Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026So now that I'm finally watching Reacher, I have to ask: does anyone else think this guy is a LOT like Murderbot? Specifically, Alexander Skarsgard as Murderbot. But also not not the Murderbot of the books. 130 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I just assumed it was a Bring It On reference. I said, brrrrr! It's cold in here ....static.klipy.comBring It On Toros CheerleadingALT: Bring It On Toros Cheerleading 011 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026See, Tom Sawyer is "The Adventures ..." because that book covers all of his adventures. But Huck only gets "Adventures" because at the end, he lights out of the territories and obviously has more. So we have only read SOME of his adventures. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Just finished a Huck Finn reread in anticipation of finally reading Percival Everett's "James." And I have to say, the book is NOT titled "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." It is titled "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This drives me UP THE WALL every time. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The number of people in the comments who are calling Elizabeth Bishop a terrible writer. Oh save me from yelling at people about "The Fish" before the workday even begins. 020 0
Reposted by Sarah Beddow/BoyleBex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025♥️ 4543322092 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025oh man, it's one of those days where the snow is carefully everywhere descending. 🥹 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Thank you "10 Things I Hate About You"! 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Obviously this is not very gurlesque - it's missing gore and lady bits. But the leaps, the bodily pondering ... 000 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Legitimately a lot of books of poetry that read just like this. Looking at you, Ugly Duckling, Omnidawn, and truly most of the gurlesque poets. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025This is so fucking good. A boon for Pittsburgh as a whole, really. 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Unions negotiate--they do not compromise. Let us take more lessons from the union tradition! No more compromising to embiggen the party when we know that will not work. Instead, negotiate so all people under your big tent get things they need. 051 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025So, like, the Democratic party's insistence on throwing trans people under the bus is a way of compromising, or insisting people comrpomise--to make a bigger tent?--not of negotiating with diverse people to find a solution that satisfies all. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025As a side note, this got me thinking about the difference between negotiation and compromise vis a vis the Democratic party. I once learned that in negotiation, everyone comes out satisfied. But with compromise, everyone comes out disappointed. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A knock-on effect of the decline of unions is an increase in isolation and distrust. As unions lose power and members, fewer and fewer people have experience with what it means to be under the big tent, sharing space with people of all types. 121 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025When we were unionizing our charter school network (we won!), one thing I read and used in our campaign was the idea that unions are little-d democratic. They bring people who have nothing in common together to negotiate for better working conditions. They strengthen community through diversity! 151 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Oh dear, Dispatches from Frontier Schools would smell like ballpoint pen ink, sharpened pencils, Axe body spray, and flop sweat. Maybe some coffee, too--ooh, or burnt popcorn in the teachers' lounge. 020 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Saw an amazing Strega Nona tattoo and it got me thinking what children's book I would want a tattoo of. And obviously it would be Madeline. Obviously the illustration where she lifts her shirt to show off her scars to her schoolmates. I am a poet, you see. 020 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I mean, honestly, even in the 90s very few of my friends actually read the whole book, even if it was assigned. I was the weirdo for insisting on reading books, cover to cover, as a matter of course. 020 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 05/09/2025ugh yes. i sat through my kid's high school open house last night and i was so incredibly jealous of the teachers--despite literally just getting a job offer that will pay me so much more than i would make teaching. (still a modest salary, just well better than teaching.) 000 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 27/07/2025i'm reading Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance right now and it's so great, Todd. Just wonderful. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I'm also quite fond of of "hey, you forgot your ... thingie" 020 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I got a t-shirt of it and I love it so much. 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 14/07/2025"I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren." 140 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Apparently I wasn't laid off. I just "participated" in the Reduction in Force (RIF) "process." 050 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025well, he spilled it across the big lab-table thingie in front of the chalkboard, so he didn't have to bend. probably some chalk got away from him and he pretended that didn't happen either! 020 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Also fairly certain that from one Friday to the next Thursday, he gave literally the same lecture. LIke he opened his notes to the wrong page and never realized at all his error. 110 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I had Dr. Barker as an undergrad! We once watched him knock a gallon-sized bucket of chalk over while lecturing and and then continuing to lecture while clumsily picking up all the chalk--never once breaking rhythm or acknowledging what happened. (I tell this story OFTEN when college comes up.) 230 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025what is the worst word ever and yes! yes! i agree! it's "impactful" 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I made these little stickers to put on the envelopes for mailing "Bingo Robots Cuts Down Trees." Do you want a copy of "Bingo Robot Cuts Down Trees"? 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 14/04/2025i would like to write my dumb little poems now please. maybe also if the sun could come back out. if all the internet could crash so i can't work in any more dumb little google docs. (jk! they're HUGE fucking google docs that are devouring my waking and sleeping hours.) 030 0
Reposted by Sarah Beddow/BoyleSarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Shit is bleak. So please fill out this Google Form with your address and I will mail you a copy of this comic/zine/thingie that I made based on a story dictated by my 5-year-old. forms.gle/Zs5z3eHMic6o... 111 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Shit is bleak. So please fill out this Google Form with your address and I will mail you a copy of this comic/zine/thingie that I made based on a story dictated by my 5-year-old. forms.gle/Zs5z3eHMic6o... 111 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025A local print shop, Pittsburgh Print Ship, did just a bang-up fucking job on these. Please send me your address--don't care if I know you!--and I will mail you a copy (or two). forms.gle/Zs5z3eHMic6o...forms.gleBingo Robot Cuts Down Trees Order FormPlease fill out the form below to receive a copy of "Bingo Robot Cuts Down Trees" for free through the mail. That said, if you want to donate a dollar to me to support the postage costs, I would not s... 010 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Sometimes Bingo also fights bad guys. 120 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This picture washed out the title--it looks better in person! "Bingo Robot Cuts Down Trees" is only half about cutting down trees. 100 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I fell behind on Commonplace. Which episode? Maybe I'll use this as my cue to get back to poetry listening. 100 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Oh I'm so excited for a new book from you! Cutting School is one of my absolute favorite books on education in the US. 111 0
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social · 12/03/2025this is pretty much why i think we've never had the S before--too many possiblities! 110 0
Reposted by Sarah Beddow/BoyleAnil Dash @anildash.com · 23/02/2025A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”. 682549464 0