Wendy Fall

Interested in absurd/nihilistic depictions of decay and the grotesque? Check out ‘Digger’. It’s a well-made Beckett rehash for our times.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

We lost a 14-yo farm worker in Wisconsin this week after an accident with a skid loader. There was no law to protect him, and in Wisconsin we train kids even younger than that to operate heavy farm equipment. Read why we should not:

I can vouch for Sam! Get some gothic goodness into your spooky season.🎃

This, by the way, is how they plan to eventually get rid of professors who specialize in a subject they think no one should learn because it doesn’t align with capitalistic or fascistic goals. What are we even doing here?

I am a Persian tortie show cat.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Many critics of this are missing the point. This isn’t meant to reorganize the funding of education. It’s meant to reduce our means to create social change through our (non-capitalist-driven) work, and to ensure a dumbed down electorate.

Important thing that is flying under the media’s radar:

Or maybe don’t do things that infringe upon the rights of so many people. That’ll make us mad.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

You can use ‘adjust donation’ to give more funds to World Central Kitchen. These are fun books! Good for a chuckle or two, especially in dark times.

You know you are on the wrong side of history when you are this careful to cover up every identifying mark, right down to your tattoos. Cowards.

For all the what-aboutism I read out there: Yes, past presidents have sucked, too, but this? This is a whole new level.

Must read book list for Pride Month (now 40% off) @HaymarketBooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/165-st...

Very sad to be on the wrong side of an ocean during this. You should go, though, if you can!

!!!!! My C18 and long C19 colleagues — *THE* Olaudah Equiano’s original letter to Josiah Wedgwood on the abolition of the slave trade 1793 At V&A East “The Music is Black: A British Story”

Into the Gothic on Juneteenth? Check out ‘The Black Vampyre’. Written in 1819 by an American author, it’s a comedic abolitionist short story! dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...

Woof. Not only is this dominated by right wing voices, but it is also far too joyless for tenth graders.

"Why can’t Trump keep his bloodsport / ego strokefest in the coliseum where it belongs? This whole ordeal is really giving mad kings a bad name."

So why do you work in government and publish research outside your field, Dr. Fall?

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

This is their second attempt to do this. It’s not based on science. This is why so many states are joining the World Health Organization and relying on partners like the AMA. Stick to your jabs, please, while the dedicated scientists in the US public health community hunker down under this attack.

Sharing Heather Cox Richardson’s Week 1, one minute videos she & her team are producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence🎇 Thank you @LettersFromAnAmerican & @heathercoxrichardsonand250at250 on Substack @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Terrible for trans folks. I’d also argue that it’s a very bad sign for democracy in general for there to be any system amounting to a poll tax. There should never be a barrier to voting. Period.

Hold them accountable, please, voters in their districts.

HHS took this down. That’s because they aren’t being led by science, and are instead acting out someone’s ideology. Share this great preventative information widely. It is still correct, and we can’t prevent the spread of disease without good information.

I feel like everyone who is using it when working with students who are covered by FERPA should also be thinking about this. You can’t expect privacy.

Thou shalt not dine with fascist pedophiles.

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Also trying to eliminate niceties like coherence and cogency.

Guess what killed more soldiers in WWI than chemical weapons? Hint: an immunization would have prevented those deaths.

Mine is if I endorse a r@pe academy of any kind, or even mention it without seeming ready to 🤮.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Once more, with feeling.

“This hostile environment for trans people, where barely a day goes by without a degrading story in the press, or a politician whipping up hatred on social media or in parliament, is having material impacts on trans people’s everyday lives.” Transphobia is institutionalised. We must disrupt it. 🏳️‍⚧️

It is good for everyone in the country if we practice science-based health care and public health. New data that leads to better outcomes should be vetted by scientists who are experts in that field using scientific method and peer review.

This is the system doing exactly as it is designed to do. Why are we surprised when wealthy white men harm girls and get away with it? This is how patriarchy is built. It’s as if we are suddenly outraged to open a math textbook and see that 1+1=2. We know this; why is it more shocking in writing?

there is no detaching being anti-trans from being anti-bodily autonomy and pro-fascism. there is no such thing as a left wing or a feminism that is compatible with support for denial of trans healthcare.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 MAR 19 According to TransResilience in Dec 2025, anti-trans hate groups filed FDA petition for fed registry of trans women on estrogen incl. mandatory psychiatric gatekeeping. It went unnoticed and has 0 statements of expert opposition. Comments still being accepted.

Milwaukee area folks: come on out! We are just about to get warmed up.

Al Jazeera has a useful tracker of who is getting killed and injured. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

I guess they rejected OPERATION BLOW UP CHILDREN TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THAT WE RAPE CHILDREN