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Judgemental as fuck. But also sleepy. I have lots of ideas. I should be writing right now, but reading feels more productive.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · May 27

Speaking of enjoying to learn and taking initiative: If you wanna read the books #they are taking out of print, check out the Digital Public Library of America. #BookBurning #BannedBooks

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Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 4m

Everyone who fucks with this man is auto-blocked. I couldn't care less what the excuse is. He beats women.

While we're at it, why does Eric Benet have a fucking career again?

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 24m

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Uncanceling of Chris Brown The singer claims he’s been overlooked, but his blockbuster stadium tour suggests otherwise.

The Uncanceling of Chris Brown

The singer claims he’s been overlooked, but his blockbuster stadium tour suggests otherwise.

www.vulture.com

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~Hailey~ @disneydork1928.bsky.social · 5d

Heya guys! Thought I’d give a lil update! So far, my new computer is 30% funded. Seriously, thank you all so much for your support! It really means a lot.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 6h

Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced

Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced

<article data-history-node-id="429862" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> attacks have continued in the Gaza Strip despite an announcement by mediators on Thursday that a ceasefire had been reached to end the two-year war on the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> enclave.</p> <p>Heavy air strikes and artillery shelling were reported in Gaza City and Khan Younis overnight, according to local media.</p> <p>Israeli quadcopters were also reported to have dropped bombs on civilians in Gaza City.</p> <p>At least one person was killed in the attacks.</p> <p>The renewed strikes came after US, Qatari, and Egyptian mediators announced early Thursday that a deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas to end the war.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced">Israeli attacks persists in Gaza after ceasefire agreement announced</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A Palestinian woman walks near rubble after US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 9 October 2025 (Reuters/Ramadan Abed)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="677bc73d-0148-434b-b232-689dfbe07e65" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/2025-10-09T051316Z_2140033739_RC238HAVDS7X_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="A Palestinian woman walks near rubble after US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 9 October 2025 (Reuters/Ramadan Abed)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A Palestinian woman walks near rubble after US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 9 October 2025 (Reuters/Ramadan Abed)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 15h

One of the few organized aid appeals I share. Crips for eSims for Gaza materially help Gaza folks by providing eSims so they can communicate with their families and the world. Read the updates and how to most effectively help.

chuffed.org/project/crip...

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

So we're completely done with them. Good to know.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14h

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

What in the late stage capitalism

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

In December.

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

Let me go ahead and block this travesty. I'm gonna have nightmares

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

🤣😂😂🤣😭😭

Spooky beige 🧌 @rellmidnight.bsky.social · 11h

Mfs selling Komodo dragon tail

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

Not enough

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

Also, if you watch any and all dating shows and copaganda (including hospital dramas), you are being fed red pill conservative propaganda endlessly.

It's in everything. Like, why is that annoying hip hop gossip page run by an African church??

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 11h

These artists revolutionized modern art in Nigeria. They’re finally getting recognition further afield | CNN

Think of modern art and Picasso, O’Keeffe or Dali may first come to mind. But Nigerian artists have made key contributions throughout the 20th century — and their influence is being exhibited in the f...

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

If people are in same sex relationships, they're far less likely to have children. And they need their little bottom tier workforce/mindless slugs.

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

What the fuck? I'm so sorry that you were tortured like this. And I hope that the people who subjected you to that die very slowly.

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 6h

4B and red pill and the drastically lowering birth rates in almost every single developing and developed nation doesn't just happen. These boys and men are not seeing us as people worth paying attention to or listening to. Economies are falling apart, and they're leaning into gender roles.

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

It's important to remember that Gen X are Gen Z's parents. You are going to have views that align more with what your parents think (Gen X sharing Boomer views). And who does this remind you of?

None of this exists in a vacuum. The red pill thing is magnifying an existing issue people ignored.

study at King's College London has found that over half of men think that gender equality has gone too far.

Link: https://thetab.com/2025/03/26/kings-college-london-study-finds-over-half-of-men-think-gender-equality-has-gone-too-far

Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

It's also why your sons don't have friends. For some, it's why none of your kids have friends. When you live by such a strict set of rules on how people are allowed to express themselves, very few are going to measure up, and no one will be able to live within such constraints.

And it's nonsensical

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

"Red pill media" is not a tool created by white supremacists to destroy your family and pull men to the "other side". Red pill media is a symptom of the over-indulgence and an allegiance to gender constructs (which are highly subjective and extremely damaging to community building)

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

The majority of this country & the planet is conservative. Most are very into patriarchal bullshit. That means you probably already raised your kids to think that there's such a thing as "fast" girls, and that a boy is owed something from a girl on a date.

Spoiler: You put them on the pipeline

Skeeter Rabbit👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾 @makkkiiio.bsky.social · 14h

White boys aren’t the only ones consuming right wing red pill media, it’s a lot of black boys falling into the pipeline too and more parents should give a fuck about it

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

There's this weird idea that boys are being radicalized to be conservatives. No. The boys were raised by conservative parents who hate girls, and who taught their sons to hate girls and women for daring to be something other than property. People who aren't already bigots cannot be radicalized.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

Right wing media has nothing to do with whites. It's a man problem. And if these parents cared, they would have already taught their children how to view girls and women as whole autonomous human beings. But because they didn't, and their sons already hate us, they are very easy to "manipulate"

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 7h

Because he was a "red pill" man. Lonely, bitter, conservative, hateful, undateable... But it all started with those pickup artists in the early 90s

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a new state law that will require apartments to come with a refrigerator and stove, basic appliances that many renters expected would already be required.

California Renters Won’t Have to Buy Their Own Fridge Under New Law

Many tenants have been annoyed that their rental units did not include refrigerators. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring apartments to have fridges and stoves, starting next year.

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 11h

It is band books week and I can't think of a better utilization of our time than to do exactly what colonizers and fascists don't want us to do - continue to learn #books #anticensorship

www.aclu.org/campaigns-in...

Banned Books Week 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union

Find an event or learn more about your First Amendment freedoms.

www.aclu.org

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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 11h

Oh yeah. I will get very petty and jump online with screenshots like, "Remember that time you guys told me I was crazy/wrong?" 🙃🙃🙃

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