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I am being held hostage. They refuse to go inside.

Black cat and black and white cat lying on an upstairs deck next to the world’s saddest container of cat grass.

A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This was such a fun conversation! Wickhills is such a cool book to get to ask a million world build questions about and listening to Premee talk about writing is one of my favorite things.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did NOT like it when they opened the closet at the beginning of Labyrinth and it was full of little guys. I was like oh I’m not watching this. Also some movie where there was a mermaid in a tank & for years I was scared that a mermaid would come up the shower drain (could not tell you why)

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David Naylor @profcedar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do the thing y'all. I have been yelling at assorted people in my life to check theirs for weeks now.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Top tv shows but make it about birds: #9 Birbs With Enthusiasm (Great Egret chicks excited about something) #birds 🌿

Three large white egret chicks stand in a big nest. Two face the camera with their beaks open, looking like they’re exclaiming loudly over something.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Currently rereading Romantic Outlaws, the joint bio of Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley but the problem is I’ve entered the point in their lives where it’s just, like, straight bummers and it’s not great for morale.

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💖🤎🧡 love is love 💖💚💛

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New chair = new box, which is always a good day for Penny.

Orange cat peering out from the shadows of a cardboard box about four times her size.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Weirdly moved and inspired by this kind of creative manifesting ngl.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Have been informed that it is outside time and that I’m gonna be sitting on this patio for a while longer.

Orange cat in a low-sided cardboard box staring up at the camera.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Horrified bc I just made my partner recite the poem to check that she knew it and she GOT IT BACKWARD. Her: I’m great, haven’t died of a snake yet.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thrilled to discover, via an AI spam email, that I am apparently the author of M. A. Carrick’s Eye of Leviathan. How cool that I wrote such a great book. Pity that I’m apparently not marketing it correctly.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Having spent my entire career watching vampiric stupid ass ed tech eating up budgets and replacing better options, it feels really, really good to watch people successfully pushing back against AI.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not super gifable and not my real answer but Boyhood came out that year and it’s set in the exact place where I grew up and I’m the exact same age as the older sister (w/ a younger brother) and wow that was trippy as fuck.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sharing a bathroom with Penny is challenging because her favorite hobby is staring at herself in the mirror with the lights off. She’ll do it for ages and if you turn the light on she gets SO SAD.

Orange cat hunched on the bathroom sink staring at herself with her face pressed up against the mirror.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not to be dramatic or anything but there’s really enough going wrong in my life rn without my kobo refusing to sync with my Libby app.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I read the Goblin Emperor right at the beginning of grad school, as I was starting student teaching, and I could feel myself imprinting on it in real time. It was a book about being overwhelmed and trying your best at a new job and it was so exactly the thing I needed in the moment.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was not emotionally prepared for bad things to happen to the mushroom in this children’s book. Wtf

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tbh, my main thing about Dolly Parton is that if I had achieved that level of success, I also would have built a theme park. Relatable shit.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Omg this is my partner in 30 years when we retire

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Every day I live in fear something will happen to my Honda Fit. At that point I assume I will just abandon society and go live in the woods.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Often when I hear other teachers talk about using AI, they aren’t talking about outsourcing grunt work so much as outsourcing student work. Formatting, drawing, cutting etc. that I would usually have my kids do. Fine motor practice, processing time, etc. that is good for kids IMO.

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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A young, inquisitive Powerful Owl at dusk in a Brisbane park yesterday. #birds #wildoz #brisbane

Young Powerful Owls track everything that moves, often head-bobbing to get a sense of their surroundings.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Real live footage of me trying to build an agent list for querying.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Amazon ads that are like “buy school supplies on Amazon, your kid is just gonna eat them anyway” are so weird.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Binge reading MG fantasy bc I realized I wanted to tweak my comps before querying & I’ve read too many heartbreaking depictions of old women adopting orphans in a row. Like good sign that I’ve found reasonable comps but also ow. No more exhausted old women reluctantly feeding small children please.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This book is so much fun and also full of the kind of messy, intense platonic intimacy that my aroace self is obsessed with. While also being hella gay and rooted deeply in its setting.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The rest of the household is playing a very complicated castle building game and I am just watching and eating a potato and the rush from not understanding the rules and not needing to understand the rules is honestly amazing.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/08/2026

this is where I currently stand. this well has been poisoned. I agree that I would like an unpoisoned well, but you can not convince me that I need to drink from the poisoned well just because I agree that water is important.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This story is so fucking good and I think about it a lot. Highly recommend

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So many people get mad when folks say “AI” to talk about “LLMs” but I bet almost all of them say “America” when they mean “the United States.”

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s been over a month but I still think about how Disclosure Day opens w/ Emily Blunt’s character doing a public, celebratory dance about hail. Like she’s telling pple “dangerous, stressful weather coming” & her framing is “what a fun time for me” & tbh that kinda set the tone of the film for me.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I can bail at any time but my decision point is 10% into the page count. Works well for me bc a set number feels wrong across different sized books and I’m indecisive enough that I need a clear decision point. Everyone I know w/ a healthy reading life DNFs

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There are few things I hate more than being told to provide “customer service” as an educator. My students and their families are not customers. That is not the relationship here. Public education is not a fucking business.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The millennial housing experience is looking at a property and being like idk that’s a lot but maybe we could swing it. Would be nice to not have so many roommates. And then the copy on the listing is like “great opportunity to downsize.”

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Those photos are from dawn, as my mom woke me up early to make sure I could see the turkey family. But no need to wake up early-- they are back this afternoon. My mom teared up both times, she was that excited to see them (even though they live here and she gets to see them all the time).

Two photos of the same Wild Turkey family, a large dinosaur-like hen and her five babies, all barely ankle-high to her. In this photo she is leading them through a mowed part of the lawn, past taller gardens. It looks like there is a wire in front of them, but that's actually my mom's dog runner, it's above the turkeys but because I'm taking a photo from above it's in the way.

Same family of six Wild Turkeys, now under the porch picking at the bird seed dropped from the feeders above. Mom is taking a protective stance over the babies, who are now much closer to her as they peck at seeds on the pavement.

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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 20/07/2026

i keep coming back to this. it's not about hating us. it's about degrading femininity as such, and reducing the definition of women to baby makers and ornaments. trans folk get in the way of that. so does women's sports. so does the fucking vote.

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Horrified to discover that today includes many logistical tasks? That seems wrong bc yesterday also included many logistical tasks?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Best 👏 Related 👏 Work 👏

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A lizard has moved in beneath the fridge and so far they’re a big hit.

A black cat and a black and white cat crouch expectantly next to a refrigerator.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anyway I am now at the library and have watched two pple apply for library cards in like ten minutes. One is a teen. One is an older woman who used to have a card and wants one again. It is very wholesome. They seem excited. (For the record they do no seem to know each other)

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A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

After two years in one of the few parts of the US w/ actual public transit, I have descended back into car dependency and it is hell. I spend at least two hours a day on car related chores. Some of that is switching states but not all of it. Insane amount of overhead to offload to individuals.

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