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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 12/07/2026

Sick and tired of the Cult of Cthulhu pushing religion down our kids’ throats.

Picture of a math page from a kids math packet with a question 5 that asks “How old is the oldest?” No other questions before it mention age.

Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 24/06/2026

Playing Ether One before I start Dimhaven. Thought this beer poster was a dalek for a minute. … actually I still think it’s a dalek. Is this a dalek?

Video game beer poster that says “pinwheel brew” and has a brown… building? Ruin? With windows open to the sky and green ivy. It is in the shape of a dalek. I can’t unsee it.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 15/06/2026

Wait how are the rest of you so normal? 😂

Evangelion personally test where I have scored 70% Kaworu, 45% Rei, 45% Ritsuko, and 30% Misato with the rest at 15-25% but none at zero.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 13/06/2026

My kid is even worse. She’s into OG He-man now. But I found a Naryu!

Old skeletor and battle cat toys loose in bags

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 13/06/2026

(Nervous laughter) I’m in danger

Photo of a toy booth where my husband has already claimed a $45 “Dormoo Vis” toy

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 27/05/2026

Gonna tell my grandkids this was Vis Telemus.

Screenshot of Finn and Jake from the Adventure Time cartoon (Boy with a white hood with bear ears, a metal arm, and blue shirt and shorts standing beside a yellow dog with large eyes and jowls.) Both are giving a thumbs up.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 16/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

Picture of Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf in a red and white check bonnet and pigtail braids. Beside him is a penguin hand puppet with glowing red eyes.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 03/05/2026

Basically every day on this site.

Two button meme where the sweating man is trying to decide between buttons that say “Divided we fall” and “One bad apple” with the caption “When a stranger whose politics I mostly agree with is weirdly aggro in someone’s replies”

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 01/04/2026

(Sigh) I get that it’s April 1st and usually we’d be making jokes right now, but here’s the thing

Image of The Thing from Fantastic Four (A cartoon man made of rocks looking grumpy.)

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 28/03/2026

And if you just like pretty things to put on display, it looks like a shimmering jewel beside its predecessor. 😆

Photo of the hardcover of the book "The Stranger and the Star" beside the book "How to Fix a Flubbed Summon." Cover of TSATS feature a pink and blue scene of a shadowy guy and girl who look like tarot card characters. Golden filigree decorates the "cards" and a golden heart-shaped key joins their hearts. Cover of HTFAFS shows a middle aged woman in a colorful puffy dress with a potion bandelier standing before a cauldron in a garden and looking spooked while her tea kettle spills.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 28/03/2026

The hardcover has special art beneath the dust jacket, of course!

Photo of the hardcover of the book "The Stranger and the Star" with the dust jacket removed. Cover feature a pink and blue scene of a shadowy guy and girl who look like tarot card characters. Golden filigree decorates the "cards" and a golden heart-shaped key joins their hearts. The case laminate beneath features golden silhouettes of competitors from the book surrounded by purple and pink wallpaper-like art and colorful symbols.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 28/03/2026

Oh right! My book is out today! 😆 If you know a teen (or are a teen) interested in whimsical fantasy with a neurodivergent FMC, escape rooms, tarot cards, and "clean" romance ... give it a shot! Available on all the usual retailers, but preferred is bookshop.org/p/books/the-... !

Photo of hardcover and softcover copies of the book "The Stranger and the Star" side-by-side. Covers feature a pink and blue scene of a shadowy guy and girl who look like tarot card characters. Golden filigree decorates the "cards" and a golden heart-shaped key joins their hearts.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 26/02/2026

The email with alt text for anyone who needs it.

Thank you for contacting me about online safety and privacy. Your concerns are important to both me and my team as we work tirelessly to serve the people of Maryland.

Online safety refers to the ability of individuals to navigate the internet without unknowingly having their personal data gathered and without being targeted by fraudsters, scammers, and other bad actors. For children, internet safety also means safeguarding against exposure to harmful content such as cyberbullying, suicide promotion, body idealization, substance abuse, and sexual exploitation. In Congress, there are several current proposals to improve online safety. S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), would mandate safer default settings for minors, limitations on addictive features, tools for parental oversight, and opt-out options for algorithmic recommendations. It would also enforce transparency through third-party audits and reporting and allow enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). S. 278, the Kids Off Social Media Act (KOSMA), would restrict social media access for children under 13 and prohibit social media platforms from using minors’ personal data to recommend content. S. 737, the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act, would require all commercial adult content websites to adopt age verification technology to ensure children cannot access their content.

As a mother, I understand firsthand how deeply families worry about the dangers young people face online. Like so many parents, I want every child to be able to explore, learn, and connect without being exposed to harmful content, targeted by predators, or manipulated by algorithms designed to keep them scrolling. But I also know that protecting kids should never come at the cost of silencing vulnerable communities, restricting access to critical resources, or giving the government the power to unjustly invade individuals’ privacy. We must take real action to (cont next post)

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 21/02/2026

I get that a ton of individual adopters are nihilists or believe the eliminiation of jobs will create a magical star trek world (once enough innocent people perish, of course), but what's the BUSINESS goal of financially bolstering technology that ends with your own bankruptsy?

Crude sketch of a modified trolley problem. There is a trolley heading down two paths, one of which will run over a bunch of creatives tied to the track and the other of which will run over a single person labeled "AI Bubble." Behind the trolley is a man labeled "Businesses" who is pulling the lever while saying "LOL Luddites" to indicate he plans to run over the creatives. But the track is a loop that comes back around and runs over the business man as well.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 09/02/2026

Hey! It's a new book! Available for request on Edelweiss and Netgalley, plus pre-purchase on Bookshop .org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Rakuten Kobo, and more! lnclarke.com/available-fo... #Booksky #TheStrangerAndTheStar

Wild image with wallpaper art and golden tarot card figures plus a book cover. Words on the image say "Young adult, tarot-themed, escape room, in space, ... for love. Request now!" The book cover reads "L. N. Clarke's The Stranger and the Star." Design shows a card-like graphic with a textured background that fades from magenta to blue. The book title is diagonal across the center. The top left shows a black cutout image of a girl in a fantasy dress marching forward surrounded by heart and key symbolism. The bottom right shows an upside-down boy in the Tarot "hanged man" pose surrounded by space imagery.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 06/02/2026

Remember friends: Sharing the 💩 opinions of shock jockey trolls is the attention economy equivalent of buying and wearing bigot merch. Unless they pose an actual threat: Nobody needs to know what they think. Nobody needs to know their names. Let them wither in obscurity. Until next time!

Image of skeletor (blue man in purple chest atmor and hood with a yellow skeleton face) holding up his hands as if giving advice.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 16/01/2026

Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der

Photo of a bottle of cleaner called “OdoBan”, which could be mispronounced like Autobahn.
(It’s a Kraftwerk joke)

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 30/12/2025

I love that there’s no way for Bluesky mobile to crop this book that doesn’t create a new, even funnier, title.

Meme of the Pawn Stars guys with one looking serious at someone and the text “Best I can do is God’s Junk” (because the full title is God’s Junk Drawer, but bluesky has cropped it)

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 10/12/2025

THIS is why you never use embarrassing placeholder text, no matter how confident you are that it will stand out enough for you to spot it later. 😅

Screenshot of an amazon coupon description that says “Coupon Terms
Save 15% on POOP Women Sweater Sweatshirt Save 15% with this coupon. Discount at checkout.
Coupon Expiry Date December 28, 2025”

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 09/11/2025

Heard a huge crash and came running to find… this.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 15/10/2025

Just completely surprised and honored to learn my story He Who Ruined Everything has won Best Weird Humor in the Strangies! Thanks so much to @drabblecast.bsky.social and the Drabblecast community! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.drabblecast.org/2024/02/29/d...

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 03/10/2025

They’re only noodles, Michael.

Photo of a month old silkie chicken. It’s all white with puffy feathers on its head that resemble Kiefer Sutherland’s mullet in The Lost Boys.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 22/09/2025

Taking this as an autumnal sign that I was not meant to go this direction. (And that nothing can replace real WED clay) Apologies, this means I am going to get MUCH craftier on here in coming days. I have a Halloween costume and trunk-or-teat for the kid to complete, and a book cover to design.

A clay gothic rose window that has dried and crumbled apart, like a massive dry snowflake on a table.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 21/09/2025

Fluffiness will continue until morale improves.

Photo of two extremely fluffy cream-white Silkie chicks. They look like balls of fur with eyes and beaks.

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Ellen (L.N.) Clarke @lnclarke.com · 15/09/2025

"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech"