Serene Tami Sargent 🍂
@mythserene.bsky.social
We're all antifascists now. Jane Austen Society of North America. 📖 Know some Beatles' stuff and am picky about citations. therealtamishow.com
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Think of all the people who door knocked. We have the best ground game since Lincoln. Let's use it and get even better. We cannot waste a single power given to us in the Constitution. We must have political seats filled by people who can and will investigate and hold hearings. Impeach justices.
I'm just going to repeat it one more time before I go: Impeach justices. Hold hearings. Sell some fucking t-shirts.
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Washington Post now interviewing my uncle?
May 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Washington Post now interviewing my uncle?
This stone looks radioactive and I love it.
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This stone looks radioactive and I love it.
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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
buttondown.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Been busy and productive and not making much jewelry, but I love this freakish beauty.
Also, hi everyone.
Also, hi everyone.
April 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Been busy and productive and not making much jewelry, but I love this freakish beauty.
Also, hi everyone.
Also, hi everyone.
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i think it is very Good and Cool for the rule of law that a top staffer is behaving like a lieutenant in a high level drug enterprise
Miller's strategy is to basically overwhelm America with cruelty so that people just shrug and say "it can't be helped."
January 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
i think it is very Good and Cool for the rule of law that a top staffer is behaving like a lieutenant in a high level drug enterprise
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"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.
You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.
Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.
Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The End of the DEI Era
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.
www.theatlantic.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.
You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.
Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.
Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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A big reason the tech billionaires are so interested in government now is they’re not innovating or building anything of value so they need protectionism & monopolistic leverage
January 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A big reason the tech billionaires are so interested in government now is they’re not innovating or building anything of value so they need protectionism & monopolistic leverage
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monumental success in deception in the propagation of the term “AI hallucination”instead of broken, dangerous & useless
January 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
monumental success in deception in the propagation of the term “AI hallucination”instead of broken, dangerous & useless
JASNA 8-wk reading of Pride and Prejudice starts Sunday and I hope everyone is coming. Not that I know any JASNA people on here, but you could join!
How did we never figure out before that Lady Catherine got Georgiana Darcy a governess? I feel like an idiot. As always in Austen, it was there in front of our noses the whole time.
January 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
JASNA 8-wk reading of Pride and Prejudice starts Sunday and I hope everyone is coming. Not that I know any JASNA people on here, but you could join!
How did we never figure out before that Lady Catherine got Georgiana Darcy a governess? I feel like an idiot. As always in Austen, it was there in front of our noses the whole time.
January 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How did we never figure out before that Lady Catherine got Georgiana Darcy a governess? I feel like an idiot. As always in Austen, it was there in front of our noses the whole time.
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Among the 19 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 but did not vote at all in 2024, a YouGov poll found 29% said they declined to vote for Harris over her support for Israel's assault on Gaza--more than any other issue including the economy (24%) and immigration (11%)
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Among the 19 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 but did not vote at all in 2024, a YouGov poll found 29% said they declined to vote for Harris over her support for Israel's assault on Gaza--more than any other issue including the economy (24%) and immigration (11%)
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these people really are the biggest piss babies on the planet
By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”
January 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
these people really are the biggest piss babies on the planet
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"The costs of the [Biden] administration’s approach have been devastating."
January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"The costs of the [Biden] administration’s approach have been devastating."
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This is the supreme irony of the MAGA schism over H-1Bs. Many workers who stayed at Twitter after Musk’s takeover did so because their status in the US was contingent on their employment. They kept a site running that was then used by MAGA folks to question why they were here in the first place.
I honestly thought that Musk taking over Twitter established how vulnerable H1B workers were. Like I will admit total ignorance before that but we got so many articles about H1B employees being stuck and why while there was a mass exodus
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 AM
This is the supreme irony of the MAGA schism over H-1Bs. Many workers who stayed at Twitter after Musk’s takeover did so because their status in the US was contingent on their employment. They kept a site running that was then used by MAGA folks to question why they were here in the first place.
Big epic costume dramas ruled and those need damsels in distress. (“Distress” pretty much always includes “ravishing.”) Some damsels get saved by heroes and some save themselves by courageous suicide attempts that awe their rapist into immediate respect and deference.
bsky.app/profile/myth...
bsky.app/profile/myth...
And obviously I know women wrote, but even most of the stories about women were written by absolute pervert guys and their whole entire point is that virtue is defined solely by virginity and it is the highest virtue to kill oneself rather than to be raped. (But this seems universal w male authors.)
December 26, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Big epic costume dramas ruled and those need damsels in distress. (“Distress” pretty much always includes “ravishing.”) Some damsels get saved by heroes and some save themselves by courageous suicide attempts that awe their rapist into immediate respect and deference.
bsky.app/profile/myth...
bsky.app/profile/myth...
How did I never realize that The Three Musketeers is about finally getting vengeance on a beautiful but evil seductress who, Forrest Gump-like, it turns out has been the root of all international (+personal) evil in Europe?
Reading early 1800s popular fiction is a mind fuck. Women are alien beings.
Reading early 1800s popular fiction is a mind fuck. Women are alien beings.
December 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
How did I never realize that The Three Musketeers is about finally getting vengeance on a beautiful but evil seductress who, Forrest Gump-like, it turns out has been the root of all international (+personal) evil in Europe?
Reading early 1800s popular fiction is a mind fuck. Women are alien beings.
Reading early 1800s popular fiction is a mind fuck. Women are alien beings.
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@keribla.bsky.social does great work 👇
Last year, I wrote about a trans guy who got beaten by a deputy outside a 7/11.
Last week - out of the blue - the deputy agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony. But the really crazy thing is how many other deputies he now says were involved in the cover-up. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Last week - out of the blue - the deputy agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony. But the really crazy thing is how many other deputies he now says were involved in the cover-up. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. sheriff's deputy pleads guilty to beating transgender man who flipped him off
Joseph Benza III, 36, was charged late Tuesday with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law for what prosecutors alleged was a 2023 assault on Emmett Brock, then a 23-year-old teacher on...
www.latimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:53 AM
@keribla.bsky.social does great work 👇
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Male media reporters at major outlets including CNN, NPR, etc, often participate in and launder these smear campaigns against female colleagues.
Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?
Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.
www.usermag.co
December 23, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Male media reporters at major outlets including CNN, NPR, etc, often participate in and launder these smear campaigns against female colleagues.
I'm reading the Blake Lively complaint and it's just describing repeated instances of sexual assault, followed by gaslighting. Textbook. (I know there's worse coming bc I've seen it posted but this counts, too.)
His instinctive defense when confronted is pure Trump: “I'm not even attracted to you.”
His instinctive defense when confronted is pure Trump: “I'm not even attracted to you.”
December 24, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I'm reading the Blake Lively complaint and it's just describing repeated instances of sexual assault, followed by gaslighting. Textbook. (I know there's worse coming bc I've seen it posted but this counts, too.)
His instinctive defense when confronted is pure Trump: “I'm not even attracted to you.”
His instinctive defense when confronted is pure Trump: “I'm not even attracted to you.”
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How utterly predictable
December 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
How utterly predictable
I got cat's eye chrysoberyl sticks to make talisman pendants and this shit is wild. I'd never seen the stone in person and I am absolutely mesmerized. Worth the torture of the wait.
December 23, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I got cat's eye chrysoberyl sticks to make talisman pendants and this shit is wild. I'd never seen the stone in person and I am absolutely mesmerized. Worth the torture of the wait.
Elizabeth Bennet was the first petty bitch heroine. Reveling in “the enjoyment of all her former dislike” of the Bingley sisters and leaving Lady Catherine in ashes. Joyously imperfect. An excellent walker.
“True, you knew no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
“True, you knew no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
December 22, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Elizabeth Bennet was the first petty bitch heroine. Reveling in “the enjoyment of all her former dislike” of the Bingley sisters and leaving Lady Catherine in ashes. Joyously imperfect. An excellent walker.
“True, you knew no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
“True, you knew no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
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I really like Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, but you don’t get it unless you’re imagining the scene: a terrible war is just finished, you’re celebrating at a great fireworks show, but before the show the aged Handel shows up, drops this total banger, and then the colossal stage burns down
December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I really like Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, but you don’t get it unless you’re imagining the scene: a terrible war is just finished, you’re celebrating at a great fireworks show, but before the show the aged Handel shows up, drops this total banger, and then the colossal stage burns down