Sparky MD/PhD

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Neurologist/epileptologist, human fighting dis-ease, MRI researcher, life long democrat. Queer as a 3 dollar bill.

Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish #Highlands, a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

#redsquirrel #scotland #wildlife #fun

RT @[email protected]

i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for http://neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1593723670396018691

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This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

This, from PNAS reviewing instructions, is actually pretty good:

"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws."

"We needed a plan," says author of the deeply unpopular Plan For America.
If you want to delete all your old Twitter DMs (which I think is a good idea even if Twitter might retain copies of them somewhere), and also your historical likes, RTs, and any tweets you don’t want to keep, I made a Twitter app for that.
It’s called Semiphemeral and it’s pretty easy to use. I posted instructions for how to do it https://twitter.com/semiphemeral/status/1591258781098594304?s=46&t=L4aWvmyNxEFRL6eULgeO-A
Semiphemeral on Twitter

“As you watch in horror/delight as Elon burns this site to the ground you might be pondering your privacy 🤔. Do you have YEARS of tweets, likes, and DMs? https://t.co/EF6AVCPm2O Gather 'round, friends, while I show you how to DELETE THEM ALL (or as much as Twitter's API allows)”

Twitter

"Musk is either 1) so high on his own supply that he thinks all his ideas are amazing despite ample evidence to the contrary, 2) a useful idiot tasked by the hostile foreign powers who ponied up for the investment to blow Twitter to smithereens, or 3) engaged in a secret, real-life Brewster’s Millions mission to lose as much dough as possible in the shortest amount of time."

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-richard-cory

Sunday Pages: "Richard Cory"

A poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

"The GOP denounce 'spending' as if the federal government is blowing cash on cocaine, happy-ending massages, and money-line parlays involving the Green Bay Packers. When someone like Rand Paul says we have to “rein in spending,” what he’s really saying is, “My insanely wealthy donors no longer wish to subsidize the cost of food stamps for peasants who had the misfortune of not being heirs to a large cosmetics fortune.”

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/the-scarcity-myth-and-other-gop-fairy

The Scarcity Myth & Other GOP Fairy Tales (with Vince Scafaria)

Lies Republicans tell so they can gut entitlements and cut services.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear