Benny Lawrence

Sometimes, just sometimes, you find yourself wandering around your home thinking "Where in the world is my brain dissection knife, I need it for this parrot," and that's how my evening has been going.

Hey, just a quick check, how long can you be filled with simmering fury every moment of every day before your organs turn into napalm?

We're mourning too. We know you're there and we're thinking of you.

A sinful glut of assorted Purdy's chocolate boxes lie on the table, with next to Ziploc bags reading "The dark chocolate trust," "The not really Snickers trust", and "The variety pack trust."

Preparing to teach my students the principles of trust law (fiduciary duty, encroachment, accumulation) using a simply unconscionable amount of chocolate. This was cheaper in the Before Times, when I didn't have to buy exclusively swanky Canadian chocolate, but oh well. #itworks #boycottusa

They are absolutely making a Horst Wessel of that guy. #thenewcruelty

HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY. I have been fretting for you and your beloved for days!

Amnesty launches ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing Amnesty International has launched a new briefing calling on governments to rein in the power of Big Tech companies in order to safeguard human rights.

🚨 Today we have launched the ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing which calls on governments to rein in the power of big technology companies in order to protect human rights.

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It is not capable of caring. It is a bloated amoral nothing that pretends to give a shit so that it can spread its bullshit more effectively and profitably. And its creators are just the same. #downwithAI #dierobotdie

Also! Don't writers write because of mysterious rainbow hallucinogenic brainslugs that make us REALLY wanna do it, even if it means being shut up in a closet for days on end, eating cabbage and smelling peculiar? If your brainslugs aren't making you write, why would you bother?

Love a thing that is beautiful and terrifying all at once. Thank you for the Mari Llwyd reading rabbit-hole I just went down.

A thing I like to do with ChatGPT is to have it generate legal documents, and then make my law students calculate the cost of the multi-year litigation that would ensue from all the critical errors and omissions they contain. #ai #dierobotdie

a cat is sitting on a person 's lap and says no no no no no . ALT: a cat is sitting on a person 's lap and says no no no no no .

When something (legitimately!) comes up and you can (truthfully!) tell the people you had to meet for an socially awkward lunch that you can't make it, and then they reschedule because they "are so excited to see you". . . #introvert #thepainthepain

A black cat paw with long, distinguished tufts of hair between the toes.

Captain Wow's toe-floofs are truly magnificent. Like unto the moustache of Hercule Poirot. It is probably advisable to trim them but I would not dare. #catsofbluesky

A cartoon Sir Mix-A-Lot stands next to a hot dog vendor with an eager anaconda waiting behind him. Vendor: "Okay then, here is a bun for your anaconda." Sir Mix-A-Lot: "Thank you, here is a big tip."

Sir Mix-A-Lot and the anaconda sit on a park bench, eating hot dogs in a state of rapturous pleasure.

I have always felt that the song should end this way. #art #veryimportantcontributiontosociety

"I have a jar of clotted cream that I need to use up so it doesn't go to waste" is maybe one of the best problems in the world to have.

If this is awesome, it's going to be REALLY awesome.

Hello, I'm a lawyer in a television drama. After I'm assigned a case, it takes me five days to bring it to trial in front of a full jury.

Hello, I'm a lawyer in a television drama. After I'm assigned a case, it takes me five days to bring it to trial in front of a full jury.

Shark dressed as Rambo with the headband

I will see you "How would a dog wear pants?" and raise you "How would a shark wear a headband while dressing as Rambo for Halloween?" #mysteries

Reminder! To remove AI search results from Google, go to "Settings- Search Engines" in Google and add a new search with URL {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s - set as default search engine. #ai #burnAIburn #IwanttherobotstoexplodeRussianbombersnotmakeusdumber

Inside you, there are two wolves, and one is always asking for takeout and one is always saying "We have food at home."

Me: Why are so many books brilliant at the beginning and boring at the end?

Me (remembers that publishers make full manuscript requests based on the first three chapters)

Me: Ah. #booksky

Love a gouache. And love the scrollwork-esque curves.

So very lovely. May I ask what kind of paint you're using?

Comic strip of two panels. First panel: A bespectacled dyke happily reads while a shadow figure looms loomingly in the background. Second panel. A red-eyed, forbidding figure grabs the dyke by the shoulders and declares, "Benny! I'm going to eat lunch in here with you (laugh laugh). God I'm probably being soooo annoying (laugh). I bet you just want to read your book."

Single comic panel. Forbidding red-eyed figure drags wailing dyke away from her book, while saying, "Yeah, you're probably desperate for me to leave you alone. (Laugh.) Let me tell you about my last three vacations and my husband's thoughts about sportsball."

What is it with people who see someone reading and think that they need to be rescued from loneliness?

Cover image of "Midnight is a Place" by Joan Aiken, depicting a boy and girl in Victorian attire, fleeing a factory town.

Gothic horror and realistic cruelty, softened by humour and love.

Hope you feel as good as you look, friend.

A baby's mobile with four planes and a dirigible made out of paper and cardboard, clearly designed by a lesbian with perfectionism and other issues.

A baby's mobile with two butterflies, a luna moth, and two dragonflies made out of paper and cardboard, clearly made by a lesbian who has lost none of her perfectionism and issues since the last time she did this.

Baby Niece finally old enough to move into the bedroom of Bigger Niece, meaning that the mobiles I made for each of them will be united for the first time.

Also, books are v. v. affordable compared to groceries right now.

Weeping at the sheer unadulterated realness.