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Rachel Mahan
@rachelmahan.bsky.social
Tech writer. Reader. Fierce Humanist. Jew-ish. Queer. Gentle parent. ❤️ cats. HAES, UBI, & Talmud stan. INFJ. My views. they/she 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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March 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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For trans people who are worried about accessing care, the Unitarians have a fund to help. If you can, donate. The needs will increase starting www.pinkhaven.org/about/.
About - Pink Haven Coalition
About us Who we areWe are a collective of organizations and individuals who are committed to trans liberation and joy and to growing community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative systems of care for ...
www.pinkhaven.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Today's action (#7) Read a book that inspires action toward justice. Invite three or four friends to read it with you and discuss. My choice is Beautiful Souls by Eyel Press.
January 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today's action (day 6). Passed on to me from Marcia Szymanski:

Call the Governor and asked them to continue issuing full birth certificates to all babies born in the state (to help guarantee birthright citizenship).
January 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Today's Action: Call two local immigrant aid organizations to see what they need and get on their lists for support/volunteer. This is the action for day 4.
January 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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In case you hadn't noticed, I'm posting an action a day. One that can be done easily and privately. This is not a replacement for larger organizing efforts but in addition. Nobody can do everything but everyone can do something. This is day 3.
January 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Today's action: make donations. I've never done recurring/auto donations before. Today, I'm signing up to give regularly to a human rights org, an immigrant aid org, and a nonprofit news org.

A recent sunset over water just because .....
January 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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When you use Pharisee as a slur but try to say it’s not antisemitic it’s like arguing that saying “that’s so gay” as an insult but not intending to refer to same sex love is magically thus not actually homophobic or harmful to queer people.
January 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Here's one way to celebrate #JewishBookMonth: Take up the challenge I created for the occasion a couple of Novembers ago. (Original inspiration: @thez.bsky.social's #ReadsOfAwe challenge.)
November 24, 2024 at 6:15 PM
“God’s love is reliable and persistent and irrepressible…at each and every moment, God is giving us and all creation the capacity to rise to the right choice, is holding out that best possible choice to us, is granting the ability to be self-transcending…
November 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM
“God’s love is stronger thank anything—not as something separate that beams down from above, but as a steady inspiring capability you have within.” — Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson in God of Becoming and Relationship.
November 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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@sboyarin.bsky.social my 15yo’s favorite band is Sabaton. Got any Ashki- metal recs he’d like to settle a bet?

Thanks!!
November 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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“Dissent is a spiritual practice.” —Molly T. Marshall
November 10, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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"...When I say that God dwells in us, I mean possibility lives in us. Hope lives in us. Kindness lives in us. Truth and justice live in us. No amount of cruelty or coercion, bullying or gaslighting, can take these away. (1/)
The Call: Lekh-Lekha 5785 / 2024
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָ''ה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃ יהו’’ה said to Abram, “Lekh-lekha / Go forth from your native land an...
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November 9, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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You can very quickly and easily add ALT to an image with text in it. If you open the ALT editor in the iPhone app and click these three little lines it will allow you to simply copy and paste the text into the field. Takes seconds!
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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For the newbies, one of the great features on here is that when someone has tried to quote-post dunk on you, hit the … and select “detach quote” and nobody will see the post or who wrote it and they will look like an asshole. (Blocking works like this too.)
November 10, 2024 at 2:31 AM
What are we reading for Lent this year?
February 3, 2024 at 1:27 AM
1. Elizabeth A. Johnson
2. Madeleine L’Engle (concept of heaven in A Wrinkle in Time)
3. Marjorie Suhocki
4. Richard Rohr
5. Ilia Delio
6. Talmud
October 5, 2023 at 12:48 AM