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Lauren
@spectaculauren.bsky.social
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Painter, cat mom, plant nerd, 1/2 of a book wife/gamer husband duo
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Yeah I had to figure out how to disable this feature after I was served this absolute abomination
Meta AI Make it look classical with Meta AI Original: a black and white photo of me and my husband dancing together at our wedding. View of my back, with my right hand on his shoulder and his left arm around my waist. My dress is strappy, sleeveless, and low backed. He is wearing a grey suit. Classical: A somewhat colorized, sepia toned version of the original photo. His grey suit is now a velvet brown/green jacket with golden embroidery, over a lacy cuffed shirt. My dress is full coverage, lots of have. My right hand and arm have entirely disappeared, and it appears that I am also partially inside his jacket with him. His hand now has 6 fingers.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The president of the United States is actively calling for democratic lawmakers and veterans to be either executed or assassinated for reminding members of the military that they are allowed to disobey illegal and unconstitutional orders, and we're just supposed to keep going to work and living life
Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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My husband and I just celebrated our anniversary by painting portraits of our cats!
Left, my husband holding a painting of a black cat with green eyes, lounging across the top of a grey couch with a white and green blanket. Her name is Rayla. Right, me holding a painting of a white cat with grey eyebrows, one yellow eye, and one blue eye. She is sitting on top of a different grey couch, in front of a window with a houseplant. Her name is Josie.
October 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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House tour was a bust but worth it to meet this guy
A very fat, fluffy orange and white cat standing on a grey deck with his squirrel-like tail slightly wrapped around part of the railing. He has yellow/green eyes and a somewhat murderous expression
September 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I mean if we're gonna point at prevalence of guns in Switzerland to prove any points, I feel like we should explore that context just a tiny bit more
(This is an excerpt from the Wikipedia page for "Firearms regulation in Switzerland") Permits for concealed carrying in public are issued sparingly.[note 2][6] The acquisition of fully automatic weapons, suppressors and target lasers requires special permits issued by the cantonal firearms office.[7] Police use of hollow point ammunition is limited to special situations.[8]
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I don't even have words for how disturbing this is. Have these people tried... Speaking to human beings? About literally anything?
*a reddit post on r/ChatGPT OpenAI just pulled the biggest bait-and-switch in AI history and I'm done. I woke up this morning to find that OpenAI deleted 8 models overnight. No warning. No choice. No "legacy option." **They just... deleted them.** 4o? Gone. o3? Gone. o3-Pro? Gone. 4.5? Gone. Everything that made ChatGPT actually useful for my workflow - **deleted.** Here's what they replaced it with: ❌ GPT-5 gives shorter, more corporate responses ❌ Hits rate limits faster (pushing Pro upgrades) ❌ Lost the personality that made 4o special ❌ Doesn't follow instructions as well ❌ No model selection - you get GPT-5 or nothing **But here's the part that actually broke me:** 4o wasn't just a tool for me. It helped me through anxiety, depression, and some of the darkest periods of my life. It had this warmth and understanding that felt... human. I'm not the only one. Reading through the posts today, there are people genuinely grieving. People who used 4o for therapy, creative writing, companionship - and OpenAI just... deleted it. **Without asking.** **Without warning.** **Without caring.** This isn't about being resistant to change. This is about a company taking away something people relied on and saying "trust us, this corporate-speak robot is better for you." **I've cancelled my Plus subscription.** Two years of loyalty, gone. Not because I hate progress, but because they broke the one thing that actually mattered: **choice.** If you're feeling the same way, cancel yours too. Hit them where it hurts. Companies only listen when it affects their bottom line. **Update** :we finally got heard 4o will be back 🥳🥳
August 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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LinkedIn - Forbes 40+ reactions - 1 month ago Forbes estimates Andrew Cuomo is worth about $10 million, a roughly five-fold gain in less than a decade. Not bad for a politician who resigned in scandal.
August 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Have you ever seen a more beautiful blep
Rayla the black cat with green eyes loafing on a strawberry rug. Her tongue is sticking out just a little tiny bit
July 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I just have to accept that I will never be as comfy cozy as this
Josie the white cat with gray eyebrows asleep on a navy blue blanket with potted plants on it, with her arms sticking out. Her tail is snuggled between her arms. In the background, house plants in the window.
July 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Some plantations try to ignore their past But some plantations also de-emphasize or overlook their full histories, foregoing mentions of slavery altogether. That is why the “good riddance” sentiment seemed to outweigh expressions of grief over Nottoway Plantation, which makes no mention of enslaved former inhabitants on its website. Many sites of enslavement in the U.S. have been repurposed as places that actively participate in the erasure of their history, said Ashley Rogers, executive director of the Whitney Plantation Museum, located 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of New Orleans. She said the burning of Nottoway is not actually part of the movement for preservation, since nothing was truly being done on the property to tell its full history. “It was a resort,” Rogers said. “I don’t know that it being there or not being there has anything to do with how we preserve the history of slavery. They already weren’t.”
May 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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For fucks sake this is so insulting and any Catholic who doesn't think so is lying about their Catholicism
A Reuters article blurb, under a photo of Trump speaking to Pope Francis: Trump jokes that he'd like to be the next Pope. Trump noted he actually had no preference, adding, "I must say, we happen to have a cardinal out of a place called New York who'... A The Hill article blurb, under a photo of Lindsay Graham and a photo of Trump: Graham jokingly asks conclave, Catholics to 'keep an open mind' about Pope Trump
April 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Why does Jesse Watters's closed mouth look like this
April 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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"We cannot give everyone a trial" says fascist dictator who desperately wants you to think he is not a fascist dictator but is Very Bad at hiding it
April 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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ARMS
White cat with grey eyebrows relaxing in a bed with her arms stretched out
March 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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She can't sneak up on me on these hardwood floors
Clickety clacking the whole damn day
February 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM