Surgeon Who Removed Wrong Organ From Patient Is Charged in His Death

I want this story not to disappear. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

I respectfully suggest that most other verbs of attribution (other than “said”) stick out annoyingly unless pertinent to a situation, e.g. “whispered.”

Fourth, I’d like to see the hospital answer questions about the reports that the patient “declined to have the surgery and said he wished to return to Alabama for further medical care, but [the doctor] … ‘continued to pressure’” the patient. 7/7

Third, I want to know more about the hospital where the deadly procedure was performed. Not only had this same doctor previously erred in organ removal; in the liver case, the procedure “was not regularly performed at [this hospital] … the Health Department statement said.” 6/n

Text in image: The Health Department had sanctioned Dr. Shaknovsky before, finding that he erroneously removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of an adrenal gland in 2023. Dr. Shaknovsky said at the time that the adrenal gland “migrated” to another part of the patient’s body, the documents say. State records show that Dr. Shaknovsky paid $400,000 to settle a medical malpractice claim in that case.

Second, I want to know the details of his past errors at the hospital where he removed a patient’s liver instead of spleen. The NYT article says the doctor “erroneously removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of an adrenal gland in 2023.” 5/n

First, I want to know every detail of his medical training and his job history. Journalists can get that for us. 4/n

In comments I’ve seen around the interwebs, stupid people ask about the doctor’s race and speculate he was a diversity hire. However, he’s obviously a white man. So let’s squash that lie whenever we see it. 3/n

WALTON COUNTY GRAND JURY INDICTS DOCTOR IN OPERATING‑ROOM DEATH OF ALABAMA MAN; THOMAS SHAKNOVSKY ARRESTED IN WALTON COUNTY | Walton County Sheriff's Office, FL WALTON COUNTY, FLA— A physician is behind bars in Walton County after a Grand Jury indictment connected to the operating room death of an Alabama man. The Office of the State Attorney for the First Ju...

The NY Times story includes interesting details, but not enough. I am curious about several things not explained. 2/n waltonso.org/walton-count...

Surgeon Who Removed Wrong Organ From Patient Is Charged in His Death

I want this story not to disappear. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that it has been acquired by the Baltimore Banner’s publisher, rescuing the paper just weeks before it was set to shut down. https://cnn.it/4tNIeBq

The questions I’d like answered: Who made the image (AI prompter) and who gave it to Trump (he said “I posted it”) and what did they say to him when they passed it on?

Take his answer at face value and it shows he knows nothing about Christianity. He can’t even recognize a standard representation of Jesus (albeit with his own head grafted on).

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]

Is that Jeffrey Epstein?

I had to quit using it!
Using DuckDuckGo now so I guess that’s Bing? At least I can turn off the AI summaries.

“Google = ruining search”
so true
so ironic

You might not care about sea slugs, and you might not know about programming in R, but this photo is an absolute timeline cleanser. Enjoy!

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

There was never Critical Race Theory in schools.

That's as silly as saying, "I oppose teaching toxic tort litigation in schools!🤡"

Critical Race Theory is a graduate level legal and political theory topic. No district has ever taught it as part of an elementary school curriculum.

Butt-gills!!! 🥰

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

Everything in two terms as president has made this president (and his supporters) believe he can get away with anything, including illegal acts. War crimes? He’s not one bit worried that he would ever be prosecuted.

Christina Koch’s facial profile backlit by Earth in the background, through the spacecraft window

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

Simultaneously reading The Valleys of the Assassins and contemplating how nomadic herding peoples have been unwillingly organized into “modern” societies. In the early 1930s Freya Stark traveled in western Iran and recorded what she saw there.

I’ve been reading about the 2,000-year history of the Silk Road. Once I found sources that weren’t fixated on China and 19th-century explorers, there’s a lot about Persia. Amazing how much was completely ignored in my (fairly good) education.

POLYMARKET: “.. we are investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards."

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Another thought about “those who do the work”: The more you cook your own food from scratch, the easier it gets. You learn stuff. Techniques that save time. You acquire good tools. You have spices already because you bought them for another dish.

Writing is like that.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

Does that Hypselodoris bennetti have a little flower on its ass?