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Lori
@lorib.bsky.social
· Apr 15
A haiku for spring
Flowers, grass, and trees
Paid for with constant sneezing
Totally worth it
Flowers, grass, and trees
Paid for with constant sneezing
Totally worth it
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The attacks on our homes are revenge? Was the attack on children’s oncology revenge? Was the attack on a working kindergarten revenge?
What was the invasion revenge for, existing?
What was the invasion revenge for, existing?
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The attacks on our homes are revenge? Was the attack on children’s oncology revenge? Was the attack on a working kindergarten revenge?
What was the invasion revenge for, existing?
What was the invasion revenge for, existing?
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year
Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood fl...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
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After I had my daughter, one of the qualities I looked for in infant formula was existence, which was an aspect my breast milk lacked
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
After I had my daughter, one of the qualities I looked for in infant formula was existence, which was an aspect my breast milk lacked
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Tasteful of them not to refer to the Florida teenager as "a gold-digging hussy of a strumpet."
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tasteful of them not to refer to the Florida teenager as "a gold-digging hussy of a strumpet."
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“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!”
Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.
Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!”
Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.
Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.
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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
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Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation
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Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.
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Wait, so what you're saying is NATO did shoot down russian drones over Poland and nobody nuked anyone yet? It's almost like you could've closed the sky over Ukraine all those years ago and saved countless of lives. It's just our lives ain't worth shit to you.
September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wait, so what you're saying is NATO did shoot down russian drones over Poland and nobody nuked anyone yet? It's almost like you could've closed the sky over Ukraine all those years ago and saved countless of lives. It's just our lives ain't worth shit to you.
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NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.
August 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Regular reminder that if you wouldn’t go to Moscow Times reporters for an opinion about your own country, you shouldn’t go to them for opinions about Ukraine.
July 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Regular reminder that if you wouldn’t go to Moscow Times reporters for an opinion about your own country, you shouldn’t go to them for opinions about Ukraine.
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Them: you cannot hold back progress. You must accept your new computational overlords who need all your water. New tech is everything
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
July 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Them: you cannot hold back progress. You must accept your new computational overlords who need all your water. New tech is everything
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
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This thread brought to you by me telling my husband he is "time blind" and he can either get better about using clocks and calendars OR trust me on stuff as I am very GOOD with time.
What he can't do is be wrong, double-down, and essentially gaslight me.
What he can't do is be wrong, double-down, and essentially gaslight me.
Mine was realizing hunger PANGS aren't supposed to actually hurt. I had acid reflux. But I thought it was just NORMAL.
I may have said the smartest thing in my life today when I told my husband, "Everyone thinks they are normal."
And before you chime in with how YOU don't think you are normal, how about sit with the thought for a hot second:
What is something where you realized, "Huh, not everyone has/does that?"
And before you chime in with how YOU don't think you are normal, how about sit with the thought for a hot second:
What is something where you realized, "Huh, not everyone has/does that?"
July 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This thread brought to you by me telling my husband he is "time blind" and he can either get better about using clocks and calendars OR trust me on stuff as I am very GOOD with time.
What he can't do is be wrong, double-down, and essentially gaslight me.
What he can't do is be wrong, double-down, and essentially gaslight me.
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LLMs use em-dashes because they were trained on my books (among others) without my consent.
July 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
LLMs use em-dashes because they were trained on my books (among others) without my consent.
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Also to make an em dash all you have to do is put two dashes in a row in Word, and the program makes it for you. Wordpress too.
Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.
Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Also to make an em dash all you have to do is put two dashes in a row in Word, and the program makes it for you. Wordpress too.
Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.
Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.
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What the fuck? Llms wouldn’t even use em dashes if they weren’t already in pre-existing prose!
July 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What the fuck? Llms wouldn’t even use em dashes if they weren’t already in pre-existing prose!