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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 1h

I finished 'The Long Ships' and man, what a delightful book, wish I hadn't put off reading it for so long.

Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 2h

Every time I go to one of my daughter’s track meets I spend the whole thing anxious that some child is going to collapse and I’ll be the most qualified person around to resuscitate them

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 5h

Why do we need another combatant command for CENTCOM to steal stuff from?

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 23h

It is shocking to me that elite institutions (i.e. Cornell) don't realize that their future is female (nearly a 60-40 split at the undergrad level, only growing for the past two decades). Protecting the institution at the expense of womens' esteem (a charitable view of what they did) is suicide

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 23h

I think the surest path to increasing voter turnout (and early voting) is to create a national opt-in system that registers receipt of your ballot and simultaneously exempts you from having to see any more campaign ads or receive any fund raising text messages.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 23h

This is probably the last time that I get to vote insanely early compared to others (Washington [a 100% mail in ballot state] sends ballots to registered servicemembers 6ish weeks before elections to make sure they receive them in time).

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 28/09/2026

The alarms keep patients from getting sleep and overwhelm nurses. Now, researchers are making alarms smarter and less annoying. on.wsj.com/4hiACDz

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The Constant Beeps in Hospitals Drive Everyone Crazy. There’s a Better Way.

The alarms keep patients from getting sleep and overwhelm nurses. Now, researchers are making alarms smarter and less annoying.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is some incredibly biased refereeing

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cris Collinsworth be quiet for longer than 13 consecutive seconds challenge: Impossible

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incredible. Dallas could’ve just waited to touch him a second or two

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not breaking news but Lincoln Riley confirming what a piece of shit he is: "Riley faced questions about Stephens' presence on the USC sideline [in the 2nd half] after his ejection. "Why (was he out there)?" Riley responded. "Because he's on our football team."

cbssports.com

Dante Moore injury: What we know on Oregon QB's condition after he was carted off the field Saturday night

The star QB and top NFL Draft prospect was subjected to a violent late hit in the Ducks' win over USC

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If USC had won after their shameful celebration of injuring Moore it might’ve broken the universe. Fuck USC

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am yet again asking a reporter (@amandamull.bsky.social?) to write an explainer for the pharmaceutical ads for diseases with very few customers. Who is the target? How can they be positive ROI?

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I haven't used my car or home insurance this year, does that mean that I'm doing fraud?

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a 25 year old theory about how Bush did 9/11… does Israel have that for Bibi and 7 October?

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Put off getting my flu shot on my post call day earlier this week bc I was so tired and then the hospital flu drive was set up outside the physician lounge today (very smart) so I did it.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WhY iS cUsToMeR sErViCe So InSeNsItIvE aNd DeClInInG iN qUaLiTy????

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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think I've seen a lot in 13 years of doctoring but last night is going to stay with me for a long long time. Hug your kids and be there for them and love them and let them know they are loved and worth everything

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh weird a questionable referee call that goes in favor of the Chiefs. What a surprise

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ED trauma bay, 1330: Me: "How long do you think it'll take in the OR?" Surgeon: "Oh like hour and a half, two hours." Me: "I was guessing two hours, sounds good." PICU, 2000: Me, still refreshing the anesthesia record with no sign of the case ending soon

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hug your kids and please don't cosleep with your infants. That is all.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My colleagues and I routinely sacrifice our time and put families through emotional turmoil to strictly abide the organ donation rules and respect the firewall between treatment team and procurement evaluation. The offenses in this article are a betrayal of everyone respecting the system

nytimes.com

Opinion | What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked Me

The organ donation industry has routinely violated ethics standards.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SSRIs have a number need to treat (NNT) of 7-8 for major depressive disorder. This makes them more reliably effective than thiazides (20-120 depending on HTN severity), statins (10-300 depending on risk strata), DOACs for a-fib (200-500), and NSAIDs for knee arthritis (7-10)

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

babies cry, they need held and burped and loved, and not taken to a grifting quack who will harm them!

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just saw a clip of the 60 Minutes rescue thing on social media and it is absolutely intolerable how slowly everyone on 60 Minutes talks. Idk if my brain is cooked by podcasts on 1.4x or my ADD or that Boomer brains are mush, but it's like they're talking with a mouth full of molasses

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Apologies if my email that started this thread isn't clear" actually means: Obviously none of you read it and have gone on a wild hare that could've been avoided if you had so let me say it again.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That Hyundai kid fighting a dragon (but it’s actually cancer) commercial is among the weirdest I’ve seen in a long time

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/09/2026

The Houthi-aligned Bani Hashish tribes are massing in preparation to “liberate” the remaining Yemeni territory outside Houthi control. It’s a sea of Toyotas with mounted machine guns. I think this is what we should mean when we say Toyotathon from now on.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

well at least Oregon let me down early this year instead of stringing me along

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good lord, continuing to watch this Oregon game is turning into channel hopscotch

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I like to spectate in my town's FB group. Tonight someone posted, "I just found a bat in my living room where my two children had fallen asleep during a movie. I called the humane society but they didn't answer. Can I get the bat tested or do my kids need shots?" Comment thread is really something

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Walz had it exactly correct with his campaign of calling these guys weird. Bring it back. Talk constantly about how fucking weird they are. Normies don't like weird.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Every licensed healthcare provider in this must lose their license. This is unconscionable

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I appreciate the CBS feed of the Oregon football game having the black level turned up too high making it look dingy and dark in honor of the arrival of Fall in the Northwest (it's a partly cloudy sunny day in Eugene, it looks normal outside, not dark)

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Incredible snippet from a genetics consult note: identification of an underlying genetic etiology by molecular testing is likely to impact her medical care in the following ways: 1. Avoiding an extensive diagnostic odyssey that may include evaluations that have inherent risks for her

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

best run down of this situation that I've seen so far

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A young man in the PICU a very unfortunate brain cancer and has intense frontal lobe disinhibition so is constantly cursing and calling people "motherfucker" "asshole" "shithead" and sundry others. Every day the PICU attendings try to find new and creative ways to document it in the record

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

None of these are *great*, but I continue to be baffled by how and why CENTCOM's emblem looks like something put together by a 12 year old in MS-PAINT in 2015 while the rest all seem like reasonable military emblems

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you want to briefly feel like Superman do a bunch of weighted pushups until you really just can't do any more and then take the weight off and do another set after a brief rest.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If I were any counterparty negotiating with the Trump administration I would absolutely insist that all negotiations be videotaped or stenographed so that the charlatans who go on TV and recharacterize what happened could be beclowned immediately

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Blows my mind that people don't see immunization as a super power. "Hey here's a disease that has wrecked havoc on humanity and killed untold thousands that you can become immune to for a moment of pain and a day of feeling mildly unwell." smdh

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The list of alleged US demands is fucking insane? How did they even get this far, by point #3 I would be throwing the water pitcher at the negotiation team

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 23/08/2026

Enjoy a game at the Hardrockers of South Dakota Mines. Park your car to tailgate IN STADIUM. Also they encourage you to honk when they’re on defense.

South Dakota Mines Hardrockers Stadium. With parking around the stadium.

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Petulant Skeptic @petulantskeptic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

an iron law of food establishments that has never failed me: any place with patio furniture indoors serves amazing food

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