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Insurance finally allowed an MRI on my IV-injured arm!
Dx is common extensor tendinosis. I am already putting plans for a 2nd opinion at UCLA into motion. The lack of curiosity & outright denial of the origin of my injury from Scripps Ortho continues to mystify & enrage me.
Dx is common extensor tendinosis. I am already putting plans for a 2nd opinion at UCLA into motion. The lack of curiosity & outright denial of the origin of my injury from Scripps Ortho continues to mystify & enrage me.
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Insurance finally allowed an MRI on my IV-injured arm!
Dx is common extensor tendinosis. I am already putting plans for a 2nd opinion at UCLA into motion. The lack of curiosity & outright denial of the origin of my injury from Scripps Ortho continues to mystify & enrage me.
Dx is common extensor tendinosis. I am already putting plans for a 2nd opinion at UCLA into motion. The lack of curiosity & outright denial of the origin of my injury from Scripps Ortho continues to mystify & enrage me.
Woot!
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Woot!
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Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
in whatever voice you have
in whatever way you can
Back when San Diego had an NFL team, I always felt we should have kept Drew Brees and offloaded Rivers.
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Back when San Diego had an NFL team, I always felt we should have kept Drew Brees and offloaded Rivers.
...the fuck is that? People wonder why I am driving a 2011. It has a CD player. That's the main reason. But the other reason is surveillance, touchscreens, and whatever this is supposed to be
Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...
This Stellantis Brand Is Quietly Preparing Its Most Radical Steering Wheel Yet for Production | Carscoops
The Hypersquare steering wheel and steer-by-wire technology are headed for a production car soon, as Peugeot begins early prototype testing
www.carscoops.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
...the fuck is that? People wonder why I am driving a 2011. It has a CD player. That's the main reason. But the other reason is surveillance, touchscreens, and whatever this is supposed to be
All of us need more songs about sex castles to enjoy today! It would really brighten the mood around here.
Kids can’t even enjoy songs about sex castles anymore! We’ve fallen so far
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
All of us need more songs about sex castles to enjoy today! It would really brighten the mood around here.
For a brief shining moment, I was a topless rope bunny at a dungeon in LA. For fun. Because I wanted to. Two people IRL know this because American Puritanism. Anyway, the men attending this shibari seminar looked a bit bored b/c I have small breasts. Did I give a fuck? No. It was for me, not them.
profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
For a brief shining moment, I was a topless rope bunny at a dungeon in LA. For fun. Because I wanted to. Two people IRL know this because American Puritanism. Anyway, the men attending this shibari seminar looked a bit bored b/c I have small breasts. Did I give a fuck? No. It was for me, not them.
Just in time for holiday gift giving!
Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs
Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just in time for holiday gift giving!
When your motion detection camera is going off because it fell onto the ground.
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When your motion detection camera is going off because it fell onto the ground.
An incredible recording made by "The Mic" of Queen in 1977 on the News of the World tour surfaced a few years ago. Stunning document of the band at their best. I obtained it from DIME but it is on YouTube too.
A legendary 1975 Pink Floyd bootleg by Mike "The Mic" Millard is included on the band's upcoming 'Wish You Were Here' 50th anniversary box set.
Rock's Greatest Bootlegger: A New Pink Floyd Box Set Legitimizes an Outlaw
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
An incredible recording made by "The Mic" of Queen in 1977 on the News of the World tour surfaced a few years ago. Stunning document of the band at their best. I obtained it from DIME but it is on YouTube too.
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NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Last night I went to see Mike Campbell do Heartbreakers songs & talk about his book. The show was great! I made the mistake of doing the meet & greet. He was quite rude to me. I’ve been a fan for a long time & thought it would be fun. It was not! I’ve been to many shows of his. This was my last.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Last night I went to see Mike Campbell do Heartbreakers songs & talk about his book. The show was great! I made the mistake of doing the meet & greet. He was quite rude to me. I’ve been a fan for a long time & thought it would be fun. It was not! I’ve been to many shows of his. This was my last.
Another new millennial cancer diagnosis in an online friend. Breast cancer. Initial presentation: liver mets. Mass is spiculate. Terrible!
I had radiation on this day 17 years ago.That was also my last Xmas living in San Diego until I moved back last year. Explains why I find it so triggering.
I had radiation on this day 17 years ago.That was also my last Xmas living in San Diego until I moved back last year. Explains why I find it so triggering.
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Another new millennial cancer diagnosis in an online friend. Breast cancer. Initial presentation: liver mets. Mass is spiculate. Terrible!
I had radiation on this day 17 years ago.That was also my last Xmas living in San Diego until I moved back last year. Explains why I find it so triggering.
I had radiation on this day 17 years ago.That was also my last Xmas living in San Diego until I moved back last year. Explains why I find it so triggering.
Sounds exactly like my former doctor who rubbed himself against me prior to my thyroid biopsy. He has a long, storied history of treating patients like they are beneath him.
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sounds exactly like my former doctor who rubbed himself against me prior to my thyroid biopsy. He has a long, storied history of treating patients like they are beneath him.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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I'm gonna say this: that bailiff MIGHT have a framed painting of Marsha Winfield above an altar in her house.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm gonna say this: that bailiff MIGHT have a framed painting of Marsha Winfield above an altar in her house.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Time for Mod Hostess vs. the Volcano as I soon go to my 17 year thyroid cancer follow up. At the place that diagnosed me & fucked it all up. But not with the abusive, creeper Dr. Same office though. It has been a long, twisted road for a cancer dx that was sold to me as "so easy & curable!" #cansky
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Time for Mod Hostess vs. the Volcano as I soon go to my 17 year thyroid cancer follow up. At the place that diagnosed me & fucked it all up. But not with the abusive, creeper Dr. Same office though. It has been a long, twisted road for a cancer dx that was sold to me as "so easy & curable!" #cansky
I just had A Time seeing Robert Plant live. I believe I was the only sober person in that audience.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I just had A Time seeing Robert Plant live. I believe I was the only sober person in that audience.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
In the AYA cancer community, why don't we talk about medical errors, bad medical care, or creeper doctors? Instead it's career, babies & other crap. This is why I never went to a support group!! That & they are designed for people who had chemo. Fuck you, shitty survivorship support! #cansky
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
In the AYA cancer community, why don't we talk about medical errors, bad medical care, or creeper doctors? Instead it's career, babies & other crap. This is why I never went to a support group!! That & they are designed for people who had chemo. Fuck you, shitty survivorship support! #cansky
Trump looks like a creepy college professor in the vein of Roth. It's honestly an improvement over how he usually looks. Strange times.
This is the first time I’ve seen him wear something like this… I think it’s a knit scarf, but he probably didn’t have any turtleneck sweaters in his closet.
Gotta see if @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighed in.
Gotta see if @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighed in.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Trump looks like a creepy college professor in the vein of Roth. It's honestly an improvement over how he usually looks. Strange times.
Investigative reporting turns me on. Nice work!
Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Investigative reporting turns me on. Nice work!
Spectacularly written essay. Bravo to Tatiana for using her platform as a writer and her name to bring attention to RFK Jr & the Trump Admin's murderous bullshit and how it affects real people.
#cansky
#cansky
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Spectacularly written essay. Bravo to Tatiana for using her platform as a writer and her name to bring attention to RFK Jr & the Trump Admin's murderous bullshit and how it affects real people.
#cansky
#cansky
NINETY!!!!!! Even in my cynical and non-trusting headspace when it comes to physicians and health care, I find this utterly shocking.
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
NINETY!!!!!! Even in my cynical and non-trusting headspace when it comes to physicians and health care, I find this utterly shocking.
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Art school problems
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Art school problems
I research people for a living. I had a free trial recently with a certain prospect research tool. It allegedly searches for you with AI to compile a giving history. It can't extract info from articles about giving, only donor honor rolls (lists). So I still have to do searches on the big 3.
theconversation.com/learning-wit...
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I research people for a living. I had a free trial recently with a certain prospect research tool. It allegedly searches for you with AI to compile a giving history. It can't extract info from articles about giving, only donor honor rolls (lists). So I still have to do searches on the big 3.