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@coffeedetective.bsky.social
radical appalachian, nonprofit workhorse, coffee enthusiast, grad student.

30s. any pronouns. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
when we got on our current train yesterday they announced that all meals were going to have to take place communal-style in the dining car. i was extremely apprehensive—i still mask everywhere, meals with strangers make me nervous, and small talk as a visibly gnc person is, well, loaded. however!!
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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that’s absolutely right Alex 🗣️🗣️🗣️
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Ice melts in the South
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
let me make this perfectly clear doctor odyssey is a bad show but the day they cancelled it was more upsetting to me than the day i was disowned by my mother for being transgender
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
a just and fair society would have executed ryan murphy by firing squad for making eat pray love. but then we would never have gotten doctor odyssey. ah, such are the philosopher’s dilemmas
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
too often these days I find myself in the position of defending a coworker I think is annoying from a coworker I know is blatantly wrong
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"

"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
i get that you’re excited about your sale but don’t call me that
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
elaborately locking bluesky off of my phone has on the whole been excellent for both my productivity and my well being but on the other hand i don’t have anywhere else to gympost
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises.

But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this message is (largely) true and (entirely) good, but for anybody who is tuning into the VA gov race now and assuming this is a sweep for trans people, i want to clarify some context here. the opposition messaging was *vitriolically* anti-trans. but spanberger’s rebukes of them were *nonexistent.*
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
THAT’S FUCKING RIGHT
1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.

From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.

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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
also i'm very late to many things because i programmed an automation into my phone to open a more productive app whenever i tried to use bluesky and forgot to give it a cooldown period, so my phone is now a machine that turns muscle memory into mango languages. it's better this way honestly.
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
i see @jeffstormer.gobirds.online isn't brave enough to promo post this episode of @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social where he gives many thoughtful & candid insights into a ten-year creative process, but i have no such reservations. happy 10 years, jeff!

www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/10/29/s...
Special Episode: Inside the Podcaster's Studio with Alex Flanigan - Party Of One
As part of our 10th anniversary celebration week, my dear friend Alex Flanigan sits down with me to chat about the journey of making a podcast for ten years, and what makes Party of One the show that ...
www.partyofonepodcast.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland
October 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The "Bed Series" was a set of intimate portraits of lesbian sex workers made by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the 1890s behind the scenes at a Parisian brothel.

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/toulouse-lautrec-bed-series
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
steepling my fingers thoughtfully, then turning in my desk chair to the wall behind me, where i reset a manual counter titled DAYS SINCE JEFF STORMER HAS DRAGGED ME OUT OF PODCASTING RETIREMENT to zero
It's a whole ass week of shows, including:

* A livestreamed game of SEE ISSUE X
* A candid look back at 10 years of Party of One
* Back to back special episodes of the show
* Audience Q&A!
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM