Ha. That's what I get for moaning. Today I lost half of the tennis matches instead of just 25%

Another fine evening in the Bluesky echo chamber where everyone agrees on basic principles.

We need to make sure this editorial goes viral Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Things aren't getting better, but they might be about to get funnier

This is why they’re so full of shit when they say CA is rigged. Our votes are tracked like Amazon packages. We get texts and emails when they are mailed to us, reminders if we haven’t voted yet, then texts and emails when our ballots are received and counted.

What a catastrophe. Hospitals that do this voluntarily are helping ensure future patients will not seek care anywhere. And who knows what it will mean for the patients directly affected. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

That's just my projection, perhaps. Maybe it's just the universal douchebaggery of cops in general I was noticing. But I had some suspicion that these were something like DV, or weapon discharge, or misconduct cases with mandated physician visits. All men, even though the department wasn't. (5/7)

Have had a lot of professional experiences with cops. Some while they were acting as cops. And some as patients. It's hard to think of too many that were positive. Here's a thread that I've rescued from in somebody's mentions (who shouldn't have to have me blogging in their replies)...(1/7)

For some reason I was talking about this yesterday and Corey Taylor being a Lincoln Project centrism guy is the single funniest political ideology Slipknot could have

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING: WALK OUT. Do NOT allow your home society to be a tool of fascism. Stand up. Walk out. #Standupforscience @standupforscience.net

Tired of being angry at the important stuff or irritated by the not very important stuff. Time to be slightly peeved by the truly trivial stuff…

The cops were just talking about being bastards. I suspect they never faced any real consequences for most of them. I worry that the current newsworthy cops and ICE thugs aren't going to face consequences either. (7/7)

These weren't remorseful remembrances though. Other folks sometimes struggled with things they'd done. But not the cops. (I did try to direct folks to other resources we had if they seemed potentially helpful. Maybe one of chaplaincy/social work/psychology.) (6/7)

Had somebody tell me he missed being able to do rough handling of suspects. In the ways you put them into the car or you drove. Thought that this was a way of delivering some justice because the system was going to be too soft. But these were less like confessions and more like reminiscences. (5/7)

Said he didn't use himself. But that he could have. Literally admitted/bragged they had drugs that were for them to plant. [No I really don't think I could have reported this. Different state. Decades ago. Guy was retired. Even if I didn't think I was professionally barred from turning him in] (4/7)

I imagine the chaplains have tons of such stories. But it seemed unusual to me to hear them as a physician. [No this isn't your loved one I'm talking about. I'm merging stories.] Had somebody talk about how easy it was to get drugs. Apparently stolen from evidence. Or shake down a dealer. (3/7)

I've had some cops in palliative or hospice practice. An interesting thing about end of life situations is that sometimes patients want to talk about stuff that's happened in their lives. (That's not a shock.) Sometimes these are more like confessions... (2/7)

And now the stories I've been sitting on because I could never think of ways to tell that kept the interesting part of the stories while protecting patient privacy. Because I'm still going to do that. Even though most of these cops wouldn't remotely care about following rules themslves. (1/7)

Thinking about adding a third wolf.

A lot of people seem intent on burning bridges and their reputations defending a guy they are sure believes the same things they do even though his words and actions both recently and historically all say that he doesn't.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Could anything ruin the vibes in Madison Square Garden for Game 3? Well, imagine if a half-alive racist who everyone hates decided to show up and make the whole night about himself.

your dad didn't, another human being did, who is not your dad. wait is graham platner your dad??

I sometimes writes for and with publishers and editors and reporters who are now minimizing and excusing and mocking and normalizing domestic violence, something that literally kills women every day. /

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

are you saying someone was a Republican at the time (with a Nazi tattoo) couldn't possibly be abusive to a woman because she's a Republican and a racist, because he's now running as a Democrat? Like, isn't this more like, well that tracks actually?

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

"It is clear that Hollywood has no interest in historical representation and is instead focused on pushing a single agenda—putting as many white people from the Greater Boston area in television shows and movies as humanly possible."

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

Oh come on. My plan to enjoy some tennis today has not gone well. First we had That Guy. And now the match there's not even a second match. How bad does your viral illness need to be not to try to play a Slam semifinal match? (Easy for me to say, I just somehow hurt my back sitting in a chair.)

Oh no! I joined in a bit and now I don't know if I'm supposed to continue after everyone who is going to get it has already gotten it. Or if I am supposed to stop. I don't want them to think I didn't enjoy remembering some guys with them.

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

That's hitting weirdly hard. I already essentially knew it to be the case. But I didn't really think about it on the whole.

Even more stuff is gone. I thought the internet was supposed to be forever.

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

great news for pedophiles i guess

92 reposts is, I have learned, via my empirical research, generally the point where literalists on the internet pop by to tell you a fact you've made up in a patently absurd post is untrue.

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. Also, I'm mad.

"I can’t do anything about your unaffordable rent or exorbitant student loans; I have no expenses in my life. I live in a potato chip display and sleep twenty-three hours a day. I can’t fix your general lack of purpose."

All of tennis rn

I'm a pretty good multitasker if you don't mind things half done and all wrong.

So, it was really, “we’re sorry you are upset by what happened.” Not for what they did.

Old enough to remember when MA’s millionaire tax was going to destroy Boston & make all the rich people leave

Reading the news.

If you are going to make the (silly) case that people shouldn’t express opinions about elections in places they don’t live, you should probably wait at least 10 or 15 minutes before you yourself express opinions about elections in places you don’t live.

...Pretty sure that covers all the Maine news for the day.

Also, Maine Coon might not actually have a racist name origin. I was sure it would. They so often do. And this one wasn't so hidden as they sometimes are. But is seems to legitimately not have a terrible backstory. (Well, weird breeding stories of course. But not weird white supremecist ones.)...

It's hard not to talk about the thing that I said I was going to stop talking about for a while. Anyway, thanks Maine University Extension. I've started your plan for eradication of one of the several invasives I'm battling...