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@jblainefoster.bsky.social

genetics BS ➡️ history MA ➡️ PharmD | 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | MECFS | 🇨🇦 | any/all

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having a lot of conversations like "the guidelines say you can get Fluzone if FluAD is not available, so it depends on what is 'available' to you personally [ie, do you have the capacity to drive around town looking for a pharmacy that has it?]"

blaine@jblainefoster.bsky.social

apparently the government is capping us at 120 doses of FluAD per shipment we have five separate seniors villages — one is a literal highrise, a whole tower of old people — in walking distance from our pharmacy 😑😑😑

apparently the government is capping us at 120 doses of FluAD per shipment we have five separate seniors villages — one is a literal highrise, a whole tower of old people — in walking distance from our pharmacy 😑😑😑

(my mom is pretty low-key about her birthday and despite looking like a collection of nonsense a clueless guy would buy for a woman he didn't know anything about it WAS all stuff she liked)

the other pharmacist made the bold creative decision to accept a walk-in travel consult 20 minutes before clinic closed when we still had flu shots left to give

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still at $395 rent to go by Wednesday morning but I am also STARVING with no food left and too fatigued to make anything (had to dry my hair laying down earlier) so if anyone wants to help me find $35 for gf pizza that would also be a+…💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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gm friends in my phone! I’m still at $0/400 for rent Wednesday and had a surprise $50 bill but if I don’t raise $50 more to cover my psych copay by 4pm I won’t get another appt for THREE WEEKS, anything helps ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

my grandpa 🤝 board exam questions irrelevant and distracting details about the person's ethnicity, age, weight, gender, sexual orientation, and relationship status

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Another evil layer to this ad from Josh Turek: When he turns to say "stop the nonsense from both extremes," he opens with a clip of Rep. Becca Balint, the first openly gay woman to represent Vermont in congress and one of the few openly gay members of congress.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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gm friends in my phone! I’m still at $0/400 for rent Wednesday and had a surprise $50 bill but if I don’t raise $50 more to cover my psych copay by 4pm I won’t get another appt for THREE WEEKS, anything helps ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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ty for the $20! unfortunately bc it was on v*nmo it just went into the hole from the chargeback issue months back, so my goal is still $375 by tmrw noon, but filling the hole is also good! everything/anything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

white people will look at a transliteration that was expressly developed to make the language legible to white people and go "that looks too hard"

blaine@jblainefoster.bsky.social

these are just approximations but X = sh Q = ch but kind of with a "g" sound J = j (anglophones love to make it zh like we're speaking French???) Zh = j (but since anglos love zh nobody's gonna be confused if you use zh) Everything else is literally just phonetic! Sound it out! Try!

these are just approximations but X = sh Q = ch but kind of with a "g" sound J = j (anglophones love to make it zh like we're speaking French???) Zh = j (but since anglos love zh nobody's gonna be confused if you use zh) Everything else is literally just phonetic! Sound it out! Try!

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“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

cyclingmagazine.caCyclists break road laws much less frequently than motorists - Canadian Cycling MagazineStudy finds 5 per cent of cyclists versus 66 per cent of drivers disobey road laws

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Replying to @ianboudreau.com

Your strategy is based on the idea that those aren't the votes you need to win. Deal with it

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Replying to @ianboudreau.com

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

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Replying to @beshearstan.bsky.social

BTW This is the same answer Gov. Andy Beshear made in the 2023 race when facing these attacks, and he won by 5% in R+30 Kentucky Its not that complicated, yall

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Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

vaccinating the general public: *disposable gloves* *band-aids* *telling people to wait 10-15 minutes in case they have a reaction* vaccinating other pharmacists: *bare-handed poke while the pharmacist is standing up and actively typing on a computer* *no band-aid*

(a simple IM injection really does not *need* gloves because there's no reason for us to touch the injection site or any active sites of the syringe while we're prepping it BUT people feel weird if we're not wearing them and if someone does bleed a lot it's nice to already have them on)

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thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

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Replying to @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social

The thing is, these chatbots are precision designed to target the kind of person who feels entitled to being done with learning new things. The promise of super-advanced new technology that you don't have to cultivate a single new skill to use is extremely powerful for someone who bounced off coding

there's a trans comedian named Nico Carney and he has this bit about how when straight guys are allies they're always really excited to give him advice but then their advice is stuff like "the thing about buying a suit is, you need to make sure it fits" 💀💀💀

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

update: it ended up being super busy anyways

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And it came to pass that God smiled upon the pharmacy, saying, behold, I shall stretch forth mine hand and send a great storm. And yea, verily, the roadways were covered with sleet, and the people built up the fires in their homes, and dared not venture forth; and there were no walk-ins among them.

And it came to pass that God smiled upon the pharmacy, saying, behold, I shall stretch forth mine hand and send a great storm. And yea, verily, the roadways were covered with sleet, and the people built up the fires in their homes, and dared not venture forth; and there were no walk-ins among them.

blaine@jblainefoster.bsky.social

oh is it the first week of flu shots on senior's discount day? what if the entire system (including debit card transactions) crashed just as the evening rush hit?

And it was the fifth day of flu season, the flu season having gone on for nine days. For in those days, principalities meddled much in vaccination; wherefore, it was the ninth day of flu season after the manner of accounting of the government, the fifth being the ninth, and the ninth being the fifth

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90 minutes left and still at $82 to go to stay housed with another $25 to refill a few days of meal shakes for my feeding tube - everything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...

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ty for the $20! unfortunately bc it was on v*nmo it just went into the hole from the chargeback issue months back, so my goal is still $375 by tmrw noon, but filling the hole is also good! everything/anything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/ozarkhowling...