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laurek.bsky.social
(She/ella) Retired civil engineer but still civil. Active volunteer (Am. Red Cross, 988, 211, national park). Enjoying friends, family, tribe, SF/F books, nature, tent camping, photography, folk dancing, doom scrolling, doing nothing, and whatever.
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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

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My first newsletter mailing has gone out! This is me, a terminal cancer patient, rambling about how joy (especially public joy) has become a sort of secular sin in the Internet Age and why we should reframe our thoughts about it even in the darkest of times. buttondown.com/mishell/arch...

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I just finished the audio book, "Death of the Author", by Nnedi Okorafor @nnedi.bsky.social . Coincidentally, I'd just read the essay "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (as mentioned recently in Vulture) about the disconnection of art and artist. Okorofor's treatment is deep and satisfying.

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Breaking News: Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

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