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Laura

@lcpatt.bsky.social
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Music and church and cooking and Georgia football. Sometimes politics. Dogs if y’all act right.

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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I’m alive, just preserving my sanity by staying away from most social media.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There would not be any kind of popular uprising if this happened!
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I was talking about this last night. Does any rural person think Musk gives a crap about farms or understands farm subsidies?
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 07/02/2025
Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰
A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So I’ve been making pottery for a few months now and I’m happy with how I’m improving. First mug Most recent
A small clay mug, unglazedTwo medium sized clay bodies, still wet, made with earthenware clay.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sometimes you can be a thorn in someone’s side or a very squeaky wheel too!
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just had to call animal poison control because one of these dogs ate melatonin. You already know which one it is.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I’m just really glad to live in a town that is at least trying to respond to homelessness and care for my unhoused neighbors
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Please can a whole bunch of billionaires go please?
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is primarily why I am firm in not having children. I can’t do that to someone I love.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s been surreal to watch the people who taught me not to worship anything but Jesus totally abandon the most basic tenants of Christianity in favor of worshipping the crudest and most basic version of an authoritarian. Turns out the idol wasn’t grades or a boyfriend, it’s always power.
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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The federal freeze on grant funding is looking very, very bad in Atlanta. Georgia relies on federal funding for essentially *all* of its spending on housing support, and most of its spending on homelessness, mental heath and substance abuse treatment. Providers are locked out of their accounts.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Banner week for cancelling @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
And if you keep doing the mental gymnastics of "well they'll just get out" When? Do you know how long the backlogs are going to get? 2/
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I know folks think we're being hysterical about the Laken Riley Act and Trump's EO's but ICE just did a raid in Newark where they detained undocumented residents as well as citizens (including a veteran), without producing a warrant. 1/
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It may be a good time to recall that almost 100 yrs ago wealthy businessmen hatched a scheme to weaken progressive Christianity because the social gospel wasn’t conducive to corporate profits. They poured $$$ into Chr orgs that preached a different tune: the gospel of free market capitalism.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Mercy IS actually radical if you haven’t been shaping your life around the example and teaching of Christ and have only been pursuing self gratification. So, ya know.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Unionize your workplace. We’ve been here before and organized labor is how we get out.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If media thinks we can’t just choose to not consume their product because they’re serving as a propaganda arm of an authoritarian regime, they are mistaken.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So is this going to be TV now? Watching someone unrelated and suddenly several minutes of that guy out of nowhere?
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I cannot bear how comically evil we are as a country
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Teen movies led me to believe that if you bullied the nerd, they might end up being rich and cool one day and you’d be sorry. Apparently they end up rich losers flirting with fascism.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I’ve been traveling all day and came home with an awful headache. Advil didn’t fix it. Water didn’t fix it. Relaxing on the couch didn’t fix it. What did? An inhuman amount of Mexican food.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I feel like I pretty successfully paired my wine with my food tonight. I’ve been trying to learn enough to be able to make educated guesses, but Italian wine is still pretty new to me. The menu description told me just enough to make the right choice.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I just ate at a restaurant with a quote from my favorite Martin Short character, Franck the wedding planner in the 90’s Father of the Bride, on it.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I’ll make yall a deal. You post your dog being a goof in the snow and I’ll tell you exactly what kind of goof they are. It’s very scientific.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
So anyone got Dogs in the snow pictures they wanna share?
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Whaaat? No surely all religion is white evangelicalism!
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@jengolbeck.bsky.social got any restaurant recs near Tenleytown? I’m there for a week and you have excellent taste!
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
So. Oregon.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Im having to read a management book for a class and can we please kill this industry? Every one of these books is a pamphlet worth of content blown out into 200 unskimmable pages. An absolute scam.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
You need this thread
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Ok so the new season of queer eye? I am LIVING for the new guy just crying constantly.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 29/12/2024
the AI scam
trade offer meme 


I receive:
all the money and water 

you receive: 
bad spell check and mass unemployment
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Go to church with your internet friends, like @joshuaeaton.bsky.social and I just did. Merry Christmas!
The inside of an episcopal church with a pipe organ and exposed wooden beams. There are pink poinsettias around the alter. The picture is taken from a back pew.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
THE DREAM
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This weekend I get to do a memorial service honoring people in my town who died while experiencing homelessness. It’s been amazing to see so many groups and individuals work together on this
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is why cops aren’t workers, in case there was confusion. They support capital, not labor.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/12/2024
In case it wasn't already clear whose lives count most in this country.
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Laura @lcpatt.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’ve never been in a rehearsal where the vibes were as rancid as they were tonight. The rehearsal was actually fine, but it was just off in there
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💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 12/12/2024
It bears stating that the high end estimate of ending homelessness in the US is roughly $30B.
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."
As I explained to lawmakers — now more than 15 years ago — for-profit insurers like UnitedHealth and Cigna must assure investors and financial analysts every three months that they know how to control their health plan enrollees’ use of medical goods and services so that plenty of their premium dollars can be diverted to profits. Congress would ultimately include language in the ACA to require health plans to spend at least 80% to 85% of premiums insurers take in on enrollees’ care, known as the medical loss ratio. But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers — by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers — they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care.
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Ian Boatman @wxdawg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This weird ass team just Forrest Gump’d their way into being SEC Champions. These mfs gonna win a natty on accident.
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JAshley @jashley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Beck on the last play
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