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“I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · Feb 1

Belatedly: hello. I'm a public health infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in medical ethics. I mostly try not to play one on the internet, but here we are. Also hiking with dogs, telling stories with TTRPGs, and making sense of life through survival tales and other people's poetry.

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 11h

This exactly.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 4d

TRUTH. I do find value in the term as a reminder to stay a little uncomfortable and hyperconscious of the weight of this work. But it’s such an easy word to replace in most (all?) contexts! There are so many other options that are just as accurate and more easily understood! We should use ‘em!

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 9d

Doing a lil’ editing this morning for @1000yearspath.bsky.social and remembered this poem that I sometimes think about when I think about Balsam and his lantern.

the lesson of the moth by Don Marquis | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

'the lesson of the moth' by Don Marquis, and the literary and historical notes for Tuesday, July 29, 2003.

writersalmanac.publicradio.org

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 9d

And also it is *not a replacement* for a functional CDC. Absolutely we should have strong interjurisdictional relationships that are not contingent on CDC. And also yeah: they are necessary, not sufficient. (Even aside from the need to stare in “no state funding.” 🙃🫠🙃)

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 9d

…find some solidarity is one of the things I am proudest of this year. It was *important.* That group is important, and it was an honor and a privilege to be able to do something to meet the moment, even if that something was just setting up a call series and facilitating through it.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 9d

Yes. Yes. I lead one such. Had agreed last October to step into that role effective January and welp. My first act as state chair was replacing the CDC call invite with my own during the comms pause. holding the space for those folks to talk and decompress and…

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NHMARF @nhmarf.bsky.social · 11d

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 11d

How it started / how it’s going.

A blue heeler puppy with a half-mask stands with her front paws up on a standing person’s denim shorts. She is smiling and quite young, with ears just starting to stand upright, and the person is stretching an arm down into the frame to help support her.

Same puppy is now growing into a lanky near-adolescent and stands with front paws up on a standing person’s black and white plaid pants. She is coiled and ready to leap skyward.

Same puppy has flung herself up so her face is exiting the top of the frame; she is a motion blur.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 16d

Good job, Buttons!

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 17d

Unacceptable

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 17d

I was going to say WHY DID THEY NOT LET YOU CHEW THEM

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 18d

What a fun thing to have to explain at a library!

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 18d

“And I feel terrible about the whole argument between / free will and destiny. All that I want is everything I want. / Music and rain and slight variations between the two.”

Clay Matthews, “Poem in Which I Sort of Break Down”

A blue heeler puppy stands on a mossy stump in an open forest. The trees are mostly still green but there are dry brown leaves on the ground. The puppy is looking over her shoulder at something out of frame.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 19d

10 Candles as a podcast? Be still my heart!

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 19d

This knocks me over every single time I touch Audacity. (Sorry to provide you with so many examples from which to learn!)

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 20d

I will never be able to unknow this and I’m delighted.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 21d

I wish this did not feel so likely and yet here we are.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 22d

Yes. Yes.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 24d

Best thing since sticky notes, tbh.

Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 24d

Looking back, Notepad was all we needed.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 24d

A very happy Stanislav Petrov saves the world day to us all.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 26d

Jane Hirschfield, “Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight”

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 26d

“There is more and more I tell no one, / strangers nor loves. / This slips into the heart / without hurry, as if it had never been. / And yet, among the trees, something has changed. / Something looks back from the trees, / and knows me for who I am.”

A blue heeler puppy wearing a teal collar stands amid tall grass and goldenrod in front of an open forest. She is looking away from the camera into the trees; her posture is alert and curious.

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big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 27d

Remember quokkas? I just stumbled on this again and man, quokkas are great.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 27d

“I want someone / to have a crush on me / for a change”

R. Eirik Ott, “Crushworthy”

(The puppy is steadfast in her quest to convince Titus that she is Very Grown Up and Extremely Cool. Gettin’ there!)

#apocalypsedogs #dogwalking #morningwalk #touchgrass #dogs #poetry #theyregooddogsbrent

Two dogs stand between a treeline to the right and a salt marsh at low tide to the left. One is a blue heeler puppy, trundling industriously through the tall grass in front of a black and white dog who watches with curiosity.

A black and white dog walks a trail through an open forest. A blue heeler puppy tags along very close at his side.

The black and white dog walks away from the camera along a trail through an open forest. The blue heeler puppy stands a bit behind him and off to the left, looking back at the camera to make sure the photographer is still there.

The black and white dog continues through the forest, enjoying this casual hike in nature. The blue heeler puppy, now reassured that her person is still following, runs to catch up to the adult dog.

big pond, little fish @eldritchpuffin.bsky.social · 27d

When you put it like that 🤔🤔🤔