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Laura Hudson
@laura_hudson
Writer of things. Sometimes on here. Previously @ Wired, The Verge, Offworld, Femfreq. Chaotic good, optimistic cynic, total champ.
http://laurahudson.mebsky.app/profile/laurah…Joined July 2008

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I’ll still have this account here for announcements, work stuff, watching the ruins of Twitter fall into the sea, etc. But if you need to reach me in a timely way, this isn’t the place to do it.
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every day this website makes me say a series of cursed words no one has ever said before *clears throat* We have now reached the “curvy Johnny Depp” stage of Twitter’s gothic decay
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uhh so there's a small group of twitter users that keep getting logged out of twitter for desktop and when they log back in the only thing they can see is this tweet (not a joke)
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. I say it will end in the Big Divorce Energy of wealthy men who have no idea what they are doing, and yet do it with the confidence of Bruce Willis in Die Hard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E
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It's maddening because no one can make sense of it with any one take. I'm coming around to it simply being the world's loudest midlife crisis. twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/s…
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when I got laid off from a digital media company years ago, I made the managing editor who did the axing cry when i asked her how many times the business plan needed to fail before the people in charge of making the plan suffered instead of the journalists. thinking about that...
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This is why I tell journalism students that open-ended questions are better than questions that sound tough. When conservatives first hijacked “woke,” every journalist should have asked them to define it. Cause these meltdowns would have happened a lot.
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In one of my marine bio classes a teacher asked "how big is the ocean?" and one student yelled "not big enough!" and we all started chanting "expand the ocean! land is for losers!" and the professor smiled and went "yes yesssss soon not even the mountains will be beneath us"
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These are the sweetest kittens in the world. It took all my power not to foster fail and steal one for myself. If you live near portland want a snuggly new friend (or three) there are adoption links in the thread:
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A cow kitten, a tabby kitten, and a calico kitten, spooning together on a green plush.
My darling foster kittens are available at @CatAdopt as Gold, Myrrh, and Frankincense. They are super wonderful and I'll post their direct links below. Get yourself and amazing snuggle friend.
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