Since I'm at the ocean this week, I had to quote @kwholesaler.bsky.social's famous tweets about the ocean

seaweed salad is great if you want some shit from the ocean stuck in your teeth

I'm going to need better women's wrongs to cheer for if I have to endure this shit for the rest of my life

The fact that every man is just Like That after age 35 and absolutely nothing can be done about it is really making me unenthusiastic about having to deal with another five or six decades of existence

We just need to convince 18-30 year olds to do unlimited free labor for us including canvassing, phone banking, and study groups. How do we do that? Tell them that Israel is the only democracy in the world and that ICE should have its budget cut by a modest 15%.

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

Air conditioning being a culture war thing in France is actually so apocalypse coded, I say to my disinterested colleagues in the workroom

Every interstate bus trip feels like being sent on a quest with random strangers

Extremely strong and good response

Anyone know how I can get an ARC of Exit Party? I'm so stoked for this novel

One thing I love about Emily St. John Mandel's characters is how they can't help noticing and marveling at the sheer beauty of our world even at the moment of their untimely death.

Like once a week I think about the scene in The Expanse, towards the end, where the main crew argues about the origins of the quinceañera and none of them actually know the correct answer despite quinceañeras very much still being a thing in several of their cultures

<I’m wheeled into the Pitt> Santos: male, 36, at happy hour, now saying “tummy feel crazy” Al-Hashimi: 47% of men’s bodies reject modern IPAs. They’re too hoppy now Robi: the silent killer. Get him to surgery McKay <alone now, staring straight at camera>: I am the same type of communist as you

My colleague responded "that tracks" when I said I ride a cargo etrike. What does it mean??????

“Owing to the lack of adequate reperfusion of the transplanted organ arising from pedicular kinking caused by disparate sizes, a breast implant was placed behind the graft as a means of support, thereby resolving the problem.”

This idea hit me like a lighting strike I'm so sorry

I'm very glad the World Cup is so far turning out like this and not the disaster so many worried it would be www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8syteDH/

It's important for me to remember at my miserable and soul-crushing job that all jobs miserable and soul-crushing

I adore this woman

Very funny to have a recurring hypnopompic auditory hallucination of a C-RAM

Europeans sweatily disavowing their prior opinions on air conditioning has me cackling like a villain

Hey I interviewed a queer Yemeni man, who spent nearly 3 years in ICE detention before being granted asylum. He’s looking for therapy— do we know a Queer Arab or queer affirming Arab therapist who’d be willing to take him on? He has Medicaid so it’d have to be that pro bono

Meteor explodes off Massachusetts coast, causing loud boom, meteorologist confirms

If I had a nickel for every time I was depression-whining on the phone with a friend when suddenly a big boom sounded outside I'd have like two dollars and maybe I should reflect on that

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Knock Tiktok all you want but it got me into hurdy gurdy covers of 2010s EDM hits

For All Mankind turning into unabashed fanfic is actually great if, like me, you're a big fan of The Expanse

PSA: Please don't take zinc supplements unless you are instructed to by a medical professional! Excess zinc can cause copper deficiency. Copper deficiency looks a lot like a severe B12 deficiency --neuropathy, weakness, fatigue, abnormal blood cell counts, immune system problems.

I want to read a Bringing Up Bébé type of book about parenting infants and young children West African style

Ongoing discourse here reminds me of the ultra niche discourse about uncrustables. I was firmly on the side of mocking uncrustables and demanded to know why people couldn't just make their own PBJ and cut off the crusts. Until I started working in medicine. Then I understood.

Watching the current Ebola outbreak unfold after having worked on the one in 2014-2016 in West Africa brings up so many feelings because I know everything built for these situations was de-funded a year ago by someone named Big Balls

Things seem bleak. That’s because they are. Go find you a flower refusing to die. One of those little ones that comes up between concrete slabs because fuck this, the sun is up there. Then point out that flower to yourself every time you think you can’t keep at whatever it is that weighing on you.

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

This disagreement predates the discovery of HLA-B27

I don’t need to bear witness to blood feuds originating from 1970, at these academic meetings

Colleagues and I argued for three days about whether the brown substance in the hospital stairwell near the hospitalist office was chocolate or poop but no one was brave enough to find out

Writing my progress notes:

Me at any organizing thing

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Then I can chop you apart from the top straight down and have the two halfs plop into each of them.

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Really unsettling to see how many people on Tiktok believe the people who were on the Hantavirus cruise ship should be sued or killed

I'm seeing this where I live. Massachusetts has strong protections for trans people (and the best Medicaid), and our cities have large trans populations, but housing is so expensive that trans refugees are living on the streets.

hello darkness, my old frenemy

Unacceptable levels of stairwell poop at the hospital today

RFK Jr is an asshole who doesn't know anything about anything and constantly lies and the New York Times can get fucked.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

I've given up on having fun entirely because the concept of leisure was built on structural racism, classism, and colonialism, and while engaging in leisure in and of itself does not inherently perpetuate those systems, how else will I message outwardly that I am a good person AND a miserable one?

My last Normal Day was this time in 2016. I remember all the mundane details of the day after, when it hit that we weren't getting any of the good futures or even medium bad ones. It has been 10 years since then and every one has sucked. At this point in my life I'm not even morbidly curious anymore

The Fung Wah bus doesn't exist anymore? Gen Z really wasn't allowed to have anything good huh

When I say I support women's wrongs I mean this