Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi

Please, please, let him practice what he preaches and undergo surgery in a way that is consistent with, say, germ theory denialism.

It is, after all, important to defer at all times to all of the patient’s beliefs.

will the surgeons be masked?
is he going to be insisting on using leeches during surgery?
will he be using paracetamol for pain relief after or will he just do the time-honored podcastbro thing and bite down on a leather belt instead?
So many questions.

Also, as I understand it (please correct if needed) the CPUSA was willing to stand with Black organizers and defend Black folks getting railroaded when few others would.

This is actually one thing Nashville increasingly has going for it, at least in some areas, and between that and my e-bike I actually prefer to bike to work, weather permitting.

I tried just leaving a big one from last year up for that reason, but more seem to be moving in.

Also please clap; five years ago I would have been too terrified to attempt any of this.

So, uh, help? Ideally they get discouraged and find a nest site that isn’t my porch while it’s still early.

These include spraying a peppermint oil solution, using the hose on rain shower, and knock down the beginnings of the actual nest.

I really do not want to kill the paper wasps trying to build a nest right by my door, but they don’t seem to be taking the hint from the humane hazing techniques I have tried.

So, uh, help? Ideally they get discouraged and find a nest site that isn’t my porch while it’s still early.

These include spraying a peppermint oil solution, using the hose on rain shower, and knock down the beginnings of the actual nest.

I really do not want to kill the paper wasps trying to build a nest right by my door, but they don’t seem to be taking the hint from the humane hazing techniques I have tried.

Is “the nuclear family” too on the nose here?

Yes.

Both parts of my last name have, for distinct but connected reasons, now become exceedingly embarrassing.

I have multiple disabled friends who can't afford to eat every day.

Anyway, if you're seriously concerned about hyperindividualism I suggest you channel your rage and anxiety against RFK Jr and his ilk and the entire "health freedom" cum MAHA movement.

Scholar of sexual ethics here: pearl clutching about people's specific pleasures in the name of "community" is a great way to let genuine conversations about interdependence wither on the vine.

Hyperindividualism IS a problem. It hasn't got shit to do with what drink you like or who you fuck.

You read enough non-feminist bioethics (especially non-feminist Jewish and Catholic bioethics, IME) and you can recognize this kind of argument for what it is from miles away. For "coffee," read "abortion," "birth control," "gender-affirming care," "uncloseted queer people existing in public," etc.

This is also quite correct. It’s amazing how many appeals to “community” in this vein define “community” as “the continued hegemony of usually white, almost always straight, and ALWAYS cis men” and “hyperindividualism” as “anyone else exhibiting agency or pleasure.”

yep.
There are all manner of sinister subtexts to that piece, not least how you can read it through the lens of gender: its quite clear he imagines the frivolous coffee-drink-ordering-individual as a pink haired woman, etc. And he obv thinks that their choice brings about the decline of civilization

Jerkbrains gonna jerkbrain, but I certainly value you and your odd shapes.

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Now that I apparently have (a small amount of some of your) attention today, I also need some actual advice.

My tea collection has officially breached containment (a large Zingerman’s box I have divided by tea type). #TeaSky, tell me of your storage solutions.

My students didn't know freaking FUN HOME. Not even the musical.

Bizarre for Frith say that increased autism diagnoses "overshadows the needs of those with intellectual disabilities, who require much more intensive support." I don't know a single late-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic self-advocates who wants to erase high-support needs people.

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane really need a @thisguysucked.com treatment.

Look, I'm autistic. I, too, need structure. (Actually, everyone does). However, I fail to see how other people getting to have basic personal agency makes the world structureless.

I have a damn AAR proposal to finish but this shit is one of my berserk buttons.