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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last night I made a few dozen twice-baked baby potatoes. They were silly and scrumptious and worth the work of scooping them out with a demitasse spoon.

A bite-sized baked potato with cheese and chopped chive, held between thumb and forefinger. In the background: a living room with book cases, tiger rug, and halloween pumpkin.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have to assume this individual's reference to the ABS is 'Arse Bullshit Squirts'.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Furthermore, in the category of physical assault, in the latest crime victimisation report, Victoria came seventh of the eight states and territories.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why do people just straight up lie about things that can be readily disproven? 'On 1 October the ABS declared Melbourne Australia's crime capital!' The ABS crime and justice topic page hasn't updated since 16 September 2026.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG Alison let me guess, the others came out kinda shitty?

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TFW you recognise a username as being someone you've had past conflict with but you can't quite remember why. Like okay, where do you irritate me from?

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean I do assume that a Worldcon in Brisbane will be a skosh smaller than Worldcon in Los fucken Angeles but!!! can I just be the person assigned to follow Seanan around and refresh her DDP? I'm skeerd

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My comfort zone is Continuum, where there's a scheduled midday meal break and everything is across two floors in one building, tops. What do you MEAN 'Locations' is a big dropdown list? If I'm doing reg desk at Continuum I can POINT. If I'm doing reg desk at Worldcon I'm going to DIE.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm looking at the program guide for this year's Worldcon to get my head around the size of the thing (because Brisbane 2028) and what do you MEAN there can be 44 things happening in one timeslot. What do you MEAN. That's too many fours. That's TOO MANY FOURS I am used to FOUR THINGS AN HOUR.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Where do tops keep their dildos? A peg basket!

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know I've gotta co-sign my fellow Lauren.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was using a manual typewriter at home and started on an Apple IIe at primary school and neither of those things had a touch typing lesson with them. They were just faster than handwriting things. Touch typing looks so tidy. I feel like I look like I'm just flailing at the keyboard by comparison.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Realising that by the time I got to high school and formal IT classes I had already learned my slapdash typing style (it's not touch but it's also not quite hunt and peck) and been using it for maybe six or seven years doesn't make me feel any better about not learning to touch type 'properly'.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’ve never seen a cat so clearly roll its eyes. Original post

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Basically what I'm saying is I'm so far below the gutter, they're going to introduce me as the first non-binary Ninja Turtle.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But I was the only one at the table holding back a laugh a few minutes later when she mentioned a local restaurant having spit roasts in the car park every Friday night.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's interesting how there are things that are suggestive to everyone and things that are suggestive only to certain minds. For example, my mum's friend S made everyone snicker when she referred to the cat shelter as 'Pussytown'.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are too many things I can do now without a little silver tabby head butting into my business and I hate being uninterrupted.

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Cecil @softestpunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well this funded before I had time to share it here (in just 13 hours!!) so now we're racing to see if we can double our author payments—and how many future anthologies it can secure (there's a poll, if you're curious about the possibilities) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

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Teeth Anthology — Physical Edition!

Teeth is a queer SFF anthology about things that bite. It’s about the startling gleam of a fang in the moonlight, the vulnerability of soft flesh, the sensual pleasure of sinking your teeth into somet...

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

the plight of the postmodern succubus

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Dalliance is the spiritual successor to #FiveBedrooms is the spiritual successor to #SecretLifeOfUs. At least I assume so, I'm only halfway through Five Bedrooms, but the ads have got The Vibe.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

JD ending the first episode with 'I can't do this all on my own' made me go 'Owoooo' out loud. Pippin is staring at me.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Scrubs2026, OTOH, has catapulted me into a place of pure nostalgia and I'm only three minutes in. (I too am on call for work but it is absolutely not the same thing.)

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm enjoying #StuartFails so much. It turns out the episodes are short enough to fit one into a lunch break and I've been watching them one at a time rather than bingeing. They're ridiculous and delightful. Also I keep finding parallels between Kripke and Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

oh shit did I say that? I didn't mean to be misogynistic

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you: - ever earned a salary - enjoy salad, salsa, slaw, sauce, or sausage - have used halogen lights Then you etymologically (and sometimes directly) owe that to salt! #Halite #MinCup26

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Vote in Round 1 Match 13 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote in Arsenopyrite vs Halite Credit: Harold Moritz and Corentin Desseux

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Diversity win! The church missionaries on my doorstep were girls!

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Catching up on #ProjectGhostlight #PrivateNightmares episode 16 and the moment that Priscilla, Queen of the Desert got mentioned my brain went, 'Just what this show needs. A vamp looking camp with a lamp.'

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so good I'm changing my display name during #MinCup26

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(So sorry to the serious mineralogists following #MinCup26 who have to see my takes.)

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm going to go with a #CriticalRole bit for this round of #MinCup26. #Julienite 'dissolves easily in water or alcohol, where its distinctive blue transforms into a rosy pink.' Yeah, that's bicon Julien Davinos all right.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ah yes #gypsum, aka my wife #selenite, hello beautiful! #MinCup26 (The only downside is she hates getting wet...)

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Absolutely fucking beautiful gambit on Kirby's part to choose banish again and it paid off beautifully. #TraitorsAU

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love that #Hafnon is the only hafnium-containing mineral, but as an Australian polyamorous non-binary bisexual I simply must vote for the purple #Putnisite. I mean, 'These tiny purple cubes are a rare hydrated strontium-calcium-chromium sulfate-carbonate with hydroxide ions' SAME THO #MinCup26.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My sense of the last four months of the year has been thrown out since November stopped being NaNoWriMo. You know... June, July, August, Mincup, Kinktober, November, Yuletide.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Of all the beliefs I've had to suspend in my many years of consuming speculative media, the notion that Adaine Abernant can produce anxiety meds from her jacket that are worth less than 10GP and yet are functional and helpful is the one I simply cannot accept. #Dimension20 #FantasyHigh

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kmart has its Christmas collection listed online already. Can we PLEASE have Halloween first? It's SEPTEMBER.

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

With that poster, it's simply bad advertising if they don't!

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Brushing Pippin. He jumps down off the ottoman, sticks his head in the bin, and attempts to fast-track a huge hairball by licking the wad of fur I'd just dropped in there. That's the opposite of why I'm grooming you, doofus!

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy birthday indeed. *hugs*

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Lauren @laurenthemself.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I can hear some lovely melodious magpie song outside. The thing is it's 11.30 at night. MATE IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT. GO TO SLEEP.

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