Laura D

I also did not get my ass kicked this year when historically I have very much gotten my ass kicked (Moderna moreso than Pfizer). Although I'm never getting both C+flu shots on the same day again like I did last year, whew that was rough

It's Banned Books Week and I'm celebrating seeing my first story published in 4 years 🥳📚 I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, because it felt really, really good to write.

Thanks @castofwonders.org for being a source of joy this week.

www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...

My hand holding a rectangular pendant featuring a Mars rover looking up at a helicopter at sunset.

Lil friends on Mars who will soon be wearable after a journey to the fiery depths of the kiln 🔥

Join the newsletter to be notified when they drop. @sciencesocks.bsky.social and I can't wait to share the final results!

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#SciArt #bsnm 🔭

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

episode art for Banned Books week: butterflies emerging from a book's pages.

episode art for Banned Books week: butterflies emerging from a book's pages.

episode art for Banned Books week: butterflies emerging from a book's pages.

episode art for Banned Books week: butterflies emerging from a book's pages.

Coming soon! Our Banned Books Week stories!
#JoyThatSustains
#BannedBooksWeek

Didn't make it into the Women of the Weird West anthology but at least made it into the second round. Takes the sting out of rejection a bit to know someone still enjoyed the story.

Six Companies Control 90% Of Our Media And They All Want You To Watch LiMu Emu Ads Once upon a time, streaming services didn’t have ads. (Once upon an even further time, they mailed you DVD discs! Remember that? I want that model back!) Now they have ads. And still we pay m…

I wrote about our batshit media landscape and all the ads that keep trying to convince us stuff like taking a vitamin or using toilet paper is ✨self care✨ lauraduerr.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/s...

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Anyway have you ever tried screaming into a cat tummy, strongly recommend, I feel better and the cat is just nonplussed

a man sitting in a field with the words we oughta leave this world behind below him Alt: a man (Dary from Letterkenny) sitting in a field with the words "we oughta leave this world behind" below him

Botox ads are out there earnestly saying "women, your forehead wrinkles when you wrinkle it!! stop that!"

and that getting needles poked into your face every month is self-care actually

it's enraging and yet completely in line with Our Current Moment

I wonder how far back you have to go until telling someone that boycotting a company's actions involves cancelling subscriptions at three different, seemingly unrelated companies sounds insane again

4 watercolor paintings in different colors with anti-AI sayings

Okay, people like these, so I painted a few more.
NO AI ONLY BRAIN and USE YOUR OWN BRAIN
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Here’s where cooling centers will open in all 3 Portland-area counties Friday Soaring temps Friday prompt Portland area counties to offer cooling centers for some relief from the heat.

Portland, OR, metro area folks, please keep an eye out for people who need help during this extended heat wave. If you're out and about, stick a couple of extra bottles of water in your tote bag and hand them to people who need them.

Here's a list of cooling centers with day and night hours.

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

Ooh yay fun! I'm here: www.etsy.com/shop/TheEmbr...

An unfinished cross stitch depicting a D20 that rolled a 1, a half complete wizard's staff, part of a mushroom cap, and the words "what doesn't" on a banner. Someday it will say "what doesn't kill me gets me more XP."

I like to stitch up my patterns before I put them on Etsy. Unfortunately since I have both crappy hands and ADHD, this pattern won't arrive until shortly before the heat death of the universe.

10/10 would tutor sullen and withdrawn children and help their mother bury a body here

It's in a county called Litchfield and originally owned by a guy named Romulus so you know it's haunted AF

138 Amenia Road, Sharon, CT 06069 | MLS #24119336 | Zillow This 12057 square feet Single Family home has 9 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. It is located at 138 Amenia Road, Sharon, CT.

For sale, one impeccably photographed moody gothic Gilded Age estate: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

Right, since we're apparently doing "disabled people can't do art without AI" discourse again:

Got adaptive/assistive tech that helps you or someone you know do art/crafts? Drop it in the thread (bonus points if you can say what it's useful for and how much it costs)

At first I thought this said "quilts" but those too!

If your workout aesthetic is also "ride to ruin and the world's ending," my favorite (okay only) realistic historical armor leggings designer is BACK @loricaclothing.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DNZOMYN...

Whether you're running a cafe for three people in your once-inland hometown or trapped on a huge airplane that can never land again, at least your friends are there ✨

And as I finished the third volume yesterday, I was no longer thinking about how unrealistic it felt for the climate apocalypse to feel so gentle, and I thought "I can only hope it happens like this"

(Somehow she can still obtain coffee beans and gasoline, and something happened that means rice is no longer a staple crop, but you're not really supposed to think too hard about those things)

It was already a sad weird story about an android running a cafe that no one visits because it's rural Japan at the end of the world, but it was...nice? She has friends, she makes new connections, she watches sunsets.

I read the first volume of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou 3 years ago at my friend's recommendation. Recently he showed up with all 5 volumes and maybe it's the new stories, maybe it's the world, but it Hits Different Now

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.