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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm curious, does anyone else get ads that push products with Huberman's seal of approval on @kavehmd.bsky.social podcasts, or is it just me?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Work forced me into using the new Outlook today. Violence may be the best option for the rest of the day.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Why is the vast majority of emergency management public messaging stuck in the, "be aware, make a plan, build a kit" rut? How is that truly helpful and advancing public awareness of what the field actually does?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

An unpopular opinion for those who smoke meats: if you can't do it well with basic equipment then you don't need to buy that $1k+ pellet smoker. On a side note, I made some fantastic smoked chicken on the Weber kettle tonight.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The urge to just burn it all down and go start a hobby farm is strong today. Anyway, how's your Thursday going?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Apparently more than half of the locations in my county that were eligible to receive broadband under the BEAD program are no longer eligible, and the commissioners are surprised. Unfortunately, this is what they voted for and they cannot see the connection.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's going to be 100⁰+ this weekend with high humidity levels, so naturally this is a great weekend for us to burn a house for training. Yay us!

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It sure would be nice if some of the maga crowd started caring about unelected bureaucrats again. It's almost as if that wasn't actually their (the maga folks) problem in the first place. 🤔

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Nothing motivates you to work harder than seeing someone you know fail upwards due to their incompetence. It's especially troublesome given the nature of their recent appointment.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I know it's been said before, but the number of people who are ok with government overreach when it suits their needs is shocking. The "rules for thee" crowd on both sides needs to get some perspective before everything implodes.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Smoked some pork on the Weber kettle today and there was almost not enough breeze to keep the coals going well. Have no fear though it all worked out in the end.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Ok folks, I just applied for a gig in Cincinnati. I've never been there, though. What should I know in case it actually works out?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One of life's great mysteries, on par with loch Ness and Bigfoot, is how a 2 day trip produces more laundry than a week at home. Make it make sense.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

He's right. This exact thing happened during the height of the COVID pandemic. Large hospital systems gobbled up PPE and all the small ones were left fighting for scraps and paying through the nose for it. The scale will likely be larger this time.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Got to have my kids be part of the record setting crowd at the US Women's rugby match last night. Great times were had by all, and the seats were right in the action.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Why is selling your house so damn exhausting? Can we just NOT clean it all and sell it as is?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Sending out an update to an email list of 2000+ people and getting less than 10 kickbacks is peak performance for me today. Heading to get my cookie now.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I put on a classic rock mix to work to today, and I was very offended by the songs that made that playlist. I might need some time to recover from this.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Would you consider a politician "successful" if they primarily repealed laws to make things more effective instead of simply adding to existing laws? As in, are we measuring the success of our elected officials in only one way and who's to say it's the correct way?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I feel like there are a lot of government programs that are just now feeling the pain of inconsistent funding that public health has had to deal with for decades. Welcome to the club y'all. Maybe now instead of just watching it happen we can figure out a way to fix it for all of us.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I wonder if people who oppose any kind of remote work remember how much of a time suck it was to have to travel to in-person meetings for literally everything. I have a feeling those folks have never worked a job that relies on interacting with people outside their own office.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is just a reminder to everyone out there that the government is not a business, nor should it be run like one. Every attempt to do so has failed miserably.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The governor's wife is visiting my kid's school tomorrow and students were asked to wear Western wear bc of it. I don't like pandering to a politician from anyone, I like it even less for the politician's wife, and I downright hate that they're asking kids to do it.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Seeing both the real time and aftermath of the dust storms in the Midwest (e.g. massive pileups & many, many accidents) makes me realize that there are a lot of agencies who simply were not prepared, and that we really need to start valuing lives over commerce.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our youngest made me a card today. Nobody in our house is named Bob.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Have you ever been to a restaurant that was understaffed during rush hour? Orders seem to take forever and they are inefficient bc they don't have enough staff. That's what is about to happen with our gov. Lack of thoughtful staffing & indiscriminate firings will lead to MORE inefficiency, not less.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I wonder how many people realize that the primary reason for a federal program to exist over a state one is bc the states couldn't, or more likely wouldn't, fund the program in the first place. Turning things "back to the states" will only result in those programs going away.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

There are a lot of folks who need their suburban dad card revoked bc they read plenty about the battles of WWII but forgot to read about why they were fought.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Match Day means something very different to us non-medicine folks. Let's do this!!!!! Also, I really need MLR and it's teams to get on this app asap.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Just now realizing that everyone rooting for Trump/Musk/DOGE are the folks who thought Thanos had a good point.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Watching all the libertarians and maga folks get ratioed like it's going out of style on the other place gives me a glimmer of hope that we *might* make it through this. But good lord the midterms cannot get here fast enough.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Is anyone else getting the feeling that now that he's out of government, Pete Buttigieg is making sure to tweet his way into a candidacy? I mean, I'm not against it, but he just seems a little more "free" with his social media lately.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Did anyone else get an MMWR and/or HAN email from the CDC today? Is info finally going to get through?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It's time to start making people own their opinions on this. Do not let them hide behind the acronym.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The federal grant I work on gets threatened with losing our funding if we buy polo shirts or food for people we train, and yet these idiots "in charge" think that federal grants are full of waste and corruption? Make it make sense.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Most normal people read the novel "1984" as a warning about a dystopian future. Our current government seems to have read it as an instruction manual.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm old enough to remember a time when republicans opposed having unelected individuals pulling the strings of government. Seems like that wasn't the root of their problem after all. Also for those of you who notice, I need to get better at cross posting.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yet another reason why the NFL had not received any of my attention for years now.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just in case people didn't realize, but the "pause" in communications from HHS is for ALL external communications. This means that current grant recipients (e.g. not the general public) are also not getting anything.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I can't help but think that a lot of what's happening is bc trump didn't get the government shutdown that he wanted from Congress, so he's going to do it himself.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you were about to get 500 hours/year of time back, what would you do with that time?

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Our department had a call to a bad wreck between semis on the interstate, as we approached the scene with the engine lights and sirens blaring full tilt and smoke rolling off one of the semis, the medic chopper cut through the smoke from above and almost dropped right on us. That was a day.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I keep thinking about how my high school did away with a policy only to bring it back under a different name and how I have a feeling that trump is narcissistic enough to do exactly that. His ego is so fragile it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he re-issues some EOs just so they bear his name.

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T Barnett, MPH, NREMT @barnettmph.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ffs, it hasn't even been 12 hours and we are already a disgrace on the global stage. Isolationism and appeasement have literally never worked out for the US. I think our history classes need some serious reform.

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