Sarah Cunningham
@sarahpeppers.bsky.social
Trying to focus on what I can do. Otherwise big reader, occasional baker, terrible gardener, decent tennis player and disc golfer, dabbler in rock painting and collage, minor gamer, and I think a lot about food.
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Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness.
We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.
We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness.
We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.
We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.
Things to remember when we feel pressured or compelled to incorporate generative-AI tools in our teaching.
A Historic Black Community Takes On the World's Richest Man Over Environmental Racism
In a neighborhood founded by freed slaves, residents are fighting back against unpermitted pollution from the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Things to remember when we feel pressured or compelled to incorporate generative-AI tools in our teaching.
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NEW: The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to help ICE. Not to defend a base. Not to respond to a disaster. To help deport people.
July 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
NEW: The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to help ICE. Not to defend a base. Not to respond to a disaster. To help deport people.
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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
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The line moving forward for every single one of us who actually opposes this dude is, "I stand with the protesters."
No one needs your hot takes about optics.
Democracy lives or dies by what happens next with this.
No one needs your hot takes about optics.
Democracy lives or dies by what happens next with this.
June 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The line moving forward for every single one of us who actually opposes this dude is, "I stand with the protesters."
No one needs your hot takes about optics.
Democracy lives or dies by what happens next with this.
No one needs your hot takes about optics.
Democracy lives or dies by what happens next with this.
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"Hundreds of hospitals in rural parts of the United States are in danger of closing because they can no longer afford to stay open...The main reason: Insurance companies pay them much less than their big city counterparts for the same services." www.cbsnews.com/news/rural-h...
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Hundreds of hospitals in rural parts of the United States are in danger of closing because they can no longer afford to stay open...The main reason: Insurance companies pay them much less than their big city counterparts for the same services." www.cbsnews.com/news/rural-h...
"When the death of your civilization precedes you" (Neko Case) *and* you get the flu, it's time to seek refuge in old episodes of the original Iron Chef.
March 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"When the death of your civilization precedes you" (Neko Case) *and* you get the flu, it's time to seek refuge in old episodes of the original Iron Chef.
I found paper, scissors, and glue particularly therapeutic these last few weeks.
#collage #copingart #resistanceart
#collage #copingart #resistanceart
February 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I found paper, scissors, and glue particularly therapeutic these last few weeks.
#collage #copingart #resistanceart
#collage #copingart #resistanceart
I probably read too much news today, but this evening I'm recalling a moment I observed this morning: a head-phoned person noticed birdsong in the trees above and stopped a moment to listen. Next time I'm feeling drained or overwhelmed, may I remember the birdsong.
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I probably read too much news today, but this evening I'm recalling a moment I observed this morning: a head-phoned person noticed birdsong in the trees above and stopped a moment to listen. Next time I'm feeling drained or overwhelmed, may I remember the birdsong.
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Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
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January 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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EXTENDED CFP deadline for the 2025 Food Studies conference— January 31. #Asfs #Afhvs #FoodStudies #FoodAnthro #FoodHistory #Safn
Pls help me to circulate. Also, look into our great field trips!
blogs.oregonstate.edu/2025asfsafhv...
Pls help me to circulate. Also, look into our great field trips!
blogs.oregonstate.edu/2025asfsafhv...
Call for Proposals | ASFS | AFHVS 2025 Conference – Abstract Submission Now Available
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January 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
EXTENDED CFP deadline for the 2025 Food Studies conference— January 31. #Asfs #Afhvs #FoodStudies #FoodAnthro #FoodHistory #Safn
Pls help me to circulate. Also, look into our great field trips!
blogs.oregonstate.edu/2025asfsafhv...
Pls help me to circulate. Also, look into our great field trips!
blogs.oregonstate.edu/2025asfsafhv...
"The challenge in front of us is to learn how to be critical of our public institutions, without relinquishing hope that these institutions can become less harmful than they were in the past."
From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing
In the autumn of 1954, Minnie Mae, who was 21 years old, became sick with a blood-related cancer, as did several others in the small farming community in South Dakota where she lived. She spent Tha…
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January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"The challenge in front of us is to learn how to be critical of our public institutions, without relinquishing hope that these institutions can become less harmful than they were in the past."
I have yet to identify any redeemable qualities of this technology.
An eating disorders chatbot offered dieting advice, raising fears about AI in health
The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.
www.npr.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I have yet to identify any redeemable qualities of this technology.
Now, to close out a lovely quiet Christmas day, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.
"There's love in our world and we're showing it more."
#Muppets
"There's love in our world and we're showing it more."
#Muppets
December 26, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Now, to close out a lovely quiet Christmas day, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.
"There's love in our world and we're showing it more."
#Muppets
"There's love in our world and we're showing it more."
#Muppets
Great grandma started this latch hook Santa and when she died it passed to me. I finished it and gifted it to my grandma, her daughter (in 1992 per the note she pinned on back). When grandma died Christmas day, years later, it came back to me again. Today it's among my most treasured possessions.
December 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Great grandma started this latch hook Santa and when she died it passed to me. I finished it and gifted it to my grandma, her daughter (in 1992 per the note she pinned on back). When grandma died Christmas day, years later, it came back to me again. Today it's among my most treasured possessions.
I've watched the 1987 Garfield Christmas special. The season may now commence.
December 7, 2024 at 4:34 AM
I've watched the 1987 Garfield Christmas special. The season may now commence.
I obviously didn't stop long enough to take a good picture (had to keep moving to keep warm) but even on these cold winter mornings there are beautiful things to see.
December 5, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I obviously didn't stop long enough to take a good picture (had to keep moving to keep warm) but even on these cold winter mornings there are beautiful things to see.
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"The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant."
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
Qvest LLC must pay $171K after federal investigators find sanitation contractor employed 11 children at Sioux City pork processing plant
www.dol.gov
December 2, 2024 at 3:28 PM
"The U.S. Department of Labor has found a second sanitation contractor at the Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC facility that employed children to perform dangerous work during overnight shifts at its Sioux City pork processing plant."
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.