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Lauren Vogelbaum

@vogelbomb.bsky.social

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Writer/performer around Atlanta and the Internet Podcast host: Savor | BrainStuff | American Shadows Friendly neighborhood iHeartPodUnion shop steward she/they (i was grammarmonkey on twitter if that helps)

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 12h

people generally want to be good, even when they're behaving badly for some reason. the only way forward is to acknowledge that.

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 12h

a thing i learned as a social media manager of a pop science channel and thus moderating a LOT of awkward discussions is that it's never helpful to say "you're [racist/sexist/etc.]". people get defensive and dig in. if you approach it as "hey this makes you sound [whatever]" people reconsider

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 1d

huh weird it's like the tariffs are the problem, not our coffee culture

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 1d

the sleepiest fangs ;_____;

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

For months I've been following what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI.

"It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up"
www.404media.co/what-happene...

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

www.404media.co

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 6d

god i can't believe i'm stuck in a reality where the guy who once strapped a whale carcass to his minivan gets a say in our nation's health policy

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 6d

i promise that unlike this administration, autism doesn't care about your medications or your dick

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 6d

oh man i love it when we get a multi-hit combo of bigotry

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 6d

what do we want to bet this has to do with under-diagnosis of autism in AFAB humans

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 6d

This is shameful and these people should never be able to hold office again.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6d

Iowa and these other 17 states all back Trump's National Guard deployment in Chicago:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 7d

i know i "run a food show" and "food is my favorite type of experience" and whatever, but also i have deep experience in sad bastardry and it's ridiculous that we have to eat food every day, like more than once even, in order to survive

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 7d

oh rad, this is a free book and it is full of solid advice about how to cook when you absolutely don't want to cook

Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social · 7d

This is not for everybody, but a lifeline if you need it. traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bast... NOTE THAT THEY ARE CROWDSOURCING for two different sequels - a Vegan/Veg one, and another to cook something for yourself that SMALL CHILDREN will also eat. (Because who can manage TWO DIFFERENT MEALS?)

The Sad Bastard Cookbook by tRaum Books

by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.

traumbooks.itch.io

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 7d

truly. there are at least 3 years in there that i have no accounting for. like, i assume that Getting Older has something to do with it, but i absolutely have no idea of how long ago things were if they happened from 2010-now

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 7d

i have been avoiding scheduling an episode of @savorpod.bsky.social about al pastor because its story is pretty similar to shawarma, and my brain says we covered shawarma recently

our shawarma episode came out in 2019

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 8d

oh my goodness, the sloshy-crunchies <333

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★ MAKO VICE ★ @mako-vice.com · 9d

Vicetober day: 6 ( UNCANNY )

RESERVED

#vicetober #vicetober2025 #inktober #art #horror #manga #horrorart

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 9d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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deactivate torment nexus no survey

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 9d

like, we can all do what we want on these, our peoples' internets, but if you get called a dick enough times you should probably have a wee reflection about what you've been doing

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 9d

in the year of our dark lord 2025 how does someone not understand that if you've disallowed replies, it means that you don't want to hear from randos, so a rando quote-posting and ~~tagging you in~~ is rude as hell

i thought we went over this on livejournal

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 11d

it’s hilariously uneducated to not understand that language is alive and breathing

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 11d

the march of goddam progress

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 12d

just an exemplary place to sit down with a plate lunch entirely to your tastes, and an iced tea exactly as sweet as you like it, among friends and coworkers and people you only ever see when you're there

Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 12d

for any @savorpod.bsky.social listeners, this is absolutely one of the local places i was talking about in our southern cafeteria episode. an institution. our offices got priced out of this neighborhood, which is what i'm guessing happened here

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 12d

after 33 years, Eats is closing. what an absolute bummer for ATL.

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Lauren Vogelbaum @vogelbomb.bsky.social · 12d

!!!!!

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From The Ghost Meadow @fromthewestmeadow.com · 13d

be soft
but be ready

A picture of a bunny with a long revolver

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