Aurora Laybourn
@auroralaybourn.bsky.social
Recovering academic
Fuelled by fourloco
Co-host of Drunk Church https://linktr.ee/drunkchurch?fbclid=PAAaZrksZMP42t7rDp_txhpMbUDh_XAiXn7EZSvygw9j_xuapvBrJbU2m8VHQ
Fuelled by fourloco
Co-host of Drunk Church https://linktr.ee/drunkchurch?fbclid=PAAaZrksZMP42t7rDp_txhpMbUDh_XAiXn7EZSvygw9j_xuapvBrJbU2m8VHQ
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Back on my bullshit:
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
October 12, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Back on my bullshit:
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Help Camille out!! or at least boost this plz ty
Welp, here goes nothing. I really appreciate anyone who even reposts this. My mental health has really not been doing well trying to figure out how to pay for everything, because of how important this surgery is for me. I can't thank you enough for any help.
Camille's Surgery Fund
Hi everybody, my name is Camille (She/her), and I'm a trans woman collecting donations for aftercare when I eventually have my orchiectomy, in October. I've been on HRT for nearly 2 years, and came ou...
chuffed.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Help Camille out!! or at least boost this plz ty
This is a case study in how seamlessly aesthetic judgments can be mobilized into moral crusades with little to no grounding in ethics at all. I have yet to see criticism of her that goes deeper than "it's gross" or vague claims about her being "problematic" that amount to more than hand ringing
UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs
UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs
Programme about performer Bonnie Blue condemned for ‘glamorising and normalising’ extreme pornography
The new pornography taskforce will propose legislation this autumn aimed at banning a type of “barely legal” content produced by porn star Bonnie Blue, the Guardian has learned.
The proposed action by the independent pornography taskforce, launched last month by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin, comes in response to the broadcast of the Channel 4 documentary 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. The programme followed the performer as she filmed herself having sex with 1,057 clients over the course of 12 hours. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is a case study in how seamlessly aesthetic judgments can be mobilized into moral crusades with little to no grounding in ethics at all. I have yet to see criticism of her that goes deeper than "it's gross" or vague claims about her being "problematic" that amount to more than hand ringing
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Anti-Trans Myths: How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate
Latest by me & @floralashes.bsky.social exposing the scientific dis/misinformation behind the 500+ anti-trans bills across the US and beyond.
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Latest by me & @floralashes.bsky.social exposing the scientific dis/misinformation behind the 500+ anti-trans bills across the US and beyond.
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Anti-Trans Myths
How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate.
www.openmindmag.org
November 6, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Anti-Trans Myths: How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate
Latest by me & @floralashes.bsky.social exposing the scientific dis/misinformation behind the 500+ anti-trans bills across the US and beyond.
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Latest by me & @floralashes.bsky.social exposing the scientific dis/misinformation behind the 500+ anti-trans bills across the US and beyond.
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ironically, if you think like this you have already been lost to the cruel extractive thinking of capitalism that only values the productive
October 23, 2023 at 6:13 PM
ironically, if you think like this you have already been lost to the cruel extractive thinking of capitalism that only values the productive
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Never get over how old the practice using statistics and math to detect crime is. We may have computers and "artificial intelligence" now, but in 2023 like in 1916, math cannot predict what people will do. It can only criminalize people's proximity to existing policing.
October 18, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Never get over how old the practice using statistics and math to detect crime is. We may have computers and "artificial intelligence" now, but in 2023 like in 1916, math cannot predict what people will do. It can only criminalize people's proximity to existing policing.
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“Everything is Possible and Nothing is True: Mia Khalifa, Fake News, Free Speech, and the Hope for a Free Palestine”, a special mini episode that we made due to the immediacy of the horrors happening in the Gaza Strip, is now free and available on Drunk Church wherever you get your podcasts 💝
It’s no mistake that “terrorism” is only used to describe violence committed by politically disenfranchised actors in the absence of state sanctioned power. State power commits much more violence, but naturalizes / invisibilizes it as necessary / normal. Only resistance to the state is terrorism.
October 17, 2023 at 9:16 PM
“Everything is Possible and Nothing is True: Mia Khalifa, Fake News, Free Speech, and the Hope for a Free Palestine”, a special mini episode that we made due to the immediacy of the horrors happening in the Gaza Strip, is now free and available on Drunk Church wherever you get your podcasts 💝
Back on my bullshit:
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
October 12, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Back on my bullshit:
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
Meds, I'm back on my meds.
Babe wake up, Playboy is using the same reactionary argument deployed by anti-porn advocates that equates disgust with hate speech to justify retaliating against one of its employees for her political beliefs.
October 10, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Babe wake up, Playboy is using the same reactionary argument deployed by anti-porn advocates that equates disgust with hate speech to justify retaliating against one of its employees for her political beliefs.
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exploring brave new dimensions of extremely divorced internet poisoning
September 29, 2023 at 8:19 PM
exploring brave new dimensions of extremely divorced internet poisoning
I occupy a special kind of no man's land where I'm simultaneously too online to have normal relationships and hobbies but not online enough to have any idea about what the latest scandal or topic of discourses is until it's already over.
September 28, 2023 at 5:31 AM
I occupy a special kind of no man's land where I'm simultaneously too online to have normal relationships and hobbies but not online enough to have any idea about what the latest scandal or topic of discourses is until it's already over.
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i love Portishead, it’s the only music that makes me unsure if i wanna fuck or be depressed
September 27, 2023 at 8:54 PM
i love Portishead, it’s the only music that makes me unsure if i wanna fuck or be depressed
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This is one of the few places on social media that isn’t horribly punitive to sex workers, and yet people are already arguing that porn should be banned so that they can comfortably scroll at work? Grow up!!
July 10, 2023 at 10:22 PM
This is one of the few places on social media that isn’t horribly punitive to sex workers, and yet people are already arguing that porn should be banned so that they can comfortably scroll at work? Grow up!!
SHOCKING:
Beloved "man's man" total piece of shit to women.
Beloved "man's man" total piece of shit to women.
July 10, 2023 at 8:25 PM
SHOCKING:
Beloved "man's man" total piece of shit to women.
Beloved "man's man" total piece of shit to women.
Equal parts broke, sad, and horny what a time to be alive.
July 9, 2023 at 6:29 AM
Equal parts broke, sad, and horny what a time to be alive.
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Quote is from @auroralaybourn.bsky.social on drunk church.
* they'd probably object to being called a theory of sexuality podcast but it was the most succint way of putting it.
* they'd probably object to being called a theory of sexuality podcast but it was the most succint way of putting it.
July 8, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Quote is from @auroralaybourn.bsky.social on drunk church.
* they'd probably object to being called a theory of sexuality podcast but it was the most succint way of putting it.
* they'd probably object to being called a theory of sexuality podcast but it was the most succint way of putting it.
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This is super my approach and it's so good to hear it articulated. I also see it as a fascinating study into humanity and the person you're with. You might not meet them again but you'll learn something. Even if its not actually a "fun" time.
July 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM
This is super my approach and it's so good to hear it articulated. I also see it as a fascinating study into humanity and the person you're with. You might not meet them again but you'll learn something. Even if its not actually a "fun" time.
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Listening to a theory of sexuality* podcast and: "Part of what attracts me to hookups is just curiosity. It isn't because I think I'm going to have some mind blowing connection, ..., but that I'm learning something about myself or [...] my limits or desires."
July 8, 2023 at 1:27 PM
Listening to a theory of sexuality* podcast and: "Part of what attracts me to hookups is just curiosity. It isn't because I think I'm going to have some mind blowing connection, ..., but that I'm learning something about myself or [...] my limits or desires."
10,000 bc: The Geology of Morals
July 6, 2023 at 5:21 PM
10,000 bc: The Geology of Morals
This platform is really working out for me because I do not like being perceived but I like feeling special.
July 6, 2023 at 4:53 PM
This platform is really working out for me because I do not like being perceived but I like feeling special.
There is a silent concensus that the only interesting thing to come out of Žižek's mouth is spit and yet it seems that every 6 months or so leftists are always having to rediscover how much he sucks. Is this what Hegel ment by bad infinity?
July 6, 2023 at 7:27 AM
There is a silent concensus that the only interesting thing to come out of Žižek's mouth is spit and yet it seems that every 6 months or so leftists are always having to rediscover how much he sucks. Is this what Hegel ment by bad infinity?
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I cured my mania!! :) by getting more depressed :)
July 6, 2023 at 1:42 AM
I cured my mania!! :) by getting more depressed :)