Lainie Marie
@lainielipson.bsky.social
editor, writer, painter, textilian. 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸
No bots or fake accounts - will block.
No bots or fake accounts - will block.
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The 15-minute interview quickly gained views online after it was pulled from television.
Stephen Colbert's James Talarico video breaks 3-year-old YouTube record
www.newsweek.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
To further Instagram's enshittification, it now has weekly updates with cute little "great work!" messages that make me want to smash my phone into a million shards. I do not want or need fake AI encouragement from Meta.
February 17, 2026 at 2:25 AM
To further Instagram's enshittification, it now has weekly updates with cute little "great work!" messages that make me want to smash my phone into a million shards. I do not want or need fake AI encouragement from Meta.
Pretty sure that the people with the least money to spare will get the highest prices. 🧵
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Pretty sure that the people with the least money to spare will get the highest prices. 🧵
Love needs a heart. Open yours and see what happens. Happy Valentine's Day to all!
This is one of my favorite things that I've ever painted, 6" x 6", acrylic paint on panel.
This is one of my favorite things that I've ever painted, 6" x 6", acrylic paint on panel.
February 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Love needs a heart. Open yours and see what happens. Happy Valentine's Day to all!
This is one of my favorite things that I've ever painted, 6" x 6", acrylic paint on panel.
This is one of my favorite things that I've ever painted, 6" x 6", acrylic paint on panel.
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It is literally zero surprise that they knew their hand-picked climate deniers weren’t putting out real science.
Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.
Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.
Documents offer new details about the origins of the EPA's attempt to deregulate pollution
MS NOW has reviewed documents revealed as a result of an earlier lawsuit filed last August by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
www.ms.now
February 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
It is literally zero surprise that they knew their hand-picked climate deniers weren’t putting out real science.
Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.
Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.
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#poetry #poems #poet #creativewriting #poetryisnotdead #poetrycommunity #edwardleepoetry #poetryblogger #writerscommunity #spilledink #wordsofwisdom #writer #witness
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 AM
I learned to read very early, had newspapers every day and five sets of encyclopedias growing up, library card at 4 or 5 - let's hope it will triumph over later-life internet brain
February 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I learned to read very early, had newspapers every day and five sets of encyclopedias growing up, library card at 4 or 5 - let's hope it will triumph over later-life internet brain
Bondi angrily calling out her correct title to someone who addressed her with a lesser title - it's very Thomas Cromwell (as Mantel brilliantly characterized him in Wolf Hall). We know what happened to him.
February 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Bondi angrily calling out her correct title to someone who addressed her with a lesser title - it's very Thomas Cromwell (as Mantel brilliantly characterized him in Wolf Hall). We know what happened to him.
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Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get.
To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.
To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.
If you widen that highway
you won’t reduce emissions
or congestion.
What you WILL do
is spend a lot of public money
to induce even more cars
emitting even more GHGs and pollution
in the same or worse congestion
with people still demanding that you widen the highway.
Period.
you won’t reduce emissions
or congestion.
What you WILL do
is spend a lot of public money
to induce even more cars
emitting even more GHGs and pollution
in the same or worse congestion
with people still demanding that you widen the highway.
Period.
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get.
To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.
To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.
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can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
I am tired of having to verify that I'm human to bots that are not human.
February 5, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I am tired of having to verify that I'm human to bots that are not human.
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According to Greil Marcus: "Thelonious Monk apparently once left the stage in a morose mood. He was very dissatisfied with the music he had just played. On being asked why this was so he replied that he had made all the wrong mistakes."
February 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
According to Greil Marcus: "Thelonious Monk apparently once left the stage in a morose mood. He was very dissatisfied with the music he had just played. On being asked why this was so he replied that he had made all the wrong mistakes."
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Earliest known depiction of the fossil snake Haasiophis 🐡
A Spell to transform a human into a horned snake. The Papyrus of Ani, The Egyptian Book of the Dead. 1275 BCE.
February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Earliest known depiction of the fossil snake Haasiophis 🐡
vegetables, forever.
February 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
vegetables, forever.
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No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
This poem. Written in 1970.
The president of shame has his own flag
the president of lies quotes the voice
of God
at last counted
the president of loyalty recommends
blindness to the blind
-W.S. Merwin, “Presidents”
#everynightapoem #impeach
the president of lies quotes the voice
of God
at last counted
the president of loyalty recommends
blindness to the blind
-W.S. Merwin, “Presidents”
#everynightapoem #impeach
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
This poem. Written in 1970.
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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Can we start over
January 31, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Can we start over
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When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
I was commissioned to make these full-length panel coats years ago and it's still one of my favorite projects ever. Made with the Folkwear Tibetan Panel Coat pattern from dupioni silk and cotton batik.
January 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I was commissioned to make these full-length panel coats years ago and it's still one of my favorite projects ever. Made with the Folkwear Tibetan Panel Coat pattern from dupioni silk and cotton batik.
my rep
Last week marked 16 years since the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Citizens United.
I’ve authored a proposed constitutional amendment — H.J.Res. 122 — to overturn it & over 70 of my colleagues have joined our effort.
I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line.
I’ve authored a proposed constitutional amendment — H.J.Res. 122 — to overturn it & over 70 of my colleagues have joined our effort.
I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line.
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM
my rep
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Jesus fucking holy hell.
This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing.
This is a nightmare.
This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing.
This is a nightmare.
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Jesus fucking holy hell.
This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing.
This is a nightmare.
This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing.
This is a nightmare.
No big deal in the scheme of things right now, but pet peeve: I wish people would stop using "pearl-clutching." It's intended to call up an image of an older woman - who must, therefore, automatically be mockable, prudish, stupid, and out of touch. That makes it ageist and misogynist. Please stop!
January 28, 2026 at 11:48 PM
No big deal in the scheme of things right now, but pet peeve: I wish people would stop using "pearl-clutching." It's intended to call up an image of an older woman - who must, therefore, automatically be mockable, prudish, stupid, and out of touch. That makes it ageist and misogynist. Please stop!
Nobody needs an AI romance.
"So, you can tell me about guardrails around the darkest corners of this. But fundamentally, you are in love with a business product whose intentions and incentives are to keep you interacting only with them — except they forget everything and you have to reset them."
"So, you can tell me about guardrails around the darkest corners of this. But fundamentally, you are in love with a business product whose intentions and incentives are to keep you interacting only with them — except they forget everything and you have to reset them."
Opinion | Esther Perel on the Falsehoods of a Frictionless Relationship
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Nobody needs an AI romance.
"So, you can tell me about guardrails around the darkest corners of this. But fundamentally, you are in love with a business product whose intentions and incentives are to keep you interacting only with them — except they forget everything and you have to reset them."
"So, you can tell me about guardrails around the darkest corners of this. But fundamentally, you are in love with a business product whose intentions and incentives are to keep you interacting only with them — except they forget everything and you have to reset them."