Voluntary COVID-19 fighter, aspiring nurse. Irrepressibly, pathologically, altruistic.
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And so... it continues. I am humbled to be named "Hero" alongside such giants.
5 Apr 2021
When the pandemic hit, our healthcare workers rose to meet the challenge. Now, @mspbjnews has recognized seven of our employees as 2021 “Healthcare Heroes” for their remarkable efforts battling COVID-19. Read more. ➡️ bit.ly/3dyFNNH
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Had an MRI yesterday, and... there was a SOLID 10-min section in the middle that was positively MUSICAL. Like, it genuinely sounded like the "thumps" were tonal. And,not only that, but they went through a series so single, double, and TRItonal combinations, that were...techno. 🤯
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Thank you, @StephenAtHome and EVERYONE at @colbertlateshow for so many years of brilliant comedy, insight, and humanity. You will be missed. Wishing y'all all the best in the future!
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May 19
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
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Holy SMOKES.... "Evanescence" released a new song a few days ago (I think their first in over 10yrs) and WOW. Amy Lee is now 44, and her voice sounds EXACTLY the same as it did back when I was in middle- and high school! Such an extraordinary talent, and I'm stoked they're back!
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Apr 19
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.
Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.
Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.
The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.
It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.
The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.
When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
Apr 17
Give me the kind of good news from around the world that nobody ever talks about... but should.
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I've just got to say... over the past couple of years I've discovered a new world of online streaming, and specifically VTubing. It fosters a LARGE community of individuals, many of whom have historically been ostracized due to their interests, etc. As such, it's so welcoming.
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And many of the creators and their community members not only make that possible, but actively work to bring in EVERY0NE for a fun, goofy time. Chief among those I enjoy include @ThePapaMutt and his wife RadicalMari, @zentreya , and @FroggyLoch. Each of them improves the world 🌎
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For whatever it is worth, I truly believe that @CriticalRole 's "Exandria Unlimited: Calamity" is one of the most powerfully told, and acted, stories of all time. It is a masterpiece, and I will return to it time and again for years to come. youtu.be/KlIkkeWmVvA?si=sqpl…
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I....genuinely can't tell if @Bluto2U2 legitimately hates Zen but agrees to her collabs for audience reach, just plays an anti-Zen "heel" for content, or is actually Zen's good friend but has an amicably antagonistic relationship with her. Whatever it is, I love Bluto content!!
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I feel like @zentreya 's supportive, protective and inclusive friendship style would fit really well with @chibidoki . But content-wise, I think their collabs could suffer on-screen simply because Chibi is SO quick-witted that Zen's TTS delay would throw a wrench in things.
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GRAPHIC TMI INCOMING:
It's been 9 weeks since my brain surgery. Today, I expelled what I THINK was the last of my surgical packing. It had begun to fester and harbor bacteria and is, frankly, one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen, BUT... it's out, and that's W0NDERFUL!
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