Jane Lavina
@jane-lavina.bsky.social
amateur writer | pretend anthropologist | uninspired programmer | tired skeptic | she/her
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Jane Lavina
@jane-lavina.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Perhaps an underrated aspect of learning another language is unlocking secrets of a culture it carries. 1/3
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Happy American Christmas or something.
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy American Christmas or something.
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Centrists “Karl stop being so hyperbolic the republicans aren’t waging war against the population stop telling people the republicans are gearing up to wage civil conflict”.
The republicans :
The republicans :
September 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Centrists “Karl stop being so hyperbolic the republicans aren’t waging war against the population stop telling people the republicans are gearing up to wage civil conflict”.
The republicans :
The republicans :
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Scientists: hey did you know that the US military emits more carbon than most countries combined and we're losing the ability to pollinate essential food sources due to insect loss
NYT, as the ocean water rises around their desks: Zohran Mamdani didn't tip a waiter once when he was 16
NYT, as the ocean water rises around their desks: Zohran Mamdani didn't tip a waiter once when he was 16
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Scientists: hey did you know that the US military emits more carbon than most countries combined and we're losing the ability to pollinate essential food sources due to insect loss
NYT, as the ocean water rises around their desks: Zohran Mamdani didn't tip a waiter once when he was 16
NYT, as the ocean water rises around their desks: Zohran Mamdani didn't tip a waiter once when he was 16
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The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
What I haven't seen people talk about is that foreign press is generally outside of the US government's ability to coerce into self-censorship.
Firing at a foreign journalist is plausibly an intentional effort to get them to withdraw, giving the federal regime tighter control of the narrative.
Firing at a foreign journalist is plausibly an intentional effort to get them to withdraw, giving the federal regime tighter control of the narrative.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What I haven't seen people talk about is that foreign press is generally outside of the US government's ability to coerce into self-censorship.
Firing at a foreign journalist is plausibly an intentional effort to get them to withdraw, giving the federal regime tighter control of the narrative.
Firing at a foreign journalist is plausibly an intentional effort to get them to withdraw, giving the federal regime tighter control of the narrative.
While some compare a massive US military parade with authoritarian displays seen under oppressive regimes, others point out that sometimes a domineering display of military might is simply a show of patriotism and a way to drive up recruitment at a time when it is so desperately needed.
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June 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
While some compare a massive US military parade with authoritarian displays seen under oppressive regimes, others point out that sometimes a domineering display of military might is simply a show of patriotism and a way to drive up recruitment at a time when it is so desperately needed.
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The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender.
It IS conversion therapy.
Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.
It IS conversion therapy.
Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.
May 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender.
It IS conversion therapy.
Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.
It IS conversion therapy.
Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.
Extremely important lesson in not obeying in advance
May 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Extremely important lesson in not obeying in advance
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Non escalatory bombing is my favorite mythical creature
India Government: Nine sites targeted against Pakistan as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’. Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature.
May 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Non escalatory bombing is my favorite mythical creature
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Very cool. Two nuclear powers at war. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
India strikes nine sites in Pakistan weeks after Kashmir militant attack – live
India confirms ‘precision strike’; Pakistan vows response to ‘heinous provocation’
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Very cool. Two nuclear powers at war. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I pluck threads from free association and jot down scenes that form in my mind. Eventually, I have an emergent outline from connecting scenes. I'd say I'm something between a discovery and outliner writer, because of how the process is self-reinforcing
Are you more of an outliner or discovery writer? Something in between? What do you do before writing, and then during? #WritingPrompt
May 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I pluck threads from free association and jot down scenes that form in my mind. Eventually, I have an emergent outline from connecting scenes. I'd say I'm something between a discovery and outliner writer, because of how the process is self-reinforcing
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I think that systems that see land, plants, non-human animals and humans as things that can and should be bought, sold and dominated are harmful, because we can't actually escape our interrelated nature as animals in an ecosystem. These systems have led to the situation we're in today
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I think that systems that see land, plants, non-human animals and humans as things that can and should be bought, sold and dominated are harmful, because we can't actually escape our interrelated nature as animals in an ecosystem. These systems have led to the situation we're in today
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"Focusing initially on male authors" - ah, yes, because it's often so hard for men to break into traditional publishing.
Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky
New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'
Novelist and critic Jude Cook has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focussing initially on male authors”.
www.thebookseller.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Focusing initially on male authors" - ah, yes, because it's often so hard for men to break into traditional publishing.
Hope to see this trend continue. I suspect Euroscepticism is in particular becoming less popular in the current climate
The left-wing opposition party GroenLinks-PvdA has overtaken Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV in a Dutch opinion poll for the first time since the general election 18 months ago.
Wilders' PVV loses opinion poll lead for first time in 18 months - DutchNews.nl
The left-wing opposition party GroenLinks-PvdA has overtaken Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV in a Dutch opinion poll for the first time since the general election 18 months ago. The weekly Peil.nl panel…
www.dutchnews.nl
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hope to see this trend continue. I suspect Euroscepticism is in particular becoming less popular in the current climate
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Yesterday, ASU apparently, for a short time, changed their LGBTQ+ resource page to "LGB Students"
This would match what Trump did to Stonewall National Monument.
Thankfully sanity prevailed and someone changed it back.
Do NOT erase trans people to please Trump!
web.archive.org/web/20250424...
This would match what Trump did to Stonewall National Monument.
Thankfully sanity prevailed and someone changed it back.
Do NOT erase trans people to please Trump!
web.archive.org/web/20250424...
April 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Yesterday, ASU apparently, for a short time, changed their LGBTQ+ resource page to "LGB Students"
This would match what Trump did to Stonewall National Monument.
Thankfully sanity prevailed and someone changed it back.
Do NOT erase trans people to please Trump!
web.archive.org/web/20250424...
This would match what Trump did to Stonewall National Monument.
Thankfully sanity prevailed and someone changed it back.
Do NOT erase trans people to please Trump!
web.archive.org/web/20250424...
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me: I want to write 10 books, no 20 books, no wait, 30 books
friend: sounds like you have lots of writing to do!
me: oh god
friend: sounds like you have lots of writing to do!
me: oh god
April 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
me: I want to write 10 books, no 20 books, no wait, 30 books
friend: sounds like you have lots of writing to do!
me: oh god
friend: sounds like you have lots of writing to do!
me: oh god
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To each their own is my point. But pls let’s take nonverbal cues like… having your headphones in!!! That’s a nice way to say I want to chill by myself.
April 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
To each their own is my point. But pls let’s take nonverbal cues like… having your headphones in!!! That’s a nice way to say I want to chill by myself.
Perhaps an underrated aspect of learning another language is unlocking secrets of a culture it carries. 1/3
April 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Perhaps an underrated aspect of learning another language is unlocking secrets of a culture it carries. 1/3
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if we all agree to stop talking about bill maher he will eventually go away completely
April 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
if we all agree to stop talking about bill maher he will eventually go away completely
Time Being - a mythical entity people do things for. Example:
"I'm doing this for the Time Being"
"I'm doing this for the Time Being"
April 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Time Being - a mythical entity people do things for. Example:
"I'm doing this for the Time Being"
"I'm doing this for the Time Being"
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When you say things like "I'd love to see trans men going into women's toilets/changing rooms/whatever to own the bigots" you are calling for trans people to endanger themselves.
March 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When you say things like "I'd love to see trans men going into women's toilets/changing rooms/whatever to own the bigots" you are calling for trans people to endanger themselves.
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In the absence of vision a mirage can suffice.
February 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In the absence of vision a mirage can suffice.
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Unless it’s someone you’re very close to, you also may not know what they think. I’m not exactly running up to everyone and screaming that a coup has happened and we have a fascist government.
February 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Unless it’s someone you’re very close to, you also may not know what they think. I’m not exactly running up to everyone and screaming that a coup has happened and we have a fascist government.
Maybe connect with someone in meatspace if you can. I try to remember to be mindful in small moments and appreciate aesthetic beauty
obviously yes, it's bleak out there. but take a breath.
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Maybe connect with someone in meatspace if you can. I try to remember to be mindful in small moments and appreciate aesthetic beauty
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There's a place a character is going to end up in and I currently don't want to put her there because she will suffer.
By "put her there" I mean "write the whole thing".
#writing #booksky #writerslife
By "put her there" I mean "write the whole thing".
#writing #booksky #writerslife
January 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There's a place a character is going to end up in and I currently don't want to put her there because she will suffer.
By "put her there" I mean "write the whole thing".
#writing #booksky #writerslife
By "put her there" I mean "write the whole thing".
#writing #booksky #writerslife