JackRN

Mobile Crisis RN, married to unbearably handsome scientist 👨🏽‍🔬, mom to 👧🏽👶🏽, will brake for 🐢.

[JackRN @facepalmhard]

@GreatLakesWife_ My oldest never babbled and only had 1 word by her second birthday. Now she’s in grade 1 with a huge vocabulary and a grade 4 reading level!

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

It’s 2075. There is only one hospital in the entire country. It is 8 square miles in the middle of Kansas and owned by United Healthcare. Premiums are $47,000 per month. The only medications left are Ozempic and boner pills. Life expectancy is 38.

Government: “I can’t believe doctors did this to us.”

[Pleasure Architect @11Architect11]

the most consistent finding across 40 years of female sexuality research is that the number one predictor of sexual satisfaction in women is not orgasm frequency, partner skill, or encounter duration. it is the degree to which she feels genuinely desired by her partner.

a meta analysis of 135 studies on female sexual satisfaction found that "perceived partner desire" (how much she believes her partner wants HER, not just sex) was the strongest predictor of satisfaction, orgasm likelihood, and willingness to initiate in the future. stronger than technique. stronger than frequency. stronger than physical attractiveness.

the mechanism is psychological arousal translating to physiological arousal. when a woman feels genuinely desired, her brain interprets the desire as safety combined with excitement. the safety activates the parasympathetic system (producing lubrication and engorgement). the excitement activates the dopamine pathway (producing anticipation and pleasure seeking). both systems fire simultaneously. the combination is the neurochemical definition of arousal.

when she feels like a means to an end (the man wants to have sex and she happens to be there), only the excitement system partially activates. the safety system stays dormant. the result: some desire but insufficient physical readiness. the body doesn't fully prepare because the brain didn't receive the specific signal that prepares it: being wanted as a person, not as a function.

the difference between feeling desired and feeling used is invisible to many men because male arousal doesn't require it. male physiological arousal can occur without feeling desired. the erection doesn't require emotional context. female physiological arousal frequently does. the parasympathetic activation that produces engorgement and lubrication requires the brain to register safety and desire together.

the practical translation: the way you look at her before you touch her matters more than where you touch her. the specific compliment that communicates you want her (not her body in general, HER specifically) does more for arousal than 10 minutes of technique applied to a body that hasn't received the signal that it's wanted.

the men who produce the highest satisfaction are not doing anything different with their bodies. they are communicating something different with their eyes, their words, and their attention. the woman's body responds to being wanted. the wanting must arrive before the touching. and it must feel specific, not generic.

"you're beautiful" is generic. "the way you [specific thing she does] drives me crazy" is specific. the specific version activates the arousal pathway. the generic version activates the polite smile. the difference is one sentence. the impact is the entire encounter.

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

He got it from his mama.

Bear 89, aka Backpack, is the 2026 Fat Bear Week champ. Turns out hefty runs in the family.

His mom, Holly the Duchess of Density, won in 2019. She carried him on her back as a cub and helped him survive a serious leg injury. Now her little Backpack has a crown of his own. 👑

[designwithkingsley @desgnwitkinsley]

A very short story

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Short-form videos are linked to lower memory accuracy and reduced brain synchrony.

[JackRN @facepalmhard]

@RayNothstine 3 year olds are the best

[🧡🖤 KTP | currently Fafner-posting @kyluxtrashpit]

I need all the Canadaboos I keep seeing on my TL to learn that the new warnings on cigarette packages here include an interracial, bilingual gay couple and this is the most Canadian thing they possibly could've done lmao

[JackRN @facepalmhard]

@LKrankerMD @isaiah_turnbull @washusurgres @WashUSurgery @WashU_Uro @LiddyD4 @weeramaya @BKaplunov It never even crossed my mind that this was possible 🤯

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

Best AI Ad ever..

[OkieMaga_Patriot46 @Okie_Patriot46]

I need to make a very PUBLIC announcement on behalf of younger GenXers and older Millennials.

If you see someone in their 40s or 50s who seems a little boring now, I need you to understand something...

We already got it in.

Like...GOT. IT. IN.

We are not sitting home on a Friday night because we never knew how to have fun.
We are sitting home on a Friday night because we have seen enough.

We went to parties in houses that should have been condemned and were almost certainly owned by the local drug dealer.

We saw police lights and RAN and not across a nice, flat field.
INTO THE WOODS.

Do you understand the athleticism required to hurdle uprooted tree roots in platform shoes while simultaneously trying to keep your low-rise jeans from sliding completely off your ass?

And somehow...we never spilled the Zima. We never spilled the Boone’s Farm.

That was TALENT.

We slept on floors in strange houses because the designated driver either never showed up or, in a shocking turn of events, was drunker than everybody else.

There was no Uber, Life360 or Find My Friends.
There was just somebody named Mike saying, “I know a shortcut.”

And we FOLLOWED MIKE.

We closed down bars and then decided the night was still young, so we drove to Atlantic City, where we somehow managed to get drunk, sober up, get drunk again, sober up again and then get drunk a THIRD TIME before breakfast.

And according to our parents? We were at Michelle’s house.

Eating pizza and watching movies.

Michelle’s mother unknowingly covered for approximately 17 people every weekend. If there even was a Michelle.

We drank things called Purple Passion, Mad Dog 20/20 and whatever somebody mixed inside a giant plastic garbage can. Nobody asked what was in it. You grabbed a red Solo cup and trusted the process.

We went to clubs until the lights came on. Do you know the psychological damage of seeing a nightclub with the LIGHTS ON? Nothing good happens after those lights come on.

We danced for four straight hours in shoes that permanently altered the structure of our feet.

We made entire plans without cell phones...no texts, dropped pins or group chats...just an extremely questionable sense of direction.

We rode in cars with 11 people when the vehicle legally seated five. Someone was always sitting on someone. Someone was always in the hatchback.
And there was always one friend yelling, “DUCK!” when we passed a cop.

So yes...now we like being home.
We like sweatpants.
We like cancelling plans.
We like saying, “That sounds fun!” with absolutely no intention of attending.
We like restaurants at 5:30 because we can get a good table.
We like being home by 8:17.

And if someone texts at 9:30 PM and says, “What are you doing?”
Sleeping...we are sleeping.

Because this is not boring my friends...this is retirement.

We already played, partied and danced on the bar.
We already ran from the cops through a wooded area dressed like a Spice Girl.

We have stories that cannot be posted because there are still people with careers, marriages and reputations to protect. And thank GOD there were no camera phones.

So kids, when you look at your Gen X and older Millennial parents sitting peacefully on the couch watching Dateline at 8 PM and think:
“God, you guys are boring.”

Sweetheart...oh sweetheart.
You are looking at retired legends.

Put some respect on our names. We're probably the reason Life360 was invented.

xoxoxo (posted from someone else on FakeBook) 🤣 #genx #oldandtired

[JackRN @facepalmhard]

@luinalaska “… with his bullshit and the arctic crab community” 🤣🤣🤣

[Prashant Verma @prashant_v91]

My fellow men, we need to talk about postpartum care.

Before Rumi was born, I read up on postpartum. Hormonal changes, baby blues, sleep deprivation, mood swings (I am thorough, bro). I thought I was reasonably prepared. Yeah, so that was a big misjudgment. I was absolutely NOT prepared.

Turns out reading about this phase and actually living it are not the same thing at all. So I'm not going to pretend I have a solution. Think of this as a note you can come back to when you're in the middle of it and have no idea what you're supposed to do.

1. Put your ego somewhere very, very far away.

A friend told me this before Rumi was born: "For the next few months, destroy your ego. Take everything on the chin." I nodded as I got it. Oh boy, I did not get it.

Your wife has just gone through pregnancy, delivery, physical recovery, a hormonal crash, no sleep and being responsible for another human 24/7. This is not the time to win arguments. There were plenty of moments where I wanted to defend myself or explain what I actually meant. Honestly, most of those moments did not need a defence lawyer.

2. You are the translator between her and the rest of the world.

Biggest learning for me. Parents, in-laws (this needs its own thread), relatives, friends, visitors, phone calls, everyone's opinion on feeding and sleeping and how to hold the baby. All of it should come to you first. You take the hit, you filter it, and only the useful and kind stuff gets to her.

Someone wants to visit at the wrong time? You handle it. A dozen people want updates? You handle it. She is recovering. Don't make her manage everybody else's feelings on top of that.

3. Stop trying to solve everything.

I am always in problem-solving mode, and I have learnt that females hate it.

There were days my wife would cry and neither of us could say why. My default with any problem is "okay, what's wrong, how do we fix it." Terrible strategy here. Sometimes there's nothing to fix. She just needs to get everything out of her head while someone listens without turning it into an action plan. So sit with her. Listen. Hug her. Ask what she needs, and then actually do that thing.

And if the crying doesn't ease off after a couple of weeks, or something just feels off, that's a doctor's job, not yours. Get help.

4. Don't wait to be asked.

This one is straight from my wife. The baby is your job anyway, that doesn't count. Notice her. Get her food. Fill her water bottle. Offer a massage. Take stuff off her plate before she has to assign it to you. And every so often, give her the one thing that basically disappears once there's a newborn in the house: your full attention. Phone away, no baby logistics, just her (I was playing IPL fantasy during this phase and it was a bad decision).

5. Rehearse, if you can.

If you're anything like me, you forget things. Especially at 3am. Nothing on this list works if you only read it once, so go over it now and again before the baby arrives. Be a bit deliberate about it.

Looking back, I think I got "being prepared" wrong. I thought it meant knowing what could happen. What it actually means is remembering all of this at 3am, half asleep, holding a crying baby, while your wife is having one of the worst days of her life.

Trust me, you're going to need it.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

During the 22 day Lindsay Clancy trial,8 American men murdered their entire families in silent isolation.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

my hot take here is that many/most men simply aren't by their nature ever going to do much of the work of running and managing a household, and the winning strategy is to marry one who improves your life so much in other ways that you don't resent him for it

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Friendly reminder that men murder their families once every 5 days. The last time a woman was on trial for similar charges was 22 years ago. That’s why men are projecting so hard.

[Ethan W. Anderson @Ethan_is_online]

Guy on a zoom call next to me in the airport “I left the office two hours ago, did you somehow manage to get a lobotomy in that time period”