Cranky McCrankymom
@marag.bsky.social
Work-at-home mom, SF/fantasy geek, Jewish atheist, organizer for social justice, volunteer with JUFJ/HJM/MCJC... (views are my own!), co-host of the Toku Ladies Podcast, etc. I contain multitudes, yo. Cis, not entirely het. Pronouns: she/her.
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Cranky McCrankymom
@marag.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Welcome to friends old and new! What you will find here:
1) Local politics (MoCo MD)
2) My kids (biological and not) being awesome
3) National politics
4) Costumed Japanese superheroes
5) Thai, Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese BL
6) Jewish stuff
7) Other social justice/community organizing
1) Local politics (MoCo MD)
2) My kids (biological and not) being awesome
3) National politics
4) Costumed Japanese superheroes
5) Thai, Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese BL
6) Jewish stuff
7) Other social justice/community organizing
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Snow is coming tonight. Shelter due by 11am Tues morn. Should snow come, will share pics. Just rn all I need is safe. On housing lists, awaiting call backs, anything helps us survive longer! Thank you so much!
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Snow is coming tonight. Shelter due by 11am Tues morn. Should snow come, will share pics. Just rn all I need is safe. On housing lists, awaiting call backs, anything helps us survive longer! Thank you so much!
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 ♥️🫂
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Snow is coming tonight. Shelter due by 11am Tues morn. Should snow come, will share pics. Just rn all I need is safe. On housing lists, awaiting call backs, anything helps us survive longer! Thank you so much!
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 ♥️🫂
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Snow is coming tonight. Shelter due by 11am Tues morn. Should snow come, will share pics. Just rn all I need is safe. On housing lists, awaiting call backs, anything helps us survive longer! Thank you so much!
Yuletide fic status was approaching bears (or rather, the bears were approaching) but I'm in a tedious county council meeting about a zoning text amendment. Now I have a few hundred additional words done and I think I know where things are going. Whew.
Depending on what's next, I may get more done.
Depending on what's next, I may get more done.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yuletide fic status was approaching bears (or rather, the bears were approaching) but I'm in a tedious county council meeting about a zoning text amendment. Now I have a few hundred additional words done and I think I know where things are going. Whew.
Depending on what's next, I may get more done.
Depending on what's next, I may get more done.
This article has been vouched for by one of the affected employees. So glad they've been reinstated!
FEMA workers reinstated after suspension and investigation over letter criticizing Trump’s overhaul of agency | CNN Politics
A group of FEMA workers has been reinstated after three months of forced leave and an investigation into alleged misconduct for signing an open letter to Congress that criticized the Trump administrat...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This article has been vouched for by one of the affected employees. So glad they've been reinstated!
Damn, I wish I had sufficient knowledge to proofread this, because DO WANT. Can anyone help?
There is interest in a print version of this illustration. However I will not send it to a printer until everything has been proofread. If you can proofread it, I'll send you a free copy of it in the mail. The listed texts are in the alt of the "Key" image. Who can please help me?
New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Damn, I wish I had sufficient knowledge to proofread this, because DO WANT. Can anyone help?
Pro tip for the folks who *haven't* had vaccines as a special interest of sorts: If anyone is making claims about vaccine side effects and you see they're blithely citing data from VAERS, you can dismiss whatever they're saying as bunk.
Real scientists do use VAERS but not as "proof" of anything.
Real scientists do use VAERS but not as "proof" of anything.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Pro tip for the folks who *haven't* had vaccines as a special interest of sorts: If anyone is making claims about vaccine side effects and you see they're blithely citing data from VAERS, you can dismiss whatever they're saying as bunk.
Real scientists do use VAERS but not as "proof" of anything.
Real scientists do use VAERS but not as "proof" of anything.
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12hrs until due, only safe until 11am (11/30). Snow is coming, freezing rain/sleet after/if it misses, and Van is dead. Without this shelter we are literally on street. Anything helps, tysm!
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
12hrs until due, only safe until 11am (11/30). Snow is coming, freezing rain/sleet after/if it misses, and Van is dead. Without this shelter we are literally on street. Anything helps, tysm!
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November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
12hrs until due, only safe until 11am (11/30). Snow is coming, freezing rain/sleet after/if it misses, and Van is dead. Without this shelter we are literally on street. Anything helps, tysm!
0/100 1 Day
0/550 1 Week
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
12hrs until due, only safe until 11am (11/30). Snow is coming, freezing rain/sleet after/if it misses, and Van is dead. Without this shelter we are literally on street. Anything helps, tysm!
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I...but...that...
No? I mean, absolutely the fuck not? It's not easy at *all* to determine causality.
No? I mean, absolutely the fuck not? It's not easy at *all* to determine causality.
Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible.
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I...but...that...
No? I mean, absolutely the fuck not? It's not easy at *all* to determine causality.
No? I mean, absolutely the fuck not? It's not easy at *all* to determine causality.
Oh gods, this is what I've been afraid of :( I'll note that Certain People (::coughAvicough::) told me I was being alarmist and this wouldn't happen.
Kids are going to die of vaccine-preventable diseases and I will NEVER forgive the Republican Party for this. Never ever as long as I live.
Kids are going to die of vaccine-preventable diseases and I will NEVER forgive the Republican Party for this. Never ever as long as I live.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally
Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
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Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more
Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall
with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Oh gods, this is what I've been afraid of :( I'll note that Certain People (::coughAvicough::) told me I was being alarmist and this wouldn't happen.
Kids are going to die of vaccine-preventable diseases and I will NEVER forgive the Republican Party for this. Never ever as long as I live.
Kids are going to die of vaccine-preventable diseases and I will NEVER forgive the Republican Party for this. Never ever as long as I live.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Calling all furries and furry-adjacent folks! A mom near me has a 10-year-old who has been saving up for a wolf fur head and she's trying to find furry communities, preferably kids, for him to talk to. She's open-minded and not judgmental, but she doesn't know where to look. Anyone have any ideas?
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Calling all furries and furry-adjacent folks! A mom near me has a 10-year-old who has been saving up for a wolf fur head and she's trying to find furry communities, preferably kids, for him to talk to. She's open-minded and not judgmental, but she doesn't know where to look. Anyone have any ideas?
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Every single thing happening in this country right now is triggering my ancestral holocaust trauma and it’s getting worse.
With ALT. This is legitimately terrifying. This is a MASSIVE escalation of violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.
It’s almost as if they knew unleashing the military into American cities would lead to violence and they were already planning to use that violence to justify this.
It’s almost as if they knew unleashing the military into American cities would lead to violence and they were already planning to use that violence to justify this.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Every single thing happening in this country right now is triggering my ancestral holocaust trauma and it’s getting worse.
Pretty sure irony is deader than a doornail. If it survived this far...well, that would be a miracle.
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Pretty sure irony is deader than a doornail. If it survived this far...well, that would be a miracle.
My friend Skip is here to visit :)
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My friend Skip is here to visit :)
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
I Woke Up Too Early and Now I'm Falling Asleep Over My Computer: The Mara Story
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I Woke Up Too Early and Now I'm Falling Asleep Over My Computer: The Mara Story
Happy USian Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Happy Thursday to everyone else.
We're heading over to my FIL's place (only about 15 min away) later to finish cooking. Only about 10-12 people at the table today, which is nothing for us.
My niece is super excited that Yael is home :)
We're heading over to my FIL's place (only about 15 min away) later to finish cooking. Only about 10-12 people at the table today, which is nothing for us.
My niece is super excited that Yael is home :)
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy USian Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Happy Thursday to everyone else.
We're heading over to my FIL's place (only about 15 min away) later to finish cooking. Only about 10-12 people at the table today, which is nothing for us.
My niece is super excited that Yael is home :)
We're heading over to my FIL's place (only about 15 min away) later to finish cooking. Only about 10-12 people at the table today, which is nothing for us.
My niece is super excited that Yael is home :)
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
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Food covered, snow coming, more than anything need safe long before tomorrow morning! Anything helps, more helps more. The week will help us survive the snow and freezing rain/sleet coming next week too! Tysm!
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
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Food covered, snow coming, more than anything need safe long before tomorrow morning! Anything helps, more helps more. The week will help us survive the snow and freezing rain/sleet coming next week too! Tysm!
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
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Food covered, snow coming, more than anything need safe long before tomorrow morning! Anything helps, more helps more. The week will help us survive the snow and freezing rain/sleet coming next week too! Tysm!
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
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Food covered, snow coming, more than anything need safe long before tomorrow morning! Anything helps, more helps more. The week will help us survive the snow and freezing rain/sleet coming next week too! Tysm!
There are certain things that would make me run for the hills. Having either AOC or Chotiner come for me on social media is high on that list. You might as well just fling yourself off a cliff at that point.
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There are certain things that would make me run for the hills. Having either AOC or Chotiner come for me on social media is high on that list. You might as well just fling yourself off a cliff at that point.
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Yeah I have FOMO. Fear Of Meeting Others.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Yeah I have FOMO. Fear Of Meeting Others.
Meeting up with college friends tonight for dinner and I just had an intense moment of missing Jeff. He should be in the middle of this, fucking up my plans and being a nuisance and then buying me a milkshake as a sideways apology. It's been 4 years but I still occasionally forget he won't be there.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Meeting up with college friends tonight for dinner and I just had an intense moment of missing Jeff. He should be in the middle of this, fucking up my plans and being a nuisance and then buying me a milkshake as a sideways apology. It's been 4 years but I still occasionally forget he won't be there.
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
Without the van if we lose shelter we're literally on the street come Wed 11am. 100 gives us a day, 200 gives us until Fri morning, 550 gives us the entire week and bypasses a busy holiday weekend. Anything helps! tysm
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
Without the van if we lose shelter we're literally on the street come Wed 11am. 100 gives us a day, 200 gives us until Fri morning, 550 gives us the entire week and bypasses a busy holiday weekend. Anything helps! tysm
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
Without the van if we lose shelter we're literally on the street come Wed 11am. 100 gives us a day, 200 gives us until Fri morning, 550 gives us the entire week and bypasses a busy holiday weekend. Anything helps! tysm
Venmo: AlpacaWax
#mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 💸💕
Without the van if we lose shelter we're literally on the street come Wed 11am. 100 gives us a day, 200 gives us until Fri morning, 550 gives us the entire week and bypasses a busy holiday weekend. Anything helps! tysm
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”