Courtney E. Thompson
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Looking to spice up your #histmed classes? Consider two new books coming out just in time for Fall 2025! Full of pithy and provocative essays, Do Less Harm (ed. me & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social) and The Nursing Clio Reader (@nursingclio.bsky.social) offer new perspectives to meet the moment. 1/2
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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This @mcsweeneys.net piece is 10/10 no notes www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wit...
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This @mcsweeneys.net piece is 10/10 no notes www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wit...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
One of my students told me today that she was just getting over the flu. Did you get your flu shot, I asked. No, she says, I've never had the flu, so I don't need the vaccine.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
One of my students told me today that she was just getting over the flu. Did you get your flu shot, I asked. No, she says, I've never had the flu, so I don't need the vaccine.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
I gave the Influenza of 1918 lecture a few weeks ago, & I shared info re: campus flu clinic.
This is a premed. Sigh.
My aunt once asked my husband to carve the turkey, so he broke it down, & she saw this and threw a fit, because what she wanted was Norman Rockwell sliced breast, not an expertly broken-down bird.
The family still brings it up to make fun of him 10 years later, and we are still bitter about it.
The family still brings it up to make fun of him 10 years later, and we are still bitter about it.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My aunt once asked my husband to carve the turkey, so he broke it down, & she saw this and threw a fit, because what she wanted was Norman Rockwell sliced breast, not an expertly broken-down bird.
The family still brings it up to make fun of him 10 years later, and we are still bitter about it.
The family still brings it up to make fun of him 10 years later, and we are still bitter about it.
Christmas dinner where I'm from is lasagna, manicotti, penne/ziti, meatballs, braciola (and like, one token vegetable). Always fascinated by what "tradional" Christmas dinner looks like for those who did not grow up in the Italian American tri-state bubble (my family issn't even Italian!)
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Christmas dinner where I'm from is lasagna, manicotti, penne/ziti, meatballs, braciola (and like, one token vegetable). Always fascinated by what "tradional" Christmas dinner looks like for those who did not grow up in the Italian American tri-state bubble (my family issn't even Italian!)
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"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
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I really don't care how you joke with your sane friends. Don't bring bigotry against the mentally ill round me.
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I really don't care how you joke with your sane friends. Don't bring bigotry against the mentally ill round me.
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In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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"Too big to fail," eh?
I’m sure these two things have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Too big to fail," eh?
Between this and the "not wearing makeup" is anti-MAGA take, I'm on a roll! A true radical!
wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Between this and the "not wearing makeup" is anti-MAGA take, I'm on a roll! A true radical!
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Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
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speaking as a teacher, I hate this and will never do it. Why? because it still centres the tech. Also, students may take the wrong lesson away bc they got a superficially passable paper. I didn't invite ChatGPT into my class. Educators, not degenerate freaks like Sam Altman, decide what we teach
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
speaking as a teacher, I hate this and will never do it. Why? because it still centres the tech. Also, students may take the wrong lesson away bc they got a superficially passable paper. I didn't invite ChatGPT into my class. Educators, not degenerate freaks like Sam Altman, decide what we teach
The notion that some people were "born criminals" predates the notion of genes and the practice of eugenics.
(I wrote a book about this.)
(I wrote a book about this.)
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The notion that some people were "born criminals" predates the notion of genes and the practice of eugenics.
(I wrote a book about this.)
(I wrote a book about this.)
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
I would happily read a stack of books about this. This phenomenon is fascinating.
i hate repeating myself but it's worth noting that the reactionary right doesn't actually value hotness in women. what they value is submission to male power, regardless of how it looks. this is why they are all-in on grotesque plastic surgeries
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I would happily read a stack of books about this. This phenomenon is fascinating.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
This is how you get the Matrix!
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is how you get the Matrix!
Today we did our big grocery shop for Thanksgiving, and it came out to $265. Not terrible for five adults and a mostly vegetarian meal, but this doesn't include beverages, hors d'oeuvres, and the things we probably forgot. What does your Thanksgiving grocery bill look like this year?
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Today we did our big grocery shop for Thanksgiving, and it came out to $265. Not terrible for five adults and a mostly vegetarian meal, but this doesn't include beverages, hors d'oeuvres, and the things we probably forgot. What does your Thanksgiving grocery bill look like this year?
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The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.