Sarah Daniel Rasher
@rasher.bsky.social
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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I'm transmasc and nonbinary. I have ADHD, heavy on the H. I post about music, fancy sports, and my cats. I have been extremely online for 30 years.
I work in education research. Government funding is good, actually.
I'm transmasc and nonbinary. I have ADHD, heavy on the H. I post about music, fancy sports, and my cats. I have been extremely online for 30 years.
I work in education research. Government funding is good, actually.
Day 46: Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror (2025, USA, NK❌)
Uncharacteristically straightforward country-tinged rock, until you realize it's an elaborate camp fake-out. #TheTwen2ie5
Uncharacteristically straightforward country-tinged rock, until you realize it's an elaborate camp fake-out. #TheTwen2ie5
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Day 46: Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror (2025, USA, NK❌)
Uncharacteristically straightforward country-tinged rock, until you realize it's an elaborate camp fake-out. #TheTwen2ie5
Uncharacteristically straightforward country-tinged rock, until you realize it's an elaborate camp fake-out. #TheTwen2ie5
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All you need to know about Chicago is this: we put our literal shit into the Chicago River, which flowed into Lake Michigan, which is where we got our drinking water, and where a lesser city would’ve said “let’s stop throwing our shit into the river” we reversed the flow of the goddamn river instead
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
All you need to know about Chicago is this: we put our literal shit into the Chicago River, which flowed into Lake Michigan, which is where we got our drinking water, and where a lesser city would’ve said “let’s stop throwing our shit into the river” we reversed the flow of the goddamn river instead
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It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
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OH MY GD???????!!!!!!!!
"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
www.nyc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
OH MY GD???????!!!!!!!!
Day 20: Radiohead - Karma Police
#20SongsByYear 1997
OK Computer defined 1997 for me. I got into it the way you can only get into music as a teenager, listening on repeat, feeling every note in my bones.
#20SongsByYear 1997
OK Computer defined 1997 for me. I got into it the way you can only get into music as a teenager, listening on repeat, feeling every note in my bones.
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Day 20: Radiohead - Karma Police
#20SongsByYear 1997
OK Computer defined 1997 for me. I got into it the way you can only get into music as a teenager, listening on repeat, feeling every note in my bones.
#20SongsByYear 1997
OK Computer defined 1997 for me. I got into it the way you can only get into music as a teenager, listening on repeat, feeling every note in my bones.
Day 45: Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up (2024, USA, NK✅)
It's no surprise that other track from GNX still gets most of the attention, but this is the better song. A victory lap with a vision of unity nestled in densely imagistic lyrics, flowing between rhythmic motifs. #TheTwen2ie5
It's no surprise that other track from GNX still gets most of the attention, but this is the better song. A victory lap with a vision of unity nestled in densely imagistic lyrics, flowing between rhythmic motifs. #TheTwen2ie5
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Day 45: Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up (2024, USA, NK✅)
It's no surprise that other track from GNX still gets most of the attention, but this is the better song. A victory lap with a vision of unity nestled in densely imagistic lyrics, flowing between rhythmic motifs. #TheTwen2ie5
It's no surprise that other track from GNX still gets most of the attention, but this is the better song. A victory lap with a vision of unity nestled in densely imagistic lyrics, flowing between rhythmic motifs. #TheTwen2ie5
Day 19: The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase - Mo Money, Mo Problems
#20SongsByYear 1997
You couldn't walk down a city street in the summer of 1997 without hearing this thump from someone's car stereo.
#20SongsByYear 1997
You couldn't walk down a city street in the summer of 1997 without hearing this thump from someone's car stereo.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Day 19: The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase - Mo Money, Mo Problems
#20SongsByYear 1997
You couldn't walk down a city street in the summer of 1997 without hearing this thump from someone's car stereo.
#20SongsByYear 1997
You couldn't walk down a city street in the summer of 1997 without hearing this thump from someone's car stereo.
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"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
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Reminder for holiday shopping: When you buy from indie artists / small biz, you DIRECTLY pay the bills and put food on the table for creative people, and we appreciate every purchase.
Add the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to sell and shop direct from the Bluesky community: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Add the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to sell and shop direct from the Bluesky community: bsky.app/profile/davi...
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reminder for holiday shopping: When you buy from indie artists / small biz, you DIRECTLY pay the bills and put food on the table for creative people, and we appreciate every purchase.
Add the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to sell and shop direct from the Bluesky community: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Add the #BlueskyNightMarket feed to sell and shop direct from the Bluesky community: bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Happy 4th birthday to the Red-Purple Bypass! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Happy 4th birthday to the Red-Purple Bypass! 🎉
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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laughing again because during a quiz there was a question about a famous pirate and I said to my friend just name any pirate and he panicked and said long bon jovi
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
laughing again because during a quiz there was a question about a famous pirate and I said to my friend just name any pirate and he panicked and said long bon jovi
Day 44: Megan Thee Stallion - Bigger in Texas (2024, USA, NK✅)
Megan might be the most agile wordsmith in the game right now. Syncopation and slant rhymes over a minimalist sample, with a rapped-through chorus that's all swagger. #TheTwen2ie5
Megan might be the most agile wordsmith in the game right now. Syncopation and slant rhymes over a minimalist sample, with a rapped-through chorus that's all swagger. #TheTwen2ie5
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Day 44: Megan Thee Stallion - Bigger in Texas (2024, USA, NK✅)
Megan might be the most agile wordsmith in the game right now. Syncopation and slant rhymes over a minimalist sample, with a rapped-through chorus that's all swagger. #TheTwen2ie5
Megan might be the most agile wordsmith in the game right now. Syncopation and slant rhymes over a minimalist sample, with a rapped-through chorus that's all swagger. #TheTwen2ie5
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
Day 18: Björk - Bachelorette
#20SongsByYear 1997
We realized at the time that Homogenic was a great album, but it's so meticulous and bold, so sui generis, that it sounds better as it ages.
#20SongsByYear 1997
We realized at the time that Homogenic was a great album, but it's so meticulous and bold, so sui generis, that it sounds better as it ages.
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Day 18: Björk - Bachelorette
#20SongsByYear 1997
We realized at the time that Homogenic was a great album, but it's so meticulous and bold, so sui generis, that it sounds better as it ages.
#20SongsByYear 1997
We realized at the time that Homogenic was a great album, but it's so meticulous and bold, so sui generis, that it sounds better as it ages.
Day 43: Bartees Strange - Sober (2024, USA, NK✅)
I've had the guitar riff from this theatrical rock song in my head since the first time I heard it. *11 POINT BONUS* #TheTwen2ie5
I've had the guitar riff from this theatrical rock song in my head since the first time I heard it. *11 POINT BONUS* #TheTwen2ie5
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Day 43: Bartees Strange - Sober (2024, USA, NK✅)
I've had the guitar riff from this theatrical rock song in my head since the first time I heard it. *11 POINT BONUS* #TheTwen2ie5
I've had the guitar riff from this theatrical rock song in my head since the first time I heard it. *11 POINT BONUS* #TheTwen2ie5
Skipping the 20 songs game for tonight so I'll end a day late. My excuse: took my mom to see Patti Smith play Horses in its entirety, and now I don't want to listen to anything else.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Skipping the 20 songs game for tonight so I'll end a day late. My excuse: took my mom to see Patti Smith play Horses in its entirety, and now I don't want to listen to anything else.
Day 42: Soccer Mommy - Lost (2024, USA, NK✅)
Evocative lyrics about resolving feelings around a dead parent. Structured like loud-quiet-loud 90s indie rock, but wistful and soothing as it swells and pulls back. #TheTwen2ie5
Evocative lyrics about resolving feelings around a dead parent. Structured like loud-quiet-loud 90s indie rock, but wistful and soothing as it swells and pulls back. #TheTwen2ie5
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Day 42: Soccer Mommy - Lost (2024, USA, NK✅)
Evocative lyrics about resolving feelings around a dead parent. Structured like loud-quiet-loud 90s indie rock, but wistful and soothing as it swells and pulls back. #TheTwen2ie5
Evocative lyrics about resolving feelings around a dead parent. Structured like loud-quiet-loud 90s indie rock, but wistful and soothing as it swells and pulls back. #TheTwen2ie5
Day 17: Pavement - Date w/ IKEA
#20SongsByYear 1997
My favorite song on Brighten the Corners is one of the few not by Stephen Malkmus but Scott Kannberg, who yowls the semi-nonsensical lyrics over some of the band's most accessible riffs.
#20SongsByYear 1997
My favorite song on Brighten the Corners is one of the few not by Stephen Malkmus but Scott Kannberg, who yowls the semi-nonsensical lyrics over some of the band's most accessible riffs.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Day 17: Pavement - Date w/ IKEA
#20SongsByYear 1997
My favorite song on Brighten the Corners is one of the few not by Stephen Malkmus but Scott Kannberg, who yowls the semi-nonsensical lyrics over some of the band's most accessible riffs.
#20SongsByYear 1997
My favorite song on Brighten the Corners is one of the few not by Stephen Malkmus but Scott Kannberg, who yowls the semi-nonsensical lyrics over some of the band's most accessible riffs.
Day 41: Lucy Patané - Glitter Negro (2024, Argentina, NK✅)
Patané takes us to the lesbian club in Hell with a stomping bass line and a long, crunching guitar outro. #TheTwen2ie5
Patané takes us to the lesbian club in Hell with a stomping bass line and a long, crunching guitar outro. #TheTwen2ie5
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Day 41: Lucy Patané - Glitter Negro (2024, Argentina, NK✅)
Patané takes us to the lesbian club in Hell with a stomping bass line and a long, crunching guitar outro. #TheTwen2ie5
Patané takes us to the lesbian club in Hell with a stomping bass line and a long, crunching guitar outro. #TheTwen2ie5
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This beautiful group of people came together at Skate America to show their solidarity with trans figure skaters harmed by the new US figure skating policy and to protest the bigoted and dehumanizing attacks on trans people in our communities.
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This beautiful group of people came together at Skate America to show their solidarity with trans figure skaters harmed by the new US figure skating policy and to protest the bigoted and dehumanizing attacks on trans people in our communities.
Day 16: Jay Z feat. Blackstreet - The City Is Mine
#20SongsByYear 1997
One of Jay Z's best rap performances, making a whole meal out of the emotionally conflicted rhymes. Some critics have ragged on what he and Blackstreet do with the "You Belong to the City," but I think it's brilliant.
#20SongsByYear 1997
One of Jay Z's best rap performances, making a whole meal out of the emotionally conflicted rhymes. Some critics have ragged on what he and Blackstreet do with the "You Belong to the City," but I think it's brilliant.
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Day 16: Jay Z feat. Blackstreet - The City Is Mine
#20SongsByYear 1997
One of Jay Z's best rap performances, making a whole meal out of the emotionally conflicted rhymes. Some critics have ragged on what he and Blackstreet do with the "You Belong to the City," but I think it's brilliant.
#20SongsByYear 1997
One of Jay Z's best rap performances, making a whole meal out of the emotionally conflicted rhymes. Some critics have ragged on what he and Blackstreet do with the "You Belong to the City," but I think it's brilliant.
Vladimir Litvintsev has terrible form and iffy skating skills, but those jumps were on tonight. And his choreographic sequence was the most fun we'll have in this dumpster fire of a men's event. #SkateAmerica
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Vladimir Litvintsev has terrible form and iffy skating skills, but those jumps were on tonight. And his choreographic sequence was the most fun we'll have in this dumpster fire of a men's event. #SkateAmerica
Just in time for the #SkateAmerica #GPFigure women's SP: Dead Drop gin, pomegranate liqueur, lime & clementine juices, club soda, lime garnish. (This will be the least drunk post in this thread.)
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just in time for the #SkateAmerica #GPFigure women's SP: Dead Drop gin, pomegranate liqueur, lime & clementine juices, club soda, lime garnish. (This will be the least drunk post in this thread.)
No photo because it just looks like a glass of cola, but my #SkateAmerica pairs FS beverage is Maker's & Pepsi with a splash of Fernet Branca, a Luxardo cherry, and a big lime wedge.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
No photo because it just looks like a glass of cola, but my #SkateAmerica pairs FS beverage is Maker's & Pepsi with a splash of Fernet Branca, a Luxardo cherry, and a big lime wedge.