One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

img description: progress pride flag with additional stripes on the chrevron in the colors of new jersey transit (i think)

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

Excellent choice!

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

The art of the soundtrack as mix tape (The Crow, Tank Girl, Cruel Intentions) has been replaced for tracks written for the movie or just orchestral scores and I hate it. I want B-sides from every popular band on soundtracks. I want someone curating it to put crazy combinations together. I miss it.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

I published about this last year - wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... An earlier reference is in 'The History of the Syon Monastery at Lisbon and Brentford' from 1450 (wasn't widely known when this was written in February 2025). Prior to this we debate what is 'language' and what is 'gesture'.

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

will probably delete this because it's embarrassing, but I can't express how profoundly stressful and disturbing it is to be surveilled by your students, especially if you've ever been stalked. knowing your employer will do nothing to help or protect you from harassment is just beyond the pale.

Postpartum be like

Something compelled me to make this

Today's frog is the cape rain frog.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

I like to draw fish (suspect i'm better at that than horses but . . . ) drawafish.com

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

So, you can kind of see where Herbie from The Love Bug (1968) and Christine from the film Christine (1983), is a transfem allegory with sentient cars- Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

“Wuthering Heights” is not a romance. It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”. I will die on this hill.

i need an emotional support perogi

Programs that publicly ID disabled people to the police falsely assume that police won't do police brutality because they know a person is disabled. Police kill people who are clearly in mental health crisis. There's a reason why I don't write short articles celebrating these state laws.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

what, and I mean, the fuck

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

Looks like it's University of Chicago Press super-sale time again. Might I recommend not getting ebooks from them no matter how good the deal? I got 4 from the last sale, and they're so locked down that they need extra software + can't be annotated. So they miss the point of academic books.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The reason why people make music for the gays is because we still actually dance at events.

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Name them shame them