Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord
@laurelvolk.bsky.social
Writer. Do-gooder usually up to no good. Overall Punctuation Czar. Medieval Knievel. Scream of Consciousness. I put the commie in rom/com.
The Audacity of Ope
@smutuni #romancelandia
She/her.
The Audacity of Ope
@smutuni #romancelandia
She/her.
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Do not give your subscription money to once-admired national brands that now consistently operate as propaganda arms of a fascist regime.
Instead, please check out these INDEPENDENT journalists and news rooms in @laminda.bsky.social's excellent starter pack.
go.blacksky.community/6A6FGLy
Instead, please check out these INDEPENDENT journalists and news rooms in @laminda.bsky.social's excellent starter pack.
go.blacksky.community/6A6FGLy
Give some authors some love.
As is now tradition, we celebrate the day after Christmas with free books, more than 1700 free books in this particular go round. Just visit www.romancebookworms.com to browse the incredible selection.
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Give some authors some love.
When you want me dead, it's hard to "meet you in the middle". Like, broken limbs? 6mos to live diagnosis? Coma? Someone else dies instead? No thanks.
![Tucker Carlson: "What's [AOC] like?"
Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When you want me dead, it's hard to "meet you in the middle". Like, broken limbs? 6mos to live diagnosis? Coma? Someone else dies instead? No thanks.
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Merry Christmas!
There are not enough plums and squatter apartments in Bucharest to save that Marvel Doomsday Trailer.
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There are not enough plums and squatter apartments in Bucharest to save that Marvel Doomsday Trailer.
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I know she's just kind of saying whatever, but it's on-brand for Bari Weiss to review a damning story about the US sending people to a concentration camp and respond "we can't air this, have you even asked Tom Homan if he feels bad about any of it yet?" Perfect readout of who she sees, and doesn't.
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I know she's just kind of saying whatever, but it's on-brand for Bari Weiss to review a damning story about the US sending people to a concentration camp and respond "we can't air this, have you even asked Tom Homan if he feels bad about any of it yet?" Perfect readout of who she sees, and doesn't.
You know what delights me. Historical foods. 1200yrs ago, someone made the first batch of Dijon mustard, and ever since then, everyone's been like, yeah, gimme a lil dab of that.
December 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You know what delights me. Historical foods. 1200yrs ago, someone made the first batch of Dijon mustard, and ever since then, everyone's been like, yeah, gimme a lil dab of that.
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When you tell a story - and even the hardest news piece is a story - who you cast as subjects, people with agency and feelings and humanity, is one of the most central decisions you make in the process of crafting it. People making stories tell on themselves all the time in that aspect.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When you tell a story - and even the hardest news piece is a story - who you cast as subjects, people with agency and feelings and humanity, is one of the most central decisions you make in the process of crafting it. People making stories tell on themselves all the time in that aspect.
This Venezuela situation scares me, guys. Is the angle plain grift/theft/bloodthirstiness/racism? Is it to take a huge oil producer out of the world market so more countries are forced to do business w/Putin despite sanctions? Is it so we're will be at war in 2028 and elections can be put off?
December 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This Venezuela situation scares me, guys. Is the angle plain grift/theft/bloodthirstiness/racism? Is it to take a huge oil producer out of the world market so more countries are forced to do business w/Putin despite sanctions? Is it so we're will be at war in 2028 and elections can be put off?
I'm made & disgusted & not assuming good intent. Yesterday I saw an apartment building w/solar panels. My 1st thought was what an awesome rent perk-- no or reduced electricity. Then I was like, nah, the landlord probably isn't doing that. 1/?however long this angry tirade lasts
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm made & disgusted & not assuming good intent. Yesterday I saw an apartment building w/solar panels. My 1st thought was what an awesome rent perk-- no or reduced electricity. Then I was like, nah, the landlord probably isn't doing that. 1/?however long this angry tirade lasts
How many LLMs are paying membership dues, how many LLMs are volunteering at events, how many LLMs are selling books by hand or word of mouth, how many LLMs are contributing to fellow writers' health crisis go-fund-me's?
Chatgtfo.
Chatgtfo.
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
How many LLMs are paying membership dues, how many LLMs are volunteering at events, how many LLMs are selling books by hand or word of mouth, how many LLMs are contributing to fellow writers' health crisis go-fund-me's?
Chatgtfo.
Chatgtfo.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
The other day, after my F streak while talking politics, I vowed to severely limit my effenheimers. Not for pearl-clutchy reasons, just b/c I'm a writer. I have an awesome vocab & I use it with verve. Why content myself with 1 word. And yet, after seeing this, the Fs are bubbling, bubbling.
BREAKING: Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center will become the Trump-Kennedy Center: Leavitt
Leavitt said the the board unanimously voted to rename the performing arts venue.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The other day, after my F streak while talking politics, I vowed to severely limit my effenheimers. Not for pearl-clutchy reasons, just b/c I'm a writer. I have an awesome vocab & I use it with verve. Why content myself with 1 word. And yet, after seeing this, the Fs are bubbling, bubbling.
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It's my birthday today! I turned 33... I would love it if I could get just 3 orders on my website today. 👉🏻👈🏻 I know that seems small, but I'm trying to remain realistic this year. All eBooks are currently 50% off...
#UF🌃📚 #PNR🔮📚 #booksky #birthday
www.thebornangeluniverse.com/product/1223...
#UF🌃📚 #PNR🔮📚 #booksky #birthday
www.thebornangeluniverse.com/product/1223...
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It's my birthday today! I turned 33... I would love it if I could get just 3 orders on my website today. 👉🏻👈🏻 I know that seems small, but I'm trying to remain realistic this year. All eBooks are currently 50% off...
#UF🌃📚 #PNR🔮📚 #booksky #birthday
www.thebornangeluniverse.com/product/1223...
#UF🌃📚 #PNR🔮📚 #booksky #birthday
www.thebornangeluniverse.com/product/1223...
Why so many laws of late requiring adults to manhandle children's bodies? Trans ppl just want to play sports and have a public restroom. People from other countries just want the chance for a better life. Maybe grown dudes obsessed with kids' undies is true problem beleaguering our nation.
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Why so many laws of late requiring adults to manhandle children's bodies? Trans ppl just want to play sports and have a public restroom. People from other countries just want the chance for a better life. Maybe grown dudes obsessed with kids' undies is true problem beleaguering our nation.
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Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
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Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
@klobuchar.senate.gov why did you vote (along with 27 other dems) Dem to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent?
what the fuck is wrong with you?
what the fuck is wrong with you?
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@klobuchar.senate.gov why did you vote (along with 27 other dems) Dem to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent?
what the fuck is wrong with you?
what the fuck is wrong with you?
Just finished reading Strongmen - Mussolini to the Present.
Not exactly the present anymore as it was written in 2020-ish. And while it's not a great book, 8th grader cribbing from Wikipedia vibes, it's demoralizing.
The right-leaning authoritative leader playbook is astonishing small. 1/?
Not exactly the present anymore as it was written in 2020-ish. And while it's not a great book, 8th grader cribbing from Wikipedia vibes, it's demoralizing.
The right-leaning authoritative leader playbook is astonishing small. 1/?
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just finished reading Strongmen - Mussolini to the Present.
Not exactly the present anymore as it was written in 2020-ish. And while it's not a great book, 8th grader cribbing from Wikipedia vibes, it's demoralizing.
The right-leaning authoritative leader playbook is astonishing small. 1/?
Not exactly the present anymore as it was written in 2020-ish. And while it's not a great book, 8th grader cribbing from Wikipedia vibes, it's demoralizing.
The right-leaning authoritative leader playbook is astonishing small. 1/?
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Feels like a market niche should be creating itself for specifically anti-AI consumers, and yet I don't see much evidence for such a thing. I can buy cheese without dairy in it but I can't buy a new phone without AI.
In light of Adobe's plans to add ChatGPT to everything, I need to an alternative for doing the usual writer stuff with PDFs (open them, combine files, sign them, save them). What definitely meets my PDF needs without funding this specific lake-boiling, thieving, corporate monstrosity?
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Feels like a market niche should be creating itself for specifically anti-AI consumers, and yet I don't see much evidence for such a thing. I can buy cheese without dairy in it but I can't buy a new phone without AI.
I don't know which bothers me more. The three unhatted ppl, the random hat on the desk, or that the busts don't have hats.
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I don't know which bothers me more. The three unhatted ppl, the random hat on the desk, or that the busts don't have hats.
He's safe but my panties just dropped 20 stories.
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
He's safe but my panties just dropped 20 stories.
Just heard a YT commercial in which Walter Goggins schilled for AI.
a woman in a purple jacket is sitting on a couch holding a glass of wine .
ALT: a woman in a purple jacket is sitting on a couch holding a glass of wine .
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just heard a YT commercial in which Walter Goggins schilled for AI.