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lauren

@laurens.bsky.social
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Mom, technologist, LGBT, Jewish; strong opinions but I generally just post day in the life type stuff; interested in religion, philosophy, humanities, politics, computers

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 5h
So let’s get this straight. Taxpayer money will be sent to Moscow to will help pay for the missiles and drones that kill Ukrainian families. Zelensky warned today that this deal strengthens Putin’s war machine, and he is right.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 7h
An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 2h
WTF, Springer Nature? Removing offensive language about patients being "combative" and "reproachful" is not enough. You need to explain why the language was there in the first place. virology.ws/2026/10/10/t...
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Trial By Error: Springer Nature Removes Description of "Fatigue" Patients as "Combative" and "Reproachful" | Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH A month after publishing a German-language article about chronic fatigue syndrome as part of a larger project, Springer Nature has rem ...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hate this
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yup. I could. This has strong, Trumpian vibes of “if we don’t test for it, it doesn’t exist”
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What the actual fuck?!?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Omg that is awful It’s not the diagnosis that is damaging… it’s the lack of support and the stigmatization and bullshit like this
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wasn’t familiar with them, so I just googled, and the first page that came up made me go “oh”. Letterboard.
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is it the youths claiming disability?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What happened?!?!
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I no longer understand how numbers work with this one…?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reading your feed is a bit like “what new horrors are there in uk autism and psychiatry research?”
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Michael Vokabre's art stuffs @procyonity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Arriving to Acre train station הגעה לתחנת רכבת עכו الوصول إلى محطة قطار عكا
Vertical painting in ink with watercolour lines, a scene on the exit from a train. On the left, on the luggage area sits a woman with a smartphone with wired pink headphones with white wires, she wears trousers and a long sleeved shirt and has medium-length white hair. Om the right are people readying to disembark, in the center is a woman in a long headscarf and a bag, in front of her is a man in a bicycle helmet, more people are in the distance.
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m back to being fully employed this coming Monday! 😎
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol. The outlet by my desk
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Omg, I understand now
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is the context that this is being suggested?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hope the flydubai investigation goes better than the EgyptAir 990 investigation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAi...
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EgyptAir Flight 990 - Wikipedia
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I guess, but I don’t trust my skills to put it back of the landlord demands it so 😬
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know, right?! 😂
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unrelatedly, if anyone has tips for dealing with mold and mildew, give a shout!
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moving from Ziv to Ahuza (different neighborhoods of Haifa) today. It has all the luxury features you’d want in a 1960s apartment! Such as this “dishwasher”. It pumps water into an upper cabinet and… well, the mechanism isn’t clear what happens next. It drools water back into the sink?
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Michael Vokabre's art stuffs @procyonity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evening in Acre (עכו عكا) over Mediterranean Sea
Vertical painting, slightly square-ish, with a sunset over the sea and a cafe by the sea, drawn in watercolours with ink lines. In the middle is the the sea with some rocks, a sun to the left, coloured clouds to the right and top, a cable with lights in the middle, and in the bottom are two deck benches with pillows. Two women sit on the bench on the right, the woman on the right with purple-ish headscarf, the woman on the left has long dark red hair. In the distance by the sea walks or dances a young woman with long brown hair, smiling, wearing a long shirt and jeans. There are two more chairs left of her.
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m assuming it’s “this child’s ADHD is so high, he keeps running into traffic” versus “child being distracted in school”…? But I guess this policy is okay with kids failing, growing up with low self esteem, and spiraling as long as the pace of disaster is slow?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t know where I messed up but my foreign language conversation app is now trying to teach me workplace English. Is this an HR intervention?
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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
someone on our freecycle’s giving away scout badges and I can’t stop thinking of the stolen valour
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That’s horrific. I’m so sorry
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ugh ugh ugh. And then it becomes a balancing act of following the GP’s advice without seeming obviously FND-y to anyone looking at your medical record 😖
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ohhh nooooo. I assume the lack of trust on reliability is even more so for autistic women…?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oooof. It does read like that. Is this the one who diagnosed you with fnd?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The carving was completed in 1972?!?! That’s almost in my lifetime!!!
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did the North truly win the Civil War?
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Initially, Atlanta residents used shallow wells and springs for their water. After the Civil War, they tapped into the South River… and polluted it
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The closest river to Atlanta is the Chattahoochee River, which now serves as Atlanta’s boundary to the north. It was the location of Native American settlements
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The functions that a river served, the railway served those functions. Railways brought goods to the area, and wealth.
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Atlanta was founded by railway engineers as the place most suited to connect rail from the north to rail going to Savannah. But it wasn’t near a major source of water, nor was it a natural, logical site for humans to settle
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Repost with your home river, Atlanta version
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah from Haifa
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ha! So clearly you spent some time in Boston! ☺️ I’m just at an Airbnb near the Technion, not actually *at* the Technion
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
תודה! ☺️
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our apartment window frames, front and center, an inactive water park. Twins keep insisting to go there. I haven’t seen a single soul go down that fifty foot water slide. Gotta be closed till next summer. Haven’t had the heart to explain it fully, just dropping hints
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s like Alston Christmas here at the Technion. Dumpster is full of mattresses, and clothes are strewn about. We are just trying to toss our miniature trash bags to keep our Airbnb ant free
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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ugh ugh ugh. I was going to say it sounds like American HR speak
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