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Laurel Brown

@docbrown.bsky.social
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Currently a lawyer. Formerly a TV/entertainment reporter, historian, professional student, teacher, astrophysicist. Ask me about my next career move! Aka, docbrown_tv and really_mzungu.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
Time for this classic again.
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Neato Tito @neatotito.bsky.social · 19h
Illustration of a man firing a rifle at two bears attacking him

Man - Me
Further away bear - self doubt
Closer bear- This one is just a real bear
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 21h
In like 3 decades of living in the PNW, this was I think just the third earthquake I've actually felt (was out of town for that big early 2000s one).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 23h
The question we all need to be asking is what is meant by "it."
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it bad that, upon reading this, I laughed harder than I have in weeks?
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
Here’s a resource to help you register or check your registration:
aclu.org
Are You Registered To Vote? | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is always working to protect Americans' right to vote and access to the polls. As a critical election season begins, make sure you know if you're registered to vote: click on your state in the map below below to find your voter registration site, or view a complete list of registration sites by clicking "view data."
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you'd like to show the chuds that you value work created by real humans, you can buy the original as a print: www.etsy.com/listing/4582...
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Broadsheets Are the Future Print - Etsy
This Digital Prints item by thenightwellforge has 20 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Pasadena, CA. Listed on Sep 28, 2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Any time an AI chud touches anything, he demonstrates that he has no skills, no ideas, no creativity, only the ability to steal and copy, and he doesn't even have that skill, because he has to outsource it to an algorithm.
A shitty AI bro had AI make a shitty copy of my poster
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where even to begin with the latest perfection from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social ? Everything from the tanzanite rings (which may be daily wear) to the “fun” trio of raw stone, dahlia, and labradorite rings to the tiny pendants to the random cactus toy… Perfection is not enough.
All my ring and pendant pretties, displayed in a dignified fashion with a plush cactus, plastic skull, and googly eyes ring.Raw stone ring, labradorite rose ring, dahlia ring, Herkimer diamond pendant, intaglio rose pendantTanzanite rings being perfect on my fingers
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To be fair, 3) is accurate.
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shademar @shademar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Back on my matching bullshit again. First: awesome job peeps, you hit our goal yesterday! And maxed my match! But somehow it's returned. Help me kick this out so I can go smoke totally legal stuff and watch 'Backrooms' k? 🫶 GFM screenshots appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/renees-eme...
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Donate to Renee's Emergency Relocation and Mobile Home Move, organized by Florence Vigil
Hi, I'm Florence, and I'm raising this fund for my childhood best f… Florence Vigil needs your support for Renee's Emergency Relocation and Mobile Home Move
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A small thread of stuff that's on sale on the shop that's super cool. We're 9 LGBTQIA+ crafters so everything bought here supports the homosexual agenda. Which is snacks.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Folks, last day the whole store is 25% off. Sterling is here: www.peculiarityshop.com/sourcedsterl...
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SOLID .925 STERLING | Peculiarity Shop
Sourced .925 and other precious metal jewelry to help fund background operations.
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.
View from my building roof, showing Puget Sound and Seattle at sunset.
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perfect @peculiarityshop.bsky.social tanzanite ring is perfect.
Wearing my new tanzanite ring, with a crazy dark indigo triangle stone.Can you even handle how much this thing sparkles??? (Closeup of tanzanite ring, showing how awesome it is)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/09/2026
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social AI simply cannot
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@lisathebeauty1

It's bare minimum friday, don't you let that job stress you out today
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They're like spooky skull balloons!
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my all-time favorite quotes fits here: "Well, I have a dream too. But it's about singing and dancing and making people happy." - Kermit the Frog (The Muppet Movie)
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm not sure we need to follow the "real world" advice of a guy who once "had to pump gas ... a few years ago" and couldn't do it again because he doesn't know his own zip code.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I cannot even accurately express how infuriating it is to be an American right now. None of this suffering is necessary. All of this is allowed to keep a handful of rich child molesters out of prison.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine accepting these first two sentences from the NYT piece as a normal feature of American life: "What can a laid-off worker over 50 do to get health insurance? Besides staying healthy until Medicare kicks in at age 65, the answer is: Not a lot."
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2 things: (1) This seems...not good. (2) Why is Dr. Oz bookended by fascist twins?
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Was the answer 42?
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure where to start with the incredible shiny treasures that arrived from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social today. So maybe we start with two of the world’s best bracelets?
An amethyst bangle and a lapis cuff, since I don’t want to pick a color lane and stay there.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Welcome to being a woman on the internet. You can build political machinery for a whole sector while PhD-ing and raising a family, without the support of any institutions, employ 26 people, boycott Starbucks, work your ass off at a great personal cost...& some asshole will make it about your nails.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ALL things are possible through spite
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026
Every day, my administration works to make Seattle more affordable for people like Sam by fighting for better renter protections, fairer grocery pricing, expanded transit access, and more. You shouldn't have to work every day of your life to survive. You deserve bread—and you deserve roses, too.
“For Ballard man, Seattle on $25 per hour means extra gig and no days off.”
Originally from San Antonio, Sam Stallcup works seven days a week, but he has little left over after paying for housing and other necessities.
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We made it fellas.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Observation from a high school buddy: “The military doesn’t believe that a foreign power will locally threaten the capital & White House. That's what their nukes are for, and the Golden Shield is the military solution for that threat. That leaves only us as the perceived threat to the government.”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not just an arch, it’s a murder arch.
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Laurel Brown @docbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The thing is, I can (and do) avoid buying those overpriced things. They’re luxuries. But high gas prices affect everything, including the price of basic groceries.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/09/2026
everyone who cancelled Murder Besties should walk into a volcano
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