Doctor The Frog
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Disabled (MCAS and long COVID). Not-so-happily retired geriatrician/palliative/IM doc. My skeets do reflect the opinions of my current employers (The Tiny House Panther and The Emergency Backup Cat). 🏳️🌈
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Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Classic NY Times: powerless underage victim is actually the scheming perp; much-older member of the US Congress is actually a passive victim
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Classic NY Times: powerless underage victim is actually the scheming perp; much-older member of the US Congress is actually a passive victim
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NYT contributors speed running this course today
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NYT contributors speed running this course today
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quick question, what role did he play in this chain of events
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
quick question, what role did he play in this chain of events
Wait. Bill Clinton ISN’T on the list? How?
And Ken Starr is?
A gay UK Labour politician is on the list (a really unpleasant one, so there’s that). But Bill Clinton isn’t. The mind boggles.
And Ken Starr is?
A gay UK Labour politician is on the list (a really unpleasant one, so there’s that). But Bill Clinton isn’t. The mind boggles.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wait. Bill Clinton ISN’T on the list? How?
And Ken Starr is?
A gay UK Labour politician is on the list (a really unpleasant one, so there’s that). But Bill Clinton isn’t. The mind boggles.
And Ken Starr is?
A gay UK Labour politician is on the list (a really unpleasant one, so there’s that). But Bill Clinton isn’t. The mind boggles.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
I see there’s a prison medical neglect story going around. Reminds me of one of my multiple ACAB hospital stories.
Some new followers. Time to tell a long rambling medical story in order to make them think twice about that. :)
I'll keep it all in one thread. But it's going to be blog length, so you might want to mute the thread.
[Like all my medical stories some details changed or merged for deidentification]
I'll keep it all in one thread. But it's going to be blog length, so you might want to mute the thread.
[Like all my medical stories some details changed or merged for deidentification]
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I see there’s a prison medical neglect story going around. Reminds me of one of my multiple ACAB hospital stories.
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and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
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One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
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Him and his goon pal, phil wohltorf have just splintered off to create an even more racist on-campus club
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BUCR disaffiliate from College Republican National Committee over allegations of misconduct
The Boston University College Republicans announced Monday the group will be leaving the College Republican National Committee due to allegations of misconduct from 2021, in a statement posted on Inst...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Him and his goon pal, phil wohltorf have just splintered off to create an even more racist on-campus club
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I hereby call on President AOC to put in a budget line item for a dedicated rapid response team with the sole job of reminding Nate Silver of this post every time he calls someone else stupid:
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I hereby call on President AOC to put in a budget line item for a dedicated rapid response team with the sole job of reminding Nate Silver of this post every time he calls someone else stupid:
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Krauss was somebody we learned about pretty early on. And he has form already.
I was neither surprised nor saddened by that.
Pinker is suspect and might end up there too.
I'd like to see Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins get implicated, but I suspect they won't...
I was neither surprised nor saddened by that.
Pinker is suspect and might end up there too.
I'd like to see Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins get implicated, but I suspect they won't...
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Krauss was somebody we learned about pretty early on. And he has form already.
I was neither surprised nor saddened by that.
Pinker is suspect and might end up there too.
I'd like to see Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins get implicated, but I suspect they won't...
I was neither surprised nor saddened by that.
Pinker is suspect and might end up there too.
I'd like to see Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins get implicated, but I suspect they won't...
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Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.
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no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
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Good for Massie but, come on, the GOP was blowing our budget, starting wars overseas and, yes, even protecting pedophiles (Hastert) two decades ago
REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I vote with my party 91% of the time… But when they're protecting pedophiles, blowing our budget, starting wars overseas — I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good for Massie but, come on, the GOP was blowing our budget, starting wars overseas and, yes, even protecting pedophiles (Hastert) two decades ago
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Which is before you get into, a decade and change after he had already plead guilty to crimes, Epstein still has email contacts at seemingly every large media institution.
Honestly, an abject failure of ethics across the board.
Honestly, an abject failure of ethics across the board.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Which is before you get into, a decade and change after he had already plead guilty to crimes, Epstein still has email contacts at seemingly every large media institution.
Honestly, an abject failure of ethics across the board.
Honestly, an abject failure of ethics across the board.
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Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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