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Tante Sarah: Everybody's Yiddishe Aunt
@sarahemc2.bsky.social
Writer, professor (creative writing with a focus on Narrative Design and CNF). Proud Jew and equally proud Hillbilly.

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Welcome new followers. A word of warning: if you followed me because I'm an old and serious lefty (which I am), you should also know I'm a Jew who believes that all people in the region--Isrealis, Palestinians, Arabs, Druze, Bedouins, etc.--deserve security and self-determination.
Od Lo Avdah Tikvatenu

If we lose hope, we lose everything. I still believe we can save liberal democracy in the US, in spite of all the horrors.
Od Lo Avdah Tikvatenu
Our Hope is not Lost
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April 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. I'm asking you to remember that the Shoah wasn't an isolated moment, but a horrible escalation of an ongoing system of expulsions, pogroms, exploitation, and mass murders that begins with is ongoing today.
January 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This shook me and I didn't think I had any shakes left this week:
OK WELL SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT EMRYOS

Here's a story about my children who, in spite of the fact they were born two years apart, are CONVINCED they're twins

They came to me, with their evidence & I, thinking scientists would laugh with me, tweeted about it

It did not go how I thought it would
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Oh thank goodness.
ICYMI: We can love The Village People again. The real village ppl are not performing for the felon. Check it oot 👇🏻👇🏿👇👇🏼👇🏾🥳
January 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהוה, אֱהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעלָם, מַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים

Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech Ha'olam. Matir Asurim

Blessed are you Adonai our God, ruler of the universe, who
frees the captive.

May there soon be peace, security, and self-determination for all.
January 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Apparently, throwing up from relief and joy is a thing.
January 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Notes from a disturbing moment at “Cabaret” on Broadway last night, as Adam Lambert had to force the audience to confront its apparent disrespect around antisemitism…this production of the show left me in a dark place. Grateful Adam forced others to sit in that head space. #NeverForget #TheaterSKY
January 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Uhm... I have to learn to play League of Legends (for reasons) and I am not getting the appeal? It's like all the parts of MMOs that I hate with all the parts I like shunted off to other media?
January 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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breaking: residents of dresden "very upset" after "unprecedented" allied bombing campaign. one man, who identified himself as a "concentration camp guard" said, "i have never seen such violence in my life. what have i done to deserve this?"
January 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Opinions are a dime a dozen. That’s why I like data and research. And there are some glaring data and research issues with this article. 1/N🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...
How the Democrats Lost the Working Class
The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind.
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Got fancy under-eye puffiness/dark circle reducing thingamabobs for Hanukkah and decided to give them a go today. Really pissed that they work. I'm absolutely never going to pay actual $ for these, so now I have to spend the rest of my life knowing it's my own damn fault I look tired all the time.
January 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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If you've enjoyed Cryptmaster, please consider sharing the news. Despite an IGF award, a 95% Steam rating and a free demo, the game has gone mostly unnoticed by both press and players. It's not just a typing game and there may still be people out there who would enjoy it!
January 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I've now left my third activist network because members got obsessed with Vatnik bullshit and all real work ground to a halt. We are not, as a species, smart enough to survive the technologies we've built.
January 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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So. I hear you got a giftcard and you don't know what to do with it. My rabbit and I have a suggestion.
You *could* preorder WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. It'll help keep Mochi in treats and bows.
Bonus: It's pretty good and about many of the things you're worried about.
tinyurl.com/456y7s33
December 26, 2024 at 9:25 PM
JFC. If Trump appoints Dershowitz as the antisemitism czar (two words that should never go together in that way), it's more proof that his administration is hideously corrupt but it says nothing about the Jewish people. I guaran-damn-tee you we are more unhappy about this than any gentile.
December 23, 2024 at 3:37 PM
It's emblematic of this time that an author writing about the Shoah, descendant of the author of one of it's legal justifications, uses her platform to literally spread blood libel. I'm grateful to Emily Kaplan for researched response, and not surprised @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social hasn't responded.
An open letter to Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social).

(1/🧵)
December 18, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Do you have a Steam account? They are currently selling a game in which the player reenacts the horrors of Oct. 7th. Join me in filing a ticket insisting this game be removed. store.steampowered.com/app/1714420/...
Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Steam
FPS/TPS Game which addresses the Israel x Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective. The Palestinian Max Payne on Steroids. Most BASED game of all times!!!
store.steampowered.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Fuck I think we totally forgot that part in Dune Pt. 2 about not falling for charismatic violent folk heroes fueled by vengeance who look like Timothee Chalamet in a hoodie
December 9, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Currently making alligator gumbo because we are having company for dinner and I'm not a great cook, so I have to make things people don't eat often so I can say, "It's supposed to taste like that."
December 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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A tale as old as time: Random woman becomes internet famous for describing sex act -> uses fame to execute seeming crypto scam -> Jews blamed
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?

#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.

People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!

Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
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December 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Announcing new projects is one of my favorite things to do. Forest Avenue, my press, just acquired PURGATOIRE, a novel, by @lizprato.bsky.social. It's historical fiction, with some magic--my favorite blend of genres!--and it's set in Colorado. Publication spring 2026. #writingcommunity
December 3, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Tante Sarah's Reminder of the Day: doing something which makes a concrete (if small) difference is the best defense against despair. Some cheap(ish) things you could do today:
*donate period products to a DV or homeless shelter
*donate pull-top cans of tuna or chicken to a food pantry
*eat the rich
December 4, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Tante Sarah's Reminder of the Day: it's vaccine season. Get 'em if you haven't.
December 4, 2024 at 12:18 AM