Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I bought a 2023 VW ID.4 — a lease return with 34k miles, deluxe edition — for less than half the cost of new and I love it. This car is discontinued in USA and they have tons of inventory. I paid about $21k for a beautiful car and I love it. 030
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Any other 80-somethings with evil in their hearts and pasts??? Gotta be a third to go. 060
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New Niffenegger alert! #Bookskyshare.libbyapp.comLife Out of Order“GRACEFUL, COMPLICATED, SATISFYING.” - BONNIE GARMUS, AUTHOR OF LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY The multi-million copy bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife returns with an exhilarating speculative stor... 060
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Agree! Also the kid-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Not sure which I would have seen first, and I suppose the banshee was worse! 150
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Six in my family growing up including a dad with a huge sweet tooth. We girls routinely made 2 or more double batches each weekend. And regular desserts with dinner on top of that. 020
Reposted by Kate HootsI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026In case folks missed this. 3305157
Reposted by Kate HootsDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When politicians who have never had to appeal to non-conservatives in their lives suddenly face a tough general election campaign, it turns out they're very bad at it! Here's @ryanlcooper.com on the candidates who can't candidate: prospect.org/2026/10/02/m...prospect.orgPanicked Red-State Republicans Learning Politics on the Fly - The American ProspectGOP candidates in places like Kansas and Texas are having to really campaign for the first time. 820156
Reposted by Kate HootsCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“You haven't asked me one fucking positive question." 4462377
Reposted by Kate Hoots Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026This is what every media outlet should do - publish Trump rants verbatim, word-for-word. Not sanewash, like a certain newspaper of record. 823659
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026read this and try to claim the president is not cuckoo bananas 000
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026jesus christ what an asshole. Watch this and be angry at this absolute fucking tool and his petty but unfortunately so powerful prejudices. 001
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Impressed that you will talk about this on an open forum. Watch your back! 🐸 110
Reposted by Kate HootsOREGON BS @oregonbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s some BS around Christine Drazan that deserves scrutiny. Rebecca Wright was Drazan’s 2022 deputy campaign manager. Wright later became prez of Drazan’s nonprofit, A New Direction. She then became deputy COS to Labor Sec Chavez-DeRemer. #drazan oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...oregoncapitalchronicle.comHow Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100K from her nonprofit with little oversight • Oregon Capital ChronicleThe situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign. 22918
Reposted by Kate HootsJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵 461544567
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah but can you actually name even one more song abput rainbows? Other than somehere over the ofc 690
Reposted by Kate HootsLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@editorialboard.bsky.social's doing an AMA! 1164
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Please move off Substack, so I can read you again! Seriously begging. 001
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🚨 🚨 🚨 Carb alert! There are amazing small batch bread recipes on this website and even more in the Small Batch Bread cookbook. Cheesy garlic knots, ciabatta breadsticks, bagels, and more — recipes using just one cup of flour. 😋 011
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you for sharing your recipes! I just told my family I may actually have a wish list (1 item) for the holidays this year! 010
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you for posting this — looks amazing! It has been a long time since I have wanted a new cookbook, especially for bread. I put it on hold at my library (6 ahead of me!) to give it a test. Making 2 bagels or 1 small baguette would be amazing 💕🥖 🥯 🥙 110
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh, no! That’s terrible. Oh well, it’s just too durn uncomfortable/inconvenient/unfashionable/whatever to mask, so nothing we can do I guess 🤷♀️ 020
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you! It isn’t to think of all he new conditions, syndromes, and infections lurking in the future after COVID. Like shingles after chicken pox, which is bad enough. But now all our systems and organs seem vulnerable. 170
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Covid gave me a secondary eye infection (inside my eyeball) that my doc says seems to be common now. I hope I don’t continue to get repeat uviitis because it sucked. 1100
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026delightful thread oh dang did I name it or describe it? 110
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ohhh that looks great, thank you for the recommend!! 010
Reposted by Kate HootsHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026UNPRECEDENTED ENERGY CRISIS! YEEEEE HAWWWWstatic.klipy.comSnoopy Surfing in PeanutsALT: Snoopy Surfing in Peanuts 262625
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great now my veggie burgers are going to become harder to get 001
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just gotta remember to shoot the fish BEFORE you bring it into the boat. If only everyone remembered this. 2171
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I would support this and I appreciate your input but I do not read on Substack. 000
Reposted by Kate HootsChrome Dinette @exdinette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is the withered corpse of Charlie Daniels still tweeting this everyday? 526247
Reposted by Kate HootsBen (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran 501947247
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Don’t sleep on the AI summaries! They may (or may not!) be accurate. 020
Reposted by Kate HootsRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Desperate autocrats engage in desperate behaviors—and that is exactly what Trump is doing now. His tricks are in line with those of other desperate autocrats, but they are worth calling out and paying attention to. Remember that autocrats fear you and fear the power you express by voting. 7370159
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Did you have to bring your own toilet paper? (Sorry if that’s not what you were seeing!) 191
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Every time I see a Cybertruck I say, out loud, well there’s a person with more money than sense. 0245
Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This was fun. I drew a couple of very different lives. 000
Reposted by Kate HootsNicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026All of these think pieces about the woke movement (for lack of a better term) yet none ask the first question we ask about any socio-political movement- The woke movement claimed there were individuals and institutions who wanted to erode civil rights protections. Was the movement wrong? 538758
