Awkward Heretic

@awkwardheretic.bsky.social

Trying to stay sane. Science, politics, healthcare, philosophy, social justice. He/him or they/them.

Putting myself on a limited Facebook diet again. It doesn't matter where your political leanings are, make a tongue in cheek comment in a post and someone is going to go apeshit on you without even bothering to make sure they actually understand your response. Can you imagine if we all did this...

It’s gonna be a pretty solid weekend if social media is flooded with clips of Laura Loomer getting her ass handed to her in-person by Indian journalists. Shout-out to Rajdeep Sardesai for kicking off the festivities.

Basically, non-white south Africans, who absolutely could have treated white descendants of colonists the way white people treated non white people, have not done so. The racist idiots realized they didn't have it so bad and went home. Good riddance, but I'm sure they didn't really learn anything.

Cath RN, PhD@headdoc35.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The land of milk and honey turned out to be expensive polluted water and stale bread. Many white South Africans who are repatriating reported "better quality of life" and "lower cost of living," while others say crime in America is the reason they’re going back to South Africa. #ETTD

Is anyone following me fluent in any Chinese languages? Over the years I've seen some hilariously bad translations from Mandarin or Cantonese into English, and it's always amusing how it turns out for some reason. So I'm wondering if the reverse is true too? Let me know!

Sgt. Brian McGinnis is out of jail after he was arrested for expressing his opposition to the US war on Iran in Congress. Capitol Police officers and Senator Sheehy broke his arm as they removed and arrested him.

One of the things I'm realizing about myself, is that I allow other people to derail me too easily. My empathy is completely disregulated. Either I internalize everyone's feelings around me, or I compartmentalize in order to cope. The compartmentilization was helpful during patient...

Honestly, I'm shocked it took this long for Trump to decide Noem was too much of a liability. Any other POTUS who saw their approval ratings drop THAT much thanks to a completely mismanaged branch of government would have done it months ago

When you slobber over any white man that stands up to the administration *online*, regardless of his politics, and pledge eternal fealty to him, yet kick and scream about how Jasmine Crockett “isn’t electable,” you know we see you, right?

To the Democrats: the midterms are coming up. Assuming trump doesn't succeed in his attempt to steal the midterms, you will have control of the senate and the house. The American people want blood. So don't fuck it up with your usual ineffective bullshit.

It kind of blows my mind how clueless this administration is. I'm 48 years old, and my country has been at war for my ENTIRE LIFE. We are tired of war. Younger gen xers and older millenials remember growing up with the tail end of the cold war fears, Panama, the Contras, Desert Storm, the...

Neither party uses evidence based approaches to solve social issues to the degree they ought to. This will be a thread, but before I start, please don't reply with examples where evidence based programs were implemented by either party. I'm well aware. PEPFAR comes to mind. Needle exchange too. 1/n