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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 20h

City/suburban kids get out here in the country and think they can just drive into someone's hay field and park. They look dumbfounded when you point out that someone owns the field and they are trespassing.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I went to a Thai restaurant for Pho and shared a new to the menu Thai dessert. What I like about the place is they make a point of introducing new Thai dishes and educating us about them. It's pretty weird for the mountains but it's thriving.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 3d

I have such fun at the Pelikan Hubs! Lots of nice people and the chance to see or try new to me pens and ink. Also we trade info. Nice pens, BTW.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 4d

The wind today is something fierce. 30 mph with higher gusts. This old place was built by mountain people though and usually the wind coming down the gap hits the low roof on that side and goes right over.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Well THIS is very cool: cancer patients who received Covid vaccines had a longer median survival than those who hadn’t – suggesting the vaccine somehow helped their immune systems fight the disease.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The study involved records of 180 advanced lung cancer patients who received a Covid vaccine within a 100-day period before or after starting immunotherapy drugs. Meanwhile, 704 people were treated with the same drugs who did not receive the vaccine. Getting the vaccine was associated with a near doubling of median survival, from 20.6 months to 37.3 months.

Discovery could lead to an 'off-the-shelf cancer vaccine' according to lead researcher Dr Elias Sayour (right) (UF
Health/Jackie Hart)

Similarly, among metastatic melanoma patients
- those with cancer that has spread from its original location, typically the skin, to other parts of the body - 43 of them received a vaccine within 100 days of initiating immunotherapy, while 167 patients did not receive a vaccine. With the vaccine, median survival increased from 26.7 months to a range of 30 to 40 months, the researchers found. At the time the data were collected, some patients were still alive, meaning the vaccine effect could be even stronger.
Receiving non-mRNA pneumonia or flu vaccines resulted in no changes in longevity, the team said.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 5d

Yay, it was delivered to me this morning on Kindle. I am looking forward to it!

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 5d

Trump thinks the White House is another one of his hotels.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 5d

I have a gigantic cold sore on my lip, thanks to my brother, and a video appointment with a doctor soon. The latter is kind of amazing.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 6d

If you're not a criminal or a wannabe criminal, the Republicans don't want you.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 9d

It is an eyeopener to discover everyone thought my parents were terrible parents, neglecting us kids. And realize that they are right. Okay, we did have a weird upbringing. I thought it was normal-ish.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 9d

This is a great podcast to listen to and his site has a lot of fountain pen info for newbies!

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 13d

I have the best family! They came today to chop the firewood for the winter! This is the last year for the wood stove. I'm going to put in gas logs when the wood runs out. I'm getting too old for the pioneer life.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 14d

The worst thing Republicans ever did (I'm looking at you Reagan) was lower the tax rate on the rich.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 14d

On a macabre note, Diane Keaton's death hit me hard because she's a Boomer and I realized that this is it: the great Boomer Die-Off has begun. Another ten years and politics in America will be so different without the old white men who've clung to power so long.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 14d

I truly feel sorry for you. The low pay doesn't make up for it either.

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Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 14d

Grandkids and their parents are coming to the mountains to saw firewood, maybe trees, fish a little, hike and maybe do the corn maze. A couple of years ago we did it and it was too scary and too wet. Not sure I can talk them into a repeat.

Toliver @toliver.bsky.social · 14d

One of the things Trump, the pandemic and the internet has taught me is that about 30% of Americans have lost their minds, are mean, are stupid or are all of that and then some.

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