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Sarah Wingo

@sarahwingo.bsky.social

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Academic Librarian Lit&Theatre. Opinions mine. Philly based. Early modern drama nerd, embroiderer of strange beasts, lady of cats and spooky things. (she/her)bi https://linktr.ee/sgwingo

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · Nov 21

Pinning this thread here for now, so I can add to it easily. Trying to motivate myself to start a new project that I’ve already fully drawn out the pattern for, but just can’t seem to start, by looking back over past work 🫠

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · Nov 19

This is a hell mouth I embroidered and gave as a birthday gift to a very dear friend in May of 2020. It is based on an imagine from Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin - MS M 945 fol-168v, detail held at The Morgan in NYC.

Embroidery on cream colored fabric in a 9” display hoop: medieval hell mouth that looks like a scary green muppet with bat wings for jaws, and sharp white fangs, inside this outer mouth is another mouth wreathed on red flames this second mouth frames to human figures and a hand reaching up from below one of the figures wears a mitre (pope hat).

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 4h

Ugh, this. I have good PPO insurance and I still often end up wasting an obscene amount of time having to call my provider, my doctors, and my pharmacy just to get medication that has been prescribed to me. It is maddening.

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 21h

Yessssss.

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 1d

Today a 22 year old grad student refused to believe I was 40 & then demanded to know my skincare routine (mostly sunblock and not having children).

Working for a university I’m very comfortable with students seeing me as “old” (neutral), but not gonna lie that was a nice Monday afternoon ego boost

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 1d

If you spent time in the 90s as a tween dancing around your living room in your grandmother’s old silky nightgowns blasting Loreena McKennitt, you’re queer and probably really into Chappell Roan now.

Unless that’s just me…

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Hollie Harris @allholls.bsky.social · 1d

I think Monday the 13th is much scarier than Friday the 13th.

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QuadCityPat @quadcitypat.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, even here in the Quad Cities, a lot of my apolitical friends are like fuck this shit

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 2d

And this is why I haven’t listened to The Daily in over a year. They’re reporting is great on some things, but I got sick of them giving billionaires and politicians a light touch.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d

Reminder that a billionaire owns what is now this rag outlet & his only goal is to stroke Trump's ego so Trump helps him become a trillionaire.

Cancel these rag media outlets & invest in people committed to actual justice. No paywall. Paid sub is entirely optional:
www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never done stumpwork embroidery before, stumpwork is essentially 3D embroidery, and I’m so delighted with how my little turkey tail fungi turned out. I haven’t attached them yet, but in the last image I placed them on my ribcage breastplate so you can get an idea of how I plan to attach them.

Progress on stumpwork embroidery: small thumbnail sized embroidered turkey tail fungi in an embroidery hoop.

Progress on stumpwork embroidery: small thumbnail sized embroidered turkey tail fungi in an embroidery hoop. This image further along in the process with framing wires covered in thread.

Progress on stumpwork embroidery: small thumbnail sized embroidered turkey tail fungi cut out and resting on an orange pillow.

Progress on stumpwork embroidery: small thumbnail sized embroidered turkey tail fungi cut out and placed onto velvet ribcage on black felt.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 4d

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 5d

all of Chicago hates Illinois Nazis.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not a swifty or a hater, and have always felt pretty neutral about her. I haven't listened to this one, but after all the backlash started I looked up the lyrics to see what people were talking about. Honestly after reading them, my first thought was "did she use AI to help write this album?"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 7d

Also thanks autocorrect I meant forest with trees, not Forrest the name 🤦‍♀️

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 7d

Disclaimer: I’m neither a swifty or a hater. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. I’m not implying it’s a competition, it’s just something I’ve been thinking about because my socials are very saturated with the first one right now.

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 7d

Love and respect to Swifties, but in this absolutely horrid year I’m not interested in The life of the prom queen and her jock fiancée.

I am however very interested in the feral Forrest witch inviting everyone to SCREAM.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 8d

If you're concerned about the adult "content label" it's a Renaissance painting. Which is apparently too risqué for bsky

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 8d

See for example this 2017 fb post 😂♥️

Screencap of a facebook post from 2017.
Caption Reads: Whenever I come home and find Arya luxuriating in exactly the same spot she was in when I left in the morning it makes me think of all the women in Renaissance art who appear to have nothing better to do than louch about all day in the nude.

contains two images, the first is the painting Reclining Venus, After Titian, 1822 is a painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The second is another of Arya giving vibes of the woman in the painting.

Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 8d

Arya's vibe has always very much been - Woman dramatically reclining in painting.

A tortoiseshell cat in repose on a couch. The couch is a dark blue velvet, and her head is resting on a mustard yellow pillow, while sunlight streams in from a window behind her. Her front left paw drapes lazily off the couch.

Image of the painting A Decadent Girl, 1899, by artist Ramon Casas. This is the famous painting of a woman in black reclining on a green couch.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 9d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 10d

I imagine Zuko welcomes my decorating with a begrudging acceptance each year. After he finishes inspecting my work and giving what I’m sure is a scathing critique of my choices, he does enjoy using it for cover from which to survey the neighborhood.

A tabby cat lying flat on a porch, eyes nearly closed. He’s framed by the vertical columns of a wrought iron railing in the foreground. Also in the foreground a 3 foot plastic skeleton on the left, and fake cobwebs in the background. The cat is unbothered by the decor and very relaxed.