@cautiouspurple
Theatre PhD. Writing about Monsters and Acting atm. Horror fan. Ecology and environment. Got lots of public education. Long covider. She/her. Always planning for next hair color, a pet I wish I had, or surviving dystopia.
"It takes around 17 years for health findings to become mainstream practice" is an indictment of medicine's calcified and outdated management class.
Medical training based on antiquated seniority-driven systems that care more about power than quality of care can't keep up with a changing world.
It’s Long Covid Awareness Month and a good time to remind everyone that Covid is not over.
It’s still here, still disabling and still killing.
All it takes is one infection to change your life forever.
You never know when you could be disabled.
Wear a mask. Clean the air.
Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
DOGE Employees Used ChatGPT to Cancel Humanities Grants, Suits Allege
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Want to identify large warehouses that are vulnerable to becoming ICE detention sites? Here's a quick, proactive guide anyone can use. No special skills or access needed. 👇🧵
Cat with split color face with orange on the left and more brown on the right. Eyes almost closed. Paw with white knuckles by her face.
Jubilee 💜
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
The military is overwhelmingly made up of people who grew up in poverty or lower working class conditions, former foster kids, people with dependent parents and children with severe healthcare needs they cannot afford otherwise.
The US is purposefully set up to force people into the military.
This is eugenics against disabled people, by the way and guess who else hated the disabled this much?
You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate?
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
From the Olympics to Nasa, wearing masks is back - except when it comes to our hospitals
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
But surely it was the skull of a wealthy white man who donated it to Oxford with full consent that it be used to *suppresses gag* drink from, right? Right?
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.
Sad day. Sad news. #JesseJackson #CivilRights #Leader #Oppressed #Voiceless #Overlooked #EqualityForAll ❤️ 🌏
“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.”
—Audre Lorde 🌸🌸🌸
❤️🖤💚
last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.
A rat and mini lion/cat/rat/creature of unknown origin meeting under a table in some 15th c painting
We found love in a hopeless place
Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off
I'm writing a book about actors playing monsters.
Cynthia Erivo playing all the parts in Dracula is utterly wonderful. And I have MUCH to say about her Dracula. ♥️🧛🏿♀️
The federal government’s surge into Minnesota is hurting small local businesses, especially those run by immigrants, tremendously. “It’s terrifying. All my employees are legal. I’m 100% legal. But that doesn’t mean anything anymore.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... via @laurenaratani.bsky.social
NEW: Two weeks ago, the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid of Fulton County’s central election hub to acquire 2020 election records.
Now, the county said in newly unsealed court filings that the search was "designed to intimidate" voters and may have violated numerous constitutional rights.
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Asleep for an hour, I woke up having a long COVID/dysautonomia flare. It feels like acute illness: chills, burning up, nausea, and muscular tension. I am trying to figure out the trigger aside from stress, weather.
But this never gets easier.
And people see me mask but rarely see these flares
Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
