Sam W

Every time I turn around, I see articles about setting boundaries 'without burning bridges.' What if the other person is the one who lit the fire? Should we have to burn ourselves to keep a relationship that hurts? I say no. Let me explain why. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

I'm super excited for Samhain! Anyone else planning to celebrate? Got any fun ideas to share? Hit me! #pagan #witches #October #Halloween #spooky

My husband will soon be an immigrant. But since he's white, his treatment will probably be better than others. The system is not set up to be fair. medium.com/cultured-net...

My husband will soon be an immigrant. But since he's white, his treatment will probably be better than others. The system is not set up to be fair. medium.com/cultured-net...

Training season’s over. Time to win. November 3rd, we’re coming.

Feminists don't want men to stop being manly. We just don't want that manliness to hurt you anymore. Or us. Or your kids. Or your friends. We want to see healthy masculinity, expressed in healthy ways. #men #mentalhealth medium.com/cultured-net...

“Could you pls clarify your statement that could literally not be any clearer?” 🤷🏼‍♀️🙃

Man, I don't remember if I totally nuked my Twitter account or just abandoned it, but I haven't touched it in years. It's just a cesspool of mindless Nazi zombies sharing braindead far right political memes and drooling about 'free speech.'

If so, now is the perfect time to gain ground without them turning up. Everybody spam the hell out of the Republicans and your representatives and make their real constituents' stances clear! They can't hide behind fake support, so smash them with the truth. It'll be cathartic if nothing else.

Genocides follow a predictable blueprint. It's a pattern we can learn to recognize, beginning with Othering and stochastic terrorism, and ending with atrocities that cannot be undone. It can't be undone, but once the pattern becomes clear, it can be stopped. medium.com/cultured-net...

One of my followers decided to share this around, and it drove me to go back and re-read it. It's been a while since I thought back to my sleep paralysis episodes. My personal demon was a real dick. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

Seems bad that one of the innovations of this century is “lazier Nazis”

The Clancy trial, and now the Cornell 57 and the response from so many men. They don't see women as equal human beings, and it fucking shows. medium.com/@SamWorld-We...

This should alarm every American. Trump is shutting out independent election observers while preparing to send his own DOJ monitors to polling places. That's a page out of Putin's playbook. Our elections belong to the people — not Donald Trump.

This is basically what it felt like to leave Twitter for Bluesky. Still love it here. Y'all are my kind of weirdos.

Little every day acts of resistance might seem like a drop in the bucket. One drop does nothing. But with a million drops, the bucket will overflow. medium.com/@SamWorld-We...

Went shopping for Yule gifts for my spouse. While I was picking up some bits and bobs from the bookstore -we both love to read, it's an easy shopping place to hit first- I happened upon the spooky season shelf. And a beautiful copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've never read it. This should be fun!

Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

So, a possible pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Not at ALL fucking terrifying given who is running the healthcare system in the most powerful nation on Earth. Cool.

When rape is excused, when one woman's crime is used to justify calling for all women to lose the right to vote, when LGBTQ+ people are demonized, you know what's happening. We're witnessing a coordinated assault on our basic liberties. Pay attention and don't comply. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

As we enter the final month before the midterms, don't get cocky. If anything, it's time to ramp up the work and pour it on. Check your registration. Vote early. Push your friends and family too. Look for local places to help out. Phone bank and write postcards. Volunteer for Election Day.

With data centers having such a vast footprint, can anyone explain to me why they can't generate and store their own electricity?

Something a little different today. We're now in the month of October, and my favourite holiday is swiftly approaching. For my fellow pagans and practitioners, this one goes out to you! #witch #pagan #october #halloween medium.com/weeds-wildfl...

When rape is excused, when one woman's crime is used to justify calling for all women to lose the right to vote, when LGBTQ+ people are demonized, you know what's happening. We're witnessing a coordinated assault on our basic liberties. Pay attention and don't comply. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

Red alert, Canadians. Don Jr. is getting involved in our defense manufacturing. Kick him the FUCK out! www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/tec...

Voter suppression is the right-wing's favourite tactic. Don't let them use it to beat you down. Do your research, know your rights, and fight for democracy. Help your fellow citizens vote in the Midterms. Fuck Trump. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.

Looking at recent headlines about how normalized sexual assault is in modern society infuriates me. The Cornell Seven are just one example of a recent incident where dozens of men saw something horrible and either participated or chose not to stop it. Choose the bear. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

Elbows up! Solidarity wins! medium.com/bouncin-and-...

ICE-Gestapo killers shot and injured a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas whilst he was doing his job. I’ll say it again, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists.

Love the solidarity among g the WH press pool. 1st Amendment is above politics.

Elbows up! Solidarity wins! medium.com/bouncin-and-...

The Republicans claim that their 'family values' exist to protect kids. Instead, they reduce children from individual humans to the property of their parents. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

When will this stop? How long will these people have to endure such mistreatment?

For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

The Republicans claim that their 'family values' exist to protect kids. Instead, they reduce children from individual humans to the property of their parents. medium.com/bouncin-and-...

I will never go into debt for emergency medical care in Canada. That peace of mind is worth more than whatever it costs me in tax dollars. medium.com/@SamWorld-We...

"I loved working at that coffee shop. But it didn't treat me right." medium.com/bouncin-and-...

the extent to which trans people are being told that they should hold their noses and support candidates who are saying they don’t exist (as Talarico said about nonbinary people earlier this week, for ex) or that their identity and HEALTHCARE are up for debate is shameful

This is what bigotry does. And we fucking knew it would; the bigots NEVER talk about trans men, only trans women, and this is what allies have been pointing out for years! There's no way for transgender people to win in this scenario.

Genital exams??? I would have never played a single sport. This isn’t reasonable stuff and thats great for them! Making sports suck for girls helps them in their other goals of getting women out of public life and reestablishing their preferred men on top.

I would have gone out and found like an 8th generation Texan family who had an adult trans kid who fled Texas and cut an ad with them going "i voted the way i did to keep this texas family together, but Ken Paxton drove them apart. When the government reaches into the home, I begin to question it."

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.