Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026...and just caught a whiff of some of the Jason Arday discourse on this site. Time to log off! 010
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026uh oh, now Stevie Nicks is singing "Sara." I think I might need to get out of here (too many emotions) 110
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026logging on because "Swinging Party" is playing in the coffee shop and I don't think anyone else here is appreciating just how good it sounds 220
Reposted by SaraChandra Steele @chandrasteele.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Alert! There is a new Eve Babitz book out today! www.nyrb.com/products/too...nyrb.comToo L.A.A generous selection of letters, sent and unsent, by the one and only Eve Babitz, queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. 021
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026about 16.6% of registered Democrats voted in Tuesday's primaries in NYC. (wondering if that figure is accurate—but it's the only one I can find) 000
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026yet again not sharing in the collective euphoria of my city—fascinating way to live 100
Reposted by SaraJordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026[Tootsie Roll Pop owl voice] How many catastrophic governance failures does it take to get to end of the world, one, a two, 172
Reposted by SaraAnne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026In April someone is giving a reading every day, the turnout is poor, and those that do show up leave early. --Pliny, 2nd century 1335
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Deleted earlier response because I misread it. Yes, I’ve listened on and off and know people (from conservative backgrounds who are not at all educated on I/P) who listen and will take this as truth. Dispiriting. 120
Reposted by SaraBob Reich @bobreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026RIP Hampshire. You were too good of a school for these times… 011
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I worked in a candy store in CT in the 90s and we sold penuche fudge. Hardly anyone who walked into the store was familiar with the term and I nearly always had to explain what it was. The store was Hilliard’s and there is still at least one branch extant. 130
Reposted by SaraR.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Murmur, the band’s debut studio album, was released 43 years ago on April 12, 1983. Produced by Mitch Easter & Don Dixon, Murmur remains, according to music journalist Tim Peacock, “one of the most compelling and otherworldly debut albums in rock history.” Share your Murmur memories in the comments. 65785102
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Thanks for turning me on to her. I have her short story collection on hold at the library and am reading the ones that ran in the NYer now. 110
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I’m still furious at those discouraged voting in the last presidential cycle. 020
Reposted by Sarams-curmudge0n.bsky.social @ms-curmudge0n.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Evictions are up (over 60% in March), and the only reason the eviction rate wasn’t even higher was because of massive mutual aid efforts across the city. We still have a gap of $13,000. Please share our gofundme widely and please donate again, if you can. 💵 🌼 🥰 🏠 www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...gofundme.comDonate to Support Families at a South Minneapolis Public School, organized by Anne KosseffWe are a Title 1 neighborhood community school in south Minneapolis… Anne Kosseff needs your support for Support Families at a South Minneapolis Public School 0815
Reposted by SaraColony Laser @gryps2.bsky.social · 04/02/2026For February I'm reading Moderan, a collection of short stories by David R. Bunch. I have never seen such an absurdist take on the dystopian genre. Usually there is some amount of giving the devil his due, the power and technological force of the oppressors are depicted as serious and foreboding. 101
Reposted by SaraMichael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Why do birds suddenly appear every time I am near? Two words: suet pomade. 1101
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Meanwhile this is what non-Jews will be learning, courtesy, in this case, of the Know Your Enemy podcast. Alternate history really. And one that recasts historical arguments in terms of present day ones. The Good Jew/Bad Jew dichotomy immutable, historical. So dispiriting. 3133
Reposted by SaraArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 10/04/2026“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva said. “It is frightening in there. It is disgusting.” story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comSurprise inspection finds ICE stuffing migrants 'like sardines' into a facility with no bed, showersThree lawmakers visited a Mesa ICE facility unannounced and found overcrowding, with 250 detainees packed into rooms "like sardines" 401281659
Reposted by SaraLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 10/04/2026I want to be EXPLICIT that I am not against the Bund I am against playing this game of Good Jew/Bad Jew: Retro Edition, *especially* when non-Jews are playing 2443
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Oh well. It was good while it lasted. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/09/g...thecity.nyc 000
Reposted by SaraMatthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 08/04/2026What the heck is happening with Providence's Iryna Zarutska mural(s)? I tried to find out. www.bostonartreview.com/read/iryna-z...bostonartreview.comDispute Over Mural of Iryna Zarutska Erupts in Providence as Ties to Right-Wing Funding SurfaceArtist Ian Gaudreau claims city overreach, while city officials and LGBTQ community allege the Project Freedom 2025 mural is part of a Musk-funded campaign that uses art to weaponize public space. 292
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026what are we doing indeed? (I think most of the people fawning over this book know exactly what they’re doing.) 040
Reposted by SaraThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/03/2026Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it.nyti.msWhat’s It Like to Be Back in Print After 20 Years? A Bit Odd.Nancy Lemann published her first novel at 28. Then came “the doom.” Now she’s back in the spotlight, and not exactly comfortable with it. 1577
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026weird that the first time I came across this belief was in 2023 from a Jewish leftist (and I was well into my 40s). I thought I must have misread his comment that Jews “are not a nation.” Had to reread it several times before it sunk in. 110
Reposted by Sararev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/04/2026what are you TALKING about, man 132027
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Congestion pricing also means that traffic ain’t quite as bad in midtown these days either. 000
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Clinic came on while we were on a road trip recently and man that bad is good and sounds like little else. Holds up. 110
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Sarah this is the sort of confession it’s best to keep off main! 010
Reposted by SaraThe Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Sad news - Glen Baxter, who exhibited at Shandy Hall only last year, has died. He will leave a unique legacy - his surreal captioned drawings will forever make us smile. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comGlen Baxter obituaryAbsurdist artist and cartoonist who was a staple of the greeting cards rack and of publications such as the New Yorker 0115
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Despite short stories not generally being my thing, I enjoyed reading Gaskell’s Gothic Tales collection (from Penguin) the other year. I suspect that it is indeed minor. But if you are jonesing for Gaskell, this could be a good one to pick up. 110
Reposted by SaraJordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Counterpoint: ew, listen to yourself 142
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026And school trip permission slips had yet to be invented. That one is pissing me off. (Part of a larger cultural misunderstanding of the near past.) 010
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026This discourse is driving me up a wall. And well-meaning types are picking up on this story, which is the sort of thing being amplified by nefarious actors, without interrogating it. And of course they are mostly unaware that shrapnel did land in this very area not long ago. 100
Reposted by SaraCentrism Fan Acct 🔹 @centrismfanacct.bsky.social · 29/03/2026There's a big Hasan Piker discourse going on over on the other site. So in honor of that, I will repost my favorite Hasan video in history. Featuring: "Fuck you old lady. Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking idiotic old lady." "Suck my dick old lady." "God damn dude. Yo, fuck this refugee!" 113427142
