Aparna Nair
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Lives with epilepsy.
The Simpsons Stop Stop Already, he’s Dead meme, but that kid is smiling in evil glee
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Simpsons Stop Stop Already, he’s Dead meme, but that kid is smiling in evil glee
lol after her feet pic I have never been able to look at her tweets the same way but she can go after Musk, all guns blasting like this, all day please and thank you
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
lol after her feet pic I have never been able to look at her tweets the same way but she can go after Musk, all guns blasting like this, all day please and thank you
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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This move is based on pseudoscientific nonsense. Just ftr.
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This move is based on pseudoscientific nonsense. Just ftr.
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I check in regularly w/ my best friend from middle + high school, who lives in Chicago. She told me a one-year-old was pepper sprayed in her neighborhood last week 😭 — and that she and her son, who’s off school tmrw, are dedicating the day to food pantry logistics. Donations have filled her home 💕
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I check in regularly w/ my best friend from middle + high school, who lives in Chicago. She told me a one-year-old was pepper sprayed in her neighborhood last week 😭 — and that she and her son, who’s off school tmrw, are dedicating the day to food pantry logistics. Donations have filled her home 💕
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Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Stop doomscrolling and watch a rescue mission in fascist territory instead.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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Okay the Adama maneuver skeet has me inspired
Battlestar Galactica: this is a cautionary tale about creating the humanoid robot slaves
Robotics companies in 2025: at long last, we have created the humanoid robot slaves from
youtu.be/pHUEYIE_MZA
Battlestar Galactica: this is a cautionary tale about creating the humanoid robot slaves
Robotics companies in 2025: at long last, we have created the humanoid robot slaves from
youtu.be/pHUEYIE_MZA
Battlestar Galactica | Epilogue (150,000 years later)
YouTube video by Battlestar Galactica
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Okay the Adama maneuver skeet has me inspired
Battlestar Galactica: this is a cautionary tale about creating the humanoid robot slaves
Robotics companies in 2025: at long last, we have created the humanoid robot slaves from
youtu.be/pHUEYIE_MZA
Battlestar Galactica: this is a cautionary tale about creating the humanoid robot slaves
Robotics companies in 2025: at long last, we have created the humanoid robot slaves from
youtu.be/pHUEYIE_MZA
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Next time I’m talking to a young voter and they ask me how they can trust Democrats to fight for them, what the actual fuck am I supposed to say?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Next time I’m talking to a young voter and they ask me how they can trust Democrats to fight for them, what the actual fuck am I supposed to say?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
With amoral complicit cowards like this in charge of the alleged opposition in the US, the Democrats make me actually consider that the Indian National Congress (sigh) might even pretend more of an opposition than this.
Never thought I’d see the day.
Never thought I’d see the day.
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
With amoral complicit cowards like this in charge of the alleged opposition in the US, the Democrats make me actually consider that the Indian National Congress (sigh) might even pretend more of an opposition than this.
Never thought I’d see the day.
Never thought I’d see the day.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
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Hot damn yall look at this abstract
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hot damn yall look at this abstract
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well damn, Schumer's level of fuckup is such that, not only was my phone-call-loathing Husband again motivated to call his office, he just left a voicemail like
"Hello, I'm a constituent calling to say Chuck Schumer is a snake and a liar and must be replaced by someone with a spine. Thanks"
i-- 🫢🫣
"Hello, I'm a constituent calling to say Chuck Schumer is a snake and a liar and must be replaced by someone with a spine. Thanks"
i-- 🫢🫣
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
well damn, Schumer's level of fuckup is such that, not only was my phone-call-loathing Husband again motivated to call his office, he just left a voicemail like
"Hello, I'm a constituent calling to say Chuck Schumer is a snake and a liar and must be replaced by someone with a spine. Thanks"
i-- 🫢🫣
"Hello, I'm a constituent calling to say Chuck Schumer is a snake and a liar and must be replaced by someone with a spine. Thanks"
i-- 🫢🫣
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The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
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guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
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If you don’t get it yet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you don’t get it yet.
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Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.
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I often read the BOOKS, as a person who enjoys all the typical human activities!
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I often read the BOOKS, as a person who enjoys all the typical human activities!
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
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Did the Democrats make this deal so that millions of Americans would lose their healthcare in an election year, all while playing the victim to the scheming Republicans?
I wouldn't put it past them.
I wouldn't put it past them.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Did the Democrats make this deal so that millions of Americans would lose their healthcare in an election year, all while playing the victim to the scheming Republicans?
I wouldn't put it past them.
I wouldn't put it past them.
While Democrats treat Republicans like scholarly and noble gentlemen in a Regency drama, the Republicans have to be laughing until they choke up a lung at how fucking gullible, pointless and flaccid their alleged "opposition" party is
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
While Democrats treat Republicans like scholarly and noble gentlemen in a Regency drama, the Republicans have to be laughing until they choke up a lung at how fucking gullible, pointless and flaccid their alleged "opposition" party is
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Over on LinkedIn I was just reflecting on one of my favorite social media, which @bnallamo.bsky.social called "On Exactitude in Science, in reverse"
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Over on LinkedIn I was just reflecting on one of my favorite social media, which @bnallamo.bsky.social called "On Exactitude in Science, in reverse"
What has lightened my mood this Monday is also imagining Musk repeatedly coming back to that Oates post; reading and re-reading it, and knowing that he is just exactly who she describes: an amorphous lump of wealthy flesh, incapable of joy, connection or meaning
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What has lightened my mood this Monday is also imagining Musk repeatedly coming back to that Oates post; reading and re-reading it, and knowing that he is just exactly who she describes: an amorphous lump of wealthy flesh, incapable of joy, connection or meaning
Just want to note also how deeply uncritical so many physicians were on Twitter about ‘AI’. I saw a resident happily saying he plans on using ‘AI to read and write journal articles to free up time for him.’
Others saw no privacy issues.
Just…a mess.
Others saw no privacy issues.
Just…a mess.
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Just want to note also how deeply uncritical so many physicians were on Twitter about ‘AI’. I saw a resident happily saying he plans on using ‘AI to read and write journal articles to free up time for him.’
Others saw no privacy issues.
Just…a mess.
Others saw no privacy issues.
Just…a mess.