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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tilda Swindog Swift Pope, angel baby bunny rabbit light of my life, is 6 today. For the next few months we're the same age in dog years and human years, and I'm pretty excited about out life stages lining up like this.

A dog with very soft-looking greying black fur is resting her chin on a human knee. She has huge, intelligent brown eyes

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nature has been generous this week. Just finished eating blackberries and ice cream covered in fig leaf syrup. I also made mugwort face oil, and I'm attempting to make blackberry, linden and basil mead as well. (Fermentation scares me.)

A wooden trug basket holding mugwort ang figleaves and mallow seeds.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#Weeknotes: I have a new website (finally) and I'm starting to break up with Google lapope.com/news-item/ne...

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Same Penitent Magdalene, same. Meme via bizwithbecs on Instagram.

A meme: Penitent Magdalene by Titian looking to the heavens in exhaustion with the text 'When I tell people my job is building systems when in reality it's mostly just being the first person to ever write anything down'

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Do you have a favourite embarrassing, unflattering, or unhinged image, gif or quote from a tech overlord? Please can you share it with me? It's for A Thing. The more cringe the better.

Mark Zuckerberg sits on the front row of a fashion show. He is a pasty, sweaty awkward looking beacon a sea of chic people.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Seeds planted: nigella, cornflower, nasturtium, calendula, chamomile, borage, California poppy, sweet peas, stocks, and scarlet runner beans (the prettiest seeds ever?)

A plastic seed tray and cover, filled with little coir seed pellets wrapped in paper

Four seeds in the palm of my hand, they are bean-shaped, very dark purple with pink speckles.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Today I went to a workshop and learnt to make cordage from rushes and raffia today. I am obsessed. I am going to make so many friendship bracelets. Can't wait to try nettles and dandelions in the summer when the stems get long enough.

Three strands of cord in varying widths and shades, lying on a cutting mat.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My hope for the #WinterOlympics opening ceremony was the opening scene from The Great Beauty, but on ice skates.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

First violet of the year, and on imbolc too 💜

Tiny purple violets - petals still closed - surrounded by greenery.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Extremely effective doomscroll prevention

A part-assembled jigsaw puzzle of the London Tube map. The central river area is pretty well completed.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I got this InMail back in October. I couldn't stop ruminating on it. It’s the perfect example of the dystopia I feel like we’ve entered this year, as AI disrupts everything around us.

"By the end of 2025, there will be three types of people: Those who make things happen - securing first-mover advantage in AI. Those who watch things happen - stuck in reaction mode as peers move faster. Those who wonder what happened - left behind as AI transforms the world without them. Which one will you become?"

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

So I’ve channelled all my angst (and a lot of spare time, thanks to a slow Q4) into writing a zine about this. It's called Spite House: AI, disintermediation and the end of the free web.

The cover of the Spite House zine, styled to look a bit like an early website.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here are the receipts - hard to capture because of how Gemini appears, but: 1. Original survey question 2. A table Gemini created aggregating responses including a 'More than 100,000 employees' entry which was not available in the survey 3. The table in full after inserting

A screenshot of a survey question, the last, highest entry is 50,001+ employees

A screenshot of a Gemini table, showing to options higher than 50,001+ employees

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Found a sweet spaniel pup today and reunited her with her people. I only thought about stealing her for half a second. This is the third lost dog I've found, and the only one wearing a collar and tag. She was back with her family in under 15 mins.

A sandy coloured spaniel, looking stressed, sitting on the lap of a woman with dark hair and glasses

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My perfect-angel-light-of-my-life-best-dog-in-the-world is 5 today.

A black poodle with a fresh haircut lies on a footstool, giving heavy side eye.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trying to exit my extended creative hiatus by making zines

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Video description: Tilda, a scruffy black poodle eating a prawn cracker bite by bite. Volume on for the ASMR. (This is a one in a blue moon treat btw, not her daily diet.)

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

First wild garlic of the year. Felt properly spring-like today.

Clusters of glossy, vibrant oval green leaves emerging from the forest floor.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Also saw the first violets of the year when I finally cleared the mud.

Vibrant purple flowers nestled in green undergrowth.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Got so stuck in the mud that I was on the verge of abandoning my boots. Each step took ages because I was sinking calf deep and having to wiggle for ages to free myself and take the next step. My wellies are now full of cow-shit scented mud.

A pair of wellies completely covered in floppy mud.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thanks. Tilda did really well. She recognised them from a distance away but managed to stay relatively calm. The incidents with this person and their dog were one of the things that sparked Tilda's anxiety. We've had to do so much work to rebuild her confidence. She's fine now.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Found my favourite fungus - scarlet elf cup. Only ever see them in one part of the woods.

Three little fungi on moss and sticks. They look like little orange cups with a red interior.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tacked on some extra time after my meeting so I could be a tourist in Newcastle.

A view of the very grand and impressive Tyne Bridge over the river.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Imbolc tomorrow, hellebores and snowdrops are starting to appear, and - look! - by the end of Feb dawn will be starting at 5 and sunset ending at 8.

A chart showing sunrise and sunset times for February.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Here is said dog, treating the path like a race track.

A dog leaping on a muddy path through woodland still dusted with snow.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I live for weather like this in winter. Had the best golden hour walk in the frost and dregs of the snow yesterday.

A gate and a tree in the foreground, slightly snowy hills in the background, all painted by golden hour light.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Found this yesterday. Without Googling/reverse image searching, what do you think it is? The words are 'Dewdrop' and 'Ormskirk'. (I managed to find out the answer, and would never have guessed in a million years.)

A piece of orange plastic. There are two orange ovals, joined by a bridge. Under the bridge there are two little points.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's here! Can't wait to get stuck in to this. cc @clearwriter.bsky.social

A book, Sustainable Content: How to measure and mitigate the car on footprint or digital data by Alisa Bonsignore

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Had the most amazing swim this morning. Can still feel the cold and the invigoration circulating round my body.

A pebble cove, circled by cliffs, with mill-pond calm water.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Bought myself a lovely old Ercol chair for my office. Dog has claimed it as her own. Can't blame her, it's very, very comfy.

A black dog with a red collar lying on a chair covered by a blanket. She's staring at the camera with a look that says 'Why are you looking at me like that?'

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Spiders have been very busy - these were everywhere.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

It's a really, really beautiful morning

A lemon yellow sunrise over a misty field. A small black dog is running towards the camera.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Could she look any more pitiful? (She's okay, on the mend after a mystery illness that required a night with the vet on a drip.)

A sad and resentful looking black dog with a zebra print bandage on her leg

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

First dark morning dog walk of the season. The days are getting so short.

A dark view of the south downs, with heavy cloud and a few lights twinkling in the distance.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

In London for an in-person card sort. It's for internal-facing content for a charity - I absolutely love working with clients who recognise that internal comms needs information architecture, content strategy and content design. Also: index cards are such an underrated workshop stationary item.

A Sharpie, a notebook and an index card that reads 'card sorting'

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Rewatched The Northman last night. I feel like this film is very much in my wheelhouse. Historical horror 🤝 Björk.

A poster for The Northman. It shows Björk as a seer, wearing a wheat headdress and a huge pile of beaded necklaces. Cowrie shells hang covering her eyes, which are bleeding.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Look how majestic my dog is:

A majestic black dog panting in a sunny field

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Had a little mooch round the Supergraphics festival in Newhaven this weekend. (Funded by Levelling Up money...)

A huge mural along the side of a building reading 'sun & sea & you & me'

A mural of an ok hand under a clock high on a wall

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

It's a beautiful day to vote out the fascists 💚💚💚 #DogsAtPollingStations

Tilda the dog posing under a polling station sign in bright sun

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Looking for unshared office space and it's quite depressing. This is what's in my budget...a dirty windowless room rented by someone called dboy. Another place that was in budget was only in budget because there was a leak directly above the desk.

A very small grubby looking room with no window, that's up for rent for £275 a month.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

On my way home to see my dog. Been away for four days and this is the longest I've ever gone without seeing her 😭

A fluffy black dog wrapped in a blanket looking ridiculously cute

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Dog found a manky old football in a field this morning. She loved it with passionate intensity and cried when I wouldn't let her bring it home.

A black dog holding a tattered, semi-deflated football in her mouth.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

My dog just had a haircut, and I just can't with the contrast between her big fluffy trousers and her sleek little paws.

A poodle with shaved paws and very fluffy legs. It looks like she's wearing poofy trousers.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

I enjoyed this post by Molly Soda on the internet's obsession with girl stuff: girl dinner, girl math, hot girl walks etc etc mollysoda.substack.com/p/the-girl-i...

Online, there is no woman/girl dichotomy. Online, we are all girls. Here, the term girl exists as a condition rather than a defined gender or age.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I'm back in my favourite place and the sun is shining.

An oil rig, seen from a pebble beach on a sunny day.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I wish every National Park had these heavy-duty mobility scooters. We were able to go for a 6 mile hike at Grizedale in the Lakes together yesterday, and it was lush. Knackered today cos I was on foot and it was hard to keep up.

A man in a motorised wheelchair and a dog on a steep gravel track, surrounded by autumn leaves.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from my little creature of the night.

A black dog holding a toy pumpkin between her paws.

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