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Sarah Burke Cahalan
@sarahbc.bsky.social
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former/eternal librarian
…most of what I post here deletes after a few days ✨


https://sarahburkecahalan.com/poetry
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sarahbc.bsky.social
beautiful post 🌈 🎨
majnouna.com Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 3d
Struck by a philosophy of natural colours beautifully descibed by Fukumi Shimura, I have enjoyed many colour surprises over this season of foraging…
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Receiving Colour
A remedy to expectation
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November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Sarah Burke Cahalan
megmcdermott92.bsky.social
"...the moon’s adhesive has dried
And flaked, its wooden face askew;

Plywood painted to resemble
An antique, which it’s becoming..."
sarahbc.bsky.social Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social · 6h
Advent calendar ekphrastic poem :)

full text here: www.dappledthings.org/poetry/calen...

#advent #adventcalendar 🗓 🕯 🐑 👶 🐪 🤴 🌴 ❄️ 🌙 🍫
Little fingers open doors To draw out this year’s treasures From behind now-memorized disguises: Sheep, the camel’s baggage,
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
Advent calendar ekphrastic poem :)

full text here: www.dappledthings.org/poetry/calen...

#advent #adventcalendar 🗓 🕯 🐑 👶 🐪 🤴 🌴 ❄️ 🌙 🍫
Little fingers open doors To draw out this year’s treasures From behind now-memorized disguises: Sheep, the camel’s baggage,
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
"Feed us with Trees" by Elspeth Hay is a marvelous book (and seasonally appropriate! lots of chestnut history!). It's 50% off until December 8. Buy it for your crunchiest, nuttiest friends... 🌰 🐿 🌳

newsociety.com/book/feed-us...
Feed Us with Trees
The day Elspeth Hay learned we can eat acorns, stories she’d believed her whole life began to unravel. We’re thinking about agriculture all wrong, she realized. Feed Us with Trees is her hopeful manif...
newsociety.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
This documentary on suburban turkeys in Massachusetts might be just what you need today 🦃 #Thanksgiving

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
TURKEY TOWN (full documentary)
YouTube video by GBH
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November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
"Toadstools at home" is a lifestyle blog for gnomes.
biodiversitypix.bsky.social Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 2d
🐸 Toadstools at home
London ;Gowans & Gray, 1906

[Source]
Black and white historical illustration titled "Toadstools at home" from 1906, depicting a cluster of irregularly shaped, wrinkled fungi (Coryne sarcoides) growing on a textured ground surface. The fungi have a brain-like appearance with folded, lobed structures. Surrounding the cluster are small patches of moss or similar ground vegetation, adding context to their natural habitat. The image is labeled with scientific classification and a page number (59) at the top.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
What if I titled a poem "Church Monuments"
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
I would like to speak to the manager re. THIS BABY IS RECEIVING COLLEGE BROCHURES IN THE MAIL
much younger Sarah holding a very small fuzzy-headed baby
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
NVIDIA even resembles the name of a deadly sin. Acedia, avaritia, nvidia...
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
sarahbc.bsky.social
tbh my (human) language is often not the same as intelligence either but this is still very interesting
reckless.bsky.social nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 3d
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
There's something for everyone on your list!
bhgross144.bsky.social Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 3d
The Jim Henson Company's 70th Anniversary Auction is today. If I had the funds, I would love to expand @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collection of author busts by purchasing these props from The Muppet Christmas Carol.

www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

#Muppets #JimHenson #booksky #filmsky 📚📽️
Top: Author busts in the Harry Ransom Center's lobby (Jean Cocteau, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, Edith Sitwell) Bottom: Author busts from a Muppet Christmas Carol (Aristotle, Dante, Moliere, Shakespeare)
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
sarahbc.bsky.social
"This is not a generic person," Chad Scruggs says of his 9-year old daughter, Hallie, who was murdered in a school shooting. "It's someone that uniquely bore God's image in the world and
[who is] irreplaceable. And we just want you to know her, you know? She's worth being known."
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM