it's not a tranquilizer

DNI if: poor preadmission functional status OR able to tolerate NIV with breaks on HFNC | can maintain SpO2 >80% | able to protect airway

[staff]

we fucked up

[criiitter]

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT???

[dresdencodak]

For Yuri Day I'll share the sauciest and stupidest comic I ever drew of Ling teaching Kim more martial arts.

[annabelle--cane]

"why do you always talk about carrying narcan with the same memey tone as ibuprofenposting? like what is this bit, what are you doing" 1. I am actively trying to make it seem like an easy, normal, and non-intimidating thing to do. which it is! a lot of people have access to naloxone but don't think to actually get any because they think they don't have a reason to need it, but if they just saw three memes about being a narcangirl then next time they see some on offer for free to the public then they might remember "wait. I'm the public. I, too, can be a narcangirl." 2. this isn't even a bit for me I am genuinely like this. me and my narcan #mynarcan

[charl0ttan]

okay but sean kingston literally had a point

[clowngirlcreampie]

i see a beautiful woman and become inconsolably suicidal

[englishgradinrepair]

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[lesbianshepard]

fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence,  Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

[lesbianshepard]

on a similar note, a traditional Ojibwe greeting is “Nanaboozhoo” so when the French first landed in southern Canada they thought that they were saying “Bonjour!” Which is fucking wild to think about. Imagine crossing the ocean and the first people you meet in months somehow speak French. 

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

[nicolae-carpathia]

my favorite Accessory Fact to this is that we know more about the etymological history of the Mbabaram “dog” than the English “dog”

The etymology for Mbabaram “dog” has been reconstructed back to Proto-Pama-Nyungan, which was spoken “as recently as about 5,000 years ago”:

From *dwog(a) < *udwoga < *gudwaga < Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga.

While the etymology for English “dog” has been reconstructed confidently only back to Olde English, which was spoken from about the 5th to the 12th centuries:

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.

[bimmyjimmy]

I feel like sometimes he purposely plays up the plushi-ness

[bimmyjimmy]

i’m sorry i still can’t get over this picture.. this is the most plushie he’s been

[machine-unlearning]

The doping of graphene with a plethora of elements has been reported as enhancing its electrocatalytic performance. It has become almost a paradigm that the once fantastic graphene for electrocatalysis is not so fantastic anymore and that we need to add something to it (i.e., a dopant) to make it great again...

It seems that whatever “crap” we put into graphene, electrocatalysis increases. One may exaggerate only a little by saying that if we spit on graphene it becomes a better electrocatalyst. Having 84 reasonably stable elements (apart from noble gases and carbon), one can produce 84 articles on monoelemental doping of graphene; with two dopants we have 3486 possible combinations, with three dopants we can publish 95,284 combinations, and with four elements there are close to 2 × 106 combinations.

We demonstrate in the following text the meaninglessness of the never-ending co-doping of graphene. We decided to follow the hyperbole of ever multiplying dopants; however, instead of using expensive and toxic chemicals such as ammonia, fluorine, chlorine, boranes, etc., we took a page from the pre-Haber–Bosch era and sought natural materials for the fertilization of graphene and used guano as a dopant.

In summary, we demonstrated that bird dropping-treated graphenes indeed make graphene more electrocatalytic than nondoped graphene... Because doping graphene with cheap bird droppings produces more electrocatalytic materials than many complex multielemental doping procedures, we do not see any justification for such efforts, and we believe that researchers should focus their energy on other research directions. To conclude in a positive (and a bit satiric) tone, we speculate that the chemical composition of chicken guano can be tailored by feedstock (chick feed), and, therefore, the quality of the resulting doped catalyst can be further improved. We believe that there is potential for the bird dropping-doped graphene for fuel cells and in a hydrogen economy, and we believe that bird droppings can become a high-value-added product such as guano was in the past. One can only hope that with such dramatic advantages, no wars (even trade wars) will be started over bird droppings this time.

[depezblob]

[prokopetz]

Perhaps an odd question, but what's the strangest combination of game genres that you've experienced in the wild?

I'm not sure it's the weirdest, per se, but one that's always stuck with me is this one educational title I played as a kid that was like a choose-your-own-adventure novel crossbred with a 4X strategy game, at two wildly different scales. You'd follow the narrative of the player character's life, and periodically you'd be asked to make some sort of lifestyle choice; after each choice, the game would "zoom in" to the interior of the player character's body, and you'd play a single round of a turn-based strategy game where you'd deploy various types of immune cells to combat invading armies of pathogens, with the resources available to you influenced by the lifestyle choice you'd just made. I'm not sure what the actual story was, because the turn-based strategy layer was so cryptic and poorly balanced that I never survived more than half a dozen turns before dying of strep throat or genital herpes or something.

(I know somebody in the notes is going to say "that's just Osmosis Jones", but a. the immune cells and diseases were not at all anthropomorphised, and b. this was the mid 1990s, so at least half a decade before Osmosis Jones came out!)

[katelyn-danger]

Seeing a lot of people walking around still unmasked even though the AQI is close to 100. I'm frustrated at them for not taking the necessary precautions to keep themselves safe, but this is also the east coast. Most people here have never seen a wildfire up close. Public health messaging is severely lacking when it comes to how dangerous wildfire smoke is.

I fear that when people hear "smoke from wildfires", they imagine that it's just smoke from burning trees. They compare it to things they're familiar with, like campfires or barbecues. Even then, you also know how irritating it can be to sit in front of a fire and have smoke blow right in your face.

Wildfires don't just burn trees and brush. Wildfires burn buildings and infrastructure too. Plastic and other chemicals burn and get suspended in the air, traveling hundreds of miles to enter into your lungs. These chemicals are small enough to be absorbed into your bloodstream when you breathe them in. Children and the elderly are at the highest risk, but there's really not a safe level of exposure.

(x)

[neo--retrograde]

as a canadian to east coast transplant, yeahg this 100%.

it causes bodywide inflammation. it can lead to u developing autoimmune disorders like psoriasis (which contrary to popular belief, attacks a lot of the body and not just the skin and/or joints), and them flaring if u already have a autoimmune condition

it makes u feel so sick. makes u more mentally ill too from the inflammation. exhausted easily

im seeing people wearing unfiltered masks here which won't help with the fine particulate in ash at all. u need disposables or changeable filters on a mask, and to change them regularly.

get an air purifier if possible, ideally portable and HEPA rated. don't forget to change ur car filter regularly if u have one, and actually use it.

here is a cheaper diy option for an air purifier from planet detroit (link). ~$40 and lasts for a yearish iirc, box fan(s) and a furnace filter with a merv-13 grade and some duct tape.

[sacred-portal]

[byjove]

CNN has done this whole investigative scoop on how elderly retirees have been priced out of retiring to Florida and all I can say is good. That is better for the environment. That is better for maintaining a support system. Stay where your loved ones are. I hate the idea that the cost of living is so high that you cannot even afford to move to a shitty fucking red state but old people need to stop moving to Florida. I’m more concerned about the people living in Florida than the retiree/snowbird population, stay in fucking Ohio instead of moving into a condo shoddily built over endangered wetlands. There are constant natural disasters and ongoing environmental concerns, I don’t care if you wanted to retire to the beach. This is something I am so passionate about as a southeasterner even if I am not from an ‘ideal’ retirement area, moving across the country at age 65 is a terrible idea logistically speaking, moving towards family is one thing but moving to a ‘scenic vacation’ area and pricing out all the locals and then needing a caretaker while your loved ones are states away is so baddddd.

[an-admiring-bog]

we are crowded enough!! do not come to florida!!!

[byjove]

Not to mention that the elderly are more vulnerable to heat stress and less capable of evacuating during natural disasters, Florida is a terrible place to move to in your golden years.

[byjove]

I’m also from North Carolina and back in 2020, I was living in a trailer in an area that was the middle of fucking nowhere but has become a more touristy recreational area in the last 50 years and a lot of wealthy people from the research triangle had (temporarily) relocated there due to the pandemic and work from home mandates. The shit they would post on the previously very quiet Facebook group boggled my mind. “The nearest hospital is an hour away????” “There are no coffee shops or jogging trails?” “There are no municipal resources whatsoever?” YES, EXACTLY. EVERYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTY MAKES LIKE $40k A YEAR. GO HOME.

[byjove]

People in the Facebook group would be like “Is this a good place to retire to?” and locals would have to gently inform them that elderly residents in the region often have to leave the area because there are no doctors, no nearby hospitals, no home health aides and an overall lack of resources. It was so sickening.

[thetetra]

Keep in mind old people really like the heat. We should, as a society, setting up places for people to retire to. We should allow people to go someplace warm and safe and spend their Golden years. I don't understand why people think that they can just say "DON'T COME HERE" and not out any effort into making a place for those same people.

Anything less is pretty bleak behavior.

[byjove]

Nope. We’re experiencing an elder care crisis and the answer is not to export them to Florida as Florida is a terrible retirement destination for the reasons outlined above. An elderly person’s desire to live somewhere warm does not supersede the needs of the people already living there nor does it negate the fact that pretty much every gerontological study indicates that it is better for elderly people to remain in familiar locations where they have longstanding community connections. We need more nursing homes, we need more assisted living communities, we need them across the nation. We need less people retiring to Florida.

[gigglesister]

the photomatt shit really was a turning point for a lot of people including many loudly proclained transfeminists completely giving up on pretense transfems are included in statements like "victim blaming is bad" and pivoting to asserting that every transfem on here who gets harassed and turbobanned and etc was engaging in completely sexless posting because it has been unspokenly agreed upon that any acknowledgement the transfem targetted was a kink blogger or god forbid an online sex worker is going to hurt the cause because it means that whats people are doing wont actually count as sexual harassment anymore.

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[byjove]

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

[irrigos]

went to reread the Watchful Gains story but immediately got distracted rereading all the unique text the Reformed Protestor has in your lab

UUAAAAUGHHH I LOVE HIM..... HES HAVING FUN......... 😭😭😭😭😭

[irrigos]

IM GONNA BE SICK

[cryptotheism]

I'm fascinated by how the formatting of different social media sites affect how text is read.

For instance, a line break on Tumblr indicates a new idea.

[cryptotheism]

But a reblog break indicates that time has passed.

[cryptotheism]

[neosatsuma]