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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙

@lgbookworm.bsky.social
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Books, origami, interpreting, circus, baking, and whatever new hyperfocus grabs my attention this week she/her

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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s more soup per soup!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My freezer was full of Costco rotisserie chicken bones, so last I made a double chicken stock—I made stock, then I strained and added fresh bones and made stock again. It’s on warm in the instant pot and I’m excited to see how chickeny it turned out!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Next up is the mess in my kitchen and the weird smell in the fridge, ugh. Still better than invoicing, so I guess I better get started
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I put together my calendar and read my mail ⭐️⭐️
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ok, I guess I can do the next thing, even while filled with anxiety
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hey could the universe fucking STOP adding “just one more thing” to my plate for a minute?
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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm awaiting payment on an invoice I expected to come in 2 weeks ago, and which I counted on to pay bills. My account's about to be hit with overdraft fees, and I still have to pay my NIPSCO (gas & electric), two copays, rideshare to two medical appointments, and more. Any help is appreciated! 🫶
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A banner showing cover art of TTRPG titles I’ve worked on: Uncaged Goddesses, Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Wrath & Glory: Forsaken System Player’s Guide, Uncaged Anthology volume 1, and All the Wi...
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What is better to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort? Says Skeletor overcoming his less inspirational traits every day that he can.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NO NOTES
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My sister is going to be annoyed with me, but I recently discovered I can get actual owl pellets from a local birdwatching org, and I bet my nephews will be stoked to look for mouse bones in them
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s a little 😬 for me on Xmas morning and birthdays bc he hardly ever gets visibly excited over my gifts, but I sometimes hear back months later that my reputation is still intact!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My sister told him he could take one (1) book to camp and it had to be one he was cool with reading for 5 days in a row, and he told her “Yeah Mom, I have a fresh Laura book! It’s completely fresh, I haven’t even started it yet!”
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New achievement unlocked! My nephew told his mom that Laura presents aren’t always the most flashy and exciting ones in the moment, but they always turn out to be quality when he comes around to them
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
True enough. It’s a very handy term if you want to avoid being pinned down, and I hate it when it comes up in testimony I have to interpret
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m full of anxiety that I’ve somehow ruined everything (context unclear) so I think I’d better take a nap and see if that resets me
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Isn’t ‘peruse’ a contronym? I think it means both ‘skim’ and ‘study in detail’ www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m as impatient as anyone for more of your books, but that’s an us problem. You get to take breaks!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’ve been thinking of going back to bed since I got up, and I think it’s time
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Walked out to check on the herd and found the donkeys fully staffed with chicken jockeys.
A chicken standing on top of a grey mini donkeyA chicken standing on top of a grey mini donkey
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
making me nervous. 3 days left and last stretch. in an age of slop conmen and seedy rights grabbers, feels all the more important to focus on the reliable mags we can trust. if you enjoy their work and are able, this is a good time to chip in. the best time even, some might say.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Melpomene 🔓 @melpomany.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"It looks delicious," she said, "but one question, what actually is 'homemade ghee'?" its butter i clarified
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I got too stressed in August and completely failed to do my invoicing, and this client is the only one who sent me tea and chocolate and cozy socks and an electric throw blanket about it
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Did you watch The Detectorists? This sounds like it almost belongs on that show
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It was even nicer than you’re imagining: my contact person walked in the pouring rain from her office to my apartment to hand me the gift and a very nice card signed by everyone in her department
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday a client sent me a lovely gift basket after hearing about cancer summer, so what I want to know is: why aren’t the rest of my clients meeting this new standard?
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Eggnog lattes are still S tier seasonal coffee
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I just made an Artax reference tonight! Always too soon
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah, pretty much no redeeming features whatsoever. I hope you’re doing better too
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cynthia loves u @lesbiats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
being cynical is fucking easy. it's comfortable and safe. there's no emotional risk there. you're never going to be let down because you didn't believe in anything to begin with. it's the easy way out. believe in things. be loving and kind even when it's not easy and the world might bite you for it.
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks, I think we both are now (pending some new scans) but we’ve been having a bad time! I really cannot recommend the simul-cancer experience at all
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My partner and I have just spent all summer in simultaneous treatment, so at about minute 2 of the play when the penny dropped I alllllllmost walked straight back out again, but I decided to see if my sense of AYFKM was strong enough to get me through it
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had a terrible time, but I can’t fault the production! I knew it was supposed to be a dramatic sow about grief or something, but I didn’t actually know the specifics until it started
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Last week I saw a play with some colleagues that—surprise!—turned out to be a tragic cancer death story. I spent the entire show fighting panic, but boy did that art elicit a powerful emotional response. Not a pleasant one, true, but still!
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was very regular about it for a while but then a whole bunch of things happened at once and it’s been hibernating in the fridge for quite a while. I really like making “cheater” sourdough bread, where I use my starter but also add a pinch of commercial yeast as rise insurance
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh no, I should dig my poor neglected starter out of the back of the fridge and see if I can revive it
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 09/10/2026
From Minneapolis to y'all: Three quick bursts if you see ICE. Long loud blasts if they're actively detaining someone. Form a crowd, stick together, and film everything.
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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have managed to get gas, some caffeine, and a couple gallons of water. I could use more but I am out of resources at this time. If you'd like to help me prep for getting slammed by a hurricane, links in QS. Everything and anything is welcome.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/12/2025
FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶
a pelican with their mouth open, and two fish are above to fall into their pouch, but one is above another and may take a path outthe pelicans mouth is closed, and there's a fish outthe pelican looks at the camera, miffed, the fish is far away from its head at this pointthe pelican opens its beak and tries to go for it, but i can report back it failed, the fish was long gone
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I made a turkey burger, but I’m also eating an ice cream bar now
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ok I bought the groceries, but so far they haven’t assembled themselves into dinner. Are my groceries defective?
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. No problems ever in Pelican Mouth
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Celebrating the new day rate at the Fed courts by spending a big chunk of it on fancy lunch
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just got it from the library, thanks!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ll look it up, thanks so much!
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Laura Gillian 🩷💜💙 @lgbookworm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those are both fantastic and just the kind of thing I want, but I’ve read them
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