Witch Doctor
@witchdoctor.bsky.social
Socialist. Scientist.
Professional drug expert.
Amateur macabre medical historian.
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Header image by George Wylesol.
Nothing I do on here represents or is on behalf of my employer.
Professional drug expert.
Amateur macabre medical historian.
_____
Header image by George Wylesol.
Nothing I do on here represents or is on behalf of my employer.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Anyone interested in history, politics, gender or theory should be aware that Pluto Books has 80% off for ebooks for 48h. I’m trying to decide which ones. Click here: www.plutobooks.com
Home Page - Pluto Press
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
www.plutobooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Anyone interested in history, politics, gender or theory should be aware that Pluto Books has 80% off for ebooks for 48h. I’m trying to decide which ones. Click here: www.plutobooks.com
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Saint Munditia, patron saint of spinsters, died circa 310 AD, beheaded by a hatchet. She was transferred from the Roman catacombs in 1675 and put on display in Munich, her bones encased in a bejeweled shroud, her hands clasping a glass container of dried blood.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/jewel...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/jewel...
Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Saint Munditia, patron saint of spinsters, died circa 310 AD, beheaded by a hatchet. She was transferred from the Roman catacombs in 1675 and put on display in Munich, her bones encased in a bejeweled shroud, her hands clasping a glass container of dried blood.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/jewel...
www.atlasobscura.com/places/jewel...
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Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will.
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'.
And they lack eyes...
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Share a smile.
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Share a smile.
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
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Just a murderous fungus having taken over a wasp and compelled it to die in a place advantageous to finding more victims. With its tiny spores floating off through the air in hopes of just one landing on an exoskeleton.. nothing in the rainforest wants anything to do with this little scene here…
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just a murderous fungus having taken over a wasp and compelled it to die in a place advantageous to finding more victims. With its tiny spores floating off through the air in hopes of just one landing on an exoskeleton.. nothing in the rainforest wants anything to do with this little scene here…
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#MementoMoriMonday mood
17th century carved boxwood Death holding a dart.
Fetzentödlein [small death in tatters]
Exhibited at TEFAF by Kunstkammer Georg Laue
17th century carved boxwood Death holding a dart.
Fetzentödlein [small death in tatters]
Exhibited at TEFAF by Kunstkammer Georg Laue
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#MementoMoriMonday mood
17th century carved boxwood Death holding a dart.
Fetzentödlein [small death in tatters]
Exhibited at TEFAF by Kunstkammer Georg Laue
17th century carved boxwood Death holding a dart.
Fetzentödlein [small death in tatters]
Exhibited at TEFAF by Kunstkammer Georg Laue
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New from me: We have entered an age of polio denialism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New from me: We have entered an age of polio denialism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Tonight, I got it off the needles, and I wove in all the ends, but I still need to wash it and block the ever loving bejesus out of it. But it's almost 10 pm so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Tonight, I got it off the needles, and I wove in all the ends, but I still need to wash it and block the ever loving bejesus out of it. But it's almost 10 pm so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
#knitters #knitting #knit #knitsky #yarn #🧶 #handknitting #RavenwoodDragonCloak #TourdeFleece2025
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This is a hip joint prosthesis. It has been specifically designed to withstand compression stress.
#TriviaTuesday
#TriviaTuesday
For #TriviaTuesday this week we have this object from the 1970s. It is 11 cm long. Do you know what it is?
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is a hip joint prosthesis. It has been specifically designed to withstand compression stress.
#TriviaTuesday
#TriviaTuesday
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The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
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Another little Mycena species emerging from lichen - the local peat bog is now alive with smaller fungi fruiting bodies #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Another little Mycena species emerging from lichen - the local peat bog is now alive with smaller fungi fruiting bodies #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms
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It's slime mold and jelly fungus time! This might be witch's butter or Dacrymyces chrysospermus. It's from a park down the street that I took my dog to today. 🌱
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It's slime mold and jelly fungus time! This might be witch's butter or Dacrymyces chrysospermus. It's from a park down the street that I took my dog to today. 🌱
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how cool and scary is our planet
The 'Finger of Death' that Freezes Everything it Touches | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth
YouTube video by BBC Earth
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
how cool and scary is our planet
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Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!
In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Eel smuggling is a major problem today. But it's not new!
In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
In 1463, London city officials arrested 9 Zeeland merchants who tried to slip 97 barrels of salted eels past customs at Billingsgate. They wanted to avoid import fees, but wound up facing a £40 fine.
🗃️🧪
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Fun fact: By the 1880s, people were so worried about how rundown & shabby the White House bathrooms were, when President Garfield died (from an infection from assassin’s bullet 2 months earlier), rumors circulated that the true cause was poisoning by sewer gas from the White House's faulty toilets
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Fun fact: By the 1880s, people were so worried about how rundown & shabby the White House bathrooms were, when President Garfield died (from an infection from assassin’s bullet 2 months earlier), rumors circulated that the true cause was poisoning by sewer gas from the White House's faulty toilets
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Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Happy Halloween🖤 #13DaysOfHalloween Day 13 is the Pacific blackdragon, one of the blackest (no joke, called ultrablack) animals, determined by whether they reflect <0.5% of the light hitting it. They live a couple hundred to ~2000 yards deep and have a bioluminescent lure they use to attract prey 🧪
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My daughter, who runs Sewn Company, is a hand-sewing instructor and historic sewing/clothing consultant. She tells the story of my haunted vintage clothing store as she sews in this video.
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
Telling a Ghost Story and Handsewing
YouTube video by Sewn Company
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My daughter, who runs Sewn Company, is a hand-sewing instructor and historic sewing/clothing consultant. She tells the story of my haunted vintage clothing store as she sews in this video.
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?...
#ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings
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This #Halloween, Madeleine Vionnet is offering all of the witchy stitches with her 1927 Araignée gown, a pale and ethereal design dripping with a beaded cobweb #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This #Halloween, Madeleine Vionnet is offering all of the witchy stitches with her 1927 Araignée gown, a pale and ethereal design dripping with a beaded cobweb #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Mild plant horror 🌱🌿
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Mild plant horror 🌱🌿
