Notices by tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social), page 3

@simsa03 My main reason for being on Bluesky is that many people I followed on Twitter have migrated to it. I follow them on Bluesky so I don't have to check in at Muskodon.

@simsa03 Why do you think Bluesky is like a nursing homes, and are nursing homes necessarily boring? My 92 year old mother-in-law lives in an old folks home, a very posh one admittedly. It has library-lounges on each floor, lots of books, fairly diverse selection. I've never worked in or spent much time in warehouses for the old, some of them are horror shows. Have you worked at one. I have a vague, maybe phantom memory you did.

@nanoelquant Despite likes and reposts of my toot, I have come think it just seems like a fun thing to do, but will have little or no positive effect. People just want to fuck somehow with the data being used to track everyone. I didn't think it out before posting. I need to work on that.

@simsa03 I am an old people and I am enjoying Bluesky (mostly). I think I like Mastodon better.

@danielbowen At least you have public transit.

This, by Matthew Remski of the podcast Conspirituality, is worth a listen.

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-post-election-online-survivor-group-dynamics

@JessTheUnstill Yes.

@simsa03 Trump can haz a mandate. Rumper-Trumpers: Mandates R Us. (the "R" should be backwards.)

@simsa03 You're welcome.

@simsa03 I am. I can do both at the same time. Contigency plan has priority.

@simsa03 Trump in his cabinet and agency picks is acting on sgame principle articulated by the dictums "shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it" and "grab 'em by the pussy, you can do anything." How many of his proposed nominees have been credibly accused of sexual assault? I may have fallen behind in the count.

#grabembythepussy #trumpcabinet

@simsa03 Antivaxequus. In the context of Trump's pick of RFK Jr/aka Mr. Brainworm for Tribune of Health, he can be considered the Orange Caligula's horse. Do the senators bow down and lick his hooves, or do they slit their political wrists?

@julescelt01 Thanks. We're making contingency plans to ensure she gets continued medical care.

@julescelt01 Don't Russia and America still have smallpox stocks they have not destroyed despite the World Health Organization's call for all remaining stores of the virus to be destroyed? I wouldn't at this point put it past Mr. Brainworm to decide releasing smallpox back into the wild was a public good.

@julescelt01 I have a daughter waiting for a kidney transplant. Once she gets it, she'll be on immuno-suppressant medication for the rest of her life. A vote for Trump was a vote to shorten her life.

@lritter Plus, generative AIs deliver results which are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what you need.

"At any rate, "vaccine skeptic" certainly is nicer and less contentious than calling Kennedy a motivated bullshitter, a peddler of antiscientific garbage, the type of dogshit-brained imbecile who will stiff-arm all that can be learned from centuries of medical research and practice because he preferred what he learned from a 25-second TikTok video made by a spiral-eyed homeschool casualty who'll be hospitalized next month with an illness that hasn't sickened a human being since the Bronze Age."

"How does a shit-for-brains like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. come to be described as a "vaccine skeptic" in the New York Times, in 2024, when he absolutely is not one, and when there is also no such thing as one? As a copy matter, "skeptic" certainly costs less column space than engaging with the question of whether Kennedy's anti-vax fear-mongering reflects the cynical calculus of a scumbag grifter or the sweaty but sincere raving of a dumb guy with grave mental illness, or both, or what."

... "A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic. They're the exact opposite of that: a mark. A sucker. A credulous boob." Albert Burneko

#skeptic #vaccineskeptic #rfkjrbrainworm

https://defector.com/what-the-fuck-is-a-vaccine-skeptic

"As a word-nerd, I have known "skepticism" to refer to a sort of stubborn insistence upon rigor and evidence in place of things like dogma and "common sense." A skeptic, by those terms, is someone who questions what they are told. Crucially, a skeptic actually questions, as in seeks answers. A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." #quote