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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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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 1h
Christine Brennan’s brainworms on this issue have been fascinating to watch. She’s managed to torpedo a decades-long career over it. It would be impressive if it wasn’t so pathetic.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 9h
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 6h
I don't use Bluesky for work or networking as much as I had expected, but in case any fellow evaluators are looking: I'm at CREA for the week, presenting on neurodiversity at a roundtable this afternoon!
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 8h
The Little Palestine Project charts an oral history of Chicago's southwest suburbs through treasured possessions. bit.ly/4y4Soze
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Objects of memory - Chicago Reader
The Little Palestine Project charts an oral history of Chicago's southwest suburbs through treasured possessions.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.
Tiny baby white goat in a field of blue and red wildflowers
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chicago was named the best big city in the United States for the 10th straight year. buff.ly/WCaGMgF
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no reason for Garfield to hate Mondays, as cats don't observe a schedule. The only possible answer is that Garfield deeply loves Jon and is saddened when he has to work.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I knew I was going to love I Love Boosters, but holy shit, am I the audience for this. Candy-colored bonkers sci-fi surrealism *and* a humanistic, weirdly hopeful exploration of the intersection between race and capitalism.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At the risk of being crass, this is the single greatest bathroom book of all time. Nothing will ever come close
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 01/10/2026
#boktober 001
doodle of two chickens
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#kimgakaku
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spent a delightful morning delivering hard copies of @injusticewatch.org's #CheckYourJudges judicial election guide! You can check out the online version here: 2026retention.injusticewatch.org
A photo of me holding a stack of printed Injustice Watch judicial election guides on Argyle in front of the elevated Red Line station with a big red sign that says Argyle
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never assume that just because people hate something that you love, they MUST be ignorant or not understand it.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy #Caturday from two creatures who have not lifted one tiny paw to comfort me on vaccine day. And Momo, who has been guarding me nonstop.
A gray and white tabby cat lying on her back with her soft white belly in the air. Someone from my wife's World of Warcraft Discord has superimposed a diagram of the Golden Ratio over her. A dilute orange tabby cat stretches to full length as she baps a spinny ball toy. An orange and white cat sits on her bottom on the couch and grooms her front paw with a mighty mlem.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy vaccination day to me! I'm looking forward to a Saturday of lying around watching movies while I sweat out my COVID/flu double whammy.
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks for featuring this one - I love it and haven't listened in a while.
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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
Happy Saturday from the peaceful lake shore! Here's an unsettling song about a beautiful place. (Token 1) R.E.M. - I Remember California
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I Remember California (Remastered 2013)
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
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Sarah Daniel Rasher @rasher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ooh, perfect vacation music, time to wake the house.😎
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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
Please fill out this @illinoisdot.bsky.social survey about what you need from an IL intercity bus program www.surveymonkey.com/r/2B25XBD
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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
Aria Vega - Cule Poco One of my songs of the summer, by a Colombian crossover pop star in the making. (Token 1)
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ARIA VEGA - CULE POCO (sirena_besarico_costeña) (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by ARIA VEGA
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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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