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I used to be a librarian I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/ I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

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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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 17h

nothing is more American than a no kings rally. It’s kind of how America got started

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 12h

Trying to figure out what happened to the S&P and it’s just like ten different things

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 13h

Went to urgent care to be evaluated for whiplash and the lady was like we don’t see car accident victims and I paused for a moment and said well, it was a train accident, and she did NOT laugh but I did

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 17h

nothing is more American than a no kings rally. It’s kind of how America got started

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 18h

Five year old asking the important questions: “Did earth have a mama?”

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Katie Porter is getting shanked but she has made it possible by not making any friends. Not a serious person!

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

You have to be vegan to be upset about animal abuse? Big if true

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out Hasan is the Rogan of the left not because he’s popular but because he is a sociopath

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

I’m ok with making streaming illegal until we figure out what’s going on

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Threads is terrifying. I had to lock after too many boomers with gas leaks

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Before he was anything else, trump was a racist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooohhhh

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out the train hit something when parking. Vindicated!!!

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted by the sound I made when the train slammed to a stop but at least I didn’t fall down

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Daniel Sunjata!

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

I see a Wikipedia like this and I’m locked in

Three subject headlines in a Wikipedia entry: early life and education, career, and views on the September 11 attacks

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

you don't need AI if you have adhd

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about how Kanye West put Harriet Tubman on his “betrayal list.” Makes no damn sense! …compels me tho

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

The series of dad rock acts after the Timberlake scandal were popular too

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Coldplay but then they had Beyoncé do formation and conservatives lost their minds again

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

If she wins the dem nomination she will lose to Caruso

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Brain: did we make that sound?
Ears: sure did
Brain: hmm. Should we simply die?
Ears: might have to

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted by the sound I made when the train slammed to a stop but at least I didn’t fall down

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

I have such a unique contempt for chickens borne of spending too much time around them as a kid. They are the worst and we should eat them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

I know everyone loves whiteboard lady but she’ll be an absolute car crash as governor