This is the most fun I have had watching Irish soccer in 20 years.
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is the most fun I have had watching Irish soccer in 20 years.
The Indian perspective on Indian call center scams. Turns out they are exploiting their fellow citizens just as much as they are people in the US and Europe.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Scammer Next Door — The Dial
In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of graft.
www.thedial.world
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The Indian perspective on Indian call center scams. Turns out they are exploiting their fellow citizens just as much as they are people in the US and Europe.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Incredible what we’ve learned about ATLAS already. Apparently the outer layer has been irradiated and changed by cosmic radiation so it will be more difficult to draw inferences about its place of origin from the outgassing of the surface.
www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Evidence Of "Galactic Cosmic Ray" Processing. That's Not Great News
A new study has an explanation for the unusual chemical makeup of our interstellar visitor. If true, it's not the best news we've ever heard.
www.iflscience.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Incredible what we’ve learned about ATLAS already. Apparently the outer layer has been irradiated and changed by cosmic radiation so it will be more difficult to draw inferences about its place of origin from the outgassing of the surface.
www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
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#nephsky
Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles
Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles
NEW: 1 in 8 men undergo scrotal surgery 20 years after kidney donation, underscoring the need for increased patient education about the risks and symptoms to monitor after donation. https://f.mtr.cool/xpxelntcyw
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#nephsky
Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles
Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles
Big and Little Spoons
xkcd.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Interesting how they caught these guys. The state has a system that detects out of state IPs, newly formed email addresses and multiple claims from the same IP address and flags them for review. Here there was also other family looking for the money of course.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/m...
He allegedly stole $1.1m in unclaimed property in Mass. It’s just the latest chapter in the career of this modern conman. - The Boston Globe
Court documents paint Shaka Stayman as a digital-era version of a classic conman.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Interesting how they caught these guys. The state has a system that detects out of state IPs, newly formed email addresses and multiple claims from the same IP address and flags them for review. Here there was also other family looking for the money of course.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/10/m...
25 years in the US and still no green card because she’s from India. The system really is broken.
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/11...
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/11...
$30,000, 15 Years, and Still No Green Card
I've done everything right—and I’m still waiting.
www.bostonmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
25 years in the US and still no green card because she’s from India. The system really is broken.
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/11...
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/11...
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Pats win but here's that play where TreVeyon Henderson looked to the Pats sideline to see if he should score or go down
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Pats win but here's that play where TreVeyon Henderson looked to the Pats sideline to see if he should score or go down
Last night at Copley square T station there were soooo many rats. I think I saw at least 10 frolicking around the platform. Given that they weren't crawling out of trashcans, dare I say that they were actually kind of cute? @universalhub.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Last night at Copley square T station there were soooo many rats. I think I saw at least 10 frolicking around the platform. Given that they weren't crawling out of trashcans, dare I say that they were actually kind of cute? @universalhub.com
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are renewables better for the environment than fossil fuels? yes. is it cheaper? also yes. is it less dangerous to extract? yes, significantly.
but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy
but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
are renewables better for the environment than fossil fuels? yes. is it cheaper? also yes. is it less dangerous to extract? yes, significantly.
but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy
but you've gotta understand if we switched, the people who are currently wealthy would not be as wealthy
My TikTok algorithm is getting weird.
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My TikTok algorithm is getting weird.
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How did McSweeney's find my thesis file folder?
FinalDraft.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
FinalDraft_1.pdf
FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf
FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.pdf
I’m Not Sure Which, But One of These Fifteen PDF Files Is the Final Draft
FinalDraft.pdf FinalDraft_1.pdf FinalDraft_1_Send_This_One.pdf FinalDraft_1_No_Actually_Send_This_One.pdf FinalFinalDraft_1_This_Draft_Is_Correct.p...
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
How did McSweeney's find my thesis file folder?
"Eight maids a cleaning" said my overprivileged daughter singing the Christmas carol the other day (we don't have maids, and certainly not 8 of them)
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Eight maids a cleaning" said my overprivileged daughter singing the Christmas carol the other day (we don't have maids, and certainly not 8 of them)
Aldosterone synthase inhibitor significantly lowered BP in resistant hypertension patients. This study shows again though how reversion to the mean is a real thing in trials and you always need to use a placebo. Mean reduction in BP for 2mg, 1mg and placebo was 15.7mmHg, 14.5mmHg and 5.8mmHg.
Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension | NEJM
Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension.
In several studies, baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, reduced the seated
systolic blood pr...
www.nejm.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Aldosterone synthase inhibitor significantly lowered BP in resistant hypertension patients. This study shows again though how reversion to the mean is a real thing in trials and you always need to use a placebo. Mean reduction in BP for 2mg, 1mg and placebo was 15.7mmHg, 14.5mmHg and 5.8mmHg.
My Mom passed a while back. Her phone bill was paid through my Dad's old office which had been taken over by my brother so for years he had seen the bills coming in. The phone was her lifeline - we spoke every day - but in the last year or so, her hearing started to go and she used it less and less
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My Mom passed a while back. Her phone bill was paid through my Dad's old office which had been taken over by my brother so for years he had seen the bills coming in. The phone was her lifeline - we spoke every day - but in the last year or so, her hearing started to go and she used it less and less
A patient recently was able to finally come off the vent and had a speaking valve on. They talked about how hard it was to communicate and complimented (some of us) on our lipreading skills. But she said something so interesting. That trying to communicate on a vent was like being stuck behind glass
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A patient recently was able to finally come off the vent and had a speaking valve on. They talked about how hard it was to communicate and complimented (some of us) on our lipreading skills. But she said something so interesting. That trying to communicate on a vent was like being stuck behind glass
Sad to say that Julian Seifter passed last night. He was a mentor and a friend and I am the person and doctor I am today largely because of him. Such an incredible loss.
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Sad to say that Julian Seifter passed last night. He was a mentor and a friend and I am the person and doctor I am today largely because of him. Such an incredible loss.
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At the age of 80, Helen Dortch Longstreet--wife of former Confederate general and postwar Republican James Longstreet--worked in a Georgia factory helping to make B-29 bombers during WWII.
October 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
At the age of 80, Helen Dortch Longstreet--wife of former Confederate general and postwar Republican James Longstreet--worked in a Georgia factory helping to make B-29 bombers during WWII.
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Tolkien once wrote that all his work was "fundamentally linguistic in inspiration". Conlangs were his "secret vice", and his aim with Lord of the Rings was to create a world in which an Elvish dialect he had invented "might seem real"
stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/t...
stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/t...
October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tolkien once wrote that all his work was "fundamentally linguistic in inspiration". Conlangs were his "secret vice", and his aim with Lord of the Rings was to create a world in which an Elvish dialect he had invented "might seem real"
stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/t...
stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/t...
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"Hi! Your kid’s school here again. Just confirming the snack choice for the Halloween party to check that it meets our guidelines. Oh, your husband is the volunteer? I do see that on the form, but thought that must be an error or a joke. I can just write your name in."
This Is Your Kid’s School and Even Though the Emergency Contact Form Lists Your Husband, We Need You, the Mom
Hello, this is your kid’s school calling. So, your kid said her daddy dropped her off today. I could still see him if I stepped outside, but I know...
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Hi! Your kid’s school here again. Just confirming the snack choice for the Halloween party to check that it meets our guidelines. Oh, your husband is the volunteer? I do see that on the form, but thought that must be an error or a joke. I can just write your name in."
Helbert Rondon and Rick Sterns throwing another grenade into the rate of sodium correction debate. (I agree with them btw).
www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
Revisiting New Data on the Mortality Benefit of Rapid Correction of Hyponatremia: Déjà vu All Over Again
Studies in the 1980s linking rapid correction of severe, chronic hyponatremia to the
osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) led to a major controversy that eventually gave
way to consensus guidelines. E...
www.ajkd.org
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Helbert Rondon and Rick Sterns throwing another grenade into the rate of sodium correction debate. (I agree with them btw).
www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
www.ajkd.org/article/S027...
15 billion dollars seized. This will cramp their style somewhat I would imagine. Now please sell it all at once.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.
arstechnica.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
15 billion dollars seized. This will cramp their style somewhat I would imagine. Now please sell it all at once.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...