Liam
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I can say I hope it will be worth what I give up…
No doubt. RFT family is strong and filled with some incredible people, my friend.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
No doubt. RFT family is strong and filled with some incredible people, my friend.
Always, my friend. Always. I’ve “known” you for many years as also being a loyal yet quieter member of the RFT Tom Nichols family over on Twitter (you & I followed each other over there) as well as here on Bluesky. You are & long have been a strong, hilarious, & great person to follow & chat with.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Always, my friend. Always. I’ve “known” you for many years as also being a loyal yet quieter member of the RFT Tom Nichols family over on Twitter (you & I followed each other over there) as well as here on Bluesky. You are & long have been a strong, hilarious, & great person to follow & chat with.
I’m so well & truly sorry for your loss, Stan. As others have said, I know that painful feeling of loss from a parent no longer being there, and especially the added weight and grief during the holidays. Indeed, never take a moment for granted.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, my friend!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, my friend!
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I’m so well & truly sorry for your loss, Stan. As others have said, I know that painful feeling of loss from a parent no longer being there, and especially the added weight and grief during the holidays. Indeed, never take a moment for granted.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, my friend!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, my friend!
I’m so very & truly sorry, Tom. Sadly, yes, as we get older we inevitably find ourselves coming face to face with the realities. I lost one parent when I was 7, back in 1990, & then again, a stepdad back in August 2011. And you’re right, the holidays are never the same. My best to you & your family.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I’m so very & truly sorry, Tom. Sadly, yes, as we get older we inevitably find ourselves coming face to face with the realities. I lost one parent when I was 7, back in 1990, & then again, a stepdad back in August 2011. And you’re right, the holidays are never the same. My best to you & your family.
I hope you start feeling better soon, Ken. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I hope you start feeling better soon, Ken. Happy Thanksgiving.
Zweifellos, aber dazu kommen noch Eitelkeit, die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber allen, die unter ihnen stehen, psychotische/soziopathische Züge und die schlichte Freude daran, die Welt brennen zu sehen, nur weil es sie amüsiert...
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Zweifellos, aber dazu kommen noch Eitelkeit, die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber allen, die unter ihnen stehen, psychotische/soziopathische Züge und die schlichte Freude daran, die Welt brennen zu sehen, nur weil es sie amüsiert...
I’m certainly trying, but I keep getting ever closer to giving up in every sense of the words.
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I’m certainly trying, but I keep getting ever closer to giving up in every sense of the words.
„Verrückte Welt“ ist noch untertrieben, leider. Sie war nie perfekt, nicht einmal annähernd, aber wann haben so viele Menschen beschlossen, dass es wunderbar sei, unsere Welt und ihre Normen zu zerstören?
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
„Verrückte Welt“ ist noch untertrieben, leider. Sie war nie perfekt, nicht einmal annähernd, aber wann haben so viele Menschen beschlossen, dass es wunderbar sei, unsere Welt und ihre Normen zu zerstören?
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family, and all who serve(d), Mark.
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family, and all who serve(d), Mark.
As for me, I’ve most embarrassingly passed out and briefly lost consciousness in public over the last two weeks. And I loathe knowing I have to return to oncology on 5 January 2026 for ten hours of treatment. I cannot believe the world in which we live in is this awful, so quickly. Ich kämpfe...
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
As for me, I’ve most embarrassingly passed out and briefly lost consciousness in public over the last two weeks. And I loathe knowing I have to return to oncology on 5 January 2026 for ten hours of treatment. I cannot believe the world in which we live in is this awful, so quickly. Ich kämpfe...
Es tut mir sehr leid, wie gestresst du von der Arbeit, dem Alltag und allem dazwischen bist. So vielen von uns geht es genauso, und wir wünschen uns einfach, dass es aufhört. Thanksgiving is just a few hours away for us here in the insane U.S., though so many norms have been melting around us. Sigh.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Es tut mir sehr leid, wie gestresst du von der Arbeit, dem Alltag und allem dazwischen bist. So vielen von uns geht es genauso, und wir wünschen uns einfach, dass es aufhört. Thanksgiving is just a few hours away for us here in the insane U.S., though so many norms have been melting around us. Sigh.
This all continues to be more and more embarrassing, more and more of a clusterfuck, every hour of every day with Trump and his pathetic ring of nationalists (both Christian and white). The last ten months have already felt like years. Sigh. Wie geht es dir, mein Freund?
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This all continues to be more and more embarrassing, more and more of a clusterfuck, every hour of every day with Trump and his pathetic ring of nationalists (both Christian and white). The last ten months have already felt like years. Sigh. Wie geht es dir, mein Freund?
Point aside, that appears to be from one of the absolute best episodes of the X-Files - “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Point aside, that appears to be from one of the absolute best episodes of the X-Files - “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”
None of this is new to me.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
None of this is new to me.
Not quite, but I already took nitroglycerin, followed by 420 mg of Diltiazem and 300 mg of Irbesartan. One of my friends from med school was freaked out, though, lol. All of that drops it quickly enough.
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Not quite, but I already took nitroglycerin, followed by 420 mg of Diltiazem and 300 mg of Irbesartan. One of my friends from med school was freaked out, though, lol. All of that drops it quickly enough.
Systolic pressure is punchy and elevated, though your diastolic isn’t bad. The 94 bpm certainly is up there a bit. But, lol, I have you beat:
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Systolic pressure is punchy and elevated, though your diastolic isn’t bad. The 94 bpm certainly is up there a bit. But, lol, I have you beat:
I have been in a similar dangerous place, as well, for a while, yet without family or real support. I’m so very glad you were able to find help in extremis, then, and to have your loving family close ranks around you, Ken. It’s complete and utter misery.
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have been in a similar dangerous place, as well, for a while, yet without family or real support. I’m so very glad you were able to find help in extremis, then, and to have your loving family close ranks around you, Ken. It’s complete and utter misery.
Oh, for the love of…he was shirtless plenty of times in public over 19 YEARS with it on his chest, and you’re blithely accepting the notion that no one ever saw that and said “what the hell is wrong with you? Unacceptable.” If you truly are buy the “I never knew until running for Senate, now,” eh…
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Oh, for the love of…he was shirtless plenty of times in public over 19 YEARS with it on his chest, and you’re blithely accepting the notion that no one ever saw that and said “what the hell is wrong with you? Unacceptable.” If you truly are buy the “I never knew until running for Senate, now,” eh…
A number of tattoos that troops aren’t allowed to have still get through MEPS more often than might you think. You’re going on facts; great. Facts his campaign his putting out in a PR blitz to try & ease the blow & get out in front of this before others went to print. 19 years? Occam’s razor applies
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A number of tattoos that troops aren’t allowed to have still get through MEPS more often than might you think. You’re going on facts; great. Facts his campaign his putting out in a PR blitz to try & ease the blow & get out in front of this before others went to print. 19 years? Occam’s razor applies
I think there is still some hope in this country, this world, as well…but the MAGA Trumpist’s and Republicans/far-right conservatives are doing their level best to whittle away at the very foundations of what made this country - & all of the many corrective laws we enacted over the years, quickly.
October 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think there is still some hope in this country, this world, as well…but the MAGA Trumpist’s and Republicans/far-right conservatives are doing their level best to whittle away at the very foundations of what made this country - & all of the many corrective laws we enacted over the years, quickly.
Pathetically, apathy, comfort/way of life, proximity to power in DC (for as much as Republicans decry it as a Hellscape), and a fierce desire to want not to lose the comforts, lobbying money and lives they having living in or right near DC, not wanting to have to move back home to Maine full time.
October 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Pathetically, apathy, comfort/way of life, proximity to power in DC (for as much as Republicans decry it as a Hellscape), and a fierce desire to want not to lose the comforts, lobbying money and lives they having living in or right near DC, not wanting to have to move back home to Maine full time.
Having your friendship, as always, is an immense help, my friend. We do need to stick together, indeed, but this is only going to get increasingly worse…on us here in the US, as well as everyone else in the rest of the world. And yes, they do fear the Epstein files, but they’re mostly in control.
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Having your friendship, as always, is an immense help, my friend. We do need to stick together, indeed, but this is only going to get increasingly worse…on us here in the US, as well as everyone else in the rest of the world. And yes, they do fear the Epstein files, but they’re mostly in control.
I, like an ever increasing number of Americans (& immigrants living here who’re shamefully, horrifically having their rights trampled over & abused w/seeming glee by right-wing twatwaffles here), grow more & more ashamed, outraged & powerless against the admin/right-wing courts waving this all thru.
October 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I, like an ever increasing number of Americans (& immigrants living here who’re shamefully, horrifically having their rights trampled over & abused w/seeming glee by right-wing twatwaffles here), grow more & more ashamed, outraged & powerless against the admin/right-wing courts waving this all thru.