Sal Eóin (they/he)
@salifanc.bsky.social
Sometime researcher on media, sometime artist, all of the time trans, and most of the time tired. (in Scotland but not giving bluesky my id so won't get DMs)
its also highly likely substantial amount of observers/protesters have their phones set up to automatically sync their videos to various cloud services controlled by various tech companies sympathetic (at best) to this regime. if they want to id people, they will id people....
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
its also highly likely substantial amount of observers/protesters have their phones set up to automatically sync their videos to various cloud services controlled by various tech companies sympathetic (at best) to this regime. if they want to id people, they will id people....
"why don't americans do something?!?" said Europeans in & surrounded by countries that increasingly elect the far-right or support 'left' parties implementing "zero asylum" migration policies that include seizing asylum seekers' assets then sending them to Rwanda to wait for their claim to be denied
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
"why don't americans do something?!?" said Europeans in & surrounded by countries that increasingly elect the far-right or support 'left' parties implementing "zero asylum" migration policies that include seizing asylum seekers' assets then sending them to Rwanda to wait for their claim to be denied
it feels to me that part of the reason states are folding is because the people in charge also have the same overwhelming anxiety of trump's allegedly godlike powers
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
it feels to me that part of the reason states are folding is because the people in charge also have the same overwhelming anxiety of trump's allegedly godlike powers
to me, this feels like all the more reason for as many people as possible to get as clear as possible, now, on the specifics of what the president would actually have to do to cancel the elections.
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
to me, this feels like all the more reason for as many people as possible to get as clear as possible, now, on the specifics of what the president would actually have to do to cancel the elections.
its possible people didn't clap *because* he left, but because the show was turned back on after having been paused while staff was talking to him
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
its possible people didn't clap *because* he left, but because the show was turned back on after having been paused while staff was talking to him
Thanks, I appreciate it, genuinely!
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Thanks, I appreciate it, genuinely!
for all we know, he said more before, but the reporter cut it off for dramatic effect
January 8, 2026 at 12:43 AM
for all we know, he said more before, but the reporter cut it off for dramatic effect
I'm just trying to understand! The "no one else" quote is difficult to read in itself to me since the article gives so little context. If he didn't know how old the kid was, that makes it more likely he's a shit--but the only reporting I can find (including this article) has him saying the kid is 6
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I'm just trying to understand! The "no one else" quote is difficult to read in itself to me since the article gives so little context. If he didn't know how old the kid was, that makes it more likely he's a shit--but the only reporting I can find (including this article) has him saying the kid is 6
do you have a source for that? i see various news articles saying the kid was four or five, but that seems to be an issue with reporting, none of them quote him on that
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
do you have a source for that? i see various news articles saying the kid was four or five, but that seems to be an issue with reporting, none of them quote him on that
all we have record of him saying are <20 words that a reporter decided to include, that's hardly a refusal. for all we know, he said a lot more leading up to "there's nobody else" that the reporter chose to cut
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
all we have record of him saying are <20 words that a reporter decided to include, that's hardly a refusal. for all we know, he said a lot more leading up to "there's nobody else" that the reporter chose to cut
it's never made sense to me, bc like, idk, all bodies age and that's okay, right? but also i'm mostly asexual, so few things about the normative logic of attraction make sense to me, so who knows!
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
it's never made sense to me, bc like, idk, all bodies age and that's okay, right? but also i'm mostly asexual, so few things about the normative logic of attraction make sense to me, so who knows!
yeah, i've noticed it as a weird loop that just reconfirms the idea, central to the supposed problem of age gaps, that relative youth is the bastion of attractiveness - i.e., 45 year olds saying it wld be gross for a 28 year old to date them because their 45 year old body was gross and saggy etc
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
yeah, i've noticed it as a weird loop that just reconfirms the idea, central to the supposed problem of age gaps, that relative youth is the bastion of attractiveness - i.e., 45 year olds saying it wld be gross for a 28 year old to date them because their 45 year old body was gross and saggy etc
yeah, i fully agree - i just see that "life stages" thing come up all the time as a defence to any challenge to the knee jerk assumption that age gaps are abusive, and i really don't understand it haha
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
yeah, i fully agree - i just see that "life stages" thing come up all the time as a defence to any challenge to the knee jerk assumption that age gaps are abusive, and i really don't understand it haha
when i was in grad school, there were grad students in their mid-40s, and profs in their early to mid 30s - which is more prone to abuse, a 28 year old first-year grad student dating a 42 year old first-year grad student, or a 28 year old grad student dating a 30 year old professor?
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
when i was in grad school, there were grad students in their mid-40s, and profs in their early to mid 30s - which is more prone to abuse, a 28 year old first-year grad student dating a 42 year old first-year grad student, or a 28 year old grad student dating a 30 year old professor?
its also too easy to point out that literally 90% of the abusive relationships i've witnessed were with ppl of nearly the same age - sometimes with wild power differentials given the obvious(??) fact that, at least after age 18, the idea of progress thru defined 'life stages' is absurd
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
its also too easy to point out that literally 90% of the abusive relationships i've witnessed were with ppl of nearly the same age - sometimes with wild power differentials given the obvious(??) fact that, at least after age 18, the idea of progress thru defined 'life stages' is absurd
the older i get, also, the less i understand the apparently straightforward conflation of age with power (or with 'life stage') that underlies the conclusion that age gaps are abusive bc of power differentials that are abusive
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
the older i get, also, the less i understand the apparently straightforward conflation of age with power (or with 'life stage') that underlies the conclusion that age gaps are abusive bc of power differentials that are abusive
yeah - when it involves consenting adults, i've always felt that most knee jerk reactions are ultimately based in misogyny ("younger + woman necessarily = exploitable & naive") and ageism ("older = undesirable in a way that makes a relationship built on anything except exploitation unimaginable")
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
yeah - when it involves consenting adults, i've always felt that most knee jerk reactions are ultimately based in misogyny ("younger + woman necessarily = exploitable & naive") and ageism ("older = undesirable in a way that makes a relationship built on anything except exploitation unimaginable")
(*though at least in my own experience, that's more of projected than an actual worry, since I doubt cis men (or people in general?) are aware enough of what opening a pad sounds like, or listening out for it, such that they would be able to know for sure that's what was happening in another stall)
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
(*though at least in my own experience, that's more of projected than an actual worry, since I doubt cis men (or people in general?) are aware enough of what opening a pad sounds like, or listening out for it, such that they would be able to know for sure that's what was happening in another stall)
Alternatively, you could also consider talking to a trans masculine person, for whom there are actual potential stakes (i.e., being outed, not just being vaguely 'embarrassed') to using menstrual products in the (men's) restroom*
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Alternatively, you could also consider talking to a trans masculine person, for whom there are actual potential stakes (i.e., being outed, not just being vaguely 'embarrassed') to using menstrual products in the (men's) restroom*
The woman in question here wasn't a grad student, she was a tenured professor at the time. Not that that changes your summary of Harvard's reaction, but I think it matters re: understanding the problem of sexual harassment in (especially elite) academia
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The woman in question here wasn't a grad student, she was a tenured professor at the time. Not that that changes your summary of Harvard's reaction, but I think it matters re: understanding the problem of sexual harassment in (especially elite) academia
there's a similar one, from himself to himself, with the subject line "contacts", here: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026632
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
there's a similar one, from himself to himself, with the subject line "contacts", here: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026632
yes, him. he apparently showed up in the flight logs? the full name shows up in other places in the recent docs if you search 'pastrana' here: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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November 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
yes, him. he apparently showed up in the flight logs? the full name shows up in other places in the recent docs if you search 'pastrana' here: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
she says there she's emerita at harvard - so presumably if one wanted to contact her the ASU email address would be more effective
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
she says there she's emerita at harvard - so presumably if one wanted to contact her the ASU email address would be more effective
only kind of. she hasn't taught there in years - she left for a position at ASU directing their 'media innovation studio' via that poetry in america course: search.asu.edu/profile/3678...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
only kind of. she hasn't taught there in years - she left for a position at ASU directing their 'media innovation studio' via that poetry in america course: search.asu.edu/profile/3678...