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Laurie Bowman

@lbowman.bsky.social

Always becoming, never being. Accidental paralegal by way of Germanic linguistics, reluctant occupant of a blue dot in a red state. Baker, puzzler, hiker, knitter, runner, slave to Pola the calico. Forever chasing the dopamine.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

It was kind of a long uphill slog followed by a breathtakingly rapid fall

23/8/2025, 12:37:47 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

It still is on Tubi and Pluto

23/8/2025, 12:15:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Been saying that from Day One, imagine the giant fucking inevitable lawsuit

23/8/2025, 12:10:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

And none of them knew what they were voting for šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

23/8/2025, 12:09:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

You will have to pry ā€œpatriarchyā€ from my cold, dead hands (the term, not the system)

23/8/2025, 12:07:42 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

In other news, water is wet

22/8/2025, 11:57:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Follow the money.

27/7/2025, 1:44:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

Yeah I always wondered about that

25/7/2025, 5:54:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s chump change considering how much he and his spawn have raked in in crypto fees

25/7/2025, 5:45:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time

25/7/2025, 5:35:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

He really is as useless as tits on a fish

25/7/2025, 5:33:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

So the House goes on vacay to give the FBI a few days to excise any mention of Trump from the Epstein docs. Cool cool cool

22/7/2025, 3:59:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

@iwriteok.bsky.social I love that Krebs means ā€œcancerā€ in German, the dude’s name is just *chef’s kiss*

22/7/2025, 3:52:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

Bahahahahahahaa

18/7/2025, 5:31:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

That would be pretty much every age for me

18/7/2025, 5:27:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

ā€œVenous insufficiency,ā€ otherwise known as collapsed veins from constantly getting hit up by Dr. Feelgood

17/7/2025, 11:14:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

You win the internet today. I am always alluding to this bit

16/7/2025, 1:09:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking disgusting

16/7/2025, 1:08:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean how stupid are these people, do they not understand how metadata works and/or do they think no one else understands it?

16/7/2025, 1:07:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish I could follow suit. I am going hiking in Germany for two weeks in September. Maybe I’ll find a way not to come back

16/7/2025, 1:06:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œHad sex withā€ =/= ā€œrapedā€ and I avoid strenuously anyone who uses them interchangeably

10/7/2025, 10:36:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

First thought: whoa if true Second thought: ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

10/7/2025, 10:29:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Bahahahaha aw man I love this guy and he’s on TOUR?? This nerd is overly excited about it

10/7/2025, 10:24:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s soooooo jealous of how hot and likeable Mamdani is

29/6/2025, 7:04:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

So SCOTUS has finally managed to cut the federal cord that united these States. Congratulations.

29/6/2025, 5:37:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Considering what ā€œOreoā€ means as a slur, I thought this was some anti-LatinX sick joke at first. Now I’m like, chocolate and cinnamon? Ok I’m down

29/6/2025, 5:03:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Did they, though? Dream about that, I mean

29/6/2025, 4:50:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I say in my particular district, we shouldn’t even acknowledge the existence of SCOTUS or pay attention to any of their orders. But that’s only for my own particular geographical area, don’t you know

27/6/2025, 4:36:43 PM | 22 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Whoa. This is even weirder than I thought, though I admit I just learned about this decision and haven’t read the opinion for myself yet

27/6/2025, 4:33:36 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

The blue states are the ones with all the resources anyway.

27/6/2025, 4:32:06 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

That is correct. We now officially live in the Divided States of America. DSA! DSA! DSA!

27/6/2025, 4:30:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!! Good Lord I thought I was losing my mind. I could have Gazoogled it but why? I knew one of you smart people would know šŸ˜‚

27/6/2025, 4:28:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

So looks like now we’re going to have two sets of laws in the US - laws for blue states and laws for red states. Cool cool cool.

27/6/2025, 4:26:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

No!!!!

26/6/2025, 11:35:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

And no one dares to bell the cat. Every single person around him knows that he’s a demented lunatic.

25/6/2025, 11:17:57 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Cigars and a Bugs Bunny doll? What the fuck did I miss?

25/6/2025, 11:14:48 PM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Alkie says what?

25/6/2025, 11:11:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Now I want a peacock friend 🄰🄰

25/6/2025, 5:54:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s supremely selfish. Pulling the ladder up after you’ve climbed it to success is the height of shitty behavior.

25/6/2025, 11:08:25 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

This makes me indescribably happy and proud to be a small-D democrat.

25/6/2025, 11:03:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

That name is a hell of an endorsement

25/6/2025, 10:51:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Bobby ā€œDry Drunkā€ Kennedy Jr

24/6/2025, 6:29:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

You know that’s exactly what it was. The timing is way too suspect

24/6/2025, 1:34:40 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Right? What evidence is there of a ceasefire other than what his fat fingers have typed?

24/6/2025, 1:33:57 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

So what confirmation exists that there is a ceasefire, other than Trump’s own words? Because I don’t know about you, but the historic ratio of truth to bullshit is pretty low with this one.

24/6/2025, 1:33:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

She really makes me miss Sarah Huckabee.

24/6/2025, 1:12:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the tip! I’m going to check that out for St. Louis. Reverse SAD is a bitch šŸ˜•

23/6/2025, 7:45:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly what I always tell every summer-lovin’ idiot!

23/6/2025, 7:44:39 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

A fucking men. It’s absolute boob soup out there

23/6/2025, 7:43:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

Nostalgic for those long-gone, carefree days when we giggled at DJT for tariffing penguins

23/6/2025, 4:49:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Staaaahp

22/6/2025, 9:40:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

Oh now we’re asking China for favors? Pretty ballsy

22/6/2025, 9:38:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Also quite a jump from me agreeing that a pattern exists, to suggesting that I am in favor of said pattern. But you go on with your bad self.

22/6/2025, 7:19:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Bit of a red herring innit?

22/6/2025, 7:11:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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22/6/2025, 1:50:39 AM | 43 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember the Iran Hostage Crisis as marking the real beginning of my awareness of geopolitics (I was 9). So, y’know, for me it kinda feels like coming home again, along with the dawning existential dread that has accompanied me ever since.

22/6/2025, 2:15:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

22/6/2025, 2:10:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Truer words

22/6/2025, 2:06:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, yes, yes, and ?

22/6/2025, 2:04:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, he’s standing right behind Mr. Post-Diarrhea, so maybe that look isn’t what you think it is

22/6/2025, 2:00:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I used to be an alcoholic daydrinker, I know the ā€œhold still and act normal, hold still and act normalā€ pose quite well šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

22/6/2025, 1:57:55 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. This is not new.

22/6/2025, 1:54:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Who gonna stop him, boo?

22/6/2025, 1:53:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s pretty much the first thing that I thought when the issue of constitutionality was brought up — not that it would cause this regime to hesitate for a millisecond anyway. When has it ever been a real issue before?

22/6/2025, 1:51:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Just think, we’re only 1/4 of the way through his term

22/6/2025, 1:39:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Blink blink, blink blink

22/6/2025, 10:23:34 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I couldn’t love this any harder if I tried.

22/6/2025, 8:50:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump Sends Barron to Podiatrist

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22/6/2025, 2:25:33 AM | 760 155 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Absofuckinlutely

22/6/2025, 4:43:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For some reason I feel compelled to put on Dr. Strangelove tonight #NoWar

22/6/2025, 3:08:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

And God! Don’t forget God

22/6/2025, 3:07:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh for a second I thought you were mixing her up with Melinda Dillon but you’re right, Teri played the long-suffering wife

22/6/2025, 3:05:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair, she was also not white

22/6/2025, 3:02:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, yeah, no lies detected

22/6/2025, 3:01:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

…are you being funny re Teri Garr?

22/6/2025, 3:00:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

I feel perfectly safe don’t you #NoWar

22/6/2025, 2:58:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Kissinger got one, so šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

22/6/2025, 2:56:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social)

Well, thank goodness all public high school students will have to take the ASVAB once the BBB is passed! I was super worried we wouldn’t have enough poors to feed the WWIII machine but it’s all so seamless #NoWar

22/6/2025, 2:55:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

How’s that Strait of Hormuz looking?

22/6/2025, 2:46:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Bibi’s been spouting that shit for years

22/6/2025, 2:43:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

No wait they were two weeks away from having one! No wait they already have one! No wait it will be years before they have one!

22/6/2025, 2:42:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Or a Nobel Peace Prize. Hey if Kissinger got one, it doesn’t seem that improbable

22/6/2025, 2:31:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re actually super stoked about the possibility of nuclear war in the Middle East. Armageddon is so much closer tonight, hurray! (Btw your handle is perfection *chef’s kiss* as I always quote my favorite line of hers, ā€œOnly boring people are bored.ā€)

22/6/2025, 2:30:19 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I very literally gagged when he said that. No shit, I gasped and it turned into a choke/gag.

22/6/2025, 2:26:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad but true. The deference to Bibi had me tearing my hair out during Biden’s presidency

22/6/2025, 2:24:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I always flash to this scene when I hear him say it, so, every other day

20/6/2025, 1:51:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry about that šŸ˜ž

17/6/2025, 12:23:11 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Very evocative. I like.

17/6/2025, 12:22:27 AM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for bringing the smile to my day!

17/6/2025, 12:20:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Fantastic

17/6/2025, 12:19:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

As opposed to any other day?

16/6/2025, 6:09:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I need more deets! Maybe I’ll get a job at the call center, I’m sure I could be ā€œhelpfulā€

16/6/2025, 5:25:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I know right! Like take our city’s name out of your mouth

16/6/2025, 5:23:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

What?! Are they manufacturing this shit in STL or doing the call centers here?! Goddamnit

16/6/2025, 5:21:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course she’s Tohono O’odham! 🩷🩷🩷

16/6/2025, 5:18:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. I was thinking it, then I scrolled down and you’d already said it šŸ˜†

15/6/2025, 9:03:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

Man! Woman! Camera!

15/6/2025, 9:01:44 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œGoing at it hot and heavyā€? Donny I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means

15/6/2025, 9:01:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I laughed and laughed and laughed when I saw his face

15/6/2025, 9:00:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Bowman (@lbowman.bsky.social) reply parent

I disagree. They purposely half-assed it to humiliate him, and boy did they succeed. Good for them.

15/6/2025, 8:58:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view