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Master of the Deck
@panmalazan.bsky.social
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Audiobooks. Multishipper. Fat. Queer. Trash. Smashing characters together like Barbies since 2003. Forever crying about Rand al'Thor. Anti-harassment. Accessibility and Disability rights. ♿ She/her. 30s and falling apart. FUCK AI.
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panmalazan.bsky.social
@gorskon.bsky.social fun story. I decided to do grad school, and that Makary & Daniel study is CITED IN MY POLICY TEXTBOOK in the section about healthcare quality for the "third leading cause of death" shtick.

I thought this was sus, and found your article, among others, very helpful. Thank you.
Screenshot of textbook page. Text reads: Medical Errors as a Public Health Concern Notwithstanding licensure laws and accreditation standards, medical errors are bound to. and often do. occur. And while medical errors are obviouslv not a new problem, framing the issue as a public health problem is a relativelv new phenomenon, and healthcare providers, public health professionals, and policymakers have in recent years committed increased attention to the problem of medica errors. The reqularity with which medical errors occur and the resulting extent of adverse health outcomes and mortalities indicate that the problem is not confined to one ethnic or racial population, socioeconomic group, or geographical aree9 One studv indicates that medical errors in hospitals and other healthcare facilities may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States (Makarv & Daniel, 2016), behind only heart disease and cancer. This prevalence suggests that factors such as unskilled or poorly trained doctors and poor communication svstems within facilities contribute to more deaths annually than do respiratory disease, accidents, strokes, Alzheimer disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide, which round out the top 11 causes of death (Makary & Daniel, 2016). ne
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
the link preview though

"Backstabbing: An official website of the United States government"
an embedded preview of the linked article makes it look like the destination page says "Backstabbing: An official website of the United States government"
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
INTRUDER DETECTED
a tiny Waldo amidst the Adonises
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
this one isn't showing off beans, but snoot
A white fluffy cat sits on a black cat tree that has become covered with white cat hair like moss. He is sitting with his front paws curled in close to his body and looking up so his pink nose points straight at the camera. There's a little notch in his ear, showing off his alley cat cred (he is not an alley cat, just a jerk).
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
roumd, but with an axe
Gray, black, and White tabby cat sleeping very round on a gray and white couch. A bloody axe plush toy is under his head
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
y'know, why not
a very closeup picture of the face of a very young white kitten with big round dark eyes, slightly blurry. The caption days "tonite we're staying up until 1 billion o'clock"
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
doing dumb shit like highly decorating the interior of my house for Halloween. enjoying silly things. petting the cats.
A fluffy white cat, my silly man Silc of as Ruin, sits on a gray leaf patterned ottoman. He has his legs splayed like he's sitting in a person chair with his paws pressed to either side of his leg. If you are looking closely you can see my WoTCon coasters on a tray behind him!
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
this cat is a whole mood
closeup screenshot of a black cat from one of the revealed witch cards in OP's post. The cat is mid leap with paws akimbo, mouth and eyes wide open.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
Yes, you can add alt text to videos. You just can't see the alt text without a screen reader, this was also the case on Twitter.
Screenshot of a bluesky draft with the missing alt text warning banner at the top and the alt text button at the bottom, both circled for clarity. The test video is a sleeping fluffy white cat on his back.
September 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
With alt text (you can turn on reminders in your settings, it's very helpful)
WIRED article screenshot Q: Do you worry about safety? Something that we talk about a lot is legal or other threats from the White House. You have a president who sued CBS, which settled. Colbert was canceled under what I would describe as suspect circumstances, to say the least. The administration is looking for media companies to fall in line. Satire is not immune from that threat. How do you think about The Onion's safety in this moment, whether legal or otherwise? A: Well, they're going to come after you eventually if they don't come after you right away. The more you stand up and really puff your chest out, generally the better off you are. This is true of all fascist regimes throughout history: They hate ridicule and they hate people who are unbothered. And to say that you're not scared is insane Everyone's a little afraid. And that's fine. You're supposed to be. They're trying tomake you afraid all day long. I have 40-plus years left on this planet Earth. I don't want to live like that. I don't think any of us do. I think it's more about how do you want to wake up every day and tell your kids what you did in this time period. I never thought it was an option to just be like, "All right, cool. I guess we'll just be worse at comedy now." What the fuck are you talking about? That's not what we`re going to do. We're going to stand up for what we believe and what we know is true, and we're going to do exactly what we did before. And I'm telling you right now, when you do that, people might give you a hundred bucks to get your newspaper, because they want that in their house. They want to tell their friends in private that actually, I'm not OK with this.
September 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
He wanted to just say "Liebe Marie", like greeting a good friend or loved one, an expression of regard, maybe a bit diminutive but more familiar than anything

"Mary, full of grace" the fuck does that heavy handed shit even mean, he asks, and why would you expect a German peasant to understand it?
Listen up, I shall say “gracious Mary” and “dear Mary”, and they can say “Mary full of grace”. Anyone who knows German also knows what an expressive word “dear” (liebe) is: dear Mary, dear God, the dear emperor, the dear prince, the dear man, the dear child. I do not know if one can say this word “liebe” in Latin or in other languages with so much depth of emotion that it pierces the heart and echoes throughout as it does in our tongue.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
Luther, being a scholar and a priest and a bright man and someone who like, read actual books and philosophy and stuff, naturally had opinions about the meanings of things, up to and including how an Angel of the Lord would greet Mary, and didn't want it to translate like she a was a KEG OF BEER
Now when the angel greets Mary, he says: “Greetings to you, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” Well up to this point, this has simply been translated from the simple Latin, but tell me is that good German? Since when does a German speak like that – being “full of grace”? One would have to think about a keg “full of” beer or a purse “full of” money. So I translated it: “You gracious one”. This way a German can at last think about what the angel meant by his greeting. Yet the papists rant about me corrupting the angelic greeting—and I still have not used the most satisfactory German translation. What if I had used the most satisfactory German and translated the salutation: “God says hello, Mary dear” (for that is what the angel was intending to say and what he would have said had he even been German!). If I had, I believe that they would have hanged themselves out of their great devotion to dear Mary and because I have destroyed the greeting.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
I can't just screenshot the whole thing so I beg you to read it, but onto the important bits:

translation is to some degree vibes, and Luther knew this. taking something profound from one language to another requires a deep understanding of what is being said so you can say the thing and connect
We do not have to ask about the literal Latin or how we are to speak German—as these asses do. Rather we must ask the mother in the home, the children on the street, the common person in the market about this. We must be guided by their tongue, the manner of their speech, and do our translating accordingly. Then they will understand it and recognize that we are speaking German to them.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
Furthermore, he considered it his duty to provide faithful translation, and he knew exactly how difficult doing so was. Nuance, intelligence, meticulous attention to detail and the fullness of understanding of not just meaning but tone and intention and context.

Also, fuck those donkeys.
If I have made errors within it (although I am not aware of any and would most certainly be unwilling to intentionally mistranslate a single letter) I will not allow the papists to judge for their ears continue to be too long and their hee-haws too weak for them to be critical of my translating. I know quite well how much skill, hard work, understanding and intelligence is needed for a good translation. They know it less than even the miller’s donkey for they have never tried it.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
Let's start with the start. These fuckers don't even speak German, let alone know the first thing about translation. Classic armchair expert behavior, googled it just enough to find a gotcha they think will work and try to slander my man Dr. Luther.

I THINK NOT.
On the first hand, if I, Dr. Luther, had thought that all the Papists together were capable of translating even one passage of Scripture correctly and well, I would have gathered up enough humility to ask for their aid and assistance in translating the New Testament into German. However, I spared them and myself the trouble, as I knew and still see with my own eyes that not one of them knows how to speak or translate German. It is obvious, however, that they are learning to speak and write German from my translations. Thus, they are stealing my language from me—a language they had little knowledge of before this.
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
Quote posts are disabled so have a screenshot. I had to read this, and now you do too.
Screenshot of two bluesky posts by @sarahweinman.com: "Romantasy basically is what fanfiction made." Linking a nyt article titled "Why Magic, Dragons and Explicit Sex Are in Bookstores Everywhere" Reply by the OP: "We're too close for it now but in due time someone is going to write the definitive piece linking fanfic to fascism."
August 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Alt text from quoted image:
Series of tumblr posts and reblogs: It's Not a Plot Hole, It's Foreshadowing VS. It's Not a Plot Hole, It's Just Something That They Opted Not to Spoon-feed You Because It Would Be Obvious If You Thought About It For 20 Seconds VS. It May Be a Plot Hole, But It Still Works In Terms of the Story's Themes and Character Logic VS. Okay, It /s a Plot Hole, What Are You Going to Do, Cry about It? VS. All Works of Fiction Represent Constructed Realities and by Demanding a Lack of Plot Holes, You Are Improperly Importing the Rules of Objective Reality into a Subjective Creation that Must Be Judged Primarily on lts Aesthetic Merits VS. Dude, Just Come-up With a Headcanon Like A Normal Human Being VS. Is It Really a Plot Hole, or Are the Characters Just Not Making the Choices You Want Them To?
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
you also get to meet the character after whom I named my cat
A white fluffy cat with airplane ears poking his head over the top of my blanket covered leg while I'm laying in bed, he looks irritated that I disturbed his cuddle time to take a picture of him
July 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
#WoTCon #WoTOnes

Let him cook
Wolfbrother7 shaking a container of wings, the table of deadly hot sauces behind him, he winks at the camera.
July 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
#WoTCon

SWIFT AS A COURSING RIVER
July 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
going into day 3 of the breakup
a Black man with close cut hair and mustache sitting with his eyes closed and fingers pressed to his forehead and bridge of his nose. absolutely done with all this shit, so tired of it; he's got a bunch of cigarettes between his fingers, and one behind his ear with another hanging from his mouth
June 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
panmalazan.bsky.social
This is Silchas Ruin. Also known as Butthead, Cat 2, Pet Number 2, Shithead, Cuddle Bug, The Ruiner, Fluffy Butt, Fluffmonster, and Mr. Pink Nose.
My fluffy white cat laying on the floor, his body stuck in the handle of a reusable grocery bag. He's sprawled out and relaxed, unconcerned with his new accessory. My fluffy white cat laying inside a titled cardboard box, looking up at the camera with big golden eyes and s bright pink Nose. Fluffy white cat asleep with his face mushed into the side of my leg, his paws bent so they are also pressed against me. He looks both peaceful and ridiculous. Fluffy white cat sitting squished up in a little bowl hammock on his cat tree, looking with wide greenish eyes towards the light of an unseen open window. The fabric of his bowl hammock was once black but is plastered over with so much of his white fur that it fluffs away from the sides and has tufts hanging from the bottom.
March 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
panmalazan.bsky.social
the only stocks I want to hear about
old timey sketch drawing of a man with his hands and feet shackled in a wooden stockade by himself. below the picture is the caption "THE STOCKS"
March 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Image with actually useful alt text:
Politico headline and sub headline: Sexual harassment allegations, nursing home deaths not among Cuomo's 'top 3' mistakes, he says The former governor said he "took everything too seriously" and wished the state was better prepared for a pandemic, but didn't address the allegations that led to his resignation. --- A ghoulishly grinning picture of Andrew Cuomo is below the text.
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM