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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like there is a whole op ed here about the actual security being neighbors who talk to & trust each other but I am not the right person to unpack the racial and generational elements underlying the original anecdote.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 5h

These people are mostly dead now so I don't think this is a violation of their trust. It was nice that the neighbors all shared their codes with each other, I guess?

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 5h

It was funny when we realized that not only my parents but also 75% of their neighbors chose 1066 as their home security code when ADT came around their area in the 1990s

History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 10h

959 years ago, on the 14th of October 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place. Harold Godwinson (king of England for 282 days) died in the battle that would turn William from Bastard to Conqueror. Battle Abbey's high altar is said to be in the exact location of Harold II's death. #otd #history 🗃️

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting an English soldier in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings, wool on linen, 11th-century; in the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, France.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 19h

you know how sometimes you can tell way too much effort was put into a very bad idea

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 21h

I uhm picked a living woman who wasn’t murdered as a tween and didn’t die in a plane crash for my mammogram locker.

Anne Frank, Maya Angelou, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Jackie Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Amelia Earheart

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 19h

what the actual 👀

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, we didn't plant pumpkins.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 19h

yes, I forgot to mention that 😂

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 20h

I love that someone, somewhere, has cornered this very specific museum market.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 20h

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 20h

Erica Lord, the Codes We Carry, beaded DNA #sciart for Indigenous Peoples Day
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Beadwork showing different DNA patterns, including one that is displayed on a dog mannequin

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 20h

this year's pumpkin harvest, potholder for scale

very tiny yellow pumpkin, swimming on a handmade green and yellow potholder

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

It's annoying how many of our hobbies have been appropriated for tradwife content!!

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

what could possibly go wrong

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

This man's great-grandfather died in a tragic agricultural accident, AS I HAVE REMINDED HIM.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

"My husband wants a scythe for Christmas," a timeless tale

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, Shannon!

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

A little Thomas Cobden-Sanderson adjacent poem nobody needed, for #smallpoemsunday! 🌊 📚 🕊

Arts & crafts

Gulls and pigeons peck at slugs
Of lead.

Water floods the channel
Twice each day:

Metal into a matrix
Casting river shapes.

Some humans have
Cast type into the river.

What might one hope to catch
With all those letters?

Heavily
They fly down from the bridge.

Along the shingle,
Someone comes gleaning.

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

A little Thomas Cobden-Sanderson adjacent poem nobody needed, for #smallpoemsunday! 🌊 📚 🕊

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 2d

live in a way that you're remembered like this challenge

"Fr Tom Casey, Gonzaga chaplain, described Magan as a 'gatherer of light', telling how he listened to the whisper of bees and the murmur of bog and oak.

'He lived in conversation with creation – ag comhrá leis an gcruthú féin.'"

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 7d

Manchán Magan found wonder everywhere, mourners hear at funeral full of music and poetry

Writer and broadcaster, who died at 55 of cancer, was ‘fire-starter’ who will be remembered for ‘spirit of abundance’

www.irishtimes.com

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 2d

Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d

I guess one silver lining of multigenerational living is being very aware of mortality. We'll see how living alongside the decline of my mother plays out with my kids, but it's been very good for my own sense of how precious our time here is. 💀 ⛅️ ✨

Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d

My mom moved in with us when my dad died in 2018. My kids have grown up with her in our home. There are times that this has been wonderful, but geez... it's a lot of paperwork/driving/stress for me. My main rant is how completely unprepared my parents were for their own mortality.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d

thefern.org/2025/10/a-sh... 🌊

A shipwreck killed 41 crew and 5,900 cattle. The brutal business behind it goes on. | Food and Environment Reporting Network

Captain Dante Addug must have been uneasy thinking about the 48 hours to come. It was Aug. 30, 2020, and his ship, the Gulf Livestock 1, was steaming into the path of Maysak, a Category 4 typhoon that...

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Scary Work Surveillance @sarahbc.bsky.social · 3d

... so little housing (at a realistic price point) is made for multigenerational living. Open floor plan stinks for privacy and personal space! Flippers: put a full bathroom and bedroom on the main floor, I dare you!

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