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Sara Ann Stinson
@saraannstinson.bsky.social
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Academic librarian, sewist and quilter, avid reader, spreadsheet lover (I know who I am). She/her, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Cleaning out tabs on my phone and found this v good article. Fantasy loves a powerful lineage still to this day! It's kind of weird when you think about it for 2 sec! And esp w/ Americans (no kings?), I want to take them aside and ask what they know about (a) eugenics, and (b) the Habsburg dynasty.
How to Uphold the Status Quo: The Problem With Small Town Witch Romances - Reactor
In the past two years, a thriving subgenre has emerged within SFF romance where plucky young witches living in cozy witch enclaves find love. These books often have winning cartoon covers and cute pun...
reactormag.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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planetx.bsky.social
A guide for which versions of Batman are cops and which ones aren't.

Golden Age Batman, pre-Robin: Not a cop, even though he shoots people. Has an antagonistic relationship with the Gotham PD.
Golden-Age Batman, pre-Robin, brandishing a gun.
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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jgriffingraham.bsky.social
Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
It's always interesting to find out where color names come from (e.g., English didn't have a word for red-yellow until the Portuguese brought oranges back from the New World). Anyway, TIL that teal is a kind of duck! A duck with very pretty stripes on its head:
teal bird - Google Search
www.google.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
It hurts my soul that websites keep making me press a "reject all cookies" button. Cookies don't deserve this.
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
defector.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
What the fuck
laminda.bsky.social Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · Sep 17
Our bodies are ridiculous meatsacks that break in all kinds of unexpected and often unpleasant ways. But sometimes they just keep working as usual, even when they very clearly shouldn't
Diagnostic dilemma: A knife broke off in a man's chest, and he didn't notice it for 8 years
A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.
www.livescience.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Apartment manager on the phone just called me "love bug," twice. I know we're in the South, but, uh, still not sure what to make of that. I suppose it's... gender neutral?
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Fall weather would fix me.
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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anarin.bsky.social
Difficult choice but this one gets me every time
heartshapedbasil your man doesn't have the mental strength to caramelize onions maplebungus your man thinks it takes 5-10 minutes to caramelize onions hozey-nevergoingtochurch Who's fucking carmelizing onions? Have you sociopaths forgotten that apples exist? fuckdamn do you think caramelizing onions is putting caramel on onions vexwerewolf your man thinks caramelizing onions is putting caramel on onions
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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samblum.bsky.social
NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense.

www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...
How Bitcoin ATMs Are Helping Scammers Steal Millions
As Bitcoin ATMs spread unchecked, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely the last line of defense against crypto fraud.
www.inc.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
“CS Lewis wasn’t a misogynist, he just thought women were vain and intellectually inferior”
Photo of a paragraph in Humphrey Carpenter’s book on the inklings. Text reads “It would be wrong to say that he despised women. He was no misogynist. But he did regard the female mind as inferior to the male, or at least as being incapable of the mental activities which he valued. He told Charles Williams that he thought women's minds 'not really meant for logic or great art', and he once wrote an uncharacteristically cruel short story called "The Shoddy Lands' in which he is allowed, for a few moments, to see the world as it is seen through the eyes of what he clearly regards as a typically selfish and vain woman.”
August 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
I always feel better about the world after reading something from @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social

(ignore the abrasive headline, the piece is so, so kind and good and thoughtful)
People Love To Ask Invasive Questions About My Son's Autism. These Are The Only Ones I'll Answer.
"I’ve never liked talking about my son’s autism with other people."
www.huffpost.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Every time I travel domestically I check Amtrack to see if maybe *this time* it will work. And every time there's some factor--train takes 4 days! train departs at 3am! there literally isn't any train service between these destinations!--that makes it impossible. I just want to ride the train!
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Today in Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com's ode to the vanishing mass market paperback:

reactormag.com/we-all-miss-...
We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks - Reactor
It's partly nostalgia, but there really is something special about those books...
reactormag.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Poirot and Hastings on the TV show are so gay. Like why is Hastings just always hanging around Poirot's flat? Always! They even vacation together! And the way they bicker, but also, they're so supportive? Anyway, 1930s boyfriends goals.
August 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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kibblesmith.com
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
fklein907.bsky.social Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Jul 21
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Wild to me that HBO is showing this My Mom Jayne documentary and didn't acquire any Jayne Mansfield movies to offer alongside.
July 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
saraannstinson.bsky.social
Someday I will remember to ask the seafood counter to devein my shrimp for me, but today was not that day.
July 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Jane!
askamanager.org Ask a Manager @askamanager.org · Jul 12
Jane is a hero
Not my mortification, but I witnessed it. I was working as an assistant to Jane, a woman who hit the “little old lady” stereotype even though she was in her forties. She wore a lot of cardigans she knitted herself and she quilted blankets for everyone who had a baby. She had quaint turns of phrase like “Thank you kindly,” which she even used in her email signature. She had a range of cat statues on her desk. That kind of thing. We had two newer employees who were both in their mid-20s, call them Frank and Hank, and they thought it would be hysterical to substitute words in a report they were writing for Jane with similar-sounding words that were slang terms for sex acts. They assumed this sweet innocent woman would never notice, and since she was the only one who would read it, no harm done. Jane got the document and called them in ten minutes later. I sat at my desk and listened while she grilled them about their “unusual word choices” until they broke down and admitted they had maybe used some slang terms they shouldn’t have. As a joke. Then she made them define each one. I could hear the absolute mortification in their voices as they struggled through explanations of terms I myself didn’t know, telling a woman they thought of as sweet and innocent all about these sexual terms. Then came the one where Hank defined it and Jane said, “No, that’s not what it means,” and provided a very detailed and technical explanation using proper medical terminology. Dead silence from Frank and Hank. Jane said, “Pranks like these make you look incompetent. Using words you don’t understand makes you look like fools. And making assumptions about your coworkers’ personal lives makes you look ignorant. Now you’re going to spend the next six months trying to prove to me that you’re none of those things, and it seems like that will be quite a challenge for you.” Frank and Hank played no more pranks for the rest of the time I worked there.
July 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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askamanager.org
Jane is a hero
Not my mortification, but I witnessed it. I was working as an assistant to Jane, a woman who hit the “little old lady” stereotype even though she was in her forties. She wore a lot of cardigans she knitted herself and she quilted blankets for everyone who had a baby. She had quaint turns of phrase like “Thank you kindly,” which she even used in her email signature. She had a range of cat statues on her desk. That kind of thing. We had two newer employees who were both in their mid-20s, call them Frank and Hank, and they thought it would be hysterical to substitute words in a report they were writing for Jane with similar-sounding words that were slang terms for sex acts. They assumed this sweet innocent woman would never notice, and since she was the only one who would read it, no harm done. Jane got the document and called them in ten minutes later. I sat at my desk and listened while she grilled them about their “unusual word choices” until they broke down and admitted they had maybe used some slang terms they shouldn’t have. As a joke. Then she made them define each one. I could hear the absolute mortification in their voices as they struggled through explanations of terms I myself didn’t know, telling a woman they thought of as sweet and innocent all about these sexual terms. Then came the one where Hank defined it and Jane said, “No, that’s not what it means,” and provided a very detailed and technical explanation using proper medical terminology. Dead silence from Frank and Hank. Jane said, “Pranks like these make you look incompetent. Using words you don’t understand makes you look like fools. And making assumptions about your coworkers’ personal lives makes you look ignorant. Now you’re going to spend the next six months trying to prove to me that you’re none of those things, and it seems like that will be quite a challenge for you.” Frank and Hank played no more pranks for the rest of the time I worked there.
July 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM