Megan
@mactire.bsky.social
A lot of parenting, a little art and fandom and politics. Currently about 90% observations on the Cars universe
Feeling emotional about finding out today that Youngest will be eligible.
My blogpost on the success of universal chickenpox vaccination in the US, and why the UK should have made the move sooner:
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/13-the-suc...
Chickenpox vaccines are really effective!
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/13-the-suc...
Chickenpox vaccines are really effective!
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Feeling emotional about finding out today that Youngest will be eligible.
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- trying to clear space on my hard drive
- failing because I still love all my shitty old memes
- failing because I still love all my shitty old memes
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
- trying to clear space on my hard drive
- failing because I still love all my shitty old memes
- failing because I still love all my shitty old memes
2025 accomplishments:
- kept the tiny humans alive
- read one (1) book
- kept the tiny humans alive
- read one (1) book
December 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2025 accomplishments:
- kept the tiny humans alive
- read one (1) book
- kept the tiny humans alive
- read one (1) book
What fresh hell, y’all.
Here’s a statement from Tomboyx in response to the FDA issuing warnings considering binders to be medical devices.
December 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What fresh hell, y’all.
Is it a general British thing, or specific to my office, for someone to go “It’s like the Mary Celeste in here!” whenever a few people are on holiday?
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Is it a general British thing, or specific to my office, for someone to go “It’s like the Mary Celeste in here!” whenever a few people are on holiday?
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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Know how I keep saying that even ~35 yr olds don't know how much we've lost? It's bc they can't. The normalization is horrifying. Y'all never saw a real winter.
2025 Update. Spiralling Past 1.5C Paris Agreement Lower Limit
Data: Copernicus ERA 5 - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
#ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling
Data: Copernicus ERA 5 - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
#ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling
December 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Know how I keep saying that even ~35 yr olds don't know how much we've lost? It's bc they can't. The normalization is horrifying. Y'all never saw a real winter.
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You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
December 6. I have finally finished reading 1 (one) book this year.
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
December 6. I have finally finished reading 1 (one) book this year.
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
So, given that a lot of trans people are offended that Brianna's transfemicide is being turned into a crusade against phone use, when Brianna had a supportive online community and was murdered offline by her classmates:
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
Do you think "Touch grass" is an appropriate response to that context?
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The first thing anti-trans groups like Bayswater Group and Transgender Trend say to parents of trans teens is take their phones, get them off the internet
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stop saying it's black friday stop it WORDS MEAN THINGS
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
stop saying it's black friday stop it WORDS MEAN THINGS
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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First real fall day in New England today; there's a chill in the air, leaves are falling and blowing in the wind, and the people of the forest are looking for a warm place to lay their eggs @nicklutsko.bsky.social youtu.be/jpzWVh7f4TE
Fall Time in Tennessee
YouTube video by Nick Lutsko
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
First real fall day in New England today; there's a chill in the air, leaves are falling and blowing in the wind, and the people of the forest are looking for a warm place to lay their eggs @nicklutsko.bsky.social youtu.be/jpzWVh7f4TE
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Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
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🎭 😱 📣 Portlanders and Seattlites!! Come see the "Birth of Horror" on film: Some the first visual recordings of the horror genre, ca ~1900, from around the world -- for the first time with *sound* (score + foley)! Showings on October 27th (SEA) / 29th (PDX)!! 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9C...
Church of Film & Hexafoils: THE BIRTH OF HORROR Trailer
YouTube video by Muriel Lucas
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🎭 😱 📣 Portlanders and Seattlites!! Come see the "Birth of Horror" on film: Some the first visual recordings of the horror genre, ca ~1900, from around the world -- for the first time with *sound* (score + foley)! Showings on October 27th (SEA) / 29th (PDX)!! 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9C...
Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I don’t want to work
I just want to make tiny clothes for Sylvanian families
I just want to make tiny clothes for Sylvanian families
October 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I don’t want to work
I just want to make tiny clothes for Sylvanian families
I just want to make tiny clothes for Sylvanian families
Youngest has entered his Paw Patrol era, and I am once again asking how a community the size of Adventure Bay can support this annual vehicle expenditure
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Youngest has entered his Paw Patrol era, and I am once again asking how a community the size of Adventure Bay can support this annual vehicle expenditure
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Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
Why would anyone think they need AI coloring books when this fever dream already exists
archive.org/details/moon...
archive.org/details/moon...
moonwalker-coloring-book : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
coloring book
archive.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why would anyone think they need AI coloring books when this fever dream already exists
archive.org/details/moon...
archive.org/details/moon...
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I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.