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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@Rachel-Thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy

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Professor, Faculty of Global Culture, Kyoto Seika University; settler raised on land stolen from the Lenape people #translator; mother; #transgender #lesbian […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ queer.party/@Rachel_Thorn, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

So I see that while I was taking a break from the news and social media, freedom of speech died in the US at the hands of corporations preemptively complying with the perceived wishes of the Dear Leader. It was no doubt just a matter of time, but the <sarcasm>clever</sarcasm> assassin helped […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Did Ben & Jerry seriously believe they could sell out to a massive, soulless corporation and still be allowed to speak up on social and political issues?

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Breaking my social media silence to look for a #transgender #Japanese-to-English #translator who would be interested in #translating a rather famous #manga featuring transgender characters. I will help, but N1 or an equivalent level in #Japanese is a must. Writing experience is a big plus […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I think I need to take a break from both the news and Mastodon (my only social media account). It’s all just too much right now. I’ll be back in a few days.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

It’s disturbing to see left-leaning folks glom on to comforting disinformation that fits their own narratives. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s crucial that we distinguish ourselves from the Right by sticking to facts and evidence, even when it’s awkward […] [Original post on queer.party]

Three rather smartly dressed bearded bros flank a poster-sized photo of Charlie Kirk. The photo is in black and white and rather glamorized. Kirk’s full name, “Charles James Kirk,” is emblazoned along the bottom of the photo in all capital letters. The photo stands on a black easel. The situation is apparently some kind of memorial.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Yikes. My ten-year-old daughter is suddenly into “L.O.L.” again. I don’t hate the dolls, but the movies promote the most shallow consumerism.😩

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@skinnylatte It’s been this way as long as I can remember, which is about 50 years.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I’ve decided that the problem with American liberal cities’ and their approach to homelessness is, they decided homelessness isn’t the problem but homeless people are. Way to go.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Does anyone else feel angry when a site that you support gives you a “We see you are using an adblocker; please turn it off to support us” message, yet when you turn off the ad blocker, you get the same message, because it turns out what they really want is to let their advertisers track you […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Check out the way Marco Rubio’s face has changed. It’s like he’s rotting from inside. Any principles he may have had in the past have evaporated and all he has left is a sad desire to cling to some scrap of power. He is hollow.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Did you ever look at a toot and think, “Something tells me there’s going to be some fun alt-text in this image”?

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@reillypascal @bright_helpings Me trying to zoom in on my paper book by spreading my index and middle fingers across the page.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Setting aside obvious moral issues, as a matter of resistance strategy, assassination of fascist influencers who don’t actually pull any levers of power is incredibly stupid. It literally helps the fascists. Fucking moron can rot in prison for the rest of his life for all I care.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

A friend learned in a shocking way that her ten year old son is dangerously allergic to dogs, and she has not immediately removed the dog from the house!? Oh, wait, literally as I was typing that, she messaged me that she was thinking she would have to separate the boy and the dog. (Yes!?) […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I’m especially prickly about dimsum because I think that great dimsum is one of the most skillful, joyful experiences. There are different levels of dimsum and you’re allowed to enjoy it. But white people who pretend they know dimsum by claiming that only the fast food version of it is real […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Very annoyed by people saying ‘take your family to wing lee for real Chinese food’ That’s like me saying I want to expose my parents to real American food at the Cheesecake Factory Well maybe that’s why

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@skinnylatte They all moved to Dykest Heights. The bisexual girls all moved to Dykeish Heights.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

The American take on homelessness just confounds me. You don’t have a home, so let me do everything I can to make sure you won’t ever have a home.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Today I learned that there are anti drug vigilantes who are going around San Francisco spraying random homeless people with Narcan. Even if they’re not OD-ing. They’re just asleep. This is so unfashionably cruel. The dehumanization of entire groups of people occurs even among people who […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

A friend told me he felt an increased understanding of autism in India after Indian aunties started watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo dubbed in Hindi. I have some issues with some of it but I have to say it has contributed to a significant conversation about autism in Asia

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

The Secret Adversary is the worst book by Agatha Christie I have ever read, by a long shot. I figured out who the baddie was the very first time they spoke. The attempt to divert attention to a red herring was ham-fisted and entirely unconvincing, because so much of the book proved beyond the […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Are there any Oxford Reading Tree books below Level 6 that aren’t dull as ditchwater? These are almost as bad as Dick and Jane.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

So I guess congratulations to the dude who killed Kirk and thereby turned him into a martyr whose despicable words and actions have been whitewashed to the point that Kirk’s praises are being sung throughout the land by Democrats and Republicans alike. Real great contribution to the Cause, you […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2025

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

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We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life

Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

And of course the whole point of self checkout systems is to eliminate jobs and further enrich a handful of assholes. Which is why it’s hard to muster much indignation about shoplifting. But when the shoplifter is another rich asshole, I’d like to see them brought down by their stupid choices.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

Not that I care deeply about the problem, but I will never understand the psychology of people who shoplift despite having more than enough money to just buy the damn thing. I understand desperate people shoplifting, and teens because teens, but a 70-year-old living comfortably shoplifting for […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

History will not remember Biden kindly. Nor Ruth Bader Ginsberg, for that matter. Egotistical olds who see themselves as irreplaceable and cling to power to the bitter end are rarely remembered kindly. They flush all the good will they garnered over the decades down the toilet because they don’t […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Kamala Harris was really put into an untenable position. The powers that be decided to let Biden run for reelection despite it being obvious early on that he would almost certainly lose. Then she was called in at the last minute to take his place, but since she was still VP, she couldn’t […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Everything that is needed in the leadership of a serious opposition party in the U.S. right now is the very opposite of what the current leaders have believed for at 45 years is needed. It’s a goofy analogy, but it’s as if they’ve been driving a train on rails for half a century, but suddenly […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

On BS jobs: "My friends from university are scattered across London's glass towers, and virtually none of them believe their job title describes anything real. They're "Growth Hackers" who've never hacked anything, "Digital Transformation Leads" transforming nothing, "Innovation Managers" […]

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Alt Text Hall of Fame @alttexthalloffame.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Everyone wins! #AltText #accessibility

A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake.

Each arm is labeled with the following text:

- Blind and vision-impaired people
- People with temporarily impaired vision
- People with slow internet connection
- People wondering WTF they're looking at

The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

To clarify, this happens regardless of the search engine used.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Is reverse image search broken? It seems like when I try to do a reverse image search these days, the results are all just solid colors in a certain shade. Some images return only green or blue solid colors, some return only red or brown, but none of them are actually images of things or people […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

I do not know what Christie was shooting for in this book. The two protagonists are complete ninnies who keep making devastatingly bad choices. If the logic of the real world applied, Tommy should already be dead and Tuppence should be dead within two more pages, and I’m not even halfway through […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

So the U.K. under #Starmer would rather put half the population behind bars than lift a finger to end #genocide, or even acknowledging genocide. #UKpol

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

These days, a writer in doubt can just ask the Internet, and actors can watch hours and hours of videos of people speaking in the accent they need to mimic, and easily find a coach to help them. (2/2)

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

It’s ironic that so many USian characters on the screen these days are played by Brits, because throughout the 20th century British writers and actors so often failed hilariously when portraying USians. (Yes, I know the reverse is also true, e.g. Dick Van Dyke.) There’s a stereotypical New York […]

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I think centrists are often waiting for permission from someone they believe holds a position of authority before they do anything. So I sincerely hope Ezra Klein’s appeal to elected Dems today gives them the permission they need to actually start fighting back against Trump.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Also, “Sinestral Snail” sounds like a failed Hanna-Barbera series concept from 1962. “So for the New Cartoon Series, we want to include shorts featuring a gay coded character named Wally Gator, another gay coded character named Touché Turtle, and a lonely hermaphrodite named Sinestral Snail.” […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Finally, FINALLY watched Barbie last night. Even though my wife at first rolled her eyes at the choice. It was an absolute hoot. My fellow men: If you haven’t watched it yet, go fix that. It’s on Netflix.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

It’s remarkable how Christie’s generation of blue-blooded British writers took for granted that socialism was evil, prima facie, and no explanation of what makes it evil is required. At least Dorothy Sayers portrayed her socialists with a bit more nuance than the […] [Original post on queer.party]

“They must believe it to be entirely their own show."
The Russian laughed softly, as though amused.
"Yes, yes," he said. "That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends.
They are honest men, and that is their value to us. It is curious, but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards."

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Looking for Ph.D. programs in Japan, on behalf of a student, that include a focus on gender, and found a gender research center that seemed promising. Until I looked at the list of affiliated researchers. Full professors of course are listed first. Half are men, and none of those men have ever […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

#USpol Can you imagine how Republicans and Fox News would have reacted if Obama or Biden had pulled this “Apocalypse Now” stuff? They are far past the point of no return. Completely off the rails.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

“Sinestral Snail” would be a good name for a band. apnews.com/article/ned-left-coiled-…

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Well, reinstalling did not solve my basic problem, which is that my monitor resolution is stuck at 800 x 600. I have had this problem since April, and haven’t touched the computer for months because of this. Advice I got at the time didn’t help. When I run xrandr -q, 800x600 is the highest […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

I’ve started reading Agatha Christie’s The Secret Adversary and it’s hard to believe this is the same author who created Poirot and Miss Marple. She seems to have been aiming for something very lowbrow, which she presumably thought would sell well, but Tuppence and Tommy are just annoying and […]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

You might not want to watch “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” immediately after finishing “Andor,” as the whiplash from hyperrealism to tween entertainment may prove debilitating.

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

Also, very interesting that they decided to go for “Andor” rather than “Erso.” (I don’t know, maybe Felicity Jones just said no?) Cassian does not have the most sympathetic introduction in “Rogue One,” yet the creators managed to whip together an amazing backstory. As the Force healer implies […]

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