Hannah Dowty

Victor of the Kobayashi Maru.

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

Let’s give the British people what they want.

[Trenton Hughes @trentjhughes]

Be like me:

>Grow up thinking doctors and lawyers have it figured out
>Then think tech is where the real money is
>Watch most tech founders I know struggle or go under
>Meanwhile the insurance broker buys a lake house
>The plumber's kid drives a nicer car than the VC
>The auto broker is 38 living in a $3M house
>The commercial real estate guy makes $500k working alone
>Realize the boring path was the interesting one the whole time
>Build a picks and shovels business instead
>Struggle at first
>Find footing
>Take off
>Cash flow AND upside
>Do it again

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Doctor Who Put a Tube in His Own Heart. Then Got Fired.

In 1929, Werner Forssmann was a 25-year-old surgical trainee in Eberswalde, Germany with a theory everyone else thought was lethal: thread a catheter through a vein in the arm and into the living heart. The medical consensus held that any direct intrusion into a beating heart was instantly fatal. His department chief told him no.

To get access to the sterile supplies he needed, Forssmann persuaded a surgical nurse named Gerda Ditzen to assist him. She agreed, but only on the condition that she would be the subject, not him. He promised. Then he strapped her to the operating table, pretended to anaesthetize and make an incision in her arm, and performed the entire procedure on himself. When she realized the catheter was threading through his vein, not hers, he released her and told her to call the X-ray department.

They walked there together, Forssmann with a 60-centimeter urinary catheter already advancing through a vein toward his heart. Under fluoroscope guidance in the X-ray room, he threaded it the remaining distance into his right atrium. A colleague photographed the result. Clear image, catheter in position, patient alive.

The head of surgery at Berlin's Charité, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, saw the X-ray and dismissed him: "You certainly can't begin surgery in that manner." Forssmann was pushed out of cardiology, spent years struggling to find work, served as a military medical officer in WWII, was captured by Americans, and after the war worked briefly as a lumberjack before becoming a country doctor in the Black Forest. By 1950 he was practicing urology in Bad Kreuznach, his 1929 paper largely forgotten.

In 1956, while seeing patients in that small German town, he received a phone call. André Cournand and Dickinson Richards had spent the 1940s building modern cardiac catheterization into standard diagnostic medicine, entirely on the foundation of his experiment. All three shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Forssmann later said he felt like "a village parson who has just learned that he has been made a bishop."

He tricked a nurse, threaded a tube into his own heart, got fired, and waited twenty-seven years for anyone to care.

[Henpecked Hal @HenpeckedHal]

Getting someone pregnant makes you a father. Secretly bending the hose your kid is using so the water stops flowing then suggesting that the hose must be broken and encouraging them to look inside as you release the pressure and set Old Faithful off in their face makes you a dad.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

"Entrepreneurs get paid more because they bear the risk"

No, they get paid more because the business owes them an uncountable debt of pens, printers, garage space, stamps, ashtrays, burnt spousal goodwill, & furious neurosis that will never be recorded & can never be reimbursed

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Calling you a racist has always been a tool the left uses to shut down debate. They can't tell us why importing millions of people from cultures incompatible with our own is a good thing for America. They just call you a racist and hope you'll shut up. Well, I never will.

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

You’re allowed to own books you disagree with 🙄

Just because a person owns a certain book by a certain author doesn’t mean they endorse everything that person every did or said

[Hannah Dowty @DowtyHannah]

I’ve seen an alpaca do the same thing, the judge should have ducked just in case.

[internet archiva @internetarchiva]

The look on Johnny Depp and his lawyer's faces watching the behavior of Amber Heard's psychiatrist

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

NEVER let your printer know you’ve waited until the last minute and you’re in a hurry, because it can sense fear.

[Calvin @RealCalvin1]

Visas are the new open border. Why close the border if we are going to invite them by the millions on visa's.

End all visas. Americans should get those jobs and go to those schools.

[Oliver Cushing | Attorney ⚖️ @OliverBCushing]

PS: When you sign a contract... you're agreeing to the terms.

"But I didn't see that clause."
You signed it.

"But it was buried on page four."
Initialed at the bottom.

"But it's not fair."
Read it next time.

It's not rocket science - know what you're doing before you sign!

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed they just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

[Hannah Dowty @DowtyHannah]

@fwrenzo1 30’s? That’s the case and I’m still in my twenties.

[Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner @KurtSupeCPA]

"I think I retired too early." He was 61. He had $4.2M. The math was fine. He wasn't.

Here's what nobody had explained to him.

For 35 years his identity, his schedule, and his paycheck all came from the same place. He retired and lost all 3 at once. The portfolio replaced the paycheck. Nothing replaced the other two.

In our experience, the retirees who struggle most aren't the ones who saved too little. They're the ones who planned the money and forgot to plan the life.

Retire to something. Not just from something.

[Hannah Dowty @DowtyHannah]

@IterIntellectus @Bushra1Shaikh Always the ones that aren’t covered from head to toe with the loudest mouths.

[Hannah Dowty @DowtyHannah]

“To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance. To simplify after you understand the details is genius…”

- James Clear

[cutoffs.io @cutoffs_io]

🇺🇸 Wells Fargo Bank is firing 285 Americans while filing for 335 H-1B visa workers.

4,199 jobs cut in the first 90 days of 2026.

Every time you pay your mortgage or swipe your card, your banking fees fund the profits used to fire Americans and hire foreign replacements.

[Skill of Life @skill_of_life]

A lot of people show off rented lifestyles, borrowed money, or staged photos to look successful. It's performance, not reality. The harsh truth is that fake success fools the insecure, but anyone sharp sees through it instantly.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Those who do not love casually, cannot survive being treated casually.