Olive Gardner

@onemillionbc.bsky.social

Hopelessly earnest, if you know what I mean, Vern.

Cool Aunt: Fun, chunky jewelery, goes on great vacations, gives good advice if you’re young and single Cool Uncle: air of criminality, shares weed with you at Thanksgiving but its either lethally strong or straight ass, do not ever take his advice even if its about choosing bail bondsmen

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

Historically redlined neighborhoods in Massachusetts experience twice the pedestrian fatalities as other neighborhoods. Is that because infra is worse there? Or because drivers are less likely to slow down when they see Black pedestrians, because they don't care about us? You already know. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Study: drivers less likely to brake for African American pedestrians

A new study appears to offer additional evidence that drivers are less likely to brake for African-American pedestrians trying to cross the street, a phenomenon known as “walking while black.” Researc...

chicagotribune.com

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d ago

A powerful statistic from @walkmass.bsky.social. When we talk about building safe streets for everyone, that must include older adults, who often have mobility challenges and difficulty navigating huge intersections or walking in areas with poor sidewalks. Data is here: walkmass.org/crash-reports/

A graphic from Walk Mass showing that 43% of people killed while walking in Massachusetts are 65+

Very much enjoying the story of AI bros going to religious leaders and asking them to say that machines have souls, only to be told: a) no they obviously don’t and b) if they did then what the AI guys are doing is literally slavery and that would be BAD.