Sam Wall
@samwall.bsky.social
Death doula, writer, CSWA, counselor, jackalope wrangler. Former Co-director at Scarleteen.com. I write about sex, death, and monsters.
Hire me! https://morningstardeathdoula.com/
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https://samwallcswa.my.canva.site/
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Sam Wall
@samwall.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Since transitioning to death doula work, one goal has been to offer remote services to LGBTQ+folks across the state. As of now, the following are available:
Death doula: Legacy planning, deathbed ecosystem planning, coordinating support, and remote forms of companionship.
Death doula: Legacy planning, deathbed ecosystem planning, coordinating support, and remote forms of companionship.
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“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!”
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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The Chieftains - "St. Stephen's Day Murders" featuring Elvis Costello
YouTube video by TheNYmick
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
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Taking permanent psychic damage every time I read a new name
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Taking permanent psychic damage every time I read a new name
If you need to mix up the soundtrack today and tomorrow, the winter holiday edition of Strange and Unusual is just the thing! Just select "strange and unusual" from the show menu! 🥀❄️
kmun.org/archives/
kmun.org/archives/
Archives - KMUN
All of our programming is available here for 2 weeks after broadcast. Local public affairs shows are also available permanently as Podcasts. Find full playlists for our music programs on Spinitron.
kmun.org
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you need to mix up the soundtrack today and tomorrow, the winter holiday edition of Strange and Unusual is just the thing! Just select "strange and unusual" from the show menu! 🥀❄️
kmun.org/archives/
kmun.org/archives/
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important to remember in these trying times that there *are* still people fighting for, and alongside, us
A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people. n.pr/453QS51
19 states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care
A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.
n.pr
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
important to remember in these trying times that there *are* still people fighting for, and alongside, us
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We have a T. rex!
Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
bookshop.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We have a T. rex!
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This is 100% accurate, I know there is a small raft of dudes out there who like to try to slam how I do the man thing, and my reaction is and has always been, lol, no, my dudes, I don't take man lessons from boring status anxious try hard bigots
I think of your gender identity as "this is a perfectly acceptable way to be a man and if you're bothered by it, by all means tell me alllllllllllll about it, your irritation gives me LIFE."
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is 100% accurate, I know there is a small raft of dudes out there who like to try to slam how I do the man thing, and my reaction is and has always been, lol, no, my dudes, I don't take man lessons from boring status anxious try hard bigots
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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Makes me proud every time!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Makes me proud every time!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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In Soviet Loveland, Frog'll boggle you
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In Soviet Loveland, Frog'll boggle you
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if you are in need of a timeline cleanse today because everything is fucking awful all the time, i beg you to take a few moments to bask in the absolutely, positively, delightfully ridiculous mating display of the Carnotaurus
Prehistoric Planet [2022] - Carnotaurus Screen Time
YouTube video by M. REX Screen Time
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
if you are in need of a timeline cleanse today because everything is fucking awful all the time, i beg you to take a few moments to bask in the absolutely, positively, delightfully ridiculous mating display of the Carnotaurus
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
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Remember that in the winter of 2020-2021, we *made a whole strain of influenza extinct* by staying home more and wearing masks when we went out.
A lot of people are sick right now.
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Remember that in the winter of 2020-2021, we *made a whole strain of influenza extinct* by staying home more and wearing masks when we went out.
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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The only conspiracy theory I 100% believe is that no one saw Avatar 2 in the theaters. It did not make a billionty dollars or whatever. No one saw it. Maybe a hundred people. You didn't see it. You don't know anyone who did. Maybe "a friend of a friend" saw it.
July 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The only conspiracy theory I 100% believe is that no one saw Avatar 2 in the theaters. It did not make a billionty dollars or whatever. No one saw it. Maybe a hundred people. You didn't see it. You don't know anyone who did. Maybe "a friend of a friend" saw it.
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Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
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My “Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when they were filming ‘The Two Towers’” moment is that the Wachowskis' first movie BOUND is also the first movie that portrayed a lesbian bar.
My “Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when they were filming ‘The Two Towers’” moment is “Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy’s stunt doubles fell in love when they were filming ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’.”
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My “Viggo Mortensen broke his toe when they were filming ‘The Two Towers’” moment is that the Wachowskis' first movie BOUND is also the first movie that portrayed a lesbian bar.
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The ”Women fight for Conrad Veidt” slogan was very real and used to market the formerly German, newly-minted British film star, recently released after being detained by the Nazis
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The ”Women fight for Conrad Veidt” slogan was very real and used to market the formerly German, newly-minted British film star, recently released after being detained by the Nazis
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Prisoners who stay in touch with people at home while locked up are less likely to return to prison.
When released prisoners are convicted and sent back to prison, it means job security for public employees and more revenues for for-profit prisons.
Capitalism runs on incentives.
When released prisoners are convicted and sent back to prison, it means job security for public employees and more revenues for for-profit prisons.
Capitalism runs on incentives.
Prison telecom companies and more than a dozen red-state attorneys have challenged imposing limits on the cost of phone calls from prison, arguing that they would deprive lockups of necessary funding.
Priced Out of Phone Calls Home
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
boltsmag.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Prisoners who stay in touch with people at home while locked up are less likely to return to prison.
When released prisoners are convicted and sent back to prison, it means job security for public employees and more revenues for for-profit prisons.
Capitalism runs on incentives.
When released prisoners are convicted and sent back to prison, it means job security for public employees and more revenues for for-profit prisons.
Capitalism runs on incentives.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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What a story by @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social about Rachel Harlow Billebault, the trans nightclub queen of Philly who after decades out of the spotlight, is again ready for her close-up.
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
www.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What a story by @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social about Rachel Harlow Billebault, the trans nightclub queen of Philly who after decades out of the spotlight, is again ready for her close-up.