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@sarahv.dftba.social
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Disabled New York pedestrian, music lover, plush jaguar caretaker. 🪴🙂🪴 Putting you all on nicely organized lists instead of doing follow-backs for my own sanity. <3

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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 13h
This is very neat and has lots of cool extremely niche science & nerd stuff (as well as normie stuff) if you are in NYC mid-October! Everything from art and architecture to touring city facilities like sanitation, health inspectors, sign makers, MTA, and the Dept of Environmental Protection.
ohny.org
Festival Event line Up
Discover tours, talks, and events that connect New Yorkers with the places, people, and ideas that shape the city.
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NerdfighterNichole @nerdfighternichole.dftba.social · 30/09/2026
Okay, come one, come all to a 🍕 Pizza(mas) Party in the Nerdfighter 3rd Space Discord 🍕 on Saturday afternoon/evening (for US folks)!! Let’s eat pizza or snacks and spend some time together!!! Yome in your zone here: tz.terabytetiger.com?dt=179106840...
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 29/09/2026
Riding the struggle bus this week if I'm being totally honest. I'm in pain and I don't feel well and it feels like nothing is going right. But at least some people are being patient and doing their best to help, and I've got friends to talk me through it. 🚌🐢 The only way out is through...
A bus emoji that has a face on it with eyes clenched shut and a squiggle mouth like it is in pain or upset
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 29/09/2026
I woke up with a horrible crick in my neck today, and every time I think that phrase I think "crick is improper English" and then I'm like 🤔 do I have a...creek in my neck? That can't be right...
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 29/09/2026
86 minutes into waiting for a pizza delivery. This is the neighborhood pizza place that has been under new management, and I am starting to have a strong feeling that the old management was better.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently the bad part of the storm isn't here yet so Imma go take my daily walk and maybe go see if the turtles are doing ok in the park. Wish me luck at not getting hit with flying debris 🤗
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 26/09/2026
When the weatherman says "don't panic" that means there's nothing to worry about, right? 😬
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 26/09/2026
Big ol sunset tonight with the storm clouds and wind rolling in!
A bright red and pink sunset with interesting layers of heavy clouds and the edges of a few buildings at the bottom and right side of the photo
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 25/09/2026
I got a trainee + observer doing my vaccines today. She holds up the box of Nuvaxovid and says "So, we've got Pfizer..." and the observer interrupts - "That's Moderna." "Sorry, Moderna!" Me, knowing I requested Novavax and it's Novavax: "OK. Great!" 😅 I don't have the spoons to go there today.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday: 🥳 My insurance approves the prior auth for my $6000/mo autoimmune medication almost instantly that I superduper wasn't sure they would. Today: I get a letter saying I no longer qualify for financial help with my prescription drugs. 🙃
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 25/09/2026
Unusual audience at the first night of Mahler's 5th Symphony at the Phil tonight - they added an extra night later on so almost no subscribers were there, but way more randos and tourists than usual. Multiple standing ovations at the end and a lady behind me yelled "NEW YORK IS BACK, BABY!" 🤣
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 24/09/2026
This is pretty cool! Looks like it will work similar to rush tickets, except it's free instead of $25/ticket. And reserved for NYC residents who have never bought an opera ticket before. All done through an app like a lot of Broadway shows do.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 24/09/2026
We need to start prosecuting these "whoops, I hacked someone" cases. Hacking is a crime. Hacking government databases is a SERIOUS crime. You can't just say "oops, my bad" afterwards. Pass a damn law about it and start prosecuting. If you can't control your software, don't sell it.
theguardian.com
Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 23/09/2026
I know it's not my fault that I'm sick and there's a lot of things wrong with me, but I'm starting to feel guilty for being a high maintenance rheumatology patient. I would feel a lot less annoying if we could get appointments when we need them instead of having to bug doctors in the portal... ☹️
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 22/09/2026
My chronically ill ass has been on 12 of the drugs on this list 🫠
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 22/09/2026
A must read... 🫠 "By the end of 2024, FBI agents had enough evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers of both political parties. They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation. Then Trump returned to the White House."
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone is wondering, those $300 noise cancelling headphones don't do a damn thing when there is an entire drum corps warming up directly in front of your living room window. 🫨 Might have to try a pair of earplugs under the headphones... 😵‍💫
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 19/09/2026
It feels soooo quiet here tonight without every single vehicle driving by making that KATHUNK-KATHUNK-KATHUNK noise driving over those giant metal plates in the road. Luckily this weekend is the six-hour parade of drum corps that goes by a block from my apartment. In case my migraine gets lonely.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 18/09/2026
Current playlist: massive construction vehicles, a demented stop-and-start ice cream truck, car horns, and an ambulance siren stuck in traffic because the construction has taken out half the road. Why I get migraines, reason #5,784.
A turtle emoji with swirly eyes and stars going around its head
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 18/09/2026
Big news, it looks like they might be finishing the SIX weeks of constant road work on these one and a half blocks of road in front of my apartment. They've got the big asphalt truck here to resurface it today. Hallefuckinlujah. Still going to have to fix the sidewalk they dug up but that's minor.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 17/09/2026
*quietly dying* I just accidentally discovered that my vitamin C supplement is chewable but not sweetened IT'S SO SOUR 💀
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 15/09/2026
Hey good news I finally got a doctor to fill out this fricking prior authorization from MARCH! and the meds are being delivered today. Health insurance is... such a blessing.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 15/09/2026
Got a lovely handmade postcard today by the endlessly talented @helen-rosemier.bsky.social - I don't know much about Dutch geography so I don't know if it's an accurate map of Zeeland or an abstract painting under the influence of drugs after she broke her ribs in a cycling accident...
A postcard with irregular dark-yet-faded-blue tendrils encroaching from the left into a sort of pale bluey-greeny-beige background on the left. There are place names labeled in a few places including Zeeland, Ghent, and Kondekerke. My friend Helen has signed her name and the year on the right.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 13/09/2026
My pharmacy (which uses texting for customer support, which I used to love) has switched over to an LLM based customer support model and I am about to crash tf out This is critical medicine that I have questions about, I do not need absolute nonsense messages coming back from you right now
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 13/09/2026
Nothing quite like waking up with a migraine while I've got a cold with really bad sinus congestion. So much pressure in my head... uggggh.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 09/09/2026
I went to visit my family this weekend and they have given me the plague *weakly coughing* I'm always so careful with masking and stuff what with my illnesses and immune-suppressing meds. 🥲 I am already so sick without being sick, if you know what I mean! I hate it.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 08/09/2026
My doctor set up an appt for me for a long-desired specialist appt who has an 8-month-wait time. Made the appt in April, it is in Jan 2027. Just got a call that the specialist is no longer going to take my insurance so I can either cancel or pay $1,400 out of pocket. For one appointment. 🙃
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 06/09/2026
I'm in an Uber with a driver who has his phone giving verbal directions with little puns and jokes every time, which I did not know, or need to know, was an option
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 05/09/2026
I guess I'm psychic, because I just got the "are you SURE you can't do the (8 hour plan)??" and now it's sounding like they are just going to do it without me. 😑 Brain: not so stupid. Brain was picking up bad vibes.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 04/09/2026
This just happened again, and I did the "do not recommend" thing for the algorithm. But then it said "tell us why" and there's no option for "that B gave me a dirty look in Whole Foods like fifteen years ago and I'm still holding a grudge" so now I'm at a loss 🤔
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 04/09/2026
I'm causing an inconvenience to my friends because my disabled body cannot do 8+ hours of being out-and-about in the city and I'm feeling irrationally guilty even though that's such a ridiculous thing to expect me to do and they didn't even actually ask me to do it. 🫠 Why so stupid, brain?
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
bloodinthemachine.com
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 03/09/2026
Vote against the party of Mamdani, or else you'll get *checks notes* the roads fixed. Snow cleared. Lower crime. Libraries funded. Playgrounds repaired. Reducing small business regulations. AI out of elementary schools. A ban on hotel junk fees. ... gee, this is starting to sound pretty good ... 🤔
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 03/09/2026
Happy Birthday to @elisa.dftba.social !!! I hope you have a great day! My plush jaguar is heading down with a little gift basket he put together, he's been saving his allowance for ages to get you some presents.
From left to right: a fancy gift box, which is open and showing a Jellycat plush pigeon poking out the top; a gift basket which contains an 'envelope with a heart' emoji; a Chinese takeout box with chopsticks; a Switch 2; and a package of Churu. Next to all that is a black cat emoji.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 02/09/2026
Saw a new migraine specialist today and had a shocking experience. She...actually pulled in my chart from another hospital system and read it, instead of expecting me to fill her in on my 17-year migraine history and full medical history from memory, off the top of my head.
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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 01/09/2026
As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 01/09/2026
I truly don't mind doing people a little favor. If you want me to get an extra ticket to a concert so you can come with us, absolutely NBD. Receiving EIGHTEEN e-mails about this concert ticket is unhinged and I'm having regrets. 😬
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 31/08/2026
My elderly parents need a new printer for very occasional printing, is there a decent one out there right now that everyone doesn't hate? I haven't bought one since before they invented ink subscriptions and I hear a lot of horror stories 🙄
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 31/08/2026
There really should be truth-in-advertising laws that say you can't, e.g., display the logo of an insurance company on your website under "insurance we accept" if you aren't in network for that insurance. Literally what is the point of lying to people?
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 31/08/2026
Someone mentioned to me that one of my friends Sarah started using a different (gender-neutral) name and now I don't know if they're doing an enby/trans thing or if they just got tired of being one of eight Sarahs in every room 🤔 Need to hire a PI or something so I don't misgender them.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 30/08/2026
That magic moment at an intersection when the lights in both directions are red for a couple seconds while the lights change over...Two cyclists almost collide as they BOTH ran the red lights simultaneously. 🙄🙄🙄 One actually had the gall to yell at the other one for running the red.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 29/08/2026
I wish my noise-cancelling headphones didn't let in the jackhammers and loud thumpy music every time I made a facial expression or yawned or something. We need to work on this technology.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 29/08/2026
Happy birthday to @nerdfighternichole.dftba.social ! I think I almost missed it in your time zone, but I got in under the wire 😄 I hope you had a fun day and got yourself a treat! The birthday turtle probably won't get there for a while, but it's coming!
A turtle emoji carrying a birthday cake and wearing a party hat with confetti
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 28/08/2026
I tried to type 'grubhub' into my browser because I was thinking about ordering dinner but I accidentally typed 'drughub' because I guess I take a lot of medication these days and it's on my mind. In other news, I have a great idea for a delivery app.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 27/08/2026
I appear to be getting the first weekday off of jackhammering/road construction noise in weeks! Hallelujah
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 26/08/2026
The absolute luxury of when the jackhammering construction boys finish by 2PM Only two more months... if they finish on schedule 🫩
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 24/08/2026
🤔 Tipping conundrums. How much do you leave in the app for a $50 grocery delivery after your neighbor reports that the delivery person made "inappropriate comments" to her in the hallway? (no further details given, not sure exactly what was said)
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sudan is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, fueled by the recklessness of countries sending in arms and by the complacency of the international community. UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher speaks eloquently to the UN Security Council on Sudan.
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 24/08/2026
How are people still spelling it "Tick Tock" and "tic toc" in 2026. It's the most ubiquitously annoying social media app on the planet, I swear you can figure out that six letter brand name. Sincerely, a (former) professional proofreader who can only ignore so much
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Sarah 🍕 @sarahv.dftba.social · 23/08/2026
Tuberculosis mentioned?
youtube.com
'Darth Vader' makes the case for Flock cameras at city council meeting
YouTube video by Guardian News
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