SF Boswell
@sfboswell.bsky.social
Researcher, quasi-academic, nerd, fan of weird sports (gymnastics, climbing). I always flip to the back of the book.
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Repurposing from the other site: Canadians watching us talk about Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Repurposing from the other site: Canadians watching us talk about Thanksgiving
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Here's the thing: volunteering is about finding a need and then helping to fill it. It's not primarily about you.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
DO NOT call up the homeless shelter on thanksgiving or Xmas to see if you can pass a few plates and show your kids the “reason for the season”
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Here's the thing: volunteering is about finding a need and then helping to fill it. It's not primarily about you.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
Many apples stuffed into a cast iron pan for roasting in anticipation of tarte tatin
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many apples stuffed into a cast iron pan for roasting in anticipation of tarte tatin
I see everyone saying the rich should climb Mount Everest
but unfortunately Mt Everest is no longer that deadly. So consider: Annapurna in the winter months. Or an unguided ascent of the matterhorn.
but unfortunately Mt Everest is no longer that deadly. So consider: Annapurna in the winter months. Or an unguided ascent of the matterhorn.
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I see everyone saying the rich should climb Mount Everest
but unfortunately Mt Everest is no longer that deadly. So consider: Annapurna in the winter months. Or an unguided ascent of the matterhorn.
but unfortunately Mt Everest is no longer that deadly. So consider: Annapurna in the winter months. Or an unguided ascent of the matterhorn.
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DO NOT call up the homeless shelter on thanksgiving or Xmas to see if you can pass a few plates and show your kids the “reason for the season”
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
November 8, 2023 at 5:19 PM
DO NOT call up the homeless shelter on thanksgiving or Xmas to see if you can pass a few plates and show your kids the “reason for the season”
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
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It is the ugliest, most naked form of the old "save the *really* juicy stuff for the book" political journalist grift, and by its sheer tackiness reveals how slimy that broader grift is
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It is the ugliest, most naked form of the old "save the *really* juicy stuff for the book" political journalist grift, and by its sheer tackiness reveals how slimy that broader grift is
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I don't know what — or really, if anything — in Lizza's account is true, because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. If *any* of it is true, the fact that we are only hearing about it now, after the fact, to drive subscriptions to his paywalled private newsletter, is frankly vile!
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I don't know what — or really, if anything — in Lizza's account is true, because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. If *any* of it is true, the fact that we are only hearing about it now, after the fact, to drive subscriptions to his paywalled private newsletter, is frankly vile!
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Mushroom spore landing in my lungs: I eat?
My immune system: no not right now he’s still alive
Mushroom spore: ok i wait
My immune system: no not right now he’s still alive
Mushroom spore: ok i wait
December 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Mushroom spore landing in my lungs: I eat?
My immune system: no not right now he’s still alive
Mushroom spore: ok i wait
My immune system: no not right now he’s still alive
Mushroom spore: ok i wait
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
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isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
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RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
*Loudly* DOES ANYONE WANNA HEAR ABOUT THE LATEST CLIMBING DRAMA, IT'S NOT THAT DRAMATIC BUT IT IS FUN
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
*Loudly* DOES ANYONE WANNA HEAR ABOUT THE LATEST CLIMBING DRAMA, IT'S NOT THAT DRAMATIC BUT IT IS FUN
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
I've noticed that folks who fight deportations/ICE detentions often express a ton of shame that they didn't do more. And I just want to say:
1. This is a pretty normal emotion
2. Doing *anything* is better than doing *nothing*
3. We are not the people who should feel ashamed.
1. This is a pretty normal emotion
2. Doing *anything* is better than doing *nothing*
3. We are not the people who should feel ashamed.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I've noticed that folks who fight deportations/ICE detentions often express a ton of shame that they didn't do more. And I just want to say:
1. This is a pretty normal emotion
2. Doing *anything* is better than doing *nothing*
3. We are not the people who should feel ashamed.
1. This is a pretty normal emotion
2. Doing *anything* is better than doing *nothing*
3. We are not the people who should feel ashamed.
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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"Proletariat." The first time I heard that I said wow, what a beautiful word. And you're going to be seeing class solidarity that's stronger, probably, than ever before
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Proletariat." The first time I heard that I said wow, what a beautiful word. And you're going to be seeing class solidarity that's stronger, probably, than ever before
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Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Representation (of Acadian trash) matters ✨
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everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Honestly most upset that the FBI is characterizing courtwatchers as "anarchists." Only some of us are anarchists. Some of us are also socialists!
A “joint situational information report” from the FBI and the New York police department (NYPD), dated 28 August 2025, quoted from a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, and also characterized the court watchers as “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Honestly most upset that the FBI is characterizing courtwatchers as "anarchists." Only some of us are anarchists. Some of us are also socialists!
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We are watching a Charlie Kirk level character rework happen in realtime except now we're being forced to accept that one of the worst political writers to appear in print this century is actually a generational writing talent, the way these people are trying to manufacture reality via bully pulpit
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We are watching a Charlie Kirk level character rework happen in realtime except now we're being forced to accept that one of the worst political writers to appear in print this century is actually a generational writing talent, the way these people are trying to manufacture reality via bully pulpit
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Relevant question for our new mayor: Will he allow the NYPD to continue working with the FBI to surveil immigration court-watchers, characterizing them as violent extremists? Remember, these cops work for us. We pay them!
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Relevant question for our new mayor: Will he allow the NYPD to continue working with the FBI to surveil immigration court-watchers, characterizing them as violent extremists? Remember, these cops work for us. We pay them!