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Laurel Lathrop
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Writer: The Plum Queen, forthcoming in 2026 from Random House (US) and Chatto & Windus (UK). She/her.
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My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
laurellathrop.bsky.social
Scientists know that writing is thinking! Do not outsource your thinking to a machine!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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kellylink.bsky.social
Y’all if you write about how you use AI to do the work of writing I am just going to block you and never read your books or think about you again.
June 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City.

Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles.

davidgraeber.org/articles/con...
“If the police decide to attack a group of protesters, they will claim to have been provoked, and the media will repeat whatever the police say, no matter how implausible, as the basic initial facts of what happened. This will happen whether or not anyone at the protest does anything that can be remotely described as violence. Many police claims will be obviously ridiculous but no matter how many times the police lie about such matters, the national media will still report their claims as true, and it will be up to protesters to provide evidence to the contrary. “ . - David Graeber
June 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”

This was their response:
April 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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spocksbrian.worstpossible.world
HOTEL CLERK: and just around the corner we have our eumenides

ME: (chuckling) I think you mean *amenities*

BLACK-WINGED ANGELS SPILLING INTO THE LOBBY: Youuuu have committed a great ssssssin againssst your familyyyy!!

ME: oh damn, wow.
March 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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teenvogue.com
Sharing information is more critical than ever and helping to defend our immigrant communities and neighbors is one clear action that we can all take right now.
How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics
These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.
www.teenvogue.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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cleanairclub.bsky.social
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Bold font that reads, "The pandemic isn't over just because you're over it." Below we can see a graph of wastewater data for Covid from 2020 to the present day, with fluctuating levels. Most of the post 2021 peaks exceed the peaks of 2020 and 2021.
March 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
laurellathrop.bsky.social
So excited to announce that my debut novel is forthcoming in 2026!!
A screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report in the Debut Fiction category. Cornell MFA and Florida State PhD Laurel Lathrop's The Plum Queen, about an older woman looking back on how her life was shaped by three great loves—her childhood best friend, a bohemian female painter, and her classicist husband—and the choices she made to both rebel and conform amid the shifting cultural tides of the 20th century, to Sara Birmingham at Random House, at auction, by Hillary Jacobson at CAA, on behalf of Emma Finn at C&W. Rights also to Molly Slight at Chatto & Windus, by Emma Finn.
March 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM