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@loather.bsky.social

I used to be a librarian I sell vintage: https://finalgirlcurios.etsy.com/ I write newsletter: https://buttondown.com/loather

created June 22, 2023

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Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

But that’s not important right now

2/9/2025, 1:27:35 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

My kid has been talking about grownups with references to characters, like he said a guy looked like Jack Black in Minecraft, etc. So tonight he said “Santa is impressed with my cleaning” and I was like “who is Santa?” And he full on Airplane’d me: “he’s a guy who brings presents to your house”

2/9/2025, 1:27:21 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) reposted

happy labor day

john mulaney: the creepiest days are when you don't hear from the horse at all.
1/9/2025, 3:09:48 PM | 4969 819 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s incredibly funny

1/9/2025, 7:52:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

thinking about rewatching the death of Stalin tonight, no reason

1/9/2025, 6:26:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually might join the demotratic party. They sound cool

1/9/2025, 6:13:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Every blue haired barista on TikTok is an official representative of the demotratic party. Stephen Miller is just a guy who spends all his time with the president but doesn’t speak for him, don’t be ridiculous

1/9/2025, 6:11:48 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Happy Labor Day. Burke’s betrayal of Ripley in ALIENS is representative of the conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. In this essay I will analyze the Marxist themes of ALIENS in the era of Reagan and trickle down economics, showing that the only thing that trickles down is alien goo

1/9/2025, 5:46:37 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Ralph wiggum voice: “I’m in danger!”

1/9/2025, 4:41:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

If I win the billion dollar lottery I pledge to buy bluesky and keep it weird

1/9/2025, 4:40:42 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Does @schatz.bsky.social know who was president in 2020

1/9/2025, 3:49:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Crushing it

1/9/2025, 4:31:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Not a great showing for Death this weekend. Unimpressed

31/8/2025, 10:19:44 PM | 47 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Yes I live in California. Yes I own exactly one (1) pair of shorts to get me through the entire summer. No I do not feel ashamed

31/8/2025, 3:56:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chairman Goa Tse-tung (@jctenton.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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31/8/2025, 1:51:13 PM | 88 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Fistful of Mannings

31/8/2025, 2:59:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Weedle (@weedle.bsky.social) reposted

Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.

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31/8/2025, 6:44:10 AM | 841 199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Just a note to Taylor swift that if she gets a text from an unknown +44 number that says “congrats, x” it’s a trap

31/8/2025, 6:11:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

@darthbluesky.bsky.social important

31/8/2025, 2:11:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Detaining a firefighter on an active fire line who is also a u visa recipient. Depraved shit.

30/8/2025, 7:17:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

UPDATE: The firefighter Trump’s ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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30/8/2025, 6:49:36 PM | 1097 462 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Love this picture. Just a neat little movie about gals who are pals!!!

30/8/2025, 6:51:00 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing says “the president is alive and well” like blurry photos at a distance of an elderly man in poor health

30/8/2025, 4:50:57 PM | 15 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

The proof of life photos of trump are encouraging. He looks like he’s mid face melt

30/8/2025, 4:49:54 PM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kelly jensen (@heykellyjensen.bsky.social) reposted

Two weeks ago, Bruce got my book banned in Clay County Schools (FL). This week, two more Florida schools added HERE WE ARE to their pending objections. It is almost as if they're all working together (don't @ me–I've said this since 2021). The schools are Santa Rosa and Escambia.

29/8/2025, 3:04:02 PM | 20 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Finally drove through Malibu for the first time since the fires. Surreal scenes from a dying planet.

30/8/2025, 12:52:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

I love to check a bag because I don’t want to deal with it. But I think I shouldn’t have to wait for a bag, it should just head home without my help

30/8/2025, 12:16:51 AM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Don’t tease me like this

30/8/2025, 12:12:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

in my experience conservatives create the most ardent progressives

29/8/2025, 6:35:03 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

I hope the person who removed the headphone jack from phones never has a cool pillow again

29/8/2025, 5:35:18 PM | 100 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

“How can I make your terminal cancer about me”

28/8/2025, 3:28:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Reading that Elizabeth Gilbert excerpt in the cut like

Two panel meme of a man with a surprised expression and then with his hand over his mouth
28/8/2025, 11:27:10 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

27/8/2025, 6:42:38 PM | 20687 6755 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

She lives her whole life for the plot

27/8/2025, 7:19:23 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Je Hyeon Sim 심제현 grampy radish (@naptime.theolive.garden) reposted

minneapolis/metro area: if it is possible for you to donate blood today mn recently declared a shortage. you can find out if you’re eligible and where to go from the link below, if there are better resources please correct me www.mbc.org

27/8/2025, 4:30:08 PM | 152 159 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I got one asking if I was going to the wine tasting. They nailed my ass with that one

27/8/2025, 4:25:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine defending these orgs lmao

27/8/2025, 4:21:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

26/8/2025, 7:51:13 PM | 12191 2287 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I can’t believe there was a dude in that alien suit. Ridley Scott just going “get me an extremely tall skinny dude!!!! I HAVE A VISION!”

27/8/2025, 3:18:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Signourney not saying “are you fucking kidding me” at multiple points in this film is remarkable self restraint because what do you MEAN it’s on the escape hatch too

27/8/2025, 3:16:29 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Fun fact, the movie alien actually invented bisexuality. We didn’t have it before then

27/8/2025, 3:11:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess maybe I could’ve taken time out of my busy schedule of watching episodes of criminal minds to watch this movie at some point, my bad

27/8/2025, 3:10:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

One thing about sigourney weaver is she is gonna save this cat

27/8/2025, 3:05:24 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Noooo tom Skerritt don’t kill yourself your so sexy aha

27/8/2025, 2:43:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

I’m watching Alien and Tom Skerritt……hello

27/8/2025, 2:36:14 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam Adams (@samadams.bsky.social) reposted

Allegory? In a vampire story? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Bram Stoker?

27/8/2025, 1:35:18 AM | 57 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

If I were a wannabe dictator with a tenuous grasp on power I would simply not humiliate and destroy the morale of the military I need to rely on in order to maintain my rule

27/8/2025, 1:38:57 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Standing in my hotel room in my chonies eating beef jerky

26/8/2025, 10:17:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

The great khan sweeps in from the plains

26/8/2025, 10:02:43 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do we even have this time zone

26/8/2025, 5:07:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I have to give a speech I have barely written tomorrow. Good luck to us all, I’m counting on the Gemini spirit to take me away

26/8/2025, 5:04:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Sleep? I don’t think so!!!!

26/8/2025, 5:02:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

What are we even doing here what do you mean it’s 1am baby it’s 10pm in my heart

26/8/2025, 5:02:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Why am I still awake

26/8/2025, 5:02:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

East coast time is nonsense

26/8/2025, 5:02:38 AM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture anton (@deranton.bsky.social) reposted

Inside of me are two panda bears, always eating and falling off of shit

24/8/2025, 11:42:53 PM | 109 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jez (@jez1.bsky.social) reposted

I deserve a Pulitzer for fiction every time I text back “I’m just seeing this now”

15/8/2025, 2:17:28 PM | 161 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

He’s running (literally and figuratively)

25/8/2025, 4:46:51 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

The new Kathleen Edwards album has a real whiplash moment from the standout title track to the immediate next song which is I guess anti Covid mitigations 🤔

25/8/2025, 4:46:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

The portrayal of “strapping young JFK cut down in the prime of his life” is pretty potent

25/8/2025, 4:43:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

I am, once again, suggesting we nuke the 405 from orbit and start over

25/8/2025, 1:34:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

some are born bitch, some achieve bitchiness, and some have bitchiness thrust upon them

25/8/2025, 1:04:52 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

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24/8/2025, 4:32:44 PM | 7942 2978 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Boba Fett's codpiece (@seascribble.bsky.social) reposted

Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

23/8/2025, 6:50:16 PM | 1010 779 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

5 year old told me it was naptime. Then came out of his room. “I gotta draw a monster.”

23/8/2025, 9:26:07 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

My mom, watching Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: “he certainly has a lot of hair.”

23/8/2025, 7:56:55 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture endora bullshit (@endora-bullshit.bsky.social) reposted

sorry for the cross pollination but....lmao

Buccal Fat Albert @dropkick_murray Jerry Seinfeld calling his girlfriend up from the minors, 1997 image of jerry in the mets uniform on the phone in the dug out
22/8/2025, 10:58:56 PM | 92 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

💯 take a bow tbh

23/8/2025, 3:03:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Nooo it’s my favorite

23/8/2025, 4:02:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

my understanding was “unhoused” is used not because of woke or whatever but because there are all kinds of people living in cars or encampments who don’t consider themselves “homeless” but are not sheltered by the traditional definition. It’s very weird that it became part of the culture war

23/8/2025, 4:02:01 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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22/8/2025, 9:02:14 PM | 304 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Wow, can’t believe Pam Bondi is deporting the world’s most dangerous criminal to another country instead of having him face justice in the US, what possibly could have changed

22/8/2025, 11:47:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 (@emilylhauser.bsky.social) reposted

🧵My God in heaven. Tears as I type. 📢 HOW TO HELP END IT -go to groundavelo.org for resources, maps, actions -I'll share details+insights from @indivisible.org #NoKings #OneMillionRising in this 🧵 Note: Protests have already led Avelo to end services to the W Coast (www.kqed.org/news/1204838...)

22/8/2025, 8:51:33 PM | 213 153 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

“The worst of the worst”

22/8/2025, 8:33:11 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture GT (@granitetide.bsky.social) reposted

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

22/8/2025, 9:19:52 AM | 24855 7117 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Open arms falling into a sea of haters

22/8/2025, 3:58:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Based on the anger towards Texas democrats on this website I feel like maybe it wasn’t communicated clearly enough that they actually had no ability to stop the redistributing, just delay it, which they did, and encourage blue states to fight back, which they did

22/8/2025, 3:58:51 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Guinan I see as a decisive z shape. Barclay strikes me as a nervous dotter

22/8/2025, 3:08:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Ensign Ro, of course, would reject the premise of a glue stick entirely. Wesley Crusher would take a bite of it first.

22/8/2025, 2:42:27 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

It’s always Leo season here

22/8/2025, 2:36:48 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

That Rufo guy is currently trying to cancel a new yorker writer for writing bad tweets whilst in college and now trying to cancel cracker barrel for getting a plainer logo. Whither free speech I ask you

22/8/2025, 3:06:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Someone on here was like Cabot Cove doesn’t have that many murders, Jessica Fletcher just goes places and wherever she goes murders happen and okay, but that's worse. I mean, you… you do get how that's worse? Right?

22/8/2025, 1:25:32 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted

As someone who’s currently unemployed thanks to Trump 2.0, I also wish there was something even resembling the job market and support system that exists for baby Nazis for younger researchers, analysts, or writers on the left

21/8/2025, 8:52:58 PM | 361 66 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Your party closed all the mental hospitals and nobody ever funded the community mental health centers that were supposed to take their place and every time someone dared suggest more money for housing/health/addiction you screamed and then spent the money on vacations.

21/8/2025, 7:20:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Somebody got tired of Kristi Noem getting all the photo ops

21/8/2025, 7:17:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

New sleep paralysis demon dropped

21/8/2025, 5:54:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stone Cold Jane Austen (@abbyhiggs.bsky.social) reposted

Rot in hell, you nasty mass of cellular waste.

James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89 The founder of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, he spent decades denouncing what he saw as the unraveling of the social order
21/8/2025, 3:14:18 PM | 92 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Suckington (@stevesuckington.bsky.social) reposted

the fucking gall of Alvin to name his band ‘Alvin and the chipmunks’. As if he’s not a fucking chipmunk too

5/8/2025, 2:43:53 AM | 719 142 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, a forced birth operative. The credulous New York Times left the comments off for this one

21/8/2025, 1:12:44 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

I got an ad for moving to Michigan. As tempted as I am to live somewhere that uses hand based maps I can’t do snow

21/8/2025, 11:17:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Crushing it (my soul)

21/8/2025, 11:16:13 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

My plan is we move in with my mom and I make a TikTok of us restoring her perfect mcm house???

21/8/2025, 1:40:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I just remember reading that the search dogs on 9/11 got depressed from not finding anyone and the handlers had to take turns being “rescued” and idk do the cadaver dogs get depressed? But as a drug dog I would just be high and loving it!

21/8/2025, 1:38:49 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Drug dog if they let me have samples

21/8/2025, 12:35:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

lol job hunting in this era is the worst

21/8/2025, 12:15:39 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m looking forward to someone replying to you to tell you their child was already familiar with Sun Tzu

20/8/2025, 11:11:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Same

A gray tabby with a white face and white paw curled up on a bed, stretching one foreleg to the camera to show pink beans
20/8/2025, 6:19:23 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social)

Go woke or go broke

20/8/2025, 2:08:00 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

I forgot how uh thorough the man being bitten in half part is and this kid turns to me and says “did that guy get eaten?” And how!!!

20/8/2025, 2:09:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Loather (@loather.bsky.social) reply parent

Him, during the talking parts: “I need to be startled.”

20/8/2025, 2:05:26 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view