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Laura Ruth Loomis
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Social worker by day, space cadet by night. Author of "The Cosmic Turkey" and "The Star-Crossed Pelican." Distantly related to horse thieves. She/her.
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · Oct 13
Technology hates Janet, her misfit crew is out of control, and she's been assigned to a planet that just banned....chocolate?

Welcome to the Cosmic Turkey.

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Cosmic Turkey
Cosmic Turkey, science fiction comedy
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*drinking buddies
January 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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SHIFT WORK The snow is soft and pushed into drifts. A van pulls up with men in black masks ¬— never alone, they bully in shifts. Guns make them bold, hands on their hips; the clouds of pepper and tear gas leave citizens blind, pushed into drifts. Frozen fingers let placards slip but phones are ready to photograph the next assault — working in shifts we follow the Icemen and bear witness when friends and neighbours are kidnapped, pushed into snow, pulled into drifts. If one of us wearies, needs to sit and warm iced feet, no need to ask — others step up, we take it in shifts. It’s scary now, but we'll persist and hold each other; under attack our hearts still beat, pushed into drifts but not alone. Resisting in shifts. ¬¬ NJ Hynes 16 Jan 2026
January 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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The Screaming Void seems like an understandable choice of baby name.
January 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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"My girlfriend said I was inattentive and unromantic, never making her feel special. So I sent her a #heartfelt apology, and she broke up with me!"

"What did the apology say?"

"Chatbot, please compose a heartfelt -"

"I think I see your problem."

#vss365
January 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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"The managers were threatening to fire me anyway.”

“They caught you adding unnecessary features to the equipment again?”

“Depends on what you mean by ‘unnecessary.’ The portable snack synthesizer came in handy when I got hungry on the night shift.”

-The Cosmic Turkey
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#WIPSnips | manager

From Chapter 5 of The Stardust of Failure, in which a book on Sigma S Star comes out and Jeanette doesn't like it.
January 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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a laughing smiley face with tears coming out of its eyes says lol you did this
Alt: a laughing smiley face with tears coming out of its eyes says lol you did this
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January 15, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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A bored-looking Venusian woman looked me up and down but didn’t bother to comment on my presence as she fiddled with the blinking lights on the arm of a large captain’s chair in the center.

My chair. Which she was currently occupying.

-The Cosmic Turkey
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January 15, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Book 4 for 2026: "The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue" by Mackenzi Lee.

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #The52BookClub #BooklistQueenChallenge

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Book 4 for 2026: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
been  The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue , by Mackenzi Lee. There are unlikeable narrators, and then there's Henry "Monty" Montague. It's the early 1700s, and Monty, the 18-year-old son of an...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Naked Came the Manatee
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January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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By now, it was almost a reflex for us to hide behind the trees. Exalted Leader appeared with a unit of Plutonian guards. He was wearing even more medals than the day we’d met him, including one shaped like a coffee pot with a slash through it.

-The Cosmic Turkey
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January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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But if you do it right, you'll be a hero, and maybe even earn some bread.
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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“About the peace conference. I’ve got a couple of concerns.”

“Like the fact that the participants are already shooting at each other?”

“No, that always happens. We’ll probably have fistfights and tentacle-fights before the second day."

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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I elbowed my way through the crowd: big-eyed Mercurians with cone-shaped ears, tentacled Uranians, Venusians glowing with their mysterious inner light. And I, Janet Delane, one undersized human, squeezing my way between two gigantic Alpha Centaurians as I inched closer.

-The Cosmic Turkey
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January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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After 2 weeks of no activity, 3 books were gone from my #LittleFreeLibrary this morning. I get positively giddy when I know it's being used.
A blue "little free library" box, filled with books.
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Text: when anyone asks me if l've seen any good movies? The characters from MST3K
January 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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If you see this, post an archer.
January 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Book 3 for 2026: "Lysistrata," by Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker.

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #52BookClubChallenge #BooklistQueenChallenge

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Lysistrata , by Aristophanes (translated by Douglass Parker) . Humor is difficult to translate, from another language or another era. Fortunately, this play is about the funniest possible subject:...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Today’s snip from my #HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #FanFic, where Marvin reflects on part of his thirteen billion year (give or take a few million years) time away from the others …

#TheBestBangSinceTheBigOne
“Is that my rifle? I’ve grown quite attached to it.” Marvin fixed his gaze on Arthur. “Do you know what the worst part of waiting for thirteen-and-a-half billion years is? Go on. You’ll never guess.” “The waiting?” Offered Arthur. “That’s just great. Even the monkey is clever now.” His shoulders sagged. “I stopped being depressed around the eight billion year mark. I tried … happiness. For four thousand years, I looked at the universe with a fresh perspective. Saw hope in the darkest places. Completed the galaxy’s most complicated jigsaw puzzle. I was … content.” “What happened?” Arthur’s voice became a whisper of incredulity, mixed with morbid curiosity. “I hated it. Life, it turns out, is, in fact, awful.” He began to trudge down the ramp, unsteadily. “The picture on the jigsaw box looked nothing like the completed puzzle. That’s when I knew.” “Knew what?” Said Trillian with bates breath. “That the universe was created simply to annoy me.” At the bottom of the ramp, Marvin pointed at the gathered Gleps. “They get it. The cosmic joke. I suppose I should have expected it. Ha, ha, ha.” “Ha! Ha! Ha!” Repeated the Gleps, currently trying very hard to use their heads to bury themselves.
January 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Pratchett is amazing, every time.
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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With ‘Revels End’ rapidly nearing it’s posting conclusion, I’ve been editing the next story to get posted and almost certainly not read.

‘The Body Politic’.

A pinch of ‘Yes, Minister’, a dash of ‘The Walking Dead’ and a heaped spoonful of ‘Discworld’.

Politics is a cutthroat game …
‘The Body Politic’ cover. Politics is a cutthroat game, but when you're dead, it doesn't matter what they cut. And it is a dirty game, filled with the kind of people that think nothing of ruining an opponent's life, but few go so far as throwing their counterparts through windows. When Balmy Bymeadow is improbably murdered, his son, Myld, is forced to carry on his father's legacy, but, in order to do so, he must take the unprecedented course of keeping his dead father around. Aided by Finella, a uniquely talented taxidermist, her sister, Flinda, a self-appointed Fairly Gods-Mother, and Phibber Monkshot, a wily and incredibly competent civil servant, in his corner, Myld must navigate the torrid waters of politics, deal with his surprisingly mobile dead father, avoid several near-death experiences and learn what it requires to get elected in a city where politics is quite literally a life or death struggle. With a pinch of 'Yes, Minister', a dash of 'The Walking Dead', and a heaped spoonful of 'Discworld'.
January 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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“The alarm is…” He double checked his readings. “…already off.”

Frink reached for the handle, and the door opened before he got out his lockpicks.

I squinted down into the darkness. “This feels too easy.”

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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“A lock that Frink can’t pick,” I mused. “And with the planar recombobulator, we’ve got a technology problem that Martian can’t solve. This isn’t shaping up well.”

“If we find a machine you can’t break,” Martian said, “we’re really in trouble.”

-The Cosmic Turkey
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January 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Book 2 for 2026: "Orwell's Roses" by Rebecca Solnit. Part biography, part essay collection, maybe just beyond genre.

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Book 2 for 2026: Orwell's Roses
Orwell's Roses, by Rebecca Solnit. This book is hard to describe. My library shelved it as a biography. Some critics called it an essay collection. Elsewhere, Solnit noted approvingly that one critic....
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January 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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I hear that if you aren't finding time to read the books on your desk and nightstand that you already desperately want to read ... it will make you feel better if you simply buy other ones.

You're welcome.
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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I'm reading "We Will Be Shelter" now. In addition to poems about social justice, each poet's bio has information about a social justice organization readers can support.
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM