Without starting a fight, may I just say that if you deeply and profoundly understand the need for human contact as a result of Covid, you might consider doing something to help the people still at high risk from Covid access it, instead of acting in ways that excludes and isolates them.

I hate the speech too. And I hate even more that it doesn’t seem to make any difference and they all use AI anyway.

This sounds exactly like something that would happen (probably is happening) at my Uni.

Could?! ARE!

Reporting is typically slow, so this number will go up. At this time last year, reported deaths were 134, and rose to 293 over time.

It’s Long Covid Awareness Day, and my sixth anniversary of being sick from it. My first impulse for commemorating this was to set all the meds and treatments I’ve tried to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire, or Tom Lehrer’s The Elements (which uses I Am the Very Model of A Modern Major General).

This is hilarious and terrifying for how accurate it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBV...

I am the only person who 😷s in my workplace and this is 💯 accurate

This is amazing and so much better because of the accent. I could listen to him say “shitty” all day.

Personally, I don't think babies should die if we can take steps to prevent viral transmission before they have a chance to get vaccinated. Like wearing a mask. Or improving indoor air quality. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/bab...

The first of the crocuses (croci?) are up! #BloomScrolling

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

My #COVID contribution post to the void: I sit on the Employee Wellness Committee (EWC) at my institution. We surveyed employees during summer 2020 regarding stress and health, and then again in fall 2022, during which I added a section about COVID using the Household Pulse survey questions.

"The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence." archive.is/qBbZJ#select...

The only reason computer feedback makes any sense to anyone in schools is because of the need to respond to austerity: teachers tend to have too many students, too many classes, too many non-teaching responsibilities.

#tdih 1851 Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped from slavery in Norfolk, became first person arrested in Mass. under horrific Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A group of abolitionists freed Minkins from U.S. Marshals in Boston & helped him escape to Canada. Read⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sh...

Finished @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s Freedom Ship today, and there is no way anyone can read about the history of abolition and the Fugitive Slave Act and not draw parallels to what is happening today. Next up reading for #BlackHistoryMonth:

Excited to get started with the first of my #BlackHistoryMonth reading!

Me being introduced to Gangstagrass Love a woke banjo

I live in a very conservative area of Virginia. I do not regret to tell you #WeAreGoingToWin, as there was way more supportive honking and waving than there was opposition.

During undergrad: Murder in America (led to opposition to the death penalty) Social Problems (led to adding sociology as a second major) Appalachian Studies (Introduced me to one of my favorite novels, The Unquiet Earth) Spanish Literature (Led me to Gabriel Garcia Marquez!) Social Psychology

My favorite scene from all of Schitts Creek. What a loss. youtu.be/jVojhvifruk?...

Yep

I said something today about my class not probably being on our campus at the start of the pandemic and they were like, “yeah, no. We were in 7th grade.” I died. I’m still there on the floor of that classroom. Dead.

Ooof

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

This is the Republican Party in a nutshell - they believe they unilaterally decide what everybody else can or cannot do. And they fully plan to take it global, we’re watching it happen.

I thought my dog had a doppleganger before, but holy cow! That looks just like him!

Jan. 1 #tdih 🧵 #1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as original pioneer emancipator of 19th cent. — F. Douglass ⬇️ Art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

My first 😭 of 2026.

My final two reads of 2025: Heartwood by Amity Gaige and The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore.

Wow, I’m in the top 4%, having read ~75 books this year. That’s down quite a bit from the more than 100 I read in 2024. I think I should be able to count Baldwin as 4-5 books though given its length 😆 Also I read with my kids each night, so if I include those YA novels it adds another 14-15.

This book sounds so good - just added it to my 2026 reading list!

On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.

I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.

How can anyone see this and continue to demonize immigrants. I want to send him all the good vibes for full recovery!

The shooting at Brown is hitting me really hard. Not because I am a professor working in higher education or a VT alum. It’s because my own parents vote for this, election after election. They vote for people who call me “the enemy.” For people who continue to make access to guns easier.

Evergreen

We are a deeply unwell society.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

My starting salary in higher Ed in 2012 was $50k. Thirteen years and everything costs exponentially more but salaries have NOT grown. Wtf.

It’s all about finding your “why” 🤣

Another study, currently posted as a pre-print, linking long COVID and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/connective tissue disorders. People with EDS are 4x as likely to develop LC. COVID is not good for connective tissue, and connective tissue is found throughout the body! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Everything about SARS-CoV-2 weakens us as a species. Population-level immune dysregulation leading to both reactivation of latent pathogens and creating niches for new ones; the politicisation of our response regressing public health and massively amplifying anti-vax ideology.

She should be shamed so spectacularly for this that she is never able to show her face in public ever again.

They relish being able to kill with impunity. This is only going to get worse.