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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

losing my shit bc I just found out that Nolan's cyclops was played by MR. NOODLE

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

little did I know we would later get a whole entire Boston Odysseus

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

can't stop thinking about cheesemonger cyclops milking those sheep with his giant fingers

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

willem dafoe, me, danny glover, and alex trebek had our birthday on the feast of mary magdalene this week, same as every year. disgust book almost finished, the painful hobbies continue, here's to 41!

leigh doing a vertical split on the pole, up off the ground, happy

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 10/06/2026

I just remembered that next year will see the release of @voraciousbrain.bsky.social‘s book on disgust. Trust me on this: The history of science writing will never be the same.

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

finishing my book in the summer and it's like... welp, I guess we'll only have the american scientists weighing in on my follow-up questions 😩

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

[eyes roll back and start leaking strawberry milk pus like water from a fountain] DISGUST BOOK IS COMING

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

when you live in the country, every so often a neighbor down the way will use a bewildering power tool after dark and you just spend several porch sits listening to it and imagining what on god's fucking green earth they could possibly be doing with their flashlight and a dream

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

having a complete fucking breakdown and throwing a table across the room because the fucking del Toro Frankenstein movie ends in a quote by LORD FUCKING BYRON AND NOT MARY!!!!! I am going to punch a hole in the wall. I am going to pick up a car with my bare hands and rip the doors off with my teeth

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

got clever and made my partner a big sexy lasagna instead of a birthday cake, did not consider that hot lasagna will absolutely just straight up fucking melt birthday candles

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

a game for sick freaks

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 02/11/2025

me nine innings ago / me now

a cute looking blue jay perches on a branch

a skeletal looking blue jay after molding his head feathers

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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

this is so stressful a canadian anchor just did breathing exercises on air

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

can't be alone with the baseball game

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

[box breathing badly] baseball, baby

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I want to hear about the foods you enjoy that are gross to other people! pretty please take this tiny survey, thank you, I love you forms.gle/fih5D5RGMT2u...

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Disgusting, Delicious Food

This is a survey for my book about disgust, forthcoming from Crown in 2027. Thank you for helping me out, I am forever grateful!

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 25/06/2025

I can’t wait to see what Leigh will do with this topic. Their earlier articles which touched upon the topic of disgust are giving me high hopes. I have no doubt that “Gross” will go down as one of the most interesting and most twisted science books of all. 4/4

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 25/06/2025

Leigh’s prior book “Hurts So Good” is a masterful exploration of pain on purpose. It’s one of the most fascinating and insightful things you’ll ever read (I was lucky enough to consult on the pain science in the book). 3/4

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 25/06/2025

I’ve been calling Leigh the best science writer in the world for many years. The reason for this is that they’re absolutely meticulous about the scientific details, and at the same time their writing is incredibly emotive. If Leigh wants you to feel something, you *will* feel it. 2/4

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 25/06/2025

FRIENDS! FRIENDS! There was a book deal announced today, and it’s a big one. The one and only @voraciousbrain.bsky.social will be writing a book on the science of disgust. Here’s why I’m extremely excited about this: 1/4

Deal of the Day
Author of HURTS SO GOOD Leigh Cowart's
GROSS, a deep dive into the biology and psychology of the paradoxically seductive emotion of disgust-how it preserves personal and communal dynamics and protects our boundaries-and its intrinsic relationship with curiosity, desire, and belonging, pitched as Mary Roach with more chaos, to Aubrey Martinson at Crown, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

i keep winding up on horse smegma bean removal instagram

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 07/03/2025

I’m so excited for the March selection for the Out of Your League Book Club: @voraciousbrain.bsky.social’s HURTS SO GOOD! Join us for the Zoom discussion by registering here: www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/ooyl-book-...

Out of Your League Book Club: HURTS SO GOOD: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2 PM ET/ 11 AM PT

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I welcome you to the fight, the text is rich! I always assumed that lumps = titties humps = ass hump = Fergie is a dromedary camel

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the thing I fight about most often with my partner of ten years, in case you're curious: the specific lyrics of "my humps" and what they mean anatomically-speaking

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

in news I never ever EVER thought I'd be sharing: despite the 18 years that have passed since ballet nearly killed me and I had to quit, and after more therapy than I could possibly even begin to describe--I started dancing again. things are so hard but this? oh man. I missed my heart 😭😭😭😭

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

hi! if you are one of my friends, please say hi when you follow me, so I see you and can follow back. l don't wanna miss you 💕 picture of Carol with his tiddies out for tax

Orange tabby sitting with his front legs close together so it looks like he has boobies; eyes indicate that he does not have the brain cell right now

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Stop saying "nonconsensual BDSM" It's not nonconsensual bank transfers, it's robbery. It's not nonconsensual boxing, it's assault. It's not nonconsensual coming over to hang out, it's breaking and entering. It's not nonconsensual body modification, that's a class C felony.

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

your exquisitely sensitive asshole can differentiate between the three most well-known states of matter, babe just get the bidet

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

perfect last minute gift idea: a science book about masochism that will make you squirm, laugh, cry, drool, giggle, snort, shriek, and do a big gay sigh with your hand over your heart 💝 "Hurts So Good" has all that and a blurb from THE @edyong209.bsky.social!! you cannot miss!

"It's a testament to Leigh Cowart's skill and charm that a book about pain should feel so joyful.... Hurts So Good is a book of wonderful paradoxes--a rich, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating look at a world that most of us know but few of us understand." - Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of "I Contain Multitudes"

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 17/12/2024

Some of my favorite discussion of this intersection is in @voraciousbrain.bsky.social’s book Hurts So Good. Especially love how many of the athletes get offended by the suggestion that they’re doing masochism. Honey, you’re an ultramarathoner! Ofc you are!

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 17/12/2024

For the longest time, I’ve been trying to write something on what the sports world can learn from kink communities—I think it’s time to start it. Sports 🤝 BDSM.

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

never realized patroclus was from massachusetts

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

incredible letter from unca chemistry professor Dr. Sally Wasileski regarding the lead issue in Asheville and what to do next. really grateful for how detailed it is mountainx.com/blogwire/che...

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Mountain Xpress

Asheville and Western North Carolina News | Local Matters - Arts, Food, Music and Movies

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

bad news: rebound covid :( good news: WATER IS BACK! I live in an old house so I still gotta do some lead stuff before we drink it BUT we can BATHE & WASH THINGS and i just feel like well, if I have to be sick again, at least I can stand the shower about it 🥲 hot soapy water forever and ever amen

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In 2015, I did a series called "Revival of the Sickest" where I covered the resurgence of diseases due to arrogance, bad policy, and anti-vaccine bullshit. In light of everything, here's the measles one. How much do you really know about one of humanity's greatest foes? medium.com/matter/measl...

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Measles Is Just The Beginning

We treat it like a pest, but it’s one of humanity’s oldest, nastiest foes. Now, it’s coming back—and it’s not alone.

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punky boobster 🌈🌵☀️ @bustybruiser.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

sex work, in a nutshell:

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@diffendale.bsky.social "interested in all old trash" oh how quickly I smashed that follow button

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Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

oh we're sharing our favorite @scumbelievable.bsky.social tweets?? this one has been on my phone forever, assigned harpooner at birth baby

AFAB: Assigned female at birth
AMAB: Assigned male at birth
ACAB: All cops are bastards
AHAB: Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink a-

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Defector @defector.com · 16/11/2024

"A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic."

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What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | Defector

At darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as…

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