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Let’s catch up. 

On February 13, 2017, a Monday and the last day of a 3 day weekend, 13 year old Abigail Williams and 14 year old Liberty German were best friends, and being young teenagers, they wanted to try to fulfill their local rite of passage — walking across a disused, very tall railroad bridge.

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From a 2021 twitter thread

Summer reminder, since many are heading out into the national parks and federal lands:

Be VERY careful with anything that looks like a sprinkler head or trash in the ground – it could easily be an M44 cyanide device. It can kill humans and dogs.
Our tax dollars pay for this poison.

A mechanical poison bomb used on federal public lands for canid control
An M44 device in the ground. It looks like a pink marshmallow on top of a sprinkler head.

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(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)

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Because most pain is treatable with Tylenol and ibuprofen. I've had multiple surgeries in the last few years and it's always been manageable with that and a bit of CBD oil. This is how the rest of the world treats pain. The US uses 80% of the global opioid supply. It's insane.
Hypermobility MD: Dr Linda Bluestein @BluesteinLinda • 1d
Why are so many people being denied opioid pain medication for
ACUTE pain? The pendulum has swung too far the other direction.
I am tired of horror stories - pain from serious car accidents and major surgeries being "treated" with Tylenol.
A screenshot of an asshole talking out her mouth from a place of No Nothing arrogance

Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters. 

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An aside to yesterday’s thread: (and it’s own thread, here

Well into the Enlightenment, most educated people thought it was impossible for highly complex beings (like humans) to be assembled from parts. Therefore, everything grew out of teeny-tiny versions of themselves, all created at the same time.

Nicholas Hartsoeker’s drawing of tiny people inside a sperm cell, from 1695.

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Originally a Twitter thread. (Minor edits for clarity) (and some additions)

Koldony seems to miss a major factor in opiates use: demographics. His favorite statistic is opiate use increased drastically starting in 1997. (Koldony is the founder of the anti-opioid activist group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) and makes a tidy fortune as an expert witness in opiate litigation.)

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