Scott Fabricant MD PhD
@safabric.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases PGY-5 | Ecologist-turned-Internist | Interests in ID/SUD overlap | 🏳️🌈 | He/Him/His | #IDSky #MedSky
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The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
Counterpoint: they absolutely do understand, but muddying the historical waters is a key project of fascism.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Counterpoint: they absolutely do understand, but muddying the historical waters is a key project of fascism.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
Can't reform this.
The Times identified 120+ instances in which guards were described as having punched, kicked or stomped on inmates, smashed their fingers in cell doors, held their legs apart and struck their genitals with batons, and even waterboarded them — all while they were handcuffed or otherwise restrained.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Can't reform this.
@martenhawkins.bsky.social should I apply? 👀👀
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@martenhawkins.bsky.social should I apply? 👀👀
I think all doctor-patient interactions would go so much better if each party truly believed one thing.
Doctors, the patient is actually feeling what they say
Patients, virtually all doctors genuinely are trying to help you, are not trying to hide things, and are not thinking about the money
Doctors, the patient is actually feeling what they say
Patients, virtually all doctors genuinely are trying to help you, are not trying to hide things, and are not thinking about the money
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think all doctor-patient interactions would go so much better if each party truly believed one thing.
Doctors, the patient is actually feeling what they say
Patients, virtually all doctors genuinely are trying to help you, are not trying to hide things, and are not thinking about the money
Doctors, the patient is actually feeling what they say
Patients, virtually all doctors genuinely are trying to help you, are not trying to hide things, and are not thinking about the money
People act as if Toxic Masculinity is some fake man-hater cry, but it's also literally killing men. 🤷♂️
I am encountering yet more men on testosterone having huge heart attacks. Bear in mind I’m only on call 1/12th of the time (ie my rota has 12 consultants) and yet I’ve now seen 5 men in the last couple of months who’ve had STEMIs in their 40s and 50s. All very fit and *externally* in great shape
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
People act as if Toxic Masculinity is some fake man-hater cry, but it's also literally killing men. 🤷♂️
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It's harder to discharge hospital patients now because rehab quality is declining, and families are reluctant to send patients to nursing facilities who are too weak to go home safely. "Golden Acres used to be great, but they cut staffing, and Mom almost died the last time she went there." 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's harder to discharge hospital patients now because rehab quality is declining, and families are reluctant to send patients to nursing facilities who are too weak to go home safely. "Golden Acres used to be great, but they cut staffing, and Mom almost died the last time she went there." 1/2
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and right after they cleared an encampment without doing anything to provide for the people who were displaced....
80 toxic drug OVERDOSES occurred within 24 hours with one shelter running out of naloxone.
This is why harm reduction services are vital in saving lives, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
x.com/CHEK_News/st...
This is why harm reduction services are vital in saving lives, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
x.com/CHEK_News/st...
CHEK News on X: "Desperation reached dangerous levels in Cowichan on Tuesday, where officials say as many as 80 toxic drug overdoses occurred in just 24 hours, with one shelter even running out of naloxone. https://t.co/fqRCUDhMZ8" / X
Desperation reached dangerous levels in Cowichan on Tuesday, where officials say as many as 80 toxic drug overdoses occurred in just 24 hours, with one shelter even running out of naloxone. https://t.co/fqRCUDhMZ8
x.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
and right after they cleared an encampment without doing anything to provide for the people who were displaced....
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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I don't know how many more women need to die before the cruelty of these strict abortion laws finally dawn on us a society. This story is heartbreaking. Nothing about this is pro-life. It is anti woman and anti-life.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I don't know how many more women need to die before the cruelty of these strict abortion laws finally dawn on us a society. This story is heartbreaking. Nothing about this is pro-life. It is anti woman and anti-life.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
States rights, unless it might cut into the profits of an oligarch.
White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations
The proposal comes after Republicans failed to get a federal block on state AI legislation approved in Congress.
wapo.st/4o5Vyhd
The proposal comes after Republicans failed to get a federal block on state AI legislation approved in Congress.
wapo.st/4o5Vyhd
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November 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
States rights, unless it might cut into the profits of an oligarch.
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someone's mad at this
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
someone's mad at this
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Check out this high-yield episode from The Curbsiders #AddictionMedicine podcast! Dive into practical tips for caring for patients with #Methamphetamine use disorder. Expert insights from Dr. Phillip Coffin on #HarmReduction & treatment strategies you can use today!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Check out this high-yield episode from The Curbsiders #AddictionMedicine podcast! Dive into practical tips for caring for patients with #Methamphetamine use disorder. Expert insights from Dr. Phillip Coffin on #HarmReduction & treatment strategies you can use today!
🎧 Listen today: buff.ly/SpJfHZD
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Not too long before the dotcom crash, Wired magazine published a list of the top 10 online ad buyers and sellers. I think seven firms were on both lists. I knew then that things were going to go badly wrong. Money is going round and round, but nobody's actually making a profit.
It all makes sense when you look at this simple graphical representation of who is providing services to whom, which companies are investing in other AI companies who are in turn leasing hardware from another company and ... oh, I think I pulled something ...
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Not too long before the dotcom crash, Wired magazine published a list of the top 10 online ad buyers and sellers. I think seven firms were on both lists. I knew then that things were going to go badly wrong. Money is going round and round, but nobody's actually making a profit.
The claim "RFK brews his coffee with raw sewage" is not evidence-based because studies have not ruled out the the possibility that RFK may brew his coffee with raw sewage.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The claim "RFK brews his coffee with raw sewage" is not evidence-based because studies have not ruled out the the possibility that RFK may brew his coffee with raw sewage.
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Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
If I had a nickel for every time a medical trainee stopped me in a hospital in Boston, to ask me if I used to teach their class at community college back in New York, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is incredibly heartwarming that it has happened twice. 🥰🥰
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If I had a nickel for every time a medical trainee stopped me in a hospital in Boston, to ask me if I used to teach their class at community college back in New York, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is incredibly heartwarming that it has happened twice. 🥰🥰
Current open tabs:
- management of a rare disseminated fungal infection
- case reports on tapeworms in organs you don't expect them
- tickborne infections that aren't lyme
- the national HIV treatment guidelines of a small African nation
- pseudoaneurysms
Today's been a day, y'all.
- management of a rare disseminated fungal infection
- case reports on tapeworms in organs you don't expect them
- tickborne infections that aren't lyme
- the national HIV treatment guidelines of a small African nation
- pseudoaneurysms
Today's been a day, y'all.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Current open tabs:
- management of a rare disseminated fungal infection
- case reports on tapeworms in organs you don't expect them
- tickborne infections that aren't lyme
- the national HIV treatment guidelines of a small African nation
- pseudoaneurysms
Today's been a day, y'all.
- management of a rare disseminated fungal infection
- case reports on tapeworms in organs you don't expect them
- tickborne infections that aren't lyme
- the national HIV treatment guidelines of a small African nation
- pseudoaneurysms
Today's been a day, y'all.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
The most realistic thing about zombie movies is the "safe place" outbreak. A bitten person, who knows they're about to become a zombie, sneaks in and then turns. They could be like "you know what, let me stay outside so I don't inadvertently kill everybody". But they never do. Why is that?
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The most realistic thing about zombie movies is the "safe place" outbreak. A bitten person, who knows they're about to become a zombie, sneaks in and then turns. They could be like "you know what, let me stay outside so I don't inadvertently kill everybody". But they never do. Why is that?
I know you think this comparison is going to be far, but it's farther than you think...
I decided to convert dollars to centimeters. That allows us to visualize, for example, the distance between having no money and being at poverty level — about four city blocks.
2/8
2/8
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I know you think this comparison is going to be far, but it's farther than you think...
Hot Take: some foods taste better after several days in the fridge followed by being microwaved. Case in point, this kimchi fried rice with cheese and chicken. Lets the flavors really sink into the rice and the microwaved cheese stirs in evenly. Controversial, I know. Fight me.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Hot Take: some foods taste better after several days in the fridge followed by being microwaved. Case in point, this kimchi fried rice with cheese and chicken. Lets the flavors really sink into the rice and the microwaved cheese stirs in evenly. Controversial, I know. Fight me.