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I used to be a librarian I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/ I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’m setting up a newsletter on @buttondown.com. I would like to do more long form writing and I don’t have the capacity for pitching. There are gonna be some essays about bad management and about writing and about my load bearing grudges. It’s called love, the nailbiter. buttondown.com/loather

love, the nailbiter

This newsletter is sometimes about work, and sometimes about libraries, and also sometimes about writing, and also sometimes about music, and there is sometimes politics yelling. Love, the nailbiter...

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 5h

Daniel Sunjata!

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 5h

I see a Wikipedia like this and I’m locked in

Three subject headlines in a Wikipedia entry: early life and education, career, and views on the September 11 attacks

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 7h

you don't need AI if you have adhd

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 8h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking about how Kanye West put Harriet Tubman on his “betrayal list.” Makes no damn sense! …compels me tho

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 17h

The series of dad rock acts after the Timberlake scandal were popular too

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 17h

Coldplay but then they had Beyoncé do formation and conservatives lost their minds again

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 18h

If she wins the dem nomination she will lose to Caruso

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 19h

Brain: did we make that sound?
Ears: sure did
Brain: hmm. Should we simply die?
Ears: might have to

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 19h

Haunted by the sound I made when the train slammed to a stop but at least I didn’t fall down

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 20h

I have such a unique contempt for chickens borne of spending too much time around them as a kid. They are the worst and we should eat them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 20h

I know everyone loves whiteboard lady but she’ll be an absolute car crash as governor

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21h

My absolute favorite succulents are these guys, if you even care

Black aeonium - Succulents with black “flowers”

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21h

Metrolink is always like “I am on time…psych” love my quirky regional rail network

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

The first bakery I went to was out but I got my mooncakes, happy mid autumn festival to everyone who loves mooncakes

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

15 people lifted a crashed helicopter to rescue a woman trapped underneath it, people are good www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Motorists lift medical helicopter to rescue woman after crash injuring 3 on Sacramento highway

A medical helicopter has crashed on a highway in Sacramento, critically injuring three people. A spokesperson for the Sacramento Fire Department says the crash happened Monday evening and a pilot,...

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Hell of a time to be raising a kid, I’ll tell you what

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

“Why are you talking about Taylor Swift and not the horrors” oh the horrors aren’t going anywhere believe me

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

And it always leads to the question of why she’s so dominant; I think it’s the combination of devoted fans and making songs normies enjoy as well. Beyonce is up there too but has said she’s not interested in the chart stuff anymore. It’s open runway for swift...right now

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to imagine any solo artist in history who could pull off the number one album, number one movie, and every track at the top of the sales charts except for Michael Jackson.

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 1d

As a charts nerd, Taylor Swift being on track for 4M units sold and having every song on showgirl at the top of the Billboard 100 is bonkers especially for an album that has attracted so much vitriol online (from non fans and fans!)

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss supports freedom of thought and diversity which is why she exclusively employs people who agree with her on everything and one relative

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

“For our next segment, I will once again complain about getting rejected from woke nightmare school Columbia University”

Loather @loather.bsky.social · 2d

The best part of the Bari Weiss meritocracy is she brings her even more dull little sister with her to every job, so get hype for Suzy Weiss to host Sunday Morning

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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