Laura Sorensen
@this-be-the-verse.bsky.social
It's me, hi, I'm the problem.
This is like if Joan Didion had a baby with Francine Pascal. 🤢
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is like if Joan Didion had a baby with Francine Pascal. 🤢
This hits hard. I do remember several LJ friends and hope they are well. ❤️ Miss ficcing with all of them. Great poem 🥹
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This hits hard. I do remember several LJ friends and hope they are well. ❤️ Miss ficcing with all of them. Great poem 🥹
Listen: Alice Wong on KQED, "Bringing Visibility to Disability."
Bay Area Legends: Activist Alice Wong and The Power of Bringing Visibility to Disability | KQED
As part of our new series profiling legends of the Bay Area, Wong joins us to talk about her joyous approach to life and her recent MacArthur Genius win. We also check in with fellow disability rights...
www.kqed.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Listen: Alice Wong on KQED, "Bringing Visibility to Disability."
Article: "Living with Muscular Dystrophy at 50 Makes Death My Shadow Partner."
"Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live."
"Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live."
time.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Article: "Living with Muscular Dystrophy at 50 Makes Death My Shadow Partner."
"Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live."
"Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live."
I second Vania to say, you must listen to the Messing ep of "A Bit Fruity."
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I second Vania to say, you must listen to the Messing ep of "A Bit Fruity."
A more worldwide one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FF...
Mr. Bobby | Manu Chao | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
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October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A more worldwide one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FF...
"One day this will end. [...] The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing. It is very important to do the right thing, eventually." - Omar El Akkad
October 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"One day this will end. [...] The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing. It is very important to do the right thing, eventually." - Omar El Akkad
Incorrect; all of your sh*t is still funny.
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Incorrect; all of your sh*t is still funny.
Julio, you deserve better than this.
September 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Julio, you deserve better than this.
Prose so dense it actually has an event horizon
September 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Prose so dense it actually has an event horizon
When you finally cut a relative off, it often comes after years and years of putting up with them, hoping they will moderate the abuse, hoping to have a polite conversation this time, etc. In my case it was 30 years. But the person only "noticed" after I stopped speaking to them entirely.
September 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
When you finally cut a relative off, it often comes after years and years of putting up with them, hoping they will moderate the abuse, hoping to have a polite conversation this time, etc. In my case it was 30 years. But the person only "noticed" after I stopped speaking to them entirely.
It's a beautiful essay.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's a beautiful essay.
Oh, so that's why beef is $254.95 😏
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Oh, so that's why beef is $254.95 😏
Music: The B-52's, "Tell It Like It T-I-Is (MK Underground Remix)" from 1992. I'm pretty sure that MK is Mark Kinchen. Great remix, light on the lyric and heavy on the beat.
THE B-52's - Tell It Like It T-I-Is (MK Underground Mix) 1992
YouTube video by MURKBOY72
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August 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Music: The B-52's, "Tell It Like It T-I-Is (MK Underground Remix)" from 1992. I'm pretty sure that MK is Mark Kinchen. Great remix, light on the lyric and heavy on the beat.
Appreciate this along with your very insightful episode of A Bit Fruity this week.
August 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Appreciate this along with your very insightful episode of A Bit Fruity this week.
I blame the raccoons.
August 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I blame the raccoons.
😂😂😂 Country Club Vampires of Sweet Valley
July 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
😂😂😂 Country Club Vampires of Sweet Valley