Carrie-Edmund Laben
@carrielaben.com
Debut novel A HAWK IN THE WOODS
English: http://tinyurl.com/y7epmxhf
Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/4k5647nu
They/them
English: http://tinyurl.com/y7epmxhf
Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/4k5647nu
They/them
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Hey it's me, the British New Atheist who doesn't believe in a magic sky daddy because there's no evidence, and does believe that sexes are pre-given categories and that they're immutable because of the telos of the body, which is definitely not a creationist-adjacent belief honest.
December 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey it's me, the British New Atheist who doesn't believe in a magic sky daddy because there's no evidence, and does believe that sexes are pre-given categories and that they're immutable because of the telos of the body, which is definitely not a creationist-adjacent belief honest.
Chuk can't tell the baby rats apart by markings but he can tell them apart by personality and has dubbed one of them "Curiousity, Inc." which is honestly so good I might keep it.
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Chuk can't tell the baby rats apart by markings but he can tell them apart by personality and has dubbed one of them "Curiousity, Inc." which is honestly so good I might keep it.
My father has finally achieved his true calling as Anarchist Dad.
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My father has finally achieved his true calling as Anarchist Dad.
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sabres actually did a pride logo and it FUCKS, for you crest lovers
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
sabres actually did a pride logo and it FUCKS, for you crest lovers
Tiny Birding Nephew continues to amaze.
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Tiny Birding Nephew continues to amaze.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed is just 17 years old he told me he was really good at math but he hasn’t been able to study since the war began because the schools in tents are too far away. His family owned a grocery store but it and their home was destroyed.
December 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed is just 17 years old he told me he was really good at math but he hasn’t been able to study since the war began because the schools in tents are too far away. His family owned a grocery store but it and their home was destroyed.
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Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Rest in Power, Mohammad Bakri (1953-2025) -- Palestinian filmmaker, legendary actor, and director of the crucial documentary 'Jenin, Jenin' (2002) about the Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians at the Jenin Refugee Camp. 💔🎞️
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/h...
Palestinian Actor and Filmmaker Mohammad Bakri Dies at 72
The acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri died at 72 in northern Israel on Christmas Eve. He appeared in more than 40 films and directed documentaries highlighting the experiences o...
www.democracynow.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Rest in Power, Mohammad Bakri (1953-2025) -- Palestinian filmmaker, legendary actor, and director of the crucial documentary 'Jenin, Jenin' (2002) about the Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians at the Jenin Refugee Camp. 💔🎞️
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/29/h...
If y'all don't hear from me for a while it's because 70 mph gusts of wind end up > 100 year old farmhouse and I'm about to star in Wicked 3: Can We Get Todrick Hall In Here?
December 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If y'all don't hear from me for a while it's because 70 mph gusts of wind end up > 100 year old farmhouse and I'm about to star in Wicked 3: Can We Get Todrick Hall In Here?
Let's do it!
this seems fun.
1 like = 1 goal for 2026
1 like = 1 goal for 2026
Ok. It's 3am. I'm waiting for girl dig to be ready to sleep again. So let's play a game.
1 like = 1 plan for 2026
I'll get increasingly improbable and optiministic as we go.
1 like = 1 plan for 2026
I'll get increasingly improbable and optiministic as we go.
December 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Let's do it!
There are enough commonalities in the emotions of humans all the way back to prehistory that dogs evolved eyebrows about it.
December 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There are enough commonalities in the emotions of humans all the way back to prehistory that dogs evolved eyebrows about it.
I also have a story in this one - "Face Like a Monkey", about a terror bird!
Haunted Legends (edited by @nmamatas.bsky.social and Ellen Datlow) is on sale for $1.99! It’s a really cool collection of “true” ghost stories, including my “Tin Cans” that features the ghost of Beria. You should buy it!
Haunted Legends
<div><b>A Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world.</b><br><br> Wherever you’re from, there are local stories of ghos
openroadmedia.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I also have a story in this one - "Face Like a Monkey", about a terror bird!
I like what Well There's Your Problem does with their videos (pictures and diagrams of the topic being discussed, not images of the hosts) but I still consider a 'podcast' on Youtube less a podcast and more a type of indie documentary.
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I like what Well There's Your Problem does with their videos (pictures and diagrams of the topic being discussed, not images of the hosts) but I still consider a 'podcast' on Youtube less a podcast and more a type of indie documentary.
Ok this has to be one of the top 5 unfortunate uses of random quotation marks in history:
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Ok this has to be one of the top 5 unfortunate uses of random quotation marks in history:
Chuk has finally seen K-Pop Demon Hunters and: "I NEED A WHOLE SERIES ABOUT BIRD CAT AND HAT. NOW."
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Chuk has finally seen K-Pop Demon Hunters and: "I NEED A WHOLE SERIES ABOUT BIRD CAT AND HAT. NOW."
When I was a kid my family would play a game where we'd take turns opening A Light In the Attic or Where the Sidewalk Ends at random and giving the best dramatic reading we could.
It did a lot to prepare me for life.
It did a lot to prepare me for life.
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When I was a kid my family would play a game where we'd take turns opening A Light In the Attic or Where the Sidewalk Ends at random and giving the best dramatic reading we could.
It did a lot to prepare me for life.
It did a lot to prepare me for life.
Someone writes this damn article at least once every three years, apparently in the hope that due to the infinite variety of human experience it will finally be true for one dude somewhere someday.
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Someone writes this damn article at least once every three years, apparently in the hope that due to the infinite variety of human experience it will finally be true for one dude somewhere someday.
On the first day of Christmas, @wordsandmusic.bsky.social gave to me...
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
On the first day of Christmas, @wordsandmusic.bsky.social gave to me...
The most obnoxious Redditors --> thinking people will go no contact just because they're told to by Reddit <-- the people who are most deservedly cut off
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The most obnoxious Redditors --> thinking people will go no contact just because they're told to by Reddit <-- the people who are most deservedly cut off
...and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but did have to be covered in coconut oil...
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
...and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but did have to be covered in coconut oil...
Discourse in Real Life: My mom dislikes the Claymation Rudolph because of the sexism and bullying and my dad dislikes It's a Wonderful Life because they make a banker a hero. We all find Home Alone creepy and annoying. All we got left over here is Emmett Otter.
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Discourse in Real Life: My mom dislikes the Claymation Rudolph because of the sexism and bullying and my dad dislikes It's a Wonderful Life because they make a banker a hero. We all find Home Alone creepy and annoying. All we got left over here is Emmett Otter.
"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long"
#ghostadvent, 27th and final night of 2025: Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 1, but all of it really) by @shakespeare.lol
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long"
#ghostadvent, 27th and final night of 2025: Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 1, but all of it really) by @shakespeare.lol
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long"
#ghostadvent, 27th and final night of 2025: Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 1, but all of it really) by @shakespeare.lol
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long"
#ghostadvent, 27th and final night of 2025: Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 1, but all of it really) by @shakespeare.lol
I wonder to what degree the clearly Satanic Panic coded "the president fed a baby to an alligator" type allegations are (as they were during the Satanic Panic) hyper-literalized emotional reactions to the fact that the system requires us all to watch people get systemically discarded every day.
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I wonder to what degree the clearly Satanic Panic coded "the president fed a baby to an alligator" type allegations are (as they were during the Satanic Panic) hyper-literalized emotional reactions to the fact that the system requires us all to watch people get systemically discarded every day.
"Born to raise the sons of Earth/born to give them second birth"
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Born to raise the sons of Earth/born to give them second birth"