Amber Ying 應 緣

#Introduction: Hello! My name is Amber Ying (應 緣) and I am a Taiwanese American non-binary woman living in Greater Boston. I work in biotech but am also a local grassroots organizer. My interests include cats, D&D, neuroscience, keto baking, and tarot! Let’s get to know each other!

At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

Add "between my legs" to a movie title: The Social Reckoning Between My Legs

The PDF version of this zine is FREE. I'm also getting The Heart is a Muscle: 19 Embodiments of Antifascist Grief and Ritual As Resistance: 18 Stories of Defending the Sacred! Dream beyond electoral politics.

Elections always narrow the public imagination so much, even among many leftists. I highly recommend @cbmilstein.bsky.social's collab zine, Our Dreams Don't Fit in Ballot Boxes, for examples of helping people break free from a narrow focus on electoral politics and dare to dream bigger.

MA has a historic number of ballot questions. Here's a handy guide for the 9 statewide ballot questions this year.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

Alex Munday and Dr. Watson

Becca Lewis' thesis "Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online" is our of embargo today! purl.stanford.edu/mn544hj9083

Wondering how historically prevalent is the dehumanization of children. It feels like it's everywhere but l want data!

Happy Intersex Awareness Day 2026! Today is Intersex Awareness Day, and we’re celebrating as we do with books that have intersex rep!... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/10/26/happy-intersex-awareness-day-2026/

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

Block, Don't Mock. Mockery is engagement.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

Good morning Bluesky This here is a phenomenal thread [btw, I know some people think it's OK if the ages are similar (e.g., a 30-year old assistant prof dates his 27-year old grad student) but IMHO that's not OK because there's a power imbalance & they are YOUR STUDENTS, NOT YOUR DATING POOL]

While protests in France have claimed most international attention, large demonstrations also rocked many European cities Saturday from Milan to Rome to Madrid, Lisbon and Tirana. n.pr/4dZqptI

This seems like a big deal

Spouse has a cough and I got him the good shit, aka loquat syrup.

Talia would know better than I, but the idea of either queerness or queerphobia as a 'western imposition' smacks of western supremacy, as if colonisers are the only people who could invent either queerness or bigotry and that the colonised have no power to define themselves or their own actions.

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Medicine. Yes, medical professionals can still be dodgy, but the people working on medical advancements are amazing. We now have mRNA vaccines for cancer relapse prevention, as well as tech to program someone's own immune system to attack their cancers. PrEP? AMAZING. CRISPR? ALSO AMAZING.

This is why virtue signaling (laudatory) is important!

Watched The Love Hypothesis and by that I mean I made it to the title card and then immediately turned it off because “lab bathrooms” where you dump regeants down the drain do not exist.

He’s on Mastodon and he reacted like this

time is catching up to me

Hey Somerville... Guess what?  WE BOUGHT THE BUILDING. The Somerville Theatre now belongs to the people who run it. Buying it was our leap of faith. Supporting it is where you come in. Find how you can help: somervilletheatre.com/future

briefly cumming

Fun fact: If you are going through SSRI withdrawI (like l am) drinking super concentrated ginger tea helps a lot.

Markets are so weird.