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Lauren Hall-Stigerts

@hallstigerts.bsky.social

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Mom, musician (clarinet/sax/guitar), tea enthusiast (aka TeaVoyeur), and advocate working to make life good for EVERYONE. 📍Kirkland, WA. She/her. 🩷💜💙

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty

and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study

and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

—Rumi (from “A Great Wagon”)

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

a woman says " and i love it " while sitting in front of a window

ALT: a woman says " and i love it " while sitting in front of a window

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 15d

More Myst birthday week fun:
Now until Oct 1st, get 10% off Myst Collection merch in the Cyan Store! Plus, our Riven Animal Sigils Stained Glass Coasters are BACK IN STOCK (and also 10% off!)

Myst Collection:
https://store.cyan.com/s/myst32soc
Riven Coasters:
https://store.cyan.com/s/sigressoc

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

Great. Yet another American entertainment property I need to boycott now that Saudi Arabia (and Jared Kushner!) bought it up.

They ruined pro golf for me. Now they’re ruining the video game industry.

Invest in indie companies: play indie games.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

"Battlefield" maker Electronic Arts inks $55 billion go-private deal with PIF, Silver Lake

Videogame publisher Electronic Arts said on Monday it has agreed to be taken private by a consortium in a $55 billion deal, marking one of the biggest acquisitions in the sector.

www.reuters.com

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

lol! You should come over my house and take some tea with you. It’s a wonderful “problem” to have but it’s still a “problem”. 🤪

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

BTW, that new “cake batter” glazed teacup is so fantastic. It doesn’t hold as much tea as you think it would because the glaze is SO THICC. 😁

A look inside white thick-glazed teacup with red-brown crazing.

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

The Northwest Tea Festival was wonderful! I saw so many friends I lost touch with over the last several years. I bought too much tea and teaware but no regrets. Folks seemed to enjoy my two tea bar sessions.

I’ll post some more about it later. I’m recovering today with Old Ways Tea Osmanthus Black.

A close-up of a handmade ceramic teacup with a crackle glaze and reddish-brown accents, filled with amber-colored tea. In the background, slightly out of focus, sits a glass fairness pitcher with tea and a rustic clay gaiwan on a wooden tea tray.

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t know about the rest of the highways listed but the one that was closed in my city there had major structural changes with an overpass that stretched across all lanes. I’d imagine at some point you’d just need to shut down that segment for a bit.

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white2tea @white2tea.bsky.social · 12d

autumn raw Puer being made by hand. the tea is cooked in a wood-fired cast iron wok by hand for about half an hour. the next step is hand rolling and then this commission of ours will be ready in a day after being dried in the sun

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 12d

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and pointing at the camera .

ALT: a man with a mustache is making a funny face and pointing at the camera .

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 12d

Awww yisss!

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 13d

I’ll be at the tea bar at 2pm on Sunday! 🍵

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 13d

Again, there’s nothing wrong with using A.I. to assist in the writing process. But so many are allowing their unique voices to get lost in the process. It makes me sad as someone who relies on writer voice as one way to connect with others over the internet.

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 13d

I’m so tired of reading stuff that’s unedited A.I. output. It puts distance between me as the reader and the writer / the company it’s representing.

It reads as “I don’t care and I’ll let this machine talk for me.”

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 13d

Listen, I’m not against using A.I. to assist in the writing process.

But please please please, I beg of writers to do the work so their copy doesn’t read like A.I. wrote it.

Please have a heavier hand in the editorial process and make it your / your company’s own voice.

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 13d

It’s Northwest Tea Festival weekend! 🥳

I’m hosting the tea bar today at 11am (come learn about the six types of Chinese tea!) and tomorrow at 2pm (come taste at least three different Longjing varietals with me!):

nwteafestival.org/tea-bar

(My session descriptions don’t reflect what I’m brewing.)

Tea Bar | Northwest Tea Festival

nwteafestival.org

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 15d

I just want to know where I can get my kid’s ADORABLE shirt in an adult size. 😍👻💕

Photo of a black shirt with collegiate font that says “TEAM SPIRIT” with laurels and a round pink emblem. In the emblem are the words “Boo University” and a fuzzy white adorable ghost.

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 17d

Love that neck beard action on J.D. 😂

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19d

Dearly departed little angel

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ZoeCat @zoecat.bsky.social · 20d

Stand with trans people. Protect them. Don't just watch them get harassed. Call it out, defend, and don't accept the hate as the new normal.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21d

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22d

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 21d

Hell yeah! Nice work defending the First Amendment. 🫡

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Joel for Kentucky @joelforkentucky.bsky.social · 22d

Vladimir Putin sent armed guards in 2000 to shut down the puppet show Kukly for mocking him. Russia never got free media back.

Donald Trump used his FCC to pressure ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.

If a president can silence comedians, our freedoms may never return.

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Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone who approves this hates America, democracy, and the First Amendment. They can move to Hungary, North Korea, Russia, or China if they love autocracies so much.

Lauren Hall-Stigerts @hallstigerts.bsky.social · 22d

There… are… FOUR… LIGHTS!

Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 22d

When the government can silence one artist, it threatens freedom for all.
Credit: The Roddenberry Foundation.