notake-onlythrow.bsky.social
Vet student, epidemiologist
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Psychosis can definitely make people do things that they wouldn't do otherwise--there's a reason that "legal insanity" is a thing. We just don't have enough information yet to parse whether that's what happened here or if people are (unsurprisingly) downplaying a politically motivated hate crime.
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Bonds are basically the lowest-risk and lowest-interest investment option available since you're lending to the Treasury: you're getting paid back unless the US government collapses. Investors are now scared enough of that possibility that they're pulling money out of the "safe" option.
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If you're interested in learning more your best bet may actually be veterinary resources--lots of zoonotic exposure risks that are otherwise rare in developed countries. Infectious disease docs love us 😬
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I really appreciate your perspective (and, having peeked at your profile, I suspect your patients are a lot less likely to be messing with neurologic skunks and bats than the general population 😁).
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It's definitely region-dependent (and profession-dependent--anyone who works with animals is at a massively increased risk of exposure). I live in a US city with a high enough stray population that people show up at the ER needing post-bite prophylaxis almost every day.
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Edit: through nervous tissue specifically. So on top of everything else, the incubation length is shorter if it's a facial bite than a toe. Rabies sucks.
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Yup. Looking for Negri bodies also sucks because the virus moves through tissue, not the bloodstream, so during the incubation period it's literally not there yet. My school went DEEP into this, it's kind of weird that the person you're replying to knows so little about the pathophys.
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The only reliable test for rabies is histo staining of the obex in the brain. I'm not sure you can get a positive result anywhere else even if you were willing to wait hours/days for a pathologist's report.
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I feel like there's an opportunity here to have a feast day for unpleasant growth of all types. Sometimes character-building is pleasant. Sometimes it, uh, grows on you.
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fiiiiiine
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The facebook page is full of people asking for help and getting it from complete strangers. The town has like three guys total with tow lines and sufficiently badass trucks. They've been hauling other, less awesome vehicles out of ditches since morning.
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I grew up in a place where it would take 2-3 feet of snow before we even got school canceled--but we had snow plows, salt, and snow tires. This town has none of that infrastructure. Storms like this just don't happen here.
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The bad news is that the sidewalks aren't level with the grass or street, and that gap is invisible until you trip on it. The good news is that once you hit 5 inches of fluffy snow, you can fall face-first and still basically be fine.
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Other takeaways: running in fresh snow, before the ice sets in, is really fun. At least until you step in a melty patch and have one wet sock for the rest of the run.
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The patients do sometimes eat entire socks tho
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Delighted to let you know that the other SoS books are also great. They're a go-to reread for me whenever I feel like I don't have the mental energy for something new.
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On the topic of bones: is the os clitoridis also a snake thing or is it restricted to mammals?
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Have hit the stage of trying to negotiate with the wailing cat. “Sweetie, I know. You think if you yell loud enough, the world will change. I’ve been trying that for forty-seven years and it hasn’t worked for me either.”
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I only know this dude exists because there are so many people complaining he hasn't been banned yet. Bsky has so many tools for blocking tools that I'm not sure there's any reason to keep giving more attention to someone who feeds off it.
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The mortifying ordeal of having to explain that a backup account isn't a scam, it's just the only option when meta's support network is staffed entirely by bots
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I turned it off, then turned it back on after halftime. My hopes and dreams died on that 1-yard line. All is dust. So, uh... same time next year?
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If the evolutionary connection between T. rex & hummingbirds weren't enough, note here in another hummingbird (spread out on a T. rex tooth) that its scleral eye ring is bigger than its humerus & its tongue skeleton is longer than its trunk! Evolution is crazy! 2/2
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GENESIS probably isn't helping, either: as the system currently stands, anyone who's needed medical attention, at any point in their lives, is likely to either need a waiver or get excluded entirely. We really need to either revamp the criteria or have nonmilitary options to escape poverty.
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The best part of the book for me, honestly, was how fast it turned me into Layer 4 of a chain of people dissecting unreliable narration about the damn house while slowly going mad. Read House of Leaves and you, too, can find yourself scrawling illegible notes on the walls!
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I spent like two months of my life trying to make that book make sense and I STILL don't know if I liked it or not
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Wait wait I wanna hear more about the hating Johnny Truant thing--it's a rare and wonderful thing to run into House of Leaves analysis in the wild