Sara Davis
@literarysara.bsky.social
Reader, writer, environmental steward, recovering PhD.
Philadelphia
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literarysara.net
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Reading Roundup: October 2025
The Crying Book, Women, The Wax Child, and assorted reread novels.
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This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.
Climate Roundup: Fall back
What's been happening in climate news for the last few months, including: climate impacts; what the White House is up to; AI and in the environment; and some good news.
literarysara.net
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.
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Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
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Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.
This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
Reading Roundup: October 2025
The Crying Book, Women, The Wax Child, and assorted reread novels.
literarysara.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
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Got my 35mm film from the 10/18 march developed. Suddenly Chewie's got his New Hope look back lol.
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Got my 35mm film from the 10/18 march developed. Suddenly Chewie's got his New Hope look back lol.
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
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October 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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For the price of one of the several Substack newsletters I cancelled this year, I just invested in worked-owned feminist media--and you can too!
HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
For the price of one of the several Substack newsletters I cancelled this year, I just invested in worked-owned feminist media--and you can too!
I'm seeing an influx of new folks--Hello! Welcome! I hope you like it here more than the Other Place!--so it seems like a good time to reshare this group of awesome storytellers and creatives. We are international, we love books, and we always want to talk about the environment. go.bsky.app/9HqWB1b
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm seeing an influx of new folks--Hello! Welcome! I hope you like it here more than the Other Place!--so it seems like a good time to reshare this group of awesome storytellers and creatives. We are international, we love books, and we always want to talk about the environment. go.bsky.app/9HqWB1b
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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If you use Word and don’t want Microsoft snooping in your stuff, this is your reminder to go to File - Options - General - Privacy Settings and uncheck all “optimization” settings. 🙄
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you use Word and don’t want Microsoft snooping in your stuff, this is your reminder to go to File - Options - General - Privacy Settings and uncheck all “optimization” settings. 🙄
This month I read Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, and Theory of Water. 💙📚 #BookSky
Reading Roundup: September 2025
Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, Theory of Water.
literarysara.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This month I read Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, and Theory of Water. 💙📚 #BookSky
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I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.
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and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.
Today in Cities Are Good: got home from a day-long walk and found my neighbors all sitting around folding tables in the middle of our block. Eating pizza & potato chips, dogs on laps, little kids running around. I didn't have anything to contribute but they pulled out a chair & plate for me anyhow.
Today in Cities Are Good, Actually: settled into a subway seat to play Pokemon Go on my ride home. Felt a light tap on my shoulder, turned around. A man about my age, masked up like I am, showed me his phone: also playing Pokemon Go. We laugh quietly, then go back to minding our business.
September 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Today in Cities Are Good: got home from a day-long walk and found my neighbors all sitting around folding tables in the middle of our block. Eating pizza & potato chips, dogs on laps, little kids running around. I didn't have anything to contribute but they pulled out a chair & plate for me anyhow.
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Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”
September 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
I've been wanting to sign up for this fabulous newsletter. Leaving Substack is the perfect occasion to subscribe!
(The author gets into the WHY in this letter, if you've somehow remained in the dark about why Substack is bad for writers.)
(The author gets into the WHY in this letter, if you've somehow remained in the dark about why Substack is bad for writers.)
September 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've been wanting to sign up for this fabulous newsletter. Leaving Substack is the perfect occasion to subscribe!
(The author gets into the WHY in this letter, if you've somehow remained in the dark about why Substack is bad for writers.)
(The author gets into the WHY in this letter, if you've somehow remained in the dark about why Substack is bad for writers.)
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if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
Today's Slowdown poem is such a banger that I had to read it aloud. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
1348: Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye
Today’s poem is Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye.
www.slowdownshow.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today's Slowdown poem is such a banger that I had to read it aloud. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
Wow, not only did I get mt covid and flu shots today, but I ALSO got $20 off of my $40 allergy meds. Get vaxxed while you can, Philly!
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Wow, not only did I get mt covid and flu shots today, but I ALSO got $20 off of my $40 allergy meds. Get vaxxed while you can, Philly!
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I post a piece of good news every day (climate, civil rights, disease eradication, science, sanitation, conservation) because, to keep our activism & resistance going, we need reminders that, when we try hard, we do succeed. They *want* doomerism; Despair is how we lose. #ShareGoodNewsToo
September 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I post a piece of good news every day (climate, civil rights, disease eradication, science, sanitation, conservation) because, to keep our activism & resistance going, we need reminders that, when we try hard, we do succeed. They *want* doomerism; Despair is how we lose. #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Just in the past week or so, a parade of strangers have stopped by my house to pick up cuttings from my pothos and spider plants. Another complete stranger helped me carry a cat tree from his house to mine so my foster cat will have something of his own to tear apart.
Cities are good, actually.
Cities are good, actually.
September 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just in the past week or so, a parade of strangers have stopped by my house to pick up cuttings from my pothos and spider plants. Another complete stranger helped me carry a cat tree from his house to mine so my foster cat will have something of his own to tear apart.
Cities are good, actually.
Cities are good, actually.