The enshitification of polling is making me feel more and more confident in my policy of mostly ignoring them. Just learn to live with uncertainty and wait for the actual outcome.
Medicine. All of it. I was saved by biologics, and has kept my autoimmune condition in remission for 20 years. Everyday I see cancer patients experience less suffering, and living longer by years compared to my parents. Talk to any type 1 diabetic who transitioned to CGMs and insulin pumps.
You can even make a party of it if you want. Bake a cake!
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New way for marketing managers to optimize Google searches to put your product at the top. Get the AI overview to mention your product regardless if it's appropriate for the prompt or not.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d agoGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
Whereas trying to paint this as terrorism and convincing the public this is a threat to their safety is damn near impossible.
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Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 7d ago"The material action—shooting a cop—combined with the aesthetics (vandalism, graffiti, disorder, guys in ski masks…)—together meant that it was easy for the government to paint them as terrorists, and difficult for them to present themselves to a mass audience as sympathetic protesters."
All around there's a refusal to understand how things work because sometimes your magic, one trick solution you fell in love with is incompatible with reality. The difference is Republican magic, one trick solutions are deeply harmful and heinous.
E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 5d agoSenior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
As always... Simpsons already did it.
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Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 6d agoMLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
It feels like everyone has forgotten how off polling has been for the past decade. I'm very, very optimistic about November but am fine to just wait and see what happens in November.
Wiener King@wienerking.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe enshitification of polling is making me feel more and more confident in my policy of mostly ignoring them. Just learn to live with uncertainty and wait for the actual outcome.
The fact this isn't mentioned in most articles is BS. This is a way bigger issue than the premium because this policy wiped out the need to delay treatment of things like AML as you scramble to find a grant to help with the cost of meds like Venclexta...
If you're slashing someone you don't like online's tires, no matter how much you tell yourself that you're motivated to make the world a better place, that's a complete and utter lie. It's denial to avoid facing the person you actually are. You contribute nothing, you just make everything worse.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d agoWell some nutjob of some description definitely thought they were doing something hardcore here
The mirror positioned in the middle of the portraits so Trump can look at himself while he sits at the resolute desk is pathetic
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · last wk.Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
Receiving treatment for cancer in 2026 is a very broad spectrum because of targeted treatments. The way they keep invoking it with no details is a ploy to make people assume chemo when it's probably Zytiga and Lupron.
holdmybooks@holdmybooks.bsky.social · last wk.We not hate the media enough.
Blazing hot take... rural healthcare is doomed regardless of the party. Republicans speed up their death by maximizing uninsured patients while Democrats extend it out via denial of the role of Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates play in the death spiral of rural healthcare.
19thnews@19thnews.org · last wk.Democratic candidates in competitive races are hoping that anger over labor and delivery unit closures will prompt voters to reject the Republican lawmakers who helped enact President Trump's tax-and-spending law, which contained nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
Red flag enough to be discharged to a SNF rather back home with service with the story they gave, but to be still in the facility after 6 weeks ehhh def not buying the fall/"mild" pneumonia story. Whatever it is he is unable to perform ADLs to the extent home health services can't support him.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: A statement from the Office of the Attending Physician says Mitch McConnell "is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office." A photo from McConnell's office:
I don't like that certain politicians are close to this person.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 2w agoYeah, this is what Hitler believed. Like this is very literally what Nazis believed.
I'm predicting "Huh I didn't know an immune system could do that" while filling out the death certificate and it leads to some breakthrough for the treatment of GVHD in stem cell transplant.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w agoI believe Bryan Johnson actually is going to make some major medical breakthrough, but it will be because he invented a new way to die that nobody ever considered
Most compounding pharmacies are grifters selling snake oil. It's really hard to survive as an independent because of PBMs and getting reimbursed for less than the cost of the drug which have pushed those businesses into some sketchy stuff.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
Make sure that you have someone in your life who will post on your account while you're incarcerated to generate sympathy but also doesn't go too far as to make the contradictory claim of "no contact with the outside world" and "no visits" which exposes the whole thing as fake.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoI hope someone puts this to music, but right now I can’t stop laughing.
This McConnell/Beshear "do something" tantrum is the perfect example of people who don't know how things work, and are hostile to learning how they work. This is the stuff that worries me because we can't fix things if people insist on living in a fantasy, with "solutions" that are impossible.
Stop ignoring red flags because you really, really want to like someone. AOC's growth was she got better at lying, her brain to mouth filter got dialed in, not that she grew out of the DSA and their BS.
Wiener King@wienerking.bsky.social · 3w agoI see replies trying to avoid the possibility that she simply likes and agrees with DSA's policies and their vision for the Democratic party. I think some of her growth is knowing what beliefs to not make public. Maybe she's not scared of backlash and this is just who she actually is. 🤷🏻♀️
Have fun finding out when you shift a chunk of the population to Medicaid reimbursement rates. This is why I don't take people seriously in most discussions about rural healthcare because there's an unwillingness to grapple with the actual problem.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoAndy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...
This always gets a chuckle out of me when I think about the math for that trip to take 29 minutes with two additional stops between NY and DC. Hope everyone's belongings are secure and they're strapped in when that thing accelerates and de-accelerates.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoThat’s an oldie but a goodie. Nine years ago this week. @montanaskeptic.bsky.social
Veterinary care has also changed. The transcript starts with a story about chemotherapy. That was unheard of when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. When my cat had lymphoma $4k blood transfusion was offered as business as usual...
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w agoVeterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country. https://to.pbs.org/3RedOuo
They resent needing a job. They think the plight of working for $250k a year is the same as $50k because having to perform a task in exchange for money is the one true burden.
B Lanson@blanson100.bsky.social · 3w agoYeah, this is fundamentally bonkers, and nutso fan behavior. Mamdani's fans would crucify any other politician for making these kinds of statements saying these folks making sky high incomes are "the working class."
like seriously, the romanticization of "grit" is bad, it's bad for liberalism and it's bad for people and it's bad for families.
