Lauren
@midheavens.bsky.social
writer & diviner. words at The Rumpus, Allure, etc; studying Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.
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Lauren
@midheavens.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Hi! I’m Lauren. I have a very important and perfect dog named Pan, I’m a writer (graphic novels, CNF, fiction), and I’m starting a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge in the fall. Big astrology/mythology nerd and I make linocut prints for fun.
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If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
🚨Urgent🚨
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
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SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
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ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
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MORE BOOKS IN THE WILD!
You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!!
(I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)
You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!!
(I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
MORE BOOKS IN THE WILD!
You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!!
(I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)
You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!!
(I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)
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A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.
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If you're an artist trying to figure things out, and you're inundated with video after video with advice of ' be this and also be that, and do this, while also doing that', i don't blame you for wanting to throw your hands up in the air and call it quits sometimes
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you're an artist trying to figure things out, and you're inundated with video after video with advice of ' be this and also be that, and do this, while also doing that', i don't blame you for wanting to throw your hands up in the air and call it quits sometimes
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I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
Where do I even begin? Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social has created an absolute masterpiece. I only wish I’d had the chance to experience it on the big screen. The story of Frankenstein has been told countless times, but never like this.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
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November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
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no one in the bible had swag so.... opinion discarded
November 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
no one in the bible had swag so.... opinion discarded
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We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
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This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
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"Large language models have, as Charlie Warzel puts it, "devoured the total creative output of humankind". This represents a massive enclosure of the digital commons. Writers, artists, and creators find their work incorporated into systems that have given them zero compensation"
One of my longest posts… blends together enshittification, bullshit jobs, managerialism, extractivism, deskilling under AI.
Influenced by works of @katecrawford.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy @olivia.science @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social @cwarzel.bsky.social and many others
Influenced by works of @katecrawford.bsky.social @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy @olivia.science @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social @cwarzel.bsky.social and many others
The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete.
Let me try to break down this theory, which...
collectivefutures.blog
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Large language models have, as Charlie Warzel puts it, "devoured the total creative output of humankind". This represents a massive enclosure of the digital commons. Writers, artists, and creators find their work incorporated into systems that have given them zero compensation"
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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
First week at Cambridge is in the books ❤️🎉
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
First week at Cambridge is in the books ❤️🎉
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If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.
September 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.
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Our mini-drive has 14 hours left and shares are so appreciated!
This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.
242/1000
This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.
242/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our mini-drive has 14 hours left and shares are so appreciated!
This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.
242/1000
This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.
242/1000
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it