Fran Lawrence
@franjlawrence.bsky.social
News junkie and former journo turned comms strategist. Recovering optimist.
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Microdosing retirement by taking 16 hours off of work per day
July 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Microdosing retirement by taking 16 hours off of work per day
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Don’t send “utilize” to do a job that “use” can do just as well.
May 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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![@ChuckWendig honestly do you blame it
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
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Bloody hell, how bad was this meeting?
May 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Bloody hell, how bad was this meeting?
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Spare a thought for the election data interactives people who spent weeks/months on tools for people to dissect/predict etc and then it's all just a torrent of "they're so fucked" and the only thing people are reading are "well you gotta go back to 1929 to see a whipping this brutal"
May 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Spare a thought for the election data interactives people who spent weeks/months on tools for people to dissect/predict etc and then it's all just a torrent of "they're so fucked" and the only thing people are reading are "well you gotta go back to 1929 to see a whipping this brutal"
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Speaking as a Westralian… so proud.
March 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Speaking as a Westralian… so proud.
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
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Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
February 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us.
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Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.
Me, 20 years later: fuck
Me, 20 years later: fuck
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.
Me, 20 years later: fuck
Me, 20 years later: fuck
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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
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A rare capture of an off-duty statue, using their downtime to catch up on some reading 😱👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This is the Last of the Spartans by Gaetano Trentanove, 1892, at @milwaukeeart.bsky.social 😁
This is the Last of the Spartans by Gaetano Trentanove, 1892, at @milwaukeeart.bsky.social 😁
February 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A rare capture of an off-duty statue, using their downtime to catch up on some reading 😱👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
This is the Last of the Spartans by Gaetano Trentanove, 1892, at @milwaukeeart.bsky.social 😁
This is the Last of the Spartans by Gaetano Trentanove, 1892, at @milwaukeeart.bsky.social 😁
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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
Truth 👇🏻
people love to upload PDFs and share them with the world but never delete them, so that 10 years later Google searches for what's happening in 2025 are obliterated with We're so excited to share le summer 2019 programme
February 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Truth 👇🏻
Hats off.
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
February 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hats off.
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Can't even suck the monkey any more, the world's gone mad.
January 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Can't even suck the monkey any more, the world's gone mad.
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This is Aldo. He is a good boy. But also... a bad boy. 13/10
January 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is Aldo. He is a good boy. But also... a bad boy. 13/10
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ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
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that cursed man that hates his country,
A branded villain.
A branded villain.
January 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
that cursed man that hates his country,
A branded villain.
A branded villain.