Lauren

Thank you darlin 💕💕

A photo from inside a classroom of curtained windows and a bookshelf

A photo of a teddy bear on a bed with a University of Cambridge bow

First week at Cambridge is in the books ❤️🎉

If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Our mini-drive has 14 hours left and shares are so appreciated!

This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza.

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza.

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Beautiful duck with iridescent wings in green water

Same duck preening

If you see this duck it’s a fuckin miracle, your luck will change, fortune will smile, this is a duck Bluesky doesn’t want you to see.

Trying to edit poetry tonight is certainly an Exercise

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

I'm so tired of concepts having more rights and protections than me, a living flesh person

Lord alive, they want fictional characters in fictional sexual situations to model consent for literal adults like a patronizing early 2020’s sitcom where the point of the writing is to convey that the writer’s been to therapy at some point

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

south node Virgo eclipse opposing Saturn in Pisces indeed

Difficult to feel like it’s safe to write without heavily self-censoring at the moment, which I am of course thinking about a lot on the eve of my creative writing masters program

and really, I do not believe that everyone needs to "get weirder now," or that everyone needs to "make more nsfw," etc. what I do believe, however, is that everyone should look to those already making that work and sit in dialogue with them. support their work, substantiate their humanity.

platforms for accidentally lingering too long within a fraught topic and losing my livelihood over it is not worth the risk of the full exploration of anybodys artistic vision. unless it's the kind of state enforced sexless hyper-violence we're all inundated with 24/7, that stuff is a-ok

i like to depict intense, broody, emotionally & physically fraught eroticism in my work, a lot of which if it happened in the real world would be dangerous or unhealthy. ppl say my work is daring, but you see the chickenshit versions of it because the risk of getting banned from -

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

pivoting to normal & good stories about brave soldiers of the mighty west getting heroically blown up to bits in 4k by the scary oriental other after depicting run of the mill power play bdsm is banned everywhere for being too frighteningly sickening a depiction of the worst parts of human nature

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER
Do you like art on the site?
Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform.
Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

Tiny aqualium #invertebrates

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kamal. Kamal has helped so many people I know in Gaza but never asked for my help before. He had a few careers before this including a tailor and a solar power tech. He’s helping his siblings including Aliaa, 25, Yasmin, 15 and Mohammad, 12.

Everything is very heavy, extremely heavy on me, endless responsibilities in this ap hard times, I appreciate every single support I appreciate every repost. In this time on my life I supposed to be software engineer and endless ambitions but this world just unfair

The pigeons and crows here are in a different font than back home

A photo of a bunch of brown and white cows under a tree

Have been less online as I’m busy befriending the Cambridge cows

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Luna-Terra and Pluto stickers have finally hit my shop! There are significantly more LTs than Plutos so act fast 💨
maxds.bigcartel.com

please do not use these tools. please do not do this to people.

A teen contemplating suicide turned to a chatbot. Is it liable for her death? A lawsuit filed by the parents of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta against Character AI is the latest to allege a chatbot contributed to a teen’s death by suicide.

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta

This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...