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TL Jordan
@dulcedemon@beige.party
mastodon 4.6.6Writer of silly blog features Cinematic Distractions and Food Memories, gardener, bioscience nerd, meteorology zealot, volcanology fan, lifelong botany student, locksport novice...
I share science news. I have two cats. I spend too much time playing Elder Scrolls and Magic the Gathering Arena.
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Joined October 15, 2024
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If your depression has more muchness of late, and you are struggling like I am, consider this:
‘Not unique to war’: millions of Americans suffer from moral injury. What’s causing it?
Psychologist Michael Valdovinos explains this ‘unique kind of stress’, which is now acknowledged in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
"You can sustain moral injury in one catastrophic event, like hurting an enemy combatant in an armed conflict you don’t believe is just. It can also appear after a slow crescendo of moral distress, as people who work in slaughterhouses or prisons report. Easily mistaken for depression, moral distress frequently presents as sadness or feeling like a bad person."
"What I’m noticing, and I think a lot of clinical colleagues have, is that overwhelmingly their practices are getting filled with older folks coming to treatment for moral distress. They have a longer memory of how things used to work. Many grew up believing in certain norms about institutions, leadership and basic behavior. When those expectations are repeatedly violated, it can feel deeply destabilizing. Not just frustrating, but like something fundamental has broken. It feels like a betrayal, and that is a pathway to moral injury."
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/apr/07/moral-injury-us-citizens-michael-valdovinos-book
I have seen my first bumblebee of the season.
Replying to
@26pglt
This right here:
"If I was someone's secretary — this [work] is exactly what I am paid to do."
My spouse appreciates my efforts, but when it comes to the world outside our household, my decades of unpaid labor mean nothing because I don't earn a paycheck. It has no value because I can't put it on a resume as a skill or brandish it as an accomplishment.
The ‘Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage’ Are My New Personal Heroes
Let me introduce you to a bunch of badass senior women who have now cleared at least 6,000 pounds of trash from Cape Cod’s ponds.
https://www.jezebel.com/the-old-ladies-against-underwater-garbage-are-my-new-personal-heroes
Scientists Say This 600-Year-Old Grape Seed Is ‘Genetically Identical’ to Modern Varieties Used to Make Pinot Noir
Researchers analyzed grape seeds dating to between 2300 B.C.E. and 1500 C.E., including one particularly intriguing sample found in the toilet of a medieval hospital in France
Replying to
@nixCraft This is exactly what we should expect from the likes of Thiel. He's always ranting about demons and holy wars. Scumbags and wannabes pay cash just to listen to his bullshit. Were it not for his wealth, he'd be pumped full of anti-psychotics and tossed in a padded cell.
Bringing the “functionally extinct” American chestnut back from the dead
Wiped out in its native range by invasive pathogens, the trees may make a comeback.
NY attorney general demands hospital resume gender-affirming treatment for trans youth
"In a letter sent to NYU Langone, the attorney general’s office said the hospital’s decision to shutter its Transgender Youth Health Program violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws by “jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers.”
James’ office promised “further action” if the hospital does not immediately resume offering hormone therapies, puberty blockers and other care to transgender youth.
A spokesperson for NYU Langone declined to comment on the letter, which was sent on Feb. 25 but first made public this week."
https://apnews.com/article/nyu-hospital-letitia-james-trans-3d6b918fd7b084642698cb8246bec0d2
Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have discovered dozens of faint ribbons of stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission.
Replying to
@gerrymcgovern
They think they've attained enlightenment, but they're nowhere near it. Power-tripping while looking down on everyone else from a gilded perch isn't enlightenment; it's the worst ego trap of all.
Replying to
@matthew_d_green
They beheld its power to organize and grant agency, and they were terrified. Now they are perverting that power to mollify and corral us like cattle.
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Thanks to a bout with COVID that left me with severe chronic rhinitis and nasal inflammation, my doctor prescribed azelastine. The only problem was I hate nasal sprays, so it sat unused for a month until I read the study about it reducing the chances of getting COVID. I haven't had symptomatic COVID or any other respiratory infection since I began using it regularly. Taking short breaks in usage is advised as it can be quite harsh and drying. I plan my usage around errands, going to the gym, social obligations, and anything that puts me around a lot of people.
Replying to
@FiddleSix
I use it, but I don't enjoy it, and I swear it gets harsher the closer to the end of the bottle it gets.
Replying to
@CiaraNi I've always wondered what those window candles meant. Thank you for sharing this.
New research reveals that sleep deprivation sends aberrant signals through the vagus nerve, triggering a serotonin surge that can kill gut stem cells.
Replying to
@nancywisser
We got lucky with a few showers last night (Wilkes-Barre area), but we need so much more. Wretched for allergies too.
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@JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place
Ah! There is my problem. I sleep like that all the time.
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@0ddj0bb @acdha
Funny how their conduct results in people fantasizing the same about them.
I hope I live long enough to receive news of his passing, unless it would mean outliving my spouse. He can pin that bastard's death notice to my grave or urn. Same goes for the rest of the misogynistic billionaire's club.
Replying to
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social
Trump gave them the common ground of laughing their asses off at him.
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@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Same here. It's done little for me socially, and nothing for me financially.
Botulism risk triggers recall of peeled garlic products.
The recalled products include:
Christopher Ranch Peeled Garlic, 6-ounce, packed in plastic bags with UPC no. 74574-10852
Garland Fresh Peeled Garlic, 6-ounce, packed in plastic bags with a UPC no. 71894-00000 and 68826-75340
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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
Bresnahan is so obviously in it for nothing but his own enrichment, yet they voted for him.
Massive eye drop recall reflects ongoing issues with manufacturing and FDA inspection
Texas city council candidate who protested ICE shooting faces ‘riot participation’ charge
"Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and special agents took Misael Ramos, 40, into custody around 8:45 a.m. Saturday on an outstanding warrant “stemming from his actions” during a Sunday protest, the agency’s media department wrote in an unsigned email. Protesters on Sunday had been demonstrating against the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin.
Ramos, who is running for city council in Austin, “was captured on camera taking construction barricades, sandbags, and other items and attempting to obstruct traffic,” the department said. The department also provided photos and video it said captured “some of Ramos’ actions” at the scene.
Ramos, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, denies any wrongdoing and will contest the charge, his campaign said in a news release."
https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-austin-protest-city-council-ramos-dsa-0243eafc25ffb779ad652ee9e476a0bd
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
"The investment firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the healthcare technology business behind the electronic patient record system used by most GP practices in England, in a deal worth about $400m (£300m).
Doctors, campaigners, MPs and human rights groups say the transfer of a company handling millions of NHS patient records to a US private equity firm has taken place with little public scrutiny."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/27/nhs-patients-records-us-private-equity-firm-optum-uk-tpg
Replying to
@curiousgawker@mastodon.world
It's one of my reasons for living. I haven't regretted falling for someone's bullshit more than I did my vote for him. I'm so disappointed in me. Then again, the other choice we had was "Dr." Oz.
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@vees
My hometown just made a pact with those devils:
Hazleton community protests ICE partnership
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hazleton-community-protests-ice-partnership-213540515.html
Eye drops recalled over safety concerns, FDA says
The eye drops, manufactured by K.C. Pharmaceuticals, are sold at major retailers, including CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid.
According to the FDA notice, K.C. Pharmaceuticals, of Pomona, California, manufactures the products for a number of brands sold under names such as “Dry Eye Relief Eye Drops,” “Sterile Eye Drops” and “Artificial Tears Sterile Lubricant Eye Drops.” The recall of 3,111,072 bottles began in early March.
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@ballista11@mastodon.social
Like their dear leader, they are far too egotistical to kill themselves.
Canada issues air quality warnings over US wildfire smoke after Trump tariff threat
Officials say smoke from US fires has crossed border days after US president accused Canada of improper fire management
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/canada-air-quality-warnings-us-wildfire-smoke-trump-tariffs
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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org
I have this hypothesis that most people, but especially doctors, strive to do the least most in any given situation. As in, doing just enough, such as dismissing hantavirus as anxiety, to absolve themselves of having to do any real work like sending the patient for diagnostic tests that require follow-up.
They saw and diagnosed the patient. Although the diagnosis was incorrect and based upon little more than their personal opinion, they technically did their job.
For Americans "tantalisingly close" works out to $3,000 - $5,000 a month for treatment with either one of the wonder drugs mentioned (dupilumab or omalizumab), neither of which is a cure.
The end of food allergies is tantalisingly close. Here are the frontrunners for a cure
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/end-of-food-allergies
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@skeletor@mas.to
Not all of them, but...
It's not the quantity of people. It's the quality of the experience.
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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
I learned about XXY in my freshman year of college here in the USA.