Laura Lorson
@lauralorson.net
Opinions personal, retweets ≠ endorsement. Target for faraway laughter. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock.
I work in radio, so this is obligatory. Happy....Thannnnks...giving!
youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4?...
youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4?...
WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Carla Johnson
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I work in radio, so this is obligatory. Happy....Thannnnks...giving!
youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4?...
youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4?...
Red sky at morning...you know the rest
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Red sky at morning...you know the rest
I think that if doctors told me that I needed a cognitive impairment test, and this happened more than once...as in, I started regularly going and getting cognitive impairment tests...I would start to suspect that, at the very least, people had concerns about my cognitive ability
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think that if doctors told me that I needed a cognitive impairment test, and this happened more than once...as in, I started regularly going and getting cognitive impairment tests...I would start to suspect that, at the very least, people had concerns about my cognitive ability
The undisputed film for this in my experience is Dead Ringers, which I find completely fascinating on about 5 different levels, to which everyone upon whom I've pressed it has said "what the hell, Laura?"
What a movie you recommend to people with enthusiasm but find that few people you recommend it to like it as much as you do?
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The undisputed film for this in my experience is Dead Ringers, which I find completely fascinating on about 5 different levels, to which everyone upon whom I've pressed it has said "what the hell, Laura?"
Holy cow, NYT, I live smack in the middle of America and once was at a Tractor Supply where 2 guys in overalls were talking about that year's Beaujolais Nouveau, I think we can handle a reference to "a chippie"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Holy cow, NYT, I live smack in the middle of America and once was at a Tractor Supply where 2 guys in overalls were talking about that year's Beaujolais Nouveau, I think we can handle a reference to "a chippie"
it's bizarre to me that anyone would use AI for this stuff. Everyone knows Thanksgiving is about collecting stories about the utterly inedible food that one family member brings and the gyrations the entire table goes through being nice about it. Good luck with that, AI
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
it's bizarre to me that anyone would use AI for this stuff. Everyone knows Thanksgiving is about collecting stories about the utterly inedible food that one family member brings and the gyrations the entire table goes through being nice about it. Good luck with that, AI
pies, ranked, by me:
1) French Silk
2) coconut cream
3) chocolate cream
4) buttermilk
5) pumpkin
6) Dutch apple
(number 2 should actually be the McDonald's deep-fried apple egg roll-type pie that I miss every day, but sic transit gloria mundi. We miss you, weird scalding-hot pie)
1) French Silk
2) coconut cream
3) chocolate cream
4) buttermilk
5) pumpkin
6) Dutch apple
(number 2 should actually be the McDonald's deep-fried apple egg roll-type pie that I miss every day, but sic transit gloria mundi. We miss you, weird scalding-hot pie)
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
pies, ranked, by me:
1) French Silk
2) coconut cream
3) chocolate cream
4) buttermilk
5) pumpkin
6) Dutch apple
(number 2 should actually be the McDonald's deep-fried apple egg roll-type pie that I miss every day, but sic transit gloria mundi. We miss you, weird scalding-hot pie)
1) French Silk
2) coconut cream
3) chocolate cream
4) buttermilk
5) pumpkin
6) Dutch apple
(number 2 should actually be the McDonald's deep-fried apple egg roll-type pie that I miss every day, but sic transit gloria mundi. We miss you, weird scalding-hot pie)
um, why is this audio so muddy????
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
um, why is this audio so muddy????
My mind is completely boggled right now at the idea that a person would decide a good response to Isaac freakin' Chotiner is to basically dare him to dig up receipts
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My mind is completely boggled right now at the idea that a person would decide a good response to Isaac freakin' Chotiner is to basically dare him to dig up receipts
so what you're telling me is that the Secret Plan to Fix Health Care remains, um, secret
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
so what you're telling me is that the Secret Plan to Fix Health Care remains, um, secret
the poet laureate of the great state of Kansas! yay Traci!
“Let me / be more bound to my living in each moment, be held / by this hum, that cloud, this breath, that shroud.”
Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
the poet laureate of the great state of Kansas! yay Traci!
I mean...yeah, but...way harsh, Tai
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I mean...yeah, but...way harsh, Tai
Getting turned around on the way to the work-study office and randomly seeing a notecard pinned to a bulletin board advertising a radio broadcaster position with preference for someone with copyediting experience and familiarity with classical music
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Getting turned around on the way to the work-study office and randomly seeing a notecard pinned to a bulletin board advertising a radio broadcaster position with preference for someone with copyediting experience and familiarity with classical music
We skipped the light fandango
Turned some cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
When the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When I called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
AND SO IT WAAAAAAAAAAAS
Turned some cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
When the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When I called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
AND SO IT WAAAAAAAAAAAS
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
We skipped the light fandango
Turned some cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
When the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When I called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
AND SO IT WAAAAAAAAAAAS
Turned some cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
When the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When I called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
AND SO IT WAAAAAAAAAAAS
I will also mention that for many years I felt bad about breaking up with a perfectly nice guy because he wrote me an absolutely atrocious poem (which was IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER like Bobby's poem content-wise, other than that it was just really, really bad) and anyway, I feel less bad about that now
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I will also mention that for many years I felt bad about breaking up with a perfectly nice guy because he wrote me an absolutely atrocious poem (which was IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER like Bobby's poem content-wise, other than that it was just really, really bad) and anyway, I feel less bad about that now
I genuinely fear there will be more about the bamboo late tonight/early tomorrow
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I genuinely fear there will be more about the bamboo late tonight/early tomorrow
How does one say Olivia Nuzzi's last name? Nuzzi like Ruth Buzzi? NOOT-see? NUT-zee?
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
How does one say Olivia Nuzzi's last name? Nuzzi like Ruth Buzzi? NOOT-see? NUT-zee?
Like, seriously, I just wanna go home and sit with my dog and maybe have a Pinwheel cookie, can you guys just not
BREAKING: Alito has issued a temporary administrative stay BLOCKING the order that found Texas’ gerrymander to be racially biased. 1/ apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Like, seriously, I just wanna go home and sit with my dog and maybe have a Pinwheel cookie, can you guys just not
Fridays, man, just stop it, I can't walk away for like 15 minutes without something happening
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Fridays, man, just stop it, I can't walk away for like 15 minutes without something happening
I read the Roblox guy interview and I have never, ever been so grateful to not have children, omg
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I read the Roblox guy interview and I have never, ever been so grateful to not have children, omg
Reposted by Laura Lorson
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
also not the point, but this is clearly not in Lawrence, which has good places to get pizza. If I were going to guess, I'd say this is Hunt Brothers at a truck stop, or maybe Gambino's, or possibly at a Casey's with seating (every Casey's pizza I have ever had has been kinda pale, is all)
Absolutely not the point of the story but what the fuck are they trying to pass off as pizza in Kansas? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
also not the point, but this is clearly not in Lawrence, which has good places to get pizza. If I were going to guess, I'd say this is Hunt Brothers at a truck stop, or maybe Gambino's, or possibly at a Casey's with seating (every Casey's pizza I have ever had has been kinda pale, is all)
Why on earth would you *search* "zip ties near me"? Why would you not just, idk, go to a hardware store?
"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Why on earth would you *search* "zip ties near me"? Why would you not just, idk, go to a hardware store?
I have quite literally never, ever heard of this happening. I've been in news for more than 35 years.
🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
In Stunning Admission, DOJ Says Grand Jury Never Saw Indictment Against Comey
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have quite literally never, ever heard of this happening. I've been in news for more than 35 years.
You know, long ago, back in the time around the Revolution, they used to call Carolina "the hornet's nest" so yes, I think they are finding out about exactly how seriously North Carolina takes, has taken, will take matters like this
Hiding in the woods like bitches
People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.
People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
You know, long ago, back in the time around the Revolution, they used to call Carolina "the hornet's nest" so yes, I think they are finding out about exactly how seriously North Carolina takes, has taken, will take matters like this