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Sandy Ernest Allen
@sandyernestallen.bsky.social
author & journalist, covering mental health/gender. trans guy. tired.
📝: Believer, Eater, Esquire, The Cut, TAL, 99PI ...
📖: akomp.info (Scribner)
https://whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/
https://www.sandyernestallen.com
https://linktr.ee/hellosandyallen
went great ...
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My look today is sorta Jedi in mourning ...

(had already dressed thus before learning this latest news ...)
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I've grown extremely tired of sending this message, one by one ... oh, every day ... doesn't matter how much I label my substack itself as a ghost ship ... somebody new is always following over there, which irritates me endlessly ...
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
every day i unsubscribe from a few more ... just feels good
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Anyway in light of *gestures at everything* this ... search result for his book, sure made me LOL ...
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
pre-T but ... sharing anyway. how fucking genuine is *that* enthusiasm ...
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
other photo of that book in my phone are like, here was me seeing my own book at a bookstore airport (SFO in particular) ... two years prior ... feb 1, 2018 ...
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
took this photo in feb 2020, two years later lol
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
my favorite online community are probably nuts.com reviewers
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
just saw this and genuinely laughed

substack's such a joke as THIS encapsulates oh so well ...
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Who Taught You Capitalization Senator
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
genuinely forgot how magic the end of this one was, until covering it just now. it's no shock the one i'm best at ...
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
goddamn poetry
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Again, I shared my own story some towards the end of my magnum opus here ... Suicide is relevant to a discussion of ECT because ECT presently gets sold to patients and their families (and providers) as a treatment of last resort for, e.g. suicidal patients ... www.thebeliever.net/a-brilliant-...
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As those who've read my piece will already know, this is really a piece about these dynamics — between the public and those labeled with severe psychiatric disorders and others seeking mental health care ... and the medical regulators who've absolutely neglected to do their jobs for decades ...
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I reported about ECT / electroshock for ~7 years not because it was fun or pleasant but because it's but one *stark example* of how broken this all is — and the impact this has upon people who do seek and I'd argue deserve much better "mental health care" ...

www.thebeliever.net/a-brilliant-...
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
just to say this ... those newsletters who haven't bothered yet ... everyday I personally unsubscribe from a few more ... and each time substack does its annoying "one more email to tell you you're gone" LOL ... anyway.

if you haven't yet moved your newsletter off of substack ... 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
periodic reminder if you're annoying in my replies, i'll block you immediately. just too tired to deal.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Also I bought a mug, because the mug demanded it ...
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What's Helping Today: My friend fixing my broken drawer yesterday — this was truly big for me. Also I got a haircut and a beard trim ...
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
this is what I'm TALKING ABOUT ... just love to see him, doing the good work as ever. i knocked on doors with / for him in chicago during his first campaign. and he lost first time around, narrowly, came back and won. he's since been a committed progressive fighting for his community. is my hero etc
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
friend of mine said this the other day ... his lips to gods ears ...
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
this is embarrassing for pitchfork imo
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Me, LOL ...
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
look at it, it's just so gorgeous

(truly they don't make songs like this anymore, literally; it's structured like an old fashioned pop song pre 60s or whatever, chorus first)
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM