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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Love this pic from the book launch @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social, signing books & seeing friends like superstar playwright @sarimuse.bsky.social💖. @chireviewpress.bsky.social

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

As seen in Boston. Out of the mouth of babes.

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Dropkick Murphys holding us together in the rain at Boston City Hall Plaza

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm excited to share that my play WHO'S THERE? is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award. Photo from the concert reading of WHO'S THERE? at the regional festival with Lucy Teixeira and Teddy Girouard.

A female and male actor, in their 20s, on stage for a concert reading of a play. They're standing in front of music stands. The woman is gesturing with an excited look on her face.

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Facebook Reels had an ad for a career coaching service. The dude is standing in front of his purple (?!) Tesla. Absolutely roasted in the comments.

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

For all who need this today. (from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light')

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Let Elon in Fort Knox. I'm having some Cask of Amontillado fantasies.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real
techie in the cafeteria of a software company.

The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take
to wipe out a disease inherited recessively on the X chromosome. First
come calculations of inheritance probabilities. Given a population of a
given size, one of the engineers arrives at a wipe-out date. Immediately
another suggests that the date could be moved forward by various
manipulations of the inheritance patterns. For example, he says, there could be an education campaign.

The six team members then fall over one another with further
suggestions. They start with rewards to discourage carriers from breeding.
Immediately they move to fines for those who reproduce the disease. Then they go for what they call “more effective” measures: Jail for breeding. Induced abortion. Forced sterilization.

Now they’re hot. The calculations are flying. Years and years fall from
the final doom-date of the disease.

Finally, they get to the ultimate solution. “It’s straightforward,” someone
says. “Just kill every carrier.” Everyone responds to this last suggestion
with great enthusiasm. One generation and—bang—the disease is gone.

Quietly, I say, “You know, that’s what the Nazis did.”

They all look at me in disgust. It’s the look boys give a girl who has
interrupted a burping contest. One says, “This is something my wife would say.

When he says “wife,” there is no love, warmth, or goodness in it. In this
engineer’s mouth, “wife” means wet diapers and dirty dishes. It means
someone angry with you for losing track of time and missing dinner.
Someone sentimental. In his mind (for the moment), “wife” signifies all
programming-party-pooping, illogical things in the universe.

Still, I persist. “It started as just an idea for the Nazis, too, you know.”

The engineer makes a reply that sounds like a retch. “This is how I know
you’re not a real techie,” he says.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
• Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
• Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
• Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
• Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
• Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
• Average Federal Salary: $106,000
• Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
• A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
• Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
• Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
• Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Anyone help me disable mf'ing Copilot from MS Word in Mac. I found the instructions online: Preferences> Copilot > Uncheck the Enable Copilot checkbox. Except . . . THERE IS NO ENABLE COPILOT CHECKBOX. sigh. The checkbox says "Collapse Copilot summary automatically" Help

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

@moulton.house.gov I’m a MA resident. For gods sake don’t raise the tone of compromise in advance. Sure,there will be a bill most people agree on. But their agenda is to dismantle govt for ordinary people, social services, and civil rights and increase the wealth&power disparity. We need your fight

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My Auburn Cemetery’s annual solstice experience made even more magical by the season’s first snow

Glowing eclipse art piece in wintry night setting

Green colored projection mapped onto a church in wintry night setting

People carrying lanterns down a path at night in snow covered cemetery

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Help support We Need Diverse Books by getting Celeste Ng's amazing book miniatures. The cutest gift for a lit lover!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I think I've finally figured out what's wrong with Elon Musk. His parents are both VC Andrews characters.

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Underrated experience: airport shoe shine. For $15+tip my boots look fab but more so I always have the best conversations. Today at Logan the gentleman who shined my shoes is a recent theology PhD from BU & a minister. We talked about religion and wtf America. We shared family stories & photos.

Photo of recently shined black boots sticking out from hem of black pants

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Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Not a morning person. Want to be. Tips?

Comix drawing of an unhappy looking orange half being squeezed for juice on a manual juice squeezer. Pitcher of orange juice in background.

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