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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1h

A banker who commits embezzlement might never be able to work in finance again. A trucker who gets a DUI might lose her CDL. Not being able to do your old job anymore because of the nature of your actions is a pretty regular occurrence.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1h

The only reason the elites ever push this stuff is general classism and because they want to be able to pay tradies less by flooding the market.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2h

Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 1h

I am once again hanging out with the rats and they are delightful.

Neal Cassady Rat-Laben is standing on the yellow plastic hut and looking at the camera, Aleister Crowley Rat-Laben is sitting on the floor in front of him looking fuzzy, and Miguel de Cervantes Rat-Laben is mostly concealed in a cardboard box but his tail is sticking out.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 6h

As always, go get your money.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

This is not new so I'm not gonna sound the drama alarm but I just saw someone describe A Christmas Carol as cozy horror and oh boy @wolfbridge.bsky.social have I got a seasonal Typebar pitch incoming!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

Also I'm never going to miss a chance to recommend Room 237, a documentary that's not for everyone but oh boy is it exactly for me.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

I am so lucky to know so many talented artists!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

Amazing, I love it so much!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

Anyone who's been a woman or a child (and I've done my time as both) knows that the scariest guy isn't the biggest or strongest but the one who has the most defenses up to protect his self-image. Because the more there are, the more likely any little thing will puncture them, and then...

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 7h

Great thread on a movie that's a classic for a reason.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 8h

Let's just go back to staring at goats.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

shhhh.... *looks around shifty-like*

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

I am delighted to announce that SMOKE SEASON is going to be an audiobook from Simon Maverick! www.simonandschusterpublishing.com/maverick/ I'm so pumped that this will make SMOKE SEASON accessible to a whole new audience.

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Simon Maverick | Home

Simon Maverick is a new audiobook imprint at Simon & Schuster dedicated to publishing works from talented, diverse, and emerging independent authors. Our aim is to meld the rebellious and iconoclastic...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Abortion: What's happening, what's new, what's next? If you're in NYC, come to this amazing teach-in next week. Register here: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin

Abortion: A Community Teach-In October 3 LES, NYC 11AM - 4PM 10:30 AM registration & continental breakfast Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

ICE are unquestionably federal agents. This is what the federal government does right now. When it 'only' injured and killed a few people a year in a relatively quiet manner in its pursuit of unjust deportations, that was also on the federal government.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Hell I wouldn't convict a random neighbor for just straight-up kidnapping the kids in this scenario. Extremely situations call for extreme measures and a child in mortal peril is an extreme situation.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Great, you got ride of everyone who does the work and now the land is barren and the barn's fucked.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to have our 2026 winner! As with last year, it’s a short story collection.

2026 MARK TWAIN AWARD
Lydia Millet
Atavists
"Twain's sardonic humor when it comes to human nature is on full display."
The Mark Twain House & Museum

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

So I assume that waking up every day with pain in the lower right quadrant of my face from sleeping with my jaw clenched is probably bad, right?

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

[GENTRIFIER WHO MOVED TO TRANSYLVANIA] “Amanda, call the cops, they’re out there doing the Mash again.”

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Depending on how well you know the person? I know that in some cases seeing someone I respect react unexpectedly intensely to something I said has made me reconsider my own stance because shit, I really hurt them.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

This is also true, obviously. But in this particular case the right move is the same for the cops lying: free her and use the rallying cry as a rallying cry. It's even funnier if they fucked up and gave us an imaginary hero to emulate. bsky.app/profile/mora...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric

A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
"She's alive and snoring," Gleason said.
Another attorney, Amy Harwell, is driving an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Gleason said.
"She needs immediate medical care," Gleason said.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Never talk to cops, obvs. But this is a rallying cry, and I wonder if she wants to spread the call to action more than she wants her own freedom/safety.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Given the number of presidents who were actual slaveowners, I don't know if it's a *new* low exactly.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

"Wretch" is such an excellent word for both of them.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

Oh The Devils is a must, I'm asking about the slate of other Ken Russell films they're showing in the run-up.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

@philipmarks87.bsky.social I would like the drawing but the replies on your post now appear to be closed. Should I sent the picture by DM?

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

Unfortunately "all of them" is not a valid answer unless I get a new job in the next two weeks.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

My personal inclinations draw me towards Gothic and/or The Music Lovers and/or Lisztomania.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

Dearly beloved, Which of these should I most make it a point to see on the big screen? I have already seen Altered States and Lair of the White Worm, although I'm not adverse to seeing either again. www.ifccenter.com/series/the-g...

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IFC Center - The Gospel According to Ken Russell

“The great disruptor of our time…he may have been the greatest filmmaker of the postwar period, a visionary genius who broke the mold of stuffy British cinema, but there was always something of the pu...

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

What's fun is that I never know which of my communities is going to do this on any given week.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.” Colm Tóibín reflects on the poetry of Thom Gunn. buff.ly/Qdy6Hh2

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A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

In August 1991, in a review of a new anthology of sixteenth-century poetry, Thom Gunn noted two poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt. These were poems that dealt directly with the execution of friends and ass…

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

Grift if you're a dude. Sex work if you're a lady-type dude. No idea what they want those of use who are secret third things to do. I'm kinda ok at raising chickens, which might be useful.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

When I was applying to school back in the last century, there were several places I looked at that literally had "no frats" listed as a plus, an indicator that this was a school that was serious and safe for weirdos! RIP Hampshire College, probs should've gone to you instead.

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Casino (1995) @casinofilm1995.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am calm!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

Proptip: either "fuck you I read what I want" or "hmm I hadn't considered that let us reason together about aesthetics and morality" [does a phd worth of reading] "nah fuck you I read what I want but I found some even cooler shit out here and now my world is expanded" are much better options!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 30/09/2026

The moral panic over girls liking charming, troubled fictional assholes --> "but my charming troubled fictional asshole is DIFFERENT for REASONS" cycle continues.

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burn September down to embers with Story Hour! This week, favorites Meg Elison and Jordan Kurella return. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of author Meg Elison, a fat and fair-skinned woman with high cheekbones. She wears her curly black hair in a short bob. She wears a red-and-white colorblock dress, a key hanging from a chain around her neck, and red lipstick. She poses in front of a neutral gray background, tilting one shoulder up as she looks straight into the camera with a knowing smile.

Color photo of author Jordan Kurella, a fair-skinned man with dark, curly hair worn in a short pompadour. He wears a black tee, faded black jeans, a black belt with a silver buckle, and black earrings. With his hands in his pockets, he poses in front of greenery and looks to the side, off camera, with a big, delighted smile.

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