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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks

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A loudmouth. ✨ https://linktr.ee/SariboCook The less charming half of The Leftist Cooks with @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are Irish Americans actually Irish?

New video. Come watch

What is Irishness?

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

Speculation on anyone's trans journey - as common as this practice is - is often unwise, and maybe even a little offensive. Whether you're fascinated with someone because you love them or you hate them, theorising based on "clues" about such a vulnerable personal thing is icky.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

This is me in 2017, and I'm posting it as proof that I didn't "just discover" lipstick or long hair or whatever. A weird part of my being slightly public facing is that a surprising number of people have speculated a made-up timeline for my transition. I find it weird and invalidating of NBs.

Neilly with long hair, makeup, a big purple scarf, delivering something emphatic over a microphone in a cosy indoor venue,

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 1d

It's even better than that. He wouldn't like a farm. It's "the kitty went to a childfree apartment with multiple people who can give him the endless endless pets he demands."

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 1d

(Huck isn't dead, he's happily retired to France where he's very loved and cared for, he's just not my little guy anymore)

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 1d

I miss Huckleberry so much. What a gem of a cat. Most of the footage in this was from different days going on walks and being nervous but determined. The ending was shot for the video, the second he saw Neilly he ran towards her all purrs. Huck loved walks and really really loved Neilly.

Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 1d

The first thing we posted on the channel is this music video for RTE Vaporwave, which centres on and celebrates that femme non-binary presentation. I literally "transition" over the course of the video. In 2021.

youtu.be/ggCw6r1WVuI?...

RTE v a p o r w a v e

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 2d

Stoppp j want that so bad

Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 3d

Like fair enough if you're leveling it at a cross sectional study trying to prove casualty, that shouldn't have made it through peer review, but most of the time I don't see it used that way. I see it used by people who don't understand epidemiology or statistics who want something combative to say.

Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 3d

Pet Peeve: people who say "correlation isn't causation" at a blanket critique of research findings.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 4d

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Baby got too big. Really big really fast. Not sure if we're doing something right or something wrong. This is a giant baby. They hardly ever wear shoes anyway.
- Ernest Hemingway

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing annoys me more than people accusing me of being a Rich Kid LARPing as a Revolutionary. I grew up in a single income household with parents who rented and, between odd jobs, my father's most consistent vocation was playing the frickin banjo.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 5d

Yep, in Ireland all three presidential candidates are Republicans, the government is made up of Republicans and we vote entirely for Republicans on both the left and the right.

Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 5d

have we started messing with them by throwing the word 'republican' into the mix yet?

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 5d

The rest of the world as Blue MAGA invade every conversation we try to have about our own politics.

The Geordi meme where he approves of one statement but not the other. It features Geordi from Star Trek looking defensive in one panel, and agreeable in the second. In the first panel the text reads "Vote blue no matter who" in the second it reads "fuck you no matter who"

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 10d

Watch live so they're less incentivised to murder these peace activists. Even just putting the stream on in the background is helpful.

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 10d

Israel is not a Jewish homeland. Look what they're doing on Yom Kippour! Having the IDF intercept peace boats full of food for starving children. It does not get more blatant. They cannot claim Israel is the Jewish homeland while they block aid for starving children on Yom Kippour.

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 11d

ALL EYES ON THE FLOTILLA

Even if you've got it playing in the background, please put it on. The more eyes watching, the safer they'll be

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 11d

ALL EYES ON THE FLOTILLA

Even if you've got it playing in the background, please put it on. The more eyes watching, the safer they'll be

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 11d

Honestly, use Ad Blocker when watching YouTube.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12d

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.

All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12d

Today’s capitulation. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 14d

It's so weird to me that Ghostwriting is a field. Like: if you have enough money you can just pretend you made the art yourself. Wh- what?

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 15d

I also appreciate that Saudi and Qatar and UAE are all fine. Like sure, UAE has literal slave labour right now but they are not "the curse."

Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 16d

Netanyahou is speaking right now at the UN holding this fucking map

Netanyahou holding a map with the words "the curse" on it

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August @owgoosed.bsky.social · 16d

Keep boycotting Microsoft. They have cut off SOME services to the Unit 8200, not ALL, and still have a commercial relationship with the IDF. This is good news but not good enough.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16d

I rarely defend Americans, but we shouldn't forget that American GenZ started the student protests in 2023, were beaten to a pulp by police, got thrown out of school, lost scholarships, had their degrees revoked, etc. An Egyptian friend of mine joked "those kids were Arab Springed" Funny but true.

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 16d

I just remembered about radio taiso and I did the whole routine for the first time in years and honestly: it felt great? I thought it was so silly when I lived there but I was in my 20s and now I'm my 30s and... Yeah I get it now.

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 16d

This is the current BDS list. Microsoft may be removed after this action, I don't know, keep boycotting until you hear more and make sure to be boycotting the others on the list too!

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Sarah from the Leftist Cooks @saribo.bsky.social · 16d

BOYCOTTS WORK.
This is big. It shows a big company knows it's going to lose more money working with Israel than it would gain from Israel. KEEP BOYCOTTING THE COMPANIES ON THE BDS LIST.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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