Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast. Send me your secrets: Signal: melodyschreiber.06 Email: melodyschreiber@proton.me Newsletter: notadoctor.newshttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwwyd27vck2rFucking YES [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Oct 2026 03:51 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwyd27vck2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwwtooatgk2rThe pandemic affected all of us in strange ways. I have boxes bursting with potential kid craft supplies because I'm NEVER getting caught without them again03 Oct 2026 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwtooatgk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwwrz3pe4k2rMy dad sold used tires and my mom, when she was allowed to work outside the home, sold vacuum cleaners on commission at Sears. We all worked hard so my kids can have better options than that. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Oct 2026 01:59 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwrz3pe4k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwwqlqmnxk2rOkay so remember how Alex Pretti had confronted ICE agents a few days before they shot him [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Oct 2026 01:33 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwqlqmnxk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwwnep5tgc2rThey do what now [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Oct 2026 00:36 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwnep5tgc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mww5lpkb222dWe're not even close to understanding how much damage this outbreak is causing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mww5lpkb222dhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mww3jjqvvk2rMove over, Wild to Mild, I've got a new flu shot campaign for you [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mww3jjqvvk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwvwaoa2xk2rLook, I know Bluesky isn't the place to talk about genAI, but it's the only social media network I use, so... IF you use AI, and IF you find it useful -- what is useful to you about it? What use cases have you found?02 Oct 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvwaoa2xk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwvvvaqg7s2rJust wait until you hear about MY religious beliefs [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvvvaqg7s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwtwyv57ik2c"Youth is for experimentation... They’re discovering who they are and who they’d like to be. Your job as a parent is to support them in that search." [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtwyv57ik2chttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwt5ats3lc2kI've been thinking of a beat where you just write up every single thing Trump says every day, and I think I invented Aaron Rupar [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt5ats3lc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwt4ufrxw22kThis is major! I wrote about the community's efforts to stop pollution from half-burned medical waste: https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/community-vs-coal-reclaiming-health-curtis-bay [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt4ufrxw22khttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwt37cnhyk2kThis is exciting! I still mourn the death of the Washington Post magazine (so quick! so stupid!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt37cnhyk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwryjhigj22oShe said she wasn't afraid of death, but she was afraid of how they would kill her [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 04:12 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwryjhigj22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwrqrqlk322oA lot more people are working from home and I'm not sure that really matters? [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwrqrqlk322ohttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwr5wo5x5s2oHow long should an article be30 Sep 2026 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr5wo5x5s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/melodyschreiber.com/post/3mwquio6i7k2oI believe this is what Jeannette Walls' father called "doing the skedaddle" (sneaking out of the hospital so that, in their case, he didn't have to pay) [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwquio6i7k2o