Sarah Daniel Rasher

A bunch of new people are following me! That's cool! 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.

you’re damn right

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Look who gets to lounge around listening to The Beatles for another year! Clean bill of health at the vet, mostly behaved herself, hosed down some freeze-dried chicken when she got home.

so cute of them to let ami the biological daughter of kaori be her selfie successor 🥹 #GPFRA #GPFigure ⛸️

Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece

too many guys are bad-weird now, we need more with this kind of good-weird energy

Momo has been practicing her Tiny Human skills this week! #Caturday

I love how the ads for applying to be on Survivor remind me to never do this. "Are you the kind of person who runs toward chaos?" I prefer to watch from a safe distance, Jeff. Preferably with snacks and a sleepy cat.

Reading this is giving me flashbacks of my last convo with her. Sigh.

Harris PhD student Jacob Herbstman has an important working paper: The first I've seen to rigorously quantify the costs of aldermanic prerogative in Chicago. More stringent alders -> reduced permit activity and lower density, which means less housing supply and higher housing costs in Chicago.

Pigeon, who seldom shows interest in music released after 1985, has perked up her ears for the new Beck song, which (1) is the ultimate endorsement of quality and (2) confirms that it's pretty much time-displaced '70s folk.

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

IT IS NOT REMOTELY THE FUCK UNCLEAR

The new bus lane has already attracted a Tesla, much like shit attracts flies.

I don't use Bluesky for work or networking as much as I had expected, but in case any fellow evaluators are looking: I'm at CREA for the week, presenting on neurodiversity at a roundtable this afternoon!

The Little Palestine Project charts an oral history of Chicago's southwest suburbs through treasured possessions. https://bit.ly/4y4Soze

I don't know how people find these random old posts, but sometimes they find a winner. Yesterday someone liked this 2+ year old image and it let me see it again. Look at baby Colin Robinson.

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Chicago was named the best big city in the United States for the 10th straight year. buff.ly/WCaGMgF

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP

There is no reason for Garfield to hate Mondays, as cats don't observe a schedule. The only possible answer is that Garfield deeply loves Jon and is saddened when he has to work.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

I knew I was going to love I Love Boosters, but holy shit, am I the audience for this. Candy-colored bonkers sci-fi surrealism *and* a humanistic, weirdly hopeful exploration of the intersection between race and capitalism.

At the risk of being crass, this is the single greatest bathroom book of all time. Nothing will ever come close

#boktober 001

Spent a delightful morning delivering hard copies of @injusticewatch.org's #CheckYourJudges judicial election guide! You can check out the online version here: 2026retention.injusticewatch.org

Happy #Caturday from two creatures who have not lifted one tiny paw to comfort me on vaccine day. And Momo, who has been guarding me nonstop.

Happy vaccination day to me! I'm looking forward to a Saturday of lying around watching movies while I sweat out my COVID/flu double whammy.

Nancy 9/8/26

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us

It’s fine to live in a bubble, but you can’t then act surprised that things are happening outside of your bubble. You’ve chosen to stop listening to contemporary pop music. That’s fine! You’d probably hate a lot of it! But the world does actually carry on without you.

One of the wonderful things about music in general is that the risk reward ratio is so insanely skewed - three minutes for something that might end up bringing you joy for the rest of your life

Today's small triumph: I resolved my last remaining reason to keep Facebook on my phone and deleted it and Messenger. (Insta has to stay for now, but probably gone by the end of the month.)

can’t even find stores at the mall exclusively dedicated to little pewter dragon statues anymore

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

Heart of Sharkness: a Joseph Conrad adaptation in which Bruce from Finding Nemo goes feral in the Mariana Trench.

SQUIRREL RABBI

Please fill out this @illinoisdot.bsky.social survey about what you need from an IL intercity bus program www.surveymonkey.com/r/2B25XBD

Sometimes the best thing you can do is put everything else on hold for 3 hours and get your hair re-dyed. (Same color; just needs a bleach and refresh.)