I got my crab facts advent calendar today! And more cool stickers. If you don't already follow @sarahmackattack.bsky.social you definitely should!

So, a 🧵, because it's important to be clear about the actual, detrimental government actions that are going on in Asheville and how that's sharply different from the conspiracy b.s. that's circulating...

Today, NY Mag published an excerpt of my book, in which I talk about the past 50 years of the abusive evangelical "biblical parenting" movement, how "parental rights" entered the political lexicon, and why you shouldn't hit your kids: www.thecut.com/article/the-...

Breaking a Child’s Will

The Evangelical family’s twisted obsession with corporal punishment.

Got a great compliment from the pharmacist today: she loves the darkness in me, and will miss me when my placement ends. It turns out that she also has a dark humour that hides behind the professional facade.

Nineteen months ago, former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, and his family and friends thought he had only days to live. Now, he's 100 years old, the first president in U.S. history to hit the centennial mark. nyti.ms/3ZHfoqB

It is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Residential School System. Over 150,000 Indigenous Children were placed in Residential Schools. An estimated 3,200 to 30,000 never returned home.

Sep 26 1:30pm CT: #Helene is now a 120 mph (Category 3) major hurricane. The intensification process will continue as it heads towards a FL panhandle landfall. The next 24-72 hours of impacts are going to be quite significant; especially areas not used to these types of events.

23 September 1912 | A Czech, Emil Krmar, was born. A moldmaker. In Auschwitz from 17 April 1942. No. 29823 He perished in the camp on 3 July 1942.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #810,366!Golly, less than a million! I have lost contact with the friend who sent me the invitation, but I hope that they are well.

For the #SciArtSeptember#astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution 🧵🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬#histsci