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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

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sorry to hear that might want to delete this thread your profession is disgraced when you fail to optimize

I hope you’ve figured out how to turn this into miles that get you lounge access, early boarding, and a gently smug facial expression, otherwise it’s all a waste

I didn’t know that first part — I need to read more!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you thought the “single family zoning was part of racism” argument was kind of an academic structural / theoretical point, really you only have to barely scratch the f-ing surface to find it alive and very individually defended, as well as also broadly structural

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I've said it before, I've said it again: Bluesky has a disproportionate and extremely loud percentage of users who think it's morally righteous to abuse people as long as it's for a good enough cause, and an even larger percentage of users who specialize in justifying why causes are good.

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I think the sexual abuse scandals were a deep setback to the forces in the Church that emphasized authority and misogyny, and that this as much as any alliance with evangelicals was part of the rise and fall of anti-abortion political primacy — the biggest anti abortion cardinals went down

Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a non Catholic I was in a diocesan youth against nuclear war group in the 80s and I’ve often run across / worked with Catholic Worker types in my work and what I have taken from this is that the Church contains many multitudes of politics

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Which is why I just subscribed, exactly _because_ this interview isn’t for me. This too is a function of the Black press— it turns out that to those interested in understanding the community, it is better to just listen to conversations within it, than to expect to be directly addressed;

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Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I was young in a diverse but internally segregated high school, the idea of Black institutions confused me. As I get older I have ever more understanding of why that work—ie, the long term version of what Michael Harriot or others build—is essential. This interview requires a Black media.

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Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A movie review, of sorts, from @mashagessen.bsky.social which becomes a brief essay about Israelis reckoning and not reckoning with the nature of what they have done www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...

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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)

The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.

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Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m from Sacramento and I loved that movie so so much. And the way Greta Gerwig talks about her mom makes it clear this wasn’t her mom, exactly, nor was Lady Bird her. Also I absolutely love everything about how good and caring a psych nurse the mom is to the drama teacher

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The “club drugs” in the gay world and their overlap with rape-facilitating drugs in the straight one is a reminder that the gay club scene is often not as cute/hot as it imagines itself, but also, that straight men can often be so much terribly more straightforward about being awful.

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Here’s a snappy and helpful harm reduction take on ketamine from the gay world—it’s a complicated drug even in medical settings, even more so in social settings. (Can’t vouch for a rehab that doesn’t clearly have slots for Medicaid patients, but the video is good.) www.instagram.com/reel/DZdG3VW...

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The drug at lower doses has a stimulating and disinhibiting effect and then in higher doses is dissociative, with paralytic effects (you literally can’t move). The use of ketamine in the woman’s narrative is especially pernicious—being used at low doses by the men, who impose high doses on her.

A drug whose primary effect is a feeling of dissociation, and at higher doses, has a paralytic effect, has always been a potential horror show when used in risky social settings, and that was/is true even in the gay world that pioneered its non medical use.

the dark humor of healthcare workers is not new evidently

The Aquinnah land story, and an exploration of complexities of sovereignty & cultural identity, can be found in “Nothing More Of This Land” by Joseph Lee, available everywhere AND from his family’s gift shop in the shops by the lighthouse. (I bought it from his mom!) www.josephvlee.com

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So: our local zoonoses are absolutely caused by a dysfunctional relationship with nature but via patchwork symbolic _reforestation_ not _deforestation_, and entangled with property patterns that dispossessed people like the Aquinnah Wampanoag, who are still there and would like to have land back

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But the “nature” is not on a natural scale—but on a patchwork scale and with an herbivore-dominated no-scary-animal ecology almost ideally suited to breeding new populations of ticks.

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In other words as white property owners bemoan the “disruption of nature” that has caused the tick explosion, they / we are the ones who produce it. They retell this story by doing things like deeding land to conservation trusts instead of the tribe—to ensure that “nature” remains unperturbed.

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As alpha-gal spikes on Martha's Vineyard, researchers launch first long-term study of patients

the town of Oak Bluffs, the heart of this community, is not nearly as tick-friendly! (That said, Louis Sullivan’s annual 5k run—part of a long tradition of Black philanthropic support of Martha’s Vineyard Hospital—supported the hospital’s alpha-gal research this year.) www.wbur.org/news/2026/08...

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Researchers at Martha's Vineyard Hospital hope to learn how alpha-gal syndrome develops after someone is bitten by a lone star tick. The study will examine over 300 residents from the island over the ...

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You can even see that the most tick-friendly pattern is culturally Anglo—my ancestors who experienced the lords’ enclosures and ran to the Americas to enclose land of their own. The Martha’s Vineyard Black community, wealthy and large, is clustered in a way that emphasizes community& interaction—

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Being in Aquinnah really highlighted that cultural pattern of an agonized guilty/accusatory relationship to the spoiling of “pure” nature; a story about how “too much development” is causing tick borne disease instead of the _pattern_ of development.

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…but a forest without deer predators. This summer I learned about how the Aquinnah Wampanoag need a housing trust as much as a nature trust. It wasn’t the Wampanoag who divided the land on the island into small plots—a pattern that, with property taxes, dispossessed them in their own town.

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This didn’t play into the estate’s decision I don’t think, but it comes at a time when Martha’s Vineyard has a staggering burden of tick-borne disease. That tick burden is amplified by “conservation”-minded property owners who, like English aristocrats, surround big houses with big plots of “forest”

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Jackie O’s Private Beach Is Open to All. But It’s a Hike. (Gift Article)

In Aquinnah: the Jackie Onassis estate just gave over a huge plot of land to a develop-nothing “pristine nature” conservation trust instead of the Aquinnah Wampanoag land trust. That’s an old pattern on Martha’s Vineyard. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

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Caroline Kennedy and her family sold more than 330 acres of coastal land on Martha’s Vineyard to conservation groups. It comes with some caveats.

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As soon as @colincarlson.bsky.social calls out that monster-movie narrative pattern, we recognize it as a distinctly white American mythology, the story that we will be punished for destroying “nature” …but a version of nature that can not be trusted to the care of non-white people who live there

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Epic and super interesting 🧵 (h/t @gavinyamey.bsky.social ) untangling environmental, epidemiological, and political issues. There is no “nature” without humans. The @colincarlson.bsky.social thread is about Ebola— but it got me thinking about Martha’s Vineyard, where I have family. My 🧵 below :

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Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the cohort at most risk of opioid overdose. Page 15 of this link: www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Screen shot of Massachusetts report on opioid use disorder too long for alt text, go to page 15 of this document : https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-2024-opioid-involved-overdose-report-0/download

Joe Wright MD @joewright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

not to mention Asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez

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you’re welcome—looking at it online i think there are a lot more trains than wine! but the descriptions of these fancy wine folks being kind of sloppy around the edges —part of the alcohol problem she found herself in before the trains—stuck with me

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(and I’d love to get a drink! I have questions about alcohol and urban spaces that I’d bet you have some thoughts about)

This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer com...

100% btw relevant to that and the original thread is this amazing memoir where the narrator has a stint in the fine wine industry where the gloss is hiding a lot of mess including for herself iupress.org/978025322283...

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anyway respiratory viruses are not a bar’s greatest health hazards, the bar sells its greatest health hazards to pay its rent

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Maarva Andor: Resisting Medicalization, Resisting Empire

anyway respiratory viruses are not a bar’s greatest health hazards, the bar sells its greatest health hazards to pay its rent

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But if you can’t see the suffering around the edges of all of those places, and sometimes right at their center, you’re kind of missing the bigger view

As someone who drinks alcohol as part of my life and is fortunate not to be disabled by substance use disorder, I have plenty of love and nostalgia for all kinds of booze-soaked spaces in the cities where I’ve lived

Let’s not get too nostalgic about the money that bars can make from the quiet depressed dyke at the end of the bar trying to hurry her path to liver failure, or the woman who hits her girlfriend when she gets drunk, and she gets drunk often

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It’s ok to want to run a bar and it’s ok to want a run a completely inclusive community space, but a bygone generation of politically-minded lesbians recognized the difference