in Jurassic World they sedate dinosaurs using carfentanyl and I was like "surely not" and, I was correct, it should be ketamine pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

watching the Jurassic Park trilogy and these are the real "they wouldn't let you make this today" movies (and we have empirical proof with Jurassic World) like. these are horror movies marketed to kids via a happy ending. you hear the side characters bones snap while they get eaten.

my mom just got home from taking the grandkids camping, which included scrambling all over hoodoos, and now she's going to Costco on a Saturday. and I need you to imagine what it's like for her to live in an entire family of ADHD people.

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climbing the hoodoos with my kid like "let's confine the valuable life lessons to the wrists and ankles only please"

Levi got library book that's a "who would win" bracket-style dinosaur fight matchup and I have to confess I was reading it to him like "I completely disagree with some of these conclusions"

The idea that cyclists are less law-abiding than drivers has been discredited everywhere it's ever been studied but also it's a deeply weird argument: if it were true, it'd still mean legal driving is statistically far more dangerous than illegal cycling? This isn't a good argument for cars?

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

I simply do not understand how moving humanity to a planet that at a minimum doesn’t sustain any complex lifeforms would be an easier or better alternative than bringing the temperature back down slightly on ours

If you can “terraform” Mars you can, you know … reform Terra?

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course

"This, theydies and gentlethems, was what passed for serious, 'radical' academic research in the late empire."

"Listen up fives, a ten is speaking. Now, as we all know, the more oppressed you are the more woman you are. Also, the more likely you are to sleep with me specifically, the more woman you are. Therefore, I have prepared -- *unfurls a scroll that flops over the podium* -- the rankings."

*in the car on the way to soccer practice* Levi, completely unprompted: “Some people think Jesus can fly but Jesus can’t fly.” Me: “Well some people believe Jesus is kind of like an angel so he can fly like an angel.” L: “Do you think that?” Me: “Buddy that is a loaded question.”

*walks through the door* "What do you have?" *deadpan* "A diploma frame."

regular reminder that if you oppose the HPV vaccine for "moral reasons," your "moral reasons" are "I think girls deserve to die of cancer for having sex I disagree with"

What an amazing story.❤️

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

also deeply ironic that it does demonstrate "hey maybe the FDA should be streamlined somewhat" and the literal FDA haters in the government aren't using it because they don't want to make the FDA better, they want to make it worse

By the way, if you think you can ignore the FTC suit against WPATH because it just involves trans people, the legal theory proposed by the FTC would, if it prevails, allow for the FTC to sue vaccine manufacturers to force them to stop making vaccines too.

it's still incredibly funny that Operation Warp Speed was the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration and for political reasons they can't brag about it at all 💀💀💀

do cis people understand how utterly fucking INSANE it is that they’re attacking trans healthcare now using the FTC?

*at the end of my comically long list of criticisms of the USA* but they do have a stunning array of soda varieties, I'll give them that

The largest movement of a single group of people since the great migration.

In all seriousness, I am 49. I stopped gaf what other people thought of me a long time ago; I would "merely" settle for fully equal rights and people staying the hell out of my personal business.

I have this cheaper ring I wear to work and the other day an old lady said "what is the significance of your ring?" and I enthusiastically said "oh! that is because I'm married" and I accidentally embarrassed her 😅

oh my god it worked?

when people ask me "how can we make healthcare more trans inclusive" and I say something to the effect of "a high level of professional competence in prescribing HRT" but they were expecting "the right kind of rainbow sign on display"

So my doctor's office just messaged me and said I needed to urgently schedule an appointment. I was just there last week. Something's up with my blood work and I didn't budget for a second trip to the clinic this month venmo.com/code?user_id... cash.app/$CAugustMcMu... PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

doing pharmacy full-time for free like "ah yes, the primary breadloser,"

have we tried taking all the step therapy steps where standard of practice is "fill 3 months of this at the pharmacy but don't actually take it" and just. removing them from the algorithms.

read a cardiology consult note today where they screened the patient for POTS, MCAS, hypermobility, and PEM early in the diagnostic process

I didn't vote for this, I'm pretty sure you didn't, and it's absolutely not the program Carney presented to us in his campaign. #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/carney-canad...

New shirt arrived just a little late to wear to the Pride Festival but it's evergreen.

Bragging about not knowing your child and than being sad when you finally met them.

the amount of phone space I freed up by deleting Astarion tiktok compilations I had downloaded is between me and God, if he even exists

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

some of these kids presumably have parents who support the UCP's attempts to ban discussion of LGBTQ topics in public schools so I think it's delicious their kids may have learned about the existence of lesbians in Mormon Primary

and it's so funny because like. what are they gonna say. are they gonna look a 4-year-old in the eyes and go "No, you can't have two mommies"? He'd just be like "I do though"

Levi has been going to church with my parents recently, which is fine because it's his idea and it's very funny yesterday in Primary they sang "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home" (this is a real song) Levi: *cheerfully* "I have two mommies! Some people have two mommies instead!"

[covering receiver with hand while giggling] alright how do I tell him all the stolen ballots are up his butt? …that’s incredible, dude, I’m trying it

having MECFS as someone who doesn't really drink alcohol is like "Oops! All Hangovers!"

We often use ten-dollar words so our 3yo doesn’t know what we’re talking about in front of her, but the comprehension treadmill results in this tiny toddler running around being like “Mama I need to deaccession my popsicle wrapper”

Sports: not even once

The Scots have found the Boston Cop Slide

did you guys know they still allowed good news

I always like to point out as well that e-bikes make biking more accessible for many disabled folks as well. My body is not always reliable and the e-assist gives me the peace of mind that I will be able to get to where I’m going and back.

Now if you're looking for book that says it has bugs and definitely DOES have enough bugs, there's Wolf Worm by @tkingfisher.com! Do not read it while eating grapes.

according to my brother in med school, the correct answer on Step 1 to "which laxative for opioid constipation" is "docusate" so uhhh. that's why they all keep ordering that I guess.