Lauren Erhart
@laurenerhart.bsky.social
Writer, editor, flower picture taker.
https://buttondown.com/laurenerhart
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It's been fun watching @buttondown.com archive design updates in real time today. Question for developers: If dark mode will be the new archives default, will you enable authors to pick responsive tint colors so content is equally accessible on email (white bkgrnd) and archives (black bkgrnd)?
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's been fun watching @buttondown.com archive design updates in real time today. Question for developers: If dark mode will be the new archives default, will you enable authors to pick responsive tint colors so content is equally accessible on email (white bkgrnd) and archives (black bkgrnd)?
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Like I said: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Like I said: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Appeasing sociopathic narcissists DOES👏NOT👏WORK.
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Appeasing sociopathic narcissists DOES👏NOT👏WORK.
The gospel of Not Buying Anything At All is hard to spread, so instead here's a holiday gift guide for anyone who wants their holiday shopping to benefit as few billionaires as possible. Featuring a few Denver- and Colorado-specific recs!
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gifts for good
If you MUST shop...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The gospel of Not Buying Anything At All is hard to spread, so instead here's a holiday gift guide for anyone who wants their holiday shopping to benefit as few billionaires as possible. Featuring a few Denver- and Colorado-specific recs!
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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It's almost like making the effort to learn a thing teaches you more about it than just asking the closest idiot to tell you what they think about the subject and copying that down
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's almost like making the effort to learn a thing teaches you more about it than just asking the closest idiot to tell you what they think about the subject and copying that down
Social media is Bad, but is it worse to disengage altogether? I truly don't know. I wrote about it anyway.
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how we live online
And how we live with ourselves.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Social media is Bad, but is it worse to disengage altogether? I truly don't know. I wrote about it anyway.
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A rare weather event is about to occur: Two Flower Fridays in a row. Subscribe to get the next issue, hitting inboxes in a few hours!
(I promise this one is not about Lord of the Rings.)
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(I promise this one is not about Lord of the Rings.)
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Flower Friday
A more or less fortnightly newsletter from Lauren Erhart about the beauty we find and the beauty we create. Comes out on Fridays. Flower photos included seasonally.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A rare weather event is about to occur: Two Flower Fridays in a row. Subscribe to get the next issue, hitting inboxes in a few hours!
(I promise this one is not about Lord of the Rings.)
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(I promise this one is not about Lord of the Rings.)
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[If Hemingway was in a Buy Nothing Group]
To give: Baby shoes, heavily worn. Soles are peeling and laces are missing from one but maybe somebody could fix them up and use them? Pickup only.
To give: Baby shoes, heavily worn. Soles are peeling and laces are missing from one but maybe somebody could fix them up and use them? Pickup only.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
[If Hemingway was in a Buy Nothing Group]
To give: Baby shoes, heavily worn. Soles are peeling and laces are missing from one but maybe somebody could fix them up and use them? Pickup only.
To give: Baby shoes, heavily worn. Soles are peeling and laces are missing from one but maybe somebody could fix them up and use them? Pickup only.
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I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
I am once again making it about Lord of the Rings.
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the insanity machine
Doomscrolling? No. I am pondering the orb.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I am once again making it about Lord of the Rings.
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Friendly reminder that, for most people, it is very very easy to not buy anything from Amazon, ever.
open.spotify.com/episode/4B5S...
open.spotify.com/episode/4B5S...
Amazon's Robot Takeover
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Friendly reminder that, for most people, it is very very easy to not buy anything from Amazon, ever.
open.spotify.com/episode/4B5S...
open.spotify.com/episode/4B5S...
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Ms. Rachel is punk as fuck
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ms. Rachel is punk as fuck
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We recognize exurban sprawl as the built environment of alienation—anti-social infrastructure that invites paranoid, rightwing extremism.
AI and social media are becoming the exurbs in our pockets—they fracture us, alienate us, and disconnect us: the distributed infrastructure of fascism.
AI and social media are becoming the exurbs in our pockets—they fracture us, alienate us, and disconnect us: the distributed infrastructure of fascism.
October 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We recognize exurban sprawl as the built environment of alienation—anti-social infrastructure that invites paranoid, rightwing extremism.
AI and social media are becoming the exurbs in our pockets—they fracture us, alienate us, and disconnect us: the distributed infrastructure of fascism.
AI and social media are becoming the exurbs in our pockets—they fracture us, alienate us, and disconnect us: the distributed infrastructure of fascism.
Subscribe to Flower Friday to receive the occasional unfiltered rant about why I'm Correct about nerd shit and anyone who's ever worn a MAGA hat is Wrong. buttondown.com/laurenerhart...
the left, the right, and the lord of the rings
J.D. Vance wrote a book, but can he even read?
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October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Subscribe to Flower Friday to receive the occasional unfiltered rant about why I'm Correct about nerd shit and anyone who's ever worn a MAGA hat is Wrong. buttondown.com/laurenerhart...
Imagine branding yourself as America's English teacher and then not reading the most English-Teacher-y text in the world before writing a song about one of its characters. @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
defector.com/taylor-swift...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Imagine branding yourself as America's English teacher and then not reading the most English-Teacher-y text in the world before writing a song about one of its characters. @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
defector.com/taylor-swift...
defector.com/taylor-swift...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Javier Mabrey is a relentless advocate for tenants, workers, and those left behind by the same-old politics. Proud to have earned his endorsement. #copolitics
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Javier Mabrey is a relentless advocate for tenants, workers, and those left behind by the same-old politics. Proud to have earned his endorsement. #copolitics
Reminder: It's not red vs. blue, it's the rich vs. you.
(I know my audience of like 40 people won't make a dent here, but vote this guy for CO AG, he's a real one.)
(I know my audience of like 40 people won't make a dent here, but vote this guy for CO AG, he's a real one.)
As billionaires surrender to Trumpism for profit, Gov. Polis’s veto of the Worker Protection Act—which would’ve made it easier to unionize—looks worse by the day. The best tool we have left to save this country is working people coming together. #copolitics
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder: It's not red vs. blue, it's the rich vs. you.
(I know my audience of like 40 people won't make a dent here, but vote this guy for CO AG, he's a real one.)
(I know my audience of like 40 people won't make a dent here, but vote this guy for CO AG, he's a real one.)
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Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.
The "Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do" approach is cute and all but what if—hear me out—you actually did something.
House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The "Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do" approach is cute and all but what if—hear me out—you actually did something.
Perfect move for an actor who is best known and most beloved for playing literally the only character who works for a living in the Lord of the Rings. No notes.
apnews.com/article/sean...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Perfect move for an actor who is best known and most beloved for playing literally the only character who works for a living in the Lord of the Rings. No notes.
apnews.com/article/sean...
apnews.com/article/sean...
I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind. buttondown.com/laurenerhart...
death by hypocrisy
On Wednesday there was another shooting. No, not that one. The one where a boy opened fire on his classmates, and ultimately, fatally, himself, in a high...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind. buttondown.com/laurenerhart...