Sara Fowler
@saralouisefowler.bsky.social
I “probably consider being called a *mere aesthete* a compliment”. Possessed of 2 cats surpassing in beauty.
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wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe
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To all the choir mums, who do the tireless work unseen to bring choristers to life; to the ones who used to be choir mums; the ones about to be choir mums;
March 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
To all the choir mums, who do the tireless work unseen to bring choristers to life; to the ones who used to be choir mums; the ones about to be choir mums;
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I’ve been saying since the beginning of this admin that they’re going to start putting those statues back up. New Confederate statues would serve similar purposes to their boom time of 1900-20: statements of physical dominance of public space, designed to unite in-groups and intimidate out-groups.
This is 100% a Make the Confederacy Great Again EO. It's all abt resurrecting the statues of the generals who committed treason to join the Confederacy. I almost admire the word play audacity in the service of evil in their use of the phrase "false reconstruction" to describe their goal.
March 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I’ve been saying since the beginning of this admin that they’re going to start putting those statues back up. New Confederate statues would serve similar purposes to their boom time of 1900-20: statements of physical dominance of public space, designed to unite in-groups and intimidate out-groups.
I choose to believe I personally broke Twitter by owning the “Asking boys to sit down in English class” bros too hard.
March 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I choose to believe I personally broke Twitter by owning the “Asking boys to sit down in English class” bros too hard.
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The thing that gets me about this, too, is that white/rural drug users are simultaneously used as a rhetorical tearjerking tool by the right but they *hate* them.
If you've lived in an area afflicted by opioids, you know MAGAs would prefer addicts drop dead before receiving, e.g., fent test strips.
If you've lived in an area afflicted by opioids, you know MAGAs would prefer addicts drop dead before receiving, e.g., fent test strips.
Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.
March 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The thing that gets me about this, too, is that white/rural drug users are simultaneously used as a rhetorical tearjerking tool by the right but they *hate* them.
If you've lived in an area afflicted by opioids, you know MAGAs would prefer addicts drop dead before receiving, e.g., fent test strips.
If you've lived in an area afflicted by opioids, you know MAGAs would prefer addicts drop dead before receiving, e.g., fent test strips.
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Tesla stock has now erased all of the gains that it has made since the election.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tesla stock has now erased all of the gains that it has made since the election.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
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As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life:
Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.
I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."
Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.
I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."
March 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life:
Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.
I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."
Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.
I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."
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If Vance was Caesar he'd be posting stuff like: "Your kind sneer at us, call us villains, because the truth terrifies you: that this world, your world, is leading you to a future more wretched than any nightmare you could conjure. I offer something else. Something better."
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If Vance was Caesar he'd be posting stuff like: "Your kind sneer at us, call us villains, because the truth terrifies you: that this world, your world, is leading you to a future more wretched than any nightmare you could conjure. I offer something else. Something better."
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“We never know when our lives will be indelibly changed for the better, or the worse, on a most ordinary day in an unremarkable place.”
Today’s essay is by Kellie Brown.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/sittin...
Today’s essay is by Kellie Brown.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/sittin...
SITTING ON RUINS WITH MADELEINE L’ENGLE’S WALKING ON WATER: REFLECTIONS ON FAITH AND ART — Earth and Altar
“Often we forget that [God] has a special gift for each one of us, because we tend to weigh and measure such gifts with the coin of the world’s marketplace…The widow’s mite and Bach’s St. Matthew Pas...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“We never know when our lives will be indelibly changed for the better, or the worse, on a most ordinary day in an unremarkable place.”
Today’s essay is by Kellie Brown.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/sittin...
Today’s essay is by Kellie Brown.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/sittin...
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what tax cuts. where are the tax cuts
Hassett: Q2 will "take off" after tax cuts
March 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
what tax cuts. where are the tax cuts
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This continues to go well. $TSLA
March 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This continues to go well. $TSLA
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Today the Episcopal Church celebrates Harriett Ross Tubman, known also as Moses.
Morning Prayer: Psalm 41, 52
Evening Prayer: Psalm 44
Office Readings
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Hebrews 2:11-18
John 2:1-12
Morning Prayer: Psalm 41, 52
Evening Prayer: Psalm 44
Office Readings
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Hebrews 2:11-18
John 2:1-12
March 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today the Episcopal Church celebrates Harriett Ross Tubman, known also as Moses.
Morning Prayer: Psalm 41, 52
Evening Prayer: Psalm 44
Office Readings
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Hebrews 2:11-18
John 2:1-12
Morning Prayer: Psalm 41, 52
Evening Prayer: Psalm 44
Office Readings
Deuteronomy 8:11-20
Hebrews 2:11-18
John 2:1-12
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For whatever reason, springing forward for daylight saving time feels like a journal announcing contest winners without sending your rejection first.
March 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For whatever reason, springing forward for daylight saving time feels like a journal announcing contest winners without sending your rejection first.
Twitter is down and I have the day off. I’m reading The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge and having perhaps the best day of recent memory.
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Twitter is down and I have the day off. I’m reading The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge and having perhaps the best day of recent memory.
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a thing about trade wars: if you’re talking about starting a trade war you already started a trade war
March 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
a thing about trade wars: if you’re talking about starting a trade war you already started a trade war
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Barbie Nine Jobs is someone who sends Jimmy the Squid to your door at dinner to shake you down for the money you lost at the racetrack last month
There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
March 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Barbie Nine Jobs is someone who sends Jimmy the Squid to your door at dinner to shake you down for the money you lost at the racetrack last month
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Market down. Twitter down. Recession talk up.
March 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Market down. Twitter down. Recession talk up.
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“The regime should get to disappear you if you express the ‘wrong’ political opinion” is very obviously something that the Bill of Rights was written to prevent
March 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“The regime should get to disappear you if you express the ‘wrong’ political opinion” is very obviously something that the Bill of Rights was written to prevent
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from /r/WallStreetBets:
March 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
from /r/WallStreetBets:
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This whole thread is painfully credulous. They’re not saying the stock market is less important because the populist pose is genuine; they’re saying that because it’s tanking. If it were rising they’d be crowing nonstop.
As we watch the selling continue on Wall Street today (futures down 400 as I type, but could bounce back!) it’s crucial to understand this Trump Administration’s approach to the stock market, which is dramatically different from his first term.
March 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This whole thread is painfully credulous. They’re not saying the stock market is less important because the populist pose is genuine; they’re saying that because it’s tanking. If it were rising they’d be crowing nonstop.
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speech you do not like should not be grounds for deportation, imo
March 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
speech you do not like should not be grounds for deportation, imo
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Crucially, theres no way for america to escape this bind. They cant bring manufacturing back without killing consumption, and then that makes manufacturing even harder. It would be deliberately setting yourself behind other countries for a worse place in the supply chain
Reversing the hollowing out of American manufacturing and the rust belt is an *enormous* task. And may not succeed.
But if you’re going to do it, you’re probably going to have to accept: higher prices, lower corporate profits and a slower growing stock market.
But if you’re going to do it, you’re probably going to have to accept: higher prices, lower corporate profits and a slower growing stock market.
March 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Crucially, theres no way for america to escape this bind. They cant bring manufacturing back without killing consumption, and then that makes manufacturing even harder. It would be deliberately setting yourself behind other countries for a worse place in the supply chain
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I Great Litany'd 3 times today and got to say "and finally, beat down Satan under our feet" each time. 🔥⚓
March 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I Great Litany'd 3 times today and got to say "and finally, beat down Satan under our feet" each time. 🔥⚓