Localizer, MD

@localizedlesion.bsky.social

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Diet soda-fueled neurologist/MS fellow here to defend your myelin and your human rights. I like dad jokes but my kids don't. he/him/his #NeuroSky #MedSky

Diane in Crimson Paw outfit
Diane (aka The Crimson Paw), an anthropomorphic fox woman from The Bad Guys who is formerly a thief but now is her governor but sometimes still does thief stuff (I’m not clear on the details, I haven’t watched the movie the whole way through)
Picture in the font from the upcoming pokopia game. Cartoonish letters in green, orange, blue, and purple striped patterns. The text is “somebody help, it’s all too much”
Leah Libresco Sargeant ® @LeahLibresco "Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market.' Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved."
A picture of a Girl Scouts badge that says “I love Girl Scout cookies”. I earned this badge by ordering cookies. You should order some too so you can also have a cool badge!
Picture of Captain Barnacles (a cute anthropomorphic polar bear wearing a blue uniform) from Octonauts
Screenshot of an Instagram post from the journal Neurology that says “A new study links eating more high-fat cheese and cream to a lower risk of developing dementia”
Poster for the movie Titanic
Screenshot of a social media ad from Lilly encouraging people to learn more about clinical trials. It strangely features a patient sitting on an exam table talking to a doctor in a white coat who looks identical to him including the color of his shirt, the watch they’re wearing on their left wrist and the yellow bracelet they’re both wearing on the right wrist. I don’t understand the message here. Ask yourself about clinical trials? Only ask if you’re a doctor also? What am I supposed to take from this???
“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.” René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951
Screenshot from Zelda BOTW. Zelda is walking ahead of Link.
Screenshot of a Wikipedia article reading “Anti-Italianism arose among some Americans as an effect of the large-scale immigration of Italians to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The majority of Italian immigrants to the United States arrived in waves in the early 20th century, many of them from agrarian backgrounds. Nearly all the Italian immigrants were Catholic, as opposed to the nation's Protestant majority. Because the immigrants often lacked formal education and competed with earlier immigrants for lower-paying jobs and housing, significant hostility developed toward them.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism
Meme of Phoebe from the show Friends trying to teach Joey to say something correctly. Word by word it’s “kittens,” “in,” “mittens,” but when she tells him to say the whole phrase “kittens in mittens” he responds “BABY SHARK!!”
Common meme with a picture of Kirby (round pink video game character) smiling and pointing at the words “I’m baby.” I’ve replaced the pointer in his hand with a reflex hammer.
Meme with pictures of Aslan from the movie The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. He is saying “Do not cite the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written.”
A picture of the Pokémon Blastoise, a large turtle who walks on two legs and has water cannons sticking out of his shell on either side of his head
A screenshot of a post on Twitter from 2024. Original post says “Doing some witchcraft. Please feel free to comment with whatever you’d like to manifest for yourself, to be added to the flames.” There is a video of a candle in the midst of a campfire getting started and there’s some cool witchy incantations happening. There’s a comment from me saying “Grant application funded by the end of fellowship. 5 enjoys kindergarten, especially making friends and learning to read.”
Shot from recent short Bluey cartoon “Archeology” with Bluey’s dad Bandit holding up a fossil bone that he is presenting at an academic event of some kind.
Screenshot of a phone keyboard where “crappies” is suggested as an auto-complete as I’m typing “crapped” (so far crapp is entered)
Screenshot of an article just published in JAMA Neurology titled “Discontinuation of First-Line Disease-Modifying Therapy in Stable Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: The DOT-MS Randomized Clinical Trial” published Dec 9, 2024 and authored by Eline M.E. Coerver and colleagues.
Graph with counties’ health expenditure per capita on the X-axis and life expectancy on the y-axis. The US stands apart fill all the other countries in the graph in that expenditure is much higher and life expectancy is lower.
Screenshot from blueskyroast.com that says: The Good Doctor of Bluesky: Dad Jokes and Social Justice in Perfect Harmony A neurologist who mixes myelin with memes and social justice while avoiding the cringe of dad jokes. A blend of serious scholar and playful meme lord, with a sprinkle of righteous indignation.
A picture of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars. This particular picture is featured in a number of memes where it is mistaken for depictions of Jesus Christ.
Map of a cholera outbreak that occurred in London in 1854. John Snow created the map and successfully deduced that the infection was transmitted in drinking water years before the advent of germ theory.
Screenshot of a post from X/Twitter by Dinesh D’Souza depicting a female conductor rehearsing with a symphony orchestra. Her movements and facial expressions are quite energetic and animated. The post reads “Someone should run up to the front and yank this self-serving conductor out of there. She’s ruining it! It’s not all about the conductor; it’s about the music. Let the music take center stage”
Screenshot of a post of the Norman Rockwell/Saturday Evening Post picture of a man standing to make his voice heard in a public meeting. The caption is “Ozempic is bad because it should be okay to just be fat.”
Screenshot from Twitter/X of a tweet where I shared a GIF from the movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse showing Miles Morales listening to music. The tweet reads “At this moment in Across the Spider-verse there's floaty music that says ‘Would I sign up again?’ That moment kinda haunts me. Because I'm not sure. Sometimes the last 15 years of my life and everything my family has gone through with me feels like a complete waste.”
Screenshot of an article titled “RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps”
Multiple sclerosis in a multi-ethnic population from Northern California: a retrospective analysis, 2010-2016 Robert J. Romanelli et al BMC Neurology, 2020
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Multiple Sclerosis Prevalence Annette Langer-Gould et al Neurology, 2022
Incidence of multiple sclerosis in multiple racial and ethnic groups Annette Langer-Gould et al Neurology, 2013
The Gulf War era multiple sclerosis cohort: age and incidence by race, sex and service Mitchell T. Wallin et al Brain, 2012
A bunch of pikachu plushies that all look like they’re screaming in terror for some reason
Tweet from 12/8/2020 reading, "My predictions for how this season of The Mandalorian ends: A jedi heard Grogu's message. They gang is surrounded by dark troopers when a green lightsaber appears and cuts bad guys down. The weilder turns and reveals his face to be Luke Skywalker. Fade to black/to be continued." A few days later my prediction proved to be correct.
Picture of a Hylian Shield from the Legend of Zelda video games
Picture of an ebay listing for a Pikachu necklace made by Tiffany that comes in a PokeBall that's the signature Tiffany blue and costs $16,500 (can you imagine having that kind of money to spend on something like this?!?!)
Picture of the characters from the kids' show Octonauts gathered to do their "creature report" at the end of each episode where they talk about some cool sea creature facts and do a little song and dance
Photo of a car that I'm honestly really struggling to describe. Like the grill thing is over beneath the right headlight instead of in the middle or all the war across like you'd think. I think there's a weird wrap on the car that is on crooked or something. Anyway, the headlights kinda look like eyes and the grill opening thing looks like a mouth that can only open on the right.
Picture identifying me as the 175,648th person to join BlueSky.
Picture of my hand holding a can of the new Oreo-flavores Coke Zero Sugar
Bernie Sanders meme captioned "I am once again asking that you not be mad at me"
Meme of Drake shying away from "the symptoms never occurred at the same time" and pointing/smiling at "these neurologic phenomena have never been temporally coincident"
Poster for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Picture of Michael Scott from The Office with the caption "That's what she said"
A picture of Hondo Ohnaka, a space pirate character from Star Wars cartoons
Screenshot from a Reddit post featuring a tweet from Omnintensivist. Tweet reads "When my son Seth was little, he would beg his brother to put him in this particular pillow case and swing him around. I know it's insane and the only reason I'm telling you is because they're grown up and I can't lose custody of them." There are two pictures showing the swinging pillowcase child.
Guido from the movie Cars
A still from the movie Cars where a minivan with a mattress strapped to the top is passing Mack the truck
Elmo from Sesame Street making an awkward face
Twitter ad from "USA Raeliam Movement." Logo appears to be a swastika inside a Star of David. There is a picture of earth with a bunch of animals and two human silhouettes. Above all that is an alien flying saucer with a DNA double helix coming out of it. The picture also includes the words "Extraterrestrials created all life on Earth!" The ad/tweet itself reads "Most people believe that life on Earth is either the result of random evolution or the creation of a supernatural god. But is there another possibility? The book 'Intelligent Design' presents a third option: life on earth was created by advanced scientists from another world."
Kanan Jarrus from Star Wars Rebels wearing a mask over his eyes and holding his lightsaber
A clip for the valence on blinds (I think?) that vaguely resembles a dinosaur (parts of it look like a mouth and tail)
Screenshot from Twitter/X. Elon Musk posted a meme of the Madagascar penguins. Three of them with logos for other social media apps are saluting the officer penguin who has an X logo. Also there is candy corn on the floor for some reason.
A picture from the movie Rogue One showing the characters Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus
Picture of a "Reaper" (giant alien robot/spaceship resembling a squid) from the Mass Effect games