Bruce Hermann, MD

One of the craziest medical videos I've taken in awhile. What do you think it is?? Leave a comment with your guess! #MedTwitter

@JohnWGant Karen post of the week. Congrats.

In a time (in the U.S.) of the highest homelessness in our history, of rising unemployment, folks can't afford to eat or buy gas to get to the shitty job they can't live on, if you have disposable income to pay a bunch of folks for your vanity project, don't bitch about it here.

@ASTROCHIMPANZEE @BigFootMau5 @MarioNawfal I don’t think the soft fiberglass like that will get under the skin.

@BigFootMau5 @MarioNawfal @bfhermann I’m just wondering where the fiberglass goes? Does the body expel it somehow?

If this is true… it's wildly messed up. Some clown at a construction site allegedly stuffed a roll of toilet paper into fiberglass insulation and left it in the site bathroom. As you can imagine, it didn't go well for the person who used it.

@ASTROCHIMPANZEE @BigFootMau5 @MarioNawfal I think it just makes you itch, doesn’t cause any damage, but I’m not 100% sure.

@BigFootMau5 @MarioNawfal This prank seems like a really bad idea. What happens to the fiberglass which gets embedded? @bfhermann

@MichaelBookCult Sick drawing!

The page of the book no one wants to open.

@Angelamac33367 Yeah, but more along the lines of being impressed by the originality of the premise over the writing style.

Do you ever read a book so good that you doubt your own ability to ever create anything like that? I know, imposter syndrome is real.

@DKemeridou Same. Every time someone tells me my book is too long I add another 100 pages lol.

I'm so tired of all the writing rules. "Don't do this", "Don't do that", blah blah blah... You know what? I'll do what I want. My book. My story. My characters. If I'm not allowed to write however I want, how am I supposed to have my own voice as an author? There IS an audience for me and my stories/poems, even if it's not a big one, and I don't mind.

Any Dungeon Crawler Carl fans out there? #DungeonCrawlerCarl #cosplay

@JamesEdgaWrites Ha, thanks. About 50K words in 6 weeks so steady progress.

@bfhermann Thank you! Keep going, you can do it!

After five months of writing, I have finished the third book in my saga! Suck it, AI users! All this on my own and I have recepits to prove it!

@bacchusplateau @hwjohnston7 100% accurate about Ready Player Two. First book is one of my absolute favorites but the presentism virtue signaling in second book was stomach churning. Was hard to finish it.

@hwjohnston7 Are you describing "presentism"? It's awful and I dislike it intensely. Take the sequel to "Ready Player One" for example. Hot trash. When book reviewers "revisit" the classics and call some passages "problematic" you know you're headed for a lecture that nobody asked for.

Do you believe authors should be sensitive to the times we live in? What if the story they write has characters from countries shrouded in controversy? I don't write books set in the real world and am curious.

@SDDonovan Already happening undoubtedly with both publishers and writers.

Here's a huge hot take. In a few years AI will be heavily used for editing books. I am not saying I agree with it, but I can definitely see it happening.

@golgfrombism @anish_koka If you don’t think people are that stupid you might be one of them heh. It wasn’t that uncommon back then. There were no lawsuits at the time for people to be afraid of.

@bfhermann @anish_koka I love how you retards think everyone is so stupid that they’re just out there admitting they are breaking the law to candidates.

“I spoke with an admissions officer at one of the schools that rejected me. He told me that I was extremely qualified and had everything the school looked for in an applicant. He said he couldn’t give me a concrete reason I wasn’t accepted, other than that I didn’t fit the demographic the school was prioritizing, and that other applicants were viewed as having “traveled a longer distance” to medicine. My application, he said, was evaluated through that lens. “

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@JamesAllenMaxey AI writing is trash and its idea creation even worse. Using it for research or proofing is reasonable. Really no different than using a google search bar or the built in tools in Word.

The main reason I'm hardening my opinions against AI in writing is because every single argument I've seen made for using it boils down to "I'm lazy," and "resistance is futile."

@golgfrombism @anish_koka Not uncommon in 90’s when interviewers too dumb to know they shouldn’t say it.

@bfhermann @anish_koka No you didnt

@90Sseah @golgfrombism @anish_koka Happened when I interviewed at the Air Force Academy in ‘94, and two med schools in ‘98. I don’t have any reason to lie. I’ve gotten in to everything I’ve applied for outside of Harvard and MIT for undergrad.

@golgfrombism @bfhermann @anish_koka Yup - Haha no way it happened in the 90s! This didn't happen until the late 2010s, come on!

@zyzzy1985 @avidseries In the many times I’ve been to Europe, every single person I talked to knew of Texas.

@avidseries New York and California should be the only ones in S tier. Think of movies and songs famous worldwide. Alaska, Texas, and Florida can maybe be a couple of tiers below but are closer to all other states than to S tier.

US state names, which I ranked in tiers, from most globally recognizable ("S") to least ("F").

@MeghanEMurphy Close to 70% of Americans play video games regularly, and the gender split is almost even with a slight tilt to males. I get your rage-baiting, but at least put some effort into it. Disappointing…

At the end of the day gamers are dorks and losers and everyone knows it. No one is like “oh yeah those guys are desirable .”

@SaraForTexLege Yet people move here in droves every year. Must be hard for you to believe that some people don’t want endless government spending.

Texas may be “number one for business” but it’s near the bottom for the people doing the living, working, voting, birthing, teaching, and trying to get health care here. - 46th in education funding - 49th in women’s reproductive care - 50th in uninsured rate - 49th in access to mental health services - 40th in preterm birth - 45th in public health funding, and - 1 in 5 Texas children don’t know where their next meal is coming from. But I’m sooooo glad that Greg Abbott has created a tax haven where businesses can come snatch up our land, drain all of our water, turn our air brown, jack up our energy costs AND pay low to no taxes to do it! What a deal! 🙄 We DEMAND better.