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Doctor The Frog

@skipbidder.bsky.social

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Disabled (MCAS and long COVID). Not-so-happily retired geriatrician/palliative/IM doc. My skeets do reflect the opinions of my current employers (The Tiny House Panther and The Emergency Backup Cat). 🏳️‍🌈

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Futurama Fry Not Sure meme template:

Unsure of the significance

of monoclonal gammopathy

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 3h

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 45m

I'll just floss in the sexiest way possible tomorrow.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

I'm afraid I'll be celebrating it by cleaning out my shoe.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2h

The cat will likely never forgive me that the bag of pistachios is the same size and shape as the cat treats and stored in the same cabinet.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h

This is correct. Also, the Supreme Court is illegitimate.

(It's a big problem!)

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 4h

I order a fair amount of nonperishable food and household supplies. I'm in a pretty rural area and it's a drive to get to the crappy chain grocery store. I started doing it with COVID and it became habit.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 4h

It says this is a sale. I assume that's true. A buck a piece or $1.33 if you buy the smaller #.

I've just got them hanging from all the handles in the kitchen. Chuck em in the washer with the rest of the wash. I don't bleach em or even separate them out from the colors. Because they are a buck.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, yes, Amazon sucks. If you have managed to stop buying from them, you are a better person than I am.

If you happen to be weak like me, then you might want to take a look at cheap kitchen towels.

These are really useful and have made replaced paper towels for me.

www.amazon.com/dp/B01IG8X9E...

Amazon.com: Zeppoli Classic Dish Towels - 15 Pack - 14" by 25" - 100% Cotton Kitchen Towels - Reusable Bulk Cleaning Cloths - Blue Hand Towels - Super Absorbent - Machine Washable : Home & Kitchen

Buy Zeppoli Classic Dish Towels - 15 Pack - 14" by 25" - 100% Cotton Kitchen Towels - Reusable Bulk Cleaning Cloths - Blue Hand Towels - Super Absorbent - Machine Washable: Dish Cloths & Dish Towels -...

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 4h

This is actually the best review ever.

I'm slightly worried that it might be a ringer.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 8h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 11h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 8h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

wouldn’t have predicted we were going to get all of non-evangelical christianity, along with all sports, movies, music and culture in the divorce, but we will find the space

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Quick follow up for the senator -- who is they?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

Now, I'll admit that I've never had mushy peas. I've been told by UK friends that they are actually nice. If I still drank, I suspect I'd be willing to try them on the side of some fish and chips.

But that's the extent of what I'm willing to concede.

Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

No alt-text on it. It's pretty much what it sounds like though.

Hand holding a styrofoam container with a baked potato topped with beans in a tomato sauce and then mashed peas.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 9h

That amount isn't nearly enough.

You'd have to pay me a lot more than £3 to eat that.

Footy Scran @footyscran.bsky.social · Dec 11

Jacket potato with beans and mushy peas at Burton Albion FC

💷 £3

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Footy Scran @footyscran.bsky.social · 20d

We’ve been unable to get onto our account for some time… but we’re back!

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 14h

I follow the sports that let me also be miserable because the very terrible people win far more often than I'd like. Combines interests.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Jesus I just realized it's not even 830AM and I've already started arguing about sports because I don't want to read the news.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Ian Hell Damnskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · May 26

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

Speaking of company towns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snailbr...

www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Is Elon Musk creating a utopian city? The hellish, heavenly history of company towns

The Tesla founder has broken ground on a plot in Texas, while Google and Meta are building workers’ homes in California. Should we be celebrating or worrying?

www.theguardian.com

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