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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s *absurd* that @alanakinrich.medsky.social would be treated this way at a community meeting, especially since the message this sends is that parents of young children are not allowed to participate. Completely unacceptable! We should be making space for parents, people with evening jobs, etc.

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diego@estupido.fyi @estupido.fyi · 24/09/2026

this is the kind of person who has held away in bay area politics since time immemorial and they're crashing out now that they know their time is over. we will disempower this wickedness, root and branch, and a better world shall bloom out of their infinite tears

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight's neighborhood NIMBY tried to physically push me out of a public event for the crime of "having a baby playing happily in the back." These people drive me up the wall.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got into a fight with a neighborhood NIMBY who called me an idiot and a bitch, and then told me I was being offensive by calling her ma'am.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's decorative candle season, motherfuckers. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

A new decorative candle, just lit, with a glass holder in a gold leaf pattern

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 18/09/2026

Skinny jeans with tall boots and a slouchy sweater is an elite tier autumn outfit. I don't care if it makes me hopelessly millennial. It's perfect.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are the important theological questions I'm glad someone is answering. (For the record, I'm Jewish and we love pedantic/esoteric religious answers.)

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So the answer to "during his time on earth, did Jesus ever see an armadillo?" is: "the armadillo is nocturnal so it really all depends on what time of day it was when the Devil got round to showing him the Americas."

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who the fuck told the Trump administration about effective altruism? Like, where did this even come from?

A tweet from the "Department of War" that sates "The United States will never be an effective altruist country" and has a creepy bad mashup photo of Trump with his fist raised, the pentagon building, and the slogan "Americanism, not effective altruism!"

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just looked at a honey cake on sale at the grocery store, thought it was stupid to buy it when I can just make it--then took a big deep breath, assessed my free time, and threw the honey cake into my cart. Happy new year y'all. ‏שנה טובה 🍎🍯

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 09/09/2026

I want to buy some three-quarter sleeve tops to wear to work under scrubs, preferably scoop/V-neck (at least not boat neck), and in some pretty colors. I do not want black or gray or taupe. Any ideas where to go looking? I'm coming up so short.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love September. Today it is cool and drizzly, and I am making a long simmered braise of lamb. Next week it will be in the 70s and sunny, and I will keep eating heirloom tomatoes and stone fruit to my heart's content. In three weeks it is my birthday! Absolute favorite month of the year.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today I woke up at 5am, worked a 10 hour shift in the ER, did dinner/bedtime with the baby, had an emotional breakdown about weaning, and went to a 2.5 hour neighborhood association meeting. Am I impressive? Unhinged? Something else entirely?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Altadena Cookie Co. is always on point.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh no, not Tim Curry too! He will of course always be remembered for Rocky Horror, but my favorite underappreciated Tim Curry role is as the shadowy oil monster Hexxus in Fern Gully. Such slimy raspy evil!

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Toxiclove Ferngully: Shadow Creature

Alt: A clip of Fern Gully in which Tim Curry as the shadowy Hexxus sings "Toxic Love"

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 26/08/2026

In Jewish mysticism, there are 36 particularly righteous people whose goodness sustains the world. They do not know this--in fact, they have such humility that anyone who claims to be a Lamed Vavnik definitely isn't. I have long thought Dolly Parton is one of them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadiki...

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Tzadikim Nistarim - Wikipedia

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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · 21/08/2026

Doctors are losing in 2 very different courts this month: one in JAMA, and the other in Plymouth County. Weirdly, I think they expose the same mistake: We keep judging physicians by the tiny slice of medicine that outsiders can actually see.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today I packed up all of the bottles, pump parts, and bottle warmers. Put them up in the top of the closet, hopefully for next time. In the process of weaning, but not sure what to do with all the breast milk in the freezer. Having all of the feels about it.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 12/08/2026

Really proud of my city that I'm the midst of all the RFK Jr/Trump vaccine fuckery, they put out this.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 29/07/2026

Imagine telling Berkeley council members Kesarwani, Taplin, and Lunaparra that they are white gentrifiers...

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 23/07/2026

Slowly lumbering zombies always seemed so unrealistic to me, but now I have a crawling baby who follows me everywhere I go at a relatively slow speed, and if I'm quick enough I can do things to stay ahead of him, but I very much understand zombie movies.

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hopkins was my first big bike battle after moving back to Berkeley. The initial Hopkins Council referral, from 2018, is itself old enough to ride a bike. If this very reasonable compromise doesn’t work, my fall-back plan is car-free Hopkins.

Obi-Wan Kenobi saying, “IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN, I WILL COME BACK WITH A CAR-FREE HOPKINS PLAN”

Justin Timberlake’s character in The Social Network, saying, “YOU WANT A PLAN THAT'S REALLY SAFE? CAR-FREE HOPKINS IS *REALLY* SAFE.”

The debate guy meme sitting with a sign that reads, “CAR-FREE HOPKINS IS A PLAN THAT IS *REALLY* SAFE. CHANGE MY MIND”

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 14/07/2026

Baby just stuck his finger in my nose and gave me a nosebleed. Not cool, kid.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm writing thank you notes to all of our daycare teachers, and my hand is cramping up terribly. I can't believe I used to longhand write out essays during exams. No wonder paper charts used to be so concise.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Theo Gordon @theogordon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is the new neighborhood association I'm helping start! We're having our first public event tonight to talk about housing in Elmwood.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Six is ravenous and profane. @thesix.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For those of you who never stop saying oh my god look at the moon. Poem Beginning With A Retweet by Maggie Smith #Voice by me.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 01/06/2026

I took a personal finance class as an undergrad at Stanford. The lady who taught it had worked in the financial aid department for decades. She said her best piece of financial advice was to buy a home in Palo Alto 30 years prior. That's what she'd done.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 31/05/2026

Thank you for the inspiration and also thanks to Aaron Rupar. I could not have done this without seeing your Trump quotes.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm at a local bar that has the most volume of green and yellow chartreuse in one place that I have seen in many years. They are doing flights of three different vintages of each color, for $15 each. I'm in heaven.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 07/05/2026

The theme of our nurses week is evidently the Kentucky Derby, and they made a horse…

An utterly bizarre and nearly inexplicable version of a horse made out of an obstetrical examination gurney and various materials found around the emergency room. My favorite part is the wrist restraints made into stirrups.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

LAUREN GET OUT OF HERE WITH THIS YOU LOOK LIKE IF SOMEONE LEFT MADAME X IN THE SUN

Lauren Bezos in a blue gown with jeweled straps, one of them slipping down in a clear reference to Sargent's original version of the painting Madame X

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 02/05/2026

Happy Beltane! It's the perfect day for this song: open.spotify.com/track/2pfvQp...

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First of May

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 29/04/2026

Labyrinth, with David Bowie. I had a baby brother and I was terrified the goblins would come try to take him. Also the pain machine thing in The Princess Bride.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 28/04/2026

The baby napped, I showered and did my hair and makeup, and the house cleaners came--all within the same two hours. I feel like a brand new woman.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 22/04/2026

My baby got an initial dose of the MMR vaccine early, and I can't even explain how grateful and relieved I am. Worrying that I was going to get exposed at work and then bring it home to him was horrible.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is my favorite cathedral in NYC, and one of my favorite in the world. It's SO big and fun to get lost wandering through, and then you suddenly run into a Keith Haring triptych and it's modern and wonderful and touching.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 20/04/2026

Some people have too much time on their hands.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 17/04/2026

I frequently think of things as I'm writing my note that I hadn't fully considered previously. If I need to consider PE, it helps to write down that the patient is PERC negative--or maybe it prompts me to order a dimer. If I let AI do my MDM, I miss that valuable cognitive synthesis step.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 09/04/2026

At the family camp we've gone to my whole life, they have a breakfast omelette bar. And my favorite is called the Avignon Papacy. It is billed as French influence over Italian ingredients: mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and Italian sausage inside, with a smear of Dijon mustard and Brie melted on top.

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 09/04/2026

One of my friends is a NICU nurse, and she told a story about when a teenager came in in active labor. I'm not the most comfortable managing a laboring patient in the ED, but I imagine the peds EM folks are even less so.

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