sarah (they/them) 😷

The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.

if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse

This is a very important thread. People are free to curate their feeds how they choose but Alt NPS does not deserve your attention. They frequently steal content without attribution, make up numbers for protest engagement(No Kings #1), and in this case create false narratives to fit their goals.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info.

M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily.

They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Such an important point & one of the things I love about Zohran is his support for trans folks has been unequivocal.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.

Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Thinking of all my trans siblings tonight who have had to endure months and months of hand-wringing over our lives being, supposedly, a dealbreaker for voters.

That’s my mayor (I don’t live in New York)

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

saying "it's 5 pm somewhere" in reference to going to bed

Because most social programs in the US are, unfortunately, means tested, sometimes providing direct financial assistance to someone can risk their benefits. This is an excellent guide on how to avoid that if there is anyone that you want to aid directly during this crisis.

deranged meme text with badly edited sloppy inconsistent fonts and messy images. gives conspiracy theory vibes. title: stop doing daylight savings time • clocks were not supposed to be changed • years of time lies yet no real-world use found for pretending it's a different hour • wanted to be offset by an hour ? we had a tool for that: it was called “cross a time zone line" • "yes please give me an hour that doesn't happen. please give me the same hour twice" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged look at what daylight savings have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the calendars and clocks we built for them (countries that do it can't even do it the same date or every state) illustration shows US and European clock changes are different dates and also that Arizona doesn't do it even though the rest of states in US around it do. “hello i would like international and interstate clocks to be a different time zone adjustment at random times of year please" they have played us for absolute fools.

look I know it'd be easy to just let it go now that we're on the other side of it but guess what that's exactly how this charade has gone on for so long we simply cannot let them continue getting away with this

A very very very common symptom of long Covid, and at least one report called his illness “post viral.” Would anyone like to argue the pro basketball player was not healthy? Do you feel healthier than an NBA player?

have fun! love the masks!!

All I'm saying is that wearing a respirator mask in public spaces to protect yourself and others from covid is a great idea.

Knowledge is Worth Your Time Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...

Wrote this yesterday chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is...

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

This whole thread would be absolutely catastrophic to somebody like me, who is bedridden and disabled, and cannot work to save up for a 10K OOP max every year.

And yes, I hit that shit every single year with a surgery.

What a lot of people are forgetting, is that say you need to go in for

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

Baby that’s just…*Leverage*

rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person