Loather
@loather.bsky.social
I am not, nor have I ever been, a Las Vegas showgirl.
I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
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Loather
@loather.bsky.social
· Feb 7
love, the nailbiter
This newsletter is sometimes about work, and sometimes about libraries, and also sometimes about writing, and also sometimes about music, and there is sometimes politics yelling. Love, the nailbiter...
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I’m setting up a newsletter on @buttondown.com. I would like to do more long form writing and I don’t have the capacity for pitching. There are gonna be some essays about bad management and about writing and about my load bearing grudges. It’s called love, the nailbiter. buttondown.com/loather
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November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
Five year old: you’re not a very good tickler.
Me: thank you for letting me know.
Me: thank you for letting me know.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Five year old: you’re not a very good tickler.
Me: thank you for letting me know.
Me: thank you for letting me know.
Something that got to me when I was a librarian is how many library directors absolutely shun the limelight. You see a headline when they’re hired and a headline when they retire and that’s it. No interviews, no features, they don’t speak to the press unless they’re in trouble. Great publicity
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Something that got to me when I was a librarian is how many library directors absolutely shun the limelight. You see a headline when they’re hired and a headline when they retire and that’s it. No interviews, no features, they don’t speak to the press unless they’re in trouble. Great publicity
Our HR got an AI assistant. The old adage “HR is not your friend” is especially true of the HR robot!!!
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Our HR got an AI assistant. The old adage “HR is not your friend” is especially true of the HR robot!!!
We don’t want to value or reward creativity and yet our hunger for the products of creative minds is at such an all time high we steal their work and outsource creativity to LLMs that are trained by stealing the work of creative minds
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We don’t want to value or reward creativity and yet our hunger for the products of creative minds is at such an all time high we steal their work and outsource creativity to LLMs that are trained by stealing the work of creative minds
Debated being annoyed by the WSJ “conservative women are having kids first and then career” and then remembered my attention is currency.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Debated being annoyed by the WSJ “conservative women are having kids first and then career” and then remembered my attention is currency.
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago
Whenever I feel jealous of someone’s success I go to their Wikipedia and see which of their relatives also has a Wikipedia page and then I feel better. The game is rigged. Forget it
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Whenever I feel jealous of someone’s success I go to their Wikipedia and see which of their relatives also has a Wikipedia page and then I feel better. The game is rigged. Forget it
Discovered the five year old’s ipad allows access to YouTube via browser, so that’s great. Good work school district I love this for us.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Discovered the five year old’s ipad allows access to YouTube via browser, so that’s great. Good work school district I love this for us.
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
He was supposed to be one of the smart ones lol
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
He was supposed to be one of the smart ones lol
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The “America First” crowd was right about foreigners taking american jobs, at least as far as the job of “right wing propagandist” is concerned. If I were conservative I might do a little soul searching about being so easily manipulated but I’m sure we’ll find out why it’s really the left’s fault
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The “America First” crowd was right about foreigners taking american jobs, at least as far as the job of “right wing propagandist” is concerned. If I were conservative I might do a little soul searching about being so easily manipulated but I’m sure we’ll find out why it’s really the left’s fault
She comes back to tell me she’s gone
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
She comes back to tell me she’s gone
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Is everybody anti brining now? I thought I heard anti brining rhetoric
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Is everybody anti brining now? I thought I heard anti brining rhetoric
It is sort of funny that there was a dignified media rollout for Nuzzi - the soft focus NYT profile full of glamour shots, the excerpt of her book in her new magazine - and her ex just kind of kool aid manned into the middle like PAY ME TEN DOLLARS AND I’LL SHOW YOU RFK JR’S SEX POEMS
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It is sort of funny that there was a dignified media rollout for Nuzzi - the soft focus NYT profile full of glamour shots, the excerpt of her book in her new magazine - and her ex just kind of kool aid manned into the middle like PAY ME TEN DOLLARS AND I’LL SHOW YOU RFK JR’S SEX POEMS
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OH HEY THAT’S ME catch me on the newest episode of The Patrick Scott Patterson Project that just dropped! I talked to old my pro wrestling nemesis about my trip from our glory days in the ring to surviving the perils of being a writer in various industries. Had a great time! Thanks, man!
NEW PODCAST EPISODE DROP: Had a blast talking with novelist & screenwriter Matt Wallace this week. We're actually old friends & wrestling rivals, so we swap some old stories from those days before getting into Matt's journey!
Find the Patrick Scott Patterson Project on all major podcast platforms.
Find the Patrick Scott Patterson Project on all major podcast platforms.
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
OH HEY THAT’S ME catch me on the newest episode of The Patrick Scott Patterson Project that just dropped! I talked to old my pro wrestling nemesis about my trip from our glory days in the ring to surviving the perils of being a writer in various industries. Had a great time! Thanks, man!
Weirdly the Reddit group that people have set up to be opposed to the free birth society is still like “we love free birth just not these influencers.” You’re so close to getting it!!!
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Weirdly the Reddit group that people have set up to be opposed to the free birth society is still like “we love free birth just not these influencers.” You’re so close to getting it!!!
Wearing the joy division shirt to the children’s claw machine place
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wearing the joy division shirt to the children’s claw machine place
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Just thought I’d check bluesky before bed and now
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Just thought I’d check bluesky before bed and now
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”