Steven Di Lauro, MD
@stevendilauro.bsky.social
That guy. General surgery resident. Father of four. Marine biology MS.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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great news on this, cait from 11 hours ago
I hope Bari Weiss is having a terrible day. I hope it's the worst day of her life and I hope the rest of them are even worse
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
great news on this, cait from 11 hours ago
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NEW: The phone metrics reported publicly by the Social Security Administration are way lower than actual wait times, a new watchdog report shows.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
SSA phone wait times longer than publicly reported metrics, per OIG report
The agency’s “average speed of answer” metric masks longer call wait times, according to data in a recent OIG report.
www.nextgov.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
NEW: The phone metrics reported publicly by the Social Security Administration are way lower than actual wait times, a new watchdog report shows.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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In case you missed it Canada changed their citizenship laws recently.
If you have Canadian ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by descent.
I need to look into it some more but this is amazing.
immigration.ca/claiming-can...
If you have Canadian ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by descent.
I need to look into it some more but this is amazing.
immigration.ca/claiming-can...
Claiming Canadian Citizenship by Descent Under Canada’s New Citizenship Act Bill C-3 - Canada Immigration and Visa Information. Canadian Immigration Services and Free Online Evaluation.
Learn how Canada’s new Bill C-3 restores citizenship by descent, removes the first-generation limit, and allows multigenerational claims for those born abroad.
immigration.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In case you missed it Canada changed their citizenship laws recently.
If you have Canadian ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by descent.
I need to look into it some more but this is amazing.
immigration.ca/claiming-can...
If you have Canadian ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by descent.
I need to look into it some more but this is amazing.
immigration.ca/claiming-can...
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
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JFC. And I'm guessing he didn't bother to contact any Indigenous people or involve the Lakota Sioux when making his Noble Savage fantasy.
"fought harder," ffs.
"fought harder," ffs.
December 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
JFC. And I'm guessing he didn't bother to contact any Indigenous people or involve the Lakota Sioux when making his Noble Savage fantasy.
"fought harder," ffs.
"fought harder," ffs.
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![I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation," Cameron told the Guardian.
"This was a driving force for me in the writing of 'Avatar' — I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future … and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation … because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society — which is what is happening now — they would have fought a lot harder."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:25jiwzm7tyxhrdmd4mqz3oqn/bafkreia5ly5dihdvo7jahl6ctqiomd5rm5bifjcczu5ejexjqmmya34t54@jpeg)
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Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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Look, it's good to embrace the future
But if this "future" is mainly used to scam elders of their money, make revenge porn, spread misinformation, spy on innocent people, create trust issues, and make people question what's real and what isn't
Then this "future" may not be something to embrace
But if this "future" is mainly used to scam elders of their money, make revenge porn, spread misinformation, spy on innocent people, create trust issues, and make people question what's real and what isn't
Then this "future" may not be something to embrace
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Look, it's good to embrace the future
But if this "future" is mainly used to scam elders of their money, make revenge porn, spread misinformation, spy on innocent people, create trust issues, and make people question what's real and what isn't
Then this "future" may not be something to embrace
But if this "future" is mainly used to scam elders of their money, make revenge porn, spread misinformation, spy on innocent people, create trust issues, and make people question what's real and what isn't
Then this "future" may not be something to embrace
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Let's see, what else... increase the prices of computer parts, harvest and sell people's personal data, put hard workers out of jobs (and be proud of it while stripping the unemployed of any resources), make products inferior while pretending they're better, the list just goes on and on...
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Let's see, what else... increase the prices of computer parts, harvest and sell people's personal data, put hard workers out of jobs (and be proud of it while stripping the unemployed of any resources), make products inferior while pretending they're better, the list just goes on and on...
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This makes me want to scream with rage. Federal agents AND their impersonators are absolutely using the war against immigrants as an opportunity to sexually assault women. Rape is always a tool of war, racism, xenophobia, and oppression. This was bound to happen.
Abolishing ICE is rape prevention.
Abolishing ICE is rape prevention.
Somali American U.S. citizen grabbed & detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 24 hours, “sexually assaulted her and said what could you be hiding under your hijab?”
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This makes me want to scream with rage. Federal agents AND their impersonators are absolutely using the war against immigrants as an opportunity to sexually assault women. Rape is always a tool of war, racism, xenophobia, and oppression. This was bound to happen.
Abolishing ICE is rape prevention.
Abolishing ICE is rape prevention.
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if you are going into debt for sushi do better than grocery store sushi. ahhhhhh
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
if you are going into debt for sushi do better than grocery store sushi. ahhhhhh
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I grew up in pretty extreme poverty and reading stuff like this puts me in such a state of anxiety I cannot imagine living with this over your head for 20 years.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I grew up in pretty extreme poverty and reading stuff like this puts me in such a state of anxiety I cannot imagine living with this over your head for 20 years.
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How is this not cruelty towards children www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How is this not cruelty towards children www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The latest from an honored member of the Royal Society. Every week he attacks the foundations of society in the UK and the EU and @royalsociety.org is apparently too worried about retribution to do anything about it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The latest from an honored member of the Royal Society. Every week he attacks the foundations of society in the UK and the EU and @royalsociety.org is apparently too worried about retribution to do anything about it.
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Don't you love seeing bunch of fascists simultaneously start posting about the same far-right shibboleth? Free speech? The West has fallen? Woke!
Also, "Russia incites the far right" was a rumour, and now it's open in the public. And everyone's chill.
Also, "Russia incites the far right" was a rumour, and now it's open in the public. And everyone's chill.
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Don't you love seeing bunch of fascists simultaneously start posting about the same far-right shibboleth? Free speech? The West has fallen? Woke!
Also, "Russia incites the far right" was a rumour, and now it's open in the public. And everyone's chill.
Also, "Russia incites the far right" was a rumour, and now it's open in the public. And everyone's chill.
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This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This paper with this unbelievable #AI generated yet peer-reviewed Figure 1, is still available online (pending editiorial response). It has now a whopping 932 altmetric score, with - quite interestingly - only 18 posts on X (<93k followers), while on Bluesky there are 1453 posts (<3.4M followers).
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Thinking of the generations who not only went up against Nazis but found their lives & horizons transformed via foundation of EU, and before that through unexpected travel & cultural awakenings during the war
(my grandfather heard opera for the first time in Valletta, and saw Vesuvius erupting)
(my grandfather heard opera for the first time in Valletta, and saw Vesuvius erupting)
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thinking of the generations who not only went up against Nazis but found their lives & horizons transformed via foundation of EU, and before that through unexpected travel & cultural awakenings during the war
(my grandfather heard opera for the first time in Valletta, and saw Vesuvius erupting)
(my grandfather heard opera for the first time in Valletta, and saw Vesuvius erupting)