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John McKenna

@johnodreams.bsky.social

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John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 5d

With a spectacular eye roll 🙄

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 10d

Phone upgrade day! So naturally I’ve locked myself out of half of my apps.

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 15d

This is awesome

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 16d

Watching the Trump Paracetamol Autism news cycle is essentially watching Brandolini’s Law in action

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 17d

Those are Collaterlie Sisters type numbers

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 17d

Is this a sketch?

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 28d

You & me both

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · 28d

Literal Eye Dentists

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28d

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

www.nbcboston.com

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’ve had a marmite cocktail. I love the stuff

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Updated” 🤔

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 9

Is he still on the register?

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yeah. It’s time for an upgrade

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 7

Me getting the UK government emergency alert

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 6

Is Quackery on the list of approved medical specialities?

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 5

There’s a lot to unpack with this story

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lilith is going to kill us all.

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 4

Think of the brain freeze headaches

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 4

"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien..."

gizmodo.com/senator-says...

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m pretty late to the party but Weapons is an amazing movie.

I’m going to have to binge Zach Cregger’s back catalog.

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh, I get it now.

long-term anticoAguLation discONtinuation aftEr catheter ablation for atriAl Fibrillation

Catchy.

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m really struggling to see where ALONE came from.

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Thingbox: Where are they now?”

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 2

I remember him from Thingbox

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’d totally buy that

John McKenna @johnodreams.bsky.social · Aug 31

I can’t wait for the Great British Clips To Skin Bee. It would be considerably shorter.