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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname
@verbingnouns.bsky.social
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academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest); ai (llm) apologists go away; דאיקייט
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A green balloon reflecting lights that look like s grimace face
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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My dearly departed boys, Loki & Leeroy. They were perfect cats, barely a brain cell b/t them, littermates and world travelers. The gentlest, silliest, biggest personalities. Leeroy died in 2022 from Three Stooges Syndrome, Loki died almost exactly a year ago after a brief fight w/ kidney disease. 💔
Two black cats on a bed. One is looking away the other is looking up at the camera with a goofy expression
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Nostalgic af
Four flavors of honey stick (cherry / red, blueberry / blue, apple / green, and plain clover / honey) in little buckets for 50 cents each
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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You see, I don't kid around with my craft. And apparently neither does my eldest, who designed the faces themself. Additional thanks to my spouse and my father who scooped out the pumpkins while I put the baby to bed. A whole family effort!
A large pumpkin with a slightly doofy grin with a closed mouth and tongue sticking out on one side, and tiny eyes drawn on in black marker in the style of a three and three quarters year old. It looks happy a maybe a bit silly. A smaller pumpkin with large, different sized eyes and a wild smile with lots of thin teeth drawn on in black marker in the style of a three and three quarters year old. It looks slightly manic but peaceable. The same two pumpkins with the black marker lines replaced with carved features. The large one still looks happy and silly and the smaller one now looks a bit wilder, perhaps a touch evil. Also it now has a round nose with two nostrils. The same two pumpkins but now lit up in the dark. The silly one looks pleasant and jovial and you can see it has hair made of fine lines. The wild one has a green light oozing out of its mouth and looks positively ghoulish.
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Looks like he's got feminism :c
Neo-fascist hustler Yiannopoulos bashes feminism Debbie Brennan February 2018 [Photo of Milo Yiannopoulos trying to look cool with sunglasses on] “Feminism is cancer,” spews provocateur Milo
October 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Shana tova u'metuka 🍎🍏🍯
A plate of apple slices and a small bowl of honey with a spoon in it
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I'm not risking it.

Post a random picture or else everything will go wrong in September
A diagram from a scientific paper depicting a baby as a series of connected oscillator. It is vaguely horrifying, like a weird blue baby skeleton made of springs. Labeled: Figure 6: Examples of ranges of the natural frequencies of a child's body parts vibrations in the basis of data from [32].
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Out of stock!
GUESS originals embroidered camp shirt $79.00 Out of stock brand: Guess Camp shirt, woven embroidered construction,... A dark skinned model with braided hair and subtle facial hair wearing a lilac (pink) collared shirt with holes in a delicate geometric pattern which form stripes of diamonds. It's the iconic shirt that the guy in the video is wearing.
August 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Fuck Labour and their scare tactics. Of course I don't want Reform to win, but honestly I'm not sure Labour would be better, even locally? At least Green isn't outrightly transphobic or xenophobic.
A flyer for Labour local election with a red band across yellow and black diagonal striped caution tape. The text reads: Don't risk a Reform Council in Newcastle Only Labour can keep Reform out With fake newspaper clippings of (real?) headlines: - Proud and Ukrainian flag removed by newly led Reform UK Council - Reform Council scraps climate emergency - Reform Council could 'reduce' help for poorest
August 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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This post was written by Jigsaw himself
David Adam @zanchey@aus.social It's very simple really. There are Drives and Sites. You can find your Sites in Teams where they are called Channels. Or Files in Channels. Sites are also in SharePoint. Drives are also in SharePoint but you can't access them that way except by accident. Libraries are Groups that are also Files (but Teams calls these Knowledge Bases). You can save things in Notebooks which are saved in a Drive but can also contain Drives or Sites (but not Teams, which are what Teams calls Teams and where Channels are stored, which SharePoint and OneDrive call Sites). Copilot is both a way to access Sites and Drives, and a way to produce lies. Nobody knows what 365 means. If all of this is overwhelming, consider speaking to your administrator about whether Microsoft Death is right for you. Aug 03, 2025, 01:48 AM
August 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Oh no, we accidentally fostered a couple dozen white cabbage caterpillars, which have now all been rehomed to the woods... except for one that we'll try to protect until it's a butterfly. What a busy day!
A bowl of red cabbage leaves covered in black and bright green caterpillars.
July 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I mean, it's a thing that at least one person seems to honestly believe... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Extract from linked Mother Jones piece: She remembered climbing a marble staircase and walking into a “huge, grand room.” Epstein “acted like a gentleman for two hours,” Tracey said. “We talked about Dolly”—the sheep cloned in 1996, to great fanfare—“and the whole cloning thing, and he told me he had a place down in Mexico that was already working on cloning humans. “We had an interesting talk for about two hours, and at the end of the meeting he groped me. I started crying and wanted to get out, and I remember being so scared that I wouldn’t get out, because there were so many people working there. I really thought I might not get out of there.” Epstein tried to hand Tracey a check, ostensibly for the screenplay Tracey had gone there to discuss, but she turned and fled out the door. She called her boyfriend immediately after the incident and has never told more than a couple close friends about it since. She thought about speaking out when the first round of allegations became public, but she decided not to, out of fear for her safety. “I was always afraid, because I knew he was really powerful. And you’re going to think it’s totally crazy, but I bet you he cloned himself, and whoever killed themselves was a clone….I try not to think about it. I wouldn’t put it past that he’s out there somewhere. He said he had a lab in Mexico, because the Dolly thing got shut down.”
July 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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I use Wunderground even though I'm in the UK and I have been noticing that forecasts more than about 4 days in the future just default to the seasonal average. Could this be new and causal?
Forecast for the next 6 days showing natural variation in the next 3 days and then sort of smooth generic temperature and humidity curve beyond that. Rain is still lumpy but idk anything about how this works.
May 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I just added it to my door this morning!
A blue door covered in abstracts of linguistics and linguistics adjacent papers that push the boundaries that the status quo set regarding disability, race and colonialism. Lauren's recent paper has a highlighter yellow badge that says "new". There is a banner that says "noteworthy and news" above the clippings.
April 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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S-tier boys.

No, god-tier. Never met better cats in my life (sorry, all the amazing best cats out there, including other cats I've lived with and loved). Coulda done with fewer butt-related medical issues across the board, but that prepared me for parenthood well, so it's a wash there. So to speak.
Two black cats with gree-yellow eyes sitting on a wooden floor waiting patiently for treats. Leeroy is on the left and Loki is on the right.
April 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Just gonna take a moment to honor my two late 4/20 boys with these pictures the bairn drew of them back in November.

L: Loki (drawn from memory), R: Leeroy (drawn from a photo). They both have "down mouths" (sad) because they're dead.
A 2yo's drawing of a cat. It is almost entirely head, with bumps for ears, two eyes with pupils, a scribbly nose, a big frowning mouth, three whiskers on each side, some legs and a tall at the bottom. In the top right is a lumpy shape that's intended to be a love heart, underneath some scribbles that are intended to be letters that spell "Loki". A 2yo's drawing of a cat, with red text typed under it that says "Leeroy had a big body! And pointy ears. Don't touch them, they're sharp! Ouch! She has a down mouth too. It's looking to the side. One two three. Three whiskers. He had two back legs. There is her long front leg and a big big tail. She needs a chin! I put a love heart under his name too" This cat is more proportional, with two large ears, scribbly eyes with pupils, and a scribbly nose. The sad mouth is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Under it is a chin. At the bottom, there are 3 visible legs and a long tail that curls around the page. In the top right is a lumpy shape that's intended to be a love heart, underneath some scribbles that are intended to be letters that spell "Leeroy". It's actually very close to the same position as the reference photo, with the chin, gaze, and body shape notably accurately represented.
April 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Y'know, I'm not sure I posted about it here. November, kidney failure. With the bairn's toddler-style grief and everything else going on (post-election despair, first trimester symptoms, potty training), I didn't have the bandwidth. He went quickly and gently, surrounded by love.
An old black cat curled up on a fuzzy black cat bed in front of a radiator. He is tucked into a circle with only a pale ear and a little smile visible. He is old and tired and very close to the end, but comfortable, warm, and in no pain.
April 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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We fed a gorgeous, graying old crow today. Big fashion-grandma energy
A black crow with white patches on both wings shooting on a branch in a wooded area
April 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Planted a (wild?) cherry pit from a fruit that I foraged in 2020 and that sprouted in 2021. Just noticed its first buds! 🌸
A very dark photo of a pair of small white cherry buds on a thin twig
April 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just the last bit / bite! Samsung S10+ camera
Dark photo of red sunrise behind clouds with some sun visible -- a small bite is taken out of the sun by the moon
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Last few minutes of the #eclipse this morning
A very low exposure photo of the red rising sun through clouds, with a distinctive bite taken out of it (the moon)
March 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I'll take you up on that! Again, Mid-Atlantic US coast beachcombing find 😊🦴🌊
A skull fragment from an animal A skull fragment from an animal A skull fragment from an animal
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Except for the tall vertebra, here are some close ups. Thanks, I really appreciate it!!
Two views of a jaw bone, maybe from a fish? Two views of a jaw bone with lots of little teeth and a few large teeth Three views of something that looks like an upper jawbone with a partial eye socket Two views of two bones each, no fucking clue on these, they're large but fragments, and worn down a little by the ocean
March 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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I can guess there's a couple cetacean, maybe some seal, I suspect the bendy one in front was broken and healed? Any bony fish? But otherwise, I'm at a loss! All Mid-Atlantic US within a week last summer. Sorry for the overlap on the right. I can send another if you can tell me what would be helpful.
7 sea-worn bones on a couch, with an index card for scale. The largest is about 50% longer than the index card. Three are clearly jawbones, one is clearly a vertebra. Idk what the rest are.
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Here's a little joy from my life. The bairn made a vegetable rabbit and I suggested they draw it.
Two drawings of a "vegetable rabbit". On the left is mine (eggplant body with green eyes, green heart nose, pink happy mouth, carrot ears, cucumber arm, corn arm, potato tail, strawberry feet) and on the right is the bairn's (3;0), which mine is based on The vegetable rabbit model for the drawings, assembled from crocheted vegetables, putting on a wood floor. Crayons and other toddler objects are visible too.
February 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM