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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hey anti primers! If you’re looking for a witchcraft book that teaches you magic and helps you form a union, check out Spells for Success on Bookshop!

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Spells for Success Deck and Guidebook: 40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins

40 Spells to Set Intentions and Manifest Everyday Wins

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔗: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

cc: @laurenparker.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social @amandamwrites.bsky.social @ctsalazar.bsky.social @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Night Light, July 2025—ALFTM&OP Launch! 💌⛰️. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 7

Me: okay it’s been a decade. Time to swap out the ol IUD
Dr.: okay so around ten years or def ten years? at ten years it’s not effective anymore
Me: because it wears out or because tiny meth heads stripped it like a house in 2009
Dr.: yep, we keep the tiny meth heads under wraps for obvious reasons

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Spooky Eyeball @ucame2cashow.bsky.social · Jul 5

This is so cool! Denver has a Zoltan in @casabonitadenver.com.

Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 5

I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 6

Reminder that I wrote a whole book of genderqueer sci fi poems about David Bowie and @animalheartpress.bsky.social bought it. You should support small presses and queer art as much as possible and if do buy it I’ll probably kiss you so factor that in. animalheartpress.net/dark-way-dow...

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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.bsky.social · Jul 5

Cat Influencer
#cats #kittens #caturday #linkedin

Orange cat lounging in a chair.

"At just 3 years old, I have a house, a passive income, a personal chef and a butler, and a throne. Follow me for financial advice."

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jul 5

I wrote about Zoltar fortune telling machines, marketing history, and divination for @thewildhunt.bsky.social and you can read it here wildhunt.org/2025/07/zolt...

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 30

Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...

#poetry

“I Came to this Walmart Parking Lot to Fight God” by Lauren Parker

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 30

Big publishing day! I Came to Walmart to Fight God just came out in the Revolution issue of Feral Magazine! feralpoetry.net/i-came-to-th...

#poetry

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 26

“A desolate, intimate homage to one of rock’s most original lyricists.”

Kirkus liked my poetry collection about David Bowie, the desert, and queer yearning. And you should add it to your shelves this Pride month and support a small press.

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Dark Way Down | Kirkus Reviews

In this poetry collection, Parker plumbs personal depths via a David Bowie–inspired alter ego.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · Jun 24

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 24

“I want the ink to tell me something true as I pour it out in the teacup saucer. I’d kill for something that is good. I’d kill for something other than the damp grief of a blank slate.”

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Ink Stains Your Hands like Truth

Divining in your ink well during a hell storm.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · Jun 23

👏 👏 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvW...

You Can’t Separate Harry Potter from J.K. Rowling

YouTube video by Princess Weekes

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 23

One of the ways to resist capitalism and the allure of AI slop in your personal mindset is to appreciate and enjoy being an amateur at something

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 22

Me, being incognito as an Ohioan around Pennsylvanians

Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 21

My deck’s six month birthday is today! What a perfect day for it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spells...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Jun 19

Israel’s 80-day blockade that has enforced a strict closure of crossings and blocked aid deliveries has resulted in nearly 330 deaths, most of them children. interc.pt/43YCZ6s

A photo of a child receiving treatment for malnutrition at the Patient Friends Benevolent Society hospital in Gaza City on May 29, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Children Are Starving in Gaza, as Soldiers Kill People Looking for Food," and the DEK, "Doctors trying to save starving children and parents trying to feed their families spoke with The Intercept."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jun 16

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Melt ICE, Be Water,"
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.

Print and distribute!

Melt ICE, Be Water

You can read the entire contents of this zine online here, complete with hyperlinks to sources bearing out its claims.

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Babylon Salon @babylonsalon.bsky.social · Jun 16

💖BIG thanks to the 5 #authors who wowed us at Babylon Saturday night! Every one of your #readings was stellar! Check their beautiful #books! 🌠📚🌠

⭐ S.G. Browne
⭐ Duane Horton
⭐ @laurenparker.bsky.social
⭐ @katefolk.bsky.social
⭐ Paul S Flores

#writers #writing

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jun 15

Although millions took the streets today to demonstrate against Donald Trump's power grab, there was only one shooting, in Salt Lake City.

Nonetheless, it is important to learn what you can do if a person is shot near you at a demonstration. Please read this guide.

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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds

Even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your vicinity will survive.

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Babylon Salon @babylonsalon.bsky.social · Jun 14

@laurenparker.bsky.social writes: "March in Michigan is birch trees as stark as corn stalks. It’s not home but it is ancestral, the cemetery filled with tombstones with my last name on them..." Give this essay a read & come hear Lauren perform @ Babylon TONIGHT! 6/14 @ The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!

True Story of a Sandwich - Belt Magazine

the Parker Sub doesn't want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it's something a simple and plain man has to ask for. But I am a Parker. And I do want those: the pepper, the onions, the...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jun 11

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 11

And get it with a Verner’s

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 11

If any of you head up there and order that sandwich, tell em Tim Parker’s kid said hey

Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 11

Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social

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Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social · Jun 11

Read this essay I wrote about my father’s death and my family’s legacy sandwich over at @beltmagazine.bsky.social

beltmag.com/true-story-o...

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