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Meet MaryKDR outside biopharma land. Auditory PD, Christian, artist, full time rv'er 2017, wheelchair user +50 yards 2018, memoirist 2019, widow 2020. she/her
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I had a chance to do an interview with YouTubers who also have an RV and also use mobility scooters, so we talked about me being
#fulltimerv
and a parttime scooter user and people who lean on you and all those “awesome” accessibility experiences.
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Lemme tell you about the last time I went to Ace Hardware. I need to buy a particular wrench for a bolt on my rollator (a kind of walker) that kept coming loose. I had recently had a bad fall where I went flying across a cell phone store floor because the bolt came out. 1/
How does Ace Hardware stay in business?
15% higher than Lowe’s and Home Depot while having nothing you need in stock
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Now while I was there I filled my propane and got a couple other things, they made a sale. But also while they were fixing it their pastor happened to come and catch them all fixing a disabled woman's walker.
So really a win for everyone I would say.
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I did not know dogs lose their baby teeth.
This is Poppy. She lost her first tooth today. Heard if she puts it under her pillow it’ll be replaced with snacks. 14/10 hopes you’re proud
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So I go into Ace hardware, and a bunch of good ol boys are sitting inside the front door shooting the breeze. I tell the cashier what I'm looking for and they decided well wouldn't it be better if they just fixed my walker.
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They got out some tools, some lock tite. I had been afraid to put lock tite on it when I did it in case I wasn't strong enough to get it put together right and now it was harder to fix. So they fixed it.
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@SeewehM
@CBSNews
@mashiane05
Nope. But someone is going to want to explain how this is not a racism. 😐
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@themonaleo
A neighboring county wouldn’t let Black peoples in. They had nowhere else to go and tried to cross the bridge and were gunned down on the bridge. I think there are pictures or video… they know who did it, don’t think anyone was charged but don’t remember.
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I had gone to Harbor Freight to try to buy one. But me not being very well, and trying to hold my walker upside down in the isle and figure out which wrench set (you can't buy single wrenches there) to get with no service... I gave up because I was going to pass out.
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@TitPostLeft
@Amy_Claire_x
Mono (glandular fever) is likely the no. 1 cause of chronic fatigue syndrome and may even be the cause when associated with other pathogens like COVID-19. Anyone with mono should REST, adult or kid.
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@annabroges
I matched with my boyfriend on three apps and ignored him until a friend went on a date with him and said he was the one for me. It was an immediate in person match, we were together from that first date for 11 years until he died. ;-)
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@InternetHippo
Yup, all these "but the flu" conversations have just highlighted to me what an unacceptable high level of flu death we have allowed to happen and maybe we should do something about that.
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@AcePanda83
@netw3rk
Ha, this is basically what you do. Add nuts to everything (non-COVID loss going on 4 years for me). Ben of Ben & Jerry's has limited sense of taste/smell, that's why they make so many textured flavors.
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@thunderxstorm07
@tommybayertime
I did this once by accident. I just kept picking the wrong one having to keep going to try again. I was 100% sober and felt like I was in hell.
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@tsums9
@astuesse
@StreetVillain
You do get to chose what safety equipment they get, benefits, health insurance. The post called for OSHA, a safety agency. And your first comment is against that. So your attitude is let’s love farmworkers to death? That’s called necrophilia. It’s not a good thing.
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@eveagerber
There was no argument and no escalation, you literally jumped in with indefensible words AND ACTIONS as you stalked a woman on the sidewalk. There’s no apology that starts with lies and lack of personal accountability for your actions. Try again.
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@ChrisBEsq
@DavidBegnaud
@brooklynmarie
Because she doesn’t want to undo the harm she just wants to undo the consequences.
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@Imani_Barbarin
Per Red Cross workers interviewed on NPR, how they got their first was they were there as tourists and went and took over a shelter locals had already set up. 🙃
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@twig_lalaland
@vxgxn
@hello__caitlin
@KaraBTweets
Freezing it kills the worms. In a home freezer it needs to be kept frozen for longer than in a commercial freezer that has a lower temperature. Here is the FDA guideline:
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@TitPostLeft
And also they’re not an adult they are a kid. If they feel miserable they get to stay home, even in situations where us adults would have to go to work. It’s not the same at all.
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@katierose
@GorurVinay
My friend’s intellectually disabled daughter interviewed for a job at a NJ gym (recommended by her disability service!) where she was told she would be required to come in with COVID and the only excuse for missing work was hospitalization. My friend yanked her out of there.
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@ronnui_
@coffeespoonie
They act like jerks when you call but if you don’t call they lock your account. You have to force them to do their job.
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@_kaitlingrady
But then when there is important timely information send you a letter with a stamp on it sorry we forgot we had a portal.
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@RocCalli
@Ruth_Mensch
A shooting and gas attack where people could not get away because the doors had been locked between cars.
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@illex
The chances this guy discriminates against disabled people in hiring is approximately 100%.
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@boobeebah123
Just another widow chiming in to say may your pillow always be sweltering, a lego always underfoot, and your dirty dishes especially crusty.
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@nursedj2020
I just have no words for people like this. You either really live in la la land OR you live in la la land and think this is an okay place to hawk your business. Either way, it's cruel, self-centered, thoughtless... no words, just no words.
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@inreGray
"I have another commitment and I will be able to return to this after I have completed that [meeting or task]."
(I am disabled with fatigue, what I will be completing is a nap.)
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@themonaleo
Four officers were charged for shooting and two for cover up. The four were found guilty.
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@Swilua
A hilarious thing that came out of that conversation is they love the taste of *scalded* milk and not raw milk and somehow it never occurred to them they could just buy milk in the store and scald it.
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One time I was at a restaurant and there was a very young couple, late teens or very early 20s, where one of them was abusive and when that one went to the bathroom SEVERAL elderly couples turned and advised the other to just leave and never look back.
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@Saabbrraaa
He left. So the first thing you immediate is get a locksmith over and change the locks. You have possession of everything he walked away from until a court decides otherwise. Step two is call a lawyer. You take care of you.
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@POTUS
Is it? My state couldn’t respond to the recent storm because of DOT workers out with COVID. Because of that & because of their own COVID issues, a nursing home failed and two people died. What kind of good economy is marked by people dying from failed infrastructure?
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@strangetimespdx
@pamelacolloff
I hit a point where it was untenable when I had 200 people on a project. I started replying by phone only. The emails where they could have looked it up themselves plummeted.
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@alaskawater
@ArleneDickinson
My boyfriend has a coworker who this is like his hobby. The guy actually bought extra tools to be better at changing people’s tires.
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@alteredhearts
@KTNV
@Cleavon_MD
Honey, the whistleblows are from inside the stores. It’s nice that you are so special, but believe it or not this is not about you.
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@oldenoughtosay
Not a rule but I found someone painting my house a different color. I threw him out and called a lawyer. I had been notified of painting, not notified that the HOA president's wife had decided the neighborhood was her personal dollhouse collection & reassigned house colors.
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@alanasaltz
@Shipt
My last order my shopper who has now been shopping for me for nearly two years texted me because something I always order wasn't on my list and she wanted to make sure I hadn't forgotten. (It had built up in my pantry so I was skipping an order.)
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@Imani_Barbarin
THIS is the tweet that brought the ableds out. I have seen more ableds engage with this one tweet than ALL of
#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
. If that was meant as an object lesson, object, lessoned.
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@alanasaltz
I use
@Shipt
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@Sarah_RedMeeple
@RachelCDailey
Respectfully, this reflects a common misunderstanding about accessibility - that it’s only a right if it is easy or cheap. Rights are rights. If they cost money, even if they cost quite a lot of money, if they are inconvenient to impliment, even very inconvenient, still rights.
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@Dr_amoytheemd
I first saw this technology discussed by a Deaf nurse who is able to have it feed into her hearing device.
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@StrawberrySage2
@kvnleosama
@BApplebelly
@EmilyVROOOM
She’s literally rubbing her face with the dirty side of the mask so sure, skipping touching her face to go straight for apply germs directly to the face.
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Cn racist violence
Someone submitted a violent photo of an apparently dead Black family to
@Imani_Barbarin
. It says Getty but does not come up in reverse image search. Brings up the possibility someone used AI to create an image of graphic violence to be used for harassment.
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@coffeeteanxiety
Real historians have pointed out what I as an amateur genealogist will tell you: they can’t read a certain set of documents from like 1950 to present, even that only certain nations. To read eras before that requires extra training even for someone who can read current NA cursive
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@usebigears
@RevJacquiLewis
Guess what you don't have to think stand your ground is a good thing to have the common sense to be able to see these people are being treated differently!
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@sheatly
@krystoferhunter
Literally WTF is wrong with you.
And your facts are wrong, in so many ways but one of them is your fantasy that there aren't drugs in jail.
But also that it was impossible to care for this pregnant person and their fetus appropriately and so the alternative was to STARVE THEM.
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@jamesstout
And then you get sick and it all disappears into medical costs ask me how I know.
Very team spend your money on you while you are healthy, I regret nothing from that.
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@LadyChuan
My friends are “really busy at work and couldn’t post” (too sick with COVID). “Flight canceled and couldn’t get another flight” (too sick to fly home). Then they talk to me because I’m “the COVID person”. But they’re all lying to each other.
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@duckbldg
@ddxgood
@JustinHaugens
Also at some point, I forget when but it was quite a quite ago, it became illegal to increase your limit without your permission.
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@brandonstrick17
@ANDREWTI
Sit in the damn hotel brandon. The rest of us responsible people are sitting in a damn room. You're not special.
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@matoi1013
@Naru_Xut
@officialtabris
Sounds like they don’t have any friends who will loan them their Netflix.
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@lydiakauppi
I looked into this product when I found my parents using it. It uses antimicrobials that are used in dairies and hospitals. It may be safe for use with cold applications but the safety of breathing it in with hot steam is not tested. I do not consider it a safe product.
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@OakbrowF
@cecilianowell
@legallyypink
At least some of these were not mandatory reports, they were entirely discretionary. Also, you only have HIPAA protection for a discretionary report if you had a reason to believe a law was broken. Some of these stretch the bounds of credibility on that point.
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@jrpsaki
You represent the United Stated of America and you can't be bothered to know one thing about those states and that snow storms and ice storms are not the same thing and you want me to trust you with my life? I better stop now because I am inclined to use very bad words.
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@queenofalbion_
@chocoletedaddy
@etoilenoire
@angiecthomas
And yet look how you knew exactly what mass murderer was being discussed.
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@ifuxwittit
If you don't know what it means for a four year old to be an astronaut I'm not sure a stranger on the internet can help you.
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@ironmom60
@thedailybeast
The people who brought guns and shot people are the ones responsible for shooting people mary.
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@backroads_linda
@krystoferhunter
Oh it's never good when you recognize someone on Twitter. I already saw you today harassing a person w long COVID and post-ICU PTSD about their vaccination status even though they had disclosed and here you are with inane irrelevant questions about malnourishing a pregnant person
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@julia_reid
@DominiqueTaegon
There appears to be a man near you in your profile picture. This was a terrible experience for you I guess.
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@daniel_m_lavery
I just saw a pediatrician do a "5 things that will worry you about your baby that are normal" and one was cold hands and feet.
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@CCDoesTheCCs
My close friend had to fight to support her son’s decision in middle school to stop wearing hearing aids. So many threats about ruining his future! He’s employed as a graphic artist, doing well, and has never taken them back up.
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@Imani_Barbarin
Of course because if they don’t see you they don’t get paid. Research suggests somewhere around 80% or face-to-face medical appointments are unnecessary, there is a healthcare worker shortage that is getting worse, and no one seems to want to make a move to fix it.
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@EpiEllie
dementia --> long syphilis, now suspected to be long version of several other infectious diseases
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Coffeespoonie just flew to have major surgery. She’s required to shower before surgery. The hotel gave away her disabled access hotel room. The airline broke her wheelchair. Gee, why are disabled people so angry.
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@JessssDouglas
@CarnieMega
Plus the person may be eligible for a liability pay out and documenting his injuries would help. But also border control has notoriously used hospitals to snatch people so totally understand.
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The more we learn about Jamie Reed the more her employer has a lot of explaining to do about how they left her at the clinic speaking to patients and accessing medical records and why they didn't act more quickly and assuredly to protect patients' health care and privacy from her
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@rehab_kyle
Dudes like oh I just learned disabled people die from lack of community care and… instead of writing his congress people makes a joke. Great. Love that for us. The hate has never been more clear.
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@Imani_Barbarin
It sort of got buried in everything else but today the Surgeon General told people with monkey pox that they're on their own ("call your doctor"... less than 25% of the main at risk group has a primary care doctor and US doctors have never seen monkey pox in their life).
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@mattdpearce
I'm pretty sure I shouldn't inhale paint fumes at home either, but I'm still protected from inhaling paint fumes in a workplace.
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I was about 30 and had never really seen people willing to name abuse in public and it was like... a huge blast of fresh air for me to see that happen. And especially because the abuse was sort of insidious and quiet, exactly the sort of thing people generally don't confront.
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@BenRavenPDF
“Diabetes 1.5” (previous thought of as adult onset type 1, now divided into 4 diseases) runs my female line… my great grandmother died of it when my grandmother was young, my grandmother was the first to get insulin and survive to be an old woman.
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@bio4transrights
@laurenancona
Still on this “entirely functional” thing despite the patient having a list of non-functional diagnoses *in their own post.*
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@Hyper_Health
The death rate per capita for babies 0-1 from COVID is double the rate of people over 65. The death rate for children has increased every year.
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@Freya0962
@stevenspohn
If you think this is about “bedside manner” you have completely missed the point. No, we don’t want to be murdered more politely.
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@OctopusGrift
@rmnary94
@cipriere
@MorePerfectUS
Exactly. There is a MUCH bigger conversation to be had about exploitation and corporate and government responsibility and anyone who wants to sluff that off to “but virtuous consumers” can bite me.
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@oldenoughtosay
Until it was resolved my house was two different colors and the amount I was sure it drove them wild gave me satisfaction every time I drove up to my front door. I eventually got my house painted the color it had been.
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@NYPD76Pct
I'm high risk COVID, watching your officers removing PPE strikes me at my gut. You killed someone today. You will never know who, but this is death the same as if you had fired a gun.
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@KarlSteel
No one knew how to use their computers. My department had two temps that were a human mail merge. I didn’t have the forethought I do now so I showed them how to use mail merge and the two temps went bye bye.
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@NPR
Yesterday NPR had someone on who was supposedly an expert in a related topic, police violence, but he also had academic consulting agreements with police and said demonstrably untrue things like policing is the most dangerous job. With no pushback from the interviewer.
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The way people are LEAPING into the comments to be an example of each and every point.
Anyways: I urge you to consider the dates on my list.
I will add more should anyone make suggestions.
Alt text included.
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@katimcf
When I KNEW knew the single use medical discourse was pure ableism was when I got a cat and realized I had never heard once a peep about the little can that gets thrown out every single day from the not-optimal packaging of cat food.
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@HanneloreDelor5
@HannahPosted
@DolphusRaymond5
You might want to check your history books there buddy. If I really scratch my head I can see through the haze to what I’m going to guess you flubbed here, but no, the precise items you named are a no.
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@britishmuseum
Your statements leads the reader to think she requested the removal. This is a lie. I do not care in the slightest about your “offer,” that is not how reconciliation works. She is the wronged party. She decides what reconciliation she accepts. You can’t lie about that.
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@thompson_lav
@TheBaddestMitch
Moving bodies between nations is complicated and expensive. The preference is to keep the body and return it to the originating nation for a death certificate at that nation.
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@cjp_still
She blocked me for pointing out the illogic of her post putting one statistical group against a completely different statistical group but also this: I am disabled. My ability to make money has been cut dramatically. There is NO other debt that is like student loan debt.
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@TheNolaChick
@arlenparsa
You aren't required to get a SSN, even for a hospital birth.
(This isn't a political statement, just a correction of fact.)
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