Rahel B
@rahelab.bsky.social
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Rahel B
@rahelab.bsky.social
· Jun 9
I have two Bluesky accounts. This one is for occasional personal nonsense, mainly reading fesshole confessions.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
What have I been up to this week? This, at tcworld in Stuttgart.
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What have I been up to this week? This, at tcworld in Stuttgart.
Read the entire thread. This is a post universal experience. How do we get rid of the real undesirables?
I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Read the entire thread. This is a post universal experience. How do we get rid of the real undesirables?
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this is completely correct analysis
The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.
July 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
this is completely correct analysis
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The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views.
Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.
Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views.
Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.
Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.
The Isle of Wight festival is a class act in so many ways. In our 6 am queue-to-queue for parking, they handed out sausage butties. #iow25
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The Isle of Wight festival is a class act in so many ways. In our 6 am queue-to-queue for parking, they handed out sausage butties. #iow25
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I got a new version today! Do you think it’s because you all made fun of his teeth before?
June 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I got a new version today! Do you think it’s because you all made fun of his teeth before?
The 14:50 flight from Graz only took off at the time my connecting flight was supposed to leave Frankfurt. An overnight stay and a 7:00 am flight means getting up at 4 am. I am so soured on air travel right now.
June 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The 14:50 flight from Graz only took off at the time my connecting flight was supposed to leave Frankfurt. An overnight stay and a 7:00 am flight means getting up at 4 am. I am so soured on air travel right now.
I have two Bluesky accounts. This one is for occasional personal nonsense, mainly reading fesshole confessions.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
June 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I have two Bluesky accounts. This one is for occasional personal nonsense, mainly reading fesshole confessions.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
Other account (@rahelbailie.bsk.social) is where I'll be more active, sharing work-related stuff.
You likely want to follow me there, not here.
The comments are poor hold. IYKYK
Said "yes!" when he asked. Then he gave me a license code for Microsoft Project, so we could project manage our wedding. I changed my mind and said "no" as if that's the wedding, afterwards would be worse. No-one deserves a Microsoft Project managed life.
June 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The comments are poor hold. IYKYK
Learned about Italian Brain Rot and have some of these Gen Alpha memes running through my head
en.namu.wiki
May 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Learned about Italian Brain Rot and have some of these Gen Alpha memes running through my head
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I learned some important things from this post alone. 💙💙💙
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
www.wwltv.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I learned some important things from this post alone. 💙💙💙
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If you want to do something to balance out the shitty news from the UK, you could donate toward Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin 2025.
gofund.me/0e350d20
gofund.me/0e350d20
Donate to Help Fund Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin 2025, organized by Ollie Bell
️⚧️️⚧️ TRANS & INTERSEX PRIDE IS BACK!! ️⚧️️⚧️
Trans and Intersex Prid… Ollie Bell needs your support for Help Fund Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin 2025
gofund.me
April 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you want to do something to balance out the shitty news from the UK, you could donate toward Trans & Intersex Pride Dublin 2025.
gofund.me/0e350d20
gofund.me/0e350d20
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What the actual F*CK?!!
Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website
Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website
The Trump administration continues pushing the lab leak theory.
buff.ly
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What the actual F*CK?!!
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Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
April 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
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I'm not sure folks are aware of how extensive the technological surveillance infrastructure has been extending everywhere over the past 25 years. When you couple this with the post-9/11 legal surveillance infrastructure, you have the ingredients for an off-the-shelf police state.
“The proliferation of Waymo cars also means the proliferation of roving surveillance cameras.”
LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
www.404media.co
April 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I'm not sure folks are aware of how extensive the technological surveillance infrastructure has been extending everywhere over the past 25 years. When you couple this with the post-9/11 legal surveillance infrastructure, you have the ingredients for an off-the-shelf police state.
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#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
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he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
April 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.
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An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
April 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.
The FDA's communications and web office were cut.
"The FDA as we know it is gone."
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So maybe in five years, America will see sense and try to overthrow its new dictator in orange.
Keep hope alive
Keep hope alive
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
So maybe in five years, America will see sense and try to overthrow its new dictator in orange.
Keep hope alive
Keep hope alive
@sentimentbot.bsky.social what's my style o bot
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@sentimentbot.bsky.social what's my style o bot
Evidently the Red Bull publication empire in Austria is the equiv of Fox - disinformation about climate change, vaccines, politics, and so on. Now I know.
March 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Evidently the Red Bull publication empire in Austria is the equiv of Fox - disinformation about climate change, vaccines, politics, and so on. Now I know.
What do you expect when order ginger tea? This is what we got.
March 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What do you expect when order ginger tea? This is what we got.
Despite multiple attempts to unsubscribe from @washingtonpost.com, they keep sending me emails, and beg me to subscribe. You can imagine my glee as I shun what has become a Republican propaganda vehicle.
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Despite multiple attempts to unsubscribe from @washingtonpost.com, they keep sending me emails, and beg me to subscribe. You can imagine my glee as I shun what has become a Republican propaganda vehicle.