Megzilla

@megzillarx.pharmsky.network

Informatics pharmacist, stepmom, reader, New Englander, tired of late stage capitalism and the broken US healthcare system. Views are my own. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦

I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Every adult woman that I have been deeply familiar with has had a moment with a man when she knows that he would hit her if be could get away with it. Some even know what he looks like when he does it. You never forger what it looks and feel like. That Miller video has it all.

since our public beta launch many have asked - what is Blacksky and how is it different from Bluesky? here’s the short answer. we’ll share more in a longer article this week 🙏

Marisa@marisa.blacksky.team · 3d ago

Blacksky features that set us apart from Bluesky; - Community only posts: Blacksky.app users can share posts only for each other to see - Human, community-centered moderation: The 1st social media app to moderate for anti-Black harassment, misogynoir, ableism & fatphobia

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Sam Altman: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

ID physician Anthony Fauci, MD, FIDSA has led with courage, scientific integrity and an unwavering commitment to improving public health. These qualities inspired IDSA to establish the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award. We thank him for his service to patients, science & the ID community.

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"One launch dominated the week's engagement" "Blacksky's mobile app hit public beta: By engagement this was the biggest ATProto story of the week, by a wide margin — roughly ten times the reach of anything else. iOS TestFlight and Android are both open."

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 6d ago

Thanks to this suggestion, you can now schedule updates to @attie.ai pages to build your own personal newsletter about whatever it is you care about ❤️ attie.ai/@brittanyell...

“Maternal mortality—death during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first six weeks after delivery—averaged 81% higher in rural areas than in urban ones from 2016-2019. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have closed outright. As of 2023, 60 percent of rural counties had no hospital-based obstetric care.“

Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse — The Atlantic

Care will be in shorter supply, travel distances will stretch farther, and high-risk situations will more likely result in tragedy.

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Moody, as AG of Florida, diverted $10M in taxpayer funds from children’s Medicaid to a PAC controlled by Ron DeSantis. DeSantis used the $ to oppose voter amendments to legalize marijuana and protect abortion, then appointed her to the Senate, saying it was bc she “helped us defeat Amendments 3 & 4”

Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal

As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation

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Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 6d ago

youtu.be/Umq-KW0e09E?...

The thing about "running the government like a business" is that the CEO basically does nothing, takes the credit for everything positive, lays blame for everything negative, and makes more money failing at his job than you'll ever make succeeding at yours.

This is quintessential, textbook Moral Panic stuff. When you get to the point of harassing everyone over a threat that quite literally doesn't even exist, you've reached flagrant absurdity. Right out of Red Scare and Satanic Panic, it hurts everyone and helps no one.

Amy L Crow 🐦‍⬛@itsamycrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis... Players to undergo sex test to bar the trans women who don’t play the game at a professional level anyway.

Despite Trump's rhetoric to the contrary, 2026 is shaping up to be the most expensive year yet for the federal government Government expenditures so far are well above levels of previous years, despite all the firings and cutbacks of programs

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As the outbreak of cyclospora grows it has been reported that last year due to a lack of funding the CDC made tracking it optional, with means this outbreak (which causes explosive diarrhea) is just further proof that cutting the CDC’s funding was a really shitty idea.

ICE shot and murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (52). He spent 35 years as an honest, tax paying neighbor with 3 kids, all US citizens. He worked hard to get his citizenship. And ICE killed him before he could, then confirmed he was not even their intended target. 1/3

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Please remember: IN THE UNITED STATES, A SURVIVOR OR VICTIM OF A CRIME CANNOT "PRESS CHARGES." That's a myth from the movies and television. Whether or not criminal charges are filed is SOLELY the decision of the prosecutor and/or law enforcement personnel assigned to the case.