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joseph m. gabriel is expressing vague ideas with little clarity
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Personal account.

#histmed, pharma, public health, drugs. Sometimes IP, bioethics, critical med ed, pedagogies of care. Gardening. N Florida. a small axe

Papers - https://tinyurl.com/288f3phs
Book Med Monopoly: IP and Origins of Modern Pharma Industry
NO FOOD! NO FOOD!
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Finally got back in the garden...which is sort of an irrational response to everything....but it does help me cope so I guess there's that
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Been enjoying the local music scene here in Tallahassee lately

Here's the Pharos of Funk

Its good to get out and enjoy yourself if you can
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I suddenly decided to buy a bunch of surplus monitors and printers, just sort of happened who knows how
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Went to see a fun hardcore show last night, two great bands and a small crowd of young people smashing around screaming. Good times

here's a bit from a band called Seventh Judgment
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
October 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thousands show up in Tallahassee for #NoKings

So proud of my beloved and fearless partner Claudia for her work tonmake this possible
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
there's a giant turtle in my house
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just in case you foolishly thought life was better way back when, here's a prominent physician treating someone with malaria in 1932.

No, the patient doesn't have malaria. Malaria is the treatment.

Way back when was awful
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Someone built a concrete block around the toilet flange

This is going great
September 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
So, I decided to redo the tile floor in a small bathroom in my house

Underneath was a wood floor. Some idiot put tile on wood. Who did that??

Oh right, i did 10 years ago

Anyway, now I'm taking up the wood floor

Underneath.... is another tile floor

And underneath that ...?
September 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not a lawyer, but these clauses appear to indicate that if you upload one of your papers, academia dot edu claims they then own the copyright and you are only licensed to download it for personal use. So you can't publish it elsewhere.

They think they are a publisher instead of a repository
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just in case you thought there was nothing good left in the world, here's my son singing Wellerman with some friends at college

I learned this from an old Gordon Bok album my mom had when I was young
September 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
August 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"Hello Hoover! How are you? It's been a while"

"Hi Huxley, I'm doing great. How about you?"

"Good... Hey, I really like your nose"

"Its called a muzzle, but thanks. That feels nice"
August 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I present to you The Princess Molly
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you are going to have a meeting about your syllabus getting censored I suggest you first put on a bright red tie, set your zoom screen to Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights", and listen to that Mountain Goats song about Billy the Kid's magical shoes
August 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New go-to teaching tool:
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell gets interviewed by DOJ.

In Tallahassee.

Chuck E. Cheese gets arrested.

In Tallahassee.

On the same day.

Coincidence? You decide.
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is the only appropriate response to the Vice President being on BlueSky
June 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm at the NYC Pride parade. Just saw Mamdani walk by. He's dressed in a white button down and a tie and was jumping up and down to the music with a huge grin on his face
June 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Incredibly proud of my beloved wife, who was one of the lead organizers of the #nokings protest here in Tallahassee
June 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Yes, this is a real paragraph from the local paper here in Tallahassee, where my wife is one of the lead organizers for the protest

Fuck these people. No kings.
June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My high school graduation was NOT like this
May 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM