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What Would Baba Yaga Do?

@babayagaacolyte.bsky.social
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PhD scientist, former academic, educator, poet/writer. Politics, gender, science, birds. They/them

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 10/10/2026
Hi! I'm the first author on the study. There are moore substantive conclusions, and I highlight the words of actual people in the article itself. You can find a non-paywalled location for the pre-print online. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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“An Environment of Fear No Matter Where I Go”: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Transgender and Gender Diverse Experiences While Facing Antitransgender Legislation
Even under the best of circumstances, transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals face well-documented social and health disparities. In recent years, more than 2,000 legislative and policy-based...
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Ericnonymous @ericnonymous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm assuming that the study had more substantive conclusions, but it's behind a paywall (psycnet.apa.org/record/2028-...). That said, this line from the abstract is interesting in its own right and arguably more valuable than simply saying that anti-trans laws cause distress to trans people.
Quantitative data, assessed using psychometric network analysis, suggested that structural stressors related to antitransgender legislation had a significantly stronger relationship with psychological distress than everyday experiences of discrimination.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be fair, I've talked to (otherwise supportive) cis ppl who had no idea anti-trans legislation is happening, and absolutely should know it impacts our mental health. Was it a pleasant experience to educate these people, though? Well, no.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*Ishiguro, sorry Yeah I really thought Waititi had lost it when I heard he made a comedic movie set in WWII Germany about a little boy with Hitler as his imaginary friend. I was scared to see it. (JoJo Rabbit) I saw it twice in theaters it was so good. I want to trust in Taika...
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Uggh Taika Waititi is making a movie of Klara and the Sun, my least favorite Ishuguro novel. I think that it is trash. I am embarrassed such a great writer wrote that thing. But... it's Taika Waititi. Famous for taking tragic depressing novels and making them into whimsical but melancholy comedies
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a non athlete, I feel strongly about this, as the only scenario in which I could imagine doing some athletic feat, I, too, would probably be spewing some kind of bodily fluids.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just read about this very badass swimmer who set the new record for crossing the Vancouver strait and she was vomiting from seasickness during a lot of it. Badass!! She still set the damn record! www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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B.C. swimmer crosses the Strait of Georgia in under nine hours | CBC Radio
When it comes to crossing the Strait of Georgia, most people would choose to do so in a boat, a ship — any kind of a marine vessel, really. But not Melanie Buggey. She chose to swim.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
(Wanted to write "badass" but .. though funny, kind of undermines the sentiment)
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That athlete who won the race while shitting herself shouldn't have to apologize and forfeit?? She should get a double trophy. She still ran that hard, through the discomfort and public humiliation?
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reflections on Plover Appreciation Day When Rose and Monty chose Montrose Beach in 2019, it was the beginning of a seemingly improbable survival story... 1/7 📸: Tamima Itani (Monty and Rose and their 1st Montrose chick)
Two adult plovers and a chick
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows an eldritch god, a skeletal possum like creature with large antlers, saying "I AM AS OLD AS THE FOREST ITSELF". 
Panel two shows a stick figure saying, "But you must have been a baby at some point?"
Panel three shows the eldritch god saying "Well. Yes."
Panel four shows a tiny eldritch baby sitting on a rock, his antlers just little twigs.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This whole thread 100%, especially the last post. Don't let up opposition on data centers, we've got them scared
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HALF A BILLION BIRDS! And the night’s still young! #birds #fall #migration
BirdCast map showing 523.9 million birds in flight at 10:40pm EDT on September 5, 2026.
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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can we reach 50% of our fundraising goal by Plover Appreciation Day (September 16)? Your charitable contribution supports the human and other resources needed for monitor management and education outreach. 2/2 chicagobirdalliance.app.neoncrm.com/forms/piping...
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2026 Chicago Piping Plover Fund
Thank you for your donation to support the Chicago Piping Plovers. Your donation allows us to support the presence, nesting and welfare of the endangered Great Lakes Piping Plovers in Chicago and Coo...
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ah, I was wondering about this. Read about CHE a while back and wondered why none of the 20+ heavy users I've known in my life ever got it, if the numbers are really that high. I should know at least 1 or 2, right?
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also the impact of the pharmaceutical industry, which wines and dines doctors like crazy to make them feel very favorably toward opioid prescriptions, and not so favorably toward something that might reduce pain without helping a pharm sales rep put their kids through college.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's so fun how trans people can keep saying over and over and over and OVER again how the catholic church's ban on trans healthcare is one of the most sweeping and draconian and every day liberals & leftist just ignore it to gush about whatever meaningless "progressive" gesture the pope made today
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The next 'No Kings' will be Oct. 17 and is a nationwide but community-specific mass mobilization to the voting booth. It was clear — to me, at least — this is what it was building to all along when everybody was writing "it doesn't matter if you march in the streets with a sign" think pieces. (1/2)
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That was illuminating, thank you for sharing. We have some weird ass systems here in the US of A
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Love this for the Fair but boy do I hate crowds. It's a conundrum.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/08/2026
thanks to @lefttheprairie.bsky.social for pointing out that Mama Bree's statue got a cameo in the MPR piece! www.instagram.com/reels/Dcl5zJ...
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MPR News on Instagram: "Every year the Minnesota State Fair shows thousands of art pieces submitted by Minnesotans for judging and display. Throughout the disciplines, one theme was clear — Minnesotan...
227 likes, 4 comments - mprnews on August 28, 2026: "Every year the Minnesota State Fair shows thousands of art pieces submitted by Minnesotans for judging and display. Throughout the disciplines, one...
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How about some Good Food News. Like: I've been keeping tofu and fresh spinach on hand to put in my packaged instant ramen, really makes it fancy. (...The spinach I've been eating for months is from a Taylor Farms brand. Grown in the US so maybe it is OK? No signs of cyclospora so far!)
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah looks like she's had a few.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(Just kidding, I'm too autistic. My head would explode trying to write misleading drivel because Editor Told Me To)
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some of her other pieces include: sugar isn't actually that bad for you! And: is beef bad for you? Shrug, science just doesn't know! (I wish I could get a corporate-sponsored food writing gig. I'd be good at it & I bet it pays well) www.washingtonpost.com/people/tamar...
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Tamar Haspel
Tamar Haspel is the author of "To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard." An oyster farmer on Cape Cod, she writes Unearthed, a monthly commentary in pursuit of a more c...
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some shill wrote an (unpaywalled!) piece for WaPo about how we should just stop eating lettuce anyway. It's 95% water! And has a big climate footprint. And just encourages you to eat bad things like blue cheese dressing.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/08/2026
I've been trying to make sense of the sadness in me around Dolly's death, and so I wrote in my newsletter about my mom, and stories, and how time makes loss so much heavier. www.anxietyshark.ca/walking-in-t...
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Walking in the silence and Cicadas
We lost Dolly Parton today, although it will no longer be today when you read this.
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.
Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕
Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To be fair, I ate 2-3 tbsp of ketchup yesterday totally on purpose knowing it has vinegar in it and being like "eh, it's such a small amount though, I'll be fine" and have been paying the price for (so far) 24 hrs
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not to be confused with the Confounding Antwren, which shouldn’t exist but does
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Food Gripes #3: avocado and vinegar are not bolded/capitalized in ingredient lists or called out separately (like they do with, "contains wheat" etc.) so I have to try to read all that small print in the store with my shitty bifocals or else get poisoned
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ugh yeah I can't eat those or many other fancy chip brands anymore bc avocado and me don't mix (histamine). And tallow ... like, fuck all the vegetarians and Hindus, I guess? Plus I bet it isn't Kosher or Halal
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is exactly how it was with Charles Murray for like 30 years. Every idea the guy had was trashed by Stephen Jay Gould and other actual biologists in the 90s. And kept being trashed. Why do we have to keep giving him a platform?
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/08/2026
“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cover of The Lancet, 22 Aug issue. The quote reads, “...movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.”
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Food Gripes: Saffron Road now announces none of their meals are made with seed oils .. but they don’t even specify that their olive oil is expeller pressed. Chemical extraction is the only remotely logical reason anyone might have for avoiding seed oils (and it's not that good a reason)
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Food Gripes: why is all salmon jerky super sweet (teriyaki or maple flavored). Why can't I have savory salmon jerky
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For all cis allies to read. Remember: if you already don't subscribe, you can still write them a letter saying you are a subscriber (lie) who is canceling or you were ABOUT to subscribe (could be true) but decided not to for these reasons. Helpful poster graphic for sharing in this article, too.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Going through old replies and wanted to re-post this again. We still need to be harassing elected officials this way. And we're doing some good work primary-ing out the ineffectual ones.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026
that’s fucking right
Peggy Flanagan wearing a protect trans kids shirt
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
... But I know most of them are in thrall to the police unions, DA, and incarceral industry
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I want to send this to all Democrats in office right now.
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't think it's so fragmented. Hong would have won handily in WI without the incumbent governor's endorsement of Crowley and heavy campaigning for him incl convincing many Dem voters that Hong was unelectable. (A good or bad thing, depends on perspective)
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EducateUS @educateusaction.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Learn more about how to have these powerful kinds of conversations – and the years of research behind them – in our Know Means Know event with Rebecca Kling on Trans Organizing and Narrative Strategies. Watch more here: buff.ly/ZqZEtZw
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you are not in Madison and would like to donate I will post a thread of things to support, first and foremost this GoFundMe for Corey Ruiz’s family. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...
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Donate to Justice for Corey: Telling His Story, organized by Antonio Lopez
Our beloved Corey was murdered in the street by a Madison Police Department officer… Antonio Lopez needs your support for Justice for Corey: Telling His Story
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? @babayagaacolyte.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I had a therapist slut-shame my mom bc she had kids with different dads. I came back for 1 more appt to chew her out about it..
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