Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now
@knownforms.bsky.social
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
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The Get-Get Man
The Get-Get Man travels at night, sharp as a scalpel, dark as soot. He cuts through the yards and streets, slicing and taking what doesn’t make way. They say...
firesidefiction.com
Some of my sort of scary stories still available online to read for free: firesidefiction.com/issue37/chap...
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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OMFG, we have conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists and Great Barrington Declaration kooks running the US public health system and causing sickness, pain, distress, and death and we're going to need a massive community-based, bottom-up mobilization effort to try and stop them
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
OMFG, we have conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists and Great Barrington Declaration kooks running the US public health system and causing sickness, pain, distress, and death and we're going to need a massive community-based, bottom-up mobilization effort to try and stop them
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I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
And fuck @reuters.com and NYT for publishing this anti-science garbage.
⚠️Oh, boy - Vinay Prasad has struck again, w/ very suspicious timing.
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
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www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines, New York Times reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in an internal memo that at least 10 children had likely died "because of" COVID-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible ca...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
And fuck @reuters.com and NYT for publishing this anti-science garbage.
Absolute bullshit. Medical malpractice and disinformation. These fuckers should rot in jail for the suffering and death they're already causing with their lies.
⚠️Oh, boy - Vinay Prasad has struck again, w/ very suspicious timing.
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines, New York Times reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in an internal memo that at least 10 children had likely died "because of" COVID-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible ca...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Absolute bullshit. Medical malpractice and disinformation. These fuckers should rot in jail for the suffering and death they're already causing with their lies.
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⚠️Oh, boy - Vinay Prasad has struck again, w/ very suspicious timing.
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines, New York Times reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in an internal memo that at least 10 children had likely died "because of" COVID-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible ca...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
⚠️Oh, boy - Vinay Prasad has struck again, w/ very suspicious timing.
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Prasad, now the FDA's chief medical & scientific officer, has written a memo saying covid vaccines have killed 10 kids.
🔹️The memo "did not disclose the ages or health conditions of the...
1/10
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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A whole lot of people still can't figure out why students are struggling and absenteeism is so high. They seem oblivious to the fact that millions of kids have long COVID. Many are still talking about the brief stay at home period from 2020 as causal. Sometimes I just want to give up. It's COVID!
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A whole lot of people still can't figure out why students are struggling and absenteeism is so high. They seem oblivious to the fact that millions of kids have long COVID. Many are still talking about the brief stay at home period from 2020 as causal. Sometimes I just want to give up. It's COVID!
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I’ve reviewed the lovely new Sandi Toksvig series, which is lovely.
Sandi’s Great Riviera Rail Trip: almost nothing on TV is as joyful as Toksvig’s effortlessly entertaining pootle
Sandi’s Great Riviera Rail Trip: almost nothing on TV is as joyful as Toksvig’s effortlessly entertaining pootle
Few sights are as cheering as the tiny Dane scurrying down a continental alleyway, like a Womble chased out of a boulangerie. This Côte d’Azur travelogue is marvellous fun
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I’ve reviewed the lovely new Sandi Toksvig series, which is lovely.
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Discuss.
I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Discuss.
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Yall are really gonna “it’s not that deep” us right back into slavery.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yall are really gonna “it’s not that deep” us right back into slavery.
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I cannot comprehend why the American Public Health Association would behave so shabbily towards someone who was doing what public health does best--advocate for the interests of the powerless.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
When professional associations fail public health
The destruction of Gaza's health system represents one of the worst humanitarian crises
of our time and demands a response from professional health organisations. European
public health associations h...
www.thelancet.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I cannot comprehend why the American Public Health Association would behave so shabbily towards someone who was doing what public health does best--advocate for the interests of the powerless.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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this man has an approval rating in the mid-30s and dropping, everything he does turns to shit, you do not have to do this
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
this man has an approval rating in the mid-30s and dropping, everything he does turns to shit, you do not have to do this
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
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jesus FUCKING christ
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
jesus FUCKING christ
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Never enough money to pay a living wage, always enough money to stoke power.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Never enough money to pay a living wage, always enough money to stoke power.
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Is that a ghost
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Is that a ghost
Anyway, thank you.
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Anyway, thank you.
Hell Is for Children
Important: What is your favorite Pat Benatar song?
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hell Is for Children
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
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Can we help Lubna, Rami, Naser & Kinda?
I beg everyone with a kind heart💔
Little Naser is still sick and his medicine has completely run out
We urgently need $300 to provide him with treatment, warmth and basic care
Please help us today… your support can ease his pain and keep hope alive for him and our family❤️🩹
chuffed.org/project/155233
Little Naser is still sick and his medicine has completely run out
We urgently need $300 to provide him with treatment, warmth and basic care
Please help us today… your support can ease his pain and keep hope alive for him and our family❤️🩹
chuffed.org/project/155233
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Can we help Lubna, Rami, Naser & Kinda?
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🤗 all around!
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
🤗 all around!
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He’s at 60% disproval lol
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
He’s at 60% disproval lol