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Sarah Daniel Rasher

@rasher.bsky.social
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Education evaluator trying to save the world using math. Erstwhile Shakespeare professor. Music challenges, cat photos, Chicago events and ephemera, figure skating. Occasional Star Trek: DS9 podcaster and culture newsletterer. They/them, él/elle/-o.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nancy 9/8/26
Nancy’s at school…. Her teacher asks her a math problem: if Nancy had three cupcakes, and Sluggo asked her for one, how many would she have left? Nancy’s reply is “three.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 28/09/2026
It’s fine to live in a bubble, but you can’t then act surprised that things are happening outside of your bubble. You’ve chosen to stop listening to contemporary pop music. That’s fine! You’d probably hate a lot of it! But the world does actually carry on without you.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the wonderful things about music in general is that the risk reward ratio is so insanely skewed - three minutes for something that might end up bringing you joy for the rest of your life
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's small triumph: I resolved my last remaining reason to keep Facebook on my phone and deleted it and Messenger. (Insta has to stay for now, but probably gone by the end of the month.)
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
can’t even find stores at the mall exclusively dedicated to little pewter dragon statues anymore
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heart of Sharkness: a Joseph Conrad adaptation in which Bruce from Finding Nemo goes feral in the Mariana Trench.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SQUIRREL RABBI
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Audrey Wennink @awennink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes the best thing you can do is put everything else on hold for 3 hours and get your hair re-dyed. (Same color; just needs a bleach and refresh.)
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Danielle Johnson @dwhren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unfortunately I don’t know who made this but it’s hilarious
Key showing winter in white, summer in black, autumn in red and spring in yellow. A chart showing Alaska mostly white with a small stripe of red. Florida mostly black with small stripes of red and yellow. Maryland as the Maryland flag design.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My niece has inherited the Shakespeare gene! We're seeing Romeo & Juliet together in February. She's seen abridged productions and read kid-friendly retellings of the stories, but she's excited to be old enough for her first full-length play.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Fad Albert @fadalbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy birthday Leonard Cohen and happy Leonard Cohen autumn to everyone else!
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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There’s one spot left in the Final Four of the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs bracket! Which of these songs will face off against Friend Like Me in the next round? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs Bracket - Round Five
Decide which songs should move to the Final Four.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look what came in the mail yesterday! I'm looking forward to a rainy weekend of reading a new @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social adventure.
The cover of Settlers of the Storm Worlds Part One, by Carla Speed McNeil
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck man he even addressed the top shortage
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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When You Wish Upon A Star is moving onto the Final Four of the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs bracket! Today, you decide which Ashman/Menken song will move on too. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs Bracket - Round Five
Decide which songs should move to the Final Four.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would be on Bluesky more if clients didn't keep paying me to do my job. Until the death of capitalism, this is not a complaint.
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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Elite Eight of the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs bracket is here! Tough decisions ahead as you choose today which iconic song moves to the Final Four. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs Bracket - Round Five
Decide which songs should move to the Final Four.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I love this for her
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable. I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.
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Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chicago mayoral poillitics Voter: Housing is too expensive Candidate: You're not safe from criminals on the street! V: Im going to have to move far from work because life is getting too expensive. C: YOU'RE NOT FUCKING SAFE! V: Isn't violent crime down? C: YOU'RE GOING TO BE CRIMED TO DEATH!
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Who lived when and overlapped with whom? I love this chart. While they never met Thomas Aquinas and Rumi lived at the same time and overlapped with Genghis Khan. Goethe and Simon Bolivar were contemporaries. So much fun to ponder this chart: buff.ly/RswxQGP
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
also when there's a boycott on we really don't have to do the whole "I didn't like their stuff anyway" thing. that is Facebook thread behavior. just be in solidarity with the union it's so easy!
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I had sworn off music festivals because I'm mostly too old for this shit, but the Evanston Folk Festival is a sedate affair where literally everyone has brought a lawn chair. Anjimile played early and was fabulous.
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Trans Rights are Human Rights @transgender-rights.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don't use duct tape for that #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt_memes #transmemes #trans #transgender
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."
The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know it may be really difficult to understand this but I am unshakably convinced that I am fully equal to a cis person, and that all trans people are.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
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Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My uncle-by-choice, Donald Levy, passed away last weekend at 82, after several years of staring death in the face and saying, "Nah, not yet." He was patient and dryly funny, and I'm going to miss him so much. In his memory, remember to pay your self-employed Income Tax increment, due 9/15.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An electric car reduces climate pollution by ~ 70% compared to gasoline car, if driven same number of miles. But a gasoline car driven 70% fewer miles -- because the driver now lives in walking or transit distance of most of their trips -- *reduces pollution by the same amount as an electric car.*
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
🎵 THIS SONG IS RIO AND IT'S BY DURAN DURAN
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an underwater submersible opens a latch and drops a red, pill-shaped crappy Bluetooth speaker. A scientist narrates, “we built a Bluetooth speaker to withstand 2000 meters.” Panel 2: the scientist, speaking directly to the camera, continues: “the squids responded really well to Nelly.” Panel 3: on the dark depths of the ocean floor, a group of squids are dancing enthusiastically around the sunken Bluetooth speaker. A couple of them are getting kinda nasty with it to be perfectly honest
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GoOoOoOoOose @phatcussy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are. Are godzilla and Kong going to...
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am intensely obsessed with Lex Walton's mini-album, Ultimate Love Forever. Angular, cranky trans post-punk, perfect for a September heat wave and a week with too many deadlines.
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Ultimate Love Forever by Lex Walton
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poor Unfortunate Souls: a song that Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen would all have rocked in very different ways.
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Jubbs McCoy @jubbsmccoy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨 book-inspired music challenge coming in mid-September 🚨😃 #NoDullMoments1971 💥🎶🔟⚠️ Thurs 9/10 to Sat 9/19 i am reading Hepworth's fantastic book about the music year 1971 🪇😎 i strongly recommend it & need to know ur top 10 favorite songs either released or charted in 1971 🎶🎯🔥 plz repost 🙏😌 thx!
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Amy (not spooky yet, but hopefully getting there) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I know I keep dying on this hill but it's important: Saying "there are so many better (books/movies/tv shows) than Harry Potter" is implicitly saying there's a level of quality that would make JKR's bigotry acceptable.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And what have I been up to? Drove to Milwaukee, went to #RHAPCon, met a reality TV legend, cried with a room full of fans at the 1000th episode of Big Brother. Then stopped at Mars Cheese Castle to stock up on Wisconsin cuisine.
A short, pale-skinned person with purple hair, grinning giddily as they pose with Rob Cesternino, a light-skinned bearded man who is also smiling. A selection of sausages and cheeses, a 6-pack of beer, a bottle of gin, and a jar of pickled asparagus.
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