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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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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Swimming pool!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Five year old is dubious about my sister’s foster dog. Foster dog is like “is it something I said?”

A handsome light brown large doodle dog lying down outside next to a pool.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

My friend said the rich try to distract us with celebrity gossip while they destroy our freedom but honestly I am so distracted by Katy Perry and Trudeau dating. The Illuminati cooked with this one

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

You know if it were me I simply would not go on the Sunday morning shows saying stuff that is going to be used against me for the rest of my life, long after the elderly emperor I serve has died

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d

"America's favorite governor" according to whom!? What expert made this claim!?

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

“America’s favorite governor” continues to slam the president online with inconvenient reality checks.

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Alcoholism is a hell of a drug

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2d

Hey @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I think you should know about this.

UNIVERSITY
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18T6
POLICE
Texas A&M Police @TAMUPolice
Public Intoxication. Aggie Park. Contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was.337. Released to EMS. #BTHOflorida
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

I saw an ad for a televised town hall between Chris Cuomo, Bill O’Reilly, and Steven A. Smith

a close up of a man with long hair and a beard making a face .

ALT: a close up of a man with long hair and a beard making a face .

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Eternal

a woman wearing a hat and vest says la-de-dah on the screen

ALT: a woman wearing a hat and vest says la-de-dah on the screen

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

What a rabbit hole that entire case is!

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the easiest question in the world to answer and she fucked it up. I can’t with her.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

nothing is more American than a no kings rally. It’s kind of how America got started

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to figure out what happened to the S&P and it’s just like ten different things

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 3d

Went to urgent care to be evaluated for whiplash and the lady was like we don’t see car accident victims and I paused for a moment and said well, it was a train accident, and she did NOT laugh but I did