Aparna Nair
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Lives with epilepsy.
yeah, Im okay with that, more of this, if you will.
Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.
ICE Agents Keep Accidentally Shooting Themselves
www.newsweek.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:20 PM
yeah, Im okay with that, more of this, if you will.
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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
February 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Sigh. As a historian of empire I am so tired.
February 18, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Sigh. As a historian of empire I am so tired.
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No. I'm sorry, but the youths need to learn to code switch between Professional and Online just like the rest of us.
reading a history of medicine paper for peer review and I saw the author use "vibes" in the most Gen Z way and Im not sure how to feel about it
February 18, 2026 at 10:16 PM
No. I'm sorry, but the youths need to learn to code switch between Professional and Online just like the rest of us.
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I have rewatched 2005 Pride and Prejudice three times this week while working, and damn, the costumer should have won all the awards just based on her selection of silhouette alone, let alone fabric choices and color and styling.
Darcy’s coats get progressively looser cuts.
Darcy’s coats get progressively looser cuts.
February 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I have rewatched 2005 Pride and Prejudice three times this week while working, and damn, the costumer should have won all the awards just based on her selection of silhouette alone, let alone fabric choices and color and styling.
Darcy’s coats get progressively looser cuts.
Darcy’s coats get progressively looser cuts.
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David French cannot wait to cheer more Muslims being blown up, it really is his favorite thing.
February 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM
David French cannot wait to cheer more Muslims being blown up, it really is his favorite thing.
reading a history of medicine paper for peer review and I saw the author use "vibes" in the most Gen Z way and Im not sure how to feel about it
February 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
reading a history of medicine paper for peer review and I saw the author use "vibes" in the most Gen Z way and Im not sure how to feel about it
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David French, who is still waging the Crusades.
February 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
David French, who is still waging the Crusades.
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Those thirsty to bomb Iran consistently have a hard time answering "But why?" in a way that ever conveys relevance to American lives. Millennials and Gen Z are all post-Shah, revolution and hostage crisis kids.
February 18, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Those thirsty to bomb Iran consistently have a hard time answering "But why?" in a way that ever conveys relevance to American lives. Millennials and Gen Z are all post-Shah, revolution and hostage crisis kids.
His disgust and hate for disabled people is in almost everything he does: his attitudes towards vaccination, food, autism, mental health, everything. The man routinely makes it clear that his goal is to ensure the mass deaths of disabled people through intentional policy.
A committed eugenicist.
A committed eugenicist.
The Kennedy legacy is a legacy of eugenics like how they gave Rosemary a lobotomy. RFK probably learned that disabled people need to be eliminated at the kitchen table as a boy.
February 18, 2026 at 9:51 PM
His disgust and hate for disabled people is in almost everything he does: his attitudes towards vaccination, food, autism, mental health, everything. The man routinely makes it clear that his goal is to ensure the mass deaths of disabled people through intentional policy.
A committed eugenicist.
A committed eugenicist.
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Just gonna drop this gem from my fave
💯
Audre Lorde diagnosed a kind of man whose "American maleness overcomes or supersedes anything else, so that they relate to me, to the world, to children, to the fence, to a plant, to a tree first of all as an American male. And there I find, by definition, a position of false power, intolerable.”
Audre Lorde diagnosed a kind of man whose "American maleness overcomes or supersedes anything else, so that they relate to me, to the world, to children, to the fence, to a plant, to a tree first of all as an American male. And there I find, by definition, a position of false power, intolerable.”
February 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Just gonna drop this gem from my fave
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mainstream outlets rehabilitated David French because he was Never Trump, but his NeoCon traits make him just as fascist
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
mainstream outlets rehabilitated David French because he was Never Trump, but his NeoCon traits make him just as fascist
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The Kennedy legacy is a legacy of eugenics like how they gave Rosemary a lobotomy. RFK probably learned that disabled people need to be eliminated at the kitchen table as a boy.
February 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The Kennedy legacy is a legacy of eugenics like how they gave Rosemary a lobotomy. RFK probably learned that disabled people need to be eliminated at the kitchen table as a boy.
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is it against the rules in biathlon to shoot the other competitors. just feels like a pretty obvious loophole i’d want to close otherwise
February 18, 2026 at 9:45 PM
is it against the rules in biathlon to shoot the other competitors. just feels like a pretty obvious loophole i’d want to close otherwise
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No, sometimes we just levy crippling economic sanctions and let the people die slowly.
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
No, sometimes we just levy crippling economic sanctions and let the people die slowly.
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I interact with a number of journalists on here on a frequent basis. Those interactions have been overwhelmingly positive, and I deeply appreciate that they respond to my queries or comments in a serious manner. They also work very hard, in my experience to build trust.
Laughing at journalists who say if Bluesky was nicer to them there’d be more journalists here like…you don’t know your audience AT ALL.
Trying to shame Bluesky into behaving the way you personally want is like trying to keep a cat off a counter.
That cat is gonna be on the counter EVEN MORE now.
Trying to shame Bluesky into behaving the way you personally want is like trying to keep a cat off a counter.
That cat is gonna be on the counter EVEN MORE now.
February 18, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I interact with a number of journalists on here on a frequent basis. Those interactions have been overwhelmingly positive, and I deeply appreciate that they respond to my queries or comments in a serious manner. They also work very hard, in my experience to build trust.
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That thread is ___incredible____
“Yes there are Nazis and CSAM on X but JESUS you people don’t praise me enough”
“Yes there are Nazis and CSAM on X but JESUS you people don’t praise me enough”
February 18, 2026 at 9:17 PM
That thread is ___incredible____
“Yes there are Nazis and CSAM on X but JESUS you people don’t praise me enough”
“Yes there are Nazis and CSAM on X but JESUS you people don’t praise me enough”
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Getting blocked for THIS is a new low.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
February 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Getting blocked for THIS is a new low.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
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I came in with the heat. So much heat, in fact, that the WSJ's most prominent remaining economist is now blocking me for posting a low-effort Nathan Fielder meme that got 4 likes.
X, the everything app, can never compete with the hate people get on this site.
X, the everything app, can never compete with the hate people get on this site.
Getting blocked for THIS is a new low.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
A+++ @nicktimiraos.bsky.social. Very brave. Great journalism.
February 18, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I came in with the heat. So much heat, in fact, that the WSJ's most prominent remaining economist is now blocking me for posting a low-effort Nathan Fielder meme that got 4 likes.
X, the everything app, can never compete with the hate people get on this site.
X, the everything app, can never compete with the hate people get on this site.
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Americans complete lack of understanding our role in the world will never not be amazing to me. It’s like when Americans find out we’re still at war with North Korea and strangle them off from the rest of the world and have the audacity to ask “why do they think we’re at war with them?”
February 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Americans complete lack of understanding our role in the world will never not be amazing to me. It’s like when Americans find out we’re still at war with North Korea and strangle them off from the rest of the world and have the audacity to ask “why do they think we’re at war with them?”
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Like Iraq never happened.
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Like Iraq never happened.
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Maybe a quarter century of insisting the "immense threat of an Iranian bomb" is just around the corner, one that started concurrently with the same insistence about Iraq, is contributing to the lack of public buy-in
February 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Maybe a quarter century of insisting the "immense threat of an Iranian bomb" is just around the corner, one that started concurrently with the same insistence about Iraq, is contributing to the lack of public buy-in
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This kind of war ethos is literally what American is built on and then it’s taught in schools (remember ROTC lol)
February 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This kind of war ethos is literally what American is built on and then it’s taught in schools (remember ROTC lol)
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I live a trad life, living off the land simply, because living natural is the best way. If you want to know how to live off the land simply and without technology, please watch my TikTok videos and join the discord, I also stream on Twitch every Thursday where I scream at women who wear pants
February 18, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I live a trad life, living off the land simply, because living natural is the best way. If you want to know how to live off the land simply and without technology, please watch my TikTok videos and join the discord, I also stream on Twitch every Thursday where I scream at women who wear pants
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NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social
Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
www.propublica.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
By @megomatz.bsky.social