Pope Leo throwing formal excommunications gives me hope

The attending surgeon during the night shift was gonna yell at me cuz I'm on night shift and nobody told me there was a surgery but he's one of my mentors and it was like that meme "what fucking idiot did this" "it was me sir" "oh you're fine then nevermind"

I'm doing general surgery night shift and dozens of people I have blocked apparently spent various hours clutching pearls over me, cackling

Also- the recent Midsummer revamp with its Tauren, Anshe lore, and the dwarves history were fantastic additions and like Kitche so aptly puts it- show wow fans WANT to praise wow when it does well! The desire to engage with the world and writing and setting positively are there!

White content creators who historically misrepresented People of Color critiquing WoW in their videos now intentionally framing a Land Back Black Native allegory as White Supremacy, it's all so predictable

So some residents were talking shit about us, but the attending was like "Juan you're an excellent doctor", so in conclusion: hater ass residents need to pull it together

Also while I’m on it- you cannot have any discussion about trolls and Amani and now zuljan that is divorced from the ideas of race, culture, colonisation, whiteness and poc existence because those things are intrinsically tied to those stories. That is the consequence of wow using them.

Not excited about WoWs 12.1 patch. They're villain-batting the colonized radical with legitimate grievances about the colonization and having a white-coded colonizer who helped in the ethnic cleansing of his people moralize at him again for not pretending the colonization and genocide didn't happen.

i AM equipped to deal with the intersection of race and gender regarding troll males and it stems from racism! Thoug obviously World of Warcraft is its own story devised of its own races - Trolls are heavily, HEAVILY relying on Cultures within the African Diaspora and indigenous global South.

Inspired by @darthdecisive.bsky.social, here is a chart for my Wakantanka! There are a ton of notes, if you're interested in the link to the sheet itself let me know! 🐮

@moondarner.bsky.social and I went into a fugue state and made a chart of all of the major animal Loa for the Trolls in WoW, which subtypes recognize and worship (or fear) them, and which of the 18 months of their calendar their days would fall on (and thus which months might be named after them)

Officially got to 100 patients on day 22 of my intern year :)

"[T]he modern concept of value, whether grounded in labor or utility, consolidates the assumptions of the barter myth by grounding objectivity and exchange in an abstract model of isolated individuals." moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/20/t...

My gast is flabbered

"In itself changed by sexual liberation, the body has been reduced to a division of surfaces, a proliferation of multiple objects wherein its finitude, its desirable representation, its seduction are lost." - The Ecstasy of Communication

Specialist wanted to round at 6 AM so I had to be at the hospital at 5 AM but now I have the rest of the day off so nice I guess??

I really didn't have a good week overall.

So one of my patients had to be discharged today and I got to it late toward the end of my shift and the attending was like "I can tell the resident to do it, you should leave", which is correct per se but 1) it was my patient, 2) I felt bad for the resident, 3) the attending is cool, so I did it.

Pediatrics does not spark joy. The only thing sustaining me through this rotation is the fact I want to be a dad and thus like kids. But pediatrics qua pediatrics does not spark joy.

Slept 15 hours after my Peds Urgent Care night shift, gonna play WoW while watching an academic video on Middle Platonism until it's time to get ready and make breakfast before my NICU day shift. I'm tired as fuck.

Hes so baby girl

"If they become weak for one reason or another, power has no other recourse but to artificially revive and hallucinate them." - Simulacra and Simulation

"In other words, I can hardly examine the question of sociological verisimilitude, to which, moreover, I could only answer with the greatest of difficulty; rather I must put myself in the place of an imaginary traveler who stumbles upon these writings as upon a los..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

One of the very first things that were gutted/interrupted by this admin was screw worm management but, in particular, the cooperative component with the Mexican government and agribusiness, who were desperate for maximum collaboration/management.

((By the way, I’m trying really hard to be cool about the fact that people who work at Blizzard are making art of Thunk.) (This is me being cool about it. Behold how it is not a big deal at all. Just cool people making art that speaks to them as individuals. And happens to involve me a little.)

I have 5 specialists belonging to 5 separate departments asking me to pick them for my elective rotations in my last semester of med school and I genuinely do not know what to do and this isn't me humble bragging if I tell one "no" then that door closes forever (at least partly)

Of the 70 charges initially brought against her, gender/clothing is in 3. In the final indictment, it’s in 2 of 12. Her execution for relapse occurred because she resumed wearing men’s clothes at her saints’ orders. St. Jeanne’s gender and faith are inextricably linked in her life and death

@andeanhermedic.bsky.social and I are very happy we’re getting An’she stuff in game (for the first proper time since cata) Buuuut we arnt going to shut up now that’s happened and your first instinct to think that after seeing the new cool Anshe stuff is weird and spiteful

It is done (I think) #warcraft #trolls #zuljan #fanart #troll #jartings

Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire?

"In an image certain parts are visible, while others are not; visible parts render the others invisible, and a rhythm of emergence and secrecy sets in, a kind of water mark of the imaginary." - The Ecstasy of Communication

I recall @andeanhermedic.bsky.social diagnosis this back in 2016. It’s only gotten more overt and extreme since then.

We've got a banger of an episode this week with @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Listen in 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3M54...

Need to get to another hospital for my rotation The hospital denied me parking yesterday so can't drive. Public transportation doesn't work. Been ordering a taxi for an hour and nobody wants to take me. Amazing.

My med school realized that there are hardly any pictures of me and what pictures do exist are usually like the back of my head or half my face outside the frame or just my arm recognizable only due to my tattoos like some mysterious entity (this is intentional)

That was the most insane night shift I've had in my entire medical education

Neurology has been a deeply exhausting rotation.

Realizing by having graduated from NYU in undergrad and also finishing my MD next year that my academic regalia colors are purple and green (warlock main)

Realizing my intern year will likely be a hellscape

The White Gringo is, on average, evil

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Showed up to my mandatory step 2 simulation exam my medical school forced us to do without studying a single ounce and with barely any sleep and got 47% correct so I think that's decent 💀

Slept 12 hours I am not cut out for the ER definitely

How can people wanna villain bat Zul'jan, look at him, he grows to like you in his hardass way, that is growth!

Despise Israel AND The Entire Western Empire Everyone hates Israel now, which is as it should be. But we all need to understand that Israel has never acted alone. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/despise-is...

The upside to being viewed as the Competent Student is that I am given autonomy and independence The bad side is I am given 3 times the patient load compared to the rest of my group