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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 9h

I would have been like "read the Critique of Practical Reason and Metaphysics of Morals and get back to me, chief"

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 9h

Allow me also to ask how this oddball thought the head of the one true holy catholic and apostolic church would sign off on this

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 10h

Tell me again how all you need is STEM and watch me spit in your eye

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 10h

Okay, well, if it has consciousness, it has rights, and furthermore having rights is a binary state, so it has them with or without permission from some other entity, and for the love of all that is holy somebody should have consulted a philosophy department before, like, now

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 22h

I literally can't get over how good Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man Will Show You is. Pretty much every time I hear it, I'm kind of astonished.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 22h

Also, I hate golf (by which I mean, The Golf Industrial Complex and its attendant nonsense)

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 22h

I don't understand why they don't just schedule their tee times earlier if they are so concerned about running out of daylight on any given day instead of messing with everyone else's biological clocks and circadian rhythms.

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one-nine-nine-zero.

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Fine, listener, I get it, I suck, thanks for calling

The parallel I can draw here is being upset with the newscaster for saying "OJ Simpson was acquitted today by a jury in California" rather than explaining the entire case. "Whoa! OJ Simpson? Seriously?!? What was he accused of? When did this happen? You need to give me more details!"

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A person called to complain that I did not explain the entire story of a local situation during a 3-minute newscast. This story would literally take about 30 minutes just to sketch out with the barebones facts from the very beginning.

I am annoyed by the enormotruck currently parked in front of my house, but I am consoled by the knowledge that it will take the owner around $170 to fill the gas tank

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don't mind me, just over here studying the pillars of our republic -- oh. no. wait, I'm hearing from the control room that these are holding up a McDonald's sign

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every freakin' day here in Kansas

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Hildi is sticking hay to the walls with glue, he's spraypainting everything gold: let the games begin

For whatever reason now I want to see them revive Trading Spaces and have him among the designers -- since the point of that show was the resulting utter trainwreck, I want to see him go head-to-head with Hildi Santo-Tomas

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David Bowie Holland/Dozier/Holland Cole Porter Boyce & Hart George Clinton Mark Hollis

my husband the record store owner would likely go long on tube amps, certain stylus cartridges, and wildly expensive specialty speakers from the 70s, but...yeah, probably

Seriously, I was one of the 4 people on Earth who bought a Zune and adored how it sounded. Maybe I'll dig mine out and give it a whirl. Note: I am a radio professional. It is literally my job to judge how things sound, and I am telling you: it punched far, far above its weight w/r/t sound quality

@andrewmale.bsky.social I cannot message you via chat, but I have the name of the imprint that's publishing him if you want it.

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the pleasure, the privilege is mine

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mcubed.net : NCAA Men's Basketball : Series Records : Iowa has a record of (10-7) against Missouri

The Iowa Hawkeyes are 10-7 all time against the Mizzou Tigers, so perhaps he had just sort of put them out of mind mcubed.net/ncaab/series...

mcubed.net

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Ambrose Bierce would have been Hall-of-Fame level

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I have admittedly been (jokingly?) nicknamed "Columbo" in the newsroom because of my persistent "Could you just check one more thing for me?" requests

I admittedly have the luxury of being a public media editor whose guiding professional mandate has always been "we're public media. We're probably not ever going to have it *first*, so let's focus on having it *best*. It can't hurt to check one more thing."

We had a murder case here a few years ago that involved police and a violent chase and all, and my initial response was "there has to be more going on here than just 'drugged up weirdo goes ape', run a quick search of public records to see if there's anything lurking" and lo and behold, there was

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I mean, I understand the time constraint argument, and I'm glad there is more detail now, it just seems like the initial reporting was, uh, extremely not-thorough and some editor should have been saying "this seems hinky. Are you sure there is not more going on here?"

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"Did you read it, or did you skim it?" "Are you sure about the date of the separation agreement?" "Did you look at the details of the abuse allegations?" "Did you find records of any police reports involving this couple?" "Was there a restraining order? Did you read the details?"

Speaking as a professional news editor, I would say the initial reporting on the McKinsey murder left out several extremely important pieces of pertinent information. So, um, hire seasoned news editors, is what I am saying. Editors say things like "did you look up the custodial dispute paperwork?"

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Something weird is going on because the poem Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, which I don't believe I have thought about in decades, has now come up twice in two days

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I only knew the Ella Langley song because there was so much talk about it online, and I figured I'd better interrupt my constant stream of prog and jazz so I'd know what it was. Some of its chord progressions really remind me of the song Tequila Sunrise. So it goes.

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I cleaned my ceiling fans today. Not sure when I became the sort of person who dusts ceiling fan blades and scrubs down baseboards, but here we are

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You could pull a Bartleby, I guess. Though someone would probably write that you did, so as to harvest clicks

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They all look like the sort of people I would cross the street to avoid making eye contact with

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Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

A photo of the cover of singer and performance artist Laurie Anderson's album Big Science

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Reading this, I learned that this moral paragon is the son of the guy who runs LesserEvil snacks, which I have tried and enjoyed, but...seriously, that company is run by the guy who raised this sentient ear wax? Thanks for the heads-up, I'll just make popcorn at home, jeez

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I really liked how during the pandemic, chain stores started letting you buy online and then go pick up the order at a local brick-and-mortar. But now, literally every time I have tried this (other than grocery stores), it is more or less impossible. Good thinking, consultants. Stellar work.

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Man, stores that have been bought by private equity invariably have websites that are complete dumpster fires. Too bad, giant craft chain store that I rarely patronize, you won't let me check out so I guess I don't really need what I was going to buy. I suppose the biz plan was bankruptcy all along.

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The Terror season 1 and Hannibal or GTFO, NYT

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 25/09/2026

No, but we perfected and universalized it