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I was temping at the Massachusetts Department of Health when there was an outbreak of measles in the 2000s. No one in that department acted like it was a normal occurrence.

My mother in her Mbappé focused football stuff asked me why he's playing every day. It's really every three days.

Gently placing this history book I've been meaning to read on the timeline. bookshop.org/p/books/blit...

Well, that's a great, new piece of news. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Me watching the most recent episode of Paradise two days ago: "Well, that was fucking terrifying." Me looking at today's news: "Oh, so they're just going to slash the EPA staff by 65%."

"What the hell is burning mouth?" - Me while in a Zoom webinar about perimenopause and menopause organized by black women alumnae from my college

If you're going to suggest impeaching judges, we should start with Thomas and then look at Kavanaugh.

Six minutes until new Paradise!

Watched the S2 trailer of Andor. Spy shit!

The thing about the original Lavender Scare (in conjuction with the Red Scare) is that it led to the purging of many people with an understanding of the USSR.

my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz

Also Severance.

the other thing about Musk’s email is that people very literally fucking died to give us the weekend

The great thing about having been nerdy about multiple things throughout my life (history, science, fashion, dinosaurs, space, literature) is that all of the children of my friends think I'm great.

We got Jaclyn and Kate talking shit about Laurie's life as well as Laurie and Kate talking shit about Jaclyn's life on tonight's The White Lotus. So we just need the final combo.

My mother called me yesterday evening, and I thought it would be about the Pope being in critical condition because I spent my first six years of education in Catholic school, but it was not.