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@thesalad.bsky.social

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just a millennial drifting from platform to platform.

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · Nov 10

New username here, but if I'm following you, it's because I knew you from: livejournal, tumblr, twitter, discord, whatever island-hopping pattern we've followed on the internet over the decades. I am Lauren, Brix, Andi. If you're confused how we know each other, just ask.

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 3h

By the end of this thing I predict me and my dad will be the only ones left actually doing anything, and I'll have more faith in the cousin who asked for help than the cousins who are "providing" it.

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 3h

Folks who are 10, 20, 30 years older than me and I'm nagging them every month: are you gonna contribute? Will you be fulfilling the pledge you made to me in July? If you're clutching your pearls about money, have you reached out to our cousin about helping her with paperwork?

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 3h

A bunch of my extended family got together to support a cousin who's struggling financially for a predetermined window of time. This is month 4 of 6 and so far all it's taught me is that I can't trust my extended family in a crisis. Which is a good lesson to learn, I guess.

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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 6h

TikTok’s suppressing the hell outta this video so maybe yall will share it 🤭

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 18h

What the hell, man. A friend of mine got covid this week (sigh) and his ANKLES hurt so bad he almost fell down when he got out of bed. I love our immune systems but oh my god.

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 1d

He taught me how to improv a meal out of what's in the cupboard/fridge, or how to stretch a meal for 4 into a meal for 6. We always had random folks at the table, especially at holidays - his generosity is deeply rooted in food.

Just to be clear, though, that man is yellow flags all the way down.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 1d

Modern post apocalyptic novels are actually about World War II

happalonia.bsky.social @happalonia.bsky.social · 1d

Cozy British murder mysteries set in the interwar years are actually post-apocalyptic novels.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 1d

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it
me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away
therapist: well not necessarily
me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 2d

I just keep refreshing for more information. I hope you're able to sleep, please try to remember to eat tomorrow as everything rolls out.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 5d

i cannot tell you how much i love the dancing frog. frog is all of us. frog is none of us. i send frog to my old coworkers when they ask "so how are things in portland." the world is absurd and horrific. be a dancing frog in the face of fascism.

sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 5d

like I want to be clear that there is real danger in demonstration

but... the reason you see a dancing frog generating a real life force field against armed cronies is because deep down in their bones, regimes know there are more dancing frogs than there are fascists.

Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 6d

the fed constantly being like "the economy is solid!"; meanwhile i know at least 10 people who got laid off last week. literally the first 3 posts on my linkedin feed are about people who lost their jobs. i want to scream into a bag.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 7d

daily 08.10.25

A hard brush colour and light study of a young black woman, done in blocky shapes and colours of brown, yellow and black. the lighting is muted and grey toned

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7d

we are all so emotionally fried that Dolly Parton had to get on the internet and tell us that it is all gonna be okay

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 7d

he's giving "chris evans' skinny cousin" (in a good way)

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 7d

me, a non-religious person (closes eyes): I am praying for Dolly Parton. I would like to put in a prayer for Dolly Parton. Make that lots of prayers. I would like infinity prayers for Dolly Parton. Give Dolly Parton unlimited prayers. All the prayers that have ever existed should go to Dolly Parton.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Sara McH 🤧 recovery mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 12d

This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

houseofmirrors.substack.com

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Lauren @thesalad.bsky.social · 10d

man... i shared this with some friends yesterday, and some excerpts from his poem [black feeling]. some of his lines feel almost like liturgy to me.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24d

In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13d

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 13d

Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of McCarthyism in the 1940s. on.nbcboston.com/HvVc58L

Jane Fonda relaunches her father's McCarthy-era free speech initiative

The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed by Henry Fonda in 1947.

on.nbcboston.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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