Sarah Archer
@sarcher.bsky.social
Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, Antiques, and elsewhere. https://www.sarah-archer.com/
My little town in England has a bandstand in the park dedicated to the NHS staff of COVID and to those lost.
I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
The Ellison Credibility Crisis
The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...
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"What's the most unhinged argument we can make to criticize people for doing something that doesn't affect us in any way? No bad ideas, let's get some concepts on the whiteboard."
If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
Turns out, "vote blue no matter who" really means Vote Blue No Matter Who
A curious specimen for Wallpaper Wednesday: this 1942 sample from F. Schumacher & Co. called “Border, Trumps.” Make of that what you will, from the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Oh hell yes @ifbookspod.bsky.social did Three Cups of Tea, where we learned that “don’t be an asshole” was so much better tactical advice than the entire counterinsurgency manual that a conman figured it out before David Petraeus did.
Three Cups of Tea
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · August 5 · 1h 52m
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"Certain men are pining for the service that women’s increasing and invaluable intellectual freedom has make them feel deprived of. Generative AI spills slop into a void of needy men’s dashed expectations. No wonder incels love their AI girlfriends."
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 22h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Getting psyched up for the mysteries of Wallpaper Wednesday
These are fabulous – I had to go to his website and look at loads of them
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
Textile Tuesday eh? Let me introduce Swedish Maja Michaelsdotter who makes tufted carpets www.majamichaelsdotter.se
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
I’ve seen of of his! Fascinating to look close. www.artsbma.org/collection/s...
Shirvanshah
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buttons has won the michigan primary
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h agohey girl!!!
Correct, the point isn’t to make them feel shame. The point is to reinforce the group norms.
Betsy Humphrey@betsyvt.bsky.social · yesterdayThey may be shameless, but shunning, booing and not accepting them into public spaces is the correct response.
New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
Old For Bluesky is honestly pretty great, though
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h agoi’m no longer the bluesky age 😩
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18h agoAs @katemanne.bsky.social notes, it's reinforcing male entitlement to female deference. If men wallow in AI porn and bots saying "yes, sir," all day, they may react poorly when real women say no. It could lead to violence. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Something telling: Blanche said the DOJ is working so the "Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state"—making clear they never saw Dobbs as giving abortion 'back to the states', but a tool to ban abortion nationwide
Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷♀️
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...