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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1h

It's probably good that they're doing it though, this crowd is decades younger than the one that will show up for La Boheme next month

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1h

West Side at the opera is weird. Main singers keep slipping in and out of opera vernacular. Audience is full of newbies who keep stepping on the arias. Guy sitting next to me is mouthing the words along with Tony, the only show I've been to where the No Singing Along announcement is not a joke.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 3h

god grant me the confidence of the woman brushing her teeth in the bathroom of the Dorothy Chandler 10 minutes before curtain up

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 3h

if you didn't include attendance or participation in the grading rubric, that's not my fucking probleme

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 3h

I got some of my best grades in classes I never went to and did not do the reading for, because the professor overweighted the exams and by college I was a fucking master at Doing Great On The Test

Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 5h

Nothing more Harvard than for these professors to think the solution is “inform the New York Times” rather than “give the students lower grades.”

NYT push alert reading: Harvard's Campus Culture
Students who skip class and fail to do the reading still get high grades, a group of professors say. Now, they are trying to change the culture.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 4h

tecturely it's a fucking nightmare, but maybe this is a unicorn toddler with no sensory issues

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 4h

lthis would have all the same flavor notes as prosciutto wrapped melon, except dialed up for an undeveloped toddler palate. respect.

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 5h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 4h

he's extra worried about arsonist mobs because his house burned down in the palisades fire and he hadn't had homeowners insurance for years

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 14h

But because I am intimately aware of and incredibly personally irritated by every dumbshit decision Cousin makes, it would be very easy to extend that irritation out to every receiving assistance and determine that none of them deserve it.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 14h

At the policy level, I call this the Cousin problem. I have a cousin who has been and will be on social assistance her entire life, due to a combination of childhood trauma, mental illness, and consistently making the dumbest choice available to her. People in this situation SHOULD get assistance!

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

lol my town's sheriff wrote a note excusing his son from reading The Diary of Anne Frank

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

Gracie, allow us to introduce you to a revolutionary coping mechanism: eating your feelings

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

when I had roommates, god yes.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

own couch is such a treat

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

I survived the work retreat and am having dinner at an Italian place that makes all their pasta in house. I have snagged the corner seat at the bar and the bartender is a woman with a long blonde ponytail and full sleeve tattoos in both arms. She has called me darlin' twice. I live here now.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

way to advocate for yourself Gull, that's so important

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

Wild way to announce you're quitting the band you're in with your sisters

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