I work in radiology which is not as heavy into patient histories or records or particularly dangerous EXCEPT IN VERY SPECIFIC CASES and then it's hella dangerous. Having wrong info in patients' charts can cause deadly delays in care. And that's just with human errors. Fuck us all with AI just

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

My Valentines Day thought for you all: Lately I've been remembering a line from a BBC comedy show: "All the billionaires are 'the radical left just wants to tax us!' No, the radical left wants you to be drug from your houses by Bolshevik gunmen. The taxes are the compromise. I suggest you take it."

Social media companies are suppressing terms like “Epstein” and “ICE” and “voting” because they don’t want you thinking about those things. Like and share everything you see.

My open letter to my Representative, David Joyce, Dear Rep. Joyce, I've written you before asking you to remember your oath of office and your duty to the Constitution and either file a resolution of impeachment of this President or support another's bill for such only to receive no reply.

Project 2025 says (re: weather & climate) that "emphasis on prediction & management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable." But it's clear that broader federal bureaucracy is being forcibly dismantled to prevent anticipation or mitigation of foreseeable future harm.

The thing about this guy that I love is he gets it. Elected office is about service. It's about giving to the community. As a former elected I can tell you it's not something widely accepted. I wasn't there for me (which most elected believe), I was there to work hard for my community.

Roses are red Sunflowers are tall Sweep the midterms Then impeach them all

I’m old enough to remember conservatives making Clinton lie about never inhaling, their collective freak out if Obama smoking pot as a teen, and now the person in charge of our health service, “germs can’t be bad, I used to snort blow off a toilet seat…” and conservatives are all okay with that.

Okay, so besides the fact that Lewandowski doesn't have the power to fire anyone in government (and is a violent asshole with anger management issues to boot), Kristy Noem has a security blanket? Does she have a binkie as well?

Pam Bondi kept unconsciously making the hand signal for being trapped in a domestic abuse situation, but because she kept her hands below the table no one in Congress saw it.

Let this serve as a reminder that a tyrant can never be appeased.

Wow, that’s a trip. There’s someone’s close to being pink slipped that it isn’t funny. This reporter handled it a lot better than I would because at some point I would have asked, “are the voices talking to you right now?”

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Madam Attorney General, most of the lawyers practicing in this country memorize their prepared and workshopped retorts, and yet you need 3 binders. Is it the drinking, or all the time spent covering up the president's crimes that makes you less capable than the average Joe Bob, Ambulance Chaser?

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

And madam Attorney General, the DOJ has fuck all to do with that.

Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are

Shoulda put this here myself, but here you go!

The US extracted the wealth from Puerto Rico through sugar/tobacco plantations for decades while paying farm laborers almost nothing. The Jones act has taxed Puerto Ricans to prop up a US shipping cartel for a century. The only parasites are the wealthy Americans extracting wealth from the island.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While this is horrible and shouldn't happen, I think I'll have a slice of my schadenfreude pie à la mode, thank you.

So statutory rape and child sexual abuse and trafficking are now white collar crimes?

But the Clintons, oh boy, the Clintons. I'll make all my fund raising goals for this election cycle once I include subpoenaing the Clintons in my newsletter.

If you think she's wrong here, she ain't. "So, a little short of breath this evening?" Patient on 3 liters of O2, obvious use of chest muscle for breathing, slight cyanosis of finger tips. "Nope, breathing perfectly good. It's my legs that won't work, they're all heavy and weepy."

So spent the time between pt’s pumping up the opener, wordsmithing and adding details. So not completely wasted, and I think it’s stronger. Also found some more relevant Shakespeare quotes for Lucky Thom.

One of the problems of writing between patients is that it’s very hard to get bored enough to write the connective tissue that keeps the story moving.

I don't want to hear a conservative talk about the "rule of law" ever again.

Happy happy, @maryrobinettekowal.com hope yours is a fantastic day.

I feel this so fucking hard. I was not challenged by K-12. Barely did homework. Because I was bored, was happy with c+ work. Freshman & sophomore year at college was hell. Meeting my wife changed that. If I had the skills I have now back in hs, trajectory of my life would have been very different.

Aw fuck, I had totally forgotten about that crazy conspiracy theory. JFC.

Having purchased a firearm this year my name has been added to various arms and ordinance sellers' promotional lists. I thought the Xmas spam emails were the height of the weirdness of that community… until the Valentines Day Sales emails started to arrive.

Reminded of drinking with a former Soviet soldier (when I was very young) and them recounting how the soviets were going mad during the Winter War from sleep deprivation as they all lay awake listening for this sound of skis on snow which would herald their deaths.

what, and I mean, the fuck

And that, my friends, is how it is done.

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

I don’t know how you feel about mini-Rohm, but I think we can all agree that in this day and age dwarf tossing is still reprehensible.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Six fucking years of this and the ED still can’t get infectious diseases protocol right. 🤦‍♂️. Seriously, you tell the patient theyre covid positive and you don’t close the door or hand the precaution signs?

So high school friend posted on fb a Christian Nationalist screed and said that it was logical and if you couldn’t see that she would block you. Saved you the trouble. Unfriended.

A thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.

Just wondering as I drift off to sleep if you could mod a good electric water gun into a coat with the “barrel” coming out the foresleeve so that your body heat would keep the water from freezing, but if needed could do a simple aim with the arm and project a great blast of water into someone’s face

IME most chaplains are very aware of what is going on, and very tuned in to what helps the community they serve. Father Mulcahey in M*A*S*H was not far off the mark.

World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:

Look at this sloppy work by these morons. No coordination, no defined roles, no control. Where did they learn how to use their sidearms, the movies? This is like watching 4 year olds playing soccer.

"Helen of Troy could never be black. It's anti-historical!" Okay, so this whole thing starts off with the goddesses of Olympus trying to decide which is the most fair. Knowing the gods would lie, they choose a human, Paris, to select the fairest. But Paris, unable to see them,

Lord I see what you’ve done for others

Absolutely the fuck not

They didn't spot any monoliths in the upper atmosphere shrinking the planet until they get a fusion reaction, did they?

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