Recent posts by Historians of Health, Medicine & Disability Network on Bluesky

I'm a pork and poultry based lifeform so I'm taking this burger craving I'm having as seriously as a cat giving birth to a litter of snakes; slightly above alarm but confident the Hellmouth won't get the best of me as long as I take my iron.

Goodnight from Reg Duston, worried the rusting iron lace around Lord Blake’s grave is finally going to give out and let his spirit walk again. Goodnight from Harriet Childs, terrified of having to endure yet another evening of apocalyptic previsions. Goodnight from Hookland.

Honestly fuck everyone who has more power than me but fewer morals and ethics. The good they could do but choose not to.... This is me being mad about the Pope, but feel free to be angry at the baddie of your choice

Trying to imagine using your billionaire platform to say this, if the 2024 candidate you stumped for had won. @mcuban.bsky.social This blatant morality shift—whichever way your wealth grows—is a big reason no one likes the ultra-wealthy except the ultra wealth. And y’all don’t even like each other.

No better time than the present to share or donate.

I have like 40 mutuals with that account

This is absurd. Jonas Valanciunas essentially said he does not want to be in America anymore. Presumably because he has eyes and ears and a brain. He decommitted to the Nuggets, said he does not want the money and committed to an overseas team for literally tens of millions less. Let him go.

I hadn't even heard of this book so this was an extra level of bonkers for me

“Human rights charity” is a hell of a euphemism for an organisation that demands you dig up pedestrian crossings to erase support for trans people from public spaces.

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White people: the race of Donald Trump

Statistically, Sen. Lisa Murkowski represents her White Boomer demographic quite well. Numbers don’t lie.

Let's see how this goes.

all tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities:

thinking about pitching an essay on walking & recovery from substance abuse, addressing in part how fucking annoying it is how much exercise helps.

It's been interesting to watch y'all talk about women who steal their masculine partner's clothes. As a Femme Giantess of Ample Cheeks that's not interesting nor feasible for me. Now your tools? Your headphones? Your trinket-like gadgets I can find a use for? Already gone.

Went for a bike ride and took a cool picture I think

It’s spelled PIANAAPE :)

If being against Netanyahu and the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians is the reason why I will need to leave this country, then so be it

Reading Nancy Greenspan's biography of Max Born, and oddly enough, among his papers she found an autographed thankyou letter from Hitler for his work at Gottingen! Odd because Born was Jewish and soon after booted from that institution. Apparently it had been signed with autopen.

At least the youngest is getting in some sailing time this summer 🌞 🌊🌊🌊 ⛵️

I agree. They have so many other activities that week as well. The insistence on torturing bulls to death as a ‘sport’ is repulsive. The running of the bulls is also horrible. They can find alternatives.

Thank you for making me smile and laugh fellow users. I have had many good times because of you.

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Gotta love my elder friend who doesn't text enough to decipher "sbe" as a typo for she, but has a working atlas of my exes at her fingertips.

The smears against Mamdani—based on cynical weaponization of identity politics—are straight out of a playbook used to defame any critics of Israel’s government.

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Listen pickups are fun … probably unreasonable but fun

"Humanity has only managed to eradicate one human disease from the planet: smallpox. Could hepatitis C be the second? english.elpais.com/science-tech... Charles Rice, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine:

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Fishing using your hand as bait… specifically putting your hand in holes underwater Pickups just trucks

He said “fuck you looking at?” Lmaoooooo

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

You don’t appreciate until you are a parent how many things appear fully assembled (IKEA couches, bikes, toy sets) while you are napping or sleeping. As it turns out, I am a terrible elf.

You know too much about my business… you from down yonder???? 🧐

Only ate my half of the Classic Italian but Oh My God

Nah he was hitting that 💩

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE MID-AFTERNOON! HOORAY BLEPPING TUXIE KITTY!😻😻😻

How long have I been teaching African history? This long. 👇🏽

Undocumented immigrants and their families are vulnerable to unscrupulous people trying to take advantage of heightened fears and uncertainty of immigration raids resulting from Trump’s promise of ethnic cleansing www.fresnobee.com/news/local/a...

I am definitely from a cohort of Americans that will drink unknown substances from a glass jar

I’ve been in Ireland for 2 days, had 1 Guinness, and it cost me €0. Not sure why the tavern comp’ed it, but so far everyone here is ridiculously friendly. 🍺

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Yup that's our man Elon who has the heart of America's middle, not an extremist at all, the change we need.

Letting something bite you is thrilling

They deserve to be counted

Fishing with your hand

That’s the meth talking

It’s about power and the thrill of getting away with it. There’s no connection to reality or real-life harm being caused because he - and we all know it’s a he - does not have to face any consequences for impersonating a man already dealing with a literal genocide.

Also… i tend not to trust people who don’t participate in at least one low brow activity Noodling Real housewives Pickups Monster truck rallies Professional wrestling

See how y’all defend it????? Very methy

My other unpopular opinion is that women and yes even marginalized women and people raised as them forget intra group hierarchies to justify being abusive And they are often the ones who go into therapy and “helping the most” They just localize their damage

Y’all not trying to get chose… I’ll put on the jersey

Also it gave us great things but the internet also gave us way to many words for people to try and justify them being Transactional chaos demons who continually operate on a principle of not wanting anyone to feel safe until they do.

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Those "writing-centered" activities look a lot like cheating to me.

At the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain: “stop the genocide, free Palestine” www.instagram.com/reel/DLxZ2pD...

And after America has long passed from the scene, there will STILL be Black People. #Blacksky

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I just got a new passport card and birth certificate, and let me tell you that they are NOT CHEAP. Making them a requirement for voting amounts to a poll tax.

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Fake "treatments" for autism that you should avoid include chelation, supplements, bleach, and raw camel's milk. Remember: Autism is where your brain develops differently to non-autistic people. It is not an illness, so what autistic people need are supports, not a cure: www.nhs.uk/conditions/a...

Remember when Donald Trump went and got those White South Africans … and called them refugees???? That was this year

This is also refreshing on a hot summer day.

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The UK justice system failed to hold Blair accountable for his war crimes so, naturally, other Arabs have to also pay the price for it

just turned on Saved #nfotd

I have to attend a southern funeral on Zoom. My whole day probably cooked.

I feel like of all the things that cishet men will claim expertise on without any evidence of prior experience, with the acknowledgment that they will do that with literally anything, Grilling is the absolute number one thing that they will do that with.

It’s really easy to say that glibly when you can walk around and have you very existence not deemed a “culture problem” But if we’re talking class while you do this Are you thinking of how to dismantle whiteness as a class Or is this just to silence brown folks point out “class war” flaws

Right in the middle of Dartmoor (and therefore comfortably in the middle of Devon and "cream first" territory), this cafe is still prepared to milk a grudge for tips.

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So asking for help is bannable but creating deep fakes is okay?

... does the author of this piece have the requisite expertise to ask and answer this question?

Elizabeth killed ANOTHER man

“It’s a class war now” Who exactly is being snatched and locked up

I called it: attacks on public sector workers (esp in the federal gov't) are attacks on Black workers- especially Black women.

Any educators who have the ear of their administrators: share this with them. And instead of throwing money into one or other poison-well, fund teachers - and fund people trained in the humanities. This is why every person must have access to education. #AcademicSky #history

And “class” isn’t enough sorry Because Arendt looked at videos and photos of segregation and attacks and blamed the Black people Race isn’t enough because folks signed up for a bag to spend years telling people immigrants weee over reacting This is deeper and needs deep solutions

"Unemployment rates over the past year have remained largely steady for every group of workers but one: Black women, whose unemployment rates have been rising." 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...

Materialist analysis (being mean to the libs on the internet dot com) is a necessary precursor to any true revolutionary action (also being mean to the libs on the internet dot com).

Social death for some is entertainment for others And people will worry more about “rehabbing” these death tourists than protecting the people they are taking entertainment from watching die

got my first student & I’m already so excited just talking logistics. I forgot how cool it is to work with high school seniors on developing their writer’s voice & coming up with an admissions essay & prompt responses they’re proud of. let’s go!

The venue for tonight’s astral lock-in is The Barrow Brindle pub at Swyreford. Topics for discussion will include how to make Embassy with Faerie, which is the correct way for a horseshoe to be hung and the ethics of cursing local politicians.

just spit out my drink, laughing 😂🤣

You could ask AI to summarize Moby Dick for you, or write a paper about it for you, but you would lose out on one of the greatest joys of human life, which is to savor art.

A reminder that autistic people who are AFAB (assigned female at birth) "should receive tailored support in education, identity development, health care, and social and professional sense of belonging." From @mengchuanlai.bsky.social et al: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #neurodiversity

@raea.meangirls.online

Arguably, "the west" is a concept forged in violent dispossession (theft), displacement (settler/colonialism; concentration camps), and exploitation (chattel slavery & other slavery-like labor systems (e.g. debt peonage a la chibalo labor under the Portuguese).

Or they are using it to try and form mini cults around themselves where they mistake respect for control

Yup. And in which case, you’d never use the possessive “my.”

One of the (many) reasons Evan has been so important (for me, for many) is his superpower for drawing connections (of ideas, research, people) — once again he notes a way larp has a lot to teach Actual Play (and other forms of public-facing play-work in the field) in the hopes that we fare better.

This is the big one for me !! Someone who tries to police your care or demand you only have it for them and then tries to make you not centering them a reason to be cruel And it’s hard because they are often hurting…. But they mistake sharing the hurt for healing

You do not have to leave your husband

When I teach about the Women's Health Movement and The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, I usually start with this image: the UPenn Medical class of 1970.

Ok, this one, I actually like 😂🇺🇸

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY!!!