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Carrie-Edmund Laben
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Debut novel A HAWK IN THE WOODS
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Blurry shot of neonate rats, plus their mom's butt, through cage bars.
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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A pregnant red-eyed marten hooded rat has decided to wedge herself between the cage wall and her hidey hut for some reason.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Aurora FOMO hitting hard.
A night sky that we could maybe pretend has a hint of pink to it but not really. There is one bright star (planet?) and a skein of fluffy clouds though.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Gonna tell the youth that this was Midsommar (2019).
Collins the hairless rat and Cowen the marten hooded rat are sitting on/in a pot of cat grass. The other rats are milling in the background. Oh, and Cowen looks a little bit pregnant.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Or even...
Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano on a beach in Swiss Army Man. Daniel Radcliffe is looking real dead. Paul Dano is looking real bewildered.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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She made a big impression in the time she had, and got to eat some treats. Here she is with Cain, who is two years and seven months old:
A small gray rat and a large gray rat are sleeping butt to butt, making a sort of lopsided valentine heart.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Yay!
Most of the face of a green-haired potato enby with a small red-eyed marten rat sitting on their shoulder. They are smiling to the best of their ability.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Amtrak time!
A Cuban Tody (iridescent green, pink, and white bird with a touch of blue at the throat and a serious expression. The caption says "Good".
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Working on socializing the new kids. Carr - who I find myself generally referring to as Lucien or Lucy - is far and away the more energetic and outgoing. Friendly, too, despite coming from Circumstances.
Lucien Carr the red-eyed marten rat is about to climb my cardigan.
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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No new war, only new rats!

Meet Elise Cowen Rat-Laben (the hooded one) and Lucien Carr Rat-Laben (the solid one), just this morning retrieved from a dire situation - a literal backyard breeder going out of business - in Flushing.
Two you adult female rats, both pink-eyed martens, one solid and one hooded. They are in a carrier that could be cleaner, with some paper towels. The hooded one is up near the front and the solid is lurking in back.
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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RIP Cornell Woolrich Laben-Rat, May 2023-30 October 2025. So much personality, so tightly bounded in time and space.
A black rat posing jauntily with a squint in front of a green moth-pattern backdrop A black rat staring at the camera while sitting on my shoulder and partially covered with my hair.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Sorry To Bother You
A screenshot from Sorry To Bother You showing a group of workers in blue t-shirts, some holding protest signs. A Black man in sunglasses at the front of the group is shouting at someone offscreen.
October 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I slept on it and pondered the 'no dunking' rule but no, I am not at peace with someone coming for Gil Scott-Heron about some Blue Wave shit.
Screengrab of someone called politiburb.bsky.social: "Reminds me of everyone who spent July 1969 shitting on the moon landing because as long as there's societal ills you shouldn't spend money on literally anything else ever." This is a quoteskeet of said politiburb's earlier post: Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history."
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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RIP Vera Caspary Rat-Laben, approx 2 years old, departed this life suddenly sometime between when I left for work this morning and when I went to hand out treats just now. Cause of death unknown but she'd been showing a little hind end weakness the past few days.
Caspary, a silver fawn rex rat, in happier days, sitting on a green cardboard box that once contained wine.
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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We decorated for Halloween
Caspary the silver rex rat with her face and tail just peaking out of a cozy hanging tube with a skull and crossbones pattern...
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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At 18 as a minor character in the Granada TV Sherlock Holmes.
A young Jude Law (and to his left a somewhat older Frank Grimes) in SHOSCOMBE OLD PLACE. Jude is portraying the servant Joe Barnes.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Wilkie Collins, Collins, Peanut, The Wee Baby Peanut, The Wee Baby Collins, Mousie.
Collins the hairless rat sitting on the arm of my office chair, as seen from slightly above.
September 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Life. Don't talk to me about life.
Cain the red-eyed marten rat hangs her head out of her hammock
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Morning star.
Dawn breaks above a low city skyline while the planet Venus hangs out close to the tip of a crescent moon.
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Shortly later, she pulled my glasses off my face, no doubt in an attempt to protect me.
Caspary the silver rex rat climbs towards my face as I lean back with my eyes closed.
September 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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This was what I needed tonight.
Pulp playing Forest Hills Stadium. Jarvis Cocker is posing dramatically on some steps in front of a glittery silver backdrop with pops of green and purple light.
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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They're actively dishonoring Kirk's own wishes by doing so:
A Newsweek headline from Feb 24 2024: Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Not like this certified brain genius who thinks she's fooling me by dropping her treat and pretending she never got one.
The Wee Baby Collins (a hairless rat) sits on the arm of my chair. In the background, some disorderly stacks of books.
September 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Something old, something new, something bookhaul, something... yellow?

With @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social, and (for reasons) @wordsandmusic.bsky.social
Paperback copies of Carmilla, Vampires of El Norte, and A Game in Yellow on my futon. Collins the hairless rat is posing with them in front of a pair of throw pillows - one features a take on a Sacred Heart image with the Plague Doctor from Darkest Dungeon instead of the Blessed Virgin, and one has the names of Montana ski resorts.
September 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Nor a trivial line either... I finally reached the storefront...
A shop window w/The Twisted Spine in gold lettering. There are people clustered outside.
September 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM