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Sarah Sweet
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Journalist at TVO. Responsible cat owner. This article is a stub.
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Visited a website I haven’t updated since 2013. Incredible stuff. I did basic shape-related illustrations in Pages. Put them in a gallery, for some reason. Didn’t know how to link them to the posts, so there are now free-floating images like this:
Crude clip-art picture of bearded guy sitting on top of a column. Caption: "Simeon Stylites Gives Up On Girls." Left side: happy stick-man postman holds out a letter. Right side: sad stick-person sits in the dark looking sadly at a letter. Startled-looking stick person on a camel, being menaced by a straw. One stick figure on the left stands in front of a Canadian flag and pushes right; another stick figure on the right pushes back against a black background. Caption: "Bike lanes! Mega-prisons! Bike lanes! Megan-prisons!"
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Was going to say something snarky about this part: "The RECOVER-NEURO clinical trial found that 'cognitive rehabilitation' failed in treating Long COVID." But then saw this.

Affinity for breakfast, fine. But I could have told them cheese was not protective.

thesicktimes.org/2025/11/11/r...
"A study about myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) was retracted by the journal Food Science and Nutrition. The study claimed that “dietary choices can potentially mitigate the syndrome,” stating that eating cheese protected people from ME, while eating peppers or “having an affinity for breakfast” contributed to ME. Some research commentators have applauded the decision, stating it is rare for poor studies on ME to be retracted."
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?" RIP Pauline Collins.
Brown-haired, blue-eyed with red hoop earrings looking directly at the camera with a half smile.
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Baseball is pain.

Baseball is also barfing.
One post that says "barfing" above another that says "on the verge of weeping or barfing, normal stuf"
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Photo of a man in a blue baseball uniform giving a high five to someone out of the frame Curly-haired man with a faraway expression and text reading "And I know I can't save Middle Earth. I just want to help my friends."
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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2014 tweet from Jon Bois ("why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter") edited to read "why watch Game 7 playoff baseball when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter"
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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YES. YES, I AM. I AM STILL THERE. ARE YOU?
Photo of a TV screen with an in-screen message that says "Are you still there?"
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Three photos of an android in profile, saying: "I witnessed an ensign feeding his cat the other day. And I wept."
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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YouTube has a new and great name for Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
TV screenshot showing the Blue Jays logo beside a graphic that says "advancing to ALCS" with closed captioning that reads "was about signing Bloody Miguel Gary to junior"
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Not an echo chamber. #BlueJays
Two posts: "Well that fucking ruled" "That's unfortunate"
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Elon Musk: slams dick in car door Musk Fans: Masterful gambit, sir
July 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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A movie that is good at all times but feels especially good right now.
To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the buffoons, in all times and in all nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated. — Sullivan's Travels
July 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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— E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, “What I Believe” (1951)
"I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke."
June 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I remembered the name John Morales not because I have any reason to track Floridian weather systems but because I read this last year and thought it was quite something (still do):

thebulletin.org/2024/09/hurr...
For decades I had felt in control. Not in control of the weather, of course. But in control of the message that, if my audience was prepared and well informed, I could confidently guide them through any weather threat, and we’d all make it through safely. Today as a result of so many compounding climate-driven factors, the warming world has forcibly shifted my manner from calm concern to agitated dismay. Now I look at storms differently. And I communicate differently. I don’t need to be told “you’ve changed” to know that I’m not the same. Perhaps those who have known me as the just-the-facts non-alarmist meteorologist can’t get used to the new me. That’s why they bicker and accuse me over overhyping emerging weather threats. But no one can hide from the truth. Extreme weather events, including hurricanes, are becoming more extreme. I must communicate the growing threats from the climate crisis come hell or high water—pun intended.
June 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Had the same response to the Doctor Who serial "City of Death."
Left: Debonair man in white suit. Right: Mossy-faced, one-eyed creature in white suit.
May 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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2014 tweet from @jon_bois: "why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter" (with "overtime" crossed out)
May 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Must be a bit weird to have known the new Pope as "Bob."
"'I know that Bob believes that everybody has a right and a duty to express themselves in the church,' said the Rev. Mark R. Francis, a former classmate of Cardinal Prevost who runs the American arm of the Clerics of St. Viator, a religious order."
May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Hoping at least some of them will be focusing on the future of humanity, philosophy.
While Mr. Hanea said he spoke frequently with his friend, the men most often talked of loftier things than spas, preferring to focus on “the future of humanity, philosophy,” Mr. Hanea said.
April 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Don't know whether this is a bug (so feel free to ruthlessly hide me), but the new sidebar thing: Can I make it go away?
Screenshot showing a Bluesky post on the left and a sidebar on the right with a list of feeds.
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"Crucially, a skeptic actually questions, as in seeks answers. A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter. A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic. They're the exact opposite of that: a mark. A sucker. A credulous boob."
February 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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What George was doing during the insurrection:
Handsome brown tabby lies on couch looking coy.
January 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Was just by happenstance looking for an old photo of my cat today and found this:
Photo of TV screen showing shot of large crowd with the caption "VP Pence ushered out of senate as protesters breach capitol."
January 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My mother, Jane (@jsweet22.bsky.social), with her cat, Rusty, in 1951. Kingly fellow. @catsofyore.bsky.social
Young girl in plaid jumper with puffy sleeves holds puffy orange cat who looks extremely smug.
December 28, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Olivia Hussey with Patrick Macnee in the Murder, She Wrote episode "Sing a Song of Murder" (1985). Both ridiculously charming.
Grim-faced suited man stands next to dark-haired woman with shocked expression.
December 28, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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Conclave as it is meant to be seen.
Head of a handsome brown tabby partly blocking a laptop showing a scene from Conclave in which a cardinal is speaking. Head of a handsome brown tabby more completely blocking a laptop showing a scene from Conclave in which the Ralph Fiennes cardinal is looking pensive.
December 26, 2024 at 4:30 AM