Rachel
@sgwordy.bsky.social
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Super attached to my dog, reader, tea drinker, scientist, time dragon.
Super attached to my dog, reader, tea drinker, scientist, time dragon.
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Thinking of how I can trick romance authors into promoting their books with a one sentences description of what actually happens again. We gotta ease off the trope only vibes. WHAT HAPPENS!
December 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thinking of how I can trick romance authors into promoting their books with a one sentences description of what actually happens again. We gotta ease off the trope only vibes. WHAT HAPPENS!
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Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
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Good Things
a combo platter of things to read, hear, see and watch
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December 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hey, nourish yourself with some Good Things:
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
(and only two more days to get 20% off a House of Study subscription, here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/2025)
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Let's hang out tomorrow SUN 12/28 1130 AM PT & chat 2025 #Kdrama!
THE GREAT. THE TERRIBLE & THE TRULY BAFFLING (looking at you #Twelve & oh and #Genie... 😒)
Bring your Lists, favorite beverages and of course OPINIONS and let's close this crazy year out together!
www.youtube.com/live/f_w7ICD...
THE GREAT. THE TERRIBLE & THE TRULY BAFFLING (looking at you #Twelve & oh and #Genie... 😒)
Bring your Lists, favorite beverages and of course OPINIONS and let's close this crazy year out together!
www.youtube.com/live/f_w7ICD...
🎙️LIVE 2025 YEAR END KDRAMA WRAP UP | The Best, The Worst & Our Biggest Disappointments
YouTube video by The KThree
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December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Let's hang out tomorrow SUN 12/28 1130 AM PT & chat 2025 #Kdrama!
THE GREAT. THE TERRIBLE & THE TRULY BAFFLING (looking at you #Twelve & oh and #Genie... 😒)
Bring your Lists, favorite beverages and of course OPINIONS and let's close this crazy year out together!
www.youtube.com/live/f_w7ICD...
THE GREAT. THE TERRIBLE & THE TRULY BAFFLING (looking at you #Twelve & oh and #Genie... 😒)
Bring your Lists, favorite beverages and of course OPINIONS and let's close this crazy year out together!
www.youtube.com/live/f_w7ICD...
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
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I want my dogs full of love… no thoughts
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I want my dogs full of love… no thoughts
Just got my first personal correspondence that was obviously half written by an LLM. It was hideous, not only because it was contextually ridiculous and weird (with sentences completely out of place to the paragraph/topic), but because what a fucking insult.
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just got my first personal correspondence that was obviously half written by an LLM. It was hideous, not only because it was contextually ridiculous and weird (with sentences completely out of place to the paragraph/topic), but because what a fucking insult.
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One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
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As we continue to normalise inadequate and frankly unacceptable policy across the board, it should be noted that those speaking up are experts, frontline staff, lived experience voices and the public.
Leaders are permitting this through silence and inaction - actively normalising bad governance.
Leaders are permitting this through silence and inaction - actively normalising bad governance.
Min of Health has decided not to continue with the FluTracking survey each week from next year.
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
As we continue to normalise inadequate and frankly unacceptable policy across the board, it should be noted that those speaking up are experts, frontline staff, lived experience voices and the public.
Leaders are permitting this through silence and inaction - actively normalising bad governance.
Leaders are permitting this through silence and inaction - actively normalising bad governance.
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Every major medical body in the country has come out opposing this ban. The message is clear: if the govt won’t support our trans kids, we’ll do it ourselves.
This one’s important e hoa mā - a few of our orgs are collaborating on this fund to ensure that no trans young person in Aotearoa misses out on lifesaving care. Alternative treatment pathways exist but are expensive and we need your help.
givealittle.co.nz/cause/we-got...
givealittle.co.nz/cause/we-got...
Support Rangatahi and Whānau Affected by the Ban on Puberty Blockers
Raising funds to support rangatahi directly affected by the New Zealand Government’s decision to ban new prescriptions of puberty blockers.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Every major medical body in the country has come out opposing this ban. The message is clear: if the govt won’t support our trans kids, we’ll do it ourselves.
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What Mike said, and it was also a great reminder to keep up with the whole family's flu and COVID vaccinations. Yet more penny-pinching.
I’m actually a bit gutted about FluTracking ending. It was an important part of the COVID response and made me feel part of a team; I dutifully did my survey every Monday morning. And now this excellent crowdsourced science tool has been casually axed, yesterday it turns out. info.flutracking.net
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
What Mike said, and it was also a great reminder to keep up with the whole family's flu and COVID vaccinations. Yet more penny-pinching.
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Long time lurker first time buyer here. I highly recommend shopping with @pepperraccoon.com looks fabulous and feels very nice too. Presents for whãnau sorted!!
December 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Long time lurker first time buyer here. I highly recommend shopping with @pepperraccoon.com looks fabulous and feels very nice too. Presents for whãnau sorted!!
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Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
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Deeply pleased in an incredibly reserved Danish-American way that THE WITCH ROADS is named as one of the Best Books of 2025 by Library Journal:
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...
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Editors’ Picks of the Year | Best Books 2025
The LJ Book Review editors’ list of 100 Picks of the Year highlights titles we never tired of reading, rereading, talking about, or mulling over.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Deeply pleased in an incredibly reserved Danish-American way that THE WITCH ROADS is named as one of the Best Books of 2025 by Library Journal:
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...
www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...
Not sure how this happened, as I absolutely did not need a new teapot. I think I was so stunned to see one of these not sold out after a @white2tea.bsky.social email announcement that I clicked through experimentally and just never stopped testing the next step in the acquisition process??
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Not sure how this happened, as I absolutely did not need a new teapot. I think I was so stunned to see one of these not sold out after a @white2tea.bsky.social email announcement that I clicked through experimentally and just never stopped testing the next step in the acquisition process??
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BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
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saving money my entire life so that I can blow it all on having this as a tea pet
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
saving money my entire life so that I can blow it all on having this as a tea pet
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Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick
Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
It was completely random that I listened to these two episodes 2 days apart but they are a great pairing.
yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...
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yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...
www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...
Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary editors define them : Code Switch
How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of...
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It was completely random that I listened to these two episodes 2 days apart but they are a great pairing.
yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...
www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...
yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/epis...
www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...
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very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...
Get people in prison the basic supplies they are legally entitled to
The Department of Corrections is failing to provide basic necessities like hygienic bedding, underwear, socks, shoes and thermals. This is a breach of human rights and a failure to care for those in s...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...