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Laura Dell
@lauredhel.bsky.social
Boorloo. Crochet, cats, chickens, the occasional rant. Yarn dragon. Disabled. Soapmaking, cheesemaking, gin, coffee, books. Medicine, linguistics, lefty as f*&k. She/her.
Oh no. Oh, no no no. Checked my history. My last search makes me a "sexy Japan sw*stika".

I swear, someone sent me a Pokemon Go postcard from a waypoint in Japan with that symbol on it, and I wanted to read a bit about the cultural context.
October 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
[cont]. multiple literary prizes, Australia continued to exclude him. He was eventually granted refugee status in NZ.
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
As a non-USAn tangent, have you read Behrouz Boochani's memoir No Friend But The Mountains? It was typed as Whatsapp messages on a smuggled mobile phone on Manus Island. Our nation's great shame is that we not only did this to him in the first place, but that even after he won multiple [cont]
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I want to see and talk to whoever's at my door so I don't have to get up every time it rings (I'm disabled), and also who's breaking into my car or garage
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
they all have a slightly different vibe. Interesting how much one colour change can do that
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
thanks!
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
thanks!
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
No she didn't. This is an AI hallucination.
September 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Plagiarism is damaging, and so is uncritically believing the giant plagiarism machine

This quote doesn't appear in the book.
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So kinda like how the Epstein Files still aren't public?
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's not that we can't put a correctly punctuated sentence together or string together a series of texts carefully and conveniently outlining every single element of a crime we've just committed

It's that it would be inappropriate for the medium and the situation to do so
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
So did I (or the local equivalent) and I went straight into med school. A bunch of my friends have PhDs and not one of us texts like that
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Following up: I just upgraded one of my iPads to 26 and still can't reproduce this.
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It wasn't obvious, because you didn't say the version number (basic info when talking about bugs) or say that the behaviour was new.
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Which version? I'm on iPadOS 18.7 and can't reproduce this
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM