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Mouselemming

@ Mouselemming @sh.itjust.works

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  • Growing evidence points to link between autism and wildfire smoke

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  • The story says "wood smoke" but then they talk about Southern California wildfires, which typically contain a lot of other toxic materials from burning houses, other buildings, vehicles, power and telephone lines, etc. especially the fires burning in proximity to pregnant women.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Fair enough, we're in the right instance.

  • Cute

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  • SNIKT

  • The Cover-up is Collapsing in Real-time

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  • In a tiny hand

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • No the bus stop is perfectly accessible! It shows they know exactly how to design a handicap space for this type of bike lane, so people with ramped minivans could park. But they don't. All the others have the narrow raised cement lump, that leaves a ramp hanging into the air 6" above the middle of the bike lane.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • I'm not objecting to the bus stop. Just noting that although it's blue and has a perfect wide platform for the bus wheelchair lift/ramp, and a curbcut to get to the sidewalk, it's a bus stop, not a disabled parking space. Which would be fine if there were any other spot similarly designed on that or any of the other streets with this type of bike lane. So far I haven't seen any.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Oh well, yet another place it's impossible to park and drop a wheelchair ramp. That blue thing with the red-zone paint and curb cut is a bus stop. Buses are wheelchair accessible but too few and difficult to access for a person who's well-buggered-up.

  • Max is scared of thunder, but also determined to protect us from it.

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  • Thunder has never killed any of his family, because of his brave work!

  • Choose wisely.

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  • I live in the US. My spouse has been taken to the hospital by ambulance at least 5 times, probably more. Most of those times he had pneumonia, he's quadriplegic and asthmatic, he couldn't breathe and needed to lie flat and get oxygen, not sit in his wheelchair or a car seat. The other time was a GI bleed from a botched surgery. So all the ambulance trips ended with him being "admitted" and staying in the hospital from a few days to five months. Every time, the insurance covered the ambulance. Being admitted is the qualifying event.

    Insurance has also covered non-emergency ambulance rides home, because they don't wait until he's fully well to send him home, and the hospital doctor prescribed it.

    Do we spend out the ass on insurance premiums? Yes, because we know we're likely to need the best coverage. It's our biggest monthly expense.

    Would universal government-sponsored healthcare be better? Fuck yes.

    Would it be gutted like a fish every time the GOP was in power? A good reason to vote them out and keep them out.

    But I've driven myself to the ER, because I could still safely do so, and often a Lyft can do the job just as well, if you can sit and don't need medical support to keep from dying on the way there.

    "Bleeding out" would require an ambulance, "bleeding" might not. Will the ambulance driver probably decide they need lights and siren? Yeah, you should be calling 911.

    Do be kind and protect the driver/vehicle from anything messy or contagious. If you expect the ER will probably be able to treat you and send you home without a hospital stay, it's unlikely the ambulance will be covered.

    And if you're one of the millions with no insurance because our stupid job-based profit-oriented system makes it unaffordable? My heart breaks.

    Kristi Noem would probably come shoot you for free.

  • Mostly scratch meal midnight snack.

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  • That's a legitimate use of "scratch" and since OP was being too cool to use the whole phrase "from scratch," it could be re-interpreted to mean "I decided to throw out the whole meal and just eat a spoonful of peanut butter. What a waste of all my hard work!"

    Like if they'd just opened their mail and in it was a notice: WARNING: MAJOR ARSENIC CONTAMINATION IN YOUR AREA! Injesting anything grown in your soil may cause severe illness and harm to vital organs!

    This reminds us to be careful with phrasing.

  • Mostly scratch meal midnight snack.

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  • From scratch is an idiom meaning "from the start" (as in a starting line scratched in the dirt for a footrace)

    And in the context of food it means "cooked by myself from basic ingredients." I don't think OP means they grew the wheat, maybe not the jam berries, but they made the English muffin from dough using flour and yeast etc, not a mix and not store bought. They boiled up the jam from fresh fruit, and made the pectin to thicken it rather than buying pectin powder. They didn't do all that tonight, in fact the elderberry mead started 6 years ago. And I bet it's damn good!

  • Happy Valentines'

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  • In 1929 someone celebrated "Kill a Colonizer Day" by gunning down seven of Bugs Malone's gang that had been colonizing Capone's turf.

  • Cat goes where cat wills!

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  • You know, I actually have one of those pull-out ones and I almost never use it! It came with the home but it's so big it doesn't fit well in the sink to clean it.

  • Language and Love, c.1380

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  • Trying to hew closer to the original grammar rather than preserve the poetry:

    You know also that the forms of speech can change within a thousand years.

    And words too, which at the time were prized, but now, shockingly foolish and weird we think them.

    And yet they spoke them so, and succeeded as well in love as we.

    A thousand years? That's so 1380 of you, Jeff! I can think of cringey '80s pick-up lines that fit this standard.

  • Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart

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  • They should be in jail, they're a threat to the community.

  • For that special someone on Valentine's Day

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  • I think they're cheese waxes like from Laughing Cow. They're saying "melt down old cheese waxes to make romantic red tea-light candles for your Valentine."

    Edit to add, "you may fascinate a woman with a piece of cheese." So bring some more Babybels to eat in the Jacuzzi by candlelight.

  • Powerhouse Mechanic, Lewis Hine, c 1924

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  • Mmmm, yes

  • What do you cook when your left arm doesn't work?

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  • With pull tabs you'd still need to hold the can down anyway.

  • Trump deportation surge left Texas with shortage of home builders. Now Republican wants completely new visa to fix that

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  • White people willing and able to do construction work in Texas cost more, if they can be found at all.