Laura Gillian πŸ©·πŸ’œπŸ’™
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Laura Gillian πŸ©·πŸ’œπŸ’™
@lgbookworm.bsky.social
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Books, origami, interpreting, circus, baking, and whatever new hyperfocus grabs my attention this week she/her
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Call me old-fashioned, but I think public servants blatantly lying to the public is…bad
Kristi Noem: β€œThere's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained. We focus on those that are here illegally. And anything that you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting.”
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it is genuinely straight up murder

this is the 5th avenue shooting he's been fantasizing about for years
Donald Trump and Peter Hegseth have now murdered 57 human beings on their boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history

Where is The Hague?
And both ends of the pendulum swing intersect with the β€œeveryone keeps lying about things all the time, what even is reality” problem
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
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there are going to be a lot of stories in the next couple weeks about the generosity of ordinary people in helping their fellow Americans and all of them will be wonderful and none of them should be necessary

we don’t have to have a government this cruel and capricious
Once an employee at a drive through window asked my mom, β€œDid you want the free water or the $.35 water” and instant aphorism
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Furthermore, ABUGHAZALEH proceeded beyond the edge of a cliff, whereupon she stood in midair above a sheer dropoff, causing AGENT A, believing he could follow her into the void, to likewise step off the cliff, at which time he briefly also stood without support before plummeting to the bottom.
COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
This! But every time I have a super productive day, I think that’ll be my new normal, despite all evidence from the last 4 decades
Anybody find that when you have a super-productive work day, exceeding what you expected to get done, the following day you struggle just to hit your usual daily targets? I hate it
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My stomach is in knots asking again but I'm coming up to my deadline on Friday to keep a roof over my head. Please boost and thank you for the help I've already received, I feel completely unworthy of the kindness I've found here.
Hey y'all. I'm really going through it right now and I could really use some help. Any amount would be so freaking appreciated, even just a boost would mean the world to me.
Donate to Help Mar Reclaim Stability, organized by Margot Laine
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
This is cool
#knitting #knittinghowto #doubleknittng #🧢
Four needle double knitting in the third dimension, part 1: horizontal baffles

Use the new 4-needle double knitting method to create horizontal tubes like on a puffer jacket; tubes which can be stuffed.
techknitting.blogspot.com/2025/10/four...
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I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.

Her β€œMeal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
I read this and it was so good! Also the Luddite oath was incredibly badass, one of my fave details
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I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
Tongs too
When you’re looking for your scissors, do you make a little scissors gesture with your fingers to help you search or is it just me?
When you’re looking for your scissors, do you make a little scissors gesture with your fingers to help you search or is it just me?
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I did not realize that the fabled Teen Vogue politics section was one person.
hello 29k followers, time for my periodic reintro to find lefty friends etc!

i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫑
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"experience" is just shorthand for "i fucked that up already"
My brother and I were recently talking about how we don’t want to sound like knowitalls in fields we’re not experts in, but we concluded that if you’ve read 3+ books on a topic you pretty much ARE an expert