Laura E. Goodin
@lauraegoodin.bsky.social
Writer, academic, fencer, archer, martial artist, horsewoman, bellringer, sailor, pilot. The heart of a hero in the body of a nerd. Website https://www.lauraegoodin.com. Search Facebook for my writer page. She/her.
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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some days just call for lighting a candle AND cursing the darkness
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
some days just call for lighting a candle AND cursing the darkness
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Just sayin', my novel After the Bloodwood Staff has as its protagonist a pudgy 50-year-old man (height unspecified) who doesn't want to do anything. Maybe you know someone who would like to read a book like this over Christmas (I'm told it's very funny). I am shameless. Utterly shameless.
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Just sayin', my novel After the Bloodwood Staff has as its protagonist a pudgy 50-year-old man (height unspecified) who doesn't want to do anything. Maybe you know someone who would like to read a book like this over Christmas (I'm told it's very funny). I am shameless. Utterly shameless.
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
terribleminds.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Come, my lord,
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Come, my lord,
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
We will bestow you in some better place,
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.
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Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
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It's Diwali proper, so I'm going to use this opportunity to port over one of my favorite threads from the Other Place to tell the story of why this holiday matters so much and why i get choked up every time.
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's Diwali proper, so I'm going to use this opportunity to port over one of my favorite threads from the Other Place to tell the story of why this holiday matters so much and why i get choked up every time.
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
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I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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I wish I could explain to the "we're doomed" folk that it usually takes a long time for a species to go extinct. Understand? We're talking generations upon generations before the last human.
So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.
So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I wish I could explain to the "we're doomed" folk that it usually takes a long time for a species to go extinct. Understand? We're talking generations upon generations before the last human.
So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.
So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.
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Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.
October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.
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My mother called Speaker Johnson’s office this afternoon to talk about the shutdown and to tell them that her healthcare costs went up 125% as of this week — she was excited because a staffer answered; then they hung up on her.
October 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My mother called Speaker Johnson’s office this afternoon to talk about the shutdown and to tell them that her healthcare costs went up 125% as of this week — she was excited because a staffer answered; then they hung up on her.
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‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast
‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings
How does one measure success? For Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the historians behind the hit podcast The Rest Is History, it could be the number of unexpected and overly familiar conversations with strangers. On a holiday high up in the mountains of Bulgaria, Holland was wandering around a secluded monastery when someone called out, “Love the podcast!”
Sandbrook, meanwhile, is used to getting weird looks from fans who find it hard to compute that the man in front of them is one half of the soundtrack to their dog walks and commutes. “The weirdest thing that people say – which I’ve heard more than once – is, ‘My wife and I listen to you in bed every night,’” he says, looking mildly appalled. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast
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Elizabeth Moon: "I see character development as vector calculus, because what a person does in a given moment is the vector sum of all the things pulling on them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Elizabeth Moon: "I see character development as vector calculus, because what a person does in a given moment is the vector sum of all the things pulling on them."