Or, how The Handmaid’s Tale is failing its own history if it’s not VERY careful.
Spoilers through the end of Season 5. Stop here, or abandon all hope of being unspoiled.
Category: <span>History</span>
(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)
Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.
An aside to yesterday’s thread: (and it’s own thread, here)
Well into the Enlightenment, most educated people thought it was impossible for highly complex beings (like humans) to be assembled from parts. Therefore, everything grew out of teeny-tiny versions of themselves, all created at the same time.
A twitter thread, simultaneously posted here.
No, we’re not going to the 17th century for women. This fuckery on abortion is only possible in the 21st century.
Originally a twitter thread, 28 August 2021
People who dismiss what the von Westphalen & Marx families did to Helene Demuth just prove to me they have no concept of what working women experienced in the 19th century. More importantly, they don’t value working women, and never have.
Originally a Twitter thread, April 24, 2021
A long thread on the primary alternative to the US model of policing, with some history, mostly for context.
Long thread. References used at end. (And yes, there is synthesis here.)
Expansion on a twitter thread.
Let’s talk about cardiac cells.
You know we can grow them in a Petri dish? When they’re alone, they just twitch. But if they’re touching? They start beating together. It’s What They Do.
Hearts are simple.
They’re just muscle pumps.
It’s why we can yank & reinstall if we have parts.