Princess of Needles

I rewrote my bio but didn't like the way it sounded. I might fix it someday. TW: suicide. she/her

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

Our gender reveal party: We open the box and a bunch of puppies run out. All of our guests are too excited about the puppies to care about the gender of the baby.

[Gwen ☕ @GwenpostingTTV]

An American soldier literally became national news for transitioning after serving in WW2. She was written from a position of admiration, not humiliation, by the mainstream press. As far back as 1952.

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

Looking up IVF on reddit: *boatloads of women talking about their treatment regimens and pregnancy outcomes in crazy detail*

Looking up IVF on twitter: "IVF is rape."

Me: "Oh right, that's why I basically stopped using twitter."

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

@RedMonkeyIdaho @sleepystudent32 @ElizaGlass1972 @DGlaucomflecken fyi, twitter labeled your comment as "probable spam" and I have no idea why.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Thank you to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies for letting me present pragmatic ideas and proposals for strategic infrastructure and a transitional phase in the Gaza Strip. The horror of the present must not prevent us from envisioning a better future for Palestinians in the Strip to inspire a radically different pathway forward. @AravaInstitute

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Let Able and Willing Gazans Who Want to Leave Go! It has been tough to evacuate Gazan civilians from the coastal enclave to destinations where they have acquired visas and entry permits. Though I’ve recently had success in helping several individuals leave the Strip, working through intermediaries with Israeli authorities, things have become quite chaotic and nearly impossible for non-medical evacuees to leave.

For the past three weeks, I have been trying to help a Christian family sheltering in a church in Gaza City leave and head to Australia, where they have acquired a visa and have the means to purchase flights to get there. However, bureaucratic delays have made their evacuations nearly impossible, with Israeli authorities demanding multiple documents and assurances from Australia and Jordan to approve the requests for this family’s departure from Gaza.

Israeli sources of mine have shared that there is a split and an inconsistency between the political echelons of the Israeli government and the lawyers within the Israeli military. Though many in the Israeli government have promulgated the narrative of “voluntary migration” that entails pushing or incentivizing Gazans to leave Gaza to reduce the population, the lawyers in different combatant commands and throughout the IDF have been instructing relevant entities within the military not to facilitate the departure of Gazans who are pursuing life elsewhere for non-medical reasons; IDF lawyers are worried about being implicated in potential war crimes, law suits, or accusations that they are facilitating the forced displacement of Palestinian civilians. They are concerned about facing accountability on their own for the policies of the current Israeli government.

This has generated inconsistencies and uncertainties for the efforts being made to evacuate people from Gaza. While forced displacement of civilians is indeed a war crime, it is also a crime to deny free passage out of a war zone for those who are choosing to leave and who want to get out to flee the death fields throughout the Gaza Strip. This Christian family huddled in a church in Gaza City has the right to exit and head to Australia; all that I and they are asking for is to grant them safe passage.

To all relevant officials and Israeli authorities: please let all Gazans who have valid visas and want to leave the Strip go to pursue safety and a new life elsewhere. Officials at COGAT have my name, the details of this family, and anybody can quickly and easily find out the necessary information to solve this issue immediately before they are killed in the church as the Israeli military pushes further into Gaza City.

@cogatonline @IsraeliPM @netanyahu @Israel @Israel_katz @gidonsaar @dannydanon @IsraelinUSA @GovMikeHuckabee @JohnnieM @GHFUpdates

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

"I thought I was dumb because I didn't understand this project I'm supposed to be helping with, but now I realize that I'm actually not dumb, it's just that this project doesn't make any sense."

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

My advice to Netanyahu would be that if he truly believes in a Gaza free from Hamas that is not occupied by Israel, then he should fire Ben Gvir, fire Smotrich, and find different coalition partners.

Ben Gvir and Smotrich want not only occupation, but permanent settlement.

[Sharone Lifschitz @Lifschitz_sha]

Netanyahu’s decision to advance the war even further means the hostages are being sacrificed.

Many in UK, especially in the Jewish community, have been so supportive. Now I urge - please listen to Israelis & hostage families, and help amplify our voices.

https://t.co/RhxR9HWQdR

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

It's fucking terrifying when your future isn't totally hopeless anymore because then you actually have to make an effort. Wallowing in sadness is so much easier.

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

@robwipond I've been trying to tell people for the last two years that my experience with coercive psychiatry has only made me more depressed, more suicidal, and less functional as a human. Finally there is robust data to support this.

[Rob Wipond @robwipond]

For "judgment call" cases where difft psychiatrists would/wouldn't involuntarily commit people, hospitalization nearly doubled people's risks of being charged with a violent crime & risks of dying by suicide or overdose. Details: https://t.co/mPo6oEGODz

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

@ADHDForReal There's nothing wrong with telling your doctor "I don't think this is working out" and leaving. I have done this once and never regretted it.

[Ya'el Courtney, PhD @ScienceYael]

Dr. Tala Navab-Daneshmand's EPA grant on antibiotic resistance (a national priority linked to 30K+ US deaths/year) was CANCELED. This vital public health research is stalled. Congress is still budgeting! Call your reps to support science funding!

[Uri Manor @manorlaboratory]

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

[J Street @jstreetdotorg]

Putting our values into action.

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

Also, if the sun doesn't cause skin cancer, please explain to me why it's one of the few acquired diseases that is *more* common in white people and why people with albinism are more susceptible to it and why it most commonly affects sun-exposed areas such as the face?

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

I followed an author because I thought her book sounded cool and then today she posted about how it's not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen. I thought it was a joke at first, but after reading her tweets it turns out she's dead serious.

[Princess of Needles @lazy_anatomist]

Like, okay, it's not impossible that sunscreen contains weird chemicals that do who-knows-what to you, but to suggest that solar radiation doesn't cause cancer when we have *actual DNA evidence for how UV rays fuck up your genes* is the dumbest shit ever.

[Adam Cohen @AdamEzraCohen]

I wrote an Op-Ed about the government's attacks on Harvard. Please share with anybody who thinks these attacks help anybody.
https://t.co/NvsZIn7XAE

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman detained by ICE, keeps getting worse

She’s been in the country 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility

Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization? 🧵