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Laura Maguire
@lumagoo.bsky.social
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Child free dog momma, crazy plant lady, master of disguises, queen of puddings, liqueurist
Former Director of Research & Advancement for nationally syndicated radio program Philosophy Talk
PhD in Philosophy (Stanford)

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Here's the results of my first experiment in spicy chai tea brack. Tastes yummy, but next time I might change what dry fruit I use. I only had dates and sultanas on hand after making all the Christmas puddings.
A loaf shaped fruit cake that has been sliced into sits on a kitchen counter with wooden chopping boards and a bottle containing a clear dark liquid behind it
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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$11 million in cryptocurrency?? It's that easy to swipe?

We need to talk about techie-on-techie crime.

www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
S.F. thief posing as delivery person steals $11 million in cryptocurrency, phone and laptop ​ Summarize ​ Megan Cassidy San Francisco police are investigating the theft of $11 million in cryptocurrency, plus other items, from a Mission Dolores home Saturday morning. San Francisco Police Department A thief posing as a delivery person in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores neighborhood made off with a victim’s phone, laptop and $11 million in cryptocurrency, according to a police report obtained by the Chronicle. The robbery occurred around 6:45 a.m. Saturday at a home near 18th and Dolores streets. Police say the courier ruse ended when the thief brandished a gun and proceeded to tie up the victim with duct tape. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The incident report did not state whether the victim was injured or if any arrests had been made. San Francisco police did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. Attempts to reach the person listed in public records as the homeowner were unsuccessful.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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I have been waiting to use this.
White man with a beard looking pensively at his refection in the mirror, which he touches with his left hand. Caption: Did I Just Argue with a Joke? Part of a Bluesky Educational Series
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Anyone suggesting that to care about the rape and trafficking of children by men at the highest echelons of power is a distraction from more important concerns gets an instant block. Whataboutists, apart from being boring, fail to understand it is possible to care about more than one thing at once.
velvetundergrd.bsky.social @velvetundergrd.bsky.social 7h Lets [sic] not let the Epstein outrage cover over the huge very serious attacks on democracy, national security, rule of law, and destruction of health care and education ...
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The rains this week washed away part of the main trail at Thornton Beach. Doesn't look like anything unless you're familiar with it, but it used to be wider in this spot.
Photo of a steep trail down to green dunes with the sea behind
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Pedo alert!! Please report account, then block. There absolutely *should* be a stigma for pedophilia.
End-the-stigma.com @end-the-stigma.com you know hell has frozen over when i'm agreeing with megyn kelly. but she's right. it's an important distinction. Epstein was NOT a pedophile, he was a PREDATOR. The vast majority of people that sexually abuse children are, in fact, NOT pedophiles Link to article from www.thestranger.com with headline that reads: Jeffrey Epstein Is a Horrifying Person, But That Doesn't Mean He's a Pedophile. End-the-stigma.com @end-the-stigma.com 2 followers 33 following 21 posts end-the-stigma.com endeavors to fight for basic human dignity for all and end human suffering. Posts Pinned end-the-stigma.com endeavors to fight for basic human dignity for all the non-offending pedophiles (both child & adult) who are just trying to live their lives and haven't done anything wrong by simply being alive & existing as humans #MentalHealthMatters #BasicHumanDignity #Science
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Oh look! Lawrence Krauss is currently active on bsky and is *still* defending his "unpopular friend" Epstein. I'm sure this doubling down is going to work out great for him. What a pathetic fool.
David Eff ‪@dhf-on-bsky.bsky.social‬ Dr Krauss, just curious. What exactly did you do that you imagine Feynman would have done? Related question: Do you think that people who aren't as smart as you are capable of emotion and pain? November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM ‪Lawrence M. Krauss‬ ‪@lkrauss1.bsky.social‬ · 12h Defend an unpopular friend. He did it numerous times. ‪RI Smith‬ ‪@rismith.bsky.social‬ · 48m So defend your unpopular friend. ‪David Eff‬ ‪@dhf-on-bsky.bsky.social‬ · 12h Did Epstein need defending because he was unpopular? Or was he unpopular because he was prostituting teenagers? Did his massive wealth influence whether he was your friend?
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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For someone "raised 19 miles away in Burlingame" the author is surprisingly ignorant of Bay Area geography.
Land Most of Stanford is on an 8,180-acre (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2)[6] campus, one of the largest in the United States.[note 2] It is on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) approximately 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (30 km) northwest of San Jose. Stanford received $4.5 billion in 2006 and spent more than $2.1 billion in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. In 2008, 60% of this land remained undeveloped.[73]
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“Trump is a pedophile” email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile.
Journalists are still pouring through the tranche of 20,000 files, which contain potentially damaging statements like, “I know I’m just emailing to schedule a haircut but have I mentioned that Donald Trump is a huge pedophile?” and “Donald and I are getting together to commit some pedophile sex crimes together this weekend, would anyone like to join us? – Jeff.” But the early reaction to these revelations has been mixed. Fox News, for example, has called the files, the entirety of Jeffrey Epstein’s life, and the majority of our collective human existence a left-wing hoax, while the New York Times has cautioned that it’s too early to draw any sweeping conclusions from statements like, “Yo, it’s your boys Jeffy and Donny T., who’s up for some last second sex offenses tonight???”
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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LOL, here's your "free speech" man baby right here.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Love this idea! You want our taxes? Then comply with the constitution and quit your corrupting.
Employers across blue states withhold federal taxes from worker paychecks every year and send that money straight to the IRS. State legislatures can order them to stop. Pass a law requiring every employer in the state to redirect federal tax withholdings to a state escrow account instead of D.C. The money then sits in state control. Does the federal government want access? Then they can submit to independent audit proving funds will be allocated according to congressional appropriations, not redirected through executive action. Demonstrate spending complies with constitutional limits and active court orders. Prove compliance with anti-commandeering doctrine and due process protections. Pass the audit, get the money. Fail it, the billions stay in escrow until constitutional compliance can be verified. The escrow mechanism also functions as anti-corruption compliance oversight. States aren’t refusing to remit taxes arbitrarily. They’re establishing accountability for an executive that operates above constitutional limits. When the administration runs pay-for-pardon schemes, accepts private jets from foreign governments in violation of the emoluments clause, and uses federal resources for quid pro quo arrangements, states have authority to demand verification that tax dollars aren’t financing corruption before releasing funds.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In the final stages of filtering my plum liqueur, made with Santa Rosa plums from my garden. The one on the right has been filtered through a metal coffee filter, and the one on the left has additionally gone through a paper coffee filter. It takes forever, but the clarity achieved is worth it.
Two glass pitchers sit side by side on a kitchen counter. They are each half full of a red liquid and there is a light shining behind them, revealing that the liquid on the right is brighter and thus more transparent than the one on the left. Close up of two glass pitchers sitting side by side, half full of a red liquid with a light shining behind them, revealing that the liquid on the right is brighter and thus more transparent than the one on the left.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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And I discovered the slow-mo effect on my phone camera!
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Gorgeous afternoon today at Thornton Beach in Daly City. Temps were in the mid 70s and not a cloud in the sky.
Woman in a sun hat takes a selfie at the beach with friend and dogs blurry behind her A woman walks barefoot at the edge of the water on the beach with the sun shining brightly and reflecting on the wet sand A woman on the beach almost in silhouette from the bright low sun throws a ball from a chuckit for a dog A woman on the beach almost in silhouette from the bright low sun throws a ball from a chuckit for a dog
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Ridiculous appointment by Lurie. Not only has she zero relevant experience, but she also couldn't have been bothered to vote in the last three elections.
Alcaraz, who is of Filipina-Chinese heritage, does not speak Chinese. Her voting record in San Francisco is spotty: She did not cast a ballot in last year’s Democratic primary, a loaded ballot featuring myriad state and local issues as well as the presidential contest. She also did not vote in the February 2022 election featuring the school board recall and a State Assembly contest, nor in the November 2019 municipal election featuring races for mayor, DA, school board and five ballot propositions.
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Three of the four Christmas puddings I made yesterday. I'll steam the last one tomorrow.

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Three dark fruit puddings sit on three plates
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The first three puddings are now being steamed. I'll leave them on for eight to ten hours. The fourth one I'll steam tomorrow.

#XmasPud
Two lidded pudding molds, one red, one clear, sit atop a canning rack inside a huge pot with steam rising up around the molds A large metal pudding mold with lid sits inside a pot with a glass lid, which has condensation on the inside from the rising steam
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Adding the first can of draft Guinness to the mix (I added two cans total).

#XmasPud
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Four and a half lbs of dry ingredients.

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Large stainless steel mixing bowl with flour and other dry ingredients
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Five and a half lbs of fresh fruit, dried fruit, and fruit peels, soaked in four different kinds of liquor and fruit juices.

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Large stainless steel mixing bowl full of small pieces of fruit
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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We're all feeling optimistic, mofo!

Creepy Cuomo is out and Mamdani has won!!
2 hours ago Andrew Cuomo optimistic as NYC mayoral election sees high turnout: 'We feel good' By Matt Troutman The mayoral race's historic high turnout is good sign for Andrew Cuomo's chances, his dogged spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. "We feel good," he said. "We got the turnout we wanted." A whopping 1.85 million voters — and counting — have cast ballots in the high-stakes race, according to Board of Elections totals. [Photo of Creepozoid waving after voting for himself today]
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The swimming sisters AKA the soggy doggies. Today at McLaren Park in San Francisco.
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
Image from British comedy show, The Mighty Boosh. Three men in sunglasses and red leather jackets with very long white fringes, and an ape in sunglasses stand in front of a green van.
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Jacobin can seriously go fuck themselves with this BS. So women, Black Americans, LGBT Americans, and disabled Americans should STFU because Platner is the cishet, white, male, gun-toting populist we need on the left? Does this Brando idiot actually hear himself?? Unbelievable.
Main text: So almost as soon as Mills, the party establishment’s handpicked candidate, entered the race against Platner, he has all of a sudden been hit with a series of damaging stories about dumb things he said more than a decade ago on the internet: offensive statements about black Americans and women; his use of the words “retard” and “gay” as derogatory terms; his support for fighting tyranny with semiautomatic rifles, indistinguishable from any National Rifle Association ad in the past twenty years; and now a tattoo he drunkenly got with his military buddies in Croatia that he didn’t realize at the time was a Nazi symbol. (Platner has now apologized and had the tattoo redone.) One of the other controversies is that he wore an “antifa supersoldier” label on his military gear. Side quote: How does any of this square with what the Democratic establishment has been saying about cancel culture and inviting working-class men back into the tent?
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Bad at inferring, bad at trolling, good at getting blocked. Byeee, AH!
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM