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Sarah Burke Cahalan
@sarahbc.bsky.social
former/eternal librarian
…most of what I post here deletes after a few days ✨


https://sarahburkecahalan.com/poetry
I would like to speak to the manager re. THIS BABY IS RECEIVING COLLEGE BROCHURES IN THE MAIL
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NVIDIA even resembles the name of a deadly sin. Acedia, avaritia, nvidia...
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
tbh my (human) language is often not the same as intelligence either but this is still very interesting
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
There's something for everyone on your list!
The Jim Henson Company's 70th Anniversary Auction is today. If I had the funds, I would love to expand @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collection of author busts by purchasing these props from The Muppet Christmas Carol.

www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

#Muppets #JimHenson #booksky #filmsky 📚📽️
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"This is not a generic person," Chad Scruggs says of his 9-year old daughter, Hallie, who was murdered in a school shooting. "It's someone that uniquely bore God's image in the world and
[who is] irreplaceable. And we just want you to know her, you know? She's worth being known."
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
[Prince voice] Cranberry galette 🎶
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Reposted by Sarah Burke Cahalan
Has anyone else had their various algorithms direct you towards the video of the guy making an apple pie entirely out of apples? Like, the crust is made of dehydrated apples and the filling is sliced apples, cider, apple sauce, etc.? 🍎 🍏 🥧
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Sarah Burke Cahalan
Advent is not a 12-day season of buying yourself more stuff. My rant--I mean, column:

www.commonwealmagazine.org/advent-calen...
Advent Calendars Gone Wild
Can Advent calendars stuffed with hot sauce, stuffed animals, and panties still stir feelings of anticipation and mystery?
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
what a context for a rosary 😢 ... I don't think his grandma would approve 🥀
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Has anyone else had their various algorithms direct you towards the video of the guy making an apple pie entirely out of apples? Like, the crust is made of dehydrated apples and the filling is sliced apples, cider, apple sauce, etc.? 🍎 🍏 🥧
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I've recently read a few poems by Elinor Wylie, and I like how many of them end with the speaker burrowed underground.
Elinor Wylie, making "muddy roads of all your hands"

for #smallpoemsunday!
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Sarah Burke Cahalan
There’s a piece about my #SciArt #symptomatology #embroidery series in the latest issue of Interalia Magazine. #MedSky 🧪
The Symptomatology Series - Interalia Magazine
Lia Pas is a multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring body and states of being. She was an active composer/performer and poet/librettist until 2015 when she became disabled...
www.interaliamag.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I was raised in a family obsessed with ruins and ghosts 😃
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"If it’s a jet set, it’s a carbon-offset-private-jet set. After all, flying commercial won’t get you from your Davos breakfast on empowering African girls with credit cards to your crypto-for-good dinner in Aspen." ✈️
“…there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good.” 🔥
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Sarah Burke Cahalan
a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)

*my interpretation
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
telling my Baptist friends this is a Catholic Mass
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
a little anti-ChatGPT* poem by Elinor Wylie (1921)

*my interpretation
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM