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meredithw

@meredithw@wandering.shop

I care about doing research right, disability rights, 2E kids, SFF, music & much more. Biostatistician doing pediatric HIV clinical trials, previously psychiatry research. Life's too short to specialize. Never stopped masking.

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meredithw, to random
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For those having trouble with #punctuation, especially #apostrophe and #quotation makrs.

meredithw, to random
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Don't forget to do your spring cleaning

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am almost finished with this week's blog post.

Meanwhile, my 3-year old neice (grand niece? what do I call my niece's daughter?) taught me to play hide and seek.

Here's how:

💠 I tell her where I'll hide.
💠She closes her eyes and counts to 10.
💠When she reaches 10, she opens her eyes and looks for me.
💠It does't take long to find me.
💠Then we laugh.

I suspect I am supposed to tell her where I will hide so she doesn't feel scared when she opens her eyes and doesn't see me.

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield She should develop object permanence soon, at which point she won't be scared when you disappear.

meredithw, to books
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#books #reading

meredithw, to ADHD
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meredithw, to WeirdAl
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An emotionally compelling duet from "Weird Al" Yankovic and Kate Winslet on a subject near and dear to my heart. "I Need a Nap" is everything you'd expect from a Sandra Boynton song.
https://youtu.be/g3Bd4AydIzg

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I'd like to add a bit more to what I said about this week's blog post:

https://mastodon.social/

Invented Narratives and the Outrage Industry

It took me several years to understand what I was seeing.

At first, I thought the problem was Twitter algorithms. I thought that was the explanation for why what I was calling rage-inducing simplifications spread like wildfire.

1/

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield @geophany You should write for me too! Don't mute me - I show you my appreciation of calm thoughtful analysis!

meredithw, to random
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How to FOIA (gift link):
"Every day, Washington Post reporters use public records to inform people about our communities and hold powerful people and governments accountable...
As The Post’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) director, my job is to help reporters file requests for those documents — and win them. Now, I’m sharing my best strategies, tips and secrets in this handy guide."
https://wapo.st/4c1AvaD
#FOIA #FreedomofInformationAct #PublicRecords #government

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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This is for the people who are angry about which way the justices were leaning (at least 7 of them, apparently.)

I can't say who because I don't have permission (it was a private conversation) but a several weeks ago a smart lawyer said this to me:

"I am so angry at XX. They helped to egg on a lot of these disqualification attempts and are lying to their audiences about their validity and likelihood of success."

The pundits with big audiences are not necessarily the smartest lawyers.

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield And this is fed by the ridiculous adoration of Harvard, with too many people believing that anyone who teaches there must be brilliant and know all the answers. Despite its opinion of itself, Harvard is not the repository of all wisdom and being a Harvard prof isn't proof that one is wise.

meredithw, to music
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My junior high school years were a major inflection point for music. Sweet Baby James. Carole King's Tapestry, which touched our hearts so deeply. All of us remember how we felt when we first heard them. But then came Joni Mitchell's Blue. I remember being stunned by the twists and turns of the melody, the darkness of the piano, unlike anything I'd heard before. More than 50 years later, it still hits me every time I hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu7aOan-lds

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I know that lots of folks here don't like Bluesky (and I understand most of the reasons why), But now that it's open, I tried to explain the reasons why I am excited about it and hope it succeeds. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-opens-up/

meredithw,
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@mmasnick Is there any chance that people will be able to connect between Bluesky's federation and Mastodon/fediverse?

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Teri_Kanefield, to random
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It's easy to fault the founders for all the things they got wrong. Once in a while, we should note when they got something right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-woman-miscarried-home-will-not-criminally-charged-grand-jury-says-rcna132093#

A grand jury refused to charge the Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom.

Grand juries were added to the Fifth Amendment to check a potentially tyrannical government. (Not all states are required to use Grand Juries because Grand Juries were not incorporated through the due process clause but the idea comes from the 5th Amendment)

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield @mattblaze Especially horrifying how the hospital acted. Women will die because they're scared to go to the hospital in emergencies like this one.

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The last time I read Silas Marner was before law school. I thought: "What an amazing story of human redemption through love."

Now I read it and think about how the government of the village was structured and the means they used for investigating crimes. 😂

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield The last time I read Silas Marner, I thought about what it said about class structure, small village social structure, and outsider vs. insider status (and also human redemption through love, because that hits me in the kishkes.)

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ahimsa_pdx, to mecfs
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I've got a new doctor (old one retired)

At my December appt. I talked about my ME/CFS symptoms & gave him a copy "Diagnosis and Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (link below)

At some point my doc said, "You must have a very severe case!" My response was no, severe cases are often bedbound, tube fed, etc

I can't work but I'm moderate. Doctors don't realize how severe ME/CFS can be

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(23)00402-0/fulltext

meredithw,
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@ahimsa_pdx Years ago when I was searching for a diagnosis, a doctor told me I wasn't tired enough to have CFS/ME (back then people weren't talking about PEM). Reading this makes me realize he only recognized people at the severe end. I do wish this document included a description of mild the way it does for other levels.

meredithw,
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@ahimsa_pdx somehow I missed that. Yes, that describes me.

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@Teri_Kanefield Would you be willing to add page or sidebar listing your blog posts to your site, if it's not too difficult (and realizing nothing will be done until after your deadline)? The way it's now set up makes it hard to see what you've written about in the past. I also really miss the page you had listing the starting points posts we should read before proceeding - they're really helpful resources.

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield On your website.

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield That would be great. I totally understand about deadlines!

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield Looks like you didn't see one of my posts (I wish Mastodon were better for threading). I wrote "It would be great if at the top of the page, maybe between "Things to do" and "Find me on social media" you had "FAQs" with a drop-down menu with links to that General Criminal Procedure FAQ Page and the DOJ Investigations FAQ page. They're such useful resources."

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meredithw, to random
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Librarians rule!

meredithw, to random
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True for so many of us

Free_Press, to news
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Pardon my language - WHAT THE HELL!

What good is the 14th Amendment if noone is brave enough to use it 🤬

A Colorado judge on Friday allowed Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state's election next year, but found that he "engaged in insurrection" by sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/colorado-judges-allows-trump-primary-ballot-delays-decision-general-election-2023-11-18/

meredithw,
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@Teri_Kanefield @Joe_Hill @berensn @Free_Press I assume you mean "constitution", not "contrition"? 🤣

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