What blows my mind about whales is to keep in mind that this is a naked mammal. A mammal with lungs swam down into the dark depths of the ocean and pulled out a rare squid simply by using echolocation.

Answer: No. you can’t have reliable testing when you’re adding in new variables all the time. Dude is just getting his kicks by cosplaying as a lab rat. No shame there, go off Nicodemus.

Armchair take: This is often learned from an emotionally repressed childhood. If you’re raised that showing emotion in certain ways means you lost the argument, you begin to put style over substance. His substance was vile. Just because he wore a collared shirt & shook hands doesn’t mean he’s civil.

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They did surgery on a grape

Actually really good advice. I do this on my long (12hr+) shifts and it is a game changer.

Fun fact: I’ve done anesthesia in Palm Beach! Also Fun Fact: I never knowingly met someone who knew Jeffrey Epstein.

I prefer to read this as if the sharks are somehow picking up on basketball.

Appeal to authority is a fallacy but in a society you have to trust experts a decent amount. I drive over bridges, ride airplanes, and walk into elevators without knowing how to inspect them. There is too much knowledge out there and trust in our institutions and science is critical.

Back in the day, I’d get a wrong # text & would reply to make sure they know. Now that I get an AI scam almost every day, I don’t respond to anyone that isn’t in my contacts or states how they know me. Feels like I’m becoming a little tech hermit hiding from scavengers on the interwebs.

Friendly reminder that “trumps desired language on men and women” is that men don’t exist. That EO literally wrote men out of existence b/c they have no clue what they’re talking about.

Pretty sure this was a central plot point in the 2002 movie The Time Machine (spoiler, the moon blew up).

Can’t we just fire the dude with the price tag printer?

Never a bad thing to share, as friends/strangers are often the true first responders. Long story short, if the person is anxious and hyperventilating, it is not from an opioid. Look for shallow and slow breathing, constricted pupils, and a slow/altered mental state.

Once heard the perspective from a vet that if the military didn’t have the ability to give people socialism that the people couldn’t get, there wouldn’t be new recruits.

Hello, I’m anesthesia in a film. I rest a mask on a patient’s face while the surgeon calls out for drugs & you hear a bunch of monitors beeps. At some point the patient will code & the surgeon will use the defibrillator paddles for asystole. It works & the patient will open their eyes & thank them.

He finishes w/ “it doesn’t sound nice.” Yep, no shit. Sweeping people away from you doesn’t fix it, in fact you just made life even harder for them. It’s tough to explain why “covering up a problem isn’t fixing it” to a guy with a combover, spray painted face, & a litany of sexual assault claims.

2 years later: “EPA and National Park Service announce clearance for new Meta-owned company coal town in Appalachia for AI data center.”

Pirates are purely anti-authoritarian market opportunists, whereas as ninjas are often skilled assassins for hire to highest bidder, often feudal lords. In this essay I will…

Finding a way to kill this app is the closest we can get to the age-old time travel quest.

Saw this guy on Twitter, 100% thought it was a parody account. Still not fully convinced it isn’t.

I’m watching the Netflix doc on Woodstock ‘99 & it’s pretty nuts to watch the ignorance play out. Corporate bros tried to exploit young, angsty people in a hot, low amenity military hanger & were surprised they burnt it to the ground. Just a perfect flashback to toxic parts of the 90s.

Do you think kaiju get imposter syndrome? Going through the motions of toppling buildings but needing the validation of seeing a mech warrior come out to take them down.

(Youth pastor voice) You know who else was a manager at age 33?

Giving people homes reduces the city costs of homelessness (housing first initiatives), clean needles programs reduce healthcare costs, primary care is cheaper than ICU care…this list could go on. Empathy and upstream solutions are cheaper than your sense of superiority.

Perfect example of why rank choice voting is better. You get a healthier political environment where like-minded politicians collaborate (they want to be your #2!) and the extreme ends have less influence on primaries. Rank choice voting everywhere, please!

This is Cyclops from the X-men after he stops paying child support

They named it - and this is not a bit - “Beardmore Chevrolet Subaru Hyundai Playground”

My hypothesis has always been: “they just wake up horny.” Unfortunately it’s a terrible time for research grants so I have to do my regular job instead.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Vast majority of people who claim they’ve “woken up during surgery” were having a procedure done under sedation & weren’t properly educated on expectations.

I won’t trauma dump my experiences, but the covid vaccine was a modern miracle of science. Those that worked ICU, ER, and anesthesia specifically had a completely different experience of the pandemic than everyone else & it’s tough for those workers to listen about how “hard” it was to wear masks.

No shame to people who use drugs. Lots of shame to people who cut off treatments for cancer patients & food for starving children. Worth noting that this really doesn’t happen unless you use ketamine multiple times per week or more. It’s extremely rare in people receiving biweekly ketamine therapy.

I’ve done anesthesia for a lot of food boluses, aka food stuck in the esophagus. The #1 culprit is steak. #2 is chicken. That ignores the fact that the AI was talking about neurologic disorders, not GI disorders.

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Wookiees way outlive humans. The wookie slave trade is a devastating story, but the “life-debt” to humans that save your life (like Han Solo) is the equivalent to letting a stray pup live w/ you after it helped tell park rangers where you are. It’s the same level of commitment you have to your dog.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Today, May 17, is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. We’re proud to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community (and our friends at @proudowlsoma.bsky.social), and to stand against the hatred that they so often face. #IDAHOBIT25 | #OneMeansAll

Every few years Omaha loses teenage lives to car accidents, and I feel it deeply when we do. Also, the man interviewed at a memorial for a recent loss is the Director of Operations at Wild Willy’s Fireworks, and he looks like a man who would be Director of Operations at a Wild Willy’s Fireworks.

Good little article to read on how our science research has been kneecapped not only by DOGE and RFK Jr, but ICE as well. Feel free to share as it is a gift link.

Reminder to those in Omaha, NE, today is the general election! Go vote for mayor and city council.

It sure is encouraging when an investigative journalist assigned to Trump from the New York Times, which is based in NYC, a city globally famous for mob culture, doesn’t know how bribes work. We need a return of mob films.

Physical therapy is an investment in yourself. Find out how your body has gotten asymmetrical over the years and get a workout routine to counter it. Your knees, hips, back, and neck will all thank you. It takes more effort to maintain your body as you age.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

For Nebraska people, both Ricketts and Fischer voted “Yes” for this guy making a gov registry for a specific diagnosis.

@bencollins.bsky.social, have any left over to buy Sesame Street?