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Laura Ellis

@funambulator.bsky.social
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(she/her) Amateur animal caper specialist. Professional audio enthusiast. I have a GED & a Peabody.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What an incredible beginning of a sentence
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The dialect map thinks I’m from Arkansas. How could this happen 😭
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The United States has filed a lawsuit against approximately 85 dogs.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To cope with this I will need to adopt two puppies named Dolly and Tim
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They can't make you work past 5 on the day Dolly Parton dies, it's illegal
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every day against my will I seem to be playing a game called “or is it perimenopause?” For example, Am I burned out at work… or is it perimenopause? Am I suffering from depression… OIIP? Do I hate my house… OIIP? Should I change careers… OIIP? Am I on the verge of a nervous breakdown… OIIP?
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Reading Susan Orleans’ memoir and the hate I feel for her (late ex-) husband, I swear 🔥😳🔥
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Like WHAT THE HECK is going on with the fair board?? And this close to the fair???? www.wdrb.com/news/kentuck...
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Kentucky State Fair Board ousts CEO of Kentucky Venues
Mike Berry, the former head of the Kentucky Derby Festival, was appointed interim president and CEO.
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Look at the photo on the CDC’s page about cat scratch fever
A person wearing scrubs and rubber gloves holds a big orange cat that does not look real
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What exactly happens to community cats during bad storms? Because this morning all my porch cats are not around and there’s a brand new cat here. Do they just get shuffled? Like yachtzee dice?
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“If you’re gonna roll around in dogs, don’t put them on your face yet.” —my wife after cleaning my glasses for me
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is Mini, the least reactive stray cat I’ve ever seen. She showed up out of nowhere, already fixed. She watched from afar for maybe 10 days, looking skittish, then decided she’s part of the porch family. She’s tiny. And she would 100% let a kid put a dress on her.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
At the risk of sounding corny, I think dogs and cats save us as much as we save them. These companion animals will never lie or cheat on you. They will comfort you through the hardest of times. I swear to you: adopting a shelter animal will be the best decision of your life.
A cat looking up at a person between their legs. The same cat meowing.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026
this is my kind of company motto right here
18 wheeler with one back door open splitting the company’s tagline into “if we can’t / we won’t“
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pupdate: She got him shrimp sushi and he loved it
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is Brad. He’s a doll baby who could use a good home. His increasing desire to be around people is causing him to do risky behaviors like be around dogs who are aggressive to cats. He’s fixed. Also I love him.
A white cat with luxurious fur lays on his back on a patio sofaA white cat with a couple black spots looks handsomely off into the distance. A beautiful white cat with a black tail and some black spots perches riskily on a privacy fence
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Over the course of the week, my wife has casually promised this dog that he could have some sushi and that she would listen to the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack with him this holiday weekend.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
As someone with a lot of behavioral risk factors for rabies, I appreciate it being featured as a potential tool for justice
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
this is a threat ???
A sign on a wrought iron fence in front of a Brooklyn brownstone reads: “BABY DUCKS!
COMING SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 10 AM
TELL THE PRESS!” There is a photo of red tinted baby ducks on the sign.
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Very excited to re-introduce Curious Louisville! In this project, you ask us your questions about our community & we parter w you to find the answer, then make a radio story & podcast ep about it. Here, at long last, we explore the voice of the walk signs in Louisville. www.lpm.org/podcast/curi...
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Curious Louisville: Who is the voice of the crosswalk?
A sonic mystery revealed at last.
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I made a meme
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Here’s Radar and his turkey.
Radar, a small Jack Russell mix, sits on a lawn covered with newly-fallen leaves. He looks toward the viewer’s right, his eyes and face lit up by bright sunshine. Near his front right foot sits a small stuffed squeaky toy shaped like a turkey (the animal, not the food), about the size of a tennis ball.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 22/11/2024
Oh hai, a Louisville Public Media starter pack? Yes, Indeed. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This has been our whole Saturday. Just being lumps.
Radar the jack Russell terrier mix sleeps wrapped up in a Christmas blanket, like a burrito Lamar, a terrier mix, and Barkley, a chug mix, sit on a blanket on a rug in front of a space heater that looks like a fireplace Radar and Wendell, two terrier mixes, lay on top of blankets on a green velvet couch. Lamar, a black, white and tan terrier mix, poses on a Christmas blanket on a white faux fur rug, in front of a fake fireplace
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Jonese just accidentally called the google mini a whore, so it’s been nice knowing you all
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New reaction meme just dropped (photo by @jonephew.bsky.social)
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
My career requires me to choose FOR THE EAR
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Laura Ellis @funambulator.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
This parked in front of my dad’s house last week & the people who got out yelled “Happy Barbie Day!!!” to my stepmom. She got a big kick out of it. (But now my life is ruined because I know the Nissan Figaro exists and they’re expensive & hard to find.)
A pink and white convertible Nissan Figaro is parked on a neighborhood street with the top down. It’s extremely adorable.
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