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McNadoMD

Some components to running a great code in the field:
1. SGAs— don’t intubate. Use supraglottic airways (I like the iGel, but there a few great options out there)
2. Pit-crew — give everyone a role, and make them stick to it (airway, access, defib, code leader)
3. LUCAS — manual CPR is shit. A few machines exist, but the LUCAS is far and away my favorite
4. IO — IVs are hard to get on dead people. Use a tibial IO device.

#emergencymedicine #emergencymedicalservices #EMS

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David Revoy

A recent photo of my sketchbook, still training with ballpoint pen directly, a cruel training. But I am beginning to get a better ability to imagine perspective grids without tracing them, and I can even begin to plan full-page compositions. It takes a while to build these new skills, but they are worth it.

#sketchbook #training #FediArt #ballpointpen

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stux⚡

The real video clip

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stux⚡

The way you make me meow

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Church of Jeff
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Leah (Cloudstylistin)

Dear developers: Please stop using random valid domains in your examples or documentation, there are dedicated domain names and IP ranges for that.

For domain names for example use: example.com

Reference: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/

For IP address ranges for example use: 203.0.113.0/24
or
2001:DB8::/32

Reference: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/ [IPv4] or datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/ [IPv6]

Thanks!
The infrastructure people.

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Ken Shirriff

What would you say is the first microcomputer? The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps Micral N (1973) or the Q1 (1972)? How about the Arma Micro Computer from way back in 1962. This compact 20-pound transistorized computer was built for space applications. 1/13

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Hacker Memes

for (int 🐱=0; 🐱 <3; 🐱++)
pthread_join(🐈[🐱], NULL);

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mekka okereke :verified:

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not up to Black History! I'm still working through white US history. Bear with me! Almost there!

Q: Why does it seem like everything has to be woke now? Even our scientists?! It never used to be that way! Why does it seem like these days, even higher education has to think about race, when it didn't before?

A: Higher education, including STEM, did think about race before. That history has just been hidden from you. Because racism.

#BlackMastodon

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myrmepropagandist

RIP wild one. You taught millions of people so many things about owls and nature.. and you never had a choice. You didn't really belong here, we should have done better by you. Thank you, goodbye, I'm sorry.

nytimes.com/2024/02/23/nyregio

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red

You have been visited by margaret hamilton. Fast code and moon landings will come to you but only if you boost this toot

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George Budd

@freemo Thanks for all your hard work on this!

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GeePawHill

Here's a lovely thing.

"By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a *nautical* expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships.

"By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind".

So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind".

I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language.

I cherish this fact.

Also, I cherish pizza.

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George Budd

@freemo The problem is that “better” has so many dimensions as to make it mean whatever someone wants.

On one hand, it’s a lot more expensive to get a house or college degree than it was 20 or 40 years ago, on the other hand we’ve got access to information and entertainment that would be unimaginable 40 years ago. Not to mention the safety improvements you mention.

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Mike Linn

6 years ago today.

My then-girlfriend’s medical school friend (a derm PA) rolled my pants leg up to ‘take a look’ at a mutating freckle I was mildly concerned about.

“Dude, you have cancer.”

We were in the middle of a party full of medical professionals. We were supposed to go snowboarding in 12 hours. Instead, my ex, her friend, my best friend, and I drove to her dermatology clinic in Denver the next morning for a rush excision. The head doctor met us there and approved the procedure.

Christine, the PA, did the excision. My ex (also a PA) did the prep work/helped stitch. My best friend made jokes while they cut a football out of my calf.

The doctor came in a couple times. At one point, she said “has Christine explained to you what the ramifications of this might be?”

I told her that I was starting to get the picture.

I wouldn’t be formally diagnosed until a week later. Stage 3c metastatic melanoma. Another wide excision and a lymph node biopsy confirmed these.

I’m still not entirely sure I understand the ramifications.

It’s been 6 years, with a stage 4 recurrence last year. I’m in remission again, and my prognosis remains good in spite of my diagnosis.

I can type that sentence and feel hope. I can point to my perseverance and optimism in the face of a shitty situation.

I’m also weeping while I’m typing this sentence. I was fine writing the first part. I’ve told this story 1000 times. There are no rules to this game. I’ll never fully understand it.

I don’t have to fully understand things to keep going; life rarely works that way. I thought this would be a fun anecdote to show how it started and I just walked myself down 6 years of “what the fuuuuck?”

But a superfluous, semi-formal anniversary and a long text post aren’t to blame, either. This is what it’s like in my mind all the time. I’m sure I’m not alone in that regard as it relates to my experience with cancer.

I had more points to make before my brain derailed this one. But it’s been a hell of a ride.

I’m hopeful to keep living through memorable times, even if they’re not always amazing.

#thankscancer #melanoma #mentalhealth

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Qagggy :bt:

My invention, the Pedestrian Crossing Flail-Mace, is an improvement over flag-based systems.

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The Whore of Blahbylon
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Corey Quinn

“For some reason our AWS bill spikes 4% in February once every four years. I don’t understand why.”

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Jon Pinter

“You're comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements & 8galls of water spread over 38 trillion cells.
You're built from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you've consumed according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix, small enough to be carried by a sperm.
You're recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur & shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts & rebuilt into our planets most complex living thing.
You're not living on Earth, you are Earth.”

- Aubrey Marcus

“We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon”
Joni Mitchell

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Lori Emerson

the last of today's nerd dump: look at this incredible illustration of the complexity involved in sending photos via cable across the Atlantic in 1926! I believe this is an illustration of the Bartlane Cable Picture Transmission System which translated images into variations of five-hole punches onto Baudot telegraphic tape and then transmitted, reversing the process at the other end using a teletype machine. #othernetworks

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