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Laura McPherson

@silversatire.bsky.social

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Bustling wordery. In CHM, Five South, The Deadlands, Paperbark, Salamander, Lucky Jefferson. Chap INVISIBLE. Reader CLMP. MFA loading, University of New Orleans. 🏳️‍🌈 https://lauramcphersonwriter.com

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Jun 4

No one:

Absolutely no one:

90s club kids: the song that taught us the beat drop was a throwaway track in a vampire movie starring Wesley Snipes, anchoring a scene that symbolized the gilded excess of late 90s tech culture and presaged the dotcom bust

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings is a Sinn Féin psyop to delegitimize the UK royal family by associating the trappings of kingship with Diaper Don

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings is a CIA psyop to further drive a wedge between normie libs and terminally online leftists

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · 2d

AWS rn:

a man is talking on a phone and saying " hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again ? "

ALT: a man is talking on a phone and saying " hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again ? "

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 5d

Women don't love Cybertrucks, they love BONES and FICTION and CHARON. New items: @katelechler.bsky.social has BONES for you, and @premeemohamed.com has exclusive BESPOKE writing prompts! Grab a coin and a treat today. Keep us exploring The Deadlands. 💖💀💖

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Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · 26d

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · 26d

Proud to announce that after 13 years working as a writer and editor, I have subverted our profession's most enduring trope by becoming a full-time bartender. Cheers 🥂

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Jun 23

User interest advertising with no human supervision. 10/10

Unedited Reddit scroll page with Dell AI microbiology advertisement inserted directly after user-generated post of Colin Powell’s 2003 Anthrax speech to Congress

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · May 7

In Search of Lost Time is a series about how the best people in your life are engaged in exotic forms of psychological warfare at all times

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Feb 23

Calling in puppied, is this anything?

Tricolor hound puppy sleeping on someone’s legs which are under an orange and black blanket

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Feb 19

Me: i have no time to write this story
Me: i have no time to write this client brief
Me: i have no time to write this conference paper that was already accepted on proposal

Also me: i should write a literature review for a medical journal because connecting these two rabbit holes feels important

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Feb 17

Not whomst you asked but YES

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Feb 9

THE SUPERB OWL HATH RISEN

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hey, that’s where I live. Come on in, we have everything except public transportation!

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Dec 25

Happy holidays to everyone except the daft left shoe who bought the neighbor kid a boatman’s whistle. That one specific person should spend the rest of the day marching barefoot on Legos while everyone else enjoys some pie.

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Dec 5

I respect “can’t pee, trapped by cat,” but have you tried “can’t feel my legs, trapped by 140 pounds of hound”?

Two bluetick hounds cuddling over a person’s leg and an orange patterned blanket

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Nov 24

I submit “hammertime” as a timeless call to celebrate potential and the joy of flow.

I also say it a dozen times a day because it’s my competition dog’s word to release from “stop” aka stay (he came with “you can’t touch this” pre-installed).

Hundo P @sarco.bsky.social · Nov 24

All these years later, I still haven't decided if MC Hammer was telling me that this very moment was the time to start hammering or if we were all of us living in the time of the hammer, collectively.

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Oct 27

The marginalia one is taking notes from Poe and Voltaire, at least.

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Oct 12

Forbidden Oreos

Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · Oct 12

Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Oct 4

Thank you so much! What a fun reading group that was!

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Oct 4

Join me for this reading of #sciencefiction #fantasy and #horror via Zoom at 11 CDT/12 EDT! I'll be reading from "Warm Because They Toast Them," a Quizno's short horror, and giving away a digital copy of my Pushcart-nominated short story "FitYou."

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Aug 30

One of the greatest things about puppies is experiencing their joy of discovery. For example, Fitz discovered two new things he likes to eat today:
✅ pickles
✅ highlighters
✅ yes, highlighters as in neon
colored marking pen that is
thankfully nontoxic

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Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Aug 26

Or on the bright side, entering damnation and not-yet-knowing!

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Jul 11

What in the actual Clerks

A tobacco store with the main windows covered in particle board spray painted with the words “WERE OPEN”

Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social · Jul 10

The person who would question “should I get out of a binding arbitration clause when I have clear options” is exactly the person I imagine choosing poorly at “should I buy a Tesla when I have clear options.”