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Laura Frey-tening

@lauratfrey.bsky.social

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Franzen apologist, book blogger, reads literary fiction, translations, classics, etc. Let's go Oilers! #yeg /Edmonton /Treaty 6. https://reading-in-bed.com/

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 1h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 1h

Calling the Nobel for Can Xue 🤞

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 9h

I've made fun of my kids for "introducing" me to artists such as Kanye West, but this time they've introduced me to post-Demon Days Gorillaz and you know what, this is really good!

a pixelated image of a cartoon character standing on a blue background

ALT: a pixelated image of a cartoon character standing on a blue background

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 1d

gonna listen to Love is Blind while I clean the bathroom, like a podcast (and obviously on 1.5x)

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

I saw a couple of things in the past few days that, in the context of all the bsky mod issues, have been making me think a lot about what I actually want from social media. First, some graphics from that FT articles about peak social media, and then some comments about the sustainability of modding.

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 2d

"Zen mode" for any social media is deleting your account

Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now"

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 2d

Great review and just a coincidence that I read it within minutes of it being posted :)

Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2d

My new blog post on Russell Hoban’s wonderfully unusual novel, TURTLE DIARY, about two lonely protagonists who partner up to rescue a trio of sea turtles from the zoo. Loved it and it's sure to feature in my year-end highlights.
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Turtle Diary – Russell Hoban

Even if it’s October, Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban is my entry for #SpinsterSeptember, and I’m so glad to have discovered this novel thanks to the lovely Nora (@pear_jelly on Insta and Bluesky), w…

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, this was great

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 3d

Bye!!

Crohnic by Jason Purcell and my cat in a sunbeam

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 3d

Bye!!

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky right now: American politics, mod drama, Taylor Swift, and ppl arguing about whether being mean to an inanimate string of 0s and 1s is racist (?). Might have to go read a book or something

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

*takes massive bong rip*

hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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hailey
@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 4d

First in line! Unironically loved his first memoir.

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 4d

I have bad news for Americans if you think someone's face on a coin means they're gonna die soon

A young Queen Elizabeth on a Canadian coin

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that this isn't paywalled😅

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 4d

Good lord

(Before you say anything: I was an avid listener in 2019, not anymore, stay subscribed for the lols)

A 3 hour Red Scare podcast with Thomas Chatterbox Williams (auto correct and it stays)

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 5d

truly!!

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking of message boards: why is this a Maclean's article and not a multi-page locked thread on a parenting forum that prompted multiple bannings

Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 5d

Self-described gentle parent Kayla Huszar performed her role perfectly—until it broke her.

https://macleans.ca/longforms/my-misadventures-in-gentle-parenting/

My Misadventures in Gentle Parenting - Macleans.ca

No timeouts. No limits. Total chaos.

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats! I need to read some slim volumes of poetry or something...

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 5d

Yes it has. Clearly these people did not spend enough time on late 90s/early aughts message boards, on account of being children at the time

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 5d

chat is this real

Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 6d

It's all happening www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 8d

This is a subskeet of Leon Draisaitl's wife's tiktok and yes I am just jealous

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 8d

Seeing people use that Wuthering Heights song (Charli xcx, not Kate Bush) for their wedding posts on TikTok and uh

two men are talking and one of them says " i do not think it means what you think it means .. "

Alt: Princess Bride" i do not think it means what you think it means .. " gif

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 9d

Alberta Teachers’ Association members have voted 89.5 per cent to reject the latest contract offer.

Turnout for the vote was 94 per cent.

51,000 teachers will go on strike across the province on Oct. 6.

Here’s ATA president Jason Schilling announcing the vote result in Edmonton #AbEd #AbLeg

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Laura Frey-tening @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 9d

I think what he meant to say was "Solidarity!"