Sarah Kate Levy
@sarahkatelevy.bsky.social
Writer. Political consultant. Gen X.
Citizen of California and Colorado.
My typos hurt me > they hurt you.
sarahkatelevy.com
Citizen of California and Colorado.
My typos hurt me > they hurt you.
sarahkatelevy.com
Recently I noticed my favorite local bookstore is selling a baseball cap that says I WOULD PREFER NOT TO and yes I get the reference and also no I didn’t buy it because I feared it would be too on the nose.
December 18, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Recently I noticed my favorite local bookstore is selling a baseball cap that says I WOULD PREFER NOT TO and yes I get the reference and also no I didn’t buy it because I feared it would be too on the nose.
Interesting argument for sure. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...
Opinion | A Mild Defense of Lara Trump
The Senate takes itself seriously, but its members aren’t always public-servant all-stars.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Interesting argument for sure. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
California this is not a drill — we need to build baby build.
One consequence of the housing crisis: Every year, roughly one electoral vote shifts from blue states to red states. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...
Opinion | Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political.
Americans are fleeing unaffordable blue states — and they’re taking the electoral college with them.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 4:25 AM
California this is not a drill — we need to build baby build.
If you, like me, were wondering why no one wants to talk to you — @mohusseini.com has it all figured out for us (as per usual).
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Folks here from algorithmically-fiddled apps complain of a lack of engagement.
It’s on all of us (to some extent)
“Likes” don’t really do anything here.
When you like someone’s post it just creates a notification TO THEM ONLY that you liked it.
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Folks here from algorithmically-fiddled apps complain of a lack of engagement.
It’s on all of us (to some extent)
“Likes” don’t really do anything here.
When you like someone’s post it just creates a notification TO THEM ONLY that you liked it.
December 14, 2024 at 4:13 AM
If you, like me, were wondering why no one wants to talk to you — @mohusseini.com has it all figured out for us (as per usual).
The Container Store filing for bankruptcy is the end times, people. The. End. Times. They are literally all that stands between me and despair.
December 14, 2024 at 12:54 AM
The Container Store filing for bankruptcy is the end times, people. The. End. Times. They are literally all that stands between me and despair.
Just handwrote the entire 1st draft of the 1st act of my novel in under 3.5 weeks. Blown away. I’ve always been better pen to page — much more present, less clever, more real, but I haven’t written longform by hand since high school. Shouldn’t have stopped writing fiction by hand & now I never will.
December 7, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Just handwrote the entire 1st draft of the 1st act of my novel in under 3.5 weeks. Blown away. I’ve always been better pen to page — much more present, less clever, more real, but I haven’t written longform by hand since high school. Shouldn’t have stopped writing fiction by hand & now I never will.
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I have eaten
the seeds
that were in
the Svalbard Vault
and which
you were probably
saving
for ecological collapse
the seeds
that were in
the Svalbard Vault
and which
you were probably
saving
for ecological collapse
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I have eaten
the seeds
that were in
the Svalbard Vault
and which
you were probably
saving
for ecological collapse
the seeds
that were in
the Svalbard Vault
and which
you were probably
saving
for ecological collapse
This made me weep just reading it. Avengers, assemble.
Local Democratic electeds: this is the new standard
Quite the statement from Denver Mayor Mike Johnston - that Denver Police and citizens would physically block a mass deportation by federal forces. denverite.com/2024/11/20/d... #copolitics
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
This made me weep just reading it. Avengers, assemble.
That’s the whole story. Defunding schools, sending money to charters and homeschool groups and religious schools, growing armies of the ignorant and abandoning everyone else to a starved system. That’s the story of America’s decline.
Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.
November 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
That’s the whole story. Defunding schools, sending money to charters and homeschool groups and religious schools, growing armies of the ignorant and abandoning everyone else to a starved system. That’s the story of America’s decline.
The MAGA GOP is a death cult.
— 1M+ dead from COVID
— Pregnant women & girls dying due to barriers to reproductive care
— RFK JR poised to spread disinformation about vaccines, pasteurization, mental health meds
— ACA under attack by Trump, again
The MAGA GOP is a death cult. I said what I said.
— 1M+ dead from COVID
— Pregnant women & girls dying due to barriers to reproductive care
— RFK JR poised to spread disinformation about vaccines, pasteurization, mental health meds
— ACA under attack by Trump, again
The MAGA GOP is a death cult. I said what I said.
November 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
The MAGA GOP is a death cult.
— 1M+ dead from COVID
— Pregnant women & girls dying due to barriers to reproductive care
— RFK JR poised to spread disinformation about vaccines, pasteurization, mental health meds
— ACA under attack by Trump, again
The MAGA GOP is a death cult. I said what I said.
— 1M+ dead from COVID
— Pregnant women & girls dying due to barriers to reproductive care
— RFK JR poised to spread disinformation about vaccines, pasteurization, mental health meds
— ACA under attack by Trump, again
The MAGA GOP is a death cult. I said what I said.
Cleaning out the kids’ bookshelves this week. Books I refuse to let go of:
— NEW SOCKS
— All the KNUFFLEBUNNY books
— Every book by Madeline L’Engle stays on my shelves till I’m dead.
— NEW SOCKS
— All the KNUFFLEBUNNY books
— Every book by Madeline L’Engle stays on my shelves till I’m dead.
November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Cleaning out the kids’ bookshelves this week. Books I refuse to let go of:
— NEW SOCKS
— All the KNUFFLEBUNNY books
— Every book by Madeline L’Engle stays on my shelves till I’m dead.
— NEW SOCKS
— All the KNUFFLEBUNNY books
— Every book by Madeline L’Engle stays on my shelves till I’m dead.
The coming administration has really sped up my cranky old lady transformation. I want these people off my White House lawn.
November 19, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The coming administration has really sped up my cranky old lady transformation. I want these people off my White House lawn.
These are not serious people. They have put children in charge of our government - although ironically children understand gender issues what better than these creeps.
Mike Johnson wants to force the first trans woman in Congress to use the men's bathroom
November 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
These are not serious people. They have put children in charge of our government - although ironically children understand gender issues what better than these creeps.
This underscores a dark thought I had at the time — that Biden won (thank god) in part because so many Trump voters had died.
While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year.
Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.
Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.
November 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
This underscores a dark thought I had at the time — that Biden won (thank god) in part because so many Trump voters had died.
My blood just froze.
"Infants born on domestic soil."
Those are Americans.
Those are Americans.
November 19, 2024 at 1:54 PM
My blood just froze.
FOTUS (felon of the United States).
I’m not calling that asshole felon rapist traitor “President-elect.”
Fuck him.
Fuck him.
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 AM
FOTUS (felon of the United States).
Legends of the Fall.
Untouchables.
Untouchables.
Hey BlueSky folks… what are your top three favorite scores for film, TV, or games?
I’ll start! These are the three I’m feeling tonight…
- Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris
- Star Trek The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams
I’ll start! These are the three I’m feeling tonight…
- Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris
- Star Trek The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind by John Williams
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Legends of the Fall.
Untouchables.
Untouchables.
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I love how they call Bluesky an echo chamber like we forgot all about Truth Social.
November 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I love how they call Bluesky an echo chamber like we forgot all about Truth Social.
On really hard days, I set a 100 word goal. 100 words is always doable — always — and most days it turns into hundreds more. (And if it doesn’t — who cares? You hit your 100 word goal.)
If you're struggling with creative work lately, setting bite-sized goals can help.
"Work on WIP" might feel overwhelming.
But "Revise dialogue in chapter 2" or "Add weather details to opening scene?" We can handle that.
What's your One Small Thing for today? Set a 20-minute timer & get started!
"Work on WIP" might feel overwhelming.
But "Revise dialogue in chapter 2" or "Add weather details to opening scene?" We can handle that.
What's your One Small Thing for today? Set a 20-minute timer & get started!
November 19, 2024 at 4:34 AM
On really hard days, I set a 100 word goal. 100 words is always doable — always — and most days it turns into hundreds more. (And if it doesn’t — who cares? You hit your 100 word goal.)
This is absolutely fucking insane.
Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:
November 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM
This is absolutely fucking insane.
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Clear to everyone outside of America that America fd itself and is about to suffer except to actual Americans who think price of eggs are about to go down.
November 19, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Clear to everyone outside of America that America fd itself and is about to suffer except to actual Americans who think price of eggs are about to go down.
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A safe place to hide from morons is a library or book store.
November 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
A safe place to hide from morons is a library or book store.
I don’t watch TV “news.” I read the NYT (often angrily), listen to NPR (same) & surf headlines here. If you’re still angry at TV news eons after the fairness doctrine lapsed, I’d suggest you have a mistaken understanding of what “news” means. Turn it off. You’ll be happier & better informed w/o it.
November 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I don’t watch TV “news.” I read the NYT (often angrily), listen to NPR (same) & surf headlines here. If you’re still angry at TV news eons after the fairness doctrine lapsed, I’d suggest you have a mistaken understanding of what “news” means. Turn it off. You’ll be happier & better informed w/o it.
This is greater benefit I am finding to writing the first draft of my book by hand, in a shitty notebook.
(Related: If you haven’t read Natalie Goldberg’s brilliant WRITING DOWN THE BONES — call your local bookstore and order it.)
(Related: If you haven’t read Natalie Goldberg’s brilliant WRITING DOWN THE BONES — call your local bookstore and order it.)
Being a perfectionist in your writing is the default setting for new writers. We all start that way. But when you’re building a house, you don’t paint it as you go. You lay a foundation, build a structure, put in the wiring & pipes, build the walls and lay the floors, THEN you can think about paint.
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
This is greater benefit I am finding to writing the first draft of my book by hand, in a shitty notebook.
(Related: If you haven’t read Natalie Goldberg’s brilliant WRITING DOWN THE BONES — call your local bookstore and order it.)
(Related: If you haven’t read Natalie Goldberg’s brilliant WRITING DOWN THE BONES — call your local bookstore and order it.)