Kelly Hills, MPH

@rocza.bsky.social

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Your friendly neighborhood bioethicist. I had a marvelous time ruining everything. ♿️🚺🕉️ Public & global health ethics; syn & DIY bio, biosafety & biosecurity; tech ethics; animal & research ethics; health comms. In MA.

Book cover for Tom Levenson’s new book, “A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines.” The title is in white on a black circular background that is being injected with an old vaccine needle by a set of hands. The entire cover is in black and white.
Text saying “It removes the presumption that landlords must accommodate untrained ESAs. Under the old framework, a landlord who refused to waive a no-pets policy for someone with a legitimate ESA was presumed to be violating the Fair Housing Act. That presumption is gone. Landlords are no longer expected to automatically grant requests from disabled tenants with untrained ESAs. This effectively shifts the risk entirely onto tenants.”
A very flamboyant pair of men’s loafers, embroidered with a peacock and chrysanthemum motif.
A snippet from Dead Poet’s Society with several students on the desk, the rest gathered around, all gazing at their unconventional teacher.
Whoopi Goldberg in a black liquid metal gown that looks sort of like the T-1000 has been turned into a dress. It has a large bandeau-across-both-shoulders bodice, tapered waist, and flowing ball gown skirt. It’s apparently custom by Christian Siriano and fulfills all my AfroFuturism dreams for a stately queen.
Excerpt from the situation report of May 16, 1941 from the president of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court to the Reich minister of justice concerning the mood in the population and rumors circulating about the "question of the extermina-tion of lives unworthy to live." The "euthanasia" measures, originally planned as a secret operation, soon became known to the public, first in the form of rumor, and then more broadly. ABSTRACT: President of the Higher Regional Court Artur Ungewitter reports, among other things, that "the vehicles used to bring the patients... to the liquidation institutions" were familiar to the population. "When such transport vehicles come by" children called out “They're gassing people again." People were worried that perhaps “elderly people, who had accomplished something in their lives and now had become a bit feebleminded in old age were being liquidated along with the rest."
Letter informing parents of their son’s death, hiding the fact it was murder.
Secretly taken photo of the state asylum at Hadamar, 1941. The smoking chimney points to the incinerators installed in 1940 in one of the Nazi euthanasia program's ("Action T4") national killing institutions to burn the bodies of murdered patients. In this institution, which also served as a reserve military hospital for the Wehrmacht, more than 10,113 people fell victim to the gas chamber between January and August 1941. Between 1942 and 1945, 4,411 mainly mentally ill people were again killed here, this time by starvation rations, medical neglect, and drugs.
Informal letter written by Adolf Hitler on his private letterhead authorizing his personal physician, the surgeon Dr. Karl Brandt, and the head of the "Führer's Chancellery," Reich Leader (Reichsleiter) Philipp Bouhler, to order the murder of inmates of asylums and residential facilities, among other people, September 1, 1939. The authorization, which was issued in October 1939, was backdated to September 1, the day the war began, possibly in order to portray the "freeing up" of hospitals as necessary to the war effort. After the initiation of the "informal" children's "euthanasia" program in the summer of 1939, the letter semi-officially legitimized the extension of the murder of patients to adults. The handwritten marginal note shows that the memorandum had been presented to Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner on August 27, 1940. The letter states: "I charge Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt with responsibility to expand the authority of physicians to be stipulated by name so that patients who are in all probability incurably ill may be allowed a merciful death after a critical assessment of their illness. Adolf Hitler"
A yellow poster with a disabled man sitting in a chair. His eyes are closed, his right hand is spasmed in a tight fist. His legs are wasted away. Behind him, to his left, stands a medical attendant. The poster text reads, "This hereditary defective costs the Volk community 60,000 RM [Reichsmark] over his lifetime/ German comrade (Volksgenosse) that is your money/Read Neues Volk ...”
Map of Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and a pinch of Rhode Island, showing Joann craft stores that will begin closing on February 15. Milford, MA and Hooksett, NH will remain open until liquidated by the new brand owners at an unknown date in the future.
Lexi is a lovely adult Korat. This photo shows her sitting on a grey minky fur blanket, alert and giving me a look best interpreted as “what are you up to?”
Tired of posting doctor offices, so have a photo of Lexi, a grey Korat cat, laying across two different grey blankets. Both heat up, so she was nice and toasty and stretched out looooooong across the bed. Her eyes are closed and ears perked up. There is a white fleece blanket acting as a wall behind her, stopping the fan from blowing on her, and there is a bright pink parrot cat toy in the very front focus of the picture.
Snapshot of the current Sundhnúkur eruptions taken on Nov 24 via the mbl.is YouTube channel.
A medium-sized clear tote that’s pretty full of mostly but not quite finished crochet projects, sitting on a grey blanket next to a very unimpressed blue-grey Korat cat by the name of Lexi, Queen of the House.
A shopping cart full of Halloween decor and yarn. The most distinct items are a cobweb pillow and a very creepy “cute” bear skeleton.
A square with four boxes titled “every D&D group has the same four members.” The top left square is a derpy orange kitten eating a slice of pizza, the top right square is a crocodile at night with flame behind its head. The bottom left image is a raccoon on hind legs, hands out, in a purple princess dress. The bottom right image is an American opossum head hissing in the middle of a bin of recycling.
Lexi, the oldest (a Korat cat nesting in recycled yarn on a fluffy grey bedspread)
A photo of my infusion room, my crochet bag, and a suspicious looking piece of crochet that is really honestly the head of a kangaroo. Honest.
Lexi standing at the foot of the bed, on her heated blanket, with the parrot toy from Catlady Box that she brought up to use as a pillow.
A hive larger than my hand on my torso. Unmedicated, the hives last days at a time. It took 10 months to move me through all the medication regimens required by insurance before they would approve Xolair, the monoclonal antibody I take twice a month. I spent most of 2021 being very still, trying not to aggravate the hives. The only thing I could bear touching me was the soft fur of the cats. We moved me into the townhouse we bought that year using a high dose of pain medication and wrapping me in a cocoon of loose blankets — and yes, relying on the dark.
The sign for Lyon’s, a West Coast 24-hour diner similar to Denny’s.
CBS news article reporting Trump said “Christians get out and vote. Just this time," he urged. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians." “
Panelists at ASBH, left to right: Kevin T. Mintz, Jaime Konerman-Sease, Joe Stramondo, and an interpreter. (Liz Bowen is off-screen.)
Stylized fire with a black outline of a person watching a sunset/fire.
Search image results of “woman with head on fire free images”: images of female fire mages on fire, costumed cartoon women fire dancing, and some Carrie-esque photos.
The suggested text for this post was “Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #364,953!” One of the few times I was an early adopter.
Picture of a divider used for boarding at Logan, with swoopy LED lights reflected in large windows.
A giant skeleton, barricaded by boxes of his compatriots.
Toddler-sized squirrels made of willow sticks holding raffia acorns over their heads. They’re wearing plaid bow ties.
A model of social determinants of health found in pretty much every foundational public health class. Downstream efforts, such as medical interventions, target the individual, while midstream addresses issues like community-wide factors influencing public health and connecting individuals with and supporting social needs found in community-based organizations and services and systems of care. Public health has traditionally operated here, but in recent years has acknowledged the efficacy of operating upstream, at the community level impact level. Here, tactics are about addressing the laws, policies, and regulations that improve community conditions and support health for all people. Many public health professionals tried to operate at this level during the pandemic, especially those of us discussing policy with politicians or media.
Lexi, a large blue Korat cat, with green eyes reflecting in the camera flash, holding a green broccoli cat toy from Cat Lady Box. A white Sherpa blanket forms a low mountain behind her to block the fan and she is laying on a mottled grey and white heated blanket, because she is a spoiled, spoiled princess.
Moody photo of the eclipse totality in black and white, with bare tree branches in the front.
A poster advertising a watch-along to the movie Outbreak, hosted by an epidemiologist, two bio/public health ethicists, and …well yeah, he’s a fish guy, but David was big in media misrepresentation at the time. Poster is our then-Twitter avatars along with an Outbreak bunny suit trying to swig from a bottle, and the title Outbreak followed the tagline “try to remain calm.” I really had fun with photoshop back then. 😂
A derelict boat in Sydney Harbour being consumed by mangroves. Photo by me.
Screenshot of the Times of Israel headline and drophead of a Heritage minister breaking Israel's stance of nuclear ambiguity. Headline: Far-right minister says nuking Gaza an option, PM suspends him from cabinet meetings Drophead: Heritage minister asks why lives of hostages more important than troops; Netanyahu: Comments ‘detached from reality’; meanwhile, Smotrich says Israel will control Gaza post-war
A poster for a lecture and round table discussion on the ethics of publishing creative non-fiction about patients. The framing lecture will be given by Sayafani Dasgupta, MD, MPH, with a roundtable discussion from Dorothy Novick, MD, Aaron Levy, PhD, Jonathan Moreno, PhD, and Miriam Solomon, PhD.
ASBH program for Sam and Yara, who is now a grad student in philosophy at BU!
Scrooge McDuck jumping into a money pit.
Robert Smith, the GOFROC GOFR. (Never let scientists acronym)
Haus Labs by Lady Gaga Triclone Skin Tech foundation box. The foundation label is white.
Mrs Crocombe!
A screenshot of the weather map, clearly showing Massachusetts flexing on us all.
Harley (RIP), a Turkish Van, being majestic.
A young Harley, a Turkish Van, getting belly rubs.
Nick, bundled against the cold, and his BFF Overlord Zeus.
A closeup of Lexi, a Korat with light green eyes.
Overlord Zeus (RIP), grooming.
A cow cat in a plaid tie.
Meme: He don't even know he a cat.
A majestic picture of Overlord Zeus, RIP.
A majestic picture of Harley, a Turkish Van. The three spiders that were her brain all coordinated to look off into the distance with her beautiful line green eyes for this photo.