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Nightmare fuel of deer seeking revenge on humans wasn't on my BINGO card, but here we are thanks to: "Second positive case of chronic wasting disease confirmed in Indiana" cwd-info.org/in-second-po...

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If you have Regence BCBS, I'd recommend checking that your providers are still in-network. Just got a letter from a local hospital about patients getting the full cost for care passed on to them by Regence now that they're out of network.

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Hoping findings like this will encourage community agencies and medical institutions to start treating people as whole people . www.sciencealert.com/the-seeds-of...

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Just sent this to a co-worker, without taking life stuff into account, this timeline is overwhelming. "Between the weight of news and clients alone, I've noticed my heart being too heavy. The result is a drastic increase in unproductive brain malfunctions."

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Her: are you the person who gave me dinosaur? Me: 😸 Her: they've had so much play time! Thank you! I forget your name, though. cue happiness that only comes from sharing small plastic dinos with strangers that you find in random pockets while out and about as a 40-something childless human

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Remember all the veterans denied VA benefits under Don't Ask, Don't Tell as a direct result of getting a dishonorable discharge? Welcome to another round. Because we support our troops so we'll without this barrier to care.

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Someone want to tell me why I might have thought reading through the past month's Executive Orders was a good idea for today's agenda? Was already hitting paralysis and barely functioning while thinking over how to support clients and care facilities...

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Maybe it's just me, but DEI without A is like LGB without T. The herculean efforts of A & T activists made so much possible... seeing politicians disparage that work while talking out the other side of their mouths, saying Autism excuses abhorrent behavior is maddening.

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Reminder: if you haven't already, order your 4 free covid tests now. www.covidtests.gov

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Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...

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MS got me thinkin they lost their minds with SB2319 then I read this Contraception Begins at Erection Act a bit closer...y'all..

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For the curious: combining dayquil and a c4 energy drink might sound like a good idea at the time.... it's not. See also, day 8 of non-productive, covid madness is thoroughly setting in

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Know any artists like Mona Haydar? Please lmk! Would love to add them to my Playlist 🫶

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Welp, i let my guard down and didn't wear a mask for easier communication when seeing a client at a secure facility that has nearly 0 outside visitors... stupid virus

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“Drop that baby!” My watercolor of Leptoceratops defends their young against Quetzalcoatlus. I do think smaller ceratopsians were punching above their weight class and made sure to convey it here. #paleoart #sciart

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Sometimes, like now, I wonder if the feu follet were gathered to masquerade as the illuminated, fiendishly curious images on my screen like some mischievous collection of lightning bugs in a jar

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randomized playlist selecting Andrea Wasse's Saints and Sinners for my first song of the day...👀 well, those lyrics are a bit too spot-on 🤪 youtu.be/6brixyrHQtc?...

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"Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23027971/

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Hope funding continues, so this becomes reality! 🤞🤞🤞 “Our discovery that skin microbes also induced an antibody response (another arm of the immune system) allowed us to develop topical vaccines against diseases such as tetanus.” www.sciencefocus.com/news/skin-im...

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It's a strange way to start a new year- being worried about friends and family because of humans instead of weather lailluminator.com/2025/01/01/b...

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Almost the entire editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution have resigned in protest of changes made by the publisher Elsevier. These changes degrade the quality of articles through the use of AI and also double the publishing fee over what similar journals charge. 🧪🌍🌿

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⚡️ Chinese manufacturers have started to restrict sales of key components used to build drones to the US and EU. As 80% of the commercial drone market is currently controlled by China, Ukraine, which relies heavily on the use of drones in the war, is likely to suffer.

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I got to talk with Dr. Susan Lacy, a plaintiff in the huge trans rights Supreme Court case going to oral argument on Weds. Here's what the case could mean—for trans folks and for states' power to restrict sex-specific forms of healthcare (birth control, IVF) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, accuses UnitedHealth and its subsidiary, NaviHealth, of using the computer algorithm to “systematically deny claims” of Medicare beneficiaries struggling to recover from debilitating illnesses in nursing homes...

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Ah yes, jury summons day... or, as I like to call it, "stress out my boss by having him prep to take point on about 16 people's mental and physical care" day. Bonus round: it's that time of year when he finds out stability for many is as sturdy as a house of cards.

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I'm grateful Oregon requires safety planning prior to discharging hospital patients. If only they did the same for psych, or at the very least coordinated with community agencies to offer continued outpatient support...

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Kaiser, BridgeSpan, Regence BlueCross BlueShield,UnitedHealthCare, Aetna, & Cigna are suing Oregon to prevent the release of detailed reports confirming disparities in access to behavioral health services to no one's surprise (the limited report can be found here: dfr.oregon.gov/business/reg... )

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What if I told you creating a culture that destigmatizes hearing voices could result in a deeply positive change for folks with that experience and our community as a whole? academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

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Dream Science 2.0 — AKA New Strategies for the Cognitive Science of Dreaming - Online ahead of print in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.004. by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller

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we let the same state that sanctioned that as a legitimate bout decide what books your kids use in school

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Really hate how true this rings

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Went to #paleostream for comfort viewing. Very glad it exists. That fight was just... oof

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🤞🤞🤞c'mon Tyson! 🤞🤞🤞

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