Kolya Flower
@kolyaflower.bsky.social
union man; public health worker
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SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
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Artistic censorship is never really satisfied or finished, the things you like or think are acceptable will inevitably become the target. If you wont push back in favor of things you don't like, you're choosing to let a domino fall that will, in time, knock yours over too
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Artistic censorship is never really satisfied or finished, the things you like or think are acceptable will inevitably become the target. If you wont push back in favor of things you don't like, you're choosing to let a domino fall that will, in time, knock yours over too
ye olde Hiram McDaniels
It's not often that us medievalists encounter an ACTUAL DRAGON in our work, but here is one burninating the countryside and also the city of Laon.
Check it out in Bnf. Fr. 22928, fol. 210v (Miracles de Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy).
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #MedievalSky
Check it out in Bnf. Fr. 22928, fol. 210v (Miracles de Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy).
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #MedievalSky
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ye olde Hiram McDaniels
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people
Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.
Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.
www.puzzmo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people
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The whole point of the privatisation project - aside from transferring huge sums of wealth into private hands - was to put as much of the state as far as possible beyond democratic control, so that future governments would have to shrug at the public and say “Nothing we can do, mate”.
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The whole point of the privatisation project - aside from transferring huge sums of wealth into private hands - was to put as much of the state as far as possible beyond democratic control, so that future governments would have to shrug at the public and say “Nothing we can do, mate”.
47 people need to watch their fucking backs
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
47 people need to watch their fucking backs
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They’re terrorizing latinos with ethnic pogroms and torturing them in camps, they’re executing random people in the ocean, they’re threatening to overthrow the entire government of a latin American country, and they’re openly collaborating with the Russian regime.
Before meeting Putin, Witkoff and Kushner took in the sights of central Moscow, escorted by Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev. (shopping at TsUM looks like)
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They’re terrorizing latinos with ethnic pogroms and torturing them in camps, they’re executing random people in the ocean, they’re threatening to overthrow the entire government of a latin American country, and they’re openly collaborating with the Russian regime.
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS.
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS.
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics
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The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
What will enter the #publicdomain in 2026? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
end of the red wings game (shootout loss), turn on the pistons who are up 17
hockey fandom is a mistake
hockey fandom is a mistake
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
end of the red wings game (shootout loss), turn on the pistons who are up 17
hockey fandom is a mistake
hockey fandom is a mistake
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The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following:
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following:
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
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I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
as a public health worker who deeply loathes every creepy molecule of RFK Jr's gross and evil miasma: this is 100% correct
my colleagues include recovering addicts and ex felons among others, and they are appalled by what he is doing
quit being shitty about people who already get shit on enough
my colleagues include recovering addicts and ex felons among others, and they are appalled by what he is doing
quit being shitty about people who already get shit on enough
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
as a public health worker who deeply loathes every creepy molecule of RFK Jr's gross and evil miasma: this is 100% correct
my colleagues include recovering addicts and ex felons among others, and they are appalled by what he is doing
quit being shitty about people who already get shit on enough
my colleagues include recovering addicts and ex felons among others, and they are appalled by what he is doing
quit being shitty about people who already get shit on enough
let me get myself in the right head space to engage with my family tomorrow, I'll just settle in to watch the Red Wings play a bad team, a circumstance which has no negative priors
let me just take a big sip of my water before I check the first period score--
let me just take a big sip of my water before I check the first period score--
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
let me get myself in the right head space to engage with my family tomorrow, I'll just settle in to watch the Red Wings play a bad team, a circumstance which has no negative priors
let me just take a big sip of my water before I check the first period score--
let me just take a big sip of my water before I check the first period score--
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wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷