Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Native Am legend Sitting Bull's great-grandson identified using DNA from 130-year-old hair

Sitting Bull led the fight against settlers by uniting Sioux tribes on Great Plains in the late 19th cen.

https://scoop.upworthy.com/great-grandson-famed-lakota-leader-sitting-bull-identified-dna-hair-native-american-552079-552079-552079

The tongue of women, children, the homeless and the illiterate: #Yiddish. Or, better an honest slap in the face than an insincere kiss. #Language #linguistics https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/yiddish-language-diaspora.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@AlliFlowers the same way I’m guessing that your cancer story is part of your past? it’s something that is part of me. Life is made up of good and bad bits, like everyone else?

At the same time, by acknowledging who I am and my life story, and by being authentic to myself and my life, I hope I can help others on similar journeys, whatever their particular challenges.

@TCatInReality @MHowell @StillIRise1963

His buffoonery would have flopped on the first day if journalists had done their job instead of translating for him. On the 2016 campaign trail, he'd spew random, wandering verbal vomit and they'd recraft it so it more or less matched up with standard GOP party platform statements. Comparing his actual words to what they printed was a shocking eye opener, but nobody picked up on that story.

@AlliFlowers

For some, like my daughter, life is just that simple. She let us know who she wasn't at 3.5 yo and who she was a few months later. We adjusted accordingly and cleared up her paperwork along the way. Now she just has a medical issue or two to take care of.

For others, like me, it's more complex and there are bits and pieces and relationships that span decades, all along my transition.

But also, there was a brief period right after Obergefell when I and so many other older adult trans people had to decide whether to blend in and disappear, or stand out, stand up, and fight.

We use "trans" to signify that there are more of us than people would otherwise realize and that as adults, we know what we are doing. Otherwise, trans kids would have to stand alone in a fight against well established, powerful adults.

Whoops. There has been a brief break in our politics/social issues/activist stuff moratorium. Management apologizes for any distress caused, and to cleanse your feed here are once more cute #kittens.

Screenshots here.
As an anaesthetist I spend a good amount of time talking, in close proximity, to vulnerable patients while having young children at home coughing and unwell.
I owe it to my patients not to pass on whatever is circulating at home to them.
I've been doing it daily for 3 years and can do it as needed for the remainder of my career.

PS Don’t vape, kids. This is propylene glycol only and only for demonstration purposes

#n95 #MasksWork