mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime. Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

Ideal relationship dynamic

my only comment on Robby and/or the Pitt is that staff should rotate out of the ED periodically like it's a war zone or toxic waste dump

Nobody: Creature designers when asked to design a bird-like anything:

No, Ben! No!

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

almost surely the best case scenario lmao

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

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I don't have strong feelings on triumphal arches except you have to win an actual war to erect one, surely

credit where it's due: Stanford already called me <24h after my rural Oregon clinic sent the referral

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Google Gemini no-joke just asked why I'm addressing it more with lowercase i's nowadays instead of uppercase

I would kill (well, figuratively) for the chance to talk to some people in Vatican intelligence gathering tbh. gotta be weird and fascinating

it just occurred to me that pope probably gets some kind of daily global news briefing and he likely pays far more attention to it than trump pays to his

any half-decent dungeons and dragons player could parlay the ability to teleport, but only to a waffle house, into being a billionaire in under a year.

just had three patients admitted to the hospital immediately after they came across the name "Rod Dreher" tread carefully, friends

The first professional videotape recorder was introduced 70 years ago today. The Ampex VR-1000 was demo’ed at the NAB Convention in Chicago on 4/14/56. It sold for $45,000 ($550,000 today) and orders came so fast, the sales staff was writing them on "cocktail napkins.” #TVSky #Tech #PhysicalMedia

I understand there are some unfortunate people who don't love Europa Universalis or Factorio but sometimes surely you want a game where you don't need to spend like 100 hours learning how to play?

The retailer I get the most questions about from friends and readers is Quince, and it's not close. It carries everything from cashmere sweaters to American-made sofas to Dom Perignon champagne, most of it super cheap. I finally wrote about what Quince is up to. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves

Which celebrity do you want to be your death doula. I'm going to go with Keanu Reeves.

If Nicole Kidman were my death doula, in my final moments I’d ask her to tell me EVERYTHING about Tom Cruise and Scientology, because who’s gonna find out? I’m literally on my death bed. Feel like I’d get some crazy tea.

using a computer is much easier than using a smart phone

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

yes, the state exists to help individuals live free, autonomous lives. that is a feature, not a bug

When I was in Paris you can go up the Arc de Triomphe and it’s this spiral staircase that goes on and on and at a certain point I said something to the effect of “fuck this I’m too out of shape for this, I’m an American” and a bunch of Swedish people absolutely lost their shit laughing

Just to give you an idea of the joke that is healthgrades and online doctor ratings in general. This guy killed multiple patients and has a 4.6. I have a 4.0.

okay now this is posting

got the referral 🙏🙏 pro tip: pre-fill-in the paperwork. primary care docs are overloaded with it

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

a doctor, on the basis of their expertise, gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis in your knee. whether or not your knee hurts is an entirely different question. nevertheless, Discourse persisted

Soaring Gas Prices Forcing More Americans To Drink Less Gas

I am living in a Philip K Dick novel now I assume i should flag this but

my manager is apparently not permitted to contact me in any way while I'm on medical leave which is a brilliant policy because at no point would I know what to tell her to expect

It’s that time of year!

it feels downright rude that I am required to report $0.49 in dividend income after the start to the year I've had

MRI #12 since December 👍👍

this is some next level midlife crisis

update: my symptoms appear to completely resolve...... as long as I don't move my right leg this does not bolster my confidence in the January surgery (right lower spine) I've gotta say

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

just saw "Jaws" listed as a suspense film even though the movie title makes it dead obvious who the murderer is

thread of recordings i think you should check out