Loather
@loather.bsky.social
I am not, nor have I ever been, a Las Vegas showgirl.
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I am a headliner!
I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/
I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather
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Loather
@loather.bsky.social
· Feb 7
love, the nailbiter
This newsletter is sometimes about work, and sometimes about libraries, and also sometimes about writing, and also sometimes about music, and there is sometimes politics yelling. Love, the nailbiter...
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I’m setting up a newsletter on @buttondown.com. I would like to do more long form writing and I don’t have the capacity for pitching. There are gonna be some essays about bad management and about writing and about my load bearing grudges. It’s called love, the nailbiter. buttondown.com/loather
him: what are you thinking about?
me: the mount st helens eruption movie Christopher Nolan should make
me: the mount st helens eruption movie Christopher Nolan should make
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
him: what are you thinking about?
me: the mount st helens eruption movie Christopher Nolan should make
me: the mount st helens eruption movie Christopher Nolan should make
For no particular reason at all, I think there is a lot about the resistance to apartheid from within SA that is worth people taking a look at
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For no particular reason at all, I think there is a lot about the resistance to apartheid from within SA that is worth people taking a look at
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“Post pictures of yourself in 2016!” No. Shan‘t
January 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM
“Post pictures of yourself in 2016!” No. Shan‘t
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Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE kidnapping and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...
Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE kidnapping and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...
Learn more: www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-arou...
Unsourced, unverified information that makes democrats look bad, to bluesky:
a man in a tuxedo holds two bottles of milk in his hands
ALT: a man in a tuxedo holds two bottles of milk in his hands
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Unsourced, unverified information that makes democrats look bad, to bluesky:
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the main store i wholesale to stopped using sticker mule entirely, fortunately. i believe they switched to sticker invasion. i’ve also heard good things about death by stickers and stickerapp.
The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
the main store i wholesale to stopped using sticker mule entirely, fortunately. i believe they switched to sticker invasion. i’ve also heard good things about death by stickers and stickerapp.
I understand why people want to hate on Newsom as a potential 2028 nominee but I can’t get too worked up over him because no way he becomes the nominee. Forget that most Americans think he is a reptilian (correct), the democratic party itself hates his guts, too.
January 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I understand why people want to hate on Newsom as a potential 2028 nominee but I can’t get too worked up over him because no way he becomes the nominee. Forget that most Americans think he is a reptilian (correct), the democratic party itself hates his guts, too.
I honestly didn’t realize what it was at first (after the Butler incident my thought was this would be a similar video of something survivable) and that was a mistake. It was instantly pretty clear it was not like Butler.
maybe it wasn't such a good idea for everyone in the country to watch video of a guy getting shot to death fifteen to twenty times
People still talk about him. Granted its while saying "got kirked" when someone snipes them in Fortnite.
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I honestly didn’t realize what it was at first (after the Butler incident my thought was this would be a similar video of something survivable) and that was a mistake. It was instantly pretty clear it was not like Butler.
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This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
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Related: the only people who can afford to hang out in front of the abortion clinic all day, every day are the forced-birthers who are being paid to harass the patients.
The volunteer escorts can only afford to cover shifts once a week for a couple of hours.
The volunteer escorts can only afford to cover shifts once a week for a couple of hours.
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Related: the only people who can afford to hang out in front of the abortion clinic all day, every day are the forced-birthers who are being paid to harass the patients.
The volunteer escorts can only afford to cover shifts once a week for a couple of hours.
The volunteer escorts can only afford to cover shifts once a week for a couple of hours.
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People file into the bar and start drinking at 10 am in Nisswa, and *we’re* the degenerates?
January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
People file into the bar and start drinking at 10 am in Nisswa, and *we’re* the degenerates?
Deploys ”fuck” like virtuoso.
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Deploys ”fuck” like virtuoso.
I’m just the child of an adoptee. But I am so fucking heated from the CA senate health committee hearing where they prioritized completely hypothetical birth moms over the needs and wants of the adoptees and REAL birth moms in front of them. Among them a literal 80 year old man. What the fuuuuck
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 AM
I’m just the child of an adoptee. But I am so fucking heated from the CA senate health committee hearing where they prioritized completely hypothetical birth moms over the needs and wants of the adoptees and REAL birth moms in front of them. Among them a literal 80 year old man. What the fuuuuck
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Senator Weiner "no matter what we do, some people will end up not being pleased, but here we have an opportunity to do something that will make 100% of adoptees happy and the vast majority of birth parents happy as well"
January 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Senator Weiner "no matter what we do, some people will end up not being pleased, but here we have an opportunity to do something that will make 100% of adoptees happy and the vast majority of birth parents happy as well"
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this kind of anonymity is, as a practical matter, completely gone.
Better to let #adoptees know their parentage via their own records than to force them to find out via the privacy-obliterating expedient of public, online DNA databases.
Better to let #adoptees know their parentage via their own records than to force them to find out via the privacy-obliterating expedient of public, online DNA databases.
The chair said she’s queer in a same-sex relationship. She wants to adopt some day and can’t recommend the bill because she believes there are relinquishing parents who won’t want to be known to their children.
January 14, 2026 at 10:50 PM
this kind of anonymity is, as a practical matter, completely gone.
Better to let #adoptees know their parentage via their own records than to force them to find out via the privacy-obliterating expedient of public, online DNA databases.
Better to let #adoptees know their parentage via their own records than to force them to find out via the privacy-obliterating expedient of public, online DNA databases.
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Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
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now is the time of will stancil
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
now is the time of will stancil
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Like... as an adoptee from California I'm not ALLOWED to see my original birth certificate. The state has decided I can never know who birthed me.
If you're not adopted you have no idea how unmoored that makes a person feel.
If you're not adopted you have no idea how unmoored that makes a person feel.
Frustrating to see #adoption myths regurgitated.
My original birth certificate is locked away in some dingy file cabinet somewhere, and I will never be able to see it unless elected officials in my state change the laws.
And yes. You read that right. I have a falsified birth certificate.
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My original birth certificate is locked away in some dingy file cabinet somewhere, and I will never be able to see it unless elected officials in my state change the laws.
And yes. You read that right. I have a falsified birth certificate.
🥚
i need everyone to understand that birthparents CANNOT unseal their children’s birth records. At most they can elect not to veto their child’s access—in states with such a veto in place.
In California, only a court order can unseal an adoptee’s birth record. And that is basically never granted. 🥚
In California, only a court order can unseal an adoptee’s birth record. And that is basically never granted. 🥚
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Like... as an adoptee from California I'm not ALLOWED to see my original birth certificate. The state has decided I can never know who birthed me.
If you're not adopted you have no idea how unmoored that makes a person feel.
If you're not adopted you have no idea how unmoored that makes a person feel.
Girls trip to Rapa Nui, we’re going to debate the folly of man
January 14, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Girls trip to Rapa Nui, we’re going to debate the folly of man
My kid talking to another kid: ”I’m visiting the island…I came on a plane…it was six hours.”
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
My kid talking to another kid: ”I’m visiting the island…I came on a plane…it was six hours.”
Seeing these banners all over Maui has really been pissing me off.
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Seeing these banners all over Maui has really been pissing me off.
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damn if only there were some previous indication that this guy was erratic and unreasonable and fundamentally did not value the effort and money of his supporters!!!!
There are 10 billion IVF treatment centers and doctors in the US and they are going to Norway? Doesn’t even make sense, what is happening here?
January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
damn if only there were some previous indication that this guy was erratic and unreasonable and fundamentally did not value the effort and money of his supporters!!!!
IMO, pre-cell phones there was no other way to get the constant input a growing brain required except to read, write/journal/draw, and refresh AOL email 10x a day. Reading pictures? Buddy that’s a lifehack
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
IMO, pre-cell phones there was no other way to get the constant input a growing brain required except to read, write/journal/draw, and refresh AOL email 10x a day. Reading pictures? Buddy that’s a lifehack