Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I guess we know who watches the watchmen now, huh? Turns out, it's the watchmen, and they say there's nothing to worry about! 010 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Love work, loathe mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. Pirkei Avot 1:10 160 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025My first email account was a VAX account and I used it to email exactly two people. 1) A very cute boy from MIT and 2) my professor for Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light. Because no one else had email yet. 050 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct... All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Orwell, 1984 0349 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Okay, I'm not an economist, but I feel like this guy might have made some shaky economic decisions somewhere along the line. 1120 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025In the Middle Ages violating sanctuary by, say, killing Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, would get you excommunicated, or executed, or (at the very least) fined. 060 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025How is it possible that we're all just cheerfully lining up to hand over the things that make us human? 030 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reasons, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Would feed on one another. --Shakespeare, teaching the sin of emphathy 030 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man, 110 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Plodding to th’ ports and costs for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; 100 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, 110 0
Reposted by Sarah SkwireJanet Bufton 🍁🌻 @janetbufton.ca · 23/01/2025Using a podcast with urban planner Alain Bertaud as a starting point, I explore similarities between housing regulations that restrict building (and repurposing) and limits on the Smithian "extent of the market"—and therefore the division of labour and our ability to solve problems of/in cities.adamsmithworks.orgThe Great Antidote: Extra: Alain Bertaud on Urban Planning and Cities | Adam Smith WorksDiversity in cities creates challenges but the largeness of cities make them great places to address those challenges. 002 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Levellers, you say? How about 7 volumes worth of primary source material?https://oll.libertyfund.org/collections/the-levellers 000 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It is very odd watching Episcopalians suddenly taking political heat. My decision to reread Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, rewatch the Tudors, and run a reading group on Shakespeare's plays was supposed to distract me from contemporary politics, not mirror it! But there you go... 070 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Here's a deep cut for you. Try Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books or Nancy and Plum, all by Betty MacDonald. Exceptional kids fiction. 110 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Put 2 T flour and 2 T butter in the blender. Salt and pepper to taste. Turn on blender. Add, in alternating small batches, through the small central opening in blender lid, 2 C cubes cheese and 2 cups hot milk. (start and end w milk) Pour over cooked pasta and bake at 350 until it's done. 000 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I just listened my way backwards to all the episodes of The Recipe, which is a delight. And the mac and cheese episode got me wondering if you'd ever heard of my Mom's approach to mac and cheese--which is to make the sauce in the blender (the fancy new appliance you got if you got married in 1960). 100 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Maybe it's all my years in Indiana, home of the Kinsey center, but I find it somewhat difficult to read "International Love Data Week" in the way it was presumably intended. 020 0
Sarah Skwire @sarahskwire.bsky.social · 20/01/2025We need a word for the moment when a metaphor turns out to be just plain facts. 192 0
