Loather
@loather.bsky.social
I am not, nor have I ever been, a Las Vegas showgirl.
I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
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Loather
@loather.bsky.social
· Feb 7
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...
buttondown.com
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
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”
I wonder if I can have an out of state tax preparer
Something strangely peaceful about this email I got from my tax preparer
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I wonder if I can have an out of state tax preparer
I feel bad for America but this is tremendous content
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I feel bad for America but this is tremendous content
romcom idea
this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
romcom idea
Outside of the discourse I do think Rainbow B-52 is an excellent cover band name
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Outside of the discourse I do think Rainbow B-52 is an excellent cover band name
“Women are too flighty and stupid to make decisions about their bodies. This is why they must be forced to have children.”
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Women are too flighty and stupid to make decisions about their bodies. This is why they must be forced to have children.”
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If I’m being honest, I don’t just want to make mugs. I want to make your *favorite* mug. ☕️ littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #art #ceramics #handmade #bsnm #MagicalBazaar
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If I’m being honest, I don’t just want to make mugs. I want to make your *favorite* mug. ☕️ littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #art #ceramics #handmade #bsnm #MagicalBazaar
Surely the grandma from Encanto is among the worst villains of 21st century film
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Surely the grandma from Encanto is among the worst villains of 21st century film
Don’t want to sleep. Want to smile at my phone in the dark
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Don’t want to sleep. Want to smile at my phone in the dark
Everyone in Southern California is sick of the rain. Not me tho, keep it coming sky gods
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Everyone in Southern California is sick of the rain. Not me tho, keep it coming sky gods
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"Cynthia" harvest strawberries in Oxnard CA. "This day it was very difficult to do my job because of the rain. The rows we need to walk through in the strawberry field were full of water. This makes it very difficult to work as it is extremely slippery." #WeFeedYou
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Cynthia" harvest strawberries in Oxnard CA. "This day it was very difficult to do my job because of the rain. The rows we need to walk through in the strawberry field were full of water. This makes it very difficult to work as it is extremely slippery." #WeFeedYou
They‘ve been aggressively deporting people for months and none of those things have improved, so what will be the excuse for that
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
They‘ve been aggressively deporting people for months and none of those things have improved, so what will be the excuse for that
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
Caught the five year old singing Feliz Navidad while playing. Heart officially warmed
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Caught the five year old singing Feliz Navidad while playing. Heart officially warmed
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please do not say every woman who is into older men was a victim of abuse! Some of us just hate our fathers!
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
please do not say every woman who is into older men was a victim of abuse! Some of us just hate our fathers!
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"Children at my son's Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently abducted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month."
ICE Raided My Son’s Daycare to Abduct a Teacher. This Kind of Trauma Lasts.
Children in Illinois have suffered months of systematic abuse by federal agents enacting Trump’s immigration raids.
truthout.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Children at my son's Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently abducted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month."
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Just vile: "About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals... The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside. They attempted to grab others."
Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just vile: "About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals... The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside. They attempted to grab others."
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
Spouse just asked me what happened to my newsletter. This aggression will Not stand
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Spouse just asked me what happened to my newsletter. This aggression will Not stand
That lady at least had the good sense to just scratch herself, this new sicko went to a SCARIFICATION ARTIST
Everybody is referencing the “Blacks Rule” guy but the real sickos remember the backwards B “for Barack” cheek scratch lady
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That lady at least had the good sense to just scratch herself, this new sicko went to a SCARIFICATION ARTIST
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
He would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for the fact that he couldn’t stop emailing the convicted child sex trafficker
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
He would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for the fact that he couldn’t stop emailing the convicted child sex trafficker
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So… I just keep loading and unloading the dishwasher until I die?
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
So… I just keep loading and unloading the dishwasher until I die?