Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮

Native Conch in exile. Retired ICU. Ex-sub XO. Cirrus pilot. I used to keep strangers alive at 3am. Now: medicine, money, and the years you actually get.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

If you spent a career in an ICU, you stop fearing death. You start fearing a long, expensive, undignified life you never designed. I left so I wouldn’t die that way. That’s the only niche I have.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

Retirement test: can you name your three biggest risks? Mine are falls, sepsis, and boredom. Two you can train for. The third one kills more ambitious men than you'd think.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Brazil has repeatedly tried to clear out favelas and replace them with everything from middle-class neighborhoods to taxpayer-subsidized social housing.

What happens every single time is that the affordable housing projects morph back into favelas within a few years, and when the government moves people out entirely and relocates them to new neighborhoods, the relocation sites themselves eventually turn into favelas.

This has been going on since the late 1960s, yet every decade or so, government officials have this idea that favelas are just a product of poverty, when in reality they're a product of the people who live within them.

It's like that meme video we've all seen of a beaver still trying to build a dam in someone's hallway using stuffed animals and cardboard boxes. You can take a man out of the favelas, but you can't take the favela out of the man.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@CardioNP @seattlehanddoc The petulant PNW glaucoma doc guy kinda ruined that genre of videos for me, but if they’re also cooking it might be worth a link. I have an instagram but haven’t logged in since before my dx. OTOH my wife lives on the Tok and insta.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

So many Substacks. So much garbage.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

This week I flew to a farm in Molokai, accompanied by a sous from where I live, to sample, plant, and harvest the best onion I have ever eaten. This morning I discovered a rando grower from the Kona hills who grows my favourite tomato…the brandywine. This week has been a banger.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

FBI SHADOW GOVERNMENT CHARGES: @ChuckGrassley leads the way

“Today, we’re seeing accountability efforts in action. I appreciate the Department of Justice and the FBI’s work to root out government corruption and embrace transparency. At long last, Americans can see all the facts and evidence for themselves.”

“These two unelected bureaucrats (EX-FBI SENIOR OFFICIALS FLORIS AND BENAVIDES) used the power of government to smear my and @SenRonJohnson constitutional oversight and distract from inconvenient truths that weaponized bureaucrats and the Biden administration didn’t want you to know."

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

I've coded billionaires and I've coded bus drivers. The monitor sounds the same. What's different is who's in the waiting room and whether anyone knew their wishes.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@walterkirn Université d’Phoenix.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@elie_mcn That’s because they’re all about the realize they spent $150k+ on a barista education ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@InfantryPilot A Mecca for flavour indeed.

[Randy Quaid @RandyRRQuaid]

Texas!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A fascinating visualization of Vivaldi’s “Winter” that makes the music feel more intense. Almost like seeing the sound itself.

credit Gilmar Araújo - Conde X

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@3YearLetterman Not to mention Lewis Grizzard.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

Good

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 BRITISH DIPLOMATS FORCED TO LEAVE JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL SHUTS DOWN UK CONSULATE

Israel has ordered 20 British diplomats, including the Consul General, to leave the country following London’s sanctions against Israeli settlements.

The British Consulate in Jerusalem has officially lost its consular status, with its signage removed.

Only seven diplomats will be allowed to remain, operating under the newly designated “UK Mission, Jerusalem” with restricted activities.

A major diplomatic confrontation between Israel and Britain.

[Theresa M Long, MD, MPH, FS @LTCTheresaLong]

Every patient I took care of that day had been shot 3-7times...he kept circles back and shooting them again and again- he executed Private Francheska Velez, a pregnant Soldier- leaders knew he was a problem and didn't deal with him because it wouldn't be politically correct . Thank you @SecWar and @realDonaldTrump for finally giving a green light for justice!

• Pfc. Michael S. Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Illinois
Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Maryland — 1908th Medical Company
• Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Virginia — 467th Medical Detachment
• Capt. John P. Gaffaney, 56, San Diego — 1908th Medical Company
• Capt. Russell Gilbert Seager, 51, Racine, Wisconsin — 467th Medical Company
• Staff Sgt. Justin Michael DeCrow, 32 — 16th Signal Company, Fort Hood
• Sgt. Amy Sue Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wisconsin — 467th Medical Company
• Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tennessee — 16th Signal Company
• Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, Oklahoma — 1st Brigade, Fort Hood
• Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah
• Pfc. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago — pregnant, recently returned from Iraq
• Pfc. Kham See Xiong, 23
• Michael Grant Cahill, 62, Cameron, Texas — civilian physician assistant and retired chief warrant officer- died fighting back!!

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

This is something I write about in Pagan America, the emergence of a kind of therapeutic witchcraft, which is closely tied to notions of identity and empowerment, and is particularly attractive to young women in a de-Christianized culture.

Somewhat counterintuitively, this therapeutic witchcraft sits well alongside modern materialism. It’s what C.S. Lewis called the “materialist magician,” who manages to “emotionalise and mythologise” science, so that they worship what they vaguely call “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits.”

[Prof @covidtweets]

These are the most cited articles co-authored by the APA president-elect.

She is not even a full prof yet. This is her academic record. Yet she was just elected to lead APA.

There are thousands of more qualified academics.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

The Catholic Church, or what remains of it, especially it’s youth ministry and young adult programmes could learn much from the Modern Orthodox and Orthodox Jewish community on how to keep Catholics Catholic, but they won’t for obvious reasons.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

@iowahawkblog Because she’s white, straight, and better than most of all the other players. The WNBA is a league built on anti-White grift.

[Mike vonTschudi 🇨🇭🇱🇮 @ICUStat]

Closing my rings every day. Finally back to somewhat eating and imbibing like a normal person. Finished with CAPOX and treatment for the time being, and hoping every single day for more time. Fu*k cancer. You guys at UCLA gave me another chance, for now, I do not intend to waste it.