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Lulu LaMer
@loulamer.bsky.social
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Person who enjoys things.
Also video game producer, consultant, coach.
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Pretty rough day (understatement) but I get to read a new Philip Pullman book so
Book cover: Illustration is etching style of a desert with 2 camels with riders mid-ground, a ridge of mountains behind. Sky with big up-sweeping clouds takes up 3/4 of the cover space. Text superimposed over illustration: The Rose Field Book of Dust Volume three
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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First time I’ve seen “belonging” used menacingly
A 4-story building boarded up at the ground floor. Floors above show peeling paint and broken windows and general ruin. Banner over first floor reads, “ NO-ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU”
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Best possible day to wear my “Socialist wins mayor’s race” commemorative t-shirt (from 1981)
T-shirt with red printed design showing the skyline of Burlington VT with “Chinese” pagodas. Lettering reads “PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BURLINGTON” Signed below in faded red marker by Bernie Sanders
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Did it tho
October 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Whenever I feel slightly prudish about my kids listening to HOT TO GO! or whatever, I remember that this was one of my favorite songs when I was like 6
ERIC CLAPTON Easy Now Eric Clapton Holding you, you holding me Everyone could see we were in ecstasy Making love against the wall Feeling very small when we didn't need to be Easy now, don't let my love flow out of you Please remember that I want you to come too
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Here’s the comparison
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him. first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gun-sights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him urned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water. audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middleaged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up right up into the air
October 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Found in my then-partner’s cd collection, never knew anyone else who knew it. Still sounds incredible.
Auscultate (album) by Salt (band)
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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👍🏻
Large white wardrobe in a light-green room
September 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Bear in mind that we also pay for this one so it could be us
Scatter plot showing life expectancy vs spending USA is alone in the “high spending low life expectancy” quad. Isra*l, circled, is in the low-low quad.
September 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Cats don’t sleep right
Black & gray longhair tabby cat asleep at a right angle against the back of a couch Very large, very fuzzy cat sprawled out asleep, belly-up like a drunk
August 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Never seen a dahlia this tall - see flowers on the right - at least 4’ of plant is sticking up above this 8’ fence.
A tall wooden fence with an enormous dahlia plant, replete with flowers, sticking up well above it
August 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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It’s the same f*#cking doom loop and it’s a lack of affordable housing! This is not complicated!
SF Chronicle Sunday edition with headline: “This doom loop will hit every aspect of our lives” subhed: “Population, among oldest in nation, could put region’s continued prosperity at risk”
July 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A long BART ride & walk to see some nature in Antioch was exactly the kind of pointless, effortful boondoggle I love.
The cute non-electric BART trains that run the last 2 stops on the Antioch line A chain-link fence, beyond which is a brown sign reading Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. A crane and various industrial equipment is in the distance. A chubby wide pine tree. In its shade is a broken concrete barrier painted white with red letters reading NO PARKIN A man in a black hoodie points through a chain-link fence, over a big exposed pipe, toward a marshy pond where theoretically wildlife might be
July 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Found a 20-year-old magazine in a free box on the street, better believe I took it home.
Gourmet magazine front cover featuring a plate of ornate holiday cookies arranged on a white plate
July 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Cautionary bucket
An orange bucket upside down on the sidewalk with a cardboard sign reading “HOLE”. The bucket partially covers a broken utility access panel.
June 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Small but excellent haul from the Friends of the SF public Library book sale. I adore old cookbooks and this one ©️1935 is *really* special.
A thick old book called Recipes of All Nations (spine up), Ancient Europe a survey by Stuart Piggott, and Martha Quest by Doris Lessing Recipes of All Nations is held open to a page of Russian recipes written in an old-fashioned style. The book has indentations in the pages for index tabs, like an old dictionary. Piggott’s Ancient Europe is held open showing illustrations of painted designs from Iberian pots of the 3rd century BCE
June 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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“San Francisco is a dump”
An adorable small pink house with a white picket fence and flowers pouring over the arbor gate
June 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Highly squishable
A huge hot-pink cabbage rose on a bush with some friends
May 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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(IMO the owls look just like my cat)
A very large Siberian cat, brown black and white with golden eyes and tufty ears
May 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The baby owls that I was watching all last spring have grown up and moved out, but some others have moved in to a shorter tree not far away.
A tree with a great horned owl on a branch, seen in profile. There’s a second owl hidden in the branches higher up.
May 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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For a brief moment this crow had everything it ever dreamed of
A crow holding a ping pong ball in its wide-open beak
May 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Favorite rosebush report: in bloom again after a dramatic pruning in February.
I smelled them all; the buds are just lemony, in full bloom the lychee smell is unreal, but it fades to lemony-rose once they’re past peak.
Big white roses in full bloom against a blue-gray wall
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Captain Underpants
April 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Speaking of horns
Seun Kuti absolutely destroying an alto sax on stage with his band Egypt 80
April 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Surprisingly perfect views in Marin last week
Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands. Part of Battery Alexander is in the foreground; graffiti on the wall reads “¡Viva Tortuguita!” “More dead CEOs” “deny defend depose”
April 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM