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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Nov 16

laura dern in inland empire:

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 2d

dreamt the second sex and the city movie was streaming on the criterion channel. not the first one, just the second.

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Trevor Risk @sunshinesucks.bsky.social · 7d

No Kings includes DraftKings

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 7d

i found the one academic activity more tedious than writing a paper and it’s grading 50 of them

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 7d

in 2004 the dave matthews band dumped brown liquid onto a sightseeing boat in the chicago river

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7d

The New York Times twists itself in knots pretending it doesn’t know things that it absolutely knows. Such as referring to the shit in Trump’s AI video as “brown liquid.” 9/

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 10d

catsitting

a fat black and white cat with his paw on my hand

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 11d

the results are in: all my students love me and my class

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 11d

thank you!

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 11d

teaching outfit for da day

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 11d

*steven j lockjaw voice* do you like borrowing library books? because i LOVE IT!!!!

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 12d

protect your peace 🙏

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · 12d

some personal news: i put an airtag on my vape

a phone notification that says “vape” left behind

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · May 26

i work at a cat café now

tabby cat with white chest and face and docked ear named purrcilla

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · May 24

really annoying how when you go to sleep earlier you wake up feeling more rested

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 25

accidentally almost sent an email signed Beast,

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 19

i got to see the baby yesterday at the nashville zoo :-)

a zoo worker burps a baby clouded leopard

the clouded leopard cub making eye contact with me in her incubator

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 10

no longer an employment law reporter but i really can’t turn off caring about this stuff

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 10

an EEOC administrative judge is pushing back against the Trump administration’s new directives.

“at the end of the day, my actions align with what the EEOC was charged with doing under the law … I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.”

apnews.com/article/eeoc...

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats.

apnews.com

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 6

looking at the top reviews on goodreads for this virginia woolf biography i’m reading and the one star ones are all people who think it is too long and has too much detail … what, pray tell, is the point of a biography.

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Mar 4

a collage of fucked-up jd vance edits that reads “and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self”

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Yellowtail @wistfulyellow.bsky.social · Mar 2

I will never care if a joke about Elon Musk is accurate or funny as long as it’s relentlessly mean spirited and makes him want to kill himself

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · Feb 22

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Feb 21

“i’m going to kill my self” = concerning, can’t always tell if hyperbolic or a cry for help, overused

“i am currently engaged in trench warfare” = unique, vivid imagery, obviously hyperbolic but still sympathetic

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abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Feb 21

does anyone do lastfm friday on here

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Feb 21

what the hell, sure

spotify notification that says: new album
coming soon. pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky started the countdown on spotify. pre-save now.

abby @abbylw.bsky.social · Feb 20

probably not much of a secret or surprise to anyone who knew me while i was a reporter there, but this kind of stuff made me step back from political reporting a bit