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Sara

@aeirlys.bsky.social

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Do not cite the Deep Horrors to me. I was in Ronald Reagan's America when they were written.

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1h

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.

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1h

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!

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 12h

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

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

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

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 14h

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

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 14h

when I had roommates, god yes.

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 14h

own couch is such a treat

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 15h

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

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

she really put on a show for me the whole time I was having dinner

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

oh god another stare at a wall song

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

so maybe she's doing her best with the material she has

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

I will admit I have not listened to very many of her songs and I am not implying that anyone should have to suffer for their art but I simply do not believe you can live a life as insulated as Ms. Swift's and still live as deeply people moving through the world without private jet money

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

a song that will leave you needing to just stare at a blank wall for a solid 15 minutes

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how to even start with this question but I do know that Beth Neilsen Chapman's Seven Shade of Blue wrecks me every single time

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

can gracie be a library bunny? I bet the babies would be hype

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

a nice thing about moving to the Deepest Suburbs is that when we have work retreats I usually have to come down a day early

A glass of red wine with the tiniest sliver of sunset over the Pacific ocean in the background

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

there's no whale song playing or essential oil mist or anything

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

my optometrist upgraded the chair in the procedure room and was like, it's a spa treatment chair! you might fall asleep!

my guy you have inserted giant metal contacts under my eyelids and are now zapping my eyelids with a super bright and hot light, this is not relaxing

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

had my quarterly eye zapping today to treat my chronic dry eye and that procedure continues to suck shit

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I'm not staying even if he's waving a taser around but an AR-15? Fuck that.

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 1d

I truly do not understand the mindset that leads to seeing someone waving an assault rifle around and not immediately leaving the area

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 2d

hell yeah pope bob

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 2d

god forbid a woman have hobbies

Woman used dating apps to meet men and burglarize their homes, LA Sheriff's Department says

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department identified a woman accused of meeting men online and burglarizing their homes.

Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 2d

how do you write a pan of Waiting For Godot without even alluding to the obvious joke though, I bet he left at intermission