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Sarah Steegar

@paperandairplanes

Writer & sometime Flight Attendant. Technically an anthropologist. I commute across the Atlantic (I know, right?!) Nerd for all things ancient history, literature, linguistics. What’s your Roman Empire? #pile

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This. I do not eat there because I am turned off buddy ridiculous size. No way could I eat that thing

06.03.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 10581 🔁 2293 💬 275 📌 148

THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.

06.03.2026 05:43 👍 243 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 5

And yes, the food matt needs a clean it’s Friday please pretend you don’t see that

06.03.2026 08:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Finally got my diva cat on video doing His Thing (where he meows at me demandingly until I follow him to his food bowl so that I can basically give him a massage while he eats 🤣)

06.03.2026 08:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 👍 7432 🔁 2153 💬 29 📌 65

So happy my job is to fly around in airplanes rn and the head of anti-terrorism is 24 years old

06.03.2026 07:10 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Yes. And it struck a warm note of nostalgia in my chest.

06.03.2026 07:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She looks the vibe I believe you completely

06.03.2026 06:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

05.03.2026 20:31 👍 1231 🔁 219 💬 11 📌 0

Legendborn YESSSSSS (was coming to say that)

05.03.2026 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jameela is the most “I want to like this person but ugh what the fuck” person I’ve ever heard of.

05.03.2026 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

23.09.2025 20:58 👍 3659 🔁 554 💬 23 📌 28
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Love this approach

04.03.2026 11:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too 💪

04.03.2026 09:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

one thing i feel ppl have forgotten is that democracy isn’t just having elections, it’s also an *ethic* that you distribute power across society. different authorities over different spheres. wealth concentration isn’t solely abt unfairness, as a power imbalance it’s an affront to democratic values.

04.03.2026 04:37 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Really sad

04.03.2026 07:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Busy sending form letters full of platitudes about how amazing Trump is to his constituents (ask me how I know)

04.03.2026 07:20 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whaaaaat is going on over there holy smokes

04.03.2026 07:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m now having a fun series of fantasies where I think about all the branding nicknames different political figures that would have had on their ballot.

04.03.2026 07:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They should replace Polymarket with a predictive betting site that only covers fun stuff like this.

04.03.2026 02:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I either saw this comb (the original, not the chocolate one) or one like it in the Yorvik Center in York just a couple weeks ago.

By the by, it would have cost something like £600-700 in today’s money.

04.03.2026 06:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gods this is wonderful

04.03.2026 06:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m glad I haven’t seen any of those because I wouldn’t be able to roll my eyes hard enough

04.03.2026 06:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He went through a company like a lamplighter –
see the dull minds, one after another,
begin to glow, to shed
a beneficent light.

He went through a company like
a knifegrinder – see the dull minds
scattering sparks of themselves,
becoming razory, becoming useful.

He went through a company
as himself. But now he’s one
of the multitudinous company of the dead
where are no individuals.

The beneficent lights dim
but don’t vanish. The razory edges
dull, but still cut. He’s gone: but you can see
his tracks still, in the snow of the world.


Norman MacCaig, "Praise of a Man"

He went through a company like a lamplighter – see the dull minds, one after another, begin to glow, to shed a beneficent light. He went through a company like a knifegrinder – see the dull minds scattering sparks of themselves, becoming razory, becoming useful. He went through a company as himself. But now he’s one of the multitudinous company of the dead where are no individuals. The beneficent lights dim but don’t vanish. The razory edges dull, but still cut. He’s gone: but you can see his tracks still, in the snow of the world. Norman MacCaig, "Praise of a Man"

No AI will ever match the extravagent profundity and beauty of Norman MacCaig's elegaic "Praise of a Man," because no AI will ever understand what these words *mean*:

03.03.2026 16:15 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Back in the 80s, we all really wanted to be living in the future. Little did we know:

A) when we got to the future, we'd want to go back, and

B) we were already living in the future.

03.03.2026 13:22 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

Secret cheat code

03.03.2026 13:24 👍 529 🔁 36 💬 9 📌 0

Timeline cleanse

02.03.2026 09:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Activate: core memories of my
Grandparents’ decades-worth
Catalogue of Reader’s Digest (which I read all the way through multiple times)

Oh, and Highlights magazine. I loved that shit

02.03.2026 09:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for the heads up

02.03.2026 09:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0