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Lara Seven

@laraseven.bsky.social
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Current artcar: Memento Mori. Co-author of "Taking Your MLIS Abroad: Getting and Succeeding in an International Library Job." Jeopardy Silver medalist. Portlander.

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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 11h
Short answer: they are hard to wash and really good at spreading ecoli: "LOS ANGELES-The California Department of Health Services has found that there were more food poisoning cases in the state from 1996-1998 from alfalfa sprouts than any other food"
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, miaow, miaow, miaow.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If I recall correctly, in the 1968 drag documentary, The Queen, one of the losing girls complains at length at the end of the pageant about who won. It did not make her sympathetic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Que...
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The Queen (1968 film) - Wikipedia
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oops, looks like I can't msg you. Msg me if you like. I drive and I have a bunch of boxes.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I live in se and have a bunch. I'll PM you.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I cut and poisoned one in my yard, and now I want to start a vigilante gang to spread herbicide to all of these mofos in my area.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've blocked 3 different Julie's this week. All same profile words and an onlyfins link. Why yes, this is exactly the kind of female friendship a 56 year old married lady wants!
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You're physicists with cooler toys (telescopes, planetariums)! Lol.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tbf, astronomy probably is a more romantic science to depict in movies than chemistry (too much PPE) or field biology (plot: Linda spends Xmas collecting samples in a marsh and discovers a new mollusk, but lacks true love). Wonder how often paleontologist makes the grade? "A Dinosaur for Xmas"? Lol.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Q: what's brown and sticky? A: a stick.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think my beef was that the SLAC football team had multiple coaching staff (love interest is the defensive coordinator) and there's a subplot about no $ for a new telescope, because the budget favors athletics (think that's correct, might be mistaken). Which is a thing, sure, but at a SLAC?!
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did you watch this? Combines pub trivia plot with academic setting, and the lead is a female astronomy prof: www.hallmarkchannel.com/trivia-at-st... Lots to hate watch here, like the idea that a SLAC in VT has a football team.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The satirical film "Putney Swope" by Robert Downey, Sr is kinda about this: Corporate board has to elect new chair, you can't vote for yourself. So everyone votes for the token Black dude, thinking no one else will, and that at least 2 other guys might vote for me. Black chair elected unanimously.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Put a hippie bead curtain on your sliding glass door and you'll always know when the cats have noticed a squirrel outside.
Cats look intently out the window at a squirrel in a garden planter. The squirrel is marked within mspaint style arrow drawn on top of the picture.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm a homeowner of 8 yrs, E of 205 (D1) in a SFH w/no gate, and I too think I've been canvassed about once, maybe for state rep or an initiative. Like GRR, I'd love to hear more "inside baseball" about canvassing. I guess I vote regularly enough that in D v R races, I'm solid D, not worth visiting?
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm curious what "high Dem scores in the voter file" looks like. Is this being a registered dem and voting in D primaries, or something more nebulous like subscribing to Mother Jones in print?
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honoring menopause seems odd. It's a normal thing that happens as you age, like needing to take statins, or having your knee do that thing when you rise from sitting on the floor. Are they building something to honor Weird Knee Thing, too? Because I think about WKT about 9x more often than meno.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I get my checks from a third party vendor like checksinthemail.com $7.25 for 25, unit price goes down the more you order. I've been happy with them and last I compared, they were half the price of ordering direct.
checksinthemail.com
Personal Checks, Business Checks & Check Accessories | Checks In The Mail
Find a wide selection of personal and business checks online, as well as check accessories, at Checks In The Mail. Fast and easy ordering with low prices.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you know nothing about using LLM AIs and dont understand the issues, I feel like you can substitute the word "cocaine" for "AI" or "Claude credits" and have a pretty good idea of how dumb the push to use LLMs for everything is.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also good on you for affirming them in a plain words way! No one has to make hard and fast declarations about their gender identity, let alone when they are just starting out as an adult.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What we've lost without David Bowie as a role model! Wears a frock on Man who Sold the World, becomes scary mulleted Ziggy, wears tailored suits in Let's Dance era. Show your student photos of Bowie thru the years? 50 years ago we didnt have the best words to define what gf was, but it was there.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One day, our new kitten will stop gnawing on my most recent two New Yorker magazines which I haven't finished reading. Didn't happen yesterday. Today not looking good, either.
New yorker article that a kitten took a bite of an chewed up, leaving a hole in the text.Cover of most recent New Yorker,  which kitten has chewed up.
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'll point out that the acceptable level of mold, insect parts and rodent hairs in foods is around 3% to 10% before the FDA considers a batch contaminated enough to take action. We would be lucky to have only .0002% mold in our apricot puree (11% is acceptable). web.archive.org/web/20130319...
web.archive.org
Defect Levels Handbook
Food Defect Action Levels - the Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know frat houses are pigstys if a bunch of punks touring in a crap van without regular showers comment on it.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From 1988. First song on the LP that would eventually spawn the hit "Punk Rock Girl". At first I thought this lyric was homophobic: "I'd rather live on planet Mars/ And die from lack of oxygen /Than breathe the air of other men" until I was at an apt. shared by 4+ male undergrads. Oh, the smells.
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Brat in the Frat
YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen - Topic
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Largely agree. I'm in D1 (5,6,11) and would love to vote for a Mitch Green type, but will settle for kicking career politican Smith out in favor of another Could Be Better. I'm just glad D1 is too poor for Rene to move here and run again...
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Your brain on drugs was certainly parodied more : "and this is your brain with a side of toast and bacon".
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Disproves the stereotype that gay men have excellent taste.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Assume you are rereading because you know a 3rd book by her featuring those characters is coming out? What did you think of book 2, if you read it?
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love the genuine look of confusion on Smith's face, as if he had just been asked something like "Is your father's name Chauncington?", and he knows the answer is no but can't understand why he is being asked this weird question.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In conclusion, I now wear my earbuds on the max even if I'm not listening to anything, just to block out this bullshit, and it shouldn't have to be like that.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[This is a metaphor for political discourse in 2026, especially fro m privileged and / or right wing folks].
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I tried to argue that blasting unwanted sound to people who didn't want to hear it was rude, but realized that there's probably no reasoning with someone starting with such a ridiculous premise, especially when they are the one breaking the understood social contract.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't know if this is from the manosphere, therapy speak, a non sequitur, or what, but it did throw me off a moment.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PDX MAX story: 20ish white dude watching vids with loud speaker. I say, "hey, could you use headphones?" He looks at me like I'm from Mars. Says nothing. I repeat, "please use headphones, no one wants to hear your tiktoks" His reply is "why are you choosing violence?"
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also: simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Polybius
simpsons.fandom.com
Polybius
Polybius is an one-button arcade game, seen in Captain Blip's Zapateria at the Springfield Mall. It is property of the United States government. At the time Bart Simpson found the arcade game Triangle...
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a local tshirt vendor who sells a polybius design at pop up markets. I wanted one but he didnt have one in my size and I'm too lazy to order it online: nightchannels.com/products/pol...
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Polybius Videogame | Occult & Obscure Clothing | Night Channels
Polybius was an arcade cabinet originating in Portland Oregon. Theurban legend describes how the machines were visited by men in black,who collected unknown data from the machines, allegedly testingre...
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"When a hot flash and a shockingly dark and long chin hair love each other very much, they have a special private time together called menopause "
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"It's German for 'The Tickets, The'"- Sideshow Bob
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whatever makes the customer happy...
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please don't actually do this on my behalf, but now I'm wondering what an actual prompt for "menu pictures of strawberry breakfast creeps" would have yielded.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I took this pic in the Netherlands in late 2024, but the typo still makes me laugh. At the time, I didn't think about whether the images were AI-generated, but looking at the odd strawberry leaves and the 2 random strawberries on the table, I'm leaning yes.
Sign from a cafe in the Netherlands with names and photos of food. Pictured are "Panini" and "Creeps" (Crepes).
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also I am bringing iced coffee to my jury duty. SO THERE.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have deferred jury duty sometime in the next 10 months and cannot wait for voir dire questions like "if we read fan fiction aloud that speaks to motive, can you keep a straight face? Okay, great. How about AI generated slow jams? No? Okay, dismissed."
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like many 80s things, at the time it was not an outlier and I didnt cringe at the jingoism (I was also a kid when this aired). Now it seems condescending and a bit horrifying and like you could have made this joke some other way (stoners? Former Amish?) without picking on immigrants.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am considering a career change and think Volcano Doctor might be right for me. But I wonder if its more like a PhD doctor, or if I have to take the MCAT?
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My late dad was a ham, dragged my mom into it, she wasn't really into it, but still got her license. She got a LOT of attention on air. You never know who is on the other end: www.qrz.com/db/FO5GJ
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FO5GJ Callsign Page
FO5GJ personal biography
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I like Candace, not sure how I feel about Dunphy, but really ready to ditch Loretta when D1 gets to vote in 2 years. Hopefully we get our own version of Sameer or Dr Mitch running by then.
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Lara Seven @laraseven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey Siri, what costs more, registering a domain name, or renting a billboard?
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