What Would Baba Yaga Do?
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PhD scientist, former academic, educator, poet/writer. Politics, gender, science, birds. They/them
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sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
Oh there are some hard to swallow* pills in this thread
*For bosses/management
*For bosses/management
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oh there are some hard to swallow* pills in this thread
*For bosses/management
*For bosses/management
Had this tab open for months about the Mahmoud v Taylor case and finally read it. Kind of puts a damper on any celebration that SCOTUS decided not to axe marriage equality just yet. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Let’s Take a Look at the Children’s Books Sam Alito Is So Afraid Of
Stories like "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" are only objectionable if you find the very existence of LGBTQ people to be objectionable.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Had this tab open for months about the Mahmoud v Taylor case and finally read it. Kind of puts a damper on any celebration that SCOTUS decided not to axe marriage equality just yet. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
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ICYMI: I sent a letter to our congressional delegation, urging Republicans to stand up for Wisconsin and stand up to the Trump Administration as they try to yank newly restored SNAP payments from 700,000 hungry kids, families, and seniors across our state.
Read my letter ⬇️
Read my letter ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ICYMI: I sent a letter to our congressional delegation, urging Republicans to stand up for Wisconsin and stand up to the Trump Administration as they try to yank newly restored SNAP payments from 700,000 hungry kids, families, and seniors across our state.
Read my letter ⬇️
Read my letter ⬇️
Really interesting stuff in here (for medical nerds like me)
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
❤️COVID infection is more dangerous than vax to teen's hearts
🧐Long COVID immune & hormonal differences in Women vs. Men
🧯GLP-1 RA meds reduce inflammation in many organs
🧠Sleep apnea and brain microbleeds
& much more! buff.ly/Rz1RYUA
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
❤️COVID infection is more dangerous than vax to teen's hearts
🧐Long COVID immune & hormonal differences in Women vs. Men
🧯GLP-1 RA meds reduce inflammation in many organs
🧠Sleep apnea and brain microbleeds
& much more! buff.ly/Rz1RYUA
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Really interesting stuff in here (for medical nerds like me)
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
Halloween candy insight: eating a Milky Way with some roasted peanuts tastes as good or better than a Snickers
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Halloween candy insight: eating a Milky Way with some roasted peanuts tastes as good or better than a Snickers
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I want to get this map tattooed on myself it’s the most beautiful map of Georgia I’ve ever seen in my life
There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I want to get this map tattooed on myself it’s the most beautiful map of Georgia I’ve ever seen in my life
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Final update with the results all in and Virginia looks Sonic the Hedgehog's back
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Final update with the results all in and Virginia looks Sonic the Hedgehog's back
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The passage of CA Prop 50 wraps a big night on the democracy/voting rights front. In addition to Prop 50, most notably: ME rejected voting restrictions, PA preserved its liberal supreme court majority, and VA cleared a path to end its Jim Crow-era system of lifetime felony disenfranchisement.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The passage of CA Prop 50 wraps a big night on the democracy/voting rights front. In addition to Prop 50, most notably: ME rejected voting restrictions, PA preserved its liberal supreme court majority, and VA cleared a path to end its Jim Crow-era system of lifetime felony disenfranchisement.
So much good schadenfruede when Rs* lose :)
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
I asked you all to send me the funniest election night posts and this morning for my newsletter, I compiled them all for you! www.burnsnotice.com/the-best-ele...
The Best Election Night Posts - A Compilation
I asked my BlueSky followers to send me the funniest election night posts and boy howdy did they deliver. Enjoy!
The Post having a normal one
— Kate Burns (@katerqburns.bsky.social) 2025-11-05T03:50...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So much good schadenfruede when Rs* lose :)
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
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I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕
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"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
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here’s one way to directly help our federal workers and civil servants as this president weaponizes hunger against them
What a great idea! Thanks to @firedbutfighting.bsky.social, we can all support furloughed and fired federal employees who are offering a variety of services, including dog-walking, tutoring, graphic design, meal prep, and much more. For more information, visit firedbutfighting.org/talent-marke....
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November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
here’s one way to directly help our federal workers and civil servants as this president weaponizes hunger against them
This article's a good one. Have to keep pushing our Dem electeds on this
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them
A right-wing “parents’ rights” movement is sweeping the country, and its ramifications for young people and LGBTQ people have already proven disastrous. So why are so many on the left repeating their ...
www.currentaffairs.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This article's a good one. Have to keep pushing our Dem electeds on this
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
This piece by Anat Shenker-Osorio explained so much for me (long, but the first half or so will give you the basic idea) www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This piece by Anat Shenker-Osorio explained so much for me (long, but the first half or so will give you the basic idea) www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
What ICE is doing in Chicago
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
What ICE is doing in Chicago
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NEW: SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump's Nat'l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now.
Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
Law Dork:
Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
Law Dork:
SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump's Nat'l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now
Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
www.lawdork.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NEW: SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump's Nat'l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now.
Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
Law Dork:
Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
Law Dork:
These are such wildly different levels of wrong!
'Butt naked' may have arisen as a mishearing or deliberate mangling of 'buck naked' but it is now its own idiom alongside (not replacing) 'buck naked'
Whereas 'doggy-dog world' is unhinged nonsense
'Butt naked' may have arisen as a mishearing or deliberate mangling of 'buck naked' but it is now its own idiom alongside (not replacing) 'buck naked'
Whereas 'doggy-dog world' is unhinged nonsense
Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
These are such wildly different levels of wrong!
'Butt naked' may have arisen as a mishearing or deliberate mangling of 'buck naked' but it is now its own idiom alongside (not replacing) 'buck naked'
Whereas 'doggy-dog world' is unhinged nonsense
'Butt naked' may have arisen as a mishearing or deliberate mangling of 'buck naked' but it is now its own idiom alongside (not replacing) 'buck naked'
Whereas 'doggy-dog world' is unhinged nonsense
Give em hell, Ellis
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench for a hearing about to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:
Judge Set to Question Federal Officials About Use of Tear Gas During Immigration Raids
U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis said Thursday she was “not happy” that immigration agents appear to have violated her order not to use tear gas and other weapons against journalists, protesters and an...
news.wttw.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Give em hell, Ellis
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Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
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Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
It's interesting to see the responses on this. Lots of people making good points.
interesting exercise, where do you land on this?
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's interesting to see the responses on this. Lots of people making good points.
Yikes. Fits with my experience in US PhD program in the early 2000s - everyone is knew was on SSRIs. Mainly new prescriptions started in grad school.
In the US, PhD students are very exploited by their advisors and departments. Got to be a big factor.
In the US, PhD students are very exploited by their advisors and departments. Got to be a big factor.
that abstract
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yikes. Fits with my experience in US PhD program in the early 2000s - everyone is knew was on SSRIs. Mainly new prescriptions started in grad school.
In the US, PhD students are very exploited by their advisors and departments. Got to be a big factor.
In the US, PhD students are very exploited by their advisors and departments. Got to be a big factor.
Thread! Super important for all of us who are working on building muscle (esp us vegetarians!)
I've been drinking Orgain shakes and other protein supplements for years. Have to think twice now.
I've been drinking Orgain shakes and other protein supplements for years. Have to think twice now.
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thread! Super important for all of us who are working on building muscle (esp us vegetarians!)
I've been drinking Orgain shakes and other protein supplements for years. Have to think twice now.
I've been drinking Orgain shakes and other protein supplements for years. Have to think twice now.