Lauren Karcz
@laurenkarcz.bsky.social
YA author, mom, insomniac, short story writer, occasional baker. Broadway fan and Stevie Nicks devotee. She / her
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Lauren Karcz
@laurenkarcz.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees Shayla Frandsen, @esmepromise.bsky.social, @laurenkarcz.bsky.social, H.J. Shepard, Banchiwosen Woldeyesus, and Karen Kao! Much success to you all from the SmokeLong team!
I was so very pleasantly surprised to get my first Pushcart nomination! Thanks, SmokeLong Quarterly!
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
The way everyone seems to be quitting socials and running back to newsletters and established friend groups feels necessary, I guess, but also kinda depressing.
May 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The way everyone seems to be quitting socials and running back to newsletters and established friend groups feels necessary, I guess, but also kinda depressing.
I've heard more about IQ more in the last 6 months than in the rest of my whole damn life. Get me out of this 1958-style discourse.
April 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've heard more about IQ more in the last 6 months than in the rest of my whole damn life. Get me out of this 1958-style discourse.
Chronic illness groups are teeming with people who won’t use sunscreen but who will ingest 20 or 30 different unregulated supplements every day!
I'm in pretty deep with the study of far right culture, but I didn't know until today about the anti-sunscreen-to-fascism pipeline.
April 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Chronic illness groups are teeming with people who won’t use sunscreen but who will ingest 20 or 30 different unregulated supplements every day!
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Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
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April 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/
#BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚
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#BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚
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my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up
Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.
Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops
The move is another setback for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made culture war issues a major part of his role.
www.politico.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up
Not even 9am and I’ve found the creepiest Reddit post of the day. Just be kinder to AI, y’all!
April 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Not even 9am and I’ve found the creepiest Reddit post of the day. Just be kinder to AI, y’all!
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Flav out here on a goddamn heater tonight
April 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Flav out here on a goddamn heater tonight
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April 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
AI / LLMs continue to be the hill I will fucking die on. I feel like I need to say this bc I see more and more ppl incorporating the tech into their lives. No, I don’t think it’s “cute” that ChatGPT gives you “better advice and motivation” than your friends. Get better friends.
April 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
AI / LLMs continue to be the hill I will fucking die on. I feel like I need to say this bc I see more and more ppl incorporating the tech into their lives. No, I don’t think it’s “cute” that ChatGPT gives you “better advice and motivation” than your friends. Get better friends.
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JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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It's hard to articulate why, but Blue Origin is 2025's equivalent of Gal Gadot singing "Imagine"
I’ve long said space is none of my damn business and the Blue Origin stunt has only solidified my resolve.
April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's hard to articulate why, but Blue Origin is 2025's equivalent of Gal Gadot singing "Imagine"
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May I suggest that the reason why people felt like they, personally, are doing bad even when the stock market was good is because every few years we deliberately torch an entire employment sector and everyone who worked there has to migrate to a new career and start over from scratch
us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
May I suggest that the reason why people felt like they, personally, are doing bad even when the stock market was good is because every few years we deliberately torch an entire employment sector and everyone who worked there has to migrate to a new career and start over from scratch
Oh no. I’m riveted. Birdies’ lunchtime.
April 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Oh no. I’m riveted. Birdies’ lunchtime.
There is a fresh nest of baby birds right outside my living room window, and I’m torn between wanting to watch them and not wanting to have one more thing to be terrified about.
April 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
There is a fresh nest of baby birds right outside my living room window, and I’m torn between wanting to watch them and not wanting to have one more thing to be terrified about.
I'm sure this is a very basic opinion, but man, listening to Pete Buttigieg talk about politics regulates my nervous system. Competency p*rn at its finest.
April 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I'm sure this is a very basic opinion, but man, listening to Pete Buttigieg talk about politics regulates my nervous system. Competency p*rn at its finest.
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That's one thing I'm resting on. We are a global society. They will never be able to eradicate any aspect of knowledge the way they imagine they can.
I went to NZ and met a scholar who had written her master's thesis of Whoopi Goldberg's comedy. There is a Langsron Hughes society in Japan.
I went to NZ and met a scholar who had written her master's thesis of Whoopi Goldberg's comedy. There is a Langsron Hughes society in Japan.
Don't worry, scientists thrive on sharing knowledge. It might be gone from the US for a while, but there's literally thousands of servers and millions of people that are keeping up with the research all over the globe.
Smart people love "Don't Read This" signs.
They have to figure out why not.
Smart people love "Don't Read This" signs.
They have to figure out why not.
April 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
That's one thing I'm resting on. We are a global society. They will never be able to eradicate any aspect of knowledge the way they imagine they can.
I went to NZ and met a scholar who had written her master's thesis of Whoopi Goldberg's comedy. There is a Langsron Hughes society in Japan.
I went to NZ and met a scholar who had written her master's thesis of Whoopi Goldberg's comedy. There is a Langsron Hughes society in Japan.
… While also being told by Men Of The Internet that my job is useless and I don’t actually do anything!
you’re not burnt out. you’re just doing five people’s jobs for one person’s salary while smiling on Zoom.
April 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
… While also being told by Men Of The Internet that my job is useless and I don’t actually do anything!
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”
April 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”
Am I still going to be forced out of my email job to go work at the sock factory, or what.
April 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Am I still going to be forced out of my email job to go work at the sock factory, or what.