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

lol this season of Emily in Paris is just one giant ad for fashion and fragrance brands.

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"White Christmas" in Alabama is the nasty ass untanned redneck legs you see in too short shorts at the Pig

Your hope you have shouldn't be to get a white supremacist settler colony where shit's gravy for straight cis white men & everybody else gets the shaft back. You cannot be wanting anything the United States has ever been back. Hopefully we have opportunities to do better than that.

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... Lawmaker sues to stop Trump from adding name to Kennedy Center

www.vogue.com/slideshow/ve... Inside Venus Williams and Andrea Preti’s Five-Day Wedding at Home in Palm Beach

www.thecut.com/article/emac... The Era of Emaciation Celebrities and influencers have become worryingly thin. It’s impossible not to notice.

Yall keep letting news influencers dupe you with graphics and I want better for you

www.thewrap.com/industry-new... NYT Reporter John Carreyrou, 5 Others Sue OpenAI, Google, Meta for Copyright Infringement

It's like people need to be told that everything's gonna be sunny & alright with the empire because that's what they need to believe to hang on & they shame you as a doomer for noticing it's crumbling. Shit is bad & on a logical trajectory to get worse. You can buck up to survive it, though.

deadline.com/2025/12/aven... ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Teaser Unveiled: Chris Evans Is Coming Back As Steve Rogers

I really don’t think people understand how specious and vapid a lot of the arguments white women were making during the girl boss era And why it was so easy to manipulate them and their white knights And how much just criticism got deflected by reason like this

Max is both naughty and nice

Before Beyoncé, there was Esther Phillips: Celebrating the "Rhythm & Blues" singer's 90th birthday www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

How I’m turning up to the Bluesky Christmas Party

Hey with. The Epstein files … uhm how about we pass no laws about children access and “the internet” because the biggest thing these babies have to fear is in their house and in their legislature and til we know what We shouldn’t do shit that ain’t assuring their ability to tell these people NO

HEY SURVIVORS !! HEY ATTENTION TO ME beloveds you do not have to read or witness all of this . You do not have to re traumatize You don’t owe nobody nothing

I submitted my proposal for #ATmosphereConf and recommended 10 people I've met this year who live outside of the Bluesky bubble but have very interesting ideas on how to make social media a better place for everyone. One's even a white man #dei Would be a privilege to have them in one place.

Minerals have been an invaluable asset to human innovation and our everyday lives. As we celebrate the arrival of our new exhibition “Unearthed: Raw Beauty”, learn the many ways people have been utilizing minerals, from antiquity to today: go.nhm.org/building-blo...

✔️ Enter the Lake Pit ✔️ Selfie with the Columbian mammoth family ✔️ Sort real microfossils ✔️ Support our science Dig deep into the history and discoveries of La Brea #TarPits with our first-ever official Insider Tour on select dates: go.nhm.org/tar-pits-tour

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Kepa did NOT want to take a penalty again! LFC fans remember the last time he took one.

There is so much implicit and explicit harm produced by the ‘x illness warrior’ narrative. Disabled and sick people are, well, disabled and/or sick. There are going to be times when ‘fighting’ is the last thing on our minds. I just want to be a chronic illness slug. Maybe an epilepsy turtle?

Grind culture is not for the disabled, sorry dude who hasn't been cool in 20 years. We don't want to end up in the hospital.

I tried all day to live. And it was hard. But not as hard as for many but it felt hard to me. And I did it! 🏆

To be fair, copious sweating and ‘…uh’ is how Thiel responds to everything. He always seems so unhappy and guilty and I honestly love that for him.

Guy Rundel’s comments on Bondi massacre, motives and the increasingly silly response to it by Gov is worth a read open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...

I’d be very interested to know how many of these people are White too

Just realized both my rescue dogs were rescued from the streets and then taken to shelters (Charlie in Oklahoma and Sugar in Korea). They might look like chalk and cheese but they’re both obvious evidence of my desire to adopt every sad or sick street dog I’ve seen

Unleash appreciation!

That's why it doesn't matter if bluesky is an "echo chamber" because it's a critical mass.

This is pretty amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8O... If/when we finally get something like domestic robots, I wonder if companies like Disney will have an outsize role in figuring out how to make their appearance acceptable (something the various humanoid robot companies seem mediocre at)

Goodnight from St. Hedwig’s Polish church, where Father Backzkiewicz is repairing his Gwiazdor disguise before heading out on a round of gift-giving and fear-induction. Goodnight from Mike Hargate, back from doing business across the Bone Border. Goodnight from Hookland.

Just sharing this, can’t think of anyone better equipped to speak on this topic than Rua

And they would say that, wouldn't they?

Staring in historian of Western imperialism...

Well, friends...it happened. The 14 yr old turned into a 15 yr old today. Thoughts & prayers are appreciated. Over my objections, he became taller than me this year. So enjoy living in his birthday, and please appreciate this eel that he painted for me when he was about 7.

Only people who've never been incarcerated by psychiatry think it's the solution. Only them. The doctors, the family members. That's what they tell themselves. People who go through it, maybe they're even grateful it stabilized them, mostly agree that it is a terribly inhumane experience.

yet another desperate story about elite universities and their treatment of the dead — this time from Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

They made it so you can't do this after somebody did this with a training tape.

DoD is ostensibly, according to Regime, the "War Department" which means the "War Department" is now tracking Santa. Santa + War Department seems a little off. In any case, here is a brief, free and public to all, post about (some) of my issues with NORAD Tracks Santa. #NuclearWarOnXmas

You know what's insane? Thinking that going to Wegman's at 3 pm on December 23rd is a good idea. That's insane. Mindbogglingly insane. Don't ask me how I know.

How very odd. Would make a lovely beginning to a short story though

I love it when I look at an apartment listing and the kitchen appliances look like they're on the first 30 seconds of a blind date.

A recession indicator:

Merry Christmas I guess

Trump 1.0: “The big cases … went ‘one for you, one for me,’ which … help[ed] bolster the court’s legitimacy” (Lee Epstein). Trump 2.0: The court gave Trump an L once in a great while, which A/ sufficed for a big enough audience to breathe a sigh of relief. B/ fooled no one. Let’s see which it is.

I’m gonna deal with my sensitivity of people uncritically quoting Arendt about photography and perception Ain’t today though I need a lot of people to understand that part of the reason we are here is because the minute bodies aren’t white even you anti totalitarianism faces didn’t give a fuck

You don't have to confine people in mental crisis to a limited space that's carceral. If we care as a world, we can conceive of better ways to hold people's suffering. They are only out of our grasp because there's not enough will.

Only one person has ever retracted their signing of that letter They also helped suppress the response letter !

I’m still swimming from the irony of me performing as the disgraced head of the fallen Trojans in the Museum that unlawfully held the remains of the MOVE victims,native remains and stolen history while my father was being deported at the start of Iraq war ….

That's where we must agree to disagree, as a mad person.

The government is doing child sex abuse memes? Trying to laugh it off? Gross.

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Just randomly thinking that as a disabled student who became a disabled faculty member who is now finding teaching in the gAI age incredibly debilitating, disabled people do not get to be uncritical of gAI, or indeed, anything as access technologies, simply because we are disabled.

I'm tired of hearing it's unconstitutional at this point. We passed unconstitutional many moons ago, & many times. The constitution is Trump's toilet paper.

just saw somebody say “after Mary’s water breaks” and it took me a good three minutes to get Christmas eve

Am i “good”? No But i “am”

I know I'm not a big shot among published writers but I still think I'm a worthy writer to be read. And I still think my work holds up to the big shots. That's my truth!

In the history of 60 minutes… it has never been 45 minutes That’s really all you need to know

… mang when I read how conservatives support versus what me and others have gotten for being visionaries! Thought leaders ! Etc Dawg I know like 150 people who could be SHAPING THE WORLD

I definitely did not meet my writing goal before the holiday. But I did write.

One of my midwifery sibs is a Cap married to a Cancer and she is convinced the reverse is my destiny.

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Money cannot buy you likeability.

Art people - What's an alternate name for urban grey? I need to buy paint for my walls. -_-

I'm not an abolitionist of all of psychiatry. The drugs are great so thanks. I know if they cared about mad people the drugs wouldn't destroy our bodies but I digress. I'm an abolitionist of caging people for madness. It's well possible for people in mental crisis to be cared for in community.

“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.” Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.” Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Big Joel bringing his film education to bear on Knight Before Christmas to diagnose it as having "no conflict" genuinely made me laugh.

A grad student wrote of one of my books: She uses "I" all the time - you'd think Stanford would have taught her better! (I would not punch down but if you want to say nonsense about me on the interwebs, then 🤷‍♀️. Vive the first person!)

Very good news— an important limitation on presidential power.

Gonna start shipping philosophers. Plato x Aristotle x Socrates (any combinations thereof) is too easy and quasi-canon anyway. Think bigger.

I’m honestly asking. Why wouldn’t people whose whole goal is power , control and the subjugation of non whites , Why wouldn’t they want us to know. It’s a flex and they’ve been able to mean girl bully folks out They want to threaten Sharyn Alfonsi and this is the flex

And if I have good intent.. why wouldn’t I want to know it’s not working ?!?

We've really removed consequences and shame for all but the innocent and vulnerable. Worst possible way to be reminded of the existence of a great instrumentalist.

When I still had a car, which granted was banged up, a lady who was mad at me in traffic rolled down her window & said, "That's why your car so fucked up!"

Do folks running our institutions not realize capitulating in the form of firing people from their literal livelihoods at the unjustified whims of the influential brings us all (including and also in some cases Especially people in administrative positions) closer to ‘Off With Their Heads’ society?

Do the folks running our institutions not realize that capitulating in the form of firing people from their literal livelihoods at the unjustified whims of the influential brings us all, including and also in some cases Especially people in administrative positions to ‘Off With Their Heads’ society?

Bad advice! The rats like this! If you give them what they want, they will just come back for more rides!

It's Reform minus three, Labour plus two. Very extremely within normal variation imo

When you hear what pretty much anyone who's survived psychiatric incarceration can tell you from their experience it will horrify you because it's hidden to most, & I want it to come to light.

14 I believe. Making the King a pedo. Let's see if the dude shows up LOLZ.

lol me all holiday season:

I bet he really goes ham when you say Elvis stole Black music.

my bad. I thought you #atproto folks were still discussing if the button should be “login with Bluesky” or “login with atproto”… didn’t mean to distract from that by bringing up 💸 if you wanna be really really useful this Christmas Eve Eve, please make a fork of Ozone that actually works, thx

"Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates that the medical profession still fails to grasp basic facts about race..." -- @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/why-bla...

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EARLY AFTERNOON! HOORAY ADORABLE GREEN EYED KITTY AND THEIR ADORABLE YET CLEARLY UNPREPARED SELFIE!😻😻😻

My aunt brought me these wonderful cat themed chopsticks from her recent visit to Japan! :D

How it looks in real life

It's not just underreported, literally there are no consequences for psychiatric abuse. And you're right, once you're crazy, they easily use that against you to discard everything you say. And I have survived psychiatric abuse. And I will navigate psychiatric abuse as long as I live.

You see how y’all don’t believe in building dynamic communities???

Ben Sasse says and knows he is dying of advanced stage pancreatic cancer (but says he’s gonna fight anyway, because cliche). Sigh.

USA continues to demand zero enrichment (having pulled a Pearl Harbor style surprise attack on Iranian nuclear facilities during last round of nuclear talks). Iran continues to make clear that it will not accept zero enrichment, ceteris paribus. Trump has repeatedly shit the bed re: Iran

I will never be too good for strangers trapped in a 3 day snow storm enemies to sweet heat program!

"Delaware State Police posted on X about the active shooter and said more updates are to follow." This is why I never get critical emergency updates in this state of 25 people

Intention for the day: finish easy syllabus (a revision of my MA capstone writing class, incorporating feedback from fall students on evals). Get back to work on hard syllabus, new History of Media grad class. Use backward design to help me stop stalling on what to include!

I love the versatility of "baby" in Black vernacular. It's very tonal. Like the dude in the corner store calls me baby in a way that's not cool. An older woman or man, stranger or loved one, may call me baby. I may express a superior tone or warmth with it. When I call my lover baby it's special.