Sarah B
@flythehighlife.bsky.social
Torturing high school English students with books and learning since 2002.
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If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
Things that this film features that Shelley’s novel does not:
A science castle in a different continent to the original
A man determined to buy eternal life
A monster who does not burn anyone alive and who, instead, rips the jaws out of wolves
A father-son redemption narrative.
A science castle in a different continent to the original
A man determined to buy eternal life
A monster who does not burn anyone alive and who, instead, rips the jaws out of wolves
A father-son redemption narrative.
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” adaptation is weighed down by its own beauty and fidelity to its source material, David Sims writes:
Frankenstein Should Experiment More
Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation is beautiful but familiar.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Things that this film features that Shelley’s novel does not:
A science castle in a different continent to the original
A man determined to buy eternal life
A monster who does not burn anyone alive and who, instead, rips the jaws out of wolves
A father-son redemption narrative.
A science castle in a different continent to the original
A man determined to buy eternal life
A monster who does not burn anyone alive and who, instead, rips the jaws out of wolves
A father-son redemption narrative.
Kate McClymont should write every political obituary from now until the end of time. This is the real Richo and it’s a disgrace that this disgraceful man and his series abuses of power will receive a state funeral. He leaves no political legacy other than corruption. No achievements or goodwill.
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Kate McClymont should write every political obituary from now until the end of time. This is the real Richo and it’s a disgrace that this disgraceful man and his series abuses of power will receive a state funeral. He leaves no political legacy other than corruption. No achievements or goodwill.
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Amy Remeikis on Gough:
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Australian politics 101: Getting the lessons wrong every time
If one thing is true for all mainstream political parties, it’s that they will always learn the wrong lessons.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Amy Remeikis on Gough:
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Lost in that analysis, and the lessons not learnt, is that we have his legacy because he didn’t bend. Because he knew that to compromise, to give in, would mean nothing ever changed.
Politics 101: Learning the wrong lesson every time www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
What a story. (I’d like a three part televised drama thanks, local quotas and all - as far as local stories go, this is up there with Blue Murder.)
‘She heard an extraordinary plot against the government’: The call that would haunt Winsome Nash
For 50 years, a family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they are going public.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What a story. (I’d like a three part televised drama thanks, local quotas and all - as far as local stories go, this is up there with Blue Murder.)
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Hi I am dingle by chance
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Hi I am dingle by chance
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Wait, Oasis are around again? I thought we were rid of that pointless, arrogant derivative "band". Did they run out of money or something?
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Wait, Oasis are around again? I thought we were rid of that pointless, arrogant derivative "band". Did they run out of money or something?
A very nice looking young - young - lady in a very fetching pink dress and a pearl tiara just scored one - one - point in total after two round in this semi final of mastermind and I feel so bad for her…
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A very nice looking young - young - lady in a very fetching pink dress and a pearl tiara just scored one - one - point in total after two round in this semi final of mastermind and I feel so bad for her…
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Some good news at last.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Some good news at last.
This is hilarious to anyone unaware of lamb prices because of the ongoing drought - and why the country hour should be a mandatory broadcast in every capital city.
Don’t fret, yes it’s still funny. But.
Don’t fret, yes it’s still funny. But.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This is hilarious to anyone unaware of lamb prices because of the ongoing drought - and why the country hour should be a mandatory broadcast in every capital city.
Don’t fret, yes it’s still funny. But.
Don’t fret, yes it’s still funny. But.
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Ha, this Polish saying has already been assimilated into English enough to end up in Cambridge Dictionary, first English-language dictionary other than Wiktionary to include it.
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
not my circus, not my monkeys
1. used for saying that a problem is not your responsibility, or that you have…
dictionary.cambridge.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ha, this Polish saying has already been assimilated into English enough to end up in Cambridge Dictionary, first English-language dictionary other than Wiktionary to include it.
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017
🐦🐦
Happy Friday to all who celebrate 🎉 🍸
A test to see if these posts are actually just shouting into the great blue void:
now seeking suggestions as to what I should have for dinner:
Greenstreat (fancy salad)
Pizza (great but carby)
Chinese (excellent but 💰 💰)
A test to see if these posts are actually just shouting into the great blue void:
now seeking suggestions as to what I should have for dinner:
Greenstreat (fancy salad)
Pizza (great but carby)
Chinese (excellent but 💰 💰)
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Happy Friday to all who celebrate 🎉 🍸
A test to see if these posts are actually just shouting into the great blue void:
now seeking suggestions as to what I should have for dinner:
Greenstreat (fancy salad)
Pizza (great but carby)
Chinese (excellent but 💰 💰)
A test to see if these posts are actually just shouting into the great blue void:
now seeking suggestions as to what I should have for dinner:
Greenstreat (fancy salad)
Pizza (great but carby)
Chinese (excellent but 💰 💰)
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New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived
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It's the reverse of the picture from Dallas on 22 November 1963 where everyone is focused on the President
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's the reverse of the picture from Dallas on 22 November 1963 where everyone is focused on the President
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Trump is treating inflation and high prices the way he treated Covid: claiming the numbers are going down.
But like Covid, he can’t lie his way out of this one because everyone is experiencing it. And like Covid it will be his downfall.
But like Covid, he can’t lie his way out of this one because everyone is experiencing it. And like Covid it will be his downfall.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Trump is treating inflation and high prices the way he treated Covid: claiming the numbers are going down.
But like Covid, he can’t lie his way out of this one because everyone is experiencing it. And like Covid it will be his downfall.
But like Covid, he can’t lie his way out of this one because everyone is experiencing it. And like Covid it will be his downfall.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
All these big blue wins across America are just a big distraction from the real story…
All the big Trump losses!
All the big Trump losses!
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”
Mamdani shows a different way is possible
The New York mayor’s resounding victory is a warning to Trump and his own party’s old guard
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate!
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate!
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
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Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Libbing out so hard I might listen to the entire Hamilton soundtrack
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Detroit has a Black woman millennial mayor
Millennials across the country needed this win.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Detroit has a Black woman millennial mayor