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Shannon O’Mac

@shannonomac.bsky.social

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Physician. Parent. Your weird queer aunt in the woods (Upstate NY). Mostly thinking about birds, trees, and dirt. I love the library. 📚 (Not medical advice)

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · Aug 8

Did you know? Less bad + more good = better.

Yes - we do need to focus on reducing harm and violence.

AND we need to explicitly define what’s good, what it thrives on, and how to get more of it. Both.

It’s not Pollyanna to tell good stories. It’s necessary.

So! Here’s a 🧵of what’s good.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 3h

Solidarity!!

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 3h

The powerless feeling I get from being alive during all this does feel better after doing something tangible, like adding more pollinator spots.

Saw a monarch fly by when I was finishing up. Felt good. ☺️

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 3h

I am a rather clueless gardener, but collecting seeds of plants that I like and spreading them around in spots that I like feels like a can’t-lose situation.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 3h

Everything was overwhelming today so I spent an hour collecting and cleaning wildflower seeds.

More asters and joe pye weed please!

Next step is to mix them with soil to create seed bombs and scatter them in good spots. Thinking about mixing them in with my new baby hazelnut shrub patch.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 4h

My takeaway is that social ostracism is a powerful weapon, and we should use it on Nazis instead of trans people.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 9h

I love shitting on social media as much as the next guy, but Skype a Scientist was built directly from social media connections.

We've matched over 60,000 classrooms with scientists from it...

That's pretty great.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 8h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 10h

Bad Bunny’s latest album is incredible, and has been a major pillar of emotional support in getting me through 2025. For what it’s worth.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 16h

🧵

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h

Cigna stop sending me LLM services without identifying them as such challenge

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

i miss living in a country that wasnt murdering itself so openly

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Some interdimensional portals I've found on walks during the last few days.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work

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Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera.bsky.social · 1d

Two mothers cry beneath the same sun,

The ground drinks salt from both their tears,

Grief travels like smoke,

Crossing fences and languages,

Finding lungs that did not light the fire.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

“if we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

Jude Doyle On Manhood After Patriarchy — Assigned

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am, talking about how the second wave became TERFy, why it didn't need to, and how feminism can be better for everybody.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

"As much as our enemies are louder and crueler, and in many cases more powerful than ever, we have more allies than ever too."

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist @judedoyle.bsky.social

Jude Doyle On Manhood After Patriarchy — Assigned

Assigned Media interviews transmasc feminist author Jude Doyle.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Harvest moon! 🌝

Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a very good moon out there tonight if you’ve got a clear sky. #MoonScrolling #SkySky 🌿

A blurry full moon with an evergreen branch with short needles silhouetted against it.

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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 1d

Some common kingfishers for #ColorADay theme #BlueTue

#birds #photography #nature #wildlife 🪶 🌿🖌️ #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

you can look at more of my work on the custom feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

pair of kingfishers sitting on a branch, one showing its chest and another its back - both are looking towards the right.

the bird has its head tilted slightly backwards to show more of its nape.

common kingfisher, perched on a thin branch of a different tree - you can see the varying shade of blue on the wings as well. it is looking towards the left

the same bird looking away to the right. the cap shows more variation in blue and white. the part below the ear is also white.

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hearing no Substack. I don’t know Wordpress. Any other suggestions?

Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 2d

If one were starting a queer blog in this year of our lord 2025, where would one do so?

I learned to blog 20 years ago and now I am an old.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

nice

Electrek @electrek.co · 2d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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