Sarah MacTavish
@sarahmactavish.bsky.social
Author, wandering librarian, exhausted (she/her)
All I want for Christmas is a way to search my brushes in Adobe Fresco.
December 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
All I want for Christmas is a way to search my brushes in Adobe Fresco.
Just canceled my subscription
Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just canceled my subscription
This week has been rough, but today I dragged myself out of the house to go renew my library card, so I'm feeling pretty good right now.
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This week has been rough, but today I dragged myself out of the house to go renew my library card, so I'm feeling pretty good right now.
Forced myself to watch a few clips of the Christian Nationalist rally from Sunday... that was some of the most Satanic shit I've ever seen.
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Forced myself to watch a few clips of the Christian Nationalist rally from Sunday... that was some of the most Satanic shit I've ever seen.
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The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
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Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports
Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
variety.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.
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ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
🚨 HELLO folks who care about science, health, and kids 🚨
👋 Can I borrow you for a sec? Public comment for ACIP meeting opened today and there are only THREE entries 😳
Can you add your input? Ok to do anon. Brief comments fine - deadline Sept 13. Please share! ❤️⤵️
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
👋 Can I borrow you for a sec? Public comment for ACIP meeting opened today and there are only THREE entries 😳
Can you add your input? Ok to do anon. Brief comments fine - deadline Sept 13. Please share! ❤️⤵️
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
September 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
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I asked ChatGPT What You Did Last Summer It Told Me to Kill Myself and Also a Village Has No Water Now
I Read A Conspiracy Theory On Reddit About What You Did Last Summer
I Have Strong Suspicions But No Concrete Evidence About What You Did Last Summer
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I asked ChatGPT What You Did Last Summer It Told Me to Kill Myself and Also a Village Has No Water Now
Oh HELL no 🤬
Tarrant County commissioners consider cutting more than 100 election day voting sites
Tarrant County commissioners consider cutting more than 100 election day voting sites
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fortworthreport.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Oh HELL no 🤬
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New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
August 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.
Texas Democrats responding to Abbott’s stupid threats with “Come and take it” might be the only time I’ve ever heard that phrase and been proud to be a Texan.
August 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Texas Democrats responding to Abbott’s stupid threats with “Come and take it” might be the only time I’ve ever heard that phrase and been proud to be a Texan.
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Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.
July 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.
Boycott the city of Keller
Keller, TX mayor Armin Mizani announced today that the city plans to force local PD into being de facto ICE agents. #tarrantcounty #dfw #texas #dallas #immigration
July 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Boycott the city of Keller
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This .. make AI to expensive and liable to be used with impropriety and then fund and manage suing them when its fails
They should WANT this because it would prove that they had responsibility
They should WANT this because it would prove that they had responsibility
July 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This .. make AI to expensive and liable to be used with impropriety and then fund and manage suing them when its fails
They should WANT this because it would prove that they had responsibility
They should WANT this because it would prove that they had responsibility
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Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.
Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children and counselors at a camp. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
@nytimes.com Your Strands today is really fucking insensitive, shame on you.
July 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
@nytimes.com Your Strands today is really fucking insensitive, shame on you.
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Whatever you believe, say a prayer for the camp I went to growing up. Massive flooding in Kerr County, Texas. Several cabins at Mystic apparently were swept away. Last count was 23 missing. The youngest cabins - 8 and 9 year old girls. I've been sick to my stomach all day.
July 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Whatever you believe, say a prayer for the camp I went to growing up. Massive flooding in Kerr County, Texas. Several cabins at Mystic apparently were swept away. Last count was 23 missing. The youngest cabins - 8 and 9 year old girls. I've been sick to my stomach all day.
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Absolutely devastating. Please pray for these girls.
DEVELOPING: Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp, has confirmed some campers safe, but others remain unaccounted for after devastating floods in Kerr County
www.chron.com/news/article...
www.chron.com/news/article...
Texas girls' camp issues desperate plea amid devastating floods
"Pray for us."
www.chron.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Absolutely devastating. Please pray for these girls.
Hood County Texas constable literally calling for violence on Facebook on 6/27/25:
June 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hood County Texas constable literally calling for violence on Facebook on 6/27/25:
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How hateful do you have to be to ignite the ire of other MAGAs? Tarrant County TX GOP chair Bo French just found out. #fortworth #dallas #dfw #texas
June 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
How hateful do you have to be to ignite the ire of other MAGAs? Tarrant County TX GOP chair Bo French just found out. #fortworth #dallas #dfw #texas
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A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses.
Migrant family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids | CNN
A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administra...
www.cnn.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration’s policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses.
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I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.
June 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.
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right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.
when you’re so racist you don’t let your workers have a day off for a holiday recognizing the end of slavery
June 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.