What Would Baba Yaga Do?
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PhD scientist, former academic, educator, poet/writer. Politics, gender, science, birds. They/them
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This this this
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This this this
I think I now understand why my insurance (through a Catholic hospital network) denied my T prescription
U.S. Catholic bishops recently banned trans care throughout the church's sprawling healthcare systems.
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back
While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with trans people, American bishops passed a major ban on trans heal...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think I now understand why my insurance (through a Catholic hospital network) denied my T prescription
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
THIS.
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
THIS.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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respect the picket line folks! and if you have time, go join the workers holding the line :)
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
respect the picket line folks! and if you have time, go join the workers holding the line :)
Although I have to say. This is just a little step further from the usual day to day M.O. of cops. They're always, always saying they got assaulted when they assault someone. "Your face assaulted my fist" kind of thing.
Does Judge Ellis ever ... read any news about the CPD, for example?
Does Judge Ellis ever ... read any news about the CPD, for example?
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Although I have to say. This is just a little step further from the usual day to day M.O. of cops. They're always, always saying they got assaulted when they assault someone. "Your face assaulted my fist" kind of thing.
Does Judge Ellis ever ... read any news about the CPD, for example?
Does Judge Ellis ever ... read any news about the CPD, for example?
Tell em, Ellis
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Tell em, Ellis
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sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
Oh there are some hard to swallow* pills in this thread
*For bosses/management
*For bosses/management
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oh there are some hard to swallow* pills in this thread
*For bosses/management
*For bosses/management
Had this tab open for months about the Mahmoud v Taylor case and finally read it. Kind of puts a damper on any celebration that SCOTUS decided not to axe marriage equality just yet. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Let’s Take a Look at the Children’s Books Sam Alito Is So Afraid Of
Stories like "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" are only objectionable if you find the very existence of LGBTQ people to be objectionable.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Had this tab open for months about the Mahmoud v Taylor case and finally read it. Kind of puts a damper on any celebration that SCOTUS decided not to axe marriage equality just yet. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
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ICYMI: I sent a letter to our congressional delegation, urging Republicans to stand up for Wisconsin and stand up to the Trump Administration as they try to yank newly restored SNAP payments from 700,000 hungry kids, families, and seniors across our state.
Read my letter ⬇️
Read my letter ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
ICYMI: I sent a letter to our congressional delegation, urging Republicans to stand up for Wisconsin and stand up to the Trump Administration as they try to yank newly restored SNAP payments from 700,000 hungry kids, families, and seniors across our state.
Read my letter ⬇️
Read my letter ⬇️
Really interesting stuff in here (for medical nerds like me)
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
❤️COVID infection is more dangerous than vax to teen's hearts
🧐Long COVID immune & hormonal differences in Women vs. Men
🧯GLP-1 RA meds reduce inflammation in many organs
🧠Sleep apnea and brain microbleeds
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#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
❤️COVID infection is more dangerous than vax to teen's hearts
🧐Long COVID immune & hormonal differences in Women vs. Men
🧯GLP-1 RA meds reduce inflammation in many organs
🧠Sleep apnea and brain microbleeds
& much more! buff.ly/Rz1RYUA
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Really interesting stuff in here (for medical nerds like me)
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
Halloween candy insight: eating a Milky Way with some roasted peanuts tastes as good or better than a Snickers
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Halloween candy insight: eating a Milky Way with some roasted peanuts tastes as good or better than a Snickers
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I want to get this map tattooed on myself it’s the most beautiful map of Georgia I’ve ever seen in my life
There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I want to get this map tattooed on myself it’s the most beautiful map of Georgia I’ve ever seen in my life
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Final update with the results all in and Virginia looks Sonic the Hedgehog's back
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Final update with the results all in and Virginia looks Sonic the Hedgehog's back
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The passage of CA Prop 50 wraps a big night on the democracy/voting rights front. In addition to Prop 50, most notably: ME rejected voting restrictions, PA preserved its liberal supreme court majority, and VA cleared a path to end its Jim Crow-era system of lifetime felony disenfranchisement.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The passage of CA Prop 50 wraps a big night on the democracy/voting rights front. In addition to Prop 50, most notably: ME rejected voting restrictions, PA preserved its liberal supreme court majority, and VA cleared a path to end its Jim Crow-era system of lifetime felony disenfranchisement.
So much good schadenfruede when Rs* lose :)
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
I asked you all to send me the funniest election night posts and this morning for my newsletter, I compiled them all for you! www.burnsnotice.com/the-best-ele...
The Best Election Night Posts - A Compilation
I asked my BlueSky followers to send me the funniest election night posts and boy howdy did they deliver. Enjoy!
The Post having a normal one
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November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So much good schadenfruede when Rs* lose :)
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
*and assorted other asshats, and transphobia
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I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕
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"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"it's inevitable" has never struck me as a compelling argument for AI. never seen a genuinely useful technology ushered in with the enthusiasm of a tired mom coming to terms with the fact that her kids are going to pick up foot fungus at a community pool.
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here’s one way to directly help our federal workers and civil servants as this president weaponizes hunger against them
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November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
here’s one way to directly help our federal workers and civil servants as this president weaponizes hunger against them
This article's a good one. Have to keep pushing our Dem electeds on this
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...
Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them
A right-wing “parents’ rights” movement is sweeping the country, and its ramifications for young people and LGBTQ people have already proven disastrous. So why are so many on the left repeating their ...
www.currentaffairs.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This article's a good one. Have to keep pushing our Dem electeds on this
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
(Also: can we please throw Gavin Newsom into the sun)
This piece by Anat Shenker-Osorio explained so much for me (long, but the first half or so will give you the basic idea) www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This piece by Anat Shenker-Osorio explained so much for me (long, but the first half or so will give you the basic idea) www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs
But yeah Dems need to wake the fuck up and stop doing "Pollingism" when lives are at stake ffs