Booster Shot #2 coming up this weekend! Booster Shots is my exclusive bonus episode series for Substack and Patreon paid subscribers, they're quick little 10-15 min extra episodes that explore more science, and let me nerd out about some other aspects of the shows I watch.

Time to play the game Why Are You Wet with my cat. Thankfully this time I think it's because she likes to walk around the bathtub after I take a shower.

Reminder to myself as much as anyone, social media isn't real. What people choose to post online is generally a carefully curated vision of their life that they want you to see, not necessarily reality. Ar least that's what I tell myself when I see something that I wish wasn't true.

I hate potatoes, always have. Today, I am vindicated. open.substack.com/pub/tierahru...

My new bonus series called Booster Shots premiers on Saturday for my paid Substack and Patreon subscribers. It's just $2 a month to join (Patreon, $2.50 substack) and get access to all upcoming bonus content. It's going to be a regular series in between full seasons, so sign up now!

Friday Science Fun Fact this week is about how Pott's Disease gave us A Christmas Carol open.substack.com/pub/tierahru...

This is it! Last episode of Season 2, it's on Tombstone and tuberculosis. Listen to the end for a rant about billionaires and governments choosing to not treat this curable disease that 25% of the planet is carrying. tierahruinsthings.substack.com/p/s2e6-tombs...

Today I'm talking about Winterhawk... and also 3 other shows! Smallpox is a big one covered in a lot of shows and movies, just like tuberculosis (tomorrow's show). Streaming now everywhere, so go listen! tierahruinsthings.substack.com/p/s2e5-winte...

Today's episode is about polio as shown in Warm Springs, starring Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon. Polio was almost eliminated, we got down to 6 cases across the entire planet in 2021, but it's been hovering around 20-25 cases per year since then. tierahruinsthings.substack.com/p/s2e4-warm-...

Today on the podcast, the movie Philadelphia and how it depicts HIV and AIDS. This is an intense one, as this virus has a fraught history. I tried to do it justice, so let me know what you think. Listen everywhere you get podcasts. tierahruinsthings.substack.com/p/s3e3-phila...

Episode 2 is out today, featuring the 1918 influenza as shown on Downton Abbey. The 1918 influenza was so incredibly deadly, but why? We have H1N1 still today, and it was an H1N1, so what gives? Full details in the episode, available on all podcast platforms! open.substack.com/pub/tierahru...

Season 2 starts today with episode 1 about typhus and typhoid fever, as depicted on screen in Little House on the Prairie and Outlander. Listen on all podcast platforms now! substack.com/@tierahruins...

Oh yeah, by the way, Season 2 of the podcast starts on Monday! This season is all about world-changing diseases.

This is more terrifying than the measles outbreak. Why? Bc there's an effective vaccine for measles, but the TB one does not work in adults. Also as few as 1-10 bacterial cells can transmit TB & you may not show symptoms for 2-10 *years*. Treatment involves up to 2 yrs of antibiotics.

Hey Alberta, you have until Dec 15, 2025 to book your covid and flu shots for NEXT year (2026). You can do this through the Alberta Vaccine Booking System. Please share. If you don't book next year's vaccines by this Dec, you may not get them.

Tea is useless in the kettle, it'll just get cold.

Today's #FSFF is about every person you've ever met, and yourself. And also worms and bugs.

Headache cure: pinching my eyebrows, strong coffee, eating pickled asparagus, and acetaminophen. Don't worry, I already have autism, so nothing will change.

Today's Friday Science Fun Fact ia about how antivaccine sentiments have existed since before the word vaccine was coined. Surprise surpruse, they're rooted in religious retribution.

I forgot that editing my podcast is 95% cutting out pauses while I breathe and clipping the little sounds of me opening my mouth before I speak. Can you get misophonia against your pwn mouth noises?

Why can't you have grapefruit while on some meds? Is it all meds? All classes of meds? It's actually random, drug by drug, so ask your doctor or pharmacist if grapefruit juice is right for you.

The worst part of doing a literature search is finding yourself in a reference wormhole, ie when papers use a reference for a fact that is not the original claim, but another paper making the same claim & also referencing something else.

Friday science fun fact this week comes from more podcast prepping, it's about smallpox

While watching For All Mankind, I watched S1, S2, & then started S4 by accident. Took me 3 eps to realize & go back to 3. I did the same thing with Kate Quinn's Empress of Rome books: 1, 2, 4, then 3. Clearly I need to double check series I'm into before starting the 4th part.

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

Forgot to post last Friday's Science Fun Fact

I will never understand selfish people who knowingly ruin other people's lives for their own gain and then pretend they did nothing wrong. That's good, because it means I would never do that to anyone. I wish that was more comforting right now, but it doesn't heal as much hurt as I would hope.

There should be a thing that zaps pedestrians who start walking through a crosswalk after the red stop walking light is flashing. That time of no pedestrians is for cars to be able to turn.

I've been doing this little thing called Friday Science Fun Fact for a few weeks now, where I share a fact about infectious diseases that I find fun and will make you question my definition of that word. Enjoy this week's. Previous ones are all on my ⏰️ account.

For someone who hates getting app notifications, I sure do have a smart mouth online and comment a lot.

I need a new logo card for the podcast! Currently it's the 2nd pic, but the lettering is too small & there's too much dead space. Sound off in the comments which one you like! I did previously use Option 1 and wouldn't be opposed to going back to it.

It's too hot and I don't have any spoons for cooking. Cheese and crackers for dinner it is, but I do have a cranberry goat cheese available, so it's like bougie girl dinner.

Rewatching #SNW S2E03 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. The thing about ST is it hits you diff @ diff times in your life. Today, La'an's autism coding is hitting me hard, esp her telling Kirk that ppl are hard for her but he feels easy & safe.

Does anyone know what the cookie means? Pips #3 Easy 🟢 0:52 Pips #3 Medium 🟡 0:31 🍪 Pips #3 Hard 🔴 1:04 I had one on Pips #2, and none on Pips #1. #nytgames #wordle #connections #nyt

When you're an emotional support game time chicken, but it's off season and is 33 days until hockey starts again, so you have to work your summer job to keep busy.

Because we have the worst government in the history of #Alberta I'm asking you to repost this info Measles Hotline: Call 1-844-944-3434 If you we born between 1957 - 1970 you might need a measles booster Call the hotline they will put you in touch with a public health nurse in your area #ableg

I stg I'm going to get the second season of my podcast out this summer if I have to die trying. Last summer as I was working on it, life exploded This summer, trying again, & life is trying to explode again. Thankfully now I'm experienced & cool guys don't look @ explosions anyways

if the plural of leaf is leaves, is the singular of pet peeves a pet peef?

"How long have you been at Kamar-raj, Mister....?" "It's Doctor." 🤨 "Mister Doctor." "It's Strange" "Maybe. Who am I to judge?" Is my favourite exchange in the entire MCU.

You mean to tell me that I am just now learning at the age of 42 that Rhode Island isn't, in facr, and island? And that there's a place called Sandwich next to a place called Mashpee? The US truly is a silly place

Love that I can tell my doctor, a muslim lady my age whose married with kids, that the dating pool and dating in general is awful and men are the worst, and she will chuckle with me and say yes, yes it is lol she really gets me.

Watching a man fiddle with the wifi and try to remote stream his computer through my chromecast onto my tv, and figure out which controller works and why is it the Switch joycons. tbh this is gender affirming care for him and i love it <3

Dating pet peeve: people who put completely rational things to fear under the "my most irrational fear is" prompt on hinge. Heights, snakes, and spiders don't count. Teeth, plastic sporks, and textures vinyl are irrational fears.

Holy mother forking shirt balls

Do people who squat over public toilet seats instead of sitting bc they're "dirty" know that they're only dirty bc y'all squat and piss all over them instead of sitting and peeing in the bowl?

Men who put videos of themselves playing guitar on their Hinge are basically the Wonderwall guy at a party.

One lesser known sign of autism in women & girls is an overactive inner fantasy world. Sometimes I forget about that one ... & then someone will do smth simple like view my tiktok profile & I'll make up a whole what if about us spending the rest of our lives together, in the space of like 17 sec.

Lab rat dating problems is going over to someone's house for the first time and their place smells vaguely like e coli culture.

If I could explode people's heads with my brain just by thinking about it, drivers of trucks with an excessively loud exhausts that blare their fart horns while speeding down the road by my place would have their heads explode and the authorities would be really confounded.

I love lying in bed in the mornings and hearing my cat messing around, gallop around the apartment, and just be a little weirdo. She's safe, is loved & fed, and isn't living on the streets in a dirty abandoned lot anymore, and now she gets to be a real cat ❤️