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Okayish artist. Explorer of trails & stars. Neurodivergent thinker—proud owner of a brain that never clocks out.

ER RN turned peds professor—nursing since the paper charting days.

Opinions are handcrafted & absolutely not my employer’s.
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thedangerousones.com
Protesting tomorrow?

Share our tips to stay safe while flexing your 1st Amendment rights:

#HandsOff2025
April 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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ravenala.bsky.social
Lighting over Seattle tonight
#wawx #wx #seattle
Lightning strikes over the Seattle skyline and Space Needle.
March 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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sea.nws-bot.us
Storm Prediction Center issues Mesoscale Discussion #267 concerning SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 65 [Most Prob: Tornado: 85-115 MPH, Hail: 1.00-1.75 IN, Gust: 55-70 MPH]
at Thu, 27 M... at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:34:37 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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lincolnproject.us
It gets worse.

This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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ma-at.bsky.social
If you’re in snohomish county and need somewhere to shelter from the predicted storm tonight, the cold weather shelters will be opening early #wawx snohomish-county-public-safety-hub-snoco-gis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/cold-w...
Cold Weather Shelters
Snohomish County Cold Weather Shelters Resources Daytime Warming Centers | (Community libraries are open to the public as daytime warming centers. Click the link for hours and locations) Cold Weather ...
snohomish-county-public-safety-hub-snoco-gis.hub.arcgis.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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snowmeltpnw.bsky.social
Hey all, need some help in locating a different resource for pediatric provider or nurse ACE’s training. I use to have my students take the CDC course—but that’s not an option now. What have you taken that’s an equivalent to the CDC’s training? #CDC #ACEs #Educator #RN Many thanks in advance.
February 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
snowmeltpnw.bsky.social
Hey all, need some help in locating a different resource for pediatric provider or nurse ACE’s training. I use to have my students take the CDC course—but that’s not an option now. What have you taken that’s an equivalent to the CDC’s training? #CDC #ACEs #Educator #RN Many thanks in advance.
February 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Shameful and murderous

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
February 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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zombiegirl1972.bsky.social
When the 4 Non Blondes said “And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, and I take a deep breath and I get real high
and I scream from the top of my lungs WHAT’S GOIN ON?!”

I really felt that.
January 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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strandjunker.com
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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drtomfrieden.bsky.social
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.

Until today.
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
The ECDC : www.ecdc.europa.eu/en
The WHO: www.who.int
Public Health England: www.gov.uk/government/o...
Are all excellent alternative sources of information on common health issues, vaccine guidance, health travel advice etc.
If the CDC goes dark know your options
Homepage | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
www.ecdc.europa.eu
January 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Just saying.
January 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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gemingemini.com
New cities added to ICE raids. ICE vehicles have already been spotted in Seattle as of today.... Please spread the word, and be careful.
January 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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nexusmakesstuff.bsky.social
ICE raids are set to begin on the 21st in these cities.

Chicago, IL
Detroit, MI
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia, PA
Boston, MA
New York, NY
Baltimore, MD
Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles, CA
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Phoenix, AZ

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. #trump
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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drlaurahaynes.bsky.social
Please share👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
nawazshandana.medsky.social Shandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · Jan 18
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January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
snowmeltpnw.bsky.social
The TikTok Time of Death for my part of the US occurred at 20:22 while I was watching @bmotheprince.bsky.social

He’s great & It was a nice way to say goodbye to TT for now
January 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases
- In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5
- TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe
- smallpox killed 80% of infected children
theconversation.com/infectious-d...
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM