@sarahthurmond
Native of Del Rio, Texas. Proud cat mom to Lola. Freelance editor/writer, web and events editor for Texas Highways, alum of Austin Monthly, Tennis, SI. Interests include tennis, pop culture, theater, politics, and celebrity couplings.
Soo Corpus Christi is nearly out of water and will likely hit a crisis point within months. If nothing is done, and so far Texas Politicians don’t seem to be taking it seriously, the entire city would essentially shutdown hurting fuel and gas prices
www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...
Staff at the nation’s largest ICE concentration camp, located north of El Paso, Texas, have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to "die by suicide," according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Get yourself a basket that you can really stretch out in!
CDC Issues New Warning Over Fatal Disease’s Spread: What To Know In CT (and the rest of the U.S.)
In the U.S., vaccines are readily available for the disease, which has seen an uptick in some 30 countries.
patch.com/connecticut/...
New footage analysed by Bellingcat shows two of the world’s most wanted crime figures, Christy and Daniel Kinahan, appearing openly at a mixed martial arts event in Dubai, despite US sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to their arrest.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
These people are just Trump propagandists. How can they stand being such spineless sycophants, especially when they know he can dump them at any moment? I’m embarrassed for them.
And stop using Google for everything. You can go to Wikipedia or IMDB if you want to look up where Jennifer Garner was born (which I did today because I thought it was Dallas when it’s Houston). Use the @merriam-webster.com app to look up a word’s meaning. So many other options to look up stuff.
Alley cat naps in a woven round basket, her leg sticking straight out over the side.
🦵 #caturday
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
This was my previous job at The Texas Tribune! Highly recommend applying. If you’re at #NICAR26, feel free to ask me questions about the role and working at the Tribune and/or moving to Texas.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Just remembered SXSW was canceled on this day six years ago because of Covid. sxsw.com/2020-event-u...
oh good lord
You don't get it? Sports? Wars? Sports and wars? Sports = wars? Presidents are like armchair quarterbacks of wars? Sports are battles that take place on fields, like battlefields? Does that help? It's so obvious! ;)
Time to start planning my itinerary for my summer staycation!
Kennedy: "I was stunned when Noem answered categorically that the president approved every single bit of it. Later that day, I got a call from President Trump. He was mad as a mamma wasp ... she was dead as fried chicken."
They're going to get rid of the NCAA, aren't they?
Former President Barack Obama at the memorial for Rev. Jesse Jackson cracking jokes to Isaiah Thomas:
"I know I've gone long. It was gonna be much shorter until Isaiah spoke. I figure if a Detroit Piston could take up that much time."
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This is such good news!
Is it just me or is this sushi roll sticking its tongue out at us?
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
It does not surprise me that Tesla would ignore "warning signs." That's all they've done with their Cybertruck. www.statesman.com/business/art...
Exactly! 😂
The Andy Richter Call-In Show is back this Wednesday, March 11th - and @tompapacomedy.bsky.social and I want to hear your COOKING DISASTER stories! Whether it was a nightmare restaurant shift or the worst meal ever - leave us a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out the Google Form in my bio.
AI is making people lazy.
I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from
