Sarah Loch (she/her)
@sloch.bsky.social
Gemini Bisexual with ADHD, all over the place. Writer, reader, maker of thingies, recovering librarian. Romance published as Ariel Bishop: books2read.com/ArielBishop
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With Heated Rivalry popping up all over my socials, I guess now is a good time to remind y'all that I have a whole series of m/m (and in one case, m/m/m) hockey romance out there 🧵
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I wasn't going to play the #givingtuesday scrum, but then I thought about all our close allies doing the work in western Alabama and decided to do it for THEM, instead... wawchealth.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/43375...
Can We Introduce You to Our Friends?
wawchealth.dm.networkforgood.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I wasn't going to play the #givingtuesday scrum, but then I thought about all our close allies doing the work in western Alabama and decided to do it for THEM, instead... wawchealth.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/43375...
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If nearly half of your students need accommodations to succeed in your classes, then the problem is the class structure—not the students.
If schools want to refuse to effectively educate so many students, then we’re left wondering if they’re actually invested in education.
If schools want to refuse to effectively educate so many students, then we’re left wondering if they’re actually invested in education.
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If nearly half of your students need accommodations to succeed in your classes, then the problem is the class structure—not the students.
If schools want to refuse to effectively educate so many students, then we’re left wondering if they’re actually invested in education.
If schools want to refuse to effectively educate so many students, then we’re left wondering if they’re actually invested in education.
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I keep seeing random flashes of “NO they’re PETIT BOURGEOISIE” being argued about various arguments, and look, I’m begging you to understand that we have to update our understanding of Marx for a modern economy.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I keep seeing random flashes of “NO they’re PETIT BOURGEOISIE” being argued about various arguments, and look, I’m begging you to understand that we have to update our understanding of Marx for a modern economy.
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We are so cold 💔😢
We live in extremely hard conditions 💔
There is no stable income… and we are struggling every day 😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
Please help us… anything can save us 💔🙏
gofund.me/78aa2a366
We live in extremely hard conditions 💔
There is no stable income… and we are struggling every day 😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
Please help us… anything can save us 💔🙏
gofund.me/78aa2a366
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We are so cold 💔😢
We live in extremely hard conditions 💔
There is no stable income… and we are struggling every day 😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
Please help us… anything can save us 💔🙏
gofund.me/78aa2a366
We live in extremely hard conditions 💔
There is no stable income… and we are struggling every day 😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
We are so cold 💔😢
Please help us… anything can save us 💔🙏
gofund.me/78aa2a366
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A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
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Libraries are really THE place to find out without fcking around all that much tbh
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Libraries are really THE place to find out without fcking around all that much tbh
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Are you a bookseller or reviwer? The Witch of Prague is now available to request on Edelweiss! www.edelweiss.plus?sku=97989994...
Edelweiss+
Edelweiss, by Above the Treeline, is the book industry’s platform to sell, discover, and order new titles.
www.edelweiss.plus
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Are you a bookseller or reviwer? The Witch of Prague is now available to request on Edelweiss! www.edelweiss.plus?sku=97989994...
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Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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MN folk, beware -- ICE is now impersonating Uber drivers, according to Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez in a Facebook post.
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MN folk, beware -- ICE is now impersonating Uber drivers, according to Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez in a Facebook post.
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
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I am so grateful to everyone who has stepped up to help this awesome member of our local SF trans nerd community. I know everything is hard right now but I'd be so incredibly grateful if you could spare a few bucks now.
We are working on helping her get a job, it's just a tough market right now 😭
We are working on helping her get a job, it's just a tough market right now 😭
i should have got this up sooner, but i was ashamed; need to try to raise money for rent again this month and i remain (mostly; might have PT work!) unemployed as we approach year end.
please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am so grateful to everyone who has stepped up to help this awesome member of our local SF trans nerd community. I know everything is hard right now but I'd be so incredibly grateful if you could spare a few bucks now.
We are working on helping her get a job, it's just a tough market right now 😭
We are working on helping her get a job, it's just a tough market right now 😭
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HEMLOCK AND SILVER, by @tkingfisher.com , is currently just 99p for the ebook at Amazon.
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
Hemlock & Silver: A spellbinding Snow White retelling - the instant Sunday Times bestseller
Hemlock & Silver: A spellbinding Snow White retelling - the instant Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Kingfisher, T.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
HEMLOCK AND SILVER, by @tkingfisher.com , is currently just 99p for the ebook at Amazon.
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
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I mean, if people can afford things like housing and medications and food, they *will* spend more money on holiday crap! It seems pretty self explanatory AND YET
I know this is a little hypocritical because I am at work right now in a sector of the Little Treats Industry, but it is far far far more important to me to know if Gen Z can afford things like medications and housing, and less about if they can/want to buy holiday crap.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I mean, if people can afford things like housing and medications and food, they *will* spend more money on holiday crap! It seems pretty self explanatory AND YET
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I am proud of the work we’re doing at TreeFolks. Please support our efforts if you can!
TreeFolks.org/givingtuesday
TreeFolks.org/givingtuesday
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I am proud of the work we’re doing at TreeFolks. Please support our efforts if you can!
TreeFolks.org/givingtuesday
TreeFolks.org/givingtuesday
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If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp
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Franklin the Turtle is braver than Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Franklin the Turtle is braver than Taylor Swift
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“…and 43 percent had no criminal conviction or criminal charge.” The piece underscores: “Of people booked into ICE custody this fiscal year (since October 1, 2025)…[only] 5 percent had a violent criminal conviction.””
Luv to cite @davidjbier.bsky.social in a piece about Sabrina Carpenter
Luv to cite @davidjbier.bsky.social in a piece about Sabrina Carpenter
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“…and 43 percent had no criminal conviction or criminal charge.” The piece underscores: “Of people booked into ICE custody this fiscal year (since October 1, 2025)…[only] 5 percent had a violent criminal conviction.””
Luv to cite @davidjbier.bsky.social in a piece about Sabrina Carpenter
Luv to cite @davidjbier.bsky.social in a piece about Sabrina Carpenter
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This is a terrible story--both because of the trap that was set (either in advance or ret-conned to seize a moment) for this graduate student but also because the student's department failed her. The 1st problem is easy to see, but I want to explain the 2nd one. 1/x
btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is a terrible story--both because of the trap that was set (either in advance or ret-conned to seize a moment) for this graduate student but also because the student's department failed her. The 1st problem is easy to see, but I want to explain the 2nd one. 1/x
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In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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It's December, which means it's time for holiday romance novellas! THE SOLSTICE CABIN is a gay historical romance set in Canada's far north. Ghosts, snow magic, northern lights, and best friends to lovers with mutual pining 🎄❄️
✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It's December, which means it's time for holiday romance novellas! THE SOLSTICE CABIN is a gay historical romance set in Canada's far north. Ghosts, snow magic, northern lights, and best friends to lovers with mutual pining 🎄❄️
✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
✨$2.99 on Amz and KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN6W753D
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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When the war took everything from us, you gave my children a chance to live. Your kindness fed us, warmed us, and kept us standing when we had nothing left. Please… don’t let go of us now. We still rely on your support to survive. 💔🙏
chuffed.org/project/155233
chuffed.org/project/155233
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When the war took everything from us, you gave my children a chance to live. Your kindness fed us, warmed us, and kept us standing when we had nothing left. Please… don’t let go of us now. We still rely on your support to survive. 💔🙏
chuffed.org/project/155233
chuffed.org/project/155233
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"Now that we’ve experienced a global pandemic and various Constitutional crises, maybe it’s time to put dystopian fiction behind us for a little while. This anthology of fiction and nonfiction asks sci-fi authors [...] to write about their vision for “realistic, progressive social change”"
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Now that we’ve experienced a global pandemic and various Constitutional crises, maybe it’s time to put dystopian fiction behind us for a little while. This anthology of fiction and nonfiction asks sci-fi authors [...] to write about their vision for “realistic, progressive social change”"
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Please, I beg you from my heart—Odai’s medications have run out, and we need just $300 to keep his treatment going. His pain grows every day, and we have nothing left to help him. Your support could save him. Please don’t leave us alone in this struggle.
gofund.me/77a751af7
gofund.me/77a751af7
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Please, I beg you from my heart—Odai’s medications have run out, and we need just $300 to keep his treatment going. His pain grows every day, and we have nothing left to help him. Your support could save him. Please don’t leave us alone in this struggle.
gofund.me/77a751af7
gofund.me/77a751af7
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to