Tracy Quan
@tracyquannyc.bsky.social
Author, broadcaster, emerging poet. Novels https://tinyurl.com/DMCG-ebook Essays https://tinyurl.com/47huhbn5 Verses https://tinyurl.com/mst8umpv, https://tinyurl.com/3emu88we & https://tinyurl.com/2e2n94ky
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Need feedback from the SW orgs in France ... ASAP.
Maisons closes proposées par le RN : faire entrer le travail du sexe dans le droit
Pour le juriste Daniel Borrillo, la proposition du député RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy sur la réouverture des maisons closes offre l’occasion de revisiter un sujet sensible et nécessaire.
Pour le juriste Daniel Borrillo, la proposition du député RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy sur la réouverture des maisons closes offre l’occasion de revisiter un sujet sensible et nécessaire.
Maisons closes proposées par le RN : faire entrer le travail du sexe dans le droit
Pour le juriste Daniel Borrillo, la proposition du député RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy sur la réouverture des maisons closes offre l’occasion de revisiter un sujet sensible et nécessaire.
www.liberation.fr
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Need feedback from the SW orgs in France ... ASAP.
Some good news.
A double dose of good news on the infectious disease front:
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
New antibiotic for gonorrhea could help beat back drug-resistant infections
Two treatments for the sexually transmitted disease are expected to become available soon
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Some good news.
Times Roman is now aspirational in some circles. 🐰https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/10/calibri-is-this-really-the-worlds-wokest-font
Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?
It was the Windows typeface for 17 years – and adopted by the Biden administration for its readability for those with visual impairments. But Marco Rubio has ruled that Calibri lacks ‘decorum’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Times Roman is now aspirational in some circles. 🐰https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/10/calibri-is-this-really-the-worlds-wokest-font
shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArc.... @doughenwood.bsky.social interviewed @dieworkwear.bsky.social in August! How did I miss this? The #Menswear conversation begins at 25:52
shout.lbo-talk.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArc.... @doughenwood.bsky.social interviewed @dieworkwear.bsky.social in August! How did I miss this? The #Menswear conversation begins at 25:52
I can't wait to read this! I fondly remember my mother's gadgety pill case. It was seen on kitchen counter, dining room table, wherever. But when I began taking The Pill as it was called, I had a rectangular foil blister pack...
It was enjoyable to be interviewed by a student at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia about the history of contraceptive pill cases, in light of an exhibition about women's pharmaceutical objects at the campus art museum. #contraception #birthcontrol sjuhawknews.com/38703/showca...
Archives Unboxed: Samson Museum contraceptive cases
At first glance, the small blue, pink and yellow plastic cases in the Marvin Samson Museum for the History of Pharmacy could be mistaken for vintage makeup compacts. But they are actually hormonal con...
sjuhawknews.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I can't wait to read this! I fondly remember my mother's gadgety pill case. It was seen on kitchen counter, dining room table, wherever. But when I began taking The Pill as it was called, I had a rectangular foil blister pack...
If he *actually* believed in God, he wouldn't do so many things that the Church teaches will send him straight to Hell.
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
That's literally disinformation. There's no evidence that "God" is creating milk for babies. Should be illegal for a health secretary to promote religious explanations of this sort.
And he's peddling creationism along w this nonsense ....milk that "God made."
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That's literally disinformation. There's no evidence that "God" is creating milk for babies. Should be illegal for a health secretary to promote religious explanations of this sort.
www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/how-sta... Video from Columbia School of Public Health
How State Health Departments Are Banding Together in the New Federal Policy Environment
The health commissioners for Massachusetts and New York State spoke about how they coordinate policy decisions.
www.publichealth.columbia.edu
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/how-sta... Video from Columbia School of Public Health
Reposted by Tracy Quan
Welp, that's a win for the fundamentalist Christians who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Welp, that's a win for the fundamentalist Christians who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
”The Muse's wing too often lifted him off his feet. He made infinite excursions to the right and the left.”
Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
”The Muse's wing too often lifted him off his feet. He made infinite excursions to the right and the left.”
This thread may contain misinformation, but the entrance does exist. And I used it.
youtu.be/eukXrdhgRi0?...
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
MTA creates new access at Grand Central
YouTube video by PIX11 News
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This thread may contain misinformation, but the entrance does exist. And I used it.
youtu.be/eukXrdhgRi0?...
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
MTA creates new access at Grand Central
YouTube video by PIX11 News
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
youtu.be/eukXrdhgRi0?...
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
I experienced some of this new access quite by accident. Walking up Madison looking for the bus stop, I found myself in front of a shiny happy entrance way. Signs for the Lexington lines beckoning...so I got out of the cold air!
Let's just call it eugenicism, privatisation or bad policy. Bringing up "Darwin" inadvertently supports creationists who would like to banish evolution from your kid's curriculum. There's got to be a better way to describe people who misuse or misunderstand the concepts of Charles Darwin...
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Let's just call it eugenicism, privatisation or bad policy. Bringing up "Darwin" inadvertently supports creationists who would like to banish evolution from your kid's curriculum. There's got to be a better way to describe people who misuse or misunderstand the concepts of Charles Darwin...
Reposted by Tracy Quan
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Reposted by Tracy Quan
The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
Defend Public Health is speaking out about the ACIP meeting calling it an epidemiological crime scene.
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
ACIP Meeting Turns into “Epidemiological Crime Scene” | Defend Public Health
Health experts with Defend Public Health expressed shock at the flood of antivaxxer disinformation that dominated the first day of the December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practi...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
Reposted by Tracy Quan
The Starbucks settlement is impressive, and it's okay w/ me if the current mayor wants to boast about it. I've read that it's the largest labour settlement in the history of NYC. Congratulations to all who worked on this, and solidarity w the ongoing strike. www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers in settlement as ongoing strike draws Mamdani and Sanders to picket line
Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.
www.pbs.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Starbucks settlement is impressive, and it's okay w/ me if the current mayor wants to boast about it. I've read that it's the largest labour settlement in the history of NYC. Congratulations to all who worked on this, and solidarity w the ongoing strike. www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
How to pronounce TOIBIN? The author's surname...?
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
How to pronounce TOIBIN? The author's surname...?