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Lauren Triola

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Speculative fiction nerd and John Torrington enthusiast. I like to write things. Creator of @experiment31e.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/laurentriola

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Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi! I’m Lauren & I write: spec fic, nonfic about being ace & autistic, history stuff, & occasional poetry.

I also write, perform, & produce the audio drama @experiment31e.bsky.social.

And I research John Torrington of the Franklin Expedition: laurentriolawrites.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/t...

Torrington Series Masterlist

Who was John Torrington? He was the first member of the Franklin Expedition to die. Why should anyone care about him? Sit down and I’ll tell you, in a blog series spanning eleven posts and 25…

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Dr Oddman - Fighting Fascism @droddman.bsky.social · 3d

Happy indigenous peoples day

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 5d

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 8d

It's Banned Books Week!

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 9d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · 9d

Holy shit! That was one of the main places we ordered books from when I worked in acquisitions. We ordered more from Ingram overall but B&T had things they didn’t…

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 9d

Baker & Taylor Prepares to Shut Down

Baker & Taylor, “the largest supplier of library content, software and services to public and academic libraries in the U.S.,” has announced plans to shut down their business. The c…

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American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Banned Books Week! A time to honor books that challenge ideas and fight censorship. These stories make us think and unite us. What’s your favorite banned book? Tell us below! #BannedBooksWeek #ReadFreely #FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans #aasl https://bit.ly/3XXdrFi

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Sep 12

In summary:

The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk.

It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for.

Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

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Some Animals @aremoreequal.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh yeah, the lefties are the violent ones...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 13

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 22

"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction."

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character

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I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor

I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · Jul 12

Girls in your area

Girls in proximity to your location

Girls approaching your coordinates

Girls have breached the perimeter

Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 20

It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion.

Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵

Someone on Twitter writes: "I've been thinking a lot of the left-wing valorisation of personal ugliness. It's partly ordinary social rebellion ("looking nice" is conformist; think of punks and skinheads and other groups who make themselves look offensive for its shock value).

It's hard to give examples because I don't like singling people out for their looks. But the more cultish trans activists seem to believe that the uglier a man when wearing women's clothes, make-up etc. the better. (Accepting the ugly is a sign of commitment to the cause.)

And partly, I think, it's about victimhood culture. The uglier you are, the more you are to be pitied and that's a currency you can use. Hence the celebration of obesity (though I think Ozempic will end this eventually) and of all kinds of defiant unsexiness."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Jul 3

I keep coming back to this because it's the heart of it and their weakness. They like to put on the costume of patriots who love freedom. But actually they hate America, and they don't believe in anything but themselves. Republicans are weak and stupid people

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Republicans who switched because they got a signed photo of Trump or whatever shows the depth of their ideology. These are deeply stupid people who don't believe in anything, and they're trying to sell our country for parts

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Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · Jul 3

Well there goes my fucking Medicaid

Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · Jul 1

I will lose my Medicaid if this thing passes. Please, please call your reps!

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Jul 1

Here is a neurodivergence-informed guide to calling your political reps. Use it to demand that your reps oppose the Big "Beautiful" Bill that will take money away from vital services, to fund American secret police, billionaires, & privately owned prisons.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · Jun 29

I've never seen the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline so viscerally represented. This is incredible.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jun 22

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 27

Hi everyone, we are running out of time for our fundraiser. We want to keep doing what we do and uplifting writers at every stage of their careers.

Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌

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Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you! 😊

Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social · May 20

It’s a little late, but I made my now-traditional blueberry cake in honor of Greenhithe Day! 180 years since the Franklin Expedition set sail…

A homemade blueberry cake with two small wooden ships on top as decorations along with the year 1845 in blue letters.

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