Rose Lerner
@roselerner.bsky.social
(she/her) Historical romance author. Freelance editor, book doctor, researcher. Camp is a tender feeling. Repped by @millercallihan.bsky.social
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Rose Lerner
@roselerner.bsky.social
· Jun 16
My historical romances! #mybooks
SWEET DISORDER (Lively St. Lemeston #1, Regency small town). She doesn't want to marry, he's trying to set her up so his brother can win a local election books2read.com/SweetDisorder
"I completely ate this book. It made me so happy in all the ways." —Alexis Hall
SWEET DISORDER (Lively St. Lemeston #1, Regency small town). She doesn't want to marry, he's trying to set her up so his brother can win a local election books2read.com/SweetDisorder
"I completely ate this book. It made me so happy in all the ways." —Alexis Hall
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A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.
![A poem titled: "Recalling Ourselves." The body of the poem is in two columns, with the text starting in the left column and ending on the right. The text reads:
We are held together by memory,
each of us raveled tightly
around recollection
as if it were a certainty,
each telling our heart that
this past is the one.
We are great storytellers,
and rapt listeners.
But we are prisoners, too.
The histories we tell ourselves
about who we are
and why we are:
these are wax and twine.
We are stuck and bound.
Afraid.
Scared of the courage
it takes to set the past aside.
Fearful of a letting go
that might unwind us from ourselves.
[this is where the column break is]
But we are more than memory.
More than we recall.
Our long-told then
is just an echo of the now
and a shadow of the soon,
it is neither who we are,
nor who we must become.
It is merely
who we always said we were.
And if we can undo the twine
and melt the wax,
we might just find ourselves anew,
clean-woven from fresh yesterdays.
Then, binding up our old wounds
with the cloth of new remembering,
we can break bread
with all those selves
we never could recall before:
the dusty splinters of our soul
that were neglected,
and long held apart by memory.
- John Wyatt Greenlee](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtulckfwhlh3ndn4iqfcg3an/bafkreid6nwdqpqjihzm5mp3ripmhomj7k22csp3qbjwsnwckip4p4vcmoq@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.
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Deeply ironic that expressions of unity and pluralism are perceived and attacked as "divisive."
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Deeply ironic that expressions of unity and pluralism are perceived and attacked as "divisive."
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Elon Musk has completely failed to deliver on his Mars promises, his DOGE promises, and his full self-driving promises. So now he's making another promise he won't deliver on: "a self-growing city on the moon."
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Elon Musk has completely failed to deliver on his Mars promises, his DOGE promises, and his full self-driving promises. So now he's making another promise he won't deliver on: "a self-growing city on the moon."
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Apparently right wing antisemites are obsessed with the word goy now and in case no one has ever told you this it literally just means “nation”
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Apparently right wing antisemites are obsessed with the word goy now and in case no one has ever told you this it literally just means “nation”
Trying to get in and out of my parking spot right now is like LARPing the Titanic disaster
February 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Trying to get in and out of my parking spot right now is like LARPing the Titanic disaster
February 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Probably the clearest and most evident sign of how chatbots do not have emergent consciousness is that nobody seems to have any grasp of how to get their chatbot scripts to consider existence itself as valuable and necessary to preserve as a baseline behavior.
February 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Probably the clearest and most evident sign of how chatbots do not have emergent consciousness is that nobody seems to have any grasp of how to get their chatbot scripts to consider existence itself as valuable and necessary to preserve as a baseline behavior.
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when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married
January 31, 2026 at 1:47 AM
when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married
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Breaking Bloomberg:
Trump just sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office — potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump just sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office — potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Sues IRS, Treasury for $10 Billion Over Tax-Return Leaks
President Donald Trump sued the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service for at least $10 billion over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office, poten...
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Breaking Bloomberg:
Trump just sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office — potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump just sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office — potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Why would the Pi guy betray me like this
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Why would the Pi guy betray me like this
is this why so much red yarn on knitpicks is out of stock
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:14 PM
is this why so much red yarn on knitpicks is out of stock
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The art selected for this piece made me cry. Enjoy crying about how many of us are angry, hurting, fighting.
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The art selected for this piece made me cry. Enjoy crying about how many of us are angry, hurting, fighting.
"For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, nv-recall of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)..."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
Extracting books from production language models
Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
arxiv.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, nv-recall of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)..."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
I am deeply confused, suddenly a huge quantity of public domain books are snippet view only in Google Books? What happened
January 26, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I am deeply confused, suddenly a huge quantity of public domain books are snippet view only in Google Books? What happened
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my YouTube algorithm fed me an anti-Hitler Irving Berlin song he wrote in 1941 to offer hope for the end of the regime and I thought you all might appreciate for Reasons www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM1R...
"When that Man is Dead and Gone" (1941) Anti-Hitler Song by Irving Berlin - Live at Joe's Pub
YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:21 AM
my YouTube algorithm fed me an anti-Hitler Irving Berlin song he wrote in 1941 to offer hope for the end of the regime and I thought you all might appreciate for Reasons www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM1R...
my uncle just told me he wore the scarf i knitted him while shoveling the snow and it was warm and cozy and it made me so happy
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 AM
my uncle just told me he wore the scarf i knitted him while shoveling the snow and it was warm and cozy and it made me so happy
Lol they also predicted the decline of haggling
London a Hundred Years Hence (1857) — A vision of what London would look like 100 years in the future, including a remarkable anticipation (albeit a little too early for 1957) of internet shopping: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
January 24, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Lol they also predicted the decline of haggling
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under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales
January 24, 2026 at 1:47 PM
under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales
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Yesterday’s disgusting attempt to whitewash our nation’s history by the Trump-Vance Administration must not be tolerated.
I’m working with @congressmanboyle.bsky.social &
@scanlon.house.gov in demanding answers about why slavery-related exhibits at the President’s House in Philly were removed.
I’m working with @congressmanboyle.bsky.social &
@scanlon.house.gov in demanding answers about why slavery-related exhibits at the President’s House in Philly were removed.
January 23, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Yesterday’s disgusting attempt to whitewash our nation’s history by the Trump-Vance Administration must not be tolerated.
I’m working with @congressmanboyle.bsky.social &
@scanlon.house.gov in demanding answers about why slavery-related exhibits at the President’s House in Philly were removed.
I’m working with @congressmanboyle.bsky.social &
@scanlon.house.gov in demanding answers about why slavery-related exhibits at the President’s House in Philly were removed.
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This is especially amazing because the base barely wobbles a millimeter on some of those wildly difficult catches!
Weber State with a "WTF did I just watch? (Complimentary)" to win the partner stunt competition at nats
www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...
January 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM
This is especially amazing because the base barely wobbles a millimeter on some of those wildly difficult catches!
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I know we don't do the Constitution anymore, but am I mistaken in thinking this is exactly what the 25th Amendment is for?
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM
I know we don't do the Constitution anymore, but am I mistaken in thinking this is exactly what the 25th Amendment is for?