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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Miracle in a Capsule: Hope, Hype, and the High Price of Silence.
By Hans Casteels lamenting on why expensive urine is the most profitable industry on earth.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Muffins open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Muffins
The muffin is, in theory, a harmless object: a small cake, eaten without cutlery, sold in coffee shops by the dozen to people who mistake sugar for breakfast. Yet language, ever inventive, decided tha...
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Great Retirement Racket. It Could Be So Goddamn Different... open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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The Great Retirement Racket. It Could Be So Goddamn Different...
My neighbor Stu retired last Friday after decades of lawyering for an insurance company, and over dinner with him and his Chinese fiancée, our conversation patched together by instant-translation apps...
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Sun Tzu’s Art of War: Now With Handy Appendices on Flank Maneuvers, Ambush Tactics, and the Subjugation of Your Prostate open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Sun Tzu’s Art of War: Now With Handy Appendices on Flank Maneuvers, Ambush Tactics, and the Subjugation of Your Prostate
It starts not with a trumpet or a cavalry charge, but with a blood test and a frown; your urologist announcing, in the same tone one reserves for “we’re out of decaf,” that your prostate has gone rogu...
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The University of Waterloo’s Really Wonderful Start-Fit Program open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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The University of Waterloo’s Really Wonderful Start-Fit Program
It was a Wednesday morning, the kind of morning that smells faintly of optimism and floor sanitizer, when I found myself walking, surprisingly willingly, into a gym.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hans and the Expanding Universe open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Hans and the Expanding Universe
also believes that if you're going to fall apart, you might as well document it with dry humor, medical irony, and an uncooperative waistband.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Ballad of the Two-Legged Steer: A Meditative Rant on Castration and Weight Gain in the Age of Medical Progress open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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The Ballad of the Two-Legged Steer: A Meditative Rant on Castration and Weight Gain in the Age of Medical Progress
Hormone-hobbled raconteur, part-time philosopher, and full-time human guinea pig in the ongoing medical experiment known as "modern cancer care."
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Belgium, The Country That Makes the USA Look Normal open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Belgium, The Country That makes The USA Look Normal
Why I Left Belgium: A Brutal Farewell to a Nation Drowning in Linguistic Lunacy and Petty Nationalism
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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The difference between an observation and an accusation
By someone who's learned to sleep on the edge of the bed with no covers
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Procurement: The Most Strategic Function Nobody Respects (Including Itself) open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Procurement: The Most Strategic Function Nobody Respects (Including Itself)
Procurement is inherently a strategic function, and stakeholders across departments tend to view it as a threat to their control over budgets, relationships, and decision-making.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Beyond the Biopsy: Designing the Future of Prostate Cancer Through Artificial Intelligence open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Beyond the Biopsy: Designing the Future of Prostate Cancer Through Artificial Intelligence
I used to sit across boardroom tables with executives, whiteboarding strategies to harness AI, not as a gimmick, but as a practical tool to solve real problems. I’d ask: What pain points exist? What d...
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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BMW, BBQs & a Banjo: The Unravelling of Regional Vice Presidents
It begins innocently enough. A new job, a modest promotion, a badge with your name printed in bold sans-serif. But blink twice and suddenly you're signing emails as "Director of Cross-Functional Syner...
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
WORLD HELD HOSTAGE BY LOUD IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES, WE'VE ALL GONE MAD. TRULY MAD open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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WORLD HELD HOSTAGE BY LOUD IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES, WE'VE ALL GONE MAD. TRULY MAD
Idiocy? Idiocy, it seems, is bipartisan.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Infernal Design: The Prostate as Hell’s Doorbell - or Her Wicked Sense Of Humor
In which She plants a ticking time-gland near the backdoor, assigns men a lifelong obsession with penis size, and calls it intelligent design.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thank you, Sharon, For 30 Years Of Unexpected Normalcy open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Thank you, Sharon, For 30 Years Of Unexpected Normalcy
we’re celebrating thirty years. Not the glossy version. The real version. The one that includes mutts, Munich, missteps, Machu Picchu, and medical indignities.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
@HealthUnlocked. Welcome to the men’s health forums, where the sick are silenced, and the dying are disciplined open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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@HealthUnlocked. Welcome to the men’s health forums, where the sick are silenced, and the dying are disciplined
Welcome to the Men's Health Prostate Cancer forum at @HealthUnlocked. Please leave your critical thinking at the door. Your prognosis may be uncertain, but your compliance is mandatory.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Eurovision and Prostate Cancer; surprisingly similar. open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Eurovision and Prostate Cancer; surprisingly similar.
For American, and probably some Canadian men, who don’t know what the Eurovision Song Festival is, here’s a simple explanation.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Love in the Time of ADT: A Chemically Castrated Gentleman’s Guide to Pleasuring Your Partner Without Your Former Best Friend.
If you’re a prostate cancer patient on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), congratulations: your testosterone is now somewhere between “gelatin dessert” and “botanical garden snail.”
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Chapter 2: Early Detection: Manufacturing Patients Since 1970 open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Chapter 2: Early Detection: Manufacturing Patients Since 1970
We found something. You should be very afraid, but also very grateful.
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Chapter 1: Medical Myths That Need a Scalpel to the Throat open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Chapter 1: Medical Myths That Need a Scalpel to the Throat
I’m not a conspiracy theorist—medical interventions have saved my life twice, and I owe a deep debt to the science and skill that made that possible. But let’s not confuse gratitude with blindness
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Drama Of Buying A New Car open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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The Drama Of Buying A New Car
An Autoimmune Response to Car Shopping, Marriage, and Medically-Induced Eunuchry
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Welcome to Oncology, Inc. open.substack.com/pub/nutmegph...
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Welcome to Oncology, Inc.
Cancer used to be a diagnosis. Now it’s a business model
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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A view from north of the border
Friends,
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If you can’t find the book you’re looking for, you’re in the …
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It’s all relative
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nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social @nutmeg-phantasy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Tariffs for Canada and Mexico - what's the real purpose? Water. It is not explicitly covered in trade agreements, including the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement). While bottled is subject to trade rules, bulk water (water from lakes, rivers, or underground sources) is not covered
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