian regime in history, one day there is 0% fascism, the next day there is 100% fascism. No grey areas. No ramping up. Since we aren’t living under a complete dictatorship at this very second, everything is tots fine.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for ruining that song for me 😂
Next time I get one of those cases I’m definitely queuing this up during the procedure.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

Yes. This is also what all the demands to show "gratitude" and this obsession with hierarchy is about.

For a long time they were able to engineer and perpetuate absurd expectations of Black silence and/or obeisance.

A lot of their brains broke when POC on social media simply ... did not do this.

hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 5d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

I guess Dr [redacted] here doesn’t even care that Pancake is still missing. Typical.

Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 3d

WAFFLES

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

As an epidemiologist, when I see the phrase “Hot Tub Blowout” all I can think of is that this is the beginning of a cryptosporidium or E. coli outbreak report. Also the fact that as a veterinarian “blowout” refers to a very specific medical event.

Blue letters on a white roadside sign in the grass advertising a hot tub sale. It says, “HOT TUB BLOWOUT EXPO
THIS WEEKEND
WNC AG CENTER”

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 5d

Sent you a message

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 6d

I was raised Catholic in NY. Moved to Houston in 9th grade. I gave a presentation arguing for separation of C&S. This girl raises her hand, “what church do you go to?” I answered. She goes, “that figures. I’ve heard enough.” And everyone nodded vigorously. I was like what the fuck just happened?

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 6d

I had not heard of this fucking idiot before, and I hope to never be aware of her ever again.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 6d

This is about SecDef.

MOTHERBOARD
TECH BY VICE
The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 6d

We finished season one of Severance last night. We got through a couple of episodes when it first came out and it was too unsettling and dystopian so we bailed.

Then we restarted last week and this time it seemed…kind of cozy?

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 7d

it's the five year anniversary of this publication in @nejm.org that demonstrated protection against cancer by the HPV vaccine - #OncSky + #MedSky.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 7d

These judges are getting more and more pointed with their opinions. They are alarmed. They are also writing these opinions to rebuke SCOTUS who seem to have given up on the constitution. Love seeing this.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 7d

Very cool, but if I send some dog home with a nasty crusty mat of hair over its laceration I’m definitely losing that client. The pics of humans having a HAT repair for scalp lacs made my entire clinic laugh out loud.

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) @avmajavma.bsky.social · 7d

Fur apposition technique is a feasible, simple laceration closure technique in small animal patients. 🐈🐕

Open access article: jav.ma/furapp

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 7d

I guess creating a Grievocracy is their therapy.

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! As soon as I saw this i thought it seemed like some sort of Dr Evil ruse 😂

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 9d

Mayor Adams Took Bribes the Right Way.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 10d

Usually they get it caught in their pharynx and then cough it up retrograde into the nasal passage.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 10d

Presenting complaint: sneezing and pawing at face. I don’t think it was hanging out until I took the cat out of the carrier. Easiest diagnosis and treatment ever. And so satisfying. I couldn’t believe how much grass came out when I started pulling!

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