We all know how much I love that stool chart. Sigh.

Well this is excellent.

Given El0n wants to know what federal employees did last week, what if we helped satiate his nosiness by filling his inbox with what we ALL did last week? hr@opm.gov

If there’s a good reason not to do this, please do let me know!

Some really scary driving practices from other vehicles on my drive South today - wish there was an easy and safe way to report them (please do share if there is, I swear it’s getting worse!)

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...

I am hugely privileged to be able to run away for a weekend and avoid the scariness of the world for a weekend. I don’t take it for granted.
If in any small way, you are able to take some time to find some peace; do it. You aren’t letting us down. Rest is a Radical Act, and this is a marathon.

Hey Donald,

Sorry to hear you don’t consider disabled people qualified for FAA employment. You’d of course know a lot about being underqualified, and yet you still manage to get this wrong.

Love,
Yet Another Ridiculously Highly Qualified Disabled Person.

The Halfway Post & @HalfwayPost “BREAKING: ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.” 12:30 PM • 1/28/25 • 6.2M Views

Blue background. Says call ;your senator now. Vote No on RFK Jr appointment to the NIH. and HHS. Photo of 2 older white men shaking hands.

✨Please Share! Call now!

Goal of 200+ executive orders in 1 wk is to OVERWHELM, making us disoriented & unable to resist.

☎️Take 5 minutes NOW to CALL YOUR 2 SENATORS to tell them to NOT APPROVE RFK Jr tomorrow Jan 29.

Senator phone number look up: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

#medsky 🛟😷🧪

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

US FDA drops web pages on improving clinical trial diversity The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies to test medicines and devices in diverse populations as part of a purge of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at U.S. health agencies.

Diversity in clinical trials is not performative. Diversity in clinical trials literally ensures that all humans benefit from therapeutics, interventions, and preventive medicine.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

One thing I haven’t yet seen anybody point out about the NIH thing: it seems rather transparent that their desired endgame is to hold all funding hostage until every NIH-funded institution dismantles its equity and diversity programs.

“The problem with you” muttered my girlfriend as I lay on the sofa, coughing up gunk whilst making a list of stuff I am totally going to achieve from my bed, “is that you may get sick, but your ADHD doesn’t.”

I quietly ask her to fetch a pile of papers and my highlighters, and start reading.

Thank you! I’m just by Forfar, and working in Arbroath and at the Med school in Dundee! Slowly acclimatising… just not to the bugs!

I am, once again, riddled with another viral illness and having previously been incredibly smug about my hard-won immune system, forged in the fires of General Practice training, it transpires I just hadn’t met Scottish bugs yet.

Send lemsip and nasal rinse.

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

In today’s #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld I am making so many notes on prescribing hormones for trans patients that I feel like I’m back at med school. I promise, many of us are working hard to make things better.

The world is a big scary place at present, but my lord I love humans and their ability to outwit stupid systems.

Nobel Peace Prize for Gisele Pelicot this year, and Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde next year please.

Sorted.

We must keep spreading this info through all different means.

If you have an email list, send this info out every few days/weeks.

If you have a Substack, write about it.

If you have a podcast, talk about it.

Text the info to your group chats.

Keep the info out there.

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Random fb DM from a stranger, saying he’d like to help with my “cause” and will play ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for me if I want to message him.

Lord give me the audacity of a white cishet man.

A flyer for a reading group. It has a graphic of books on a white background and reads: Dundee Waterstones Reading Group Tuesday February 11 5:30pm Come join our monthly reading group! There’s no assigned reading - just sharing what you’ve read and loved with others! It’s totally free, and a great chance to meet fellow bibliophiles. Join us for a cuppa and a relaxed chat in the café after work. Questions? Ask the staff, or email dundee@waterstones.com

A flyer for a book quiz. It has a black background with multicoloured wiggly graphics. The text reads: Weds February 12 5:30pm Book Quiz Waterstones Dundee Cafe FREE - no sign up needed! Special theme: LGBTQ books Teams up to 5 Prize: BOOKS!

Dundee and surrounding area folks! Some events coming up you should know about!

Tuesday February 11th 5:30pm: Informal Reading Group. No assigned text, just show up and chat about your current reads.

Wednesday February 12th 5:30pm: Book Quiz! Special round on LGBTQ books.

Both free & open to all.

We’re busy ending sexism in schools so the education system creates fewer of these awful men.

Let’s grow a community of resistance. Share with me your #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld - yes, big stuff needs to happen, but we need to make it manageable for everyone, so let’s start here.

Request for my #GP and #GPtrainee colleagues - I’m doing an event with Scrub Survivors next week on Sexual Harassment and sexism in the workplace. If you have any examples or experiences I could share, I promise to anonymise and handle them respectfully and gently. Thank you.

I’m searching for tiny ways I can make the world a bit better. I just signed up to re-do my Level 1 BSL course at a local college, and I’m taking my partner so we can practice together. #TinyWaysToSaveTheWorld

It’s so hard to know what to do in the face of our world becoming a lot scarier today. So I’m going to start by being louder, more active and more visible.
I’m going to keep reading, keep writing, and now I finally have WiFi in my house, reboot my podcast. We won’t go down without a fight. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👩🏼‍🦽

There is one thing that makes today Blue &it isn’t the date the event is falling on,it isn’t some crappy pseudoscience out to make you feel bad because you’ve been told you should-it’s because today a sex offender is back in the White House &he’s already making things very awful for a lot of people.

> it better. Constant attacks and complaints to us, on our socials, in our own time, really adds to the burnout and exhaustion we all feel. Please don’t trauma dump on those of us trying to help things. There’s only so much any of us can take.