Wendy Fall
@wendyfall.bsky.social
PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
The harm comes to the trans grad instructor, not the institution, just as TPUSA would have it.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The harm comes to the trans grad instructor, not the institution, just as TPUSA would have it.
Classic sunk cost fallacy. Ridiculous, and doesn’t account for variables, such as: 1. The money to be made by investing in stuff the public truly wants or needs. 2. The other possible harms and losses that can come from making stupid tech. 3. The towering cost of destroying the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Classic sunk cost fallacy. Ridiculous, and doesn’t account for variables, such as: 1. The money to be made by investing in stuff the public truly wants or needs. 2. The other possible harms and losses that can come from making stupid tech. 3. The towering cost of destroying the environment.
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Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
Email CDC-INFO
Users can use this form to direct questions to the CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards (in the science fiction category). 🥰
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
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I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
Inconceivable!
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Inconceivable!
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.
great interview with some really important points
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.
No one should be judged less worthy, less valuable, less educated, or less eloquent if they speak differently than you do. Language is culturally acquired and very specific. People should not have to ‘code switch’ to be taken seriously — by asking them to, we insult the family who raised them.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
No one should be judged less worthy, less valuable, less educated, or less eloquent if they speak differently than you do. Language is culturally acquired and very specific. People should not have to ‘code switch’ to be taken seriously — by asking them to, we insult the family who raised them.
Also, these are the students college professors have to worry about. There is a nearly circular Venn diagram showing where this group overlaps with the Turning Point group, who doxx professors with whom they disagree.
The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Also, these are the students college professors have to worry about. There is a nearly circular Venn diagram showing where this group overlaps with the Turning Point group, who doxx professors with whom they disagree.
Good tips for protesters:
No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
act.aclu.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Good tips for protesters:
Also, part of being a good ally is making sure the people who are being targeted for hate do not have to bear the burden of protest alone. If we all show up, we break every kind of fascist or nationalist narrative.
one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Also, part of being a good ally is making sure the people who are being targeted for hate do not have to bear the burden of protest alone. If we all show up, we break every kind of fascist or nationalist narrative.
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find some outlets in here. don’t pay for substack; your cash goes to literal nazis.
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
find some outlets in here. don’t pay for substack; your cash goes to literal nazis.
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☎️Take a few minutes today to call your reps and senators. They need to hear from us, especially from federal workers.
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
☎️Take a few minutes today to call your reps and senators. They need to hear from us, especially from federal workers.
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
Tell them to hold the line, to not let our trauma and suffering be in vain. Force republicans to the negotiating table and remind Trump he does not yet own us all.
5calls.org
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If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
Milwaukee and Madison: stand with Chicago tomorrow.
Hands Off Chicago – Stand in Defiance
badgercollective.net
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Milwaukee and Madison: stand with Chicago tomorrow.
D.) When I worked in public schools there was no budget for students to have access to a whole book. All I could offer them was access to a classroom set, photocopied excerpts, and novels I bought with Donorschoose money or paid for myself.
Why aren't students reading whole books?
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
D.) When I worked in public schools there was no budget for students to have access to a whole book. All I could offer them was access to a classroom set, photocopied excerpts, and novels I bought with Donorschoose money or paid for myself.
Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.
September 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.
Thank goodness. Please, by all that is scientific and not holy, get a bipartisan group together and fire him before he harms or endangers anyone else.
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Thank goodness. Please, by all that is scientific and not holy, get a bipartisan group together and fire him before he harms or endangers anyone else.
Also, at the same time making pregnancy more dangerous by reducing access to care and telling pregnant people not to be vaccinated, and not to take fever-reducers/painkillers (acetaminophen). This is about causing pain and harm.
But if pregnancy is all-consuming, painful, and may happen at any time, then it's much harder to do other things with your life, too. Women's spheres narrow. And that's what they are aiming for: circumscription of women's lives. (Really all our lives.)
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Also, at the same time making pregnancy more dangerous by reducing access to care and telling pregnant people not to be vaccinated, and not to take fever-reducers/painkillers (acetaminophen). This is about causing pain and harm.
I truly crave the day when we are no longer ruled by the kinds of people who can be bought by old white billionaires.
Bad news for MAGA: 242 days into Donald Trump's term, his net approval rating is -17%, down 2.6 points since last week.
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.
The demographics are most revealing ...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.
The demographics are most revealing ...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I truly crave the day when we are no longer ruled by the kinds of people who can be bought by old white billionaires.
This is a reminder that late night talk shows are not the only targets for government censorship and overreach. Book bans are censorship, too, and a book ban has never been on the right side of history.
No - this is not the latest satirical headline at @theonion.com This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend Lamar Consolidated ISD schools.
www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...
www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...
Pinkalicious and 700+ other titles removed from Lamar Consolidated ISD, near Houston
No - this is not the latest satirical headline at The Onion. This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend LCISD schools.
www.txftrp.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is a reminder that late night talk shows are not the only targets for government censorship and overreach. Book bans are censorship, too, and a book ban has never been on the right side of history.