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Sandy Ernest Allen

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trans journalist/author guy. i cover mental health. subscribe: https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/ 📝: The Believer, Esquire, The Cut, This American Life ... 📖: akomp.info (Scribner) https://www.sandyernestallen.com https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Apr 18

cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:

what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 9h

do any other trans people find you get replied to by what's probably bot accounts that pretend to be queer, only when you post about politics? that's been my experience these last months

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 9h

indeed! w/ walnuts!
i loved them! as did everybody else!!
(talking sally's oatmeal raisin which i'm not surprised was excellent)

oatmeal raisin cookies cooling on two wire racks beside some blueberry muffins, a bread cutter, some tomatoes homegrown tomatoes and two avocados, paper plates and some store-bought bread

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 9h

I admit I *do* have a flour mill (it was a gift) but ... don't often actually bother milling my own flour. Can't decide if i'm gonna like, go to that next level baking nerd wise ...

bompstable.bsky.social @bompstable.bsky.social · 13h

This edged out my existing excellent chocolate chip cookie. It calls for freshly milled flour, but I'm sure it would be good with bagged flour:

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The Best Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Einkorn

These Are the BEST Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Made With Fresh Milled Einkorn! So scrumptious, and easier to digest than other flours

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 9h

really have enjoyed people sharing their fav cookie recipes with me

Jess 🏳️‍⚧️ @jess-does-lyfe.bsky.social · 10h

2 for 1 - they’re both fantastic

Nestle tollhouse cookie recipes for white chip orange and double chocolate dream cookies

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 11h

realizing that probably the single best moment in all of TNG is when Data holds a boring poetry reading ... and Worf and Geordi exchange this glance

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Geordi and Worf at Data's poetry reading

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12h

hey all these dems whose strats has been also attack trans people, have you considered instead be nice to trans people

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12h

holy hell, i've never imagined a politician might actually care about me

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

I did wind up trying this oatmeal raisin recipe!

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

ditto and these ones were like WHOA

Mean Mother Maia 🖤 Puns, Prose & Pan-Flavored Activism @maiagadwall.bsky.social · 1d

A worthy first saved post 🖤

I fking love lemon bars.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

random but anybody have any truly life-changing cookies recipes they wanna share? never not looking for new ones ...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

like i've baked countless of both chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies in my life but i never don't want to hear what's the *best* others have baked ...

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

these both look great ...

Ianthe @doomsiren.com · 1d

These! I make these every Christmas.

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And the oatmeal raisin

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Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (Popular Recipe!) - Sally's Baking

These ultra soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies have readers raving about the recipe. And the best part is you don't even need a mixer!

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

they look delightful!

Windy City Print Shop @windycityprintshop.bsky.social · 1d

If you liked those, give these a try. They’re sweet, creamy, but also brightly lemon-y and gently perfumed. Whenever I make them, people gobble them up! Lavender Lemon Bars: www.sugarhero.com/lavender-lem...

Lavender Lemon Bars

Like lemon bars? Then you'll love this spring twist on the classic--tangy lemon bars with a light lavender flavor!

www.sugarhero.com

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

oooo

vonnegutcandle.bsky.social @vonnegutcandle.bsky.social · 1d

Truly never had a better homemade cookie

This Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Goes Big

Three kinds of chips, brown butter, and a six-ounce scoop: How Paola Velez makes her signature thick’ems cookies

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

a bar not a cookie but these were phenomenal

sallysbakingaddiction.com/lemon-bars-r...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

too early
i'm too trans and too tired

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

oh and nobody share nyt cooking links with me, i'll hit the roof i swear

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

oh and nobody share nyt cooking links with me, i'll hit the roof i swear

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

realizing aloud this is for an upcoming Sandy's Recipe Club probably ...

again: your favorite cookie recipes please ...

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

baking cookies on a weekend morning has been one of my forms of mental health care since early childhood ...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

yes i have too many life-changing cookies recipes already and also always not ... wanting more

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

random but anybody have any truly life-changing cookies recipes they wanna share? never not looking for new ones ...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

one of my first jobs at 18 was at a cafe in sausalito & there was a group of people who'd arrive like SOON after we opened at 5 or 6 am or whatever and quietly have tea in the corner ...

us who are early birds who chirp chirp on this website (and some europeans etc), often makes me recall them ...

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

I just unfollowed a blue check reporter for posting an AI video.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've reposted info that turned out to be false - with 4 fingers left over.

If I followed you bc your feed can be trusted I will unfollow the moment it can't be.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

anyway fun fact is as I recall sometimes my first ever published clip (in college) was a defense basically of Barry Bonds