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outside of the obvious "there's no way this was officially put out by a state institution, particularly one in the midwest,

1) i doubt the health center would recommend doing this "with a friend" without mentioning protection or std testing. it's college. they're desperate to get people to practice safe sex.

2) honestly though, kudos on the formatting here. it's hard to tell because this is blurry and i'm on my phone, but i think that's the serif font recommended by university communications? i'm pretty sure the sans serif font is off, but tbh you could dismiss that if this was made directly by the health center and not through marketing. the header and the logo are pretty good too. those probably are from the ucom resources.

3) tbh the biggest confirmation that this isn't official is the last paragraph. first, it doesn't have a period at the end of the sentence - minor, but it looks unprofessional so you'd assume someone would have caught it. the biggest error though is that it's sign as "the university health center". if you check the university style guide, it's "Nebraska Medicine-University Health Center" on first reference and "University Health Center" on later references. i assume whoever made this titled it "University Health Center by Nebraska Medicine" based on their website. i don't know if it would appear that way in print, even in a title.

also idk whose number that is but almost every unl phone number is 402-472-xxxx. they could have just looked up the health center number. (side note if you're a student there and you get a call from a 472-xxxx number, please answer. begging you as someone who worked at the university once upon a time. or at least set up and check your voicemail. everyone should do that anyways.)

anyways if you're gonna fake an official university sign be sure to check and make sure you're doing it right. same rules apply to other universities. check for a brand guide and a style guide to make your fake as convincing as possible

Vermont has flooded.

My family and home are fine because the 7.8 inches of rain that fell in a day didn’t cause our house to slide of the ridge it sits on, but less than a thousand feet away roads have been washed out and homes are being condemned. Yesterday, our congressional delegation, the governor, and a FEMA representative, toured the town - focusing on the non-profit cat cafe turned hazardous waste site thanks to a basement full of red diesel fuel and the neighborhood that includes a ten story, low income, senior and disabled apartment building where the blacktop of the road lifted and peeled away in huge sheets. There is still only one route out of town to the interstate due to landslides and flooding. In every direction I can point to there are towns going through similar things. Our capitol, Montpelier, flooded causing most of the state government to shut down and move essential operations to a nearby airport. Many farms were in the path of flood waters and lost most of their crops. Vermont has the second largest population of unhoused people per capita, second to California, with many of them camping in the woods along our rivers. They have lost everything.

In short, we need help.

I gathered some resources if you need an updated news source or are able to donate.

It’s raining again.

I’ve also collected some photos of the flooding and it’s aftermath

It’s started raining again. We may get another two inches.

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