EspeciallySarah
@especiallysarah.bsky.social
social history curator, book & theatre nerd and general enthusiast. She/her.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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he was auctioning off memorabilia in order to try and afford treatment and now he's gone. fuck cancer for sure, but double fuck our broken healthcare system.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
James Van Der Beek, who has been battling cancer, has died.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
he was auctioning off memorabilia in order to try and afford treatment and now he's gone. fuck cancer for sure, but double fuck our broken healthcare system.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
Share a good news story first because this one hit like a tonne of bricks
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Share a good news story first because this one hit like a tonne of bricks
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
Our first Community History Day @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social is underway!
February 7, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Our first Community History Day @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social is underway!
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feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you don't have Bookshop.org saved for all your book shopping needs instead of that other website why not?
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
If you don't have Bookshop.org saved for all your book shopping needs instead of that other website why not?
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A few other quick shots from the protest:
January 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
A few other quick shots from the protest:
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there’s like ten photos from the last week in Minneapolis alone that each individually deserve the Pulitzer
Okay sorry one more shot:
January 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
there’s like ten photos from the last week in Minneapolis alone that each individually deserve the Pulitzer
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Press needs to start referring to her as Reverend Nekima Levy Armstrong, I am learning, not from any media organizations unfortunately
The feds have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who led the protest in a Minnesota church over the weekend.
apnews.com/article/just...
apnews.com/article/just...
A woman who led a protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service has been arrested
Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.
apnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Press needs to start referring to her as Reverend Nekima Levy Armstrong, I am learning, not from any media organizations unfortunately
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🎉 THE BIG NEWS IS HERE 🎉
This spring, Fansplaining will relaunch as a full weekly publication, featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more, all under our longtime strapline: “By, for, and about fandom.”
Check out our full announcement (in written and audio form):
This spring, Fansplaining will relaunch as a full weekly publication, featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more, all under our longtime strapline: “By, for, and about fandom.”
Check out our full announcement (in written and audio form):
Fansplaining’s Next Chapter — Fansplaining
We’re relaunching as a weekly publication featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more—all by, for, and about fandom.
www.fansplaining.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
🎉 THE BIG NEWS IS HERE 🎉
This spring, Fansplaining will relaunch as a full weekly publication, featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more, all under our longtime strapline: “By, for, and about fandom.”
Check out our full announcement (in written and audio form):
This spring, Fansplaining will relaunch as a full weekly publication, featuring reporting, analysis, criticism, personal essays, and much more, all under our longtime strapline: “By, for, and about fandom.”
Check out our full announcement (in written and audio form):
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Aiming for a Brambly Hedge-ish January
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Aiming for a Brambly Hedge-ish January
Time for the Royal Institution Christmas lectures <3 if I could go back in time attending these as a kid would be high on my wishlist and this year Dame Doctor Maggie Aderin-Pocock!
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Time for the Royal Institution Christmas lectures <3 if I could go back in time attending these as a kid would be high on my wishlist and this year Dame Doctor Maggie Aderin-Pocock!
Happy Christmas! We made it this far and my post Midnight Eucharist drink is a much needed moment of quiet and normal this year. #ClergyMaltClub
December 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Happy Christmas! We made it this far and my post Midnight Eucharist drink is a much needed moment of quiet and normal this year. #ClergyMaltClub
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New poem: On the Death of Arthur Hlavaty and Sophie Kinsella www.patreon.com/posts/on-dea...
On the death of Arthur Hlavaty and Sophie Kinsella | Jo Walton
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December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New poem: On the Death of Arthur Hlavaty and Sophie Kinsella www.patreon.com/posts/on-dea...
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I did not know this and it's an important #WorldAIDSDay read
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I did not know this and it's an important #WorldAIDSDay read
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen...
Janelle Monae
Stray Kids
Ruby Turner @ Ronnie Scotts
Fra Fee
Aurora Orchestra Lock In: Beethoven & the Dinosaurs
(just five is hard, I feel that gives a flavour)
Janelle Monae
Stray Kids
Ruby Turner @ Ronnie Scotts
Fra Fee
Aurora Orchestra Lock In: Beethoven & the Dinosaurs
(just five is hard, I feel that gives a flavour)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen...
Scissor Sisters
Thea Gilmore
Alanis Morissette
Placebo
Bastille
Scissor Sisters
Thea Gilmore
Alanis Morissette
Placebo
Bastille
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen...
The Sisters of Mercy
Fields of the Nephilim
The Mission
New Model Army
and out of left field
Muse!
🙂
The Sisters of Mercy
Fields of the Nephilim
The Mission
New Model Army
and out of left field
Muse!
🙂
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen...
Janelle Monae
Stray Kids
Ruby Turner @ Ronnie Scotts
Fra Fee
Aurora Orchestra Lock In: Beethoven & the Dinosaurs
(just five is hard, I feel that gives a flavour)
Janelle Monae
Stray Kids
Ruby Turner @ Ronnie Scotts
Fra Fee
Aurora Orchestra Lock In: Beethoven & the Dinosaurs
(just five is hard, I feel that gives a flavour)
Well this seems fine...
EXCL:
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s
MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen
Story w/@danbloom1.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Well this seems fine...
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We’re going to need a bigger little treat
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We’re going to need a bigger little treat
For anyone not on instagram- Mum died on Saturday and we're now in the middle of planning a joint funeral for Monday so a very strange time but I'm very well supported <3
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For anyone not on instagram- Mum died on Saturday and we're now in the middle of planning a joint funeral for Monday so a very strange time but I'm very well supported <3
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I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA:
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN
ON
CHRISTMAS
THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS
THAT IS ADVENT
WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN
ON
CHRISTMAS
THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS
THAT IS ADVENT
WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA:
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN
ON
CHRISTMAS
THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS
THAT IS ADVENT
WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN
ON
CHRISTMAS
THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS
THAT IS ADVENT
WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
I'm going to try #museum30 but no promises. So as an introduction here are two objects from World Connected: St Albans and the Islamic, the most recent exhibition I have curated.
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm going to try #museum30 but no promises. So as an introduction here are two objects from World Connected: St Albans and the Islamic, the most recent exhibition I have curated.