Was there ever a Bluesky discourse about the Netflix movie War Machine bc oh man. I just watched it and it was one of those rare masterpieces that’s so bad it horsehoes its way to being a great time to watch

Think your day is bad? What if you messed up Bucharest and Budapest?

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

Why isn't there a headline grabbing lawsuit about someone who claims to be Catholic being fired for refusing to use AI after the Pope's encyclical? Or is there and I just haven't seen it yet?

About two years ago I stopped punishing my kids with time out (because it wasn't really working) and switched to having them run laps of our cul-de-sac (the worse the weather the better). We've since added push-ups, burpees, and wall sits My kids aren't better behaved now but they're much more fit

Just when you thought you'd seen it all

Sean Trende’s piece on his son’s last day of school is full of joy and sadness and love and is well worth your time. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I love that this Thailand itinerary article in the NYT has a photo of the reclining Buddha at Wat Pho despite there being numerous signs within Wat Pho asking people not to take pictures, particularly of the reclining Buddha. (I have a photo of the reclining Buddha from my honeymoon)

Going to cause so much constipation from all the generic Miralax people didn't know they were drinking in their tap water.

I just found out that Washington will let me customize my license plate with medals and awards from my military service and I am extremely tempted to pay the $19 to get a National Defense Service Medal emblem license plate

LLMs are very good for information transforms (a term of art I picked up from electronic health literature where info is in one place / format and you need it in a different one). It parsed the Excel spreadsheet with my schedule on it and reliably created ics files for import into my actual calendar

Destroyed myself in the gym as punishment for being lazy yesterday which means I'm going to be sore af tomorrow which means that I'll do nothing or something easy which means I'll repeat this whole cycle for awhile because I am an idiot

If I ever find the guy who hung all the doors in my house during its remodel before we bought it I am going to punch him in the mouth. They drilled every pilot hole for every interior hinge ~1/64" too wide, so every hinge is in the process of its screws loosening and needing me to fix it

Cool. I have no doubt that SCOTUS will find a way to neuter this though.

Saw an IG post that reminded me of this time I was a research assistant in a chemistry lab and we had a bunch of liquid helium running through some tubing and there was a metal connector. It would ice up and drip onto the counter. We were speculating about what it was so put a cup under it to catch…

I would rather give a Nigerian call center access to my bank accounts.

ALSO I HEAR THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A BLACK PERSON ON THE NEW X-FILES. NOW MULDER AND SCULLY WANDER AROUND WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND NEVER ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING AND CAN’T EXPLAIN WHAT THEY DO. THAT IS A FUCKIN WHITE MAN’S JOB

I don't think people are reckoning with what a military looks like if the only people who join are true believers in its most mistaken uses. How much capability would the military be deprived of constituted that way? Don't we want the best and brightest and most capable effecting our national will?

I am absolutely gobsmacked by the number of current and former service members on my feed right now self flagellating about how it was their own fault they served in a military that was used in ways they disagree with. Leaders who misuse the military are responsible for those choices!

I fundamentally reject the idea that whether or not one joins the military should be a referendum on its past, present, or future use. Service members deserve thoughtful teammates and leaders of all persuasions and society's leaders owe it to service members to use their service thoughtfully.

Looking at Afghanistan health statistics on OurWorldInData and it says that Afghanistan presently spends 23% of its GDP on health care and while I know their GDP is quite low… can anyone explain it? Are they capturing the outlays of NGOs and dividing by Afghan GDP?

TIL Washington State banned noncompetes as of June 30 2027. 🎉

I do not know a single intensivist who is not deeply aware of the interstitum and its ability to move fluid around the body, yet the NYT is talking about its "discovery" as a brand new thing that's upending medicine. I don't get it

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One of my favorite things to do living in liberal western WA is to explain to ardent "environmentalists" how recycling is actually hastening global warming and watch the "reduce-reuse-recycle" programming of their youth fight an existential battle against their adult understanding of climate change

I propose we move to a fee-based system for corporations who profit off of the freedom of navigation the US Navy provides; in keeping with the US move away from taxation for widely available services to fee-based levies for specific services.

I think a lot about how the March of Dimes invested heavily in iron lung ventilators for polio victims and became fixated on the use of only iron lungs, which led to death from bulbar polio and forced the development of tracheostomies and positive pressure ventilation (the modern standard) to Europe

Have you ever heard another person in your field of expertise synthesize information and then come to a conclusion that had never occurred to you but seems incredibly obvious in retrospect? I have, many times, and it motivates me to think more and harder. AI doesn't offer that.

Absolutely incredible that the words "smoking" and "cigarettes" do not appear in this article about why athletes are suddenly able to achieve elite performance later into life. It's just a bunch of sane-washing expensive placebos and ignoring the primary contributor.

My tweets on infant mortality and our retreat from science brought to you by this heart breaking ProPublica piece. (Though I do take issue with the quote that "a lot of the providers don’t have this on their radar" -- it's one of the first things I look into after stabilizing crashing infants)

I will never forget when my son was born at a local hospital in Seattle, WA and the newborn nurses came in the morning after his birth and asked (verbatim), "Are you all interested in the vitamin K shot and his vaccine?"…

Everyone who declines a medical recommendation for their infant should be shown this picture and have it explained to them. The natural state of things is an infant mortality of >15% (1880 American mortality rate for infants <1 year).

It is done. 🎉

We need to teach children (and adults) in America that "regret minimization" is often a better decision strategy than "reward maximization"

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

It's a very good documentary of the aftermath

Fun story from clearing the other day at the hospital EOC: “Hi, I need to out process” “Ok write down your name and email and final out date on the paper. You also need to go upstairs to clear the operations office since we only do <other thing>” “Got it.” …

I'm getting out of the military and a number of people feel the need to constantly remind me, "You know there's lots of hassles and inefficiencies in regular hospitals too" and I've been saying this so I made it a comic

The logical thing to do if we wanted to make society safer would be to restrict access to the tools that make individuals so dangerous. It goes unmentioned that the "open society" @radiofreetom.bsky.social talks about here is awash in guns and doesn't have to be. There is another way

Absolutely end stage empire for half the country to be pearl clutching about an attempt on the President's life that was without incident but unmoved by children being murdered in schools on the regular

I wonder if we're thinking about Donald Trump's visible decline wrong. It certainly seems to have accelerated since he started spending more time physically near JD Vance and we know how Vance's presence has affected others… #justaskingquestions

Funny story to read after spending a few weeks at Camp Ethan Allen in VT and the ominous, very loud sounds that some unspecified General Dynamics testing on the Camp produce unpredictably

We have such a stupid Rube Goldberg healthcare system. There's no way to "fix" this system, just throw it out. Every incentive it sets up is perverse and gets manipulated.

Isn't declaring a ceasefire during a war you started with an adversary who isn't participating in talks just a unilateral cessation of hostilities?

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

How to make a CIF clearing appointment: Out brief: You must use the online portal Website: No appointments available Phone: You have to come and make an appointment in person so you can show us a copy of your orders Me: Can’t I just tell you final out date and make an appointment on the phone? …

Robby’s swaddle job at the end of tonight’s Pitt was absolutely dog shit. Clearly never rotated in a NICU. Needs a NICU or nursery nurse to teach him

This is a political version of the Kendrick-Drake feud. Can't wait for Pope Leo to drop a Papal "Not Like Us"

One of the big downsides of being a physician parent is that you know lots of easy ways to alleviate your childrens' myriad minor complaints which they extrapolate to an ability to eradicate all discomfort if they can rouse you to action. No matter how many times you say there's nothing you can do