Labrador Girl
labradorgirl.bsky.social
Labrador Girl
@labradorgirl.bsky.social
Mostly here to read what knowledgeable people are writing. Occasional posts or replies when I have something useful to add.
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THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The redecoration of the White House reminds me of the Dolly Parton line: It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!

awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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btw divas if u turned off ur weekday alarms bc you had Thursday and Friday off.... better turn em back on tonight
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
They are working on a Sunday night. Coincidentally a time when we can’t call them up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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With due respect to Rilke for the second to last line, I wrote this after going for a walk in the forest whilst in the throes of despair.
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I was feeling smug about not subscribing to the NYT when I remembered that I do subscribe to their games. So I unsubscribed. A small $5 blow for truth, justice, and the American way.
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"This is how we get flotsam: King George insists on levying harsh taxes on his New World subjects. Some Bostonians respond by littering in the harbor."
Historical New York Times Tweets
The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative...
buff.ly
June 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice.

Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here:

florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just wanna say, boomer jokes aren’t so funny when 2/3 of the people out in the streets fighting fascism are obviously over 60.
April 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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one thing to remember about The Atlantic hiring Jonathan Chait is that Chait said awful things about trans folks on Twitter, tagged Ed Yong, and became the only exception to Yong's personal rule about not arguing with people on the internet and/or punching down on them (13:15): youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8
Ed Yong, Journalist/Author - XOXO Festival (2024)
YouTube video by XOXO Festival
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November 14, 2024 at 3:36 AM
“The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.”
March 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@indivisiblelb.bsky.social Do you have any meetings coming up?
March 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I protested at my local Tesla today and realized that I reach more people standing on a corner holding a sign than I do posting into the internet void. Gonna do it again.
March 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
When my kid was little, we read The Wild Robot and loved it. Saw the movie last night, and it was just as beautiful and wonderful as the book.
November 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM