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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕

@indeliblesasha.bsky.social

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Mom. Queer. Geek. Grieving. I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers There's things in my life other than democracy and queer activism, but I'm not coming up with anything at the moment. She/her

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · Apr 28

I love you. You're probably thinking, "You don't even know me." But if people can hate for no reason, I can love. - anon

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Colo. AG Phil Weiser (D) isn't optimistic that the Supreme Court will uphold Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. It would be the third SCOTUS loss for Colo. on free speech/religious liberty grounds. I asked Weiser if Colo. is hostile to conservative Christians. #copolitics

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22h

this is a very well-reported piece and if you didn't read it last year please read it this year

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

www.motherjones.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22h

Hey friends-

It’s really hard being alive right now for those of us who care about things like humanity, decency, the environment, democracy, etc,

If you are here still fighting for what is right I love u.

None of this is easy. Please take care of yourselves. Logging off sometimes is A-OK.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 1d

explain your username:

My therapist agreed with me that I hadn't changed since the death of my son, but I was *different*. (And I couldn't find the words to explain it.)

"You're more *you* than you have ever been."

Indelibly me, even as I grow and adapt. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

explain your username:

short version: it’s my author pen name

long version: I was going by the initials “CM” on a message board for writers, because it stood for “Chicken Mafia.” People knew me as CM and then suddenly I needed a real name for human interaction purposes.

🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 1d

explain your username:

I started going by “Miss Kitty Fantastico” online when I started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a teenager, but that was often too longer for a username on a lot of sites, so I shortened it to “misskittyf.” It’s stuck for nearly 20 years now.

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The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 1d

Going to elaborate a little bit more on this so we can communicate how we're handling things on our end.

There has been an uptick of marginalized people getting banhammered the last week that is, at the very least, concerning.

It's noticed. It's upsetting! 1/?

The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 1d

For fairly obvious reasons we are expediting the launch of our discord server. More on this soon.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 2d

NOM NOM

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for reposting my typo like 5 seconds before I caught it, @solomonrdavid.bsky.social 🤭

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 4d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 4d

BABBY FISHIES!

Gars just hella cool in general, and apparently really stinkin' cute when they're babies 😍

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 5d

Have you ever seen a baby gar eating?

This little Spotted Gar is about a week old and has started feeding on zooplankton (in this case brine shrimp/Artemia/ aka "sea monkeys").

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies

I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it

and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 5d

We are about to enter Day 3 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the House.

2. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 4d

I think a lot of people don't know this Zoom feature exists: under "React" there's a "Be Right Back" button that mutes your audio, turns off your camera, and puts a label on your square. And then when you come back you just click the "Back" button.

Repost to save us all from "BRB" chat messages!

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☀️Sunshine☀️ @missmielle.blacksky.app · 6d

🙌🏽🌈

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject

Geoff Balls @geoffballs.bsky.social · 6d

This marketing term is causing untold harm, of course, mostly to the naive and gullible. But it’s surprising how many educated and apparently intelligent people are placing an unwarranted degree of trust in these programmes.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 6d

Using a memorial service as a political rally is disgusting.

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Ministry leader and missionary Victor Marx is joining the crowded 2026 GOP primary for Colorado Governor promising to "challenge the godless ideology that has eroded Denver's institutions and allowed corruption and cultural decay to spread." #copolitics

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

Lee Cooper finds purpose and a sense of community in his volunteer job at Maine Needs, a group that provides clothing for people in need.

Volunteering at 'Maine Needs' brings connection to community

Lee Cooper finds purpose and a sense of community in his volunteer job at Maine Needs, a group that provides clothing for people in need.

n.pr

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 7d

I am solidly Xennial. Can confirm.

Sonya Huber @sonyahuber.bsky.social · 7d

People-except Gen X women seem shocked that Gen X has high support for Trump. Ask us what high school was like.

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Babs the Postseason Ghostseason Shark @hockeybabbler.bsky.social · 7d

as someone who loves terrible movies for how terrible they are...there's always a soul at the center of it and someone trying their absolute best even when their best is awful.

like, eye-wateringly awful

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 7d

i don't know how you can watch like, any movie ever made and think a computer would do a better job than even the most hack filmmaker

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7d

I need the Dems to remember that a startling % of this country does not pay attention enough to know who is responsible for what, they just get mad at whoever is in charge even if it is not their fault.

This time it really IS their fault, don't botch this message! Someone lock Schumer in a closet!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7d

This pretty much sums it up.

Sending love to all of you facing uncertain paychecks and I wish I could bring focaccia to everyone's houses. 💖

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

this is both entirely correct and extremely stupid

go team

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7d

AAAAND we are officially shut down!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8d

This is incredibly disingenuous. An OpenAI employee implies that sentient "A.i." is coming by referring to surveys that reflect public sentiment that's been ginned up by bullshit publicity from his employer.

This is science-free bullshit PR and the Guardian should be ashamed for publishing it.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 8d

I have survived nine deathdays.

This one isn't technically over, he died at 11:43 pm and it's only ten. But I will be asleep by then, because as the years have come and gone and I have grown around my grief I do not have to watch the minutes drop away anymore.

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Sasha 🌈🌵🦕 @indeliblesasha.bsky.social · 8d

This is SO COOL.

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 9d

Releasing a massive Alligator Gar during @garlab.bsky.social research on a Mississippi River floodplain with collaborators from USFWS!

Learn more Nov 3-7 2025 for #GarWeek!