Lauren
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Lauren
@lem119.bsky.social
it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive
My favourite books of 2025: Nonfiction and Poetry edition (it's still January we can still be doing 2025 wrap-ups) thebestpossibletime.com/2026/01/25/m...
My favourite books of 2025: Nonfiction and Poetry edition
Following up on my post of my fave fiction of 2025, I also read some great nonfiction and poetry this year. Poetry in particular was a wonderful treasure trove this past year, with new work from ol…
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January 25, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives.

Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.
January 21, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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this is because Dolly Parton is the equal or better of most strung- instrument players you can name, a fact often obscured by the vocabulary of iconography sometimes used to discuss her work. thanks for coming to my presentation this’ll take about half a hour
Dolly does dulcimer
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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"dismantle and prosecute" IS the moderate position
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
My favourite books read in 2025:

Fiction (non horror):

Private Rites by Julia Armfield
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
All Fours by Miranda July
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
January 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Someone please take my husband to the pub or something so i can watch the rest of Heated Rivalry sans interruptions
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs but the top is bringing a Tupperware of homemade cookies to the local pub on Christmas Eve and everyone DESCENDS on them and devours them
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
removed almost 150 books from my tbr shelf on goodreads please clap
December 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
my husband showed me an insta post that was a screenshot of a tumblr post about benedict cumberbatch where obv all the instances of his name were as bandicoot cummerbund-ified as you would expect. bless him he was so amused. big do not cite the deep magic to me witch moment
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Good fun this.
Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We used to have our book club at a pub that closed a few months ago. And the bartender is now the manager of his own pub but he very apologetically told us there's no space for us (the old pub had a big back room we used but the new one doesn't). So now we meet at another pub down the street
October 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I swear I just heard a TikTok sound that was an audio clip from SPN over the music from She-Wolf by Shakira. Like it was designed in a lab for me in the worst way possible.
October 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Thinking about the sad irony that there will probably be people watching All the President's Men this week, a movie in which the Washington Post is a paragon of journalistic ethics and courageous truth-telling in the face of political pressure.
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Someone ask Oyin how I die #TraitorsIRL
September 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Feels a bit odd to write a piece warning of musicians being silenced for political reasons, without mentioning the UK's current and ongoing prosecution of Kneecap. Odder still when your example is a Russian soprano who's working happily for the Royal Opera House and merely been subject to criticism.
September 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM