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Rachel Jacobs

@gwaihirj.bsky.social
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Nonbinary leftie. I love my family, my job, board/computer games, and our cats. Will practice Spanish with almost anyone.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This Belgian Malinois realized that his human was cheating in the middle of the game. Original post
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Go buy this book: Her poetry is always good and $20 is wildly cheap. www.ragingopossumpressllc.com/product-page...
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if you know the color of their eyes it's already too late by Bridget Gordon | Raging Opossum Press
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Has anyone told society that we're pack apex predators not bloody hummingbirds?
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My motto for August: Probably carrying too many things. But I'm doing it fabulously.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Making brunch while we read aloud Tressie's latest www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...
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Opinion | Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People (Gift Article)
Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
To all the "helpful" people who see my body go hyperreactive over mosquito bites and say "at least it doesn't hurt," I just got a wasp sting, and it was 100x more pleasant, at least.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My sister was told to heal her fractured leg by continuing to walk on it and taking some painkillers.
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Tomás Arís @littlebridgetroll.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's an experience. I think this is one reason I tend to prefer to work very slowly around people. Sometimes I feel like picking up social cues is overwhelming, so it's either a deluge of over-information or blindness. And there are times I'd rather be blind.
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The Social Tax of Autism
Community organizations shape many parts of modern life, but for some autistic adults, navigating the unwritten social rules can become an invisible barrier to life.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Gender-nonconforming empowered world-building stimming ringed turtledove
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I hate scarcity-based diets, even for cats. But I also want my cat, Trouble, to be healthy, which logically means limiting kibble. So I've been throwing pieces of kibble for him to chase and eat.
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Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My family is filled with people with food aversions, and I wish I'd had this book years ago. It includes practical information about how to support people with food aversions, how to adjust colors and textures and tastes to make different foods work for them, and why they need your acceptance.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
That sounds like the plot of an Assassin's Creed game. #gaming
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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 03/07/2026
🧵 It's the moment the Chicago Sustainable Transportation Advocacy Nation (C-STAN) has waited for. The Tribune ran its 1st batch of 📨s re: bikeways, from folks ranging from heavy-hitters to stereotypes! Click link to give the Trib pageviews: 1/X @activetransportation.org @chicritmass.bsky.social
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Letters: Chicago needs a connected network of protected bike lanes for the good of the city
Chicago’s streets are public space, and the right to move through that public space should not depend on owning a car.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Latino friend said to me the other day: You can't let them have the country. It's mine too. I'm an American. He's right. I've been giving too much ground. So how should be antifascist and patriotic?
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Let it be very clear, this 'Christian'* recognizes and values all the faiths our government is trying erase. *Current US government would not accept that I am a Christian. I am decisively not their type. religionnews.com/2026/06/04/d...
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Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths
(RNS) — The new list includes 31 recognized faiths, most of them Christian denominations.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Approximate picture of the creature my teen role players wanted to befriend. You'd think I'd see it coming by now, but I love their wholesomeness. And yes I allowed it. They had reasonable rolls and a sound strategy. This is basically what the druid built their character around after all. #gaming
A fantastic-looking crustacean with long voluminous tentacles around its mouth, a hard spikey carapace, crab-like claws, and large clawed toes
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Dejan Pantic @serbianism.com · 06/06/2026
Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.
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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dion is as good a human being as they get. Love all of this. I've been arguing for creating third spaces, places to exist without a need to spend money, for communities and especially teens since the "teen takeover" backlash began. This proposal from Dion goes even further in beautiful ways.
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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Critical tenant right. Needs to have funding passed to support it next, but the House can act on this to make sure people have a right to take control of their own housing when landlords seek to sell. Kudos to @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Why the Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go
TPM Reader TB dropped me a note this afternoon about today’s second...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/05/2026
The FBI has sent agents to Milwaukee to interview former election officials about the 2020 presidential election. trib.al/PVfEAD7 It seems that the president wants to rig elections in his favor.
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FBI Agents Show Up at Homes of Election Workers in Key Swing State
Election workers in Wisconsin are worried about what happens next.
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Silby @silby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
corroded rebar longbones, jutting from carcass of fallen grandeur
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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 27/05/2026
Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
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Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/05/2026
I'd say erased but anyway a reminder that Memorial Day started because African American Charlestonians took it upon themselves to give a proper burial to the union soldiers
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Seriously do. Her book is pretty too. But it deserves more worse than "pretty". Buy her book because it's beautiful, intense, painful, and amazing, a work of art.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do people who declare that packaging should say 'Tear Here' ever try tearing there to see whether it works?
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The opposite of racist is antiracist. But Republicans believe the opposite of racist is “not racist” and policy is “racial”/“race-based” or “race neutral.” This language both reinforces and denies racism.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It's become totally commonplace. But it's remarkable how quickly it became commonplace that having totally valid immigration/work permit documents just became irrelevant and these people are routinely tossed into detention by ICE.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Deep-Sea Sea Pigs: Scotoplanes, the Echinoderms that Walk the Abyss at 5,000m Depth
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Rebekka B. @rebekkabrandt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
2/3 This is the shift from quantification to datafication. The issue is not that statistics are wrong—but that they are often applied to phenomena whose complexity exceeds what models can capture. The result: precision without full understanding.🧪 #philsci #sciwri #datafication #methodology
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The Limits of Quantification: How Datafication Reshapes Knowledge and Reality in Scientific and Medical Research Practices. An Epistemological and Ontological Approach
Quantitative methods are widely regarded as guarantors of objectivity, comparability, and epistemic reliability across scientific disciplines. Over recent decades, however, their role has subtly shift...
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@littlebridgetroll.bsky.social This really reminds me of you both in your sleep patterns and in how you adjust to keep them functional.
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Frontiers | ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy
Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hug the cat until your pulse slows down to resting. Happy or sad, balance yourself, burying your head in all that fur.
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Lady Strangely @ladystrangely.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yep. That man is sassing his boss right meow.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Things that make Trouble purr besides the obvious: Sleeping on my keyboard (NO!) Running to my chair and sitting on it when I get up Sleeping in the 1ft of space between my work computer and my personal one (fine, but heads off the caps lock, you galoot) Getting stuck in plastic bags Being sat upon
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Welp, guess I'm not white! Incorrect, but seems like a compliment from those folks. My first is a common Jewish name and my last name would fit well too, so that type would be doubly sure I'm Jewish in particular. Not accurate either, but I am happy to let them think so!
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I swear our cats are so dumb they could be humans. Apparently all three were hungry when I brought up the dry food today. Bee is the acknowledged senior. The other two backed away to let her eat. However Bee has trauma and cannot eat with two cats waiting.
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
And the winner of Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is … | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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And the winner of Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is …
A physicist and professional dancer takes home the grand prize, and Science awards its first trophy for an AI-assisted dance concept
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Amiwala's error is understandable albeit a tactical mistake. Fine on the other hand .... As long as she's not going to be the nominee, that's hilarious.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
9 all timers. Arranged in this nonvisual style as an homage to NetHack, and probably to how much I focus on the graphics :D my9games
A 3 by 3 grid referencing nine games. All but the first (NetHack, which is plain text) are cover art: Morrowind, Final Fantasy Legend 2(Gameboy), Tetris (original) Slay the Spire, No Man's Sky, Witcher 3, Wild Hunt, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Kingdom Come Deliverance
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 05/03/2026
Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com
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Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs
How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just me or do the attack ads on Biss feel kind of antisemitic?
Lots of text implying that Daniel Biss is manipulative and a picture of him that seems to me to emphasize his nose.
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@littlebridgetroll.bsky.social : All these wars, Trump must be grinding for xp [paraphrased] Me: Well, at least he doesn't savescum. If he did, we'd be in a more effective timeline!
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think my habit of drinking copious amounts of tea may keep our tortoise shell cat young. She does so many stairs walking downstairs and then upstairs with me!
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Holy fucking shit that's terrifying.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If FIFA did, for some reason, regularly give out a Peace Prize, you’d think #1 on the list of criteria for potential winners would be “do not start a war with another nation in the World Cup, directly before the start of the World Cup”
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Rachel Jacobs @gwaihirj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
People keep yelling 'we need a leader.' So go do it already. If it needs to be done? GO DO IT. You think protests will help? Protest. You see people whose voice isn't being heard? Shout about what is happening and what they are saying. Stop waiting for a bloody savior.
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Wh⭕a @zzztestaccount.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
like who is out there currently not protesting that would say, oh Chuck Schumer said we should protest, so let's hit the streets. I don't even think he could motivate the Baileys.
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