Author of the original Sci-Fi Conspiracy Thriller Glaxsya. Proud Chevy Bolt owner. TWB Master n Commander
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The Hippocratic Oath shouldn't be something only Doctors and First Responders live by. It should be something that all humans embrace to their core being. You should never deny someone help just because they might believe a different faith or have a separate ideology. It makes one wonder if natural disasters will ever end if this isn't realized. I mean sure, that seems like an outlandish thought especially for non-spiritualists. Natural disasters happen at random, right? Even if they do, what happens? The best of humanity. Every time. Sure they are tragic and there's loss and death, but there is also LIFE. Struggling to survive in the most brutal of circumstances. We see a coming together of people in a way that no other event or occurrence brings us together. In these moments we become more than what we are to help each other regardless of where we come from in life and regardless of who and what we individually believe and choose to be...
But then... we go back to our 9-5 cycle. We go back to our routines. The heroic pictures of humans helping each other start to disappear from our screens and we start to redraw our imaginary political and religious lines and before you know it, we're back to hating each other once again. But then disaster strikes and... see above.
Unless someone is trying to cause you harm, there is zero reason to be aggressive or abrasive. Zero reason to judge other people's lifestyles, zero reason to perpetuate the worst of what our species has to offer. It's okay to have opinions and ideas and disagreements and even petty insults really are not personal attacks especially when hurdled from behind the safety of your screen. If you feel tired, take a break. You aren't required to participate all the time if even at all.
The downside of course is... we all have to WANT to embrace the Hippocratic Oath as part of our daily lives. We have to WANT to be better people each day and we have to want it because it's the right thing to do not because of some silly promise of rewards. Your reward is you made someone else's day better. Some days it CAN be enough. But again, you have to want this.
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I'm 52 years old. I have terminal Stage IV esophageal cancer. And my life has become something I never could have imagined.
I have metastatic adenocarcinoma with signet-ring features. It's spread to my liver, lymph nodes, stomach and peritoneum. The surgery that was supposed to potentially save my life was aborted when they discovered it had already spread.
I've been through chemotherapy. I've had a stent shoved down my esophagus just to help me swallow. I've lived with a feeding tube. I've had to rethink something most people never give a second thought to: eating.
A cheeseburger. Pizza. A normal meal with my family. Things that used to be completely ordinary have become things I miss.
Every meal is a calculation. Calories. Protein. What can I swallow? What will hurt? What will stay down? How much can my stomach tolerate?
I deal with nausea, abdominal pain, strange sensations throughout my torso, swallowing difficulties, and the constant uncertainty of what is happening inside my body.
I monitor blood markers. I read CT scans. I research clinical trials. I look at experimental treatments and scientific papers, trying to find something, anything, that might give me more time.
And there's a particularly cruel part of terminal cancer that people don't always understand:
You can look relatively healthy. You can walk every day. You can laugh, read, have conversations, research things, and make plans. Meanwhile, you know there's an incurable disease growing inside you.
You become acutely aware that the future everyone else takes for granted is no longer guaranteed to you.
I have a wife. I have children. I have things I still want to experience, conversations I still want to have, and memories I still want to make.
I've even started leaving little handwritten messages around the house for my wife to find someday. Things I want her to know when I'm no longer here to tell her.
I'm not writing this because I want anyone's pity.
I'm writing it because terminal cancer is so much more than a diagnosis or a statistic. It's an entirely different existence. It's fighting for your life while simultaneously trying to figure out how to keep living it.
I don't know how much time I have. Neither does anyone else.
But I'm still here. Still walking. Still researching. Still looking for treatments. Still trying to eat. Still making plans.
And I'm not done fighting.
If you're healthy, don't take the ordinary things for granted. You have no idea how extraordinary they are until they become difficult or impossible.
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AIPAC just changed their name to the United Democracy Project (UDP), thinking we wouldn’t notice…
They pulled any continued funding under their prior PAC, in an attempt to disassociate from the hate they receive regularly, and throw us off their track.
You cannot hide.
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BREAKING: Over 400,000 Americans have signed a petition calling on the Democrats not to pick Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker after he got money from a group that wanted him to put the interests of Israel above the United States
Gee. It's almost as if attempting to control what people put in their bodies is loser energy.
Election night cannabis recap:
- Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly rejected Question 8, which would have repealed legal recreational marijuana sales, with roughly 75% voting against it.
- Idaho voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited future citizen-led marijuana legalization initiatives.
- Democrats secured control of the House, Senate and governor's office in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, opening a clear path to recreational marijuana legalization in 2027 following years of opposition from Republican lawmakers in the state.
- Texas voters elected Gina Hinojosa as the state's first governor who openly supports legalizing recreational cannabis, defeating three-term incumbent Greg Abbott.
- Iowa voters elected Rob Sand, who will become the state's first governor who backs recreational marijuana legalization.
- Several states, including South Carolina and Maine, elected for the first time U.S. senators who support federal marijuana legalization, adding more pro-reform voices to Congress.
- Over 70% of Houston voters approved a measure making low-level marijuana possession the city's lowest law enforcement priority.
I walked away from MAGA in 2022 when I realized the Q crap was a CIA psyop and that the real good guys don't rely on secrets and lies to win.
I felt vindicated in 25 when Trump actually started obstructing the files.
Tonight I feel vindicated continuing forward as a JEF.
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Trump is not even winning on Truth Social tonight. The top comment here is brutal.
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Love watching Floridians complain about auto and home insurance costs, low wages, insane cost of living etc but re-elect the same dumb fucks that got us here.
The only recourse Republicans have to save face and keep the White House is to impeach and remove Trump before January.
Otherwise this blue spanking will continue into 2028.
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A must see documentary, yet it is very hard to find (perhaps being censored?). Here's hoping that a free speech marketplace like @x , is an appropriate place to make a plea for free speech.
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A lot of Florida conservatives are looking at Tuesday’s ballot with a knot in their stomach. You don’t want a rubber stamp for Palm Beach, but you hesitate to back a Democrat.
Remember the math: Republicans will hold the Florida House and Senate.
Electing David Jolly doesn’t usher in a blank check. It restores Federalist 51: ambition counteracting ambition. 🧵
My one experience meeting him in London after a magnificent performance in the Master Builder confirms all of this. He was a genuinely human and reasonable man. And took fan love with great pride and dignity. I miss him.
I first met Sir Patrick Stewart when I was 17, outside BBC Studios in London while I was on work experience. Meeting someone who had such a huge impact on me as a kid watching him as Captain Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation was unreal.
I walked up and said, “Mr Stewart, sorry sir, I just wanted to say thank you.” I had nothing on me for an autograph. I was fumbling around trying to find a pen when his assistant noticed. (No camera phones back then, so no selfies either 😂.)
He had a stack of headshots from a West End Shakespeare play he was in at the time because of course he was.
He looked at me and said, in that epic voice, “What’s your name, lad?”
“Daniel, sir. My mum and I love your work.”
“Well Daniel, one for you and one for your mother.”
I just stood there staring at him like a complete idiot until I snapped out of it. “Oh! Yes, sorry.” He handed me both photos, complimented me for being polite, and then gave me two tickets to his play. I think the big BBC television logo on my jacket put his mind at rest that I wasn’t some random nutcase, haha.
I met him again a few years later at the X2 premiere, also in London. It took him a moment, but he remembered me and asked if I was still working at the BBC. We’ve crossed paths many times since, and every interaction has been amazing. He’s always been a gentleman kind, warm, with a firm handshake.
One of the greatest highlights of my life so far has been seeing him command the stage in the West End and on Broadway. Watching him and Sir Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot and King Lear was unforgettable. He’s an incredible actor that very few people have ever come close to matching.
On top of all that, the amount of work he’s done for charity over the years, and the number of people he’s helped, is something else. The man, although not perfect, is someone we should all strive to be more like.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard will always be my favourite captain. Kirk is a very close second.
Wherever he is now, I hope Sir Patrick Stewart is doing what he loves probably having arguments with Q in the afterlife.
Make it so!
