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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Anne Applebaum’s excellent recent book, Twilight of Democracy, closely examines disinformation across half a dozen nations Highly recommend

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Constant ads, antivaxxers, unwanted Musk tweets… 20 steps to block assholes A big thank you to the folks who left X for Bluesky and made a soft landing for us followers

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Quite a detailed and documented list. Bookmark for future reference. Pay attention to the persons who flatly denied traveling to Moscow, despite matching names, DOB, and passport numbers at the border

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No one is marrying off 10 year boys. Let’s call it what it is: giving ownership of young girls to older males in a legal framework

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Best of luck on your upcoming colonoscopy!

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok, thanks doc! for bringing your in-depth analysis to something which has always struck me as extremely fishy (from a purely medical standpoint)

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice to see some color. Men are usually stuck with a pretty drab palette

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Told (by An Actual Climate Scientist) that coal plants are good locations to place renewable energy wind and solar farms. Because they alreadyhave all the transmission infrastructure in place and that is often the biggest hurdle

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Downloaded OpenEvidence. As a boomer I am a late adopter. Couldn’t help but notice that nestled within really useful medical information was mention of Amazon Prime and Ulta specials

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love the part where they had seven women’s stalls in the bathroom for a thousand

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The guy who let a single mom take the fall for Bridgegate? I think not. As someone who sat in his six hour traffic jam in Fort Lee (and had to cancel a days worth of sick patients at my office) I say hell no

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Drought conditions in the American West have caused an increase in bear attacks, as the bears look for alternative food sources. My niece in Colorado had one break through her bedroom window. Wildlife rangers said they’ve never so many bears in town in living memory

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you crunch all the numbers a licensed electrician will have higher assets at 65 than a primary care physician. That’s why everyone chooses a higher paying (and arguably boring) specialty instead

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thank you for all your thoughtful insights. Care to speculate what Don Jr was doing in Tallinn last week?

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Has anybody noticed *which* leg is the one he occasionally seems to drag?

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Typical stroke will show facial droop and limb weakness affecting the opposite side of the body from the facial droop. Then as time goes by (weeks/months) the deficits become milder. But when the patient is fatigued/sick they will temporarily look worse again. This is old stroke in tired geriatric

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Losing his touch” when a real journalist should be asking whether he is losing his mind

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ilze-leona elven @ilselle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Helsinki is blunt city, if you want lotta bats go to Valencia if you still didn’t check it. For instance these ones that look like me on a daily basis, I wanted to make some design like this for my house but since i live in war i probably won’t, maybe in next life :)

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wow so good to know. Valencia is on my wish list and now I can go bat hunting there

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazing book. The story of how he engaged with Act Up even as they identified him as the enemy

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gothic bats will have to be a different assignment! :) I just happened to love this little guys energy. Please share some gothic bats for my education

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dutch breakfast, as I experienced it, was coarse bread, a hunk of good cheese, and if you were lucky, some marinated fish. Definitely “fuel” as opposed to “fun” food

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How about this detail of Helsinki architecture?

Carved stone cornice in a curved shape featuring a large bat with outstretched wings and a gaping mouth

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’ve already seen AI target and bomb a girls school in Iran, killing 165. Seems like pretty definitive proof the killer dog is off the leash

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you for the extensive quotes from Drapatyi. Many well reasoned principles on display here

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fatality rate of untreated diphtheria up to 50%. Can you imagine? They have been fighting a large outbreak in Somalia. Large US Somali population in Twin Cities have been subject to a campaign of vaccine disinformation and are under protected

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yet more Jugenstil #architecture of Helsinki. Funny thing is that building attached to it is quite bland and boring

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She funded important vaccine science. She gave away free books to children. She was the best of us.

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m from US and know of the Pavilion. Real question is: is the guy on the bench masturbating?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ICE won’t be the first organization to acquire shock gloves. They are already being used in schools and jails. Institutions for disabled kids use them as “pain aversion”. They try and “correct” disabilities by electrocuting children: These gloves should be banned:

disabledginger.com

ICE's New "Shock Gloves" are Already in American Schools...

In fact, shock devices have been used in schools for disabled children for years. Now they’ve entered the public school system in Nebraska. Why is no one talking about it?

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is still an astounding essay. It explains so well how working in US healthcare eventually causes moral injury to those forced to work within the system

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I guess life was boring in the 80s compared to now

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I actually loved Clarissa (which is questionable taste in retrospect) but have to wonder if you bought the large type edition there

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now that our storied US news orgs has been have ruined, here is a great list of people who we can trust to keep us informed

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Next they will break up the DTaP — more visits! And think about how averse most children are to shots, let’s make them get more injections for the same amount of immunity

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yes correct. They are related to each other but not related to European languages so they are really weird

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

40 years ago I was an English major in NYC. When tips at the restaurant job were good I bought myself a copy of The Atlantic “Staff Writer at The Atlantic” should shut any sensible person up (I also loved Spy magazine—the OG satirist of Trump)

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I should have said “gendered pronouns”…

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Alicia Skarimbas MD @aliciaskarimbasmd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m learning the Estonian language. They have only one pronoun to use and it can be male or female. people don’t understand that pronouns are a cultural / language construct and in some languages ARE NOT EVEN PRESENT.

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