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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

was tucking into some cornish pasties right as the brewers cracked this one wide open, real phoenix ball-knowers understand

slices from a cubano pasty and a reuben pasty in foreground while daniel vogelbach loses his mind on the tv in the background

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/10/2026

i enjoyed riding the phoenix airport tram significantly more than should be allowed

a window view of the desert with the big sky and a plane taking off in the background

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/10/2026

with the bluesky ipad app finally released I am able to tap into a level of mental overstimulation that almost makes flying in coach bearable

left window, narrow: shattered swordebook

right window, top: apollo 13

right window, bottom: my bluesky pals

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/10/2026

if the navy was really only 9% gay it would be a world historical low

The Navy has nearly twice as many people who identify as gay, bisexual or transgender — 9 percent — compared to other branches, according to a 2015 report by the RAND Corporation.

That was clear to a Navy paramedic who was retained by a board in July. The paramedic, who asked to not be named because he feared retribution, said he was stunned when his lawyer asked a chief, a lieutenant commander and a commander sitting on his board if they knew any trans sailors.

“They all said yes,” the paramedic recalled in an interview. “The chief said his liberty buddy in Thailand was transgender and was a phenomenal sailor. The lieutenant commander said her first work center supervisor was transgender, and she learned a lot from her. The commander said he’d worked with several transgender sailors, and he barbecues with his next-door neighbor, who’s trans.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/10/2026

what the hell. do other people see this?? am i Marked and Targeted now because I enabled beta features to test bluesky ipad??? are ipad posters now second class citizens???? mods??! mods!!

my name with a little blue icon to its right

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/10/2026

casual check-in on r/nuclearweapons to see what the nuke heads have been getting up to lately

Every dog at my local shelter is named after a nuclear test.

Submitted 1 month ago by DoublePassRadiator - announcement

I recently volunteered at my local animal shelter, and every dog there is named after a nuclear test.
Castle Bravo, Castle Romeo, Ivy Mike, Hardtack, Plumbbob, Sedan, Starfish Prime, Trinity, Little Boy, and about a dozen others..
I was the only one there who recognized the names.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/10/2026

the virgin MAGA grandpa vs the chad no kings grandma

white dems overperforming 2024 by a decent margin and white republicans underperforming similarly

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026

that's right, Mis. I'm coming for you. you WILL wear the clown nose

my post: they should do some harrison bergeron shit to misiorowski. put some scrap metal on that boy

post label: threat

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026

this little segue where nathan fielder (unbolded text) redirects the conversation to katie drummond's theoretical enthusiasm for the movie Elf is great

No offense, but why you? You know what I mean?

Yeah. I asked her that on, I think, one of the first days we shot. I still don’t fully understand it. That really messed with my head. Also, I got the sense very early that she hadn’t seen a lot, but she had seen some of what I did, and she had talked to people who had seen what I did. Billy had seen more. I think she found the clip that she said she saw funny.
But you know, her relationship to that … to what’s funny? I don’t even know. She said her favorite movie is Elf, the Will Ferrell movie. You have the tattoo—

It’s actually my daughter’s initials, but I get that a lot.

Do you love that movie?

I like that movie well enough.

OK. So you and her there.

I like it well enough.

What areas do you feel like you’re similar to her, besides liking Elf? Or in what ways?

To Elizabeth Holmes?

Yeah.

I don’t like where this interview is going. But we’re both convicted felons, with a long track record of fraudulent behavior. We both had children to avoid prison time. We have that in common.

Do you feel those things about her?

Everything I just said?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/10/2026

www.theverge.com/tech/1013320... this is why i'm never going back no matter how trendy wired earbuds might be. I am first and foremost a klutz and my headphones getting ripped out on every single handle was horrible

Even with the benefits of wired earbuds, though, nostalgia can't wipe away the frustrations. If you don't run the 4.2-foot cable under your shirt, or coil up the excess in your jacket pocket, it catches on everything. In my short time with the Bose, the cable caught on the handle of a kitchen drawer, the edge of my keyboard, the zipper of my sweatshirt, the strap of a bag I was carrying, my pocket (when I accidentally stuffed too much of the excess in with my phone), and even
the hand of a stranger who got too close to me in line at Starbucks.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/10/2026

i like when a studio takes a really big ambitious swing

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/10/2026

tired: using formal grammar and punctuation in informal digital spaces wired: making your articles in compliance with web contrast accessibility guidelines

a near impossible to read illustration credit with black text and dark blue background

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/10/2026

i dunno the current politics of scarcity lead to stuff like this, the AR might end up being remembered as a tool of wasteful imperialist decadence. maybe the future is plastic grease guns

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/10/2026

about to enjoy this delicious brownie

a brownie with different layers of... brown. on top of it is brown sauce and brown nuts. the middle layer is a darker shade of brown than the top and bottom

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026

so-so movie with a hall of fame title card

SINK THE BISMARCK! in huge, bold black and white lettering

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/10/2026

bought a painting from the state department

a big watercolor of the I street municipal building in nyc dated from 1914

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026

oh? republican senators are balking at pete's plans to do government sanctioned faces of death stuff on twitch?

"We suggest that the survival of capital punishment in the modem economy of power depends on its relative invisibility."

Excerpt from "To See or Not to See: Television, Capital Punishment, and Law's Violence", Austin Sarat & Aaron Schuster

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026

Ahh, old hollywood. When the men were men

film credits:

gowns ....... bill thomas
make-up ......... bud westmore
hair stylist ........ larry germain

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026

this was a decent sick day couch watch. only just now finding out the actor who plays a government official who likes betting on the ponies who made me go "hey, that's the guy who played the pedophile priest in spotlight!" when i saw him, was not the guy who played the pedophile priest in spotlight

The Swedish Connection movie poster from 2026

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026

In This House We Respect The Long And Storied Swedish Cinematic Tradition And Support The Thriving Contemporary Swedish Film Industry

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

the augustinian scouts watching bob swing the mitre:

this son of a bitch is going in the first round screenshot from moneyball

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

objectively this is a hilarious line

"The white guys assembled the top people in a room. They used a projector to show how it [AI] works on a big screen."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

dc lunch update: bonkers chinese burger is soft relaunching still as a southwest chinese cuisine fast casual spot, but with less emphasis on the rou jia mo and more on soups, bowls, and dry hot pot. my taiwanese braised pork rice bowl was excellent at a great-for-downtown $12 price point

my friend's cumin beef bowl and a side of spicy wontons

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

jason benetti doing liberty bibberty commercials

the "when you find out your goat is washed" meme of the race car flipping over

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

i'm inclined to think i wouldn't be a good "culture fit"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

Had to document this lest it be lost to history

a 27 inch dell monitor with Computer on a legal sticky note attached to its bezel. It's underlined

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

got to the part of the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes where Merle Tuve independently discovers the scientific discipline of Marketing from first principles. NIMBYs also harder to defeat than splitting the atom

When Tuve had first proposed the Van de Graaff to the zoning board of the prosperous Chevy Chase neighborhood the board had turned him down.
Smashing atoms smacked of industrial process and the neighborhood had its property values to consider. Tuve noted the popularity of the Naval Observatory, across Connecticut Avenue a few miles west, and rechristened his project the Atomic Physics Observatory, which it was. As the APO it won approval.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

ok on a test run this feels too much like what that balloon guy used to do on twitter so the policy is being tabled. therapeutic though

red and yellow rectangle with "that is a disingenuous misinterpretation of what i said" in the middle

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

Chris Hansen Discourse on reddit has produced a beautiful and evocative sentence that I will try, in the spirit r/24, to present to my audience as cinematically as possible

Dutch angle and heavily saturated text: "Well of course he's a grifter, I know this."

Also angled, but with some monitor reflection serving as a passable lens flair: "But he still pumps out entertaining content,"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/09/2026

was going through my camera collection to give some of them a light clean and dusting and was delighted to find my assumed-broken nikon L35AF just... fixed itself? I had all but written it off for dead but nope, didn't even need a battery change. baffling

a black square camera with pancake 35mm f2.8 lens protruding. beast mode

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

accountability post. i am not capable of an ironic one liner for this one

letterboxd post: This was the most enthralling, mesmerizing, visceral thing I have seen at the theaters since Zone of Interest. The only other comparison I can think of right now is Apocalypse Now. It's not just Pattinson, but Pattinson is a big part of it. Merritt Wever matches him beat for beat. I am stunned. I left the theater in a daze.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

fun fact: prologue is a very full featured audiobook app that integrates directly with a plex library so you too can cancel the shitty amazon service that floods its app with HP dreck every time you open it (and forget to uninstall it after canceling)

a notification pop-up from audible begging me to buy harry potter shit

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

my reread of The Making of the Atomic Bomb is getting derailed because every time they talk about JJ Thomson I see Trayce Thompson in my mind. Trayce Thompson discovering the electron, Trayce Thompson accepting a nobel prize in physics, Trayce Thompson condescending to Neils Bohr at trinity college

trayce thompson in uniform for the dodgers, a man who does NOT resemble an aged british physicist. But he's wearing this in my imagination too

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

i love walking past an iconic cartoon death opportunity. city management is all about minimizing such events so it's a little refreshing to see one so thoroughly unguarded

an open manhole cover guarded perilously by a few orange cones

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... someone was complaining the other day about all new university jobs being "normal discipline + AI" and I agree it's overdone but there definitely does need to be rigorous academic study of The Cognitohazard Model

But in May 2024, OpenAI launched GPT-4o, which became Lines’ default model. Notably more sycophantic than its predecessors—in ways that quickly got messy for users—GPT-4o was among the chatbot models recently deemed “unsafe” by researchers.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

this opens up some really deep, challenging philosophical quandries. for example: does this mean the reboot should be called the man with three brains or the man with four brains

steve martin poster for The Man With Two Brains

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... a lot of people think the popularity of apple just boils down to good marketing but this being the leading AI-related pitch for thousand dollar laptops that run phone apps is a pristine example of how incredibly bad all the other tech companies are at the marketing

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