Roz
@lsmith1964.bsky.social
Boomer/GenX straddler. Public Health Professional. Clinical Lab Scientist. Health Informatics Specialist.
Mom of boys and #greyhounds
All children are my own. #BLM #LGBTQIA ally #Atheist
Always watching.
Mom of boys and #greyhounds
All children are my own. #BLM #LGBTQIA ally #Atheist
Always watching.
Yep. This is our life now. I and all y'all need to toughen up.
Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
January 4, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Yep. This is our life now. I and all y'all need to toughen up.
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NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
January 3, 2026 at 11:25 PM
NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
It's 1am, and someone is shooting fireworks.
I fucking hate starting every new year with a shaking, retching, terrified hound desperately trying to climb the walls.
I fucking hate starting every new year with a shaking, retching, terrified hound desperately trying to climb the walls.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
It's 1am, and someone is shooting fireworks.
I fucking hate starting every new year with a shaking, retching, terrified hound desperately trying to climb the walls.
I fucking hate starting every new year with a shaking, retching, terrified hound desperately trying to climb the walls.
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Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman
Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman
If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman
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Devastating piece. "The transit, the gap, between symbolic & real power, between symbolic & real change, is a ruse in which Black people are supposed to be satisfied with the symbolic."
Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can.
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
Opinion: The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
web.archive.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Devastating piece. "The transit, the gap, between symbolic & real power, between symbolic & real change, is a ruse in which Black people are supposed to be satisfied with the symbolic."
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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
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A Poem for My Husband
Bitch—
Take your cranky ass
To the bedroom
For a nap
Before
I strangle you
Bitch—
Take your cranky ass
To the bedroom
For a nap
Before
I strangle you
December 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A Poem for My Husband
Bitch—
Take your cranky ass
To the bedroom
For a nap
Before
I strangle you
Bitch—
Take your cranky ass
To the bedroom
For a nap
Before
I strangle you
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Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
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The infant botulism outbreak that sickened dozens of babies who drank ByHeart formula is a reminder of how vulnerable we all are to the companies that sell us food — and how important it is to have a robust food safety system. www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
American food safety could be headed for a breakdown
More Americans will be exposed to foodborne illness as a result of this year's funding cuts, food safety experts predict
www.statnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The infant botulism outbreak that sickened dozens of babies who drank ByHeart formula is a reminder of how vulnerable we all are to the companies that sell us food — and how important it is to have a robust food safety system. www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
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Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).
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“The #COVID Pro-Infection Lobby and Its Relentless Campaign Against Public Health”
My review of @joho.bsky.social’s outstanding new book, Everyone Else Is Lying to You, on pandemic disinformation and the coordinated attack on harm reduction:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...
My review of @joho.bsky.social’s outstanding new book, Everyone Else Is Lying to You, on pandemic disinformation and the coordinated attack on harm reduction:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...
The COVID Pro-Infection Lobby and Its Relentless Campaign Against Public Health
As documented in Jonathan Howard’s “Everyone Else is Lying to You,” the same pro-infection lobby that battled each COVID mitigation measure now seeks to blame health agencies and vaccines, not the vir...
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The #COVID Pro-Infection Lobby and Its Relentless Campaign Against Public Health”
My review of @joho.bsky.social’s outstanding new book, Everyone Else Is Lying to You, on pandemic disinformation and the coordinated attack on harm reduction:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...
My review of @joho.bsky.social’s outstanding new book, Everyone Else Is Lying to You, on pandemic disinformation and the coordinated attack on harm reduction:
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-covid-pr...
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As we prepare for another year of MAHA eugenics, we are reposting a thread about the history of disability and eugenics in public health.
We have been here before.
We have been here before.
👩⚕️CDC and Disability Rights 🦼
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
Before we talk more about disability, we need to address the history of eugenics, ableism and racism that haunts US public health work.
December 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As we prepare for another year of MAHA eugenics, we are reposting a thread about the history of disability and eugenics in public health.
We have been here before.
We have been here before.
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"#measles is back in America... Pertussis -- #whoopingcough is back." --Dr. Peter Hotez on MSNOW. #rfkjr is making America sick again. #impeachrfkjr
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"#measles is back in America... Pertussis -- #whoopingcough is back." --Dr. Peter Hotez on MSNOW. #rfkjr is making America sick again. #impeachrfkjr
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
You will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
Keep Christmas in your heart all the year through. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Keep Christmas in your heart all the year through. 🎄
Man really is the most monstrous creature to have ever walked the earth.
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Man really is the most monstrous creature to have ever walked the earth.
Get your Flu shots, folks.
youtube.com/shorts/jFo8R...
youtube.com/shorts/jFo8R...
Flu update with Dr. Howard Forman: December 17, 2025
YouTube video by Yale School of Public Health
youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Get your Flu shots, folks.
youtube.com/shorts/jFo8R...
youtube.com/shorts/jFo8R...
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Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
I'm so sick of small, hateful men.
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm so sick of small, hateful men.
Watching the CDC deteriorate feels much like watching a loved one self-destruct from drug addiction.
Except it's not addiction, it's grift, and it's not a loved one, it's a vital necessary source of health information, epidemic response, and logistics. The regime is throwing us to the wolves.
Except it's not addiction, it's grift, and it's not a loved one, it's a vital necessary source of health information, epidemic response, and logistics. The regime is throwing us to the wolves.
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Watching the CDC deteriorate feels much like watching a loved one self-destruct from drug addiction.
Except it's not addiction, it's grift, and it's not a loved one, it's a vital necessary source of health information, epidemic response, and logistics. The regime is throwing us to the wolves.
Except it's not addiction, it's grift, and it's not a loved one, it's a vital necessary source of health information, epidemic response, and logistics. The regime is throwing us to the wolves.
We are entering the "mutual aid at every level of our lives is the only way we survive" phase of human existence.
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We are entering the "mutual aid at every level of our lives is the only way we survive" phase of human existence.