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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Doesn't this suggest that all of the problems with using pentobarbital for lethal injections would also be present for standard euthanasia?

That goes perfectly into my next question. Can you talk about why the use of pentobarbital in lethal injections is, for lack of a better word, problematic?

Pentobarbital is the drug that we use in physician-assisted suicide and also in animal euthanasia. So one might think that it is a better drug for lethal injection than the traditional three-drug protocol that states were using all these years.

But what we know from autopsy studies is that the pH of pentobarbital, which is between 10 and 11, is chemically burning the delicate capillaries in the lungs, causing the capillaries to become leaky and the lungs to take on fluid.

This condition is called flash pulmonary edema, and it shows up, depending upon the study, in between 84 percent of all pentobarbital executions.

Flash pulmonary edema happens in seconds when you inject a drug into the veins. It goes first to the heart. Then to the lungs. So, as the body is trying to buffer that difference in the pH so that it can metabolize the drug and use it as an anesthetic, it’s already gone to the lungs, and that happens immediately.

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haha indeed r/Ohio seems to like it a lot better than r/Columbus

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bizarre that the system is "we just really want to make sure trick or treating happens on a school night"

Currently, the model for Beggars Night is for it to occur on Halloween, unless October 31 falls on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday. If that is the case, trick-or-treating is planned for the Thursday prior to Halloween.

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems like it was not born in the South?

In 1825, Kappa Alpha Society, the first fraternity to retain its social characteristic, was established at Union College in Schenectady, New York. In 1827, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi were also founded at the same institution,[5] creating the Union Triad. The further birthing of Psi Upsilon (1833), Omicron Kappa Epsilon (1834), Chi Psi (1841), and Theta Delta Chi (1847) collectively established Union College as the Mother of Fraternities. The social fraternity Chi Phi, officially formed in 1854, traces its roots to a short-lived organization founded at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey in 1824, bearing the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_fraternities_and_sororities

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Once you look at a real goat you see it has to be a bird

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredibly funny that wannabe autocratic Brooklyn Dem leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn identifies as the heir to Dessalines, who famously appointed himself emperor of Haiti, massacred all the French on the island, and was ultimately murdered by former supporters and torn to pieces by an angry mob.

For six years, I’ve sat in the center of what many call Brooklyn’s political game of thrones — a place where power is coveted, alliances shift overnight, and battles erupt without warning. Some joked I was the Mother of Dragons, holding fire in one hand and strategy in the other.

But I never entered this arena as a character in someone else’s fantasy. I entered as the heir of Jean‑Jacques Dessalines — the revolutionary who led Haiti to become the first Black republic and the first nation in the Americas to abolish slavery. His courage shaped me. His legacy taught me that stepping into Brooklyn politics would be a war zone. I stepped in as a reformer, determined to change the culture, not just survive it.

https://archive.ph/0GLdg

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am getting shit from the mods on the technology subreddit because I shared this article there despite it being three year olds and apparently as a result it went viral on X

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reliable source of vote for Republicans? South Asians consistently vote overwhelmingly Democrat

Chart showing "Asian Indians" voted 70% for Biden and 66% for Harris

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember when it was a conspiracy theory to think Israel was involved with this Ceuta incident? Simpler times

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's so funny how these people create this "liberals hate motherhood" strawman so they can say they're claiming a middle ground by wanting to both work and be mothers rather than just accepting that they're on the liberal feminist side of this issue

“I would love to be a stay-at-home mom, but I feel like a lot of times, girls are belittled for wanting that,” she said. Then again, she added, “On the right, there’s this idea that women shouldn’t work.”

She liked a “middle ground,” she said, “where it’s actually a beautiful thing to be a mother, but it’s also a beautiful thing to share your talents with a wider public spirit.”

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Anything in particular you'd recommend beyond the kind of handwaving linked above? Whenever I research the topic I find overwhelming confirmation of Russian interference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sounds like a fire themed Batman villain. Or a Republican congressional candidate

In an interview after his arrest, Aaron Farinacci said “fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth,” Spokane County Detective Michael Drapeau wrote in a court filing Wednesday.

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Typo in headline, should be "knows"

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

99% of Moroccan Jews are Israeli Jews these days

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Well at least you're honest about it

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Lots of feel good statistics in this article but none moreso than this one

A 2025 comprehensive study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that, while a majority of older women stayed in the church, less than 40 percent of 18-year-old women did.

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Guys you are constantly talking about how the Velaryons are going to be erased from history but they are still going strong by the time the books take place:

Robert's Rebellion

Lucerys Velaryon served as master of ships for King Aerys II Targaryen, being one of the king's bigger supporters against his son Rhaegar, the Prince of Dragonstone.[32]

After Robert's Rebellion, the new king, Robert I Baratheon, granted the castle Dragonstone to his brother Stannis. The Velaryons have been sworn to House Baratheon of Dragonstone ever since.[33]
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A Clash of Kings

Lord Monford Velaryon answers Stannis Baratheon's summons when he crowns himself king and calls his banners. Stannis expects Monford will threaten to take his levies home unless they attack at once.[33] Monford's contribution to Stannis's royal fleet includes the large ships Pride of Driftmark, Bold Laughter, Harridan, and Seahorse.[34] When Stannis makes public the accusations of Joffrey Baratheon being born from incest, Monford states that only steel will decide the matter.[35]

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's understandable why someone would say something like the below in a moment of frustration just like it's understandable why someone who was just mugged might say something insulting about the mugger's ethnic group, but that doesn't make it true or a good thing to say

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Haha oh wow so you are just a pure wrecker huh?

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The inappropriate part was saying this fucked up shit about his having a problem with black people in the party

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You can tell his worldview is more shaped by reading European Islamophobes than by reality - the poorer immigrants Republicans hate are mostly Christian!

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Haha I get so many of those

Picture of my block notifications with a bunch of silly blocklists

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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's everything. I mean, look at us. We're just air conditioners. I mean, after all, we're just walking around on the planet, breathing, conditioning the air. I condition it hot, that conditions it cold. I mean, it's symbiotic, no?