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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/10/2025

I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w... There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Me to other people: I love that my job challenges me and that I'm always learning new things! Me being challenged and having to learn new things: Fuck

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/08/2025

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

File naming conventions tell me a lot about other people

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Another egregious error from Microsoft Word

Screenshot of Word's grammar check, suggesting that "Data ARE not mutually exclusive" is incorrect and that "Data is..." should be used instead.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

scientific publishing is fun because you write a 3000 word article describing years of work but nobody has time to read it so you write a 250 word abstract summarizing the key points but nobody has time to read it so you make a graphical abstract to hopefully catch someone's interest

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I got a lot of hate last year for posting something similar in regards to April fools but I am once again asking you to please be considerate of your neurodivergent friends who may not get the joke or are stressed out by the threat of not catching into pranks.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Fuck off Samsung, I'm literally sick right now

Screenshot from Samsung health, showing a score of 81 ("Good")
The recommendation is "Get moving. Your active time has decreased compared to your usual. Insufficient activity may result in weight gain and other health issues. Try standing up, moving around, and reducing your sedentary time."

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

After years of promising myself I'm going to do it, I finally did the free birthday trip with the cable car up Table Mountain!

View from the top of Table Mountain, rocky ground in the foreground and the City of Cape Town in the background

View looking up at Table Mountain from the lower cable car station

View from the top of Table Mountain with the City of Cape Town in the background

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Pretty good birthday weekend 💖💜💙

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Cape Town Pride, always filled with good vibes ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm 200 000 words into a WIP fic and they FINALLY had their first kiss after 47 chapters of platonic marriage-of-convenience, so I've found the upper level of what I'm willing to tolerate in terms of slow burn 🤣

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JAMA @jama.com · 31/01/2025

"How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist?" This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration. ja.ma/4gmik0x #MedSky

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 30/01/2025

Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My toxic trait is forever wondering why the hell my back hurts, then realising that I'm using my computer at a 90 degree angle.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/01/2025

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's hard to be productive when it's 30 °C in your office 😭🥵

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1) forensic scientist 2) chemical biology 3) n/a 4) medical writer

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Nope, don't send him back to South Africa, we DON'T WANT HIM. Drop him in an active volcano.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Minor annoyance but I hate that 90% of the time I see the words "South African" in a post these days is in reference to the Bigoted Billionaire. We don't claim him, he doesn't claim us, he's yours now, deal with him and leave our country out of it.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Laura... always exhibits an upbeat, positive, can-do attitude that is much appreciated by her team!" Thanks 🥰 It's ✨masking✨

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

What do you mean my niece is not quite 6 months old yet and I'm already at work shortening her clothes for her. I fear she has her aunt's genes and this may be a lifelong problem 🤣

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Leftovers for breakfast 😜🍾🥂

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TracieBreaux @traciebreaux.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

After hearing how eating too much sugar and carbohydrates affects the human body I’ve decided to cut back on the amount of people I listen to

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Please be a better year, please be a better year, please

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Oh no, my reading wrap up post (the exact same as I posted here) has escaped containment on Threads

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If anyone's on StoryGraph and wants to connect, my profile is app.thestorygraph.com/profile/whim...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Is reading 500+ books in a year unhinged behaviour? Probably.

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

750 days of picking up my kindle instead of doomscrolling

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Tiktok keeps giving my curly girl hair routine videos and I need it to fix itself and understand that I have super straight hair, I just think women with curly hair are incredibly beautiful

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/12/2024

I understand there is some discourse currently going on about "clout" here on Bluesky and while I can understand why people can be focused on it and how to achieve it I must tell you my entire posting strategy is and always has been "This was in just in my brain and now it is your problem too"

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Laura 💚🇿🇦 @lauravlaeren.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Pool, kindle, mojitos and ignoring family drama