"You look sick" Me: Thanks. It's the sickness.

So happens now is this rise measles will also create a rise in all vaccine-preventable illnesses (and other illnesses) b/c everyone who recovers will essentially be reduced to immune system infancy. It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.

If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology. Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.

I could say a lot just about that sentence. Medicine is not common sense. It's research and effort and it takes time. There is no "common sense" shortcut to understanding human biology.

Sorry if I sound like a broken record, I just want people to realize it IS okay to get the current 2024-2025 COVID vaccine as a booster this year, ESPECIALLY if you know you will not be eligible to get the updated 2025-2026 vaccine due to this administration’s restrictions.

ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’. They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters. Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care. ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity. The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.

When doctors can't figure out what the hell is wrong with you, they send you to Rheumatology. When rheumatology doesn't know what the hell is wrong with you, you are so f-cked.

What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.

Good for her, and for Boston.

“The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 & today our immigrant brothers & sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, & it is a miscarriage of justice now,” Burroughs continued.

Let us not forget that joy is an act of resistance.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

monday again

I won't always keep a long streak in reading apps. And that's okay. I don't want to be driven by the compulsive need to maintain a streak and read a novel because I "must."

Real talk: the Social Security trust fund will run out soon if nothing is done.   But there is a simple fix that does not require cutting benefits or raising the retirement age. Here it is:

Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL 🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM

Rockwell was one of the first painters where it really clicked for me, as a kid, that he was telling a story; that all artists were doing that in some way.

AG Neronha, coalition sue Trump Administration for blocking Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding: "Health care must be affordable and accessible for all Americans, and we will continue to fight against those who enact policies to the contrary." www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...

I would add anything about “God’s will” or “everything happens for a reason” do you say this to kids with chronic/terminal illnesses too? Do you say this to people who’ve been assaulted? People who just lost a loved one? Is it supposed to be comforting?

Today I learned that an effective way of chronic pain management for me is more pain? I ordered a hoop for a helix piercing in a size too large but stubbornly swapped it in anyways. And DAMN is my very tender ear really taking all attention away from my aching everything else

Oh no. I did not need a sudden realization of what my inner voice sounds like

I made my cat a faux Rothko colour field painting for her bathroom. I chose blue since I’ve heard it’s the colour cats see most vividly. There are seven different blues in it, including Stuart Semple’s IKB analog. It’s genuinely difficult to photograph.

A Cuban woman’s volleyball team was denied entry to the US when they tried to participate in a tournament in Puerto Rico. A Venezuelan little league baseball team was denied entry to play in the Senior League Baseball World Series This is why we must push the Olympics to move the games.

The Trump Administrations War on Disability: History will show the first six months of the second Trump administration as an all-out war against disabled people... The disability community has faced structural violence in the form of federal policy. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The EO titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” isn’t about safety. It’s a legal weapon for mass institutionalization without consent. It starts with the unhoused—but it won’t end there. This is fascism in white gloves. Let's break it down.🧵 1/ #Project2025 #DisabilityJustice

And it won’t just be used against unhoused people on drugs. This opens the door to detain: Autistic adults Trans people People with depression or ADHD Chronically ill Anyone poor or inconvenient 3/

As Keith used to say...there's more to accessibility than just getting in the door.

Anyone can become disabled. Advocacy matters now. ✅ Support access ✅ Amplify disabled voices ✅ Challenge ableism ✅ Demand inclusive policy #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #AccessForAll

What do "Good jeans" and All white Arkansas towns have to do with your TBR? paynefultruth.substack.com/p/sidney-swe...

Happy Birthday to Beatrix Potter: born 28 July 1866! An incredible woman: a writer, illustrator, nature lover and natural scientist, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, zoologist, archaeologist . . .

Institutionalizing people doesn’t make them “better”. It doesn’t help them and it’s not compassionate. It simply disappears them. Hides them away so the general public don’t have to face disability and mental illness. People think it’s better because they don’t have to see it.

This is my Tom Holland Umbrella

I’ve come to realize that the entire MAHA movement is just grown ass adults tricking themselves into thinking that junk food is healthy because a random dye was removed.

Remember that all these “lazy” gadgets need to be marketed to abled people so they can make enough sales to make producing it profitable yay capitalism!

Disabled people are not expendable. The elderly are not expendable. Children are not expendable. We must stop assessing worth based on perceived economic contributions. No one should have to prove they “matter” to get basic healthcare, housing, food or education.

Trump’s Executive Order criminalizes the homeless & mentally disabled. There’s no plan to build hospitals or rehab centres. No plan to provide healthcare, affordable housing or support. But they built a concentration camp in 8 days. Where do you think they’ll send these folks to?

Just think. You, yes you, are the reason somebody out there thinks all the other people with your astrological sign are shit.

You don't need to "be disabled" for them to label you disabled and throw you away. "ironically" you can "be disabled" and be unable to meet their ridiculous standards of proof and not be able to get the little help that's available. This is why we need #DisabilityJustice not just #DisabilityRights.

Disability, those labelled with ‘mental illness’, mental disabilities were the first to be experimented on, exterminated by the 1930’s Nazis. Russia also targeted political opponents this way. Those harmed by toxic illicit drugs or regulated drugs will be targeted. This ‘othering’ is quite horrific

“I don’t want my tax dollars supporting disabled people!” why not have your tax dollars support the most vulnerable in society? That’s what they should be for I would much rather my taxes pay for education, healthcare, food assistance & social supports than fund wars, mass deportations & genocide

For the microbially inclined: what is your favorite microbiology textbook. I have been using Microbe by Swanson, Joyce, and Horak for several years. This fall is the last time I will be teaching micro. Thoughts?

7/20/1900 — Eleanor Annie Lamson becomes the first female astronomer to be hired by the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, District of Columbia #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #SheIsTheFirst #Navy #military #OTD #TDIH

College profs are living in the wake of 20+ years of ineffective and, for some learners, outright harmful reading instruction. Ever heard a student read a word that doesn’t sound like the one on the page, but looks similar? Read up on 2000s-era reading wars www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...