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I used to be a librarian I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/ I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m setting up a newsletter on @buttondown.com. I would like to do more long form writing and I don’t have the capacity for pitching. There are gonna be some essays about bad management and about writing and about my load bearing grudges. It’s called love, the nailbiter. buttondown.com/loather

love, the nailbiter

This newsletter is sometimes about work, and sometimes about libraries, and also sometimes about writing, and also sometimes about music, and there is sometimes politics yelling. Love, the nailbiter...

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1h

I love when you tell people something is a fake and they go “well they lie all the time!” that’s not a justification

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3h

You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to John Bolton

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 9h

We got everything. We got fighting with the mods. We got mask wars. We got firebomb a Walmart vs wear a frog suit. We got burrito taxi discourse. It’s all happening on bluesky dot app

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 9h

if there were people who were reluctant to migrate from the other place because they didn’t think there was enough arguing here and they’re giving this place a chance in light of the doxxing thing, just know you can drop into one of the many many ongoing beefs on this web site seamlessly

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 10h

This is very true. We were in some sort of arms race to create the most emotionally penetrative essay about ourselves. 99.99% of us never got that memoir book deal. And it left many of us eager to burn the bridge between ourselves and our early work.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 11h

Basically same
Wordle 1,580 3/6

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 11h

When the wordle bot is like “this was a bit of a lucky guess” how DARE you

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21h

Great interview.

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 22h

Malcolm Jamal Warner on Murder in a Small Town!!! 💔💔💔

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 22h

Tell them I said pspsps

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Ellen I will fight you personally

The Drink That Americans Won't Give
Up Without a Fight
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It's also, apparently, too important to lose.
By Ellen Cushing.
Includes an illustration of a coffee ring with a frowny face.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

I am forced to note she has terrible taste in partners beyond RFK jr. She dated Olbermann. She dated sex pest Ryan Lizza after his firing for being a sex pest. The shame is well deserved tbh

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

We’re not slut shaming her! We’re shaming her for her choice of one very specific partner!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Well, if you’re newly arrived from the bad place, welcome aboard the USS BSKY, she ain’t perfect and there’s this whole waffles thing we don’t need to get into rn but she’s home

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Finally a Microsoft swaddle

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t look at Bessent without remembering he is literally a Soros guy and none of the qanon conspiracy theorists care

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "When I look at economic cycles, I think the most analogous period to what we're seeing now is the 1990s."

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I’m seeing “don’t slut shame Olivia Nuzzi” takes. we Used to get a couple hours before the bad ideas took over

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Like sure they used to be more polite but Scalise once called himself “David duke without the baggage” what are we doing here. The backrooms were always like this.

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not getting me to fedpost on here Elon

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “all the wrong people are dying”

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever you like to read is good. Read whatever you want. 🥰

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 2d

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF
WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
ONLINE FUNDRAISER - DONATE TO SUPPORT
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate online. All funds raised will go directly to assisting communities.
PURCHASE ITEMS - AMAZON WISHLIST
Purchase items of immediate need to go directly to the Bethel Community Services Foundation to be distributed to villages most affected.
DONATION DRIVE AT AFN CONVENTION
Accepting items of immediate need including:
Cases of water, nonperishable foods, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, phone chargers, blankets, sleeping bags, cots, flashlights, and hand wipes.
DENA'INA CENTER, ROOM 6 (2ND FLOOR)
Friday, October 17 | 1-5PM
Saturday, October 18 | 8AM-2PM

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

The “why aren’t buildings beautiful anymore“ guys and the “STEM is the only subject worth studying” guys are the same guy

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

Amy did you see the hinge girl. She made hinge a custom website and a physical book(???) and got a form rejection and here is what it taught her about B2B SaaS

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

Swimming pool!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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