Not an Orca. Definitely not training to destroy the biggest sailboat in the world and consume everyone on it.

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don't do this - not gonna work with cop zip ties open a hair clip & jam the thin end under the pawl (the part that locks into the teeth) to release the strap you can also use the end of the zip tie, bit more difficult, easier if there are two of you zip tied & you do each other
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wife hennaed my hair & i went from looking like a mad scientist to a used car salesman
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This is me. Please help if you can. Quote tweets, retweets, likes and comments all help. Please feel free to share this on other platforms or with people you know. DM if you want to Zelle me money. Thank you!
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smoke 'em while you got 'em
For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than scientists expected — and now researchers worry they might lose the means to figure out why livescience.com/planet-earth…
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Censored on TikTok in <30 seconds. Appeal filed. They will allow California residents to know after the COVlD wave has subsided.
California's COVlD outbreak now surpasses 3 months. PMC estimates 1 in 29 residents are actively infectious statewide. Mask up and get boosted.💉💪😷 On a computer, go to pmc19.com/map and click on individual counties for more info, including a graph of recent levels. Here's a summary by county of the level and PMC estimate of the proportion of the population actively infectious: Alameda | Very High | 1 in 26 Alpine | High | 1 in 34 Amador | High | 1 in 36 Butte | Very High | 1 in 22 Calaveras | High | 1 in 30 Colusa | Very High | 1 in 25 Contra Costa | High | 1 in 36 Del Norte | Very High | 1 in 23 El Dorado | High | 1 in 40 Fresno | Very High | 1 in 23 Glenn | Very High | 1 in 23 Humboldt | High | 1 in 32 Imperial | High | 1 in 31 Inyo | Very High | 1 in 20 Kern | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Kings | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Lake | Very High | 1 in 23 Lassen | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Los Angeles | High | 1 in 34 Madera | Very High | 1 in 24 Marin | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Mariposa | High | 1 in 29 Mendocino | Very High | 1 in 24 Merced | Moderate | 1 in 43 Modoc | Very High | 1 in 21 Mono | Very High | 1 in 25 Monterey | Very High | 1 in 28 Napa | High | 1 in 33 Nevada | Very High | 1 in 28 Orange | High | 1 in 38 Placer | High | 1 in 29 Plumas | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Riverside | Very High | 1 in 26 Sacramento | High | 1 in 29 San Benito | High | 1 in 30 San Bernardino | Very High | At least 1 in 20 San Diego | Moderate | 1 in 48 San Francisco | High | 1 in 34 San Joaquin | Very High | 1 in 22 San Luis Obispo | High | 1 in 29 San Mateo | High | 1 in 37 Santa Barbara | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Santa Clara | High | 1 in 40 Santa Cruz | Very High | 1 in 26 Shasta | Very High | 1 in 26 Sierra | Very High | 1 in 23 Siskiyou | High | 1 in 31 Solano | High | 1 in 34 Sonoma | Very High | 1 in 25 Stanislaus | Very High | At least 1 in 20 Sutter | High | 1 in 31 Tehama | Very High | 1 in 23 Trinity | High | 1 in 30 Tulare | Very High | 1 in 20 Tuolumne | High | 1 in 29 Ventura | High | 1 in 34 Yolo | Very High | 1 in 24 Yuba | Very High | 1 in 28
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My cat found the slow cooker today and had an existential crisis
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Endocrine complications of COVID-19: diabetes, musculoskeletal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and gonadal disorders 🚨COVID can trigger new diabetes, crash calcium, inflame the thyroid, and suppress testosterone or cortisol. Benefits of vaccination still dwarf the rare endocrine side-effects, says a 2026 Endocrine Society review. ➡️The USA review synthesizes English-language reviews and meta-analyses from March 2020 to June 2026 on endocrine effects of acute SARSCoV2. ➡️SARSCoV2 enters cells via ACE2, aided by TMPRSS2 and ADAM17. Damage occurs through direct invasion, cytokine release, autoimmunity, and medication effects, hitting pancreas, thyroid, pituitary, adrenals, gonads, and parathyroid/bone. ➡️1. Pancreas. - New-onset diabetes rises after infection (relative risk 1.41 in a 12-study meta-analysis, about 1.37% prevalence in a 43-study review of 4.4 million patients, mostly type 2), - Diabetic ketoacidosis and severe outcomes increase, especially in type 1 diabetes, - Risk peaks in the first year and varies with severity, variant, age, and comorbidities, - Metformin and DPP-4 inhibitors are noted as potentially protective, ➡️2. Thyroid: - Non-thyroidal illness syndrome is the commonest change (pooled prevalence about 26%), - Subacute thyroiditis and new autoimmune hypo- or hyperthyroidism also occur and track with severity (odds ratio 3.77 for abnormal tests in severe versus milder disease), - Dysfunction can persist into longC0VID, ➡️3. Pituitary: - Reported effects include hypophysitis, apoplexy, SIADH, rare central diabetes insipidus, and hypopituitarism (secondary adrenal insufficiency or hypogonadism), mainly after severe illness, via hypoxia, thrombosis, or inflammation, ➡️4. Adrenals: - Adrenal insufficiency appears in roughly 3.5–6.8% of mild and 7–38.5% of severe cases, mostly central and often reversible. - Primary failure is rare (haemorrhage, infarction, or adrenalitis). ➡️5. Gonads: - Low total testosterone with normal LH, reduced libido, and erectile dysfunction are described, especially in longC0VID, - Permanent infertility is not established, - Higher male severity is not fully explained by androgens, ➡️6. Parathyroid/bone: - Hypocalcaemia occurs in about 55% (range 23–78%, up to 87% by ionized calcium) and tracks with severity and mortality, - Mechanisms include parathyroid invasion, vitamin D deficiency, and calcium use during viral entry, - Remodelling shifts toward more osteoclasts, lower bone density, and higher vertebral-fracture risk, - Hypercalcemia is rare. ➡️Most selected studies are non-randomized and heterogeneous. ‼️So, AGAIN, any tissue expressing ACE2 can be injured by SARSCoV2, so the largest absolute endocrine burden falls on the millions with mild-to-moderate infection rather than only the critically ill! ‼️Mild COVID-19 is not trivial for the endocrine system. The review notes that while severe infection produces the starkest individual complications, the largest overall burden falls on the far larger group with mild-to-moderate illness. Unexplained fatigue, rising blood sugar, neck pain, muscle weakness, low libido, or menstrual change after even a mild case therefore justify checking glucose or HbA1c, TSH, and calcium—and, when symptoms point that way, morning cortisol or testosterone, rather than dismissing them as ordinary post-viral tiredness. People who already have diabetes or adrenal insufficiency still need tighter sick-day attention, because a “mild” infection can unmask or worsen those conditions! #AvoidSars #AvoidReinfections academic.oup.com/jes/article…
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important thread on upcoming california weather (spoiler: wet)
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
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Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
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Something worse than plague? This does add additional layers of concern. The woman who passed has NOT tested positive for pneunomic plague, and instead the death was described as from "unknown etiology". The scale and intensity of the Russian response definitely raises eyebrows
Bingo. I just said this same thing to Erin Burnett on CNN a few minutes ago: —> “The scale and speed of the institutional response (emergency commission, isolation of institute staff, multi-hospital quarantine), is disproportionate to a routine community-acquired pneumonia and is consistent with a precautionary response to a suspected high-consequence pathogen exposure.”
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maybe rethink taking glucosamine supplements
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See how he didn’t take it out on an elephant sorority, he took it on the real structural oppressors: the state and private property. that’s why the incelephant is Based and you’re just a whiner
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as prophesized by earth wind & fire (do you remember?)
Taylor Swift’s song ‘Patient Zero’ dropped September 25, 2026. That same day, a scientist at Russia’s Anti-Plague Institute broke a tube of live plague bacteria. She died on October 2…the day the song hit No. 1. September 25 is exactly 6 years, 6 months, and 6 days after March 19, 2020, when the U.S. began Covid lockdowns.
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Not a shred of evidence that journalists partook in military activities. Zero But as Western media starts its due diligence, Apartheid Israel escalates disinformation. The army has even a "legitimization cell" fabricating stories to justify genocide. My next report exposes it all
Today, we revealed the truth behind these so-called “journalists”.
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RT @lanabeesfw: Idk if any of you remember the woman on tiktok who was digging a mine shaft under her suburban home, but for those who do,…
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A Bolsonaro win — aided by Trump and Big Tech billionaires — will be the likely end of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth. If you have young kids, you are watching them get locked into an extremely dangerous future. You’re not mad enough at the fascists and their collaborators.
This is really bad for the Amazon—its Indigenous land defenders, its ecology. We’re getting close to the whole rainforest tipping into a savannah equilibrium;—brutal for climate. These are years of incredibly high-stakes struggle between life & fascism.
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translation - kamala would have attacked iran & brett mcgurk is trying to get democrats on board with the war retroactively
Former top national security official Brett McGurk said the Biden administration was considering “pretty draconian measures against Israel” in April 2024, including potentially cutting off weapons, as then-President Biden faced political pressure over the war in Gaza. But McGurk told @margbrennan the focus quickly shifted as intelligence showed Iran was preparing a massive missile and drone attack against Israel.
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yersinia pestis (plague) spreads through aerosol for its pneumonic form assume any claim of "droplet-based transmission" to be aerosol - might be shed at low levels or bind poorly to respiratory tract & require "close contact" under most circumstances, but still aerosol
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ai is anti-intelligence - pass it on
Been saying this. AI is actually anti-intelligence. Pass it on.
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For some weird reason spotting spoons stuck in people's hats has made me happy ever since I was a little girl. Just seemed like a smart way to carry a spoon in case of emergency eating. Was it only a thing in the low countries? Anyway, some examples:
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i am spartacus

ALT spartacus GIF

Donald Trump's closing message is if you don't vote for him we'll go back to transgender for all. Your kids will be trans. Your parents will be trans. Your grandparents will be trans. All trans all the time. Is that the America you want?
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