Josh Bittker
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Josh Bittker
@jbittker.bsky.social
Cambridge public schools dad
Scientist in drug discovery
ORCID ID 0000-0002-4166-0828
On here I mostly complain about bad drivers
Health Care Provider email: You have new secure message! Click here to read it on our secure portal.
Me: I don’t have a login for that portal.
HCP: Ok, we’ll send you an email with login credentials.
Me: So couldn’t you have just emailed the message?
HCP: No, that would be insecure.
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Jays had many opportunities to win it, but IKF so ineffective you’d think there was an IMiD in the game.
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I give it 5 minutes until @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social has a portrait of the left fielder flying in the air while the center fielder makes the catch above his head.
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
OMG the WS is going to end with a Homer Simpson walkoff
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social It’s apple season
September 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Food inflation definitely happening, Costco has pirate corn for the first time I’ve ever seen.
Pirate corn- It’s a buck an ear.
August 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Got a decent peloton on Mass Ave this evening.
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The guy whose job is to abuse the prototype robots with a hockey stick is so screwed once they take over.

www.boston.com/news/technol...
Boston Dynamics humanoid robot shows off whole-body moves
The robot, called Atlas, is seen in a video using whole-body movements such as walking, crouching, and lifting.
www.boston.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My kid thought I should use Elon’s dumpster site to complain to a company that’s not on here to get a response, so I said fine, and within 10 minutes a scam account was created and trying to steal my info. Completely useless trash fire.
August 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Looking for problem solving:
Air France abandoned our bag in CDG airport, never loaded it. It has an AirTag and looks like it’s been sitting at the baggage counters for two days. We filed a claim and sent them the AirTag link but they won’t take the five minutes to track it down and ship it. 1/2
August 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I don’t need this any more, I’ve memorized the commands
July 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My kid taught me about what you can do now that iPhones are waterproof
July 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Learned this week that it’s not very hard to bike to the airport. Ferry from downtown, east Boston greenway to airport station, service road to terminal E. Last half mile isn’t very bike friendly but there were almost no cars.
July 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hey I’m a big Costco fan but come the f—- on.
July 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What a day
May 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Foxy rat control at Fresh Pond @universalhub.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Lately gotten several variations of a phishing scam getting through spam filters at least daily, and l don’t know, I thought coding and text classification were like the two strong use cases for machine learning models, but Google/Gmail seems pretty bad at it!
May 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Rube from Boston gaping at a system with parallel express and local tracks with two minute midday headways.
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
While biking past Bowdoin saw a dollar bill lying in road at a red light and looked all around as I picked it up because I figured it must be an economics experiment or some transportation study about bikers stopping at red lights. Driver in the car next to me gave a thumbs up.
April 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Love to model the stock market as a harmonic oscillator
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Don’t forget that Republican governments have previously argued that using “view source” on a public website is a crime.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
March 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Tragic accident at Costco
March 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For when you like your coffee highly enriched
February 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A brand new type of travel hell at Logan: airline gives you meal vouchers for a canceled flight, but when you try to redeem it restaurants tell you they only take card and don’t have a cashier to redeem. So kids bought $60 of candy and soda at the only place that would accept it, a snack kiosk.
February 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Just had some Turkish delight and I’m once again cursing CS Lewis for my reaction always being, “ooh Turkish delight, I bet that tastes really good!” followed by deep disappointment.
February 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM