Laura Slack 🪰
@laurakickpants.bsky.social
💊 even absurdists get the blues
☀️ queer presbyterian manic pixie dream crone
🪐 near charlottesville, virginia, usa
☀️ queer presbyterian manic pixie dream crone
🪐 near charlottesville, virginia, usa
Pinned
ICYMI, fuck this noise. 🏳️⚧️
September 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
ICYMI, fuck this noise. 🏳️⚧️
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
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that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror
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Finally, a retirement plan I can afford
“Eating one hot dog and bun results in the loss of 27-36 minutes of healthy life.” www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/h...
July 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Finally, a retirement plan I can afford
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A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"
COLLINS: Have you called Tim Walz yet?
TRUMP: I don't really call him. He appointed this guy to a position. I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him ... he's a mess.
TRUMP: I don't really call him. He appointed this guy to a position. I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him ... he's a mess.
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A decade later I still don't understand how the response to stuff like this isn't "What the hell is wrong with you?"
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.
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FFS I got death threats about making Optimus Prime the wrong kind of truck when I wrote the TRANSFORMERS movie. Do the job or get out of the way.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
FFS I got death threats about making Optimus Prime the wrong kind of truck when I wrote the TRANSFORMERS movie. Do the job or get out of the way.
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Trump is defying a Supreme Court judgement to return a man wrongfully deported to a foreign prison without any due process.
This. Is. A. Constitutional. Crisis.
Not that you would know from today’s front pages. Most suggest it’s all El Salvador’s fault.
A colossal failure of mainstream media.
This. Is. A. Constitutional. Crisis.
Not that you would know from today’s front pages. Most suggest it’s all El Salvador’s fault.
A colossal failure of mainstream media.
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Trump is defying a Supreme Court judgement to return a man wrongfully deported to a foreign prison without any due process.
This. Is. A. Constitutional. Crisis.
Not that you would know from today’s front pages. Most suggest it’s all El Salvador’s fault.
A colossal failure of mainstream media.
This. Is. A. Constitutional. Crisis.
Not that you would know from today’s front pages. Most suggest it’s all El Salvador’s fault.
A colossal failure of mainstream media.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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What I think was *really* beneficial about Hands Off is that people need to see (in real life) that they’re not alone.
In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.
In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What I think was *really* beneficial about Hands Off is that people need to see (in real life) that they’re not alone.
In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.
In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.
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people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
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“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question.
The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.
The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.
April 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question.
The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.
The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.
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Donald Trump is literally running a Tesla ad in front of the White House to help Elon’s failing stock.
This entire administration is a scam.
This entire administration is a scam.
March 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Donald Trump is literally running a Tesla ad in front of the White House to help Elon’s failing stock.
This entire administration is a scam.
This entire administration is a scam.
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
This just made my freaking day! 🥹
New tour coming up!
On...about this day...around 22 1/2 years ago, @aimeemann.bsky.social released Lost In Space! To celebrate this milestone Aimee Mann is going tour and is reissuing Lost in Space on vinyl. Ticket Presale starts tomorrow March 5 10am. Use code SPACE Tickets at: www.aimeemann.com/tour
March 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This just made my freaking day! 🥹
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UVA’s BOV encouraging families to go elsewhere for gender affirming care, apparently blissfully unaware that there is nowhere else to go
For the record….there are no private providers of gender affirming care in the Charlotteasvilel/Albemarle area.
February 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
UVA’s BOV encouraging families to go elsewhere for gender affirming care, apparently blissfully unaware that there is nowhere else to go
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Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
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Friday morning. UVA Rotunda. See you there, Charlottesville.
Charlottesville:
The UVA Board of Visitors is hosting a “special meeting of the full board” this Friday, Feb. 21 from 9:30-11:30AM to discuss and possibly restrict gender-affirming care at UVA medical facilities for those <19 again despite the executive order being blocked twice in court last week.
The UVA Board of Visitors is hosting a “special meeting of the full board” this Friday, Feb. 21 from 9:30-11:30AM to discuss and possibly restrict gender-affirming care at UVA medical facilities for those <19 again despite the executive order being blocked twice in court last week.
February 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Friday morning. UVA Rotunda. See you there, Charlottesville.
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BREAKING: every goddamn thing
February 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
BREAKING: every goddamn thing