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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

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Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing

A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This review of one of the most beautiful places in Kyoto - a 1300 year old Shinto temple complex - is merciless.

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We need more expectation-setting signs like this

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is what social media is meant to be about.

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josh farkas 💊 @pulmcrit.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Surviving Sepsis 2026 is here & it's even more loony tunes than I was expecting. They're promoting pre-hospital ABX & preemptive broad-spectrum IV antibiotics for intubated patients. This insane fever dream is an antimicrobial stewardship nightmare. Embarrassment for SCCM. #EMIMCC

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

here’s a sentence stated matter-of-factly that is sure to ruin your day:

Forty-seven participants noted that their spouse had also sold a kidney. The other 221 married participants (159 female participants and 62 male participants) were asked why they sold rather than their spouse. The most common responses by female participants were that their husbands were the breadwinners (30%) or were ill (28%). The most common responses by male participants were that they sold volunt@ ily (52%) or that their wives were ill or pregnant (19%). Two female participants stated that they had been forced by their husbands to sell a kidney.

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midgieeeek! @midgie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

cool name why’s it called that

bbc news story about a 3rd shark attack in 2 days at “popular swimming spot Shark Beach”

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’ve got a strong suspicion that WBC data ain’t random.

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you’re not yet calling streptococcal sepsis ‘strepsis’, can you even spell portmanteau?

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Chuck Noblet @chucknoblet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

ChatGPT 5 is really killing it. Thanks for the update guys.

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The RACP @theracp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The line between life and death: cardiac arrest and CPR. The latest episode of Pomegranate Health #podcast has landed. Listen now #cardiology @HeartLungCirc @psirides @drkathrynmannix www.racp.edu.au/pome...

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

When Google Scholar tells you you’ve been cited and you click on the link….

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

« Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril: Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say » @science.org

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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you have a passing interest in the UK’s experiment with a new model of care, the Leng review into Physician Assistants (ex-Associates) was published today in all 134 pages: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687760...

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

10/ And there are wider questions about how we ever got into this situation, introducing a new model of service delivery with so little thought. Some medical leaders have serious questions to answer, not least to those who have suffered as a result (both patients and PAs given false expectations)

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧵1/ Big changes are coming for the occupational group now termed physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in England. Our new @bmj.com piece (@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & me) unpacks the implications of the Leng Review, commissioned by @wesstreeting. Here are our thoughts. 👇

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The RACP @theracp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The latest episode of Pomegranate Health #podcast has landed. This time we talk about the line between life and death: cardiac arrest and CPR. Listen now #cardiology @psirides.bsky.social @drkathrynmannix www.racp.edu.au/pome...

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

#missionimpossible: A medical perspective - Attempted use of defibrillation without a rhythm check - Tension pneumothorax less likely from a splenic gunshot - Management of tension pneumothorax however most excellent - Don’t leave your decompression chamber and immediately get in an airplane

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

My advance directives are pretty straightforward: If I’m able to be saved, save me. If I’m unable to be saved, don’t save me. All you need to do is run my blood through the Can They Be Saved? machine and if the answer comes back “yes” then save me. If the answer comes back “no” then don’t bother.

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Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🚨Medical device vulnerability: researchers found the Contec CMS800 Monitor contains a firmware backdoor. If connected to the internet, the backdoor automatically connects to a specific IP & uploads patient info & sensor data. It also allows remote code execution, which is potentially lethal! 1/

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I wrote a book with some Australians a few years ago and it’s just been translated into Portuguese and is still available for free from here rrthandbook.org

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Managing Deteriorating Patients

#FOAMed eBook for Managing Deteriorating Patients

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Alex Psirides @psirides.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Why does reviewer 2 always have the ‘interesting’ opinions? Are they assigned in order of reply? If so, are they just more burned out so it takes longer to answer emails? Or are they the last choice ‘please we’re desperate’ reviewer? Anyone know? @rcshuker.bsky.social

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