Mary-Anne

Mary-Anne

@mjack08.bsky.social

Aotearoa born & grown. Irish national. Recovering Classics scholar. Decoloniser. Disability advocate. Zero tolerance for misogyny

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Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

I'm still figuring out the best way to articulate this. There's something different about growing up in a culture that has its roots in oral history, and passing knowledge directly from person to person. When elders tell you a story, you internalise it in a way that sinks through to your soul.

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Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

That liminal state where on a logical level I'd say, of course I don't believe in fairies, in the way of "Clap your hands for Tinkerbell." But at the same time I wouldn't purposely piss off fairies, just in case. And when yer old man tells you a story, you listen and remember just in case.

Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

Words have power; speaking things aloud gives them weight. Particularly in a culture where story and song used to be the primary means of passing on information. And I may carry the weight lightly, but I still carry it.

Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

I'm still figuring out the best way to articulate this. There's something different about growing up in a culture that has its roots in oral history, and passing knowledge directly from person to person. When elders tell you a story, you internalise it in a way that sinks through to your soul.

Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

I grew up in Aotearoa NZ but my dad was born and raised in Ireland. Most of his friends were Irish, many of the people he worked with were Irish, we went to the Irish Society club gatherings, we played Irish music, went to Catholic school with kids whose parents were also Irish expats.

Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

When my paternal grandmother died, dad told me he saw a bean sidhe over our house. I believed him, not on a literal level but on the gut level where I knew he felt a deep longing for home and connection. And that's hard to describe: the in-between where I don't believe but I don't disbelieve either.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social
@escapedexplorer.bsky.social

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

newyorkermag.visitlink.meThe Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of ThousandsThe short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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News Eye
@newseye.bsky.social

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

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Mir 📎
@mirakosh.bsky.social

'Oh Rascal Children of Gaza' By Palestinian poet and playwright Khaled Juma - Al-Shaboura. Written during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge August 2014, that killed 547 Palestinian children, wounded 3,374 children and permanently disabled 1,000 children. #Palestine

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rePROs Fight Back
@reprosfightback.bsky.social

Transgender Law Center and @reprolegalfund.bsky.social’s Trans Health Legal Fund offers financial support for trans people facing investigation, arrest, or prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care. Share with your community, and apply here: reprolegaldefensefund.org/trans-health...

reprolegaldefensefund.orgTrans Health Legal Fund - Repro Legal Defense FundOur judicial system has tried to convince us that we don’t have ownership over our bodies. We know better. In partnership with the Transgender Law Center, we are launching the Trans Health Legal Fund....

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Matthew Hahn
@matthewhahn.com

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Zack Whittaker
@zackwhittaker.com

New: Change Healthcare's breach last year affects over 100 million Americans whose health data was stolen. But for months, Change has hidden its official data breach notice from search engines, making it far more difficult for anyone searching the web to find it. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/u...

techcrunch.comUnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months | TechCrunchFollowing its ransomware attack, Change Healthcare used website code to hide the data breach notice from search engines.

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Matthew Hahn
@matthewhahn.com

A great write-up on the incarcerated firefighter program in California & the folks in prison helping out with the fires in LA. Appreciate The Marshall Project for reaching out to me. All too often, folks write about fire camps without talking to people who’ve been to fire camps. Not the case here.

themarshallproject.orgThe Dangerous Yet Desirable Work of Being an Incarcerated Firefighter in CaliforniaMore than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

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Reuters
@reuters.com

When the Grenfell Tower blaze led to revelations that high-rise public housing across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed those responsible would pay. Seven years on, the companies have largely escaped financial liability reut.rs/3BY7wYa

reut.rsExclusive: The Ghosts of Grenfell: No penalties for UK firms that used deadly building materialWhen the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed the building contractors responsible would pay for their negligence.

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NativeBio Data Consortium
@nativebio.bsky.social

Hey All, please share and learn about this great summer program, conceived, led and taught by Indigenous scholars to Indigenous students! It's a groundbreaking concept, Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSov and protecting resources for Indigenous people's own and exclusive benefit. What an idea?!

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Graphic Medicine International Collective
@graphicmedicine.bsky.social

Replying to @graphicmedicine.bsky.social

These awards are meant to recognize and honor outstanding health-related comic projects published in 2024. They are made possible by your donations and a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. www.graphicmedicine.org/the-inaugura...

graphicmedicine.orgThe Graphic Medicine Award | Graphic MedicineCLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE GMIC AWARD! The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to guide and support the uses of comics in health. The GMIC A...
Mary-Anne
@mjack08.bsky.social

Anyone on #Classics Bluesky want to chat about Euripides and Greek drama? I graduated in 2007 so I'm not up to date with current scholarship, but I'm in the Nancy Sorlin Rabinowitz,Anxiety Veiled school of thought.

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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social

2024 was extraordinarily busy, so we’ll forgive you if you missed some of our articles at @bolts.bsky.social. Our team chose our 12 favorite pieces of the year. These are articles I'd love for you to not miss—& give them new life if you did. And: thank you for reading us! ↓

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH
@gavinyamey.bsky.social

1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

Aaron Weiss (no relation)@aweiss.bsky.social

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

startribune.comClosure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I've ever seen in my career. What was the mayor doing at this press conference.. the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded when he is dealing with his own issues.”

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Johnnie Jae
@johnniejae.bsky.social

Ya'll FNX has just released a free streaming app for Native content! Just downloaded it and they have some great content up...if you haven't seen The Lesser Blessed or read the book by Richard Van Camp, highly recommend! www.foxla.com/news/local-i...

foxla.comLocal indigenous group launches free, 24-hour all Native streaming platformThe First Nations Experience has cooking shows, news, movies, documentaries and even cartoons, all created by Native Americans.

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Dr Simon Trafford
@simontrafford.bsky.social

"The genetic results encourage reflection on the dangers of making up stories about gender and family relationships in past societies based on present-day expectations,” one of the study’s authors said. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

nbcnews.comPompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about victims buried in ash“The genetic results encourage reflection on the dangers of making up stories about gender and family relationships in past societies based on present-day expectations,” one of the study’s authors sai...

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Tatum Hunter
@tatumhunter.bsky.social

NEW: The type of conspiracy-thinking that used to brew in small corners of the internet is now a second language for all of us. Here’s what drone panic says about this moment — when paranoia jumps across political lines and online bubbles. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comIn online drone panic, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstreamAuthorities are urging calm. But with trust in media and other institutions at all-time lows, fringe theories are winning the day.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle
@drdoylesays.bsky.social

It's not that we become impervious to triggers. It's that we come to trust our commitment to responding to them w/ skill & commitment to not turn on ourselves like our bullies & abusers conditioned us to. And both parts of that equation, skill & commitment, very much matter.

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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com

Replying to @tnorris.bsky.social

Okay so I have **actual evidence** that he knows what he's saying is wrong. Here he is literally agreeing with my analysis of the minimal area we'd need to provide the whole US with solar, back in the day (2020)

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Bo Thompson
@gaudipern.bsky.social

A lot of men are gonna be mad that their US history classes were too busy to cover The Hatpin Panic. The Hatpin Panic was a period in the early 1900's where we had to pass laws limiting women's hatpins to <9" because men started to get too fucking free with touching and were getting shanked for it.

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Neal Curtis
@nihilcurtis.bsky.social

Ever since Reagan, increasing the debt by giving tax breaks to the rich has been a premeditated policy to justify cutting welfare & public services. Neoliberal playbook 101.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

FOX: “Nothing is sacrosanct. Everything is on the table, and that includes (cutting) Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security…” As we have warned about over and over — And as they cut those programs, they will cut taxes for the rich (again). they don’t care about the debt.