Laura

Data Scientist, AI and ML Engineer. Pro sports and aviation enthusiast. Podcast hosts are my best friends.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

This half time show is an excellent representation of the dreams my brain produces during those last 20 minutes of REM sleep at night. #FIFAWorldCup

[Laura @lauravanaya]

I remember coming across #ApplesNeverFall on a flight last year and finishing the whole thing in one sitting. He was phenomenal in it. R.I.P. 😔

[10 News @10NewsAU]

BREAKING: Beloved New Zealand star Sam Neill has sadly passed away at age 78 surrounded by family in Sydney.

"The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free."

More to come soon.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

@FreddyLA7 I don’t love that you mostly skipped DFW while you were in Texas. I’m assuming you won’t be going back but I’m certain you’d have an absolute blast there.

Aside from that, I’d vote for anywhere in the PNW.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

@matsefcik Love the photos but my nervous system can feel these locations and I don’t like it

[Laura @lauravanaya]

Less than three months until I get to build a life in one of the cities of my dreams. Still struggling to believe this is real.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

So do I buy a ticket to see Shaboozey in Vancouver in October, fully speculating that I’ll be there by then?

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

Logging onto the dark web (teams, outlook, and excel)

[Laura @lauravanaya]

@RichOToole Why am I seeing this now that I’m half a globe away from the nearest Buc-ee’s 😭😭

[Laura @lauravanaya]

@moizali Haven’t seen anyone mention Albania yet so that’ll be my recommendation. Stunning nature (both beaches and mountains) and a lively capital city.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

@jackcalifano The way I flew in from Dallas today and fell to my knees when leaving LGA. It was below freezing last week????

[Laura @lauravanaya]

I love flying over the Midwest on a clear sky day. I’ll spot a cool looking lake from above and before you know it rural Kentucky is on my travel bucket list.

(This is Lake Herndon)

[Laura @lauravanaya]

The concept of the train from EWR to Penn being 17 bucks one-way 😵 should’ve just gotten an Uber

[Laura @lauravanaya]

I love so many things about Shrinking but Cobie Smulders getting a role truly took the cake

[Laura @lauravanaya]

I’m sorry but anyone who’s been following ski racing outside of the #Olympics knows that this was the least surprising and most Lena Duerr thing to ever happen. #AlpineSkiing

[Laura @lauravanaya]

Telling everyone from now on that I’m from Goodey

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

German place-names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed from historical forms)

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

"Oh, so, you would compete with a torn ACL?"

No, I wouldn't, but that's why I'm not an Olympic athlete.

I never got up every morning at 4am to train all day for years. Decades.

I never froze my ass off while getting yelled at by a coach for small mistakes and asking if I really want this.

I never watched my family scrape together money for my training as a kid because I told them this is my dream and they believed in me.

I never worked shit jobs during those years of training as a teen and adult to support myself.

I never got injured and sucked it up and persevered.

So, no, I would not have raced because I'm not about that life and never have been.

That's what extraordinary about Lindsey Vonn.

She earned her way back onto Team USA through the same grit and excellence that have defined her career.

She didn't "steal a spot" from anyone.

She's 41 and came out of retirement and bested skiers much younger because she's simply the better athlete who put in the work.

She tore her ACL, consulted with medical experts who gave her the green light, decided to forge ahead, looked great in her training runs, and she was absolutely competitive for the medal stand.

That's the tragic irony of all this: she crashed because of something that could have happened to any skier, not because of her knee.

She knew something like that could happen, yet she still competed fearlessly. As she's always done.

It's why she's an Olympian, and you aren't.

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

BREEZY’S GOLDEN MOMENT. 🥇

Breezy Johnson wins gold in the women’s downhill final for her first career medal at the #WinterOlympics.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

Literally this. Tired of seeing people who’ve never skied once in their life comment on what they think happened. It was an unlucky (and potentially distracted) mistake that could’ve happened to anyone regardless of the state of their knees.

[𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 ™ © ® ⓘ 🇺🇸 @PhillyTalk]

Legend Lindsey Vonn appears to have clipped the flag with her right hand near the top of the course. That spun her to the right. Her knee didn't give out. IMO.

[Laura @lauravanaya]

All I want to say right now is that I’m psyched for Breezy and I hope she gets at least part of the attention she deserves for this moment. #fisalpine #Olympics2026

[Laura @lauravanaya]

Manifested this so hard it’s actually happening. Will have moved to Dallas permanently by August at the latest. 🥹

[Laura @lauravanaya]

Reminder to myself that I’ll likely have moved to either of my homes at heart by the end of next year. At 15, I’d told myself that this would be the ultimate goal before I’d turn 30.

Not too bad getting there at 26. 🥲