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I've worked on crewed orbital launch vehicles, AAA games, game consoles, and telescopes looking for dark matter. Come find me on twitch to AMA: http://twitch.tv/raechelmaelstrom
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submitted 75 days ago • 272 comments

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

submitted 84 days ago • 219 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 89 days ago • 539 comments

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban. Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

submitted 90 days ago • 76 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. This action violates the Constitution.

submitted 90 days ago • 115 comments

Trump Worried Day Working At McDonald’s Will Screw Up Taxes theonion.com/trump-worrie...

submitted 94 days ago • 52 comments

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

submitted 95 days ago • 41 comments

@warren.senate.gov we need you to use cameras and physical bodies. No secrets. Schumer is weak. You, @sanders.senate.gov , @aoc.bsky.social and @jasmineforus.bsky.social along with an honorable mention for my home state dudes @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social need to band together

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

That kid Edward almost looks somehow a more punchable version of Jack Doherty. Good luck getting another job after this one kids. I'd never hire any of you, and my reason is a reasonable one: you can not be trusted.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 96 days ago • 195 comments

The recent anti-LGBTQ+ measures signed by @POTUS are discriminatory and cruel.   Executive actions cannot override the constitution, federal law, and medical best practices.   I will continue to work with my @equality.house.gov colleagues to fight these attacks on our fellow Americans.

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 97 days ago • 587 comments

Momentum Canada has a petition calling on the GoC to recognize that the US is no longer a "safe third country", to update travel guidance to the US and create a clear and accessible pathway for trans refugees. Please join me in signing. #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 98 days ago • 38 comments

Watching CNN and all they want to talk about are plane crashes. I get it, if it bleeds it leads, but these crashes may affect thousands or tends of thousands of people, but what about news about our damn government that affects 300 million people? Stuck to a small bottom ticker.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

There's doom scrolling, and then there's what's happening to our government. I remember watching January 6th happen live on CNN, and that was revolting. Where's the rest of the government to put any check or balance on anything going on right now? It's a coup happening right now before us.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE must have bad intentions

submitted 98 days ago • 28 comments

The peace corps is telling trans members that they must detransition or get out. www.reddit.com/r/peacecorps...

submitted 97 days ago • 60 comments

Federal Government Employees are being locked out of their own computers and processes, including the US Treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Current earworm: The cover of "Happy days are here again" played in the background of M*A*S*H (which is actually partially in Japanese, not Korean, despite being set in Korea). Obviously, happy days are not here again.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I want to give a big shoutout to all my friends who get paid from the NSF. There have always been interruptions in funding, but normally the organizations have some buffer, and get back paid. I'm not sure it's going to happen this time. This could stop work on any number of observatories.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

#Resisters @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social @mcgeetar.bsky.social @kissmyirish.bsky.social @abe8311.bsky.social @muttzr8.bsky.social @laidbakmac.bsky.social @paladin4justmercy.bsky.social @barrie27.bsky.social @linkkat.bsky.social @kurtis-linn6.bsky.social @warriormegsie.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 239 comments

Great news. A transgender woman will NOT be transferred to a men's prison facility and forcibly detransitioned, at least for now. Trump administration has been enjoined from doing so by a judge. First win in court, as the case continues.

submitted 98 days ago • 49 comments

Going to the bathroom of my choice is a way for me to exercise my 1st amendment right to free speech and my right to assemble, and my right to protest. It's me pissing off the feds by pissing on the feds. Bring it on you federal losers.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Just released memorandum from OPM: Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people. It will go into effect on the 31st. It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency. This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.

submitted 99 days ago • 213 comments

When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we'll see No, I won't be afraid Oh, I won't be afraid Just as long as you stand Stand by me

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Trans rights aren't politics, they're rights. Don't get the two confused.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/... Just reading all of this is heartbreaking. So many people are asking for help, and the answers are "we don't know" or "it's bad". For some reason my mind just imagines this like a natural disaster at an airport where people are asking if their friend is alive.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment