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Laura VanArendonk Baugh

@lauravab.bsky.social
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Writer of fiction and non-fiction, shaper of animal behavior, eater of fair trade dark chocolate. sleek.bio/LauraVAB

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Fraser Lovatt @lovatt.com · 05/05/2026
A little friend I met today.
A view down a back alley, overgrown with yellow and red poppies, dandelion flowers and their clocks. In the middle, a black cat looks curiously at me, its tail a perfect questioning hook.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's coming! This year, we cultivate hope. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... #enamelpins #resistance
CULTIVATE YOUR MINDSPACE: a celebration of resistance, resilience, and renewal surrounded by cute designs featuring plants and pithy phrases to inspire and support: Stop Doomscrolling and Go Outside, Know Your Beauty, Feeling Crabby, Touch Grass, Have a Glass of Water, Learn Don't Burn, Bury Your Troubles, Don't Be Catty
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We're celebrating resistance, resilience, and renewal over at our #Pintopia project. Join us for #enamelpins, #stickers, and more! Thanks for sharing! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Cultivate Your Mind Space
Enamel pins celebrating resistance and practical solutions for mental health and joy. We're tired, but we're strong. We're frustrated, but we renew our determination. We care for each other and for ou...
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's live now! :)
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Yuuni ✦ @yuuninya.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
⭐ #Patchkins Plushies are LIVE NOW for #Pintopia! 🧸 Snag your newest cuddle buddy today! 👇🏻 🔗 backerkit.com/c/projects/yuuninya/patchkins-plushies ⭐ #Furry #Plush #PromoSky
A banner for the Backerkit campaign, Patchkins Plushies. Top center is the Patchkins logo; underneath it says "Comfy cuddlers for your lap!" Left side has a photo of a person wearing a black hoodie holding Ploosh the Pastel Fox draped over their arms. To the right of that is a photo of Echo the Eldritch Cat. Next to him are two rows of digital mockups for the other unlockable plush designs. Top row, left to right: Taffy the Clown Bunny, Gizmo the Retro Alien Puppy, Remi the Neapolitan Red Panda, and Kipper the Kidcore Tiger. Bottom row, left to right: Lune the Night Sky Jackalope, Rowan the Split Puppy, Teacup the Cherry Blossom Fox, and Jolly the Pastel Cat. The background showcases some of the plush's signature patterns.
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✨🌺 Benji 🌺✨🔜 Anime Fredicksburg @servalsurf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My Boba Buddy bags are now ✨LIVE✨ on Backerkit!! Boba Buddy plush animal bubble tea bags are 11" not including ears/straws and adorably spacious, for all of your con needs or other belongings! 💖💖 Check out the Thread for more updates!!! Pledge here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you want to go deep on the theory and strategy, this resource on how to make political violence backfire is informative and practical. static1.squarespace.com/static/666b7...
Cover page of the HOPE guide - "Harnessing our power to end political violence"
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's Giftmas time again! 🎁🎄 Join a group of writers raising funds for a food bank, and get stories, books, serials, and even tasty treats along the way. lauravanarendonkbaugh.com/giftmas-2025... #writingcommunity #doinggood #foodbanks #writershelping #writerslife
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Giftmas 2025: Connection
It's snowed. We had a proper snow this time, probably about 5" (a little less than 15 cm, in my rough mental rounding). The dogs are indifferent to the snow but are annoyed at the cold and
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What would you say to a collection of winter fantasy audio books? Sign up to win! www.findingfantasyreads.com... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #writerslife #authorslife #fantasy #audiobooks #giveaway #freebooks #fantasyaudiobooks
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
2 winners will take home ALL featured ebooks! Others will win individual ebooks or paperbacks (randomly selected). Put your name in the reading hat today! authorsxp.com/giveaway #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #fantasy #giveaway #freebooks #ebooks
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm giving away a box of books and swag! Go to lauravanarendonkbaugh.com/w... and find out if you bear the lucky name.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I'm giving away a box of books and swag! Go to lauravanarendonkbaugh.com/w... and find out if you bear the lucky name.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This should be a major story and it Isn’t even a blip. newrepublic.com/post/199027/...
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Julie L. Moore ❌👑 @julielmoore23.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you're not following @mikalatos.com here or on Substack, you really should be. For months now, he's been sharing the stories of immigrants unconstitutionally arrested by I.C.E. Today's is yet another horror story. #protest #ICEisgestapo thesestories.substack.com/p/no-crimina...
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No criminal history, no deportation orders, no mercy from ICE
Sara has legal status in the US, but that didn't stop ICE from putting her and her mother in a private prison and seeking to deport them
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Want stories with girls exercising prowess in science, math, and engineering while also supporting girls in science, math, and engineering? The Brave New Girls anthologies support scholarships in STEM. Get it! books2read.com/bravenewgirls9 #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #writesky #writersky
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I'll be at the Realm Makers Expo with book, comic, game, animation, and film/TV creators! Join for fun panels, interactive sessions, and loads of cool stuff to take home. www.realmmakers.com/realm-m... #RealmMakers #RealmMakers2025 #GrandRapidsMI #FantasyWriters #SciFiWriters #WritingCommunity
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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 03/04/2025
The midterm elections are in 580 days. Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters. ☎️ Call your reps. 5calls.org 📱 Text your reps. resist.bot ✅ Get election ready. turbovote.org
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/9qkDNYDX
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Join me on April 5th
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It's been a week since I visited the offices of Sen Young, Sen Banks, and Rep Shreve (none here) to personally deliver letters with my concerns. In each I requested a response to acknowledge they saw it. None has bothered to even look at a hand-delivered letter, any more than to answer their phones.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We're so close!! Please take a look to help us get 100% (and also, please check out my yōkai-rousel pins at www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... if you have not already :D )
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Yōkai-rousel Pins! Japanese yōkai in classic carousel form
Gorgeous enamel pins featuring your favorite Japanese yōkai as classic carousel figures! Join a carousel historian, an art historian, and a Japanese mythological novelist to collect the entire carouse...
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Colorado Springs is far from the tiniest airport I've used, but it's kinda cute that it lists the ubiquitous Hudson as "dining." 😂
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Want to start an epic new fantasy series for free? Browse here and pick out some cool new reads. books.bookfunnel.com/stocky...
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Stock Your TBR (Epic/High Fantasy Series Starters)
Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It's NATIONAL HOT CHOCOLATE DAY! How great is that? And y'know, I'm <$13 short of this month's sales goal, so let's do this: use FAIRTRADE to get 10% off any regularly priced ebook on my website store, today. Now excuse me, I'm off to make a mug of cocoa. LauraVAB.com
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Spring Festival and Multi-Asiatic and Beyond Lunisolar New Year! 😂 Huzzah, Sneks!
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Newest anthology is out sleighing! 😉This collection of dark fantasy and gothic winter stories has been drawing good industry reviews (we could use a few more on Amazon, please!), and my story was called out as a "delightful yarn" so there's that. Please check it out! go.lauravab.com/hoarfrost
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's time! Our #Pintopia project has launched! www.backerkit.com/c/project... #enamelpins #pincollector #yokai #japan #carousel
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's time! Our #Pintopia project has launched! www.backerkit.com/c/project... #enamelpins #pincollector #yokai #japan #carousel
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"I have my form completed, everything ready to go. I just need a title for this short story, and then I can be done. But I don't have a title yet, so I came down to get some peanut butter M&Ms for it." "Does that work?" "Not always. But if I don't get a title, at least I have peanut butter M&Ms."
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𝛂Ⱪ𝛂 🎭🦊 •ENVtuber• @akafox.live · 16/12/2024
⚠️ PSA to anyone posting to YouTube ⚠️ Definitely go in and turn this off!! I don’t think it even needs explaining at this point!! Please let everyone know
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Ooooh ooooh ooooh! I was sad to leave Twitter back then because I knew I'd miss 2 accounts in particular - but today I found @moviessilently.bsky.social here! (look, I'm slow and I'm relatively new here, sorry)
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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/01/2025
me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"
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Dillin Apelyan - Bob the Builder's #1 Guy @superdillin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Got asked to try / promote a company using genAI to "automate the cumbersome parts of playing TTRPGs" and first of all, fuck you, second of all fuck this idea that any part of *playing a game* needs to be outsourced to a plagiarism machine that sets the world on fire I was not kind in my response.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's coming! Check out our gorgeous yōkai carousel enamel pins, plus stickers, prints, books and comics, and more. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/laura-… #pintopia #enamelpins #pins #yokai
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Doberman wants to know why I'd leave a perfectly decent warm bed to go out in 4 degrees Fahrenheit. It's a reasonable question. (Uploaded this morning but failed to post somehow.)
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It’s fun because if there’s an author who got AI exactly right, it’s Adams with the various Sirius Cybernetics Corporation devices. In his books AI is invariably a useless annoyance that is painful to interact with and everyone tries their best to avoid.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'm in Pintopia 2025 with some very cool enamel pins (coming soon!). and you can see more pins and plushes with our Pintopia starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just toasted Tolkien with a bottle of water because that's all I had. The Professor!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/01/2025
New Year's Resolution: Block any "AI" accounts anywhere, you don't even have to feel bad about it, it's not like there is someone on the other end
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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Seriously yall!!! When we tell ya don't engage with shit this is why. Even if it's hate watching, mocking it or "doing it for the memes" it doesn't fucking matter becuase all that registers is engagement & time This is why bullshit keeps going on. Just fucking ignore if for fucks sake I'm so tired
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The only guardrails you need are don't use AI
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
AI sucks. Stop using it.
Screenshot of Fable post on Threads.Screenshot of Fable post on Threads.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
really good, in-depth piece by @molly.wiki about the war on Wikipedia www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-an...
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Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Every once in a while, the stars align aesthetically. lauravanarendonkbaugh.com/a...
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New anthology this month! Wild storms, the sound of skates cutting across empty ice, blankets of soft, white, beautiful death. You huddle in the dark, struggling to keep warm...and maybe to ignore the message scrawled on a frosty window. www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/ha... amzn.to/402Lsnp
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! Joy, peace, and a happy new year. (Sentiments are good for at least 48 hours. Freeze sentiments after that and thaw as needed through January 2 or 6.)
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Some responses may be inaccurate or inappropriate." Look, if you have to put tiny print disclaimers under your stupid AI bot to protect yourself when it lies to me, goes wildly off-topic, or propositions me, maybe you shouldn't be using a stupid AI bot.
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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Please be aware that the reason image search is swamped with ai is to normalize it! Yes it’s harder to find true images. And this is what they are counting on. That you just give up and use their ai images. The search being swamped is not an excuse! Take your time to find the right image!
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Laura VanArendonk Baugh @lauravab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Doberman on bed, rainy morning. #Undómiel #undomiel #Doberman #dogs #clickertraining #writerslife
Doberman in tightly compressed curl with chin over hips
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