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Laura Marland

@lauramarland.bsky.social
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please, I am begging you, drop these habits and make people want to hear your voice. #Speech #English #Broadcasting #Podcasting #Contentcreation #Speechtherapy #psychology #womensrights #womensemployment #datingadvice
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A Few Really Annoying Speaking Styles
If you want me to listen, at all, anywhere, IRL or online, please stop doing any of this
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I hope you enjoy this little piece I wrote for Medium awhile back. #psychology #GOP #Trump #Epstein #Hegseth #sex #adultury #rape
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How Does the Republican Congressman Turn the Light on After Sex?
Warning: Adult humor
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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The Wrapping Room, Chapter 5
In this small, weird Midwestern town, we were called “transients”
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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The Wrapping Room, Chapter 5
In this small, weird Midwestern town, we were called “transients”
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We are Harley people, but unlike most of our demographic, we are leftists, not Trumpers. That, and the booze, keeps us away from Sturgis. #bikers #bikersagainstTrump #Harley www.kotatv.com/2026/08/11/t...
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Three killed, 21 injury crashes reported in latest Sturgis Rally crash report
Three people are dead and 21 injury crashes were reported in 24 hours during the 2026 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, according to the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New story, just published on Medium's Bouncin and Behavin Blogs. #writers #writing #men #women #sexuality #gender medium.com/bouncin-and-...
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I Discovered Why the Entire Gym Smells Like Vanilla
In the process, men, I learned that to attract a woman you need to smell like a damned woman
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One of my Medium stories. The same year that The Andy Griffith Show premiered, "[F]our Black students sat at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, touching off six months of Greensboro sit-ins. They were calling for the very thing missing in Mayberry, North Carolina—integration.
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Watching “The Andy Griffith Show” on the Eve of the Apocalypse
Andy Griffith created a Southern Utopia when the South really needed it.
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
One of my recent Medium articles, this one argues that the end of life is as important as the beginning. medium.com/age-of-empat...
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If Human Life is Sacred, So is Old Age
Denial of old age and death just gets boring
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Is KDP the best outlet to sell a self-published book? I am not expecting to make a fortune out of this one. I just want people who need to read it to read it. #writers #writerscommunity #self-publishing
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One of my stories on Medium, this one is a personal essay involving deep memory of events long past. #writing #sexism #sexualharassment
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You Don’t Know Harassment Unless You Were Harassed in the Seventies
The era of “Baby Groupies,” singles bars and rape — um, I mean Free Love
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Learn to know the signs of AI writing before you damage your own brain and repost it for others to do the same.
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AI Zombies Want to Eat Your Brain
Immediately recognize AI writing at the text level so you don’t start to write like the zombies
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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How I Wrote The Wrapping Room
This memoir of domestic violence, in an increasingly ugly post-9/11 America, took me 20 years to write.
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#writing #contentcreation #humor
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How to Title Your Substack Page
Your name just isn’t good enough and neither are you, loser
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#surveillance #privacy #civilrights #photography
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On Surveillance Photos
In surveillance photos all humans seem sinister
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
To see this, subscribe to Medium for $5 a month for access to all writers' work, not just mine. You can just hang about, read, comment and follow people. But you also get your very own page and can write your own stuff, too. So try it out. #cooking #recipies #humor #satire #humor #satire #bacon
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Here’s How to Make a Good Fucking Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich, Einstein
Weird Fucking Aunt Laura shows you how to make an American classic — while there’s still an America to fuck about in
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I finished writing this today and it was published on Catharsis Chronicles, a Medium publication, minutes ago. Here's an open link for you, with no paywall. I hope you enjoy it. #Bikers #BikerRomance #Motorcycle #Riskysports #psychology #anxiety #BruceSpringsteen medium.com/catharsis-ch...
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Riding the Back of a Harley as a Treatment for Anxiety
In a 95-mile-an-hour headwind, I sing
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Age of Empathy," a Medium publication, just put out my most recent article. #women #beauty #grooming #conformity #society medium.com/age-of-empat...
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Why Women Spend So Much Time Getting Ready
You’ve no idea what we go through, Darlings
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Check it out here, because Facebook will probably censor this a few seconds after it’s scheduled to be published today. medium.com/pitfall/what...
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What Is a Synonym for “Fucked?”
A mercifully brief lecture on the splendors of the English tongue
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
When the whole world is on the narcissistic spectrum, how, exactly, can we put up with each other? Here's an open link. #psychology #society #sociology #fame #culture #Jung medium.com/bouncin-and-...
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A Couple of Narcissists Walked Into a Bar
When the whole world is on the narcissistic spectrum, how, exactly, can we put up with each other?
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is an excerpt from an article about my brief encounters with four legends--Tom Waits, Walter Cronkite, Judy Collins, and Odetta. Read here without a paywall. #waltercronkite #judycollins #Tomwaits #music #musicians #musiclegends #journalism
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Meetings With Remarkable Men and Women
No, I didn’t ask for autographs, not even from Walter Cronkite
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
#popularwithfriends
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
INTERESTING BLOWBACK ON THIS ARTICLE. Now, who would have thought that some men would object? Read behind the paywall at this link. #popularwithfriends #speakingtruthtopower medium.com/bouncin-and-...
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“There Is No Female Gaze,” Some Guy on the Internet Said to Me
Boys, there is and it’s about time you learned about it
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As Orwell predicted.
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Here’s a paywall-free story, my latest. medium.com/bouncin-and-...
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Why Do Americans Expect So Much Food?
The early 1980s tipped the scales. Now, our eating habits may topple presidents
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I am a writer and photographer living in Duluth, Minnesota. I write about culture, the arts, and the effects of AI on art and society. On Bluesky, I will be reposting my stories from various publications on Medium, where you can find me by searching my name. medium.com/thought-thin...
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Cut It Out with the One-Sentence Paragraphs, Will You?
My eyeballs are tired
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
One of my Medium articles on AI. "[These are] people who steal from creative people and then whine when they can’t make much money by stealing because other thieves are robbing them."
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Steal This AI-Generated Picture. Please.
I don’t own my AI-generated imagery and don’t need to sell it.
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Laura Marland @lauramarland.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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My Man Wears a Kilt and I Love It
Imagine: A total stranger asking, “Are you wearing underwear?”
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