Sarah O

Popping up here to ask hist prof friends a Q. Can you recommend any good histories of Alabama or historians of Alabama? Asking for my family tree research. Turns out I'm suuuuper Alabamian.

Front page of a Nature paper on SARS-CoV-2 immune escape published January 31 2025

Excerpt from 2025 Nature paper with highlighted phrase: “Our work suggests that the ongoing pandemic continues…”

I highlighted the most important part of yesterday’s Nature paper.

We’re in year six.

Can you please stop saying “during the pandemic” and “post-Covid”?

You sound dangerously uninformed or just really stupid when you say it.

Maybe I'm just not following the right people, but there's no true posters on this site.

Right, I don't think it will stop him from getting anything done, because I don't see who would use it as a check against him? Not his own party, not the supreme court.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. If he wants to ignore it, he will, and who will stop him?

This is not a safe place without locked accounts. ✌🏻

"If we're going to be kin, then we must accept that these relationships come with responsibility." - Patty Krawec, "Becoming Kin: an Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future"

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

These are the same self proclaimed leftists who won’t even wear a mask amidst an ongoing pandemic so that they don’t kill or disable those around them. It’s very toxic, and at its core it’s rank, right wing individualism.

Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

Under mounting pressure from lawmakers and amidst a moral panic about young people’s social media use, Meta introduced a new set of “sensitive content” restrictions which led to the downranking and hiding of LGBTQ content.

I'll keep saying it until people in power start listening:

It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people.

It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)

It continues to drive me bonkers that people think that social media bans are actually intended to help youth. Here’s another reminder of the underlying anti-trans political agenda. Even without laws, tech companies are doing hate mongers’ bidding. “For the children.”

My standing offer is still this after four years: If you know what West was doing on January 6 and/or who he linked up with on his drive with others on the way there, reach out on Signal only. I'm brettdokc.56

I really miss being able to just go ham on a ton of gluten

I'm for it. Alcohol is poison

Just like the “male loneliness epidemic” the imbalance in men going to college is entirely their own doing. A whole generation has decided to make themselves uneducated and unfuckable because they’re addicted to resentment. Manosphere influencers line their pockets by ensuring they stay that way.

However hard your life is, remember that you have more dignity than the richest man to ever exist, who used a sock puppet to post this about himself.

Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.

It went so much better than I could've expected! I am all recovered now

UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation Health workers who fell ill on Covid pandemic frontline sue employers as they confront life-changing disabilities

UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation
"Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic. 1/
www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

Thinking of all the disabled folks having a lonely holiday season bc ppl couldn't be bothered with COVID precautions, the space wasn't accessible, funds are tight, you need the time off to recover, ppl are disappointed you're not who you used to be, invitations are simply no longer forthcoming, etc.

I have an incredibly unfun medical appointment tomorrow morning. Send good vibes that it goes easily and without complications

Joe Biden is the president.

Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town? One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma

In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide

Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town

Food sovereignty is the way