Sam Waller
@samwalmd.bsky.social
Oncologist, Husband, Father, Widower, Occasional Clarinetist, Living in Venice
The Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci docked in Venice.
October 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci docked in Venice.
As a scientist and gay dad, I highly recommend this wonderful book. It is literally filled with wonders.
October 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
As a scientist and gay dad, I highly recommend this wonderful book. It is literally filled with wonders.
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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
September 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Lyrics from Irving Berlin’s 1941 song about Hitler: “When that man is dead and gone”
“Satan thought up a plan/dressed as a man/walking the earth/And since he began/the world is hell for you and me/but what a heaven it will be/when that man is dead and gone.”
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“Satan thought up a plan/dressed as a man/walking the earth/And since he began/the world is hell for you and me/but what a heaven it will be/when that man is dead and gone.”
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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September 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Lyrics from Irving Berlin’s 1941 song about Hitler: “When that man is dead and gone”
“Satan thought up a plan/dressed as a man/walking the earth/And since he began/the world is hell for you and me/but what a heaven it will be/when that man is dead and gone.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
“Satan thought up a plan/dressed as a man/walking the earth/And since he began/the world is hell for you and me/but what a heaven it will be/when that man is dead and gone.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
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Donald Trump is so crude, stupid, and lowbrow, he has no appreciation for the majestic beauty of our national parks. If a place doesn't have gaudy gilding, flashing neon, and ringing cash registers, he doesn't see worth.
“National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands visited Grand Teton National Park this week and looked at three potential locations for a baseball park within the park’s boundaries”
WTF 🤬
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WTF 🤬
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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September 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Donald Trump is so crude, stupid, and lowbrow, he has no appreciation for the majestic beauty of our national parks. If a place doesn't have gaudy gilding, flashing neon, and ringing cash registers, he doesn't see worth.
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This guy!!!!!!!!!!!
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
September 24, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This guy!!!!!!!!!!!
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Of course it does.
White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Blocking Trump’s Ban
A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets, but reporters were denied access on Thursday. Their lawyers asked the judge to intervene; he ordered the administr...
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September 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Of course it does.
Congratulations Joe, from a queer parent who loved your book.
Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about.
I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid.
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I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid.
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September 21, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Congratulations Joe, from a queer parent who loved your book.
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He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world--
TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
September 18, 2026 at 10:12 PM
He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
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RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation…
Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
Giardino sotto la pioggia
September 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Giardino sotto la pioggia
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Don’t believe the lies. Trump is *not* selling $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide.
It’s worse.
Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.
It’s worse.
Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.
September 16, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Don’t believe the lies. Trump is *not* selling $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide.
It’s worse.
Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.
It’s worse.
Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.
recording from Sunday's performance
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September 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
recording from Sunday's performance
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And the United States can eliminate Taliban terrorist attacks in America by turning its government over to the Taliban.
Jared Kushner can make a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, provided Zelenskyy gives Putin everything he wants.
September 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
And the United States can eliminate Taliban terrorist attacks in America by turning its government over to the Taliban.
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I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
September 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
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This administration is all-in when it comes to grown men who are into abusing children.
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand.
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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September 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This administration is all-in when it comes to grown men who are into abusing children.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," and "we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
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Edward R. Murrow,
March 1954
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Edward R. Murrow,
March 1954
September 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," and "we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
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Edward R. Murrow,
March 1954
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Edward R. Murrow,
March 1954
Azerbaijan Pavilion Venice
September 10, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Azerbaijan Pavilion Venice
Don't talk to anyone who wears a new Apple Watch if you value your privacy. Apple will be spying on you.
We want clean air and water and a livable climate. Instead we are getting AI to record all of our conversations through a watch.
The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac
Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...
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September 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Don't talk to anyone who wears a new Apple Watch if you value your privacy. Apple will be spying on you.