Sarah Carson

Will not listen to your podcast.
she / her

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

[Sarah Carson @Sarah_D_C]

Tell 'em, Ethel!

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”

[Grǣġhama @grahamscheper]

There’s a cool feature in Latin, the gerundive, which is a verbal adjective implying that something should/must happen. A few of them survive into English words:

If someone should be revered, they are “reverend”.

If something must be cut away, it is a “dividend”.

My favorite: if a story is so good that it simply must be read by everyone, it is “legend”!

Latin reverendus/a, dividendum, and legenda. Pretty cool that what is sometimes a difficult concept for Latin learners is actually present in English, albeit rarely. Do let me know if there are any good ones I’ve missed.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“It used to be that a socially avoidant woman would come for therapy saying something like, ‘I’m a painfully shy person and I need help learning how to deal better with people in social situations.’ Now a person with that concern is likely to tell me that she ‘has’ social phobia—as if an alien affliction has invaded her otherwise problem-free subjective life.”

People talk about themselves in acronyms oddly dissociated from their lived experience: ‘my OCD,’ ‘my eating disorder,’ ‘my bipolar.’

There is an odd estrangement from one’s sense of an agentic self… and consequently one’s possibilities for solving a problem.”

—Nancy McWilliams (Diagnosis and Its Discontents: Reflections on Our Current Dilemma, 2021)

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Just a quick reminder that the man who "goes to work to support his family" is sacrificing nothing and would still have to work without a family. He'd have more disposable income, sure, but a man who has a family to support has chosen to spend his disposable income on the privilege of having a family. It's an exchange, not a sacrifice, and it's an exchange that heavily favours him because if men had to pay professionals to do the labour their wives are doing, most men couldn't afford it.

[Brendan Kelly @brendankellol]

inside you there are two wolves

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

Translation of the Chinese comment:

Revolution begins with yourself. An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside, it's new life.

[Sarah Carson @Sarah_D_C]

@helen_spirit1 I think she decided Andrew was her favorite back when he was young and innocent and then, having decided that, she saw him with those rose tinted glasses right till the very end

[❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ @tonyhawktruther]

String of words your grandpa lets out when he stubs his toe

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means."
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA 2021: “You can’t tell me to wear a mask.” “You can’t force a vaccine.” “You can’t make me stay home.”

MAGA 2026: “Just follow orders.” “Have your papers ready.” “Comply and nothing bad happens.”

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I watched a man film his daughter's first steps and he watched it through the screen. she walked toward him and he was not there he was in the rectangle and she reached for a ghost. that is the whole thing now. we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended

[Sarah Carson @Sarah_D_C]

@thescottbarber Look at this point it's worth a shot 🤷

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

—Simone Weil

[Ali Ansari @aa51_ansari]

A prayer for Historians:

Dear Lord, protect us from the Models of political scientists and the Theories of International relations experts. May we always understand the contingent and irrational in political action.

[Sarah Carson @Sarah_D_C]

@havanesemom13 Thought that was Zelensky in the background for a second there...

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

*sip* ☕️

[Vladimir Jenin @VladimirJenin]

My take on Luxon is he has no interest in politics. He’s an attention seeking narcissist who thought he would get more famous than Jacinda Arden and get to go golfing with trump. He also looks like a newborn rat