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Shannon O’Mac

@shannonomac.bsky.social

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Physician. Parent. Your weird queer aunt in the woods (Upstate NY). Mostly thinking about birds, trees, and dirt. I love the library. 📚 (Not medical advice)

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · Aug 8

Did you know? Less bad + more good = better.

Yes - we do need to focus on reducing harm and violence.

AND we need to explicitly define what’s good, what it thrives on, and how to get more of it. Both.

It’s not Pollyanna to tell good stories. It’s necessary.

So! Here’s a 🧵of what’s good.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 12h

Can confirm, Lesbian Space Princess is an absurd delight.

NewFest is a great queer film festival to check out online this week.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

newfest.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Paul Simon, born today in 1941.

“It’s a cliché,” he said, “but music really IS the closest we come to a universal language. It crosses borders as effortlessly as a cloud.”

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 11h

I have known many cats and I've worshiped them all as the ancient pact requires, but if I'm being honest, my favorites were always the ones where we had to constantly say "She's not mean, that's just her face"

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 19h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 4h

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 12h

Can confirm, Lesbian Space Princess is an absurd delight.

NewFest is a great queer film festival to check out online this week.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

newfest.org

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 13h

✨Please share! My newsletter is out.✨

📉US COVID cases go down, Europe's go up
💉COVID booster protects > prior infection or vaccines
👧100s of kids quarantined for Measles
😓CDC layoffs and reinstatements
🔥Menopause inflammaging reversed with HRT

& much more buff.ly/q54ZQkX

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Picture of the US. South is blue which means low levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The rest of the US is yellow which means Medium levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

Everything is 😵‍💫 so I’m eating and ice cream sundae, baking cookies, and watching Lesbian Space Princess. newfest.org/events/lesbi...

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

newfest.org

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

Yes.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

New Halloween costume just dropped.

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

“Buying an inflatable pink rainbow unicorn costume is anti-fascist,” is a sentence I just said. 🦄

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 13h

“Buying an inflatable pink rainbow unicorn costume is anti-fascist,” is a sentence I just said. 🦄

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 16h

White gay tech fascism is the worst. 😵‍💫

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20h

Need a crossover theoryish book on white gay tech fascism. Thiel, Rabois, Helberg, etc.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 22h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 22h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 20h

Yup.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22h

The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 23h

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from the porch! It’s a bird party out there today.

Also spotted: a quiet red tailed hawk, and a starling pretending to be a red tailed hawk.

Merlin screen shot showing an icon of the following birds with their names:

European Starling

Eastern Bluebird

American Goldfinch

Carolina Wren

Northern Cardinal

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 1d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

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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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Jump scare 😱

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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