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The Catholic Church spent $3 million trying to crush abortion rights in Kansas, and failed

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Different bacterial levels in tap water, Lake Huron, snow, and icicles Source

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DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

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I don’t think any piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has affected me. It’s called “Can’t Help Myself” and it’s a robot arm that’s programmed to clean up the fluid that’s constantly leaking out of itself, that looked like a never ending flow of blood. It has programmed dance moves to make it appear to have human gestures. And at first, it seemed happy and proud of its job, dancing around when it had visitors. But three years later, it looks tired, hopeless, and like it’s living in a never ending cycle of constantly trying to put itself back together for the entertainment of other people. And when I found out that it had finally stopped working in 2019, essentially dying, I couldn’t help but imagine the relief it must’ve felt and so I’ve been in here crying over a robot arm. 🥺 It was programmed this way, it truly couldn’t help itself. And no one ever helped him, they just watched.

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Say it with me: by next June 2022, I will be living my dreams.

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A lot of publicly accessible Google Drive links will no longer be accessible later this year unless their owners opt out of new security enhancements. These enhancements are being brought to Google Drive on September 23rd, 2021, the company announced in a blog post today.

Once this change goes live, Google says that users will need a “resource key” to access a publicly shared link. However, users won’t need an updated link with said resource key appended if they’ve already accessed that file before in the past. As a result of this change, we can imagine that lots of Google Drive links shared online on forums and other sites will no longer work as their owners neglect to update them, leaving them only accessible to the people that have already clicked the links before. This comes after Google also announced similar changes to YouTube’s unlisted videos earlier today.

According to the post made on the Google Workspace blog, this won’t affect all files. Users who have shared a file that is affected by this change will get an email from Google informing them of this change and how to opt out of needing those files from being updated. These emails will be sent out to users starting on July 26th. Google shared a copy of a sample email to show end-users what the message they’ll get will look like. The company doesn’t recommend opting out all files and says that only the files that you want publicly accessible should be opted out. Users have until September 13th to decide if they want the update applied, so if you have no files that are publicly accessible, then you won’t need to do anything.

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This man plays too much lmao (x)

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today i learned that according to the New York Post, “Forty-two percent of women have experienced period-shaming, with one in five being made to have these feelings because of comments made by a male friend.” (x)

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Toonami:

Black Lives Matter.

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https://twitter.com/shirtnsleeve/status/1293254300907581443

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Unmute!

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Arkansas just overrode the governor's veto and banned physicians from providing any and all gender affirming health care for youth and that strips over 200 trans youth currently on puberty blockers of medications they need.

I have been donating to Intransitive, which provides support for trans youth in Arkansas. They are going to need all the help they can get now that the bill is law. If you have anything extra to donate their ActBlue link is https://secure.actblue.com/donate/intransitive

Or you can donate via Resilient Trans folks in Arkansas

Venmo: @ intransitive

Cashapp: $Transcoins

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Please share and donate!! This is extremely unfair to her and her family. Let’s try our best to help them have a new home. 🥰

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I’m screaming

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The dreaded ampule

One of my pharmacy techs showed me something the other day and blew my mind. I couldn’t believe I didn’t already know this so (after getting over my imposter syndrome) I asked other newer pharmacists and none of them knew this either! Brace yourself for some wizardry.

The ampule

You know it. You’re a little nervous about it. We’re all friends here so no need to lie.

And once you open it, if you’re at all like me, you withdraw medication from an ampule like this:

Hope there’s a filter on that needle

But guess what! If you turn the ampule upside down, surface tension keeps the drug inside of the ampule so you can draw like a normal human being with a vial!

God damn wizardry

Probably every nurse on the planet knows this, but remember that we new pharmacists are basically walking textbooks. I like to still know this stuff since it’s my job, and so I’ll be helpful in emergencies.

Speaking of, emergency department pharmacists do this all of the time. Stop using gauze to snap the neck of the ampule at the risk of your poor fingers. Here’s an E.D. pharmacist explaining how to use the needle filter cap instead.

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list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

cleaning or wipe your bare feet

breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone

putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head

eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground

seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view

cupping your hands into running water to wash your face

the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present

when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly