EDIT: This was a joke. The joke is that I don't look like that. Not remotely.

But I realize now that my avatar is a crow not my headshot so a lot of you don't know that and some day I'll be at a conference and someone will say wait WTF I thought you were a smoking hot young Brat Pitt lookalike and I'll be all uh what are you talking about and it'll be super awkward.

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ORIGINAL POST: For the record, I was having a bad hair day.

https://twitter.com/telliowkuwp/status/1653365126408421379

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

"Why won't you pay the $8?"

Five months ago, before she died, my 91-year-old great-grandmother described to me how, while her mother was taken to the gas chambers by the Nazis, she asked her mother, "Where are you going?" and "When are you coming back?" She never saw her mother again. I was literally shaking while I was listening.

Now, when I checked Twitter, I bumped into two accounts, one "verified," and the other one lost their "verification" yesterday. I'll just leave it right here...

This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That's Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this:

ALDRIN: Ok, let's get started
PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait?
BA: I'm not an idiot son.
PG: Well your suit-
BA: Son, have you been to the moon?
PG: No sir.
BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin' moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

Officials continue to avoid acknowledging that immunocompromised & high risk people are being locked out of society. This is a complete failure of public health. Public health officials should always listen to & center the voices of the people who are most impacted by a crisis.

#COVID #PublicHealth

We have high levels of an airborne disease which is known to have killed over 200K people in the last three years in he UK alone and yet peer/media pressure has convinced almost everyone not to take even the most basic precautions.

An extraordinary time to be alive.