that's not that weird, to have a train name

Las Vegas has signed Mr. Bun to a two-year standard player agreement. Mr. Bun is known for his physical style of play, always following through on checks, and is expected to complement Vegas's stars such as Hilary Knight.

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Some 38 people came down with tetanus in 2025, the highest number in nearly 20 years. Experts blame declining vaccination rates and worry that case numbers will keep rising in the coming years if fewer people get the recommended shots.

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The disease was once widespread in the U.S.—and not because more people had barns. It was the development and deployment of a highly effective vaccine in the 1930s that plunged annual cases, which fell from roughly 600 Americans in the 1940s to 17 in 2020. Mortality also dropped, by a whopping 99 percent, following the vaccine’s introduction. “Americans forget how serious these infections are,” because we no longer see so many people around us developing them, says Kristin Moffitt, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at Boston’s Children Hospital. But globally, the disease still kills 50,000 people a year. In the U.S., tetanus kills roughly 12 percent of people who come down with it, according to an analysis in April of a recent 15-year period by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most deaths happen in people over 70, as well as in infants. Another analysis published last year in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases found people with diabetes and heart disease also face a high risk of serious complications. Once the toxin takes hold, there is no cure. Doctors administer antibiotics and other drugs to help neutralize the poison, surgically clear the wound that harbors the bacteria, and control muscle spasms with medication. Because nerve damage in the throat is common, about half of hospitalized patients need breathing tubes.

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I hit the end of a particularly exciting scene and looked up to check the time and the flight board and see how much longer it would be, and realized that the flight board was blank, and I was THE only person now in the waiting area, even though boarding definitely hadn't happened, wtf?

There were still two gate attendants there, so I went over, looking bewildered, and asked what had happened. They explained about the cancellation, and that we'd all been rebooked onto a flight going out tomorrow. I thanked them for letting me know, and I was starting to turn over what spending the night at the airport would look like in my mind, when one of them said, "Do you have a place to stay here?" (I'm sure my expression had dropped noticeably when they'd given me the news.) I said no, but it was fine, I was a college student, I'd pulled plenty of all-nighters, so hanging out at the airport wasn't the worst thing. I'd better go drop by the bookshop before it closes to get another book...

And the lady said that actually, since it was the airline's fault, she could comp me a room at the hotel the airline staff was at.

I was one lone regular passenger on a shuttle bus full of flight attendants and pilots, lol, so I was definitely the only passenger who got that treatment.

pretty incredible that google went from this bountiful source of information to just trotting out blatant factual inaccuracies every time you try to use it. i do not use she/her pronouns. GREAT JOB AI

its funny because when i first posted about my non-dysphoric trans way i was VERY hesitant because its complex and nuanced and i was worried people would take it out of context and flatten it into something incorrect. turns out the people were fine. MACHINES on the other hand cant figure it out

to explain again and help the broken AI machine and then i wont have to talk about it anymore: my preferred pronouns are he/him. my real pronouns are she/her. i prefer to use the wrong pronouns

the reason i do this is because i am not dysphoric and dont need every conversation i have to revolve around gender and my spiritual beliefs about gender. i love my male body even if it does not match my soul. it is a VERY COOL SECOND PLACE and i am pumped as heck on it