If you are lamenting that media you used to love has now "gone woke," the more likely explanation is that you have become a bad person. This holds true for topics as disparate as Green Day and Sesame Street.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Rocky/shaky earthquake in Berkeley! Lasted a few seconds.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Some classes I took in college: Dance in Prisons Andean Archeology Poetry Biblical Hebrew Technological Visions of Utopia (a seminar on distopian literature taught by a popular computer science professor) ...and everything I needed for a pre-med track Biology major

"With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike" is quite the sign-off.

I just learned that it is against the law for rats to live in Alberta, and not gonna lie this is the funniest thing I've ever learned about Canada

California poppies are one of my very favorite flowers. I don't have a tattoo, but it's the only one I've considered getting for a long while.

I know breastmilk changes to the baby's needs, but I have no idea what is going on that has made my morning milk lime green. I'm not sick, baby is not sick, no significant change in my diet. It was the same color yesterday morning as well, but normal cream color last night, as pictured. So weird.

I'm so sick of people trying to equate murders that were committed by an individual who was then prosecuted and jailed to murders that were committed by a unnamed officers of a governmental force, and are now being covered up by the government. They are not the same thing.

So say we all!

I spent yesterday morning and evening in joyous celebration with two different communities whom I deeply value. We sang, danced, played, and encountered the divine in each other and in our ourselves. In the midst of so much sadness and hate, radical community joy is everything.

He was an ICU nurse at the VA. I can't stop thinking about that.

One of the downsides to working in emergency medicine is I can imagine some truly horrific acute complications of otherwise routine medical situations, and the anxiety of that does not always sit well with me.

Everyone once in a while I put on an outfit that makes me think "this would go perfectly with my favorite lipstick from high school" and I wish I still owned it.

I cannot fathom the mind of someone who makes critical parenting comments to strangers in public. Today while my baby was fussing in his stroller a boomer man told me "I've traveled the world, and in other cultures the moms carry their babies, and then they don't cry." Super fucking helpful!

Such great words: Raising a child with hope is surely a political act. A few more: Being kind to a stranger is a political act. Having a compassionate response to what's going on is a political act. Being hopeful we can save this country is a political act.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

El río de nuestra señora la reina de los ángeles de porciúncula. aka, the Los Angeles River. It's a trickle much of the year, but it turns into deadly whitewater rapids when there's a big rainstorm.

I don't know what to say any more. My perspective is clear, but my power to effect real change is murky. Horrors upon horrors in this country and the world... but also I have to pack lunch for tomorrow. Raising a child with hope is surely a political act. It might be the best one I can do for now.

I haven’t crunched the numbers but I’m going to guess ICE is less profitable than the US Postal Service Better shut them down in the name of fiscal responsibility

Hi. Chaplain here. You have no moral of ethical compunction to watch the ICE shooting video. It won't bring the victim back and will likely traumatize you. Put your outrage and energy into protest/organizing/donating/supporting immigrants.

Good news: We seem to have successfully night-weaned the baby. Bad news: I lost my 97-day Wordle streak, as I'd been playing it regularly at my 3-5am feed, and yesterday I forgot entirely! 😫

Dear Democratic Party, Please copy what Mamdani is doing. Signed Everyone

Happy new year, y'all

Tips for busy parents!

2025 was the year I became a mom, so for that alone it will remain one of the best years of my life.

2026's mantra is more spaghetti less upsetti

Talking about getting some wooden fencing to make a kid playpen. I wondered how modular and customizable these systems are. @theogordon.bsky.social: "Everything is modular if you have a table saw."

Having a baby has significantly increased the amount of Disney songs and musicals that my husband will sing with me, which is maybe my favorite unanticipated perk of parenting.

Can confirm! I don't do much (though my husband does a bit more) and yet I'm on very friendly terms with several Berkeley city council members and the mayor. If you want to have local influence, just start showing up and talking about things that matter to you.

It's too painful for me to pay attention to ACIP today. The harm we're doing to our country's children is horrifying. I'm going to snuggle my four month old vaccinated baby extra hard today.

First time having bilateral clogged milk ducts, and wow is it unpleasant. Pumping didn't help at all. Time to take some ibuprofen and try to sleep. I'm sure the baby will wake up wanting to eat in a few hours.

First shift back after maternity leave... LET'S GOOOOOO!!!! (aka I'm actually quite nervous I'll be rusty and inefficient and hate pumping all day)

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (My 4 month old baby laughed gleefully when I kissed his belly tonight and it made me happy cry!)

I had a 3 part birth plan: 1. Healthy mom 2. Healthy baby 3. Dad doesn't pass out, hit his head, and get sent to the ED as a patient

Since I've seen some Epidural Discourse on X: I had an amazing epidural. I could feel and move, but it turned down the pain volume enough that I could get some sleep while labor progressed. I was so much more present because I wasn't out of my mind in pain. I pushed my baby out in 40 minutes.

Today in being a Doctor Mom: taking a meeting on tissue and transfusion quality metrics at my favorite local coffee shop while baby sleeps in a carrier. Wish every work meeting were this nice.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. WE HAVE, IN FACT, NOT IGNORED YOUR NOW-DEFUNCT HYPOTHESIS. WE INVESTIGATED IT TO THE TUNE OF STUDIES WITH DATA FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS.

Honestly, some pretty good goals for an ER shift

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I truly don't understand why police aren't required to have malpractice insurance like doctors have.

Been breastfeeding for 4 months, and I have my first clogged duct that has lasted more than a few hours. This shit hurts! Interestingly, my lactation consultant explained it's mostly due to inflammation. So ice and NSAIDs are front line. No heat, no massage. Really do not want mastitis, thanks

My “I am not a malformed creep who groomed a child for years and then abducted her to my secret dungeon, I’m just a misunderstood tragic romantic” playlist is raising a lot of questions already answered by my playlist.

Our baby has learned how to roll from on his back to front, but only towards his right. He has not figured out how to un-roll out of that position, and he struggles until he screams about it. So Theo and I keep waking up in the middle of the night to flip the angry pancake...

I don't think I've ever seen a "ventricular fibrillation flare-up" treated like a minor, out-of-an-abundance-of-caution thing. That's like... you could've died, dude.

I used to see young fit people with a continuous glucose monitor and think "great, look how they are keeping healthy with their type 1 diabetes!" But now I see young fit people with a CGM and think they are probably doing some weird body hacking thing. I don't like this new first assumption.

You’ve met men like this. You know men like this. Less famous, perhaps, but the same tedious pattern. What a fantastic piece of writing. I hope that somehow, in the afterlife, Sharon Begley hears the satisfying *thunk* of her arrow, loosed before her death, now hitting its mark.

These folks never seem to note that "biblical marriage" specifically includes about two weeks per month when a woman is spiritually/ritually "unclean" (not a physical or moral cleanliness) and the husband cannot touch her. Somehow that's not part of their 24/7/365 sex vending machine fantasy.

Berkeley "progressive" NIMBYs drive me crazy. You see how this is a hypocritical set of positions... right?