Dr Fleurs du Mal
@georgefleurs.bsky.social
I have come here to learn things ☀️🌻 New doctor, professional cynic (heart’s not in it). Likes books, plants, art, architecture, urban planning & design 📕🌻🎨🚏
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I'm coauthoring a paper on indoor air quality. Was asked to write the bit on social justice. So I do some Googling and find this, which links me to "the environmental justice section of the US Environment Protection Agency". The linked pages NO LONGER EXIST. DEI purge.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
www.epa.gov
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm coauthoring a paper on indoor air quality. Was asked to write the bit on social justice. So I do some Googling and find this, which links me to "the environmental justice section of the US Environment Protection Agency". The linked pages NO LONGER EXIST. DEI purge.
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
www.epa.gov/sites/defaul...
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It is a belief in community & creativity driving independent live music venues to continually navigate brutal hurdles: COVID, cost-of-living, & a fast changing city
Independent music venues deserve acknowledgement
Those 1 or 2 big nights per month sustain a massive ecosystem
Same waka
In it for ♥️
Independent music venues deserve acknowledgement
Those 1 or 2 big nights per month sustain a massive ecosystem
Same waka
In it for ♥️
A small music venue just wants to keep the heat pump going.
Darkroom can survive, say the owners of the much-loved Ōtautahi space, "if we can just get through this winter".
substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It is a belief in community & creativity driving independent live music venues to continually navigate brutal hurdles: COVID, cost-of-living, & a fast changing city
Independent music venues deserve acknowledgement
Those 1 or 2 big nights per month sustain a massive ecosystem
Same waka
In it for ♥️
Independent music venues deserve acknowledgement
Those 1 or 2 big nights per month sustain a massive ecosystem
Same waka
In it for ♥️
Just finished my first set of night shifts as a doctor, covering general surgery/urology/vascular surgery/neurosurgery with only a gen surg registrar on site 🥲
July 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just finished my first set of night shifts as a doctor, covering general surgery/urology/vascular surgery/neurosurgery with only a gen surg registrar on site 🥲
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Don't look away
The deaths come as UNICEF warns of an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip.
At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza as Israel tightens siege
The deaths come as UNICEF warns of an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Don't look away
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Do you need to study anatomy specimens but can't make it to the Anatomy and Pathology Museum? You can study online through an e-learning resource available to affiliate members: ow.ly/zmsN50Wewky
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June 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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As the Leng review starts to wind up, I remind you of the systematic review done by myself and @martinmckee.bsky.social earlier this year. No evidence of efficacy in most roles PAs are currently deployed in, no direct evidence of safety, no evidence of cost-effectiveness. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
June 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
As the Leng review starts to wind up, I remind you of the systematic review done by myself and @martinmckee.bsky.social earlier this year. No evidence of efficacy in most roles PAs are currently deployed in, no direct evidence of safety, no evidence of cost-effectiveness. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Had a week of leave and then returned to a post long weekend long day and 😳🥵😵💫😵💫
June 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Had a week of leave and then returned to a post long weekend long day and 😳🥵😵💫😵💫
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No bonus for the execs who gave us the choice of swimming in sh*t or not swimming at all. Good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water: big bonuses due from emergency £3bn loan ‘withdrawn’
Environment secretary makes announcement after company’s chair said he ‘may have misspoken’ to MPs
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
No bonus for the execs who gave us the choice of swimming in sh*t or not swimming at all. Good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power
I took my ranty bluesky posts and turned them into something longer, more thoughtful, and which really digs into the way in which civility is weaponised to silence dissent
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
I took my ranty bluesky posts and turned them into something longer, more thoughtful, and which really digs into the way in which civility is weaponised to silence dissent
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power
Respectability politics and the suppression of resistance
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power
I took my ranty bluesky posts and turned them into something longer, more thoughtful, and which really digs into the way in which civility is weaponised to silence dissent
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
I took my ranty bluesky posts and turned them into something longer, more thoughtful, and which really digs into the way in which civility is weaponised to silence dissent
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
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Civilised:
- stealing land, not giving it back
- legislating inequity
- child poverty/suicide rates among the highest in the world
- ignoring our most vulnerable
Uncivilised:
- doing a haka in parliament
...okay. 😒
- stealing land, not giving it back
- legislating inequity
- child poverty/suicide rates among the highest in the world
- ignoring our most vulnerable
Uncivilised:
- doing a haka in parliament
...okay. 😒
May 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Civilised:
- stealing land, not giving it back
- legislating inequity
- child poverty/suicide rates among the highest in the world
- ignoring our most vulnerable
Uncivilised:
- doing a haka in parliament
...okay. 😒
- stealing land, not giving it back
- legislating inequity
- child poverty/suicide rates among the highest in the world
- ignoring our most vulnerable
Uncivilised:
- doing a haka in parliament
...okay. 😒
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I love RDOs and thank the Union (Resident Doctors Association) for ensuring they exist. Do you know how much life admin you can get done ?! Miraculous.
May 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I love RDOs and thank the Union (Resident Doctors Association) for ensuring they exist. Do you know how much life admin you can get done ?! Miraculous.
I like to send my australian friends photos of the smal spiders in my room i am scared of
May 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I like to send my australian friends photos of the smal spiders in my room i am scared of
Go Mark of the British Orthopaedic Association! www.boa.ac.uk/resource/boa...
BOA comment on Times article 01 May
The Times article 'Virginia Giuffre’s last home was a retreat from the torment...' published 01 May reinforces damaging stereotypes and disregards the growing number of highly skilled female orthopae...
www.boa.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Go Mark of the British Orthopaedic Association! www.boa.ac.uk/resource/boa...
It’s extremely tiring dying on every single hill, but all the hills add up and on my death bed I do not want to be ruminating on the time I didn’t stand up.
April 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It’s extremely tiring dying on every single hill, but all the hills add up and on my death bed I do not want to be ruminating on the time I didn’t stand up.
The best online account I have seen recently is this Seattle orthopaedic surgeon whose entire instagram feed js him cooking for his family
April 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The best online account I have seen recently is this Seattle orthopaedic surgeon whose entire instagram feed js him cooking for his family
One more step towards a destitute, anti-intellectual health system www.beehive.govt.nz/release/phys...
www.beehive.govt.nz
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
One more step towards a destitute, anti-intellectual health system www.beehive.govt.nz/release/phys...
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Trans Husband Guy - Jun 25 2021
I write about what to do when your partner transitions (don't google, damn it son) and what that was like. Not easy, but it's as honest as I can get. It's the partner to Trans Lives Are Boring, I guess.
aninjusticemag.com/trans-husban...
I write about what to do when your partner transitions (don't google, damn it son) and what that was like. Not easy, but it's as honest as I can get. It's the partner to Trans Lives Are Boring, I guess.
aninjusticemag.com/trans-husban...
Trans Husband Guy
Just over two years ago, my husband told me he’d booked an appointment to see our doctor. He was going in to talk about his gender, how he…
aninjusticemag.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Trans Husband Guy - Jun 25 2021
I write about what to do when your partner transitions (don't google, damn it son) and what that was like. Not easy, but it's as honest as I can get. It's the partner to Trans Lives Are Boring, I guess.
aninjusticemag.com/trans-husban...
I write about what to do when your partner transitions (don't google, damn it son) and what that was like. Not easy, but it's as honest as I can get. It's the partner to Trans Lives Are Boring, I guess.
aninjusticemag.com/trans-husban...
I can’t explain this but something in life I have done has flagged me to the US government and I get extra searches at every airport and border and I just feel now that if I go back I will definitely be arrested for this mystery thing I have done?
April 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I can’t explain this but something in life I have done has flagged me to the US government and I get extra searches at every airport and border and I just feel now that if I go back I will definitely be arrested for this mystery thing I have done?
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Four women have been killed this week. It’s not a joke. It never was a joke.
He’s not acting like someone telling a joke. He is FURIOUS.
That’s how women die. Not from men’s jokes, but from their anger and entitlement.
He’s not acting like someone telling a joke. He is FURIOUS.
That’s how women die. Not from men’s jokes, but from their anger and entitlement.
April 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Four women have been killed this week. It’s not a joke. It never was a joke.
He’s not acting like someone telling a joke. He is FURIOUS.
That’s how women die. Not from men’s jokes, but from their anger and entitlement.
He’s not acting like someone telling a joke. He is FURIOUS.
That’s how women die. Not from men’s jokes, but from their anger and entitlement.
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Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
April 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
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What does it take to return to surgery after a life-changing injury?
In our latest episode of The Theatre podcast, we sit down with Mohammed Belal to discuss his remarkable journey from consultant urological surgeon to patient—and back again.
🎧Listen now: ow.ly/RbLK50Vycio
In our latest episode of The Theatre podcast, we sit down with Mohammed Belal to discuss his remarkable journey from consultant urological surgeon to patient—and back again.
🎧Listen now: ow.ly/RbLK50Vycio
April 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What does it take to return to surgery after a life-changing injury?
In our latest episode of The Theatre podcast, we sit down with Mohammed Belal to discuss his remarkable journey from consultant urological surgeon to patient—and back again.
🎧Listen now: ow.ly/RbLK50Vycio
In our latest episode of The Theatre podcast, we sit down with Mohammed Belal to discuss his remarkable journey from consultant urological surgeon to patient—and back again.
🎧Listen now: ow.ly/RbLK50Vycio
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Looking for healthcare resources about #CultureChange, bullying and harassment, anti-racism, speaking up, psychological safety and more? Welcome to the A Better Culture
environmental scan, collating all Australian resources. And searchable too!
abetterculture.org.au/environmenta...
environmental scan, collating all Australian resources. And searchable too!
abetterculture.org.au/environmenta...
April 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Looking for healthcare resources about #CultureChange, bullying and harassment, anti-racism, speaking up, psychological safety and more? Welcome to the A Better Culture
environmental scan, collating all Australian resources. And searchable too!
abetterculture.org.au/environmenta...
environmental scan, collating all Australian resources. And searchable too!
abetterculture.org.au/environmenta...
Starting an orthopaedics run before which is good because I like orthopaedics without wanting to pursue it as a career, so all fun no pressure 🦴🦴🦴
April 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Starting an orthopaedics run before which is good because I like orthopaedics without wanting to pursue it as a career, so all fun no pressure 🦴🦴🦴