PSA: (and a question). #ottawa and #ontario pulled two ticks off the kid after a hike in Gatineau park. And you NEED to check all of the little ones, especially parts of genitalia you can’t just visibly check. Both of these dots are ticks but unsure what kind. Does anyone know if there is a drop off location to get these tested? Lymes disease is shit and the risk increases a LOT after 24-36 hrs attached #kids#ticks
A friend who is a doctor (and is NOT anti-vaxx) explained the problem with Lyme vaccine:
The Lyme bacteria itself does not do most of the damage. It hides in joints and nerves, and resembles those tissues. When the antibodies attack, they can't tell the difference and attack the body itself.
The quicker the antibiotic, the less antibodies you have to make, the better.
So the vaccine is just the damaging antibodies, without getting infected! 😯
They make a point of saying they will not "use them for targeting advertisements". But I assume they eventually will use them for that! (Probably deep in some ToS change.) 🙄
Looks like I will be without internet for longer than I thought. 😮
I have to ration my mobile data. I will check in here when I can, but I will definitely miss things. 😯
Feel free to @ me, or send a DM, if there is something you think I should see. I may not see it right away, but that way I won't miss it when I come back! 🙂
Hopefully it will be fixed sooner than later! 🤞 :firepuff_pallas:
Holy shit. Thanks @pluralistic now I don't want to fly anymore 😱
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured ... in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.
Something I've noticed about #TheExpanse is how YOUNG it casts the lower, enlisted and/or conscripted soldiers in the respective #mcrn and #unn navies.
I appreciate it, makes it feel less idealized and more grounded.
There is so much hope, and people striving to be better, and to build something better! And also conflicts where all parties feel they are doing what is fundamentally right, from their own perspective!
For the story and people to feel more real, does not take away from any of that... it just makes it even more powerful!!! 😎
Total solar eclipse, April 8 2024.
Lake Champlain, Vermont.
Photo is the full frame, completely unedited, straight out of the camera. (Except for a modest reduction in image dimensions necessary to post to fediscience.)