Sasha 🌈🌵🦕
@indeliblesasha.bsky.social
Mom. Queer. Geek. Grieving.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers
There's things in my life other than democracy and queer activism, but I'm not coming up with anything at the moment. She/her
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers
There's things in my life other than democracy and queer activism, but I'm not coming up with anything at the moment. She/her
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@indeliblesasha.bsky.social
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I love you. You're probably thinking, "You don't even know me." But if people can hate for no reason, I can love. - anon
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
(since Honey I Shrunk the Kids was June of '89, I'll go with...)
(since Honey I Shrunk the Kids was June of '89, I'll go with...)
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
(since Honey I Shrunk the Kids was June of '89, I'll go with...)
(since Honey I Shrunk the Kids was June of '89, I'll go with...)
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This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I did not know this! I am glad to know this now!
The reason we are commenting on your spelling is because these are the people you are imitating. Jewish people repeatedly ask people on social media to stop using the hyphen, because every time they see the version with the hyphen, they have to figure out if the writer means it that way.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I did not know this! I am glad to know this now!
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Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
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So they steal from me then sell those stolen goods to a company who repackages those stolen goods and resells them again. Fuck all the way off. This isn't like ye olden days of pirating off Napster. This is entitlement and greed from AI companies and readers.
bsky.app/profile/skyl...
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They also sell everything to companies building LLMs, there's a link offering their "datasets" (books, papers, etc) for tens of thousands of dollars USD. They also auto-scrape everything scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive's Open Library. So. Yeah. 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
So they steal from me then sell those stolen goods to a company who repackages those stolen goods and resells them again. Fuck all the way off. This isn't like ye olden days of pirating off Napster. This is entitlement and greed from AI companies and readers.
bsky.app/profile/skyl...
bsky.app/profile/skyl...
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Anyway, I recognize that there is a lot of awful shit out there, but truly you have to understand that (a) Western medicine is not the be all and end all of the entire world and (b) we have some huge honking holes in our ability to treat people, and people are going to try everything they can.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Anyway, I recognize that there is a lot of awful shit out there, but truly you have to understand that (a) Western medicine is not the be all and end all of the entire world and (b) we have some huge honking holes in our ability to treat people, and people are going to try everything they can.
HRT resolved a catastrophic cascade of health issues that covid triggered earlier this year.
But it's the deep and consistent meditation that has started to bring the systemic inflammation under control - I've been dealing with it for years.
Woo and medicine are often excellent partners.
But it's the deep and consistent meditation that has started to bring the systemic inflammation under control - I've been dealing with it for years.
Woo and medicine are often excellent partners.
I mention this because people are talking about people leaning on woo woo, and a lot of people think acupuncture is woo woo, and I thought it was woo woo and someone walked in and took a look at me and then put a needle in my arm and it stopped the flare up. Period.
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
HRT resolved a catastrophic cascade of health issues that covid triggered earlier this year.
But it's the deep and consistent meditation that has started to bring the systemic inflammation under control - I've been dealing with it for years.
Woo and medicine are often excellent partners.
But it's the deep and consistent meditation that has started to bring the systemic inflammation under control - I've been dealing with it for years.
Woo and medicine are often excellent partners.
And - before I bounce and go do my fucking work - unrelated to righteous childbirth related rage:
He really should have stopped with the purple bamboo prose. That would have been the best legacy. So sad.
He really should have stopped with the purple bamboo prose. That would have been the best legacy. So sad.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And - before I bounce and go do my fucking work - unrelated to righteous childbirth related rage:
He really should have stopped with the purple bamboo prose. That would have been the best legacy. So sad.
He really should have stopped with the purple bamboo prose. That would have been the best legacy. So sad.
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
I appreciate that however traumatizing reading that freebirth article is, my feed is full of people I love and respect raging not at the people who lost their children and their safety, but at the abusers and grifters who drove them to the terrible, tragic choices they made.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I appreciate that however traumatizing reading that freebirth article is, my feed is full of people I love and respect raging not at the people who lost their children and their safety, but at the abusers and grifters who drove them to the terrible, tragic choices they made.
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A quote from the article's main subject: “bodies do not grow babies that we cannot birth”
My son weighed over 11 lbs at birth. I'm 5'3", with a fairly small frame. Nothing short of a C-section was going to save either of our lives.
Emilee Saldaya is a murdering piece of shit.
My son weighed over 11 lbs at birth. I'm 5'3", with a fairly small frame. Nothing short of a C-section was going to save either of our lives.
Emilee Saldaya is a murdering piece of shit.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A quote from the article's main subject: “bodies do not grow babies that we cannot birth”
My son weighed over 11 lbs at birth. I'm 5'3", with a fairly small frame. Nothing short of a C-section was going to save either of our lives.
Emilee Saldaya is a murdering piece of shit.
My son weighed over 11 lbs at birth. I'm 5'3", with a fairly small frame. Nothing short of a C-section was going to save either of our lives.
Emilee Saldaya is a murdering piece of shit.
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Heyo! My beloved friend has had some extra difficulties and if anyone else can help, it would be so incredibly appreciated 💞
gofund.me/132be6c96
gofund.me/132be6c96
Donate to Putting the Brakes on the Breakdown, organized by Linda T
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November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Heyo! My beloved friend has had some extra difficulties and if anyone else can help, it would be so incredibly appreciated 💞
gofund.me/132be6c96
gofund.me/132be6c96
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Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yes. This. Please.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
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yeah, I think this is it: I have grace in my heart for the people who turn to this.
I have the rage of 10,000 suns in my heart for the people who monetize and exploit that desperation.
I have the rage of 10,000 suns in my heart for the people who monetize and exploit that desperation.
20 years of medical pros & family members going "Teehee, pain is just part of being a woman" before finally getting diagnosis and any useful treatment
I get incandescent with rage that so many of us have these stories; I desperately try to keep grace in my heart for those who turn to the Woo path
I get incandescent with rage that so many of us have these stories; I desperately try to keep grace in my heart for those who turn to the Woo path
The extent to which I was completely abandoned with pcos/endo is hard to quantify, and plenty of people tried to sell me WooWoo solutions for pain.
Doctors completely failed me on every front for most of my life, I am sympathetic to not trusting them. It is a hard convo.
Doctors completely failed me on every front for most of my life, I am sympathetic to not trusting them. It is a hard convo.
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
yeah, I think this is it: I have grace in my heart for the people who turn to this.
I have the rage of 10,000 suns in my heart for the people who monetize and exploit that desperation.
I have the rage of 10,000 suns in my heart for the people who monetize and exploit that desperation.
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And the corollary is that a lot of people fall in the wrong social group and don’t have a chance.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
And the corollary is that a lot of people fall in the wrong social group and don’t have a chance.
I have PTSD bc of the abuse we suffered in the hospital during my 1st birth. It made me terrifyingly vulnerable to crunchy granola antivax mommy bloggers.
This is a summary how medical violence has opened a path for grifters of the most callous kind to kill infants the the people who birth them. 1/
This is a summary how medical violence has opened a path for grifters of the most callous kind to kill infants the the people who birth them. 1/
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I have PTSD bc of the abuse we suffered in the hospital during my 1st birth. It made me terrifyingly vulnerable to crunchy granola antivax mommy bloggers.
This is a summary how medical violence has opened a path for grifters of the most callous kind to kill infants the the people who birth them. 1/
This is a summary how medical violence has opened a path for grifters of the most callous kind to kill infants the the people who birth them. 1/
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
Lol what. I mean, good, obviously, and this does not surprise me because the vast majority of elections folks - regardless of party - take election security serious af.
But also.
Lol. Today. Wow.
But also.
Lol. Today. Wow.
Colorado's Republican election clerks tell Gov Jared Polis (D) that freeing Tina Peters at Trump's request would be a betrayal. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0rs...
Colorado officials, county clerks urge Polis not to transfer Tina Peters to federal custody
YouTube video by Next 9NEWS
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November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Lol what. I mean, good, obviously, and this does not surprise me because the vast majority of elections folks - regardless of party - take election security serious af.
But also.
Lol. Today. Wow.
But also.
Lol. Today. Wow.
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Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
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It’s ok you can say it
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s ok you can say it
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong