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Dr. N

@craigon.bsky.social

Scientist, engineer, doctor, grandfather (in reverse order) Head of a surgical specialty department. Former editor of a medical journal. Maker of medical devices. Come to young Bluesky to let my hair down. Opinions are all my own.

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‘Humbly, I’m sorry’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments | CNN Politics Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday she will stop using “toxic” rhetoric, marking what would be a dramatic shift in a political brand hallmarked by derogatory comments.

MTG finally figured out "do unto others". I wish Trump and the rest of the GOP would too. "I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics; it’s very bad for our country” www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

24.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Claude 4.5 is good, like really, insanely good. But it still definitely needs a human overlord. I spent a couple hours debugging something that just needed a human AHA moment. I'm cool with a coding partner that takes care of the painful details and leaves the AHA moments to me 😂

06.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I needed last night's repudiation of what under Trump has become the party of cruelty, malfeasance, and incompetence

05.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had one of those. Before that, I had to use litho film manually. It was a massive advance. It was very expensive on my surgical residents salary, but it really set me apart and was responsible for accelerating my early career. I used it on a Commodore Amiga 😀 @commodoreblog.uk

02.11.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Want to talk about a man-made plague? That's ICE ravaging our peaceful cities.

30.10.2025 10:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is up with the title of the article? I live there, and there is no “immigration surge”

24.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ICE is beating U.S. citizens and using tear gas in my otherwise quiet Chicago neighborhood without cause

24.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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‎Just Kegel Timer ‎Just Kegel Timer is a simple, distraction-free Apple Watch app designed to help you perform Kegel exercises with proper timing and guidance. COMPLETE WORKOUT PROGRAM Follow a scientifically-design...

If you or your patients have an Apple Watch, check out my simple Kegel timer! It's designed to be the easiest, simplest Kegel timer, and it works! apps.apple.com/us/app/just-...

22.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No Kings Chicago

18.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As seen in the hood

17.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly!

18.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my goodness, Mr Robot season 3 episode 3 introduces Trump as a tool of Chinese intelligence. Brilliant. Art and reality and mirrors an all that.

04.08.2025 01:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CHROMATICS "INTO THE BLACK" (Official Video)
YouTube video by AlbertoRossini CHROMATICS "INTO THE BLACK" (Official Video)

Watching Mr Robot Season 2 Episode 4, and there’s this fabulous Chromatics cover of Neil Young’s Hey Hey My My www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSyc... you’re welcome

31.07.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UIC rocks the Disability Pride Parade!

26.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And the what can go wrongers, and the both sides are bad so I’ll stay at homers, and the we know Trumpers (thank you Michigan uncommitteds)

22.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it. Medical progress depends on independent journals to advance science without political interference.

The editors of NEJM and JAMA explain why the head of Trump's HHS RFK Jr is deadly dangerous wapo.st/4kUqfV9

21.07.2025 23:41 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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A morning gift to help you titrate your day 😊

20.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seems like the way xAI's Grok is coded is with late night ketamine sessions with its owner

09.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And using Grok. Never have, never will. There are far better choices.

09.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's like MAGA is making America both the Third Reich *and* the Cultural Revolution. This is an absolute nightmare.

03.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Experimenting with AI as a photo filter. Strange to use words with images, like a left brain right brain exercise, but fun

29.06.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Worst Sandwich Is Back Wraps are popular again. So is a certain kind of physique.

“(Wraps are) like a salad, but less refreshing, or like a sandwich, but less filling—a worst-of-all-worlds Frankenstein’s monster, an indistinguishable food slurry wrapped in edible cardboard, like the world’s rudest present.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

28.06.2025 17:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very self interested I admit, but I was breathing a sigh of relief when those idiot southern governors were bussing the workforce into my state and now really pissed that they're all in hiding.

28.06.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You make a good point. What keeps me up at night as somone older and with a relative in assisted living is the acute shortage of workers for us bipartisanpolicy.org/report/addre...

28.06.2025 13:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Another mysterious anti-Trump sculpture appears on the National Mall This time, featuring clips of President Trump dancing. The White House was not amused.

You can’t stop art wapo.st/4nlXtiD

27.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.

RFK Jr is far more dangerous to U.S. lives than Iran wapo.st/3Ge3r4k

25.06.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.

This is a great article on the increase in autism diagnoses. I’ve opened it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

23.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tools come in threes

07.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Public Service Announcement: the health food version of Metamucil is insanely gross

03.06.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Omg thank you for The Faint

05.05.2025 01:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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