Just sitting at the bar, finishing one mitt and ready to cast on the other.
Jo Paoletti
@jbpaoletti.bsky.social
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I write about fashion and gender at gendermystique.substack.com I write about other things at substack.com/@jopaoletti I also knit. alot. blog.umd.edu/jopaoletti I block randos.
![David had begun to tuck these ideas into his lectures at Indiana University, informing students that traits like "pauperism" and "degener[acy]" were heritable and thus could be "exterminated just as swamps are drained." In time, he began taking the ideas outside of the classroom, giving speeches to large gatherings of prominent politicians warning that the "republic shall endure [only] as long as the human harvest is good."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zxvug6v4sxtcpynqjgxumvxc/bafkreici5dwl72jbjyooffws7mczcsnwcmebzl6cfodeejuj7mur24dpr4)
