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Cassie
@mosquitochaser.bsky.social
Queer entomologist. Life is strange and long. (she/her)
My fiancée is an absolute nerd and has just traumatized two of our pets with fancy light saber antics.
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I wonder who at Team Cherry watched Kill La Kill while writing the story for Silksong.
October 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Here’s why I think the blow up costumes work: The fascist rhetoric is that the protests are “I hate America” rallies filled with “terrorists” that will “cheer for chaos instead of country” and impossible to hide images of joy and togetherness and generally being silly decimates their propaganda.
October 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I’m glad they’re here, at least.
I had this intense moment of grief today for young people, specifically those in their 20s, who have spent the entirety of it living under the specter of Trump, Covid, or both.
October 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Massive thread of Manhattan #NoKings photos! High fives all ‘round and enjoy!
Head of the Manhattan #NoKings march!
October 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Boy has things to say.
October 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.
www.ebar.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I volunteered to help set up for Pride, today. It was refreshing.
October 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This thing where notes and notepad apps have autocorrect is nonsense. Please stop. I said what I said and if I made a mistake, that’s my problem.
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Omg I just yelled at my upstairs neighbors and they listened! I didn’t think they could actually hear me 🤦🏼‍♀️
September 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This puppy is not feeling well and I am sorry for her… and also wishing she’d waited just one more day, at least. Today is the first day for 2 weeks that I’m the only human in the house, which means the only one with thumbs to open doors and clean up messes.
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Apparently 911 is down in all of Mississippi right now.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This year’s fruit is kiwi berries!
September 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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“some guys eating hummus”???
Tucker Carlson compares Kirk and Jesus. Jesus he said, was killed because „some guys eating hummus“ suggested it to shut him up. Just like with Jesus, killing him only advanced his cause, is Carlson‘s message. (The livestream has now been going on for 6 hours)
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The first (very small) storm in a minute happened yesterday and this poor dog definitely thought the rainy days were behind her.
September 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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If you know, love, and/or are someone who shouldn't be fasting on Yom Kippur for any reason at all -- and mental health needs are health needs -- then Jewish law says that it's a *requirement* to care for yourself.

This site has tons of great resources, and you can now order care packages, too:
A Mitzvah to Eat Care Packages
A gift to A Mitzvah to Eat has always provided lifesaving peer support and resources. But now when you give, you can also send a care package to individuals and communities who you want to support thi...
give.communityin.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This
fascism maintains power by making everyone too scared to fight back but the truth is there's only a few of them and most of the stuff they're threatening is logistically impossibly at scale. they'll make examples and count on that to cow the rest. Not fighting back is the only way to lose though.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This dog cannot sit from a down and it’s the funniest thing. She has to like walk away and come back. I’ve heard of this but never seen it in practice and I feel almost bad. She just cannot grasp the concept of sitting up.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I always get nervous when he takes certain big risks. He called me to personally warn me. As is often the case, he knows what he’s doing. All the respect to @evanurquhart.bsky.social for following his instincts and calling out hypocrisy.
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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It’s long past time that I take responsibility for what I wrote on Israel/Palestine in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR.

& with the Gaza genocide, our thinking about what amends & healing may ever involve is even more urgent.

Even if there may never be “forgiveness” or “atonement.”
Gaza's Annihilation Can Never Be Forgiven
Revisiting On Repentance and Repair
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Take these words and burn them, if you don’t mind.”
September 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s been a pretty intense week here. Check out Val’s latest article.
Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.
The Bullets That Killed Charlie Kirk Were Not Engraved With “Trans Ideology.” But That Won’t Stop the Campaign to Brand Trans People as Violent Monsters.
Now is the time to resist this dangerous strategy, before it’s too late.
slate.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Alabama State, Hampton University, and Virginia State (ALL HBCUs) have received threats. Hampton has canceled classes today AND tomorrow because of threats from white racists to these CHILDREN. Children who have nothing to do with any of this man’s death.

Now Southern University in Louisiana.
September 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Currently analyzing pictures of duckweed and trying to only anxiously refresh the publication homepage every 5 minutes or so…
Sure love writing a story drawing parallels between the right's treatment of transgender people and the German descent into Naziism that was meant to go up yesterday afternoon 🙃
September 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM