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Laura Adrian

@laura-adrian.bsky.social
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Queer. Disabled. Jewish. I believe in the liberation of all people and I’m scared. Once on Usenet, currently in Boston.

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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I'm not sure how to fit this into @dreamweasel.bsky.social 's thread about the usefulness of Newsom's trolling. I mean, it's obvious to me how it could matter to change hearts and minds on the ground. What if that agent had hesitated and wondered, "are we the baddies?"
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Oh, right! Thank you for reminding me about the tariffs. The declaration is not only about a tyrant overruling judges and governors, and obstructing the naturalization of foreigners, but also: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
One of the few good things about living in such isolation is that I have largely avoided the smell of Febreze. That stuff is FOUL.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A question for SFF fandom: Could we have stopped Gamergate if we knew ahead of time what its long-term effects would be? It gathered a lot of strength while people didn’t think it was very important.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
All the federal investigators are working for ICE now. They can’t find Jeffrey Epstein
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Marie @randommarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Want a way to have a small voice? Head to Etsy, find whatever vile and repugnant alligator Alcatraz merch you can and report it. Choose the item, scroll all the way to the bottom, and report it. Tell ETSY that you will not accept its presence. Absolutely stomach turning.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A group of tow truck drivers in LA have reportedly also been stalking ICE vehicles and towing them once the agents get out of the vehicles and leave it unattended. /
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 19/06/2025
Time, that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent Worships language, and forgives All of those who by it live. Pardons cowardice, deceit Lays its honors at their feet. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I think that's a little unfair. Leni Riefenstahl had major skills (among the greatest of filmmakers), and put them to use in the service of evil. I haven't seen any evidence that Kristi Noem has any significant abilities of any kind.
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Marissa Skull-Yorick 💀 @marissaskud.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It doesn't involve characters who are a romantic couple, but my villain origin story is the casting notice I saw for a local production of "Twelfth Night" that went "Viola, 20s-30s; Sebastian, 20s-40s" Which, if you've read or seen the play even once… 🤦‍♀️
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Is “We’re here for each other! We’re queer for each other! “ not right for such a serious occasion?
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is terrifying. Criminal charges NOW, against Noem, ICE, and the individuals who attacked Senator Padilla.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Green line train just came into Boylston so slowly the track didn’t squeak. @universalhub.com
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Abolishing ICE is a moderate position
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/06/2025
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
If you haven't seen it already... This is how you do it.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Are you okay, ma’am?” “I think I swallowed my router.” “Here, take my seat.”
Priority seat signage with pictograms showing reserved seating for the elderly, injured, pregnant (with wi-fi waves seeming to emanate from her belly), and those with young children. Text is displayed in multiple languages.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’m generally uncomfortable with gossip that assumes a woman must have gotten her new job by sleeping with her new boss. It’s icky. But for Mike Pence’s former press secretary? OMG, it’s hilarious.
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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Remember when there were search engines that would actually give you what you wanted, and tell you if nothing matched? When you could put "-gelatin" in your search terms and not get pages with the word 'gelatin' in them? Those were the days, man. Gone forever now.
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Gintautas Dumcius @gintautasd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
First mayoral forum on the books Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?" Mayor Wu: Ward 18 Domingos DaRosa: 18 Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know Alex Alex also didn't know Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3
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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Indeed. Perfection improving upon perfection.
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Karen D @kardray.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Paperback cover showing a woman wearing a large shawl runs through grassland. There is a dwelling in the background. The title of the book is “Watch out for ticks”
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My son sent me this and now I can't breathe.
Faked Guardian headline with a picture of a bearded Mesopotamian statue.

"Trump picks copper merchant Ea-Nasir as Secretary of State for Metallurgy"
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Overheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
113 College Ave
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Mostly when I think of Trump and department stores, I think of him sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll in the Bergdorf Goodman department store.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Lander is a mensch and not only for this. Brad Lander, mayoral candidate and the city’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official, at protests against Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir outside Wall St Grill: “We stand here and say as proud Jewish New Yorkers: Get the hell out of our city.”
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Question for Jewish Bluesky (#jsky?) Can you ask a funeral director to do the ribbon thing instead of tearing your best clothes? Is there a polite way to say it without coming across as a barbarian?
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How can you get your life back after losing your phone? 2FA means a lost phone locks a person out of gmail and anything that uses gmail for authentication. It locks out of medical records, remote banking...this must be a solved problem somewhere!
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Love is either free, or it costs everything you have. Andy is making hard-boiled eggs. It’s not an auspicious day for travel. Especially not for international travel. But off we go
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then everyone crowds into the old unmarked van to drive around town grabbing random people and sending them to El Salvador torture prisons. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Snuffleupagus in Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This whole “muppets in famous works of art” thread is worth a look
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 11/04/2025
GUIDE: And that’s the American cemetery. General Patton is buried there. ME: And he stayed in the ground? GUIDE: We think he wanted to keep an eye on Germany.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I learned quite a lot about addiction. Some binge drinkers stop with minor inconvenience. Others intend to quit and find they really can’t
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I need a lot of alone-time. I need to be with somebody who doesn’t feel lonely or abandoned when I go off into my nest
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Posted about protests but good advice generally
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Boudicca @jesssaying.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Even the ducklings are pissed.
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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Penguins and seagulls unite
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A lot of Trump supporters are still super mad about “And Tango Makes Three.”
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goldstar971.bsky.social @goldstar971.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
basically the image version of the prior joke
cia: ckncludes rabbit doesn't exist
fbi: killed rabbit
kgb: beat bear into confessing yhat it is a rabbit and its mother and fsther were aldo rabbits.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Once I got the DIRTIEST look during a conference panel when a facilities manager asked me if technology gave me hope for the future. I said ramps are older than old and we still can’t get those put in, so no, it doesn’t. Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Revoked degrees? I’ve never heard of a university revoking a degree once it was awarded. It never occurred to me such a thing was possible for a real, non-honorary, degree. Does the university’s word mean nothing?
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Laura Adrian @laura-adrian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I thought this was going to happen at the end of the month, but I guess I missed it. Time flies.
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