Sarah Trick
@sarahtrick.bsky.social
Disabled journalist, writer, editor. 2023 Michener-L. Richard O'Hagan Fellow in Journalism Education.
Giving a guest lecture at Carleton this morning and I'm absolutely disgusted to report that doing my slide deck ahead of time, rather than scrambling the morning of to finish, the way I've done every single other slide deck in my life, enhances the quality of the presentation. I am furious.
March 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Giving a guest lecture at Carleton this morning and I'm absolutely disgusted to report that doing my slide deck ahead of time, rather than scrambling the morning of to finish, the way I've done every single other slide deck in my life, enhances the quality of the presentation. I am furious.
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If this pattern looks familiar, mute and block
They’re stealing your valuable time and they have no right to your attention
They’re stealing your valuable time and they have no right to your attention
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If this pattern looks familiar, mute and block
They’re stealing your valuable time and they have no right to your attention
They’re stealing your valuable time and they have no right to your attention
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This is a fantastic point I had not considered before. The _act_ of writing is the actual practice, not the end-result. The refining of so much you do happens in the dialogue you have with the page.
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is a fantastic point I had not considered before. The _act_ of writing is the actual practice, not the end-result. The refining of so much you do happens in the dialogue you have with the page.
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Genuinely offended to have been put on an "AI dipshits" blocklist. I got put on others for following progressives and conservatives, I think? And fair enough. But my contempt for "gen-AI" is prob the opinion I've expressed most consistently on here!
January 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Genuinely offended to have been put on an "AI dipshits" blocklist. I got put on others for following progressives and conservatives, I think? And fair enough. But my contempt for "gen-AI" is prob the opinion I've expressed most consistently on here!
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He's more than "not funny," even; he's *anti-funny*, an actively opposing counterforce to "funny," which, when present, makes it impossible for funny to occupy nearby space lest there be large explosions and a rip in the fabric of reality
wealth can buy you the presidency and the most global influence ever witnessed in history but it’s clear that wealth, no matter how much you accumulate, cannot ever make you funny
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
He's more than "not funny," even; he's *anti-funny*, an actively opposing counterforce to "funny," which, when present, makes it impossible for funny to occupy nearby space lest there be large explosions and a rip in the fabric of reality
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#ADHD "The study...is believed to be the first to use all-cause mortality data to estimate life expectancy in people with A.D.H.D. Previous studies have pointed to an array of risks associated with the condition, among them poverty, mental health disorders, smoking and substance abuse."
Thoughts: ⬇️
January 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
#ADHD "The study...is believed to be the first to use all-cause mortality data to estimate life expectancy in people with A.D.H.D. Previous studies have pointed to an array of risks associated with the condition, among them poverty, mental health disorders, smoking and substance abuse."
Thoughts: ⬇️
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"Disaster Paladins"
I'll see you at the support group meeting for Lawful Goods Who Try Chaotic Good Sometimes.
January 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Disaster Paladins"
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if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel
January 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel
My (least) favourite way people put this is "I like all body types but health is important. You should be someone who takes care of themselves" Health! Is not! under people's control! and the people who are like this have no idea how much "taking care of ourselves" sick and/or disabled people do.
TIL the new way of saying "no fatties" on a dating site is "I want a partner who eats clean" or "has a good healthy diet".
God, imagine moving to Michigan and not only thinking you're gonna find an LA 9 or 10 here, but still prioritizing thinness in a partner over all else. Absolute clown behavior.
God, imagine moving to Michigan and not only thinking you're gonna find an LA 9 or 10 here, but still prioritizing thinness in a partner over all else. Absolute clown behavior.
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My (least) favourite way people put this is "I like all body types but health is important. You should be someone who takes care of themselves" Health! Is not! under people's control! and the people who are like this have no idea how much "taking care of ourselves" sick and/or disabled people do.
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"...the government was following a very clear two-tier strategy where the clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised patients were being deprioritised...". In 2020, such a policy was effectively eugenic: eliminating the weaker to save the stronger. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Former vaccines tsar describes ‘open warfare’ within UK government during Covid pandemic
Dame Kate Bingham, who led the vaccine taskforce in 2020, said the clinically vulnerable were deprioritised and goals were not followed
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"...the government was following a very clear two-tier strategy where the clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised patients were being deprioritised...". In 2020, such a policy was effectively eugenic: eliminating the weaker to save the stronger. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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the biologists made a bunch of noises.
"We don't know how to tell you this," they said. "But see, we don't know for sure."
I was like HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW
And one of them was like, "No one has really bothered to study human women."
"We don't know how to tell you this," they said. "But see, we don't know for sure."
I was like HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW
And one of them was like, "No one has really bothered to study human women."
January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
the biologists made a bunch of noises.
"We don't know how to tell you this," they said. "But see, we don't know for sure."
I was like HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW
And one of them was like, "No one has really bothered to study human women."
"We don't know how to tell you this," they said. "But see, we don't know for sure."
I was like HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW
And one of them was like, "No one has really bothered to study human women."
Since I'm not currently employed as a journalist, I'm going to use this moment of freedom to discuss 10 of my most controversial, but sincerely-held Takes! All views are my own, muahahaha!
1. Iceberg lettuce is bad and people who like it should consider trying literally any other lettuce.
1. Iceberg lettuce is bad and people who like it should consider trying literally any other lettuce.
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Since I'm not currently employed as a journalist, I'm going to use this moment of freedom to discuss 10 of my most controversial, but sincerely-held Takes! All views are my own, muahahaha!
1. Iceberg lettuce is bad and people who like it should consider trying literally any other lettuce.
1. Iceberg lettuce is bad and people who like it should consider trying literally any other lettuce.
Hi! As many people already know, I was one of the people laid off at TVO at the end of last year. Friday was my last day. Grateful to TVO for all the things I learned and did during my time there.
Work on the disability style guide I was writing will continue in some form.
Work on the disability style guide I was writing will continue in some form.
January 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hi! As many people already know, I was one of the people laid off at TVO at the end of last year. Friday was my last day. Grateful to TVO for all the things I learned and did during my time there.
Work on the disability style guide I was writing will continue in some form.
Work on the disability style guide I was writing will continue in some form.
Wait, WHAT?
That was...not the point of the parable, right? At all? In fact it was the opposite of the point, right?
That was...not the point of the parable, right? At all? In fact it was the opposite of the point, right?
January 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wait, WHAT?
That was...not the point of the parable, right? At all? In fact it was the opposite of the point, right?
That was...not the point of the parable, right? At all? In fact it was the opposite of the point, right?
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Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space
January 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space
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This. I don't think internet communities being broken up is new but this is the first time when it's involved so many people and cost so many people so much money
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This. I don't think internet communities being broken up is new but this is the first time when it's involved so many people and cost so many people so much money
oh wow this whole time I genuinely thought VOCs were variants of concern lmao this makes more sense.
If you were impacted by the LA wildfires, please don’t go home without proper PPE.
Make sure you’re wearing an N95. If possible get a P100 with gas cartridge to filter VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
There are innumerable carcinogens in the air, many of which you can’t smell or see.
Make sure you’re wearing an N95. If possible get a P100 with gas cartridge to filter VOCs (volatile organic compounds).
There are innumerable carcinogens in the air, many of which you can’t smell or see.
January 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
oh wow this whole time I genuinely thought VOCs were variants of concern lmao this makes more sense.
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Me and my Severance guy finally being able to communicate and all we do is send each other really shitty memes
January 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Me and my Severance guy finally being able to communicate and all we do is send each other really shitty memes
It's the "when they were considered life-saving" that does it for me. As opposed to now, when they're not?
Plus the rather bizarre “when they were in high demand”—unlike now thanks to a concerted disinformation
campaign by bad actors like RFK Jr. facilitated by credulous media coverage by places like the NYT. #IllnessPolitics
campaign by bad actors like RFK Jr. facilitated by credulous media coverage by places like the NYT. #IllnessPolitics
of course the NYT compulsively laundering extremism as usual. "considered"
January 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's the "when they were considered life-saving" that does it for me. As opposed to now, when they're not?
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why does it look like The More You Know logo is crashing back to earth
BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight
January 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
why does it look like The More You Know logo is crashing back to earth
It feels vulnerable to have to admit this, but I've been a victim of this. More than once! Don't let yourself be taken in.
January 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It feels vulnerable to have to admit this, but I've been a victim of this. More than once! Don't let yourself be taken in.
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If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television
January 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television
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Ohhhhh my god china is going to steal my data? should we tell Kaiser Permanente? Should we throw a party?should we invite ticketmaster
“enjoy getting your data stolen by china” girl i have a google account there is nothing you could do to my data that hasn’t already been done
January 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Ohhhhh my god china is going to steal my data? should we tell Kaiser Permanente? Should we throw a party?should we invite ticketmaster
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