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Lauren P. Burka

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Lauren P. Burka writes queer and kinky science fiction and fantasy stories. In Lauren’s next life, she'd like to be Brian Molko's guitar. She/her mostly but not always. https://www.laurenpburka.com/

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 11d

Two large, eager dogs by the front door, announcing, "We're so glad you're home. Antifa have done a shit in the hallway."

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 4d

I miss when they called themselves Teabaggers.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 10d

The view from my front porch never stops being interesting.

Car being loaded on a flat-bed tow truck cross the street at night. Green trees, red and yellow truck lights, long exposure from the phone taking a low-light photo.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 11d

Potomac, Maryland, about 1984.

A girl in a blue and green jacket and a bay (brown) pony with a styrofoam unicorn horn and cardboard pegasus wings. The pony looks peeved.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 11d

Joseph playing a trick on his brothers (Genesis 42:1–28) is a Black Moment. Fight me.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 11d

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 12d

In a dystopian twist, Patreon blocked a post of mine for "violating community guidelines." I checked, and that's a chapter that doesn't even have any adult content in it. Just some plot.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 17d

Sic transit.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 18d

(Sounds of gears grinding in my autistic brain as I think how to speak to a deaf person). I take and pat her extended hand, look an inquiry.

"Oh! I can't see. It's dark in here. My bag is black."

Spouse and I put our phones in flashlight mode until she has her bag. She thanks us.

Still in tears.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 18d

Left the house today. Doc appt. Return to the car was partially blocked by the open door of a large SUV. A little old lady was rummaging in the back seat. For a while.

I ask, "Do you need a hand?"

No response. She's deaf.

I cup hands and shout. She starts.

"Am I in your way?"

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 19d

I only just read this. It was adorable. Also, literate with worldbuilding (i.e. research into real-world language, history and customs) that would put many a doorstopper-writing fantasy author to shame.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 19d

It gets turned on at every update, sadly.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 20d

I'm afraid to install the latest update; the one thing that might save me is that my primary writing machine is a 2020 Intel iMac.

There are unhappy people on r/scrivener being rescued from Apple Intelligence Stupidity as we speak.

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 20d

Support your friendly neighborhood smut writer while it's still legal.

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Lauren P. Burka – Queer, Spicy SciFi and Fantasy Tales

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 21d

Today's wtfery: people saying "If the government is shut down, how come I have a parking ticket?"

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 21d

If you're a writer with a Patreon, you're supposed to post about it on social media, right? What if your Patreon is marked 18+? Do you get a nice preview of your chapter when you post a link? Apparently not anymore?

www.patreon.com/posts/p3-dry...

P3: Dry Dock: Ch9: Old Scars [1] | Lauren P. Burka

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 21d

I'll hazard a guess that your fury is accountable and, indeed, the only logical and sane reaction to the world right now.

I keep telling myself this in hopes it sinks in.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · 22d

Feeling depressed, irritable and hopeless is a completely reasonable response to the state of reality.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

Really? Well, I'm just going to have to wait and see what happens to that afghan I made my in laws in 200 years.

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

Every subculture has its hot button topics.
Fiber production is a dirty business. Almost as dirty as food production. Greenwashing of wool brands is common. People were assuming I'm using acrylic if not wool, and plastic is the death of the planet!!!!!!!

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

Well, let's hope that there is nothing to all the studies establishing correlation between when we stopped taking aspirin because we thought it caused Reye's syndrome and the onset of the autism epidemic. Wishful thinking is the best medicine.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

What, did they just decide that low dose aspirin isn't safe?

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

at higher rates than children of pregnant mothers who were not exposed to acetaminophen.

ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology - Environmental Health

Background Acetaminophen is the most commonly used over-the-counter pain and fever medication taken during pregnancy, with > 50% of pregnant women using acetaminophen worldwide. Numerous well-designed...

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Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

"Numerous well-designed studies have indicated that pregnant mothers exposed to acetaminophen have children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 24

You know what's really funny? About nine years ago I started reading up on CBD and autism, and found, as an aside in a complex pharmacology whitepaper, a statement that "everyone knows that acetaminophen is a factor in the autism epidemic."
We'll never sort it out at this point, though.

Lauren P. Burka @laurenpburka.bsky.social · Sep 23

The most downvotes I ever got on reddit were when I said in a knitting sub that I don't use wool.

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