Laura Rock Gaughan
@laurairock.bsky.social
Reading, writing, walking in Ontar-i-air-i-air-io (Can-Am). Author of a short story collection (MOTHERISH), essays & more TK. She/her
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
"Doubt is the friend." Beautiful reminder from @shawnalemay.bsky.social
This is my one day this week to slow down, unhook from digital life, have a make music, play with words day. And of course, @shawnalemay.bsky.social showed up to set the tone I needed. Of course she did.
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Live Like an Artist: On Making Art Anyway — Transactions with Beauty
— Let us begin with the comedy of artistic doubt. Granted, I have been trying to return from 8 hours into the future (jet lag), but this past week I have been in a state of artistic doubt. It’s nothin...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Doubt is the friend." Beautiful reminder from @shawnalemay.bsky.social
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finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Well, they already had a *rump problem, being massive donors to his campaigns. I gave up HD quite a while ago.
“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
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@bloomberg.com $HD
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Well, they already had a *rump problem, being massive donors to his campaigns. I gave up HD quite a while ago.
Gift link: Media outlets win motion for Ontario court to hear OpenAI lawsuit
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Gift link: Media outlets win motion for Ontario court to hear OpenAI lawsuit
Hahaha sure I have an extra kidney hanging around, let's monetize it
A fine example of "AI doesn't know anything, it just picks a statistically good fit for the next word/sentence, with no memory of the previous one." So this one forgets it's supposed to be shilling for pay-us-for-reviews and pivots HARD in another direction.
The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hahaha sure I have an extra kidney hanging around, let's monetize it
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I wrote a thing, and I'm quite proud of it, if I do say so myself. My thoughts on where a poem begins, randomness, surprising yourself in a poem, strangeness, and more. Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this fantastic series on where (and how) a poem begins.
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin / @lisarichter.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin
How does a poem begin? A few weeks ago, I was on the escalator in the subway on my way home from the library. In front of me the...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wrote a thing, and I'm quite proud of it, if I do say so myself. My thoughts on where a poem begins, randomness, surprising yourself in a poem, strangeness, and more. Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this fantastic series on where (and how) a poem begins.
*Do you understand the assignment* 🔥
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
*Do you understand the assignment* 🔥
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This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.
Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian
Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.
Dizzying diplomacy [gift link]
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U.S. ambassador profanely scolds Ontario representative over anti-tariff ad, sources say
Pete Hoekstra used expletives in loud dressing-down in front of hundreds at Ottawa gala
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October 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Dizzying diplomacy [gift link]
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
I couldn't love her more
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I couldn't love her more
lolol
Doug Ford: master of psyops
WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?
BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops
BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
lolol
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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
*what was it all for*
—daily mantra of person who spent 8 years as trade policy wonk, deep in NAFTA trenches^
[me, the person was me]
^ for a USG that's now unrecognizable
—daily mantra of person who spent 8 years as trade policy wonk, deep in NAFTA trenches^
[me, the person was me]
^ for a USG that's now unrecognizable
Today in "Wildly illegal trade policy that violates both US domestic law & multiple international treaties, including the USMCA and the WTO, both of which apply to 🇺🇸-🇨🇦 trade relations, except for this One Special Boy because we have stopped being a serious country where anything matters"
October 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
*what was it all for*
—daily mantra of person who spent 8 years as trade policy wonk, deep in NAFTA trenches^
[me, the person was me]
^ for a USG that's now unrecognizable
—daily mantra of person who spent 8 years as trade policy wonk, deep in NAFTA trenches^
[me, the person was me]
^ for a USG that's now unrecognizable
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Today in "Wildly illegal trade policy that violates both US domestic law & multiple international treaties, including the USMCA and the WTO, both of which apply to 🇺🇸-🇨🇦 trade relations, except for this One Special Boy because we have stopped being a serious country where anything matters"
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Today in "Wildly illegal trade policy that violates both US domestic law & multiple international treaties, including the USMCA and the WTO, both of which apply to 🇺🇸-🇨🇦 trade relations, except for this One Special Boy because we have stopped being a serious country where anything matters"
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you, Chicago.
Saving us all some $$$ I hope, since the whack reaction from you know who ensures many millions will see the ad for free now
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Saving us all some $$$ I hope, since the whack reaction from you know who ensures many millions will see the ad for free now
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Poets! Oncreativewriting.com will launch its first poetry competition next week! Judges will be poets @kimmannix.bsky.social , Professor Rob Winger, and me. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social are the generous sponsors! So grateful for their support. 🙏 Details soon.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Poets! Oncreativewriting.com will launch its first poetry competition next week! Judges will be poets @kimmannix.bsky.social , Professor Rob Winger, and me. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social are the generous sponsors! So grateful for their support. 🙏 Details soon.
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
small sampling of the wonderful signs at #NoKings in #Watertown NY this morning. 217 ppl was the count I heard, then more folks showed up. Heartening to hear so many honking horns in this red district. @indivisible.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
small sampling of the wonderful signs at #NoKings in #Watertown NY this morning. 217 ppl was the count I heard, then more folks showed up. Heartening to hear so many honking horns in this red district. @indivisible.org
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Land of the free
The State Department announced Tuesday it has revoked at least six visas from foreign nationals after they made comments about Kirk in the wake of the far-right youth leader’s assassination. trib.al/PEF4WPl
Trump Is Kicking People Out of the Country for Insulting Charlie Kirk
Donald Trump has revoked at least six visas over the late far-right commentator.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Land of the free