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Come check out the Superb Owl Super Bowl happening over on superbowl@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/11835121

Owl facts and adorable pictures abound.

Critical care nurse here. The answer is esophageal varices.

It’s the same physiological anomaly as hemorrhoids, except in your esophagus. Swollen, fragile veins caused by increased internal pressure. In the case of hemorrhoids, that pressure inside the veins is caused by straining too much when trying to poo. In esophageal varices, the increased pressure inside the esophageal veins comes from blood backing up from a swollen, scarred, and damaged liver. So we often see esophageal varices in end stage alcohol use disorder.

Horror stories abound in emergency departments and ICUs of having to do CPR on a patient massively hemorrhaging out of their mouth from esophageal varices. As soon as nurses I know saw this report, our immediate thought was, “Yep, varices.”

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15429-esophageal-varices

Just did. Won our vote Wednesday night 💪

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I’d miss you guys. I’ve jumped in on conversations on your instance a couple of times and it always seems like a nice place

No, dracaena species in particular are sensitive to minerals and fluoride in tap water. I water my dracaena with bleach sterilized rainwater (after a livingroom-wide leaf spot outbreak a couple years ago). They’re just fussy.

This could be a nursing meme and still 100% accurate lol

Reba McEntire! Love me some Reba
Alabama are another favorite of mine

Mary Chapin Carpenter is great too
The Judds
Loretta Lynn
Hank Williams Sr.
Kenny Rogers
Rosanne Cash
Waylon & Willie, baby (Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson)
Brooks & Dunn
Charlie Daniels Band

In a more modern iteration, I’ve been really enjoying The Dead South recently

Literally the plot of Everything Everywhere All At Once

I might have had an entire backyard dance choreographed to this song when I was a kid. Maybe. I’m not telling.

You’re not changing what racist uncle is doing or thinking no matter what you do. I deal with racist uncle too, you know. I’m busy radicalizing the kiddos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why do you care what racist uncle thinks though? Is it going to affect anyone in the world other than him?

I went to great lengths to get my family group chat migrated from FB Messenger over to WhatsApp, and then Meta bought WhatsApp. I’m doomed. I’ll never get these Americans to transition to something like Signal

I’m in the middle of book 7 and holy what a shift. I’m in the part where it’s so overwhelming, you can’t even begin to imagine how this will get resolved. Very excited to read the last two books.

This kind of passive bigotry is necessary for genocides to occur. It is the foundation on which the mechanisms of genocide are built.

It’s not just no good; it’s terrifying.

Fresh episodes of X-Files and Star Trek: TNG every week.

Just that whole experience of something on television being a cultural zeitgeist because everyone had to watch it at the exact same time because that was the only time it existed. Sure, you could record it on VHS and watch later, but it wasn’t the same. Even being at home watching alone felt like participating in a social event.

Pikmin 3

The most effective medication is the one that actually gets used.

Nothing at all bad happened to the two German journalists who published the Panama Papers. Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier are both very much alive and well, and have started a nonprofit organization in honor of their friend and colleague, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered by an operative of the Maltese government officials who she was investigating for corruption that was revealed in the Panama Papers.

The investigations and revelations produced by The Daphne Project are ongoing. These are journalists who refuse to be silenced by one woman’s murder.

But to understand that, you’d have to be interested in not being ignorant for five seconds instead of just parroting things you saw online because you think it makes you sound smart.

https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/

Omg this is how in describing my gender from now on haha