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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 4h

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 7h

If his concern is mRNA, the Novavax formulation is a more traditional protein-based vaccine that he might be open to as a compromise?

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 7h

we are coming down to the wire to help my friend stay off the street!

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 10h

TWO AND A HALF HOURS until the motel manager’s manager, aka the one that won’t accept further delays, stops by, and I’m still at ‼️ $220 needed to stay housed 🫪 homeless with no car and a feeding tube and Crohn’s doesn’t sound survivable 😭 so anything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 13h

ty for the $27! office called, mgmt won’t be by until 5pm, but MUST pay by then, so that’s: ‼️‼️ $220 in SIX more hours to stay housed 💊 $100-200 for vital otc ulcer and pain meds + protein (out of both) b4 sale ends at 12am 🎃 $2568 remaining October survival 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 12h

still $220 short of this week’s already overdue rent & upper management will finally stop by in 5 HOURS 😵‍💫 (also out of OTC pain and ulcer meds and protein and trying for $100+ before sales end at midnight for all those) anything, everything, and boosts help 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 15h

so if you felt embarrassed about it (which a lot of people did, at least on the medical dramas!) you could just NOT TELL PEOPLE "how's Jessica?" "Good, good. Liking her new job. Pretty busy. [changes subject]"

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 15h

like, the main difference is if in 1990 your kid moved across the country and refused to take your calls, to all your local friends it would be impossible to tell the difference between that vs your kid moving across the country and calling you every night

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 15h

medical dramas in the 90s and 2000s loooooved the "father who hasn't spoken to his daughter in 20 years is abruptly diagnosed with a terminal disease" episode plot, pretty sure this is not a new thing

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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hemingway eat your heart out

r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 17h

‼️ still at $277 to go to stay housed w/ only 90 MINUTES until office opens ‼️ (stricter upper management could get here whenever) 😵‍💫 + $100-200 for otc meds/med supplies before sale ends at midnight & $2595 total remaining for October survival anything/everything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

"But if it was limited only to public domain it couldn't function like it does!" I mean: a) That's why I noted "licensed and compensated works" b) It doesn't excuse IP theft or materially argue for the value of a tech apparently only possible through IP theft c) It's not too late to compensate!

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think my thing is, when a patient says something that's obviously not the case that's one thing, but the concept of a med being on backorder isn't odd, and this is a fairly well-publicized one, so it felt weirdly passive-aggressive towards the patient

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

60 minutes and still at $417 to go 😵‍💫🥲everything helps! ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they've been on backorder for months??? why wouldn't the patient know this?????

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

got an Rx for an estrogen patch that contained the note "if this patch is really on backorder as patient believes..." and then an alternative which like okay on one hand, love to skip the part where we fax and ask you for an alternative on the other hand. patients know things sometimes!

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me: "Okay buddy, do you want to do bedtime like Flash [Zootopia] or like Dash [Incredibles]?" Levi: "No, I don't like that!" Me: "Do you want to do bedtime robot?" Levi: "Ughhh I just want bedtime to be NORMAL" Me: "Okay. If you actually do bedtime with no whining, nobody will do any bits."

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

motel gave an extra day bc eyes were so swollen I couldn’t find my card 😭 bit better but still at: ‼️🏠 $497 rent w/ 28 HRS left (they rly want $100 of it tn) ♿️💊 $100-$200 med supplies (OTC ulcer/pain meds, protein powder for tube etc) TMRW to catch sale anything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(I've always assumed it went down like *manic* "And to make SURE nobody can make me take these," *no longer manic* "I should take my meds... aw, shit" And then he was understandably embarrassed to show up like "okay so, what now?")

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like imagine if someone DID shit in your prescription vial and the pharmacist was just like "ah well nevertheless"

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(More specifically, he and another employee got into an argument about it and I came over like, "who's to say how it got that way, the important thing is, let's see if insurance will cover a replacement" and he was like "great thanks" which was a real "let's cut the baby in half" moment tbh)

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few years ago a guy brought in a vial of lithium that contained feces and was like "you guys dispensed them to me like this" and I was like. I don't think that's what happened but I'll happily replace them if you want to start taking them again.

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HIGH LORD FALCON, OLIVKA RHO @livvywivvyy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"i would die for you, i would kill for you" okay but would you go to the store for me. would you goto the. store ive just had a really long day and theres nothing in the fridge. would you go buy ingredients and. and cook for me and would you get snacks too. also i need you to do the dishes

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

source: I remember what grades the rest of you were getting in PK and they have to let most of you people pass, sooo

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

like, there's just no way there's enough questions using these types of equations to make or break whether I pass

$PK equation with three separate big-ass fraction expressions and four different "e^-kt" instances.$

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

developing a game plan called "study everything else really good and then only memorize the A = B/C pharmacokinetics equations"

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Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

Screenshot of the header of a published paper:

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient's knowledge, doctor's ignorance: The production of knowledge about myalgic encephalomyelitis

Chloé de Canson

Department of of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, Groningen, 9712 GL, the Netherlands

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Canva has integrated so much AI that I actually find it notably more difficult to use Canva now than I did two years ago :/// the enslopification continues apace

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series of gj tubes @ozarkhowling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

gm again friends in my phone! still at $113/2930 for October incl: ‼️🏠 $497 to stay housed with 13 HOURS LEFT‼️ ♿️💊 $100-$200 for med supplies (OTC ulcer+pain meds, protein+carb powder for gj tube, etc) by TOMORROW so I can get em on sale anything/everything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

another one: - they were already engaged as mortals (same age) and for 90% of the book immortality is more like a terminal disease

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

forgot one - the immortal has been sheltered to such an extreme that the 18-year-old ingenue is the more experienced person in the relationship

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's not that BrandoSando won't write mortal/immortal relationships they all just end like - broke up (immortal priorities and mortal priorities did not align) - the immortal tragically dies twice - they break up because friends with benefits was getting too real and then the mortal tragically dies

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and then they do not get together.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

thinking about the part in Sunlit Man where the 20-year-old is into the 80-year-old young immortal and she's like "that's okay :)" and he's like. well of course it doesn't feel weird to you, you just met me and I look like a hot 25-year-old and you're twenty. it feels weird to ME, the 80-year-old.

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🎃 SpooKya 🎃 @kyamae.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wishing my extremely awesome wife @jblainefoster.bsky.social an amazing and excellent birthday today! Here’s to celebrating many more birthdays with you going forward! 💖🎁🎊

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

if anything video games marketed at tweens should be more than $60. I would pay $80 or even $100 in $3-$5 increments for Tomodachi Life at this point

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

told Zoë if she could keep Levi outside for an hour I'd give her $5 for babysitting, she has 23 minutes left and I've only heard screaming once

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm sick of all the negativity on here, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this inspirational Rainbow Pin. I don't know about you guys, but I really needed to see this today. collabs.shop/cjw8ak

An enamel pin featuring a pastel rainbow arching over white clouds, with a pink banner in front reading "IT GETS WORSE" in white capital letters.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Kya didn't get hers due to being the wrong gender for it at the time so a few years ago I made her get it because in any possible future scenario where she is single there's no way "I should complete a 6-month vaccine series" will be high on the priority list)

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also got mine mid-2000s and it was a BIG DISCOURSE in the Mormon community like "the government thinks your 11 year olds are ready to have sex" and my mom was just like. Orrrrrrr, hear me out, you could grow up and happen to marry a convert who's had sex before. And I got the vaccine lol.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 04/10/2026

i need cis people on here who are SO worried about trans people voting for Democrats this fall to understand that the primary suppressor of our votes are the GOP's ID laws and not 1 to 3 trans women on a microblogging site

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again: if you don't vaccinate your child for HPV because you believe adhering to a certain sexual ethic should be sufficient, you are saying your children deserve to get cancer if they make choices you disagree with. (Or if they get raped, or if their spouse cheats on them...)

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes, at a medical conference, when the results of a study are presented, the audience cheers This is what happened at a 2024 cancer meeting when a study showed HPV vaccine lowers the risk of head/neck cancer (www.cancer.org/cancer/lates...) A 2026 study confirmed this finding....

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