Wendy Fall
@wendyfall.bsky.social
PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
This was no accident. It was sabotage.
literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.
December 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This was no accident. It was sabotage.
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I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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Defy the quacks. Make sure all of the kids get all of the life-saving jabs. You don’t know how an infection might affect a kiddo until it is too late. www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/release...
DHS Confirms First Pediatric Respiratory Illness-Associated Deaths
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has confirmed the first pediatric respiratory illness-associated deaths in two children from Wisconsin for the 2025-2026 season. One death is a result...
www.dhs.wisconsin.gov
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Defy the quacks. Make sure all of the kids get all of the life-saving jabs. You don’t know how an infection might affect a kiddo until it is too late. www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/news/release...
The 60-day comment period starts tomorrow. Please set aside some time to protect medical access for trans youth.
🧵 The Trump administration just proposed two rules that would effectively ban best-practice health care for trans youth.
Here’s what you need to know:
Here’s what you need to know:
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The 60-day comment period starts tomorrow. Please set aside some time to protect medical access for trans youth.
This should tell you everything you need to know about the motivations behind MAHA. The American Academy of Pediatrics wants all children to be healthy. MAHA wants to promote the quackery rich white people like.
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This should tell you everything you need to know about the motivations behind MAHA. The American Academy of Pediatrics wants all children to be healthy. MAHA wants to promote the quackery rich white people like.
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Ugh, I was still using Firefox because I DO NOT WANT AI.
Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/16/1359204/mozillas-new-ceo-bets-firefoxs-future-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI
Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its new chief executive, promoting the executive who has spent the past year leading the Firefox browser team and who now plans to make AI central to the company's future.
Enzor-DeMeo announced on Tuesday that an "AI Mode" is coming to Firefox next year. Th...
tech.slashdot.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Ugh, I was still using Firefox because I DO NOT WANT AI.
Way to go Australia! Also, in case you wondered, we do have other vaccines that prevent certain cancers. The HepB vaccine can prevent liver cancer. All it takes is good public health policy and practice.
While the US continues to regress in public health progress, 🇦🇺 Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035. HPV vaccines 💉 and strong GP-led screening programs cut cases in young women to zero -- showing prevention and early detection really work!
www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Way to go Australia! Also, in case you wondered, we do have other vaccines that prevent certain cancers. The HepB vaccine can prevent liver cancer. All it takes is good public health policy and practice.
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A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
Unlock and upgrade in the Return to Metroidvania rebundle, read up on exciting Sci-Fi with Matha Wells’ Murderbot & more, and add character to your game environments with the Best of Synty 4 Game Dev Assets rebundles! https://bit.ly/4oxXmjd
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
An excellent use of ‘Frankenstein’, though I could propose many others who need to chase down their abominable creations…. I don’t think Dr. Phil is remotely the worst one.
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
An excellent use of ‘Frankenstein’, though I could propose many others who need to chase down their abominable creations…. I don’t think Dr. Phil is remotely the worst one.
I started in 2013, and can say the same. The yearly pattern: “cut this tenure line, cut that humanities program, build a new multimillion dollar building, invest more in corporate-style leaders.” They have moved inexorably away from teaching and knowledge production toward running theme parks.
I started my PhD in 2009 just as the first big waves of austerity were hitting the higher ed sector from the Recession, and at no point in my career have I seen the trend tending in the other direction.
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I started in 2013, and can say the same. The yearly pattern: “cut this tenure line, cut that humanities program, build a new multimillion dollar building, invest more in corporate-style leaders.” They have moved inexorably away from teaching and knowledge production toward running theme parks.
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Can you believe it’s been three weeks since the CDC fucked up the hep B vaccination six hours ago?
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Can you believe it’s been three weeks since the CDC fucked up the hep B vaccination six hours ago?
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
The harm comes to the trans grad instructor, not the institution, just as TPUSA would have it.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The harm comes to the trans grad instructor, not the institution, just as TPUSA would have it.
Classic sunk cost fallacy. Ridiculous, and doesn’t account for variables, such as: 1. The money to be made by investing in stuff the public truly wants or needs. 2. The other possible harms and losses that can come from making stupid tech. 3. The towering cost of destroying the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Classic sunk cost fallacy. Ridiculous, and doesn’t account for variables, such as: 1. The money to be made by investing in stuff the public truly wants or needs. 2. The other possible harms and losses that can come from making stupid tech. 3. The towering cost of destroying the environment.
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Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
Email CDC-INFO
Users can use this form to direct questions to the CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Come on, Dept. of Ed! What, did you get tired of ruining the teaching profession and decide to beat up a new type of public servant???
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards (in the science fiction category). 🥰
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
You can vote here: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am sorry I didn’t post before now, but I love this book, and you should read it!!
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I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.
Inconceivable!
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Inconceivable!
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We need a new word like ‘enshittification’ for the addition of unwanted AI to everything.
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Paitronization? Spaitfulness? Aimorality? Intrusaiveness? Waistfulness?
Is there already a term for it and I just don’t know what it is?
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.
great interview with some really important points
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Truth. Local and state public health are doing their level best to hold the line, and to build multi-state cooperation. Also: you’ll need to increase your state’s public health budget in the next few years. They are taking up an enormous new burden and likely losing their federal funding.