Sarah Farooqui

Literature/policy/politics.
Never caffeinated enough. Jill of many trades.
Often document my wild adventures in reading & binge-watching here. (Posts👇🏽 purposefully useless & personal.)

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2024-12-04 15:55:27

Question for all countries, not just US.
From: @nprofile…eqw3
https://zirk.us/@CindyWeinstein/113595308962376592

2024-07-21 15:57:17

The resilience of slow days.
#Silentsunday #books @npub1kt3…5004
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/825/294/905/903/215/original/946562e4592fa7fd.jpeg

2024-06-23 06:24:37

Everyone is recharging their batteries next to their OG mothership.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Sunday #SilentSunday #whitey #mungo #fifi #mothership
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/664/494/908/584/342/original/56074f871f2214d0.jpeg

2024-05-26 15:15:53

If you can’t find that perfect pasta plate with a 1 inch curved ridge, make that perfect pasta plate with the 1 inch curved ridge.
🍽️🙌🏽
#pastaplate #pottery #platesofmastodon #silentsunday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/508/036/946/410/614/original/73fbe1b6d0626afa.jpeg

2024-05-13 11:10:23

Was stuck in a horrid traffic jam for an hour, but in gorgeous weather.
#Nature is healing itself 🙌🏽🌥️

2024-04-04 09:14:46

"Books are a good, cheap weapon to fight against extremism,” he said.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/112208748774826646

2024-03-15 07:25:23

If the current #politics around the world says anything, it is that people are not stupid. If they consistently show who they are, (through their votes) we need to believe them. This is what they want.

2024-02-24 15:47:51

Imagine waking up early morning, & finding a scrawny indie cat vibing & chilling inside the sink like an entitled overlord, because it's his world, and you plebs, are all just living in it.
#Caturday #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #Kito
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/987/234/411/729/195/original/52cb3a6c3d104d74.jpeg

2024-02-22 17:57:34

"But today the Amber Room is a room lost in layers of time, obscured by the flames and political paperwork of a great war. It had a long, eventful existence, traveled further than most rooms do, and was last seen in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, Russia, in 1944, just before the city was carpet-bombed into oblivion. Then it vanished, leaving a thousand traces in its wake."
#history #amberroom
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amber-room-mystery-russia-nazis

2024-02-10 15:06:53

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@npub1a25…l27u That explains the tragic sad expression! 🤣

2024-02-10 14:22:05

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@npub1a25…l27u what an innocent faced tabby! 😻

2024-01-21 13:25:13

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."
#MilanKundera @npub1kt3…5004

2024-01-19 15:39:25

WH Auden on JRR Tolkein.
(Everytime I come across this piece, I have to share it, because...)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/auden-and-elvish
#Auden #Tolkein #LOTR #Poetry
@npub1kt3…5004

2023-12-12 08:04:24

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Solutions often angle around talking *about* people who believe in conspiracy theories (akin to gossip), & few around talking directly *to* people across contexts, to understand *why* they believe in it.
If we don't gauge the root causes of belief systems, we can't address it, no matter the evidence. (Eg. the Covid-19 vaccines)

2023-11-24 07:45:36

“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
-- Malcolm X
(Via Nikita Gill on X)

2023-11-04 15:35:19

Pathetic Fallacy: Nature reflecting the mood of man.
#Caturday
#Caspi #orangecat #catsofmastodon
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2023-10-17 10:11:23

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@npub18p3…03wh There are two types of cooks-- those who develop an intuition & can improvise & those who need to be methodical & precise with the recipe, for it to make sense to them. I'm sadly the latter & no matter what, just can't develop a spice, salt, or or flame intuition!

2023-09-19 06:50:27

Teach your kids the art of banal small talk.

2023-09-06 13:42:16

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@npub1khx…geyg And also, don't easily forget the kindness that was showed to you.