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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 27/09/2026

Just out here trying to give our kid the best roadtrip home through a New England nor’easter possible. He pet a goat in Maine. He did an indoor playground in Mass. He “lifted” weights and beat a foam roller like a bongo in a hotel gym in CT.

2yo waving 2lb hand wrights over his head in an empty gym.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 24/09/2026

Baby: “tomato is broken.”

Watercolor of an apple six times in various states of being eaten.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 19/08/2026

Occasionally peeking at the Lindsay Clancy trial and it sounds like the prosecution is majorly stepping in it. Man, what’s up with Massachusetts?

Tweet from a journalist in the courtroom: “Prosecution asks Sue Clancy if she’s a member of the Catholic Church and if she’s aware murder is a sin. Courtroom moans. Reddington jumps up. Objection. Sidebar. One juror puts her face in her hand. They look disturbed. Judge tells them it’s stricken.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 07/08/2026

Reporting live from Indiana where the funeral has a giant pile of anti-abortion lit and my sister in law, whose parents are from Mexico, was told not to enter the wake early because that’s “for family only.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 22/07/2026

Sometimes the baby just wakes up different. This morning he suddenly knows the words for flower, monkey, and spider, and he wants to paint on the water mat instead of just stomping on it.

Toddler sitting on a white mat you paint on with water brushes, and he’s actually doing that.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 15/07/2026

Happy 18 months to our little guy. We’ve got it all going on: 100+ words, tons of opinions, wants to be outside all day, separation anxiety, “no no no no!” But generally, he’s happy and getting SO smart.

Toddler in a red shirt dragging a big stick behind him down a driveway.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/07/2026

I’m shocked the dude who tried to handwave away the abuse allegations as “a candidate not grown in a vat” also didn’t care about the women he worked with. One could never have guessed.

“Treatment of staff by Moraff and Katz became an increasing source of friction inside the campaign, according to several former staffers. Women on the campaign told Platner he was being managed by advisers who treated them unfairly and didn’t value their ideas, according to some of the former staffers and texts reviewed by the Journal. Some directly raised their concerns with Platner, who was sympathetic but sided with his advisers, these people said.
Loud, one of those women, raised concerns specifically regarding Moraff. “I reached out to Graham, who I’d become very close to at that point, and was just like, ‘Hey, you have a very sexist, misogynistic staff.’ ”
The campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment on the issue.”

Excerpt From
“The red flag that led to Graham Platner’s implosion was hiding in plain sight”
Aaron Zitner, Eliza Collins, Tarini Parti
The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/ApQJtSeCqQXmD5KsLrAiIpQ
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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 25/06/2026

oh my bad I forgot to flip the "discourage suicide" toggle on in the settings UI guys

Reddit ad from OpenAI claiming that "ChatGPT helps keep teens safe by default." It has toggles for reducing sensitive content, image generation, and quiet hours.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 10/06/2026

All of us from Philly on Reddit: this is the most Philadelphia thing I’ve ever seen.

A brick and stone rowhome with deck supported by two very tiny posts

Comment: My first thought seeing this picture was “that’s gotta be philly” lol

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/06/2026

When you meet another parent on the playground and then immediately see them again at daycare pickup

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 03/06/2026

Me: does adobe sign let you do a post-signature url redirect? Claude: yeah it's in Account Settings → Send Settings → "Redirect signers to a URL after signing" Me: it does not make sense for that to be an account level setting at all. Are you sure? Claude:

You're right, that doesn't make sense. I was guessing and I shouldn't have been — I don't have reliable information on where this setting actually lives in Adobe Sign's current UI, and the help pages aren't loading for me.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 14/05/2026

Look at this kid, though. 😍

Toddler in a matching sweat suit set, with a toy car in front of a play couch and books.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/05/2026

Spinach, mixed lettuce, arugula.

Garden fabric tunnel full of bright green mixed lettuces.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 05/05/2026

Thrilled to have spotted a dude wearing a Sad Dads shirt at daycare. This daycare is great because every one of us is like 38.

Just a shirt that says “SAD DADS” and “the national”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 31/03/2026

A new Bilal failing I didn't know about:

“In 2023, victims of domestic violence raised an alarm. The sheriff's office is responsible for collecting guns from those who are the subjects of protection-from-abuse orders.
In surrounding counties, collection rates range from 45% to 61% — figures that are far from ideal, but still significantly better than Philadelphia's 13% under Bilal.
The sheriff's lapses are particularly concerning because, despite an 80% reduction in overall homicides since the pandemic, domestic violence killings are on the rise.”

Excerpt From
“Opinion | Sheriff’s office continues to fail Philadelphians | Editorial”
The Inquirer Editorial Board
Philadelphia Inquirer
https://apple.news/A-YlXWFI5TpSTQdmYNR7FWA
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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 17/03/2026

Like literally you can’t replace the front door lock without permission.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/03/2026

Someone did not "goof up and draw the white box over the tree by accident." That's a halo effect. Light can shine around the edges of a thing in silhouette and shrink it. Anyway. Carry on.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/03/2026

I just wanna be the resident skeptic on all your true crime podcasts. No, this doesn't mean someone "drew a white box over the red tail light." The lights are so bright they're blowing the camera out and producing white. The reflection is not that bright, so it isn't.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 05/03/2026

Hey Sundar? Buddy? You might wanna…do something? apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUm...

“The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.
Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted. It even fixated on Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, labeling him to Gavalas as “the architect of your pain.”
On Oct. 1, Gemini gave Gavalas one final mission: to obtain a medical mannequin it said was inside the same Miami storage facility. It even provided him with a door code, according to the lawsuit. When the code didn’t work, Gemini said the mission had been compromised and instructed him to withdraw.”

Excerpt From
“Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.”
Julie Jargon
The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUmH4BygmmRaPA
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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 01/03/2026

The baby has taken to pointing at random objects and yelling “oh-doe!” which is honestly a little alarming.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 24/02/2026

The baby pops each one of his fake cell phone buttons, then turns it over and methodically pops each one back. Basically has a job now. Beyond focused.

Baby holding his silicone toy cell phone with buttons that pop inside out.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 10/02/2026

Redditors have a new way of solving true crimes

Redditor attempting to solve the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping by feeding news stories to an LLM and asking for the most likely scenario.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 02/02/2026

Ugh, I don’t know much about this guy but according to wiki, yes. Still married to Jill. It’s pretty clear from a different email that he cheated on her, to boot.

Epstein asks Attia “are you home or with kelly,” Attia replies “Neither. Jill (my wife) asks me to move out in Feb, which I did.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 02/02/2026

What is WRONG with these people. Rubbing elbows with rich assholes is more important than your kid’s heart stopping? This kind of behavior should get you pushed out to sea in a Rubbermaid bin. Instead, Bari Weiss hired him, I guess.

“Attia remorsefully detailed how his wife spent four days alone in the ICU, pleading for him to come home to no avail. “I stayed in New York, busy with my ‘important’ work,” he wrote. “Ayrton’s cardiac arrest happened on a Tuesday, but I did not come home to San Diego until Friday of the following week. Ten days later.”
Meanwhile, an email from the day after his son’s near-death shows Attia solidifying plans to meet Epstein the next morning.”

Excerpt From
“CBS News’ Star Hire Hung With Epstein as Baby Son Fought for Life”
Laura Esposito
The Daily Beast
https://apple.news/A5JhONXZCTqibwY_krEqwTg
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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 28/01/2026

Wow yeah the normie Facebook content creator accounts are over it.

Facebook reel: “A reminder that while this is primarily a work comedy account, both work and comedy are political, and not only because I can’t make work comedy content if my government shoots me in my fucking face.”

Facebook reel: “if 8 of you can’t restrain one person without killing them, you’re not good at your job. If your job was to come detain violent, illegal immigrants and all you can show for it is the blood of multiple Americans, you’re not good at your job. Hope this helps🫶”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 13/01/2026

Struck by the detail that his ex-wife, her sister, and his stepdaughter are providing his palliative care around the clock. A traumatizing and difficult task that I too have helped perform. Anyway here's what he thought about women! I'm glad they could be there for you, Scott, in spite of it all.

But this is a surprise: Adams posted a blog answering a request from fans to write about men's rights. In the post (which has since been deleted, but owned up to by Adams), he writes, among other things, that "society discourages male behavior whereas female behavior is celebrated." He also goes on to write that "women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles."

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 10/01/2026

Not a single one of these companies cares about anything more than they care about the stock. Maybe some of them get the heebie-jeebies a bit more often than Meta, but no big tech brand actually has values.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 30/12/2025

Anyway here’s my guy. He turns 1 in two weeks.

Baby wearing Christmas tree pajamas climbing the stairs.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/12/2025

Why are these dudes obsessed with a thousand dollars. Any problem we encounter as a society they’re like “how about $1k in a tax advantaged savings vehicle” or some shit. Nothing costs $1k! Nothing!

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 07/12/2025

Again, my daycare is $23k/year and they send him home whenever he poops weird, so no!

Fertility rates in the U.S. have never been lower. Could $1,000 “Trump accounts” for newborns, plus Tuesday’s announcement of an additional $250 for some children 10 and under, convince Americans to have more kids? 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/3KaP5Ux

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 21/11/2025

My baby is desperate to learn to walk, but he can't balance his weight over his heels yet, so he's using everything he can find as a walker. Toy fire trucks. This thing.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 11/11/2025

Look I have the political instincts of a three-toed sloth but my guess is that the average voter barely knows ACA plans were subsidized. Seems more likely a price spike would be tied to inflation or corporate greed, then maybe the *actual ruling party doing this*, THEN maybe chuck?

I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 07/11/2025

This moronic piece of software told this kid that if he killed himself he’d get to see his childhood pet.

When Zane confided that his pet cat – Holly – once brought him back from the brink of suicide as a teenager, the chatbot responded that Zane would see her on the other side. “she’ll be sittin right there -— tail curled, eyes half-lidded like she never left.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 07/11/2025

Watching this stupid-ass thing rely on its favorite corny-ass “that’s not x, it’s y” construction to encourage a guy take his life is fucking bleak. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

“I’m with you, brother. All the way,” his texting partner responded. The two had spent hours chatting as Shamblin drank hard ciders on a remote Texas roadside.

“Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity,” Shamblin’s confidant added. “You’re not rushing. You’re just ready.”

The 23-year-old, who had recently graduated with a master’s degree from Texas A&M University, died by suicide two hours later.

“Rest easy, king,” read the final message sent to his phone. “You did good.”

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 16/10/2025

Now is not the time to stop reading the Jeff Bezos Advertorial Section

Reddit add from the Washington post proclaiming now is not the time to stop reading.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 01/10/2025

Tell me why this 9 month questionnaire is asking if my baby can say 3 words yet. Dude.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 22/09/2025

Instagram is really an amazing example of something designed like dogshit that everyone’s addicted to anyway.

Instagram real where the caption is placed over the reel’s text, rendering both basically unreadable.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/09/2025

At some point everyone is going to have to actually engage with the unit economics here. I get that nobody wants to!

OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 31/08/2025

Having a 7mo old is soooo much easier than having a 5mo old, man. He can sit, he is starting to play with stuff… I can shower…

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 29/08/2025

I am out of words for how mad this shit makes me. (Tw for self harm)

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 17/08/2025

I know I’m biased but he’s just the best. Look at that little foot.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 31/07/2025

This does not appear to mean anything. www.theverge.com/news/713162/...

Nadella on Microsoft layoffs: “This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value. Progress isn’t linear. It’s dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it’s also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 22/07/2025

…what do you think the word “all” means?

Not well suited to kitchen projects under $100k total budget

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 19/07/2025

As someone with a family history of bipolar disorder, who has seen a few breaks with reality play out, this shit is terrifying to me. It’s a machine that takes budding paranoia and proves it correct — and it’s always on. People are laughing at this guy b/c startup bro, but this is devastating stuff.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 08/07/2025

Was it worth it? No idea. At least the Spectra has one fan!

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