Free-quent Flyer
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Travel hacker, theory and practice. Freequentflyerbook.com for travel hacking and platform work. The last honest man.
Being able to synthesize penicillin must have felt like a get out of jail free card for every doctor as they learned about it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Being able to synthesize penicillin must have felt like a get out of jail free card for every doctor as they learned about it.
When you have discovered a miracle drug everything looks like a problem that can be solved by miracle drugs bsky.app/profile/akiv...
Me, watching as children's motrin magically lowers Littler Girl's fever from 104.x down to 100.x, easing her very obvious discomfort and allowing her to get the sleep she desperately needs:
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
When you have discovered a miracle drug everything looks like a problem that can be solved by miracle drugs bsky.app/profile/akiv...
"Miracle drug you should never take" is basically the history of the pharmaceutical movement and I don't have a cute solution to the problem of mankind's frailty.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Miracle drug you should never take" is basically the history of the pharmaceutical movement and I don't have a cute solution to the problem of mankind's frailty.
Everyone's a critic thesedays
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Everyone's a critic thesedays
That good huh bsky.app/profile/jben...
Zohran's transition team apparently got 50,000 applications in a week
Mamdani transition team flooded with 50,000 job applications
“This was a movement built by and for New Yorkers – and our administration will reflect that.”
www.silive.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
That good huh bsky.app/profile/jben...
They e-mail each other about sex crimes like Boomers making Thanksgiving travel plans
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
They e-mail each other about sex crimes like Boomers making Thanksgiving travel plans
I don't think the Stevens Pinker and Bills Gate and Larries Summer of the world have some innate disordered attraction to children. I think they have an innate disordered attraction to money and power and that was the price of admission when Epstein was in charge.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I don't think the Stevens Pinker and Bills Gate and Larries Summer of the world have some innate disordered attraction to children. I think they have an innate disordered attraction to money and power and that was the price of admission when Epstein was in charge.
And do you have a machine to chew and swallow your food for you as well?
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And do you have a machine to chew and swallow your food for you as well?
Wow anti-italian discrimination is still alive and well in our supposedly "enlightened" age
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wow anti-italian discrimination is still alive and well in our supposedly "enlightened" age
And yet people wonder why the Great October Revolution happened in November
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And yet people wonder why the Great October Revolution happened in November
"One for them, one for me"
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"One for them, one for me"
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I threw parties in high school where I got a couple of extra-large Pizza Hut pizzas, a case of Coors lite, and put the VHS of "Apocalypse Now" on my family's 6" built-in-VHS TV so that's the only reference I have for "party movie". Good times.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I threw parties in high school where I got a couple of extra-large Pizza Hut pizzas, a case of Coors lite, and put the VHS of "Apocalypse Now" on my family's 6" built-in-VHS TV so that's the only reference I have for "party movie". Good times.