LDR

Neuropsychologist, Dallas, TX, USA

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

A 4-year-old boy whose father left him, stood outside every single day for months waving at strangers... just hoping somebody would say hi back, in North Carolina.

Then one neighbor walked across the street to meet him.

Now an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD shows up for his soccer games, his swim lessons, his birthday parties.

Roman Butzlaff is 4 years old, from Concord NC, just outside Charlotte.

His mom says he wakes up every single morning excited to say "hi" to somebody. It's the very first thing he wants to do.

But behind that big smile was a hurting little heart. His parents split about a year ago and his dad moved away.

Then a neighbor named Wade Fulgum did the simplest, most powerful thing in the world.

He just walked across the street... and met the little boy who was always waving at him.

And it spread.

Now about a DOZEN neighbors, people who barely knew each other's names, show up for Roman's soccer games.

His basketball games. His swimming lessons. Even his preschool open house. His birthday party guest list was basically a map of the block.

One neighbor said it best: "If the world was like this child, what an awesome, awesome place it would be."

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[Cyrus @Cyrus1652]

Fake mirror prank🤣🤣

[Dan Hightower @Danhightower]

Daycare calls me. That's never good.

For them.

Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"

Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."

I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.

I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.

Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.

Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.

Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.

Nursemaid's elbow.

I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.

I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"

Daycare: "sir please leave."

Me: "you should have called my wife."

[UTSW Special Collections Library & Archives @UTSWArchives]

The UTSW Texas Behavioral Health Center is now open on Harry Hines and is a wonderful addition to the campus. We are excited to be able to offer this new addition to the Dallas and Texas community.
#buildingstuesday #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

[aijamayrock @aijamayrock]

My waiter had dementia and forgot my order.

I visited a cafe in Japan that ONLY hires people with Dementia. It's called the Cafe Of Mistaken Orders.

Sometimes the servers bring you the wrong food, never bring your order, or sit down and join you instead.

But the point of this cafe is to be a place for dementia patients to feel needed and have purpose.

And this cafe is working. Japan has discovered that being socially connected actually slows down the progression of dementia.

So now there are 8,000 dementia cafes all over Japan!

The U.S. should be more like Japan. We should keep elders out of nursing homes, find ways to give them purpose, and part of society until their last days.

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

Playing AC/DC’s music in retirement facilities is the way!

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Don't harm opossums! They’re harmless and actually really useful. They keep pests in check (eating ticks, roaches, rats, and scorpions), clean up dead animals, and help spread seeds. Basically, they’re nature’s cleanup crew

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Buzz. He performs a big stretch ritual before enjoying his daily ice cube. Please do not interrupt. 14/10

[LDR @ldr1020]

Happy 95th Birthday to my brave dad (in the middle) who has always appreciated a good sense of humor! 😁🧡🎂

[Ⱥmerican Trucker 🇺🇸 @taylorbilt]

Cutest thing you'll see today on X....

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX]

THIS IS HILARIOUS! 😂😂😂

“Play Dead” or else… 👇

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled the school shooter, walked into prom a few days later to a huge celebration from the students and was named prom king.

[Campaign For Uyghurs @CUyghurs]

Tomorrow marks the 36th anniversary of the Barin Massacre, when Uyghur men and women rose up against the CCP's forced abortion policies on April 5, 1990. The People's Liberation Army responded with overwhelming military force. Survivors faced mass detention, torture, and sham trials.

36 years later, the warnings from Barin have been confirmed. UN Special Rapporteurs warned in 2026 that the CCP's forced labor transfer system may amount to enslavement and crimes against humanity. Uyghur birth rates have been driven to near zero in some regions.

Barin was not an isolated moment. It was the beginning of a pattern that continues to this day.

https://t.co/6NnvhZLWTJ

[Dr. Heidi Klessig @heidiklessigmd]

Western medicine is complicit in the CCP’s program of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. 

The international human rights group, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) was denied an exhibition booth AGAIN this year by the apparently bought and paid for American Transplant Congress. 

For 20 years, DAFOH has taken the lead in exposing the CCP’s horrifying practice of executing political prisoners for their organs. DAFOH has received the 2019 Mother Teresa Award and 3 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet the American Transplant Congress doesn’t want them sharing their work with 4,000 American doctors and attendees.
@MDsAgainstFOH

[LDR @ldr1020]

@UTSW_Psychiatry @UTSWBrain

[LDR @ldr1020]

@UTSW_Psychiatry @UTSWBrain

[Leisha @LoneStarChica]

If I was walking on the beach and saw this, I’d literally cry.🥹❤️

[Leisha @LoneStarChica]

🆘 Maltese mix boy Deuce is on the ☠️ list Wed 3/4 simply because he is scared 🆘

⏰ He must have a RESCUE HOLD by 1PM.

💙🐶 Deuce #A1965064
Maltese Mix | Male | 1Y 11M | 12 lbs | HW negative

Volunteers say Deuce is terrified in the shelter and shaking, but when another volunteer got him outside he started to relax and cheer up. He just needs patience and a safe place to decompress.

Healthy, vaccinated, heartworm negative.

📧 Email with his ID A1965064
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Please share to help save him 🙏