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The culture I left behind 😭 (but I still have mourning doves)

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You have a killer topic (no pun intended) and you deliver on it extremely well!

Right, I think those are among the biggest factors driving the nonfiction bust, rather than things publishers are doing. (Obvi the whole picture is complex.)

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 14h

The types of nonfiction I edit aren't really driven by bookstores, but the things that are supposed to sell them (big author platform, big media hits, etc) are not working they way they used to.

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I personally don't think it's "in crisis" (just trending down right now and will eventually trend back up), but it's definitely affecting aaallll kinds of nonfiction.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 14h

Twas not flip! Thank you for the birthday wishes!

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 17h

A poster of her is watching over me right now!

Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 17h

Wait, did we discover this last year??

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 17h

Today is my birthday, I'm now 39, please don't kick me off the website for 38-year-olds.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 18h

People come up with conspiracy theories because it's not enough for them to feel right, they also have to feel everyone else is wrong. In somewhat the same way, it's not enough for AI cultists to deny humanity to certain classes of people, they also have to grant it to the computer.

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Now of days, we can just make the monitor explode with AI

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Also also, you can never generate a perfect version of your hometown from Google Maps, and the failures would put it in the uncanny valley. Think of when you're trying to look at something on Street View and a delivery truck is in the way.

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Also, would you really want your character to be *you* in Grand Theft Auto? Do you want to see your real self die over and over in your real hometown?

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If the point is that everything is personalized to you down to the last pixel, why would your friends want to join your game instead of playing their own? For that matter, would you want them seeing all this content based on your private chat history?

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Superior or supreme or something like that

Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm so rich and powerful I get to lick Trump's boots before anyone else!

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The use of this language reminds me of the argument Barbara and Karen Fields make in Racecraft where they note that, despite the fact that almost every black American today can trace their lineage back further than white Americans, we still index white culture as the American one.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How quickly they go from "Talkin' rape" to "Teacher, teacher, put him in a time-out!"

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(I say, as if all my Brazilian family members didn't vote for Bolsonaro)

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks for the punch in the gut, Brazil, we really needed that right now.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The media spent YEARS clutching their pearls over "deplorables," but this is fine.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know what it sounds like, is there a song or does the thing make a noise?

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would never have even heard of Liberty Biberty if you people didn't post about it every goddamn day.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See what magic is possible through mutual hatred of Andrew Cuomo?

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

8 years of All You Can Ever Know 💙🌿 I treasure the conversations I’ve had (& still get to have) because of this book, and continue to be grateful to everyone who’s read it or shared it with others.

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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR)What doe...

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE FLOWERS ARE SPEAKING by Mary Porter Kerns is now available for preorder! This book is such a unique blend of fascinating science facts and spiritual communion with nature. It really made me think differently about humans' relationship with our world. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830606...

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The Flowers Are Speaking by Mary Porter Kerns: 9798217433841 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecolog...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I ran out of the room at that exact moment and have never seen the rest of the movie!!