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Laura Nelson

@lauranelson1005.bsky.social
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Philosopher, Theologian, Polite Leftie Radical, Ex-techie, Episcopalian, Trans Woman, Optimist of the Will only

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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw that Taylor Swift just took the top prize at the MTV Music Video Awards for best video. I swear on 1000 Bibles, I still do NOT know how she does it. She is not BAD, but relentlessly mediocre in songwriting, singing, etc. Dany Villarreal of The Warning burps better than Taylor Swift sings.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/08/2026
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
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Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
LOS ANGELES - Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the m...
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy Hegel's birthday, philosophers and everybody else! 206 years young if he weren't already dead...
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh shit Tim Curry!?!?! Two trans icons in one week! THAT sure sucks...
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excuse me, who?
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The greatest living Christian Theologian weighs in. And is characteristic of the man, brilliantly. More, please!
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Separated at Birth?
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Jon Ossoff will either be the 48th president of the United States of America, or the first chief executive of the state that succeeds it. Discuss.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Jon Ossoff will either be the 48th president of the United States of America or the first leader of the nation-state that follows it. Discuss…
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
Seen in Philadelphia.
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Cartoon by C Whisenhunt
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I was thinking this from the first time I saw the ad for the movie. I guess taking Classical Greek in grad school has its perks...
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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Two observations from the World Cup; Fifa should be disbanded USA should never be allowed to host it again
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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Mitch McConnell arriving to the next session of Congress.
A scene from RoboCop 2 with a brain and spinal column in a tank with a white woman watching it
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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚
Green jello in a clear glass Pyrex dish with white cutouts of the Lincoln and Washington memorials on the ends. Photographer unknown but cheers to them!
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Godspeed.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Somewhere, somehow, Hubert L. Dreyfus is smiling...
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
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Every Revolution Sends Warnings First. Here Are Six.
America has satisfied four of the six warnings since Trump resumed power, and an Air Force major just tested the sixth.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A where's Waldo to celebrate freedom 250 😂👇
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso...
Alan Turing as a young man.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This. USAmericans are chronically clueless about the many meanings the word "socialism" has, and the abundant internal differences between socialists even of the same stripe. It's understandable, then, that newspapers get things wrong about it. Understandable, but not commendable. Vive la France.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yes indeed.
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Mike 🏳️‍🌈 @lpoolmike.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.
Photograph of Alan Turing
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As someone who is very fond of the em-dash---for a very long time in fact!---I thought this was briliant. www.youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
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Em dash on ChatGPT allegations
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I thought this was a fish wearing a cap at first
Baseball glove with a baseball cap on top of it, from an article about the Giants
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Mirage of Mars www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The Mirage of Mars
Dear readers, faithful companions of my starry nights, There are nights when the sky speaks to us, and days when the stock market deafens us. The latest thunderous market debut of a certain space…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wow. That sucks...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Persepolis (2000), autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, author and film director Marjane Satrapi #WomensArt ❤️
Comic strip in black and white taken from a graphic novel featuring a young woman running and being stopped by two policemen in Iran
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sad news. Brilliant graphic novelist.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat
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BhoyPablo @bhoypablo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎶 We are Young. Heartache to heartache we stand. Hats on heads, gloves on our hands. Love is a baseball field. 🎶
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I feel dumb even engaging this, but literally no one has argued otherwise. To say that the pool of acceptable men is too small is not to say that straight women have failed. The opposite. It’s to say our desire is legitimate. And men are the ones fucking up. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
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Opinion | There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men
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Alex Bores @alexbores.nyc · 26/05/2026
I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I am listening to a preview of the new-ish Broadway musical "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" on WNYC. It is execrable. I didn't have big expectations, but wow it is insanely bad. I hear TS Eliot whirling in his grave. Stay strong Old Possum. Stay strong.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This photo brightened my day considerably...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If Knicks win the title, Mamdani gets to be Mayor for Life. Those are the rules.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sounds about right.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Important. Thank you, Katelyn Burns.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
General Tso is an example of someone who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thucydids. Thursdays. Thuky-dades. Toocy-didies. Thucklediddles. Those sigh dudes. Thuthidoodoos. Thermosalami. That guy who was fabulous like the world has never seen. The Greek bearing shits. Thrillmeister. John Smith.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Burgum is not this stupid. He just hopes enough Americans are.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"upper middle class" bitch idk what you think that means but it does not mean "second home in manhattan"
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
NYT. O tempora! O mores!
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Laura Nelson @lauranelson1005.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Bought some fresh cartules at the local bakery. Not as good as the cannurli or svugadellos, but tasty nonetheless...
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