Love this! 😂

BCBS marked me "compliant" with CPAP and I hate that word so much I want to be noncompliant just to get it off my chart 😂. It's "adherent". I'm not compliant about anything.

Wow. Fighting antivax misinfo is bad enough. Now is the FDA going to add labeling to leucovorin for autism, based on 4 small studies with weak evidence? At some point my job will be impossible.

Moral abstraction is a defense mechanism-- intellectualization-- against the rawness of feeling.

Tried to watch The Way We Were, which I saw at age 9... and couldn't get through it. Both main characters were so annoying, and now I wonder what's wrong with me 🤣

On the MMRV: the great majority of 1 yo's already get MMR and Varivax separately bc of tiny increased risk febrile seizures. It was already "preferred" by CDC. This change is highly unlikely to have any effect on kids. Imo just for show so they can pretend they did something.

Trying to think of a time and place to wish I had been born in and realizing the only solutions involve futuristic fiction or magical realism 🤣

Ezra Klein's mind is just one big whoosh. He fully failed to mention the real horrors we are faced with-- the genocide in Gaza, the vicious racism including ICE, the targeting of scientists, women, trans people, children. And he is oblivious to the beauty of our vision, to what life could be.

Exciting!

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

2.5 x 3 inches. Makes a full sheet of Arches go a long way 😆. Going to commit to limited split palette for a while and see what I can learn

One nice thing (among many) about being a pediatrician is that kids appreciate my amateur artwork 😂. I have all these little practice watercolors, and when pts give me a drawing present, I write a little thank you note on the back of one.

So Florida kids will be compelled by law to risk exposure to fatal illnesses. They can't opt out of school. This is child abuse.

Holy crap. This generation of kids is going to be even more deceived and indoctrinated than we were.

This is dead on. Why it's flat out bizarre to pretend they can split those letters up.

Dang it. Made it almost 2 yrs covid-free but got it again. Mentally blaming last pt of the morning Thursday, who was late and almost made me miss my plane 😂. Yes, I wore mask but they didn't and source control is better. Wear a mask to help your doc, y'all.

Excellent! More of this.

I have been cloned by AI twice this week. First the new tracking system at work said I had been in a patient room for the entire weekend. Like Severence 🧐. Then United Airlines said I was on a plane that actually took off today before my first flight even landed.

Joy! First chorus practice of the semester, new music, yippee! One is Eric Whitacre's Sing Gently. I was briefly in his Virtual Choir 6 at the beginning of Covid. Scary time, seeing patients, not able to see my family for fear I would endanger them. I loved singing this but got covid before 1/n

Yes, we know Dems aren't leftist. They're center right. There's nothing wrong with any of those terms, and activists didn't cause Trump to win. Bigotry did.

i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed

Me: "help my back is stiff" PCP: "ok wow wait those are your muscles? Not your bones" Me: apparently yrs overdue for a stretch but also ... inordinately proud of these paraspinals of steel These must be my antifa muscles 😆

I have an idea for a career: personal narrator. Like that Will Ferrell movie. My son has inexplicably taken to little mini narrations of my day ("they're washing a plate") and it cracked me up so I'm doing it back to him and we're both cackling. You could hire us to do this for you: think about it 😂

The myth of there being a "right time" or pace for human rights is one of the most harmful. It's never too early. It's always the wrong time for bigots. The right time is created by action, not by waiting.

Yeah, I can't explain this 😂. My family being family

It's only Wednesday and it's been a long week. I just scrolled past a headline about tariffs on semiconductors and read it as a 100% tariff on semi-colons. Idk what you pay that tax in... apostrophes? Em dashes?

I haven't been surprised yet by what the powerful have done. But I am horrified by what some people I have known personally have become. It makes me question my fundamental ability to know who anyone really is-- what did I miss? Why didn't I see it? 1/n

the greatest disease in modern American liberal politics is the expectation that voters need to shift into alignment with their elected officials and not the other way around. it’s not cancel culture to say i won’t vote for someone who doesn’t share my values. it’s democracy.

I got my trailer specifically bc not in tsunami zone. But the warning maps right now are a different shape and have no markings on them for streets or any way to look up an address. Which seems useless! Local tsunami center says we won't have issues past beaches. So I'm going to sleep.

Palestinian led aid bsky.app/profile/kate...

My grandbaby figured out how to roll over. 10 weeks. The last photo cracks me up so hard, little goofball ❤️😂

Walgreen's is out of my levothyroxine. Never had that be out. Seems like a bad sign lol. Picturing a bunch of us hypothyroid ppl trying to poach a pig for its thyroid late at night but we will be moving so slowly the pig gets away.

Just finished this book and think it's an interesting beginning. Cons: incorrect concepts of autism, strong assertions without research data, no systematic investigation for nonclinical cases (presumably the majority if just a variant). Not convincing that otroversion excludes intro/extroversion

Perfect Saturday. Chores in the morning, video call with grandbaby, singing Ma Muse in a sunny meadow with friends, and just now at the grocery store an older woman asked if these are my natural curls 😂! Yep, this wild gray frizz is all mine.

I hope these families sue based on CA's Unruh Act, which prohibits discrimination against trans people. AG Rob Bonta warned this hospital before. Now, silence? #transgender #RobBonta www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last night I dreamed I was at a grand rounds and I couldn't understand the speaker ... then I realized he was singing some Italian opera, and all the male docs joined in, something like the Anvil Chorus. I hope I get to finish this story tonight 😂

Bad news. apple.news/AhL0J_n8NS_e...

Glad to learn my local city council responded to resident pressure by deciding not to use Avelo airlines for city business, due to Avelo's collusion with ICE. It will cost the city more $ but the right decision! #Avelo #HumboldtCounty #Eureka #AbolishICE

🤬🤬🤬 This is pure evil. And if welfare then will be work requirement added for parents next.

My friend played "JUROR" in our online scrabble game (she always wins) and I'm bummed bc I don't have letters to cross it with "RURAL". This might be why I lose. Going for effect not points 😂

"But what if we're not in ordinary times?" Exactly. She is courageous.

Lol somehow I made it on a mod list of people who argue just to argue but I can't dispute it bc blocked. That is not me. I have changed my mind mid argument when I realized the other person was right. I wonder what on earth it was they got so ticked off at me for.

There it is!

Take this with many grains of salt bc not remotely science-- but I make notes in my patients' charts about their future plans, to see how things evolve for them. Over decades I've noticed trends influenced by pop culture. Chefs were in for awhile. Influencers, youtubers. 1/n

My weather bug app says "near steady temperatures around 99 below" for today in NorCal, although the low is forecast at 54 and high at 62. It's such a strange error-- not a simple autocorrect. AI hallucination?

So in 30 days we will have stateless infants-- only in forced birth states. Because other states can get or have their own injunctions issued. The parents will not dare to file individual lawsuits at risk of deportation without due process.

NYT is directly to blame for much of the transphobia they are now blaming trans people for. The comment section is even worse than the articles. It seems like people are just waiting for permission to be hateful and now they have it. Why are humans this way?

Woohoo!

his is a bad graph and conclusion. One of the first things to look at with any graph of this type is the y axis-- if it doesn't start at zero, it's visually misleading about the degree of change. That's a much smaller upward shift than it appears here. Second: association is not causation.