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In my area particularly there is something in the drug supply that absolutely wrecks people’s kidneys, and then patients with any kind of substance use history have a hard time getting consistent dialysis…it’s a whole nasty cycle and I really want to know if anyone is doing research on it.

Another anecdata point from my work in a hospital hard-hit by the opioid crisis; unsafe supply leads lots of users to have other serious medical complications. Widespread narcan may prevent acute overdoses, but folks still die from other drug complications at astounding rates.

I know @quinnae.com would tell me that posting isn’t praxis, but damned if contributing to this dude getting dragged and shamed was not immensely satisfying.

Add for a junk removal company offering 10% discounts to police, firefighters, emts, and federal employees, and 20% discounts to ice officers.

This guy in my neighborhood Facebook keeps trying to troll and get himself on the MAGA grievance gravy train when we “cancel” him without realizing that a) he does not have the juice at all and b)were just going to clown you harder for pulling tryhard stunts like this.

Weirdly this is one of the only household chores I like. The resulting drain creatures are so gross and so weirdly satisfying.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I have never wanted someone to code on the toilet so hard in my life.

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

If you give me even the tiniest half-remembered shred of a vintage Sesame Street segment I’d put odds at 90some percent that I can track it down.

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

Probably got a massive humiliation kink, which is why he’ll be coming to the primaries.

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

I still remember my incredibly tough, crusty old home visiting patient who described me as “the white girl who’s really quiet and always trying to help me.” That last part was HARD EARNED.

From your mouth to god’s ears.

I am not at all optimistic about where we are at this moment but I do not yet think the United States of America is down bad enough for an Elizabeth Holmes Redemption Arc to be be feasible. It's obviously not great, but she's one of the very last Slimers out of the Ghostbusters containment tank.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

it's very hard to distinguish between Trump's cognitive decline and his cognitive never-having-inclined

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Narcan is for life-saving emergencies only. If you see someone who’s clearly high but still breathing pretty steadily and not in a physically dangerous place (e.g in traffic), let them nod off in peace. Narcanning someone just to force them to move along is cop shit.

To the over enthusiastic clean freak at work

You have thrown out
My black beans
From the fridge
In the office

Those were leftovers
For my lunch
Today
You heinous bitch

Unforgivable
They were still good!
Studded with sweet potatoes
And chilis in adobo

My left forearm with a fresh tattoo of an opossum with open mouth

New silly little guy just dropped.

A series of cartons of “milked cashews.”

Language is funny. I can look at a regular container of almond milk and think “oh, ok, stuff made of pressed almonds,” but I see this and immediately need to know where the cashews’ little nipples are.

I stuck out so much walking around the outskirts of Atlanta that a lady drove up to give me a card from an org that works with trafficking victims 😂.

A long stemmed rose and a pink index card with a bible verse and the phone number for an anti trafficking organization.

Haha, the infrastructure is so fucked here that being a conspicuously white lady on foot made this passerby assume I’m a sex worker in need of outreach.

I’ve been saying that he reminds me of my former nursing home patients for months now!

Last semester, I turned in a paper for grad school that felt so incoherent that I was shocked to get an A. I thought of that paper today while listening to @ifbookspod.bsky.social, because compared to Thomas Chatterton Williams it was basically Shakespeare.