Laura La
@laurala.bsky.social
Holding down the food and dogs end of Bluesky.
History & Hawaiian Studies student. Avocado farmer. Basenji mommie. Episcopalian. He hoa kākoʻo a ka lāhui.
History & Hawaiian Studies student. Avocado farmer. Basenji mommie. Episcopalian. He hoa kākoʻo a ka lāhui.
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An important thing about Mackenzie Scott's philanthropy is that all of her gifts are *unrestricted.* She often gives to smaller nonprofits where those unrestricted gifts can have a huge impact, allowing organizations to use the money where it's needed most, not just where a donor wants.
MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Charitable Giving This Year
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
An important thing about Mackenzie Scott's philanthropy is that all of her gifts are *unrestricted.* She often gives to smaller nonprofits where those unrestricted gifts can have a huge impact, allowing organizations to use the money where it's needed most, not just where a donor wants.
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Another neat thing about cats is that you can pretty accurately tell what time of day it is by where they are currently sleeping
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Another neat thing about cats is that you can pretty accurately tell what time of day it is by where they are currently sleeping
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Standing on my desk right now.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Standing on my desk right now.
Ok here's something neat to me. I picked coffee cherries from a tree in my side yard and pulped, fermented, dried, and roasted them. I learned that coffee is hard work.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Ok here's something neat to me. I picked coffee cherries from a tree in my side yard and pulped, fermented, dried, and roasted them. I learned that coffee is hard work.
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Can’t say enough about the magic that a well-seasoned stone can work for homemade pizza.
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Can’t say enough about the magic that a well-seasoned stone can work for homemade pizza.
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CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.
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Fuck no. Leave em alone. They're smarter than you.
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Fuck no. Leave em alone. They're smarter than you.
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I just saw that Ireland made its basic income for artists permanent and I have never been so jealous.
What must it be like to live in a country that actually values the arts?
I'm happy for all Irish artists and hope maybe this kind of thing will expand elsewhere.
What must it be like to live in a country that actually values the arts?
I'm happy for all Irish artists and hope maybe this kind of thing will expand elsewhere.
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I just saw that Ireland made its basic income for artists permanent and I have never been so jealous.
What must it be like to live in a country that actually values the arts?
I'm happy for all Irish artists and hope maybe this kind of thing will expand elsewhere.
What must it be like to live in a country that actually values the arts?
I'm happy for all Irish artists and hope maybe this kind of thing will expand elsewhere.
My BFF!
13. If you were in a room with everyone you ever met, who would you look for first?
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
My BFF!
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Look for these iconic beauties above 6,000ft or so in elevation at both #Haleakalā and #HawaiiVolcanoes national parks. 😍
#iiwi
#iiwi
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideViews : I'iwi in a perfect pose atop an 'ohia tree. 📷🌿🦉
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Look for these iconic beauties above 6,000ft or so in elevation at both #Haleakalā and #HawaiiVolcanoes national parks. 😍
#iiwi
#iiwi
I fully endorse this post, based on recent personal experience.
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I fully endorse this post, based on recent personal experience.
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Here’s an adorable pig-shaped rattle from ancient Ur
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here’s an adorable pig-shaped rattle from ancient Ur
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If you have never read Parable of the Sower or Parable of the Talents, now is the time.
It’s about a future where the worst parts of our current world are never stopped and how we find hope anyway.
It’s about a future where the worst parts of our current world are never stopped and how we find hope anyway.
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you have never read Parable of the Sower or Parable of the Talents, now is the time.
It’s about a future where the worst parts of our current world are never stopped and how we find hope anyway.
It’s about a future where the worst parts of our current world are never stopped and how we find hope anyway.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
When the essay hits your eye
Like a big shitty pie
That's A I-i
When the student sends slop
That is full of fake glop
That's A I-i
Like a big shitty pie
That's A I-i
When the student sends slop
That is full of fake glop
That's A I-i
When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When the essay hits your eye
Like a big shitty pie
That's A I-i
When the student sends slop
That is full of fake glop
That's A I-i
Like a big shitty pie
That's A I-i
When the student sends slop
That is full of fake glop
That's A I-i
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When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When the essay confidently discusses an assigned story in detail, with quotes and analysis, except it's not about the story at all—or anything else in the class—and appear to have been manufactured out of whole cloth based on the story's title alone.
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Getting really tired of seeing statements like “we all got shamed out of behavior that could read as virtue signaling” and “we all were convinced the left had gone too far”
Bitch who is we
Bitch who is we
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Getting really tired of seeing statements like “we all got shamed out of behavior that could read as virtue signaling” and “we all were convinced the left had gone too far”
Bitch who is we
Bitch who is we
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Private Equity firm buying up Alexander & Baldwin. What is this going to mean for Hawaiʻi?
One of Hawaiʻi’s biggest commercial landowners, Alexander & Baldwin, is being bought for $2.3 billion and will soon stop trading on the stock market.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5a4x58jc
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5a4x58jc
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Private Equity firm buying up Alexander & Baldwin. What is this going to mean for Hawaiʻi?
Anyone who scorns English majors can go to hell. I have one week of class left and TWO papers & a slide presentation to finish. My brain is tired from 16 weeks of literary analysis.
Studying English takes constant focus and the ability to always think on at least three levels at once. Iʻm cooked.
Studying English takes constant focus and the ability to always think on at least three levels at once. Iʻm cooked.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Anyone who scorns English majors can go to hell. I have one week of class left and TWO papers & a slide presentation to finish. My brain is tired from 16 weeks of literary analysis.
Studying English takes constant focus and the ability to always think on at least three levels at once. Iʻm cooked.
Studying English takes constant focus and the ability to always think on at least three levels at once. Iʻm cooked.
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THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. BASED ON ALL
AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. BASED ON ALL
AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
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Heartbreaking and horrific.
One Haitian woman “showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled,” her attorney said.
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Heartbreaking and horrific.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.