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Karen C-M

@karencampbellmoore.bsky.social
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Spend most of my free time on books and word puzzles & games Chronically ill, disabled from long COVID Work in tech, background in business and econ

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
August reading wrap-up: I’m obsessed with The Mash Up, but plenty of great reads this month. If you’re going to do Born a Crime, I def recommend the audiobook! #booksky 📚💙
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
The Mash Up by Laura Marie Meyers
Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This book was absolutely everything my nostalgic Millennial heart wanted it to be 💕 📚💙 #booksky
The Mash Up by Laura Marie Meyers
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
July was the month of page turners - I raced through most of these 📚💙 #booksky
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum 
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood 
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer 
Passions in Death by JD Robb
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is a dog who chased a squirrel straight into the neighbor’s briar patch and has the kindergartener-cutting-my-own-bangs haircut to prove it
Cream-colored Golden Retriever happily panting while his lower legs look like a child took a hedge clipper to his fur
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Sally Sultzman @sallysultzman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Today is THE last day to get crochet! Jewelry! Edits! And the tears of your enemies (to friends? to...more?) GO GO GO! FOR DEMOCRACY!
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I want to hype this auction item! I won a similar item and got Sarah’s feedback on my current WIP. She was incredible! Thoughtful, detailed feedback that was way above and beyond my expectations @romancingthevote.com www.32auctions.com/organization...
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1st Fifty Edit!
Auction item '1st Fifty Edit!' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 01/07/2026
auction.romancingthevote.com GO FORTH. SNIPE. FIGHT. WIN.
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Romancing the Vote 2026
Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2026' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Anyone want to join me to hear @courtneymilan.com rant about Samuel Alito? The @romancingthevote.com auction is open! www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby
Auction item 'Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Super duper to see this two days before I’m supposed to be traveling internationally with my green card-holding spouse.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth! If you'd like to learn about Opal Lee and her years of work to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, please check out @angeliqueroche.bsky.social's First Freedom. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth
Check out First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth - <B>The incredible journey of activist Opal Lee&#8212;known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth&#8212;is brought to life in this biographica...
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good reading month in May! The Incandescent was really charming - I can see why it’s nominated for the Hugo 📚💙 #booksky
Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jiminez
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Yesteryear by Claire Caro Burke
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Random In Death by JD Robb
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 19/01/2026
It's time to start making your plans! Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026! * authors, start annotating those books * artists, start making that art * experts, start plotting your consultations Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com
An imagine of a pair of hands making a heart around pink and purple fireworks in the background
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
COVID killed both my completely healthy uncle and my uncle with a pre-existing lung condition, and neither of their lives was worth more than the other, you absolute unmitigated shitstain of a human
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/05/2026
Saw someone express disbelief that people who vote for the Hugos actually did the reading and I'm like my sibling in Christ these are nerds and reading is their actual hyperfocus, they'll complete the whole assignment with weeks to spare
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
April reads: Loved The Everlasting - time loops, and a hateable villain, and lots yearning. Definitely see why it’s nominated for a Hugo! #booksky
April 2026 Reads:

Good Material by Dolly Alderton
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Martian by Andy Weir
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you want a break from the news, I highly recommend reading through all the Hugo short story nominees - y’all, they’re SO GOOD #booksky
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today is Independent Bookstore Day. Honoring our longstanding tradition, our booksellers are getting commission bonuses this weekend for purchases of all their staff picks! We have shelftalker cards throughout the store and a handy webpage here! ebbooksellers.com/staff-recomm...
Cartoon graphic of a person giving thumbs up to Bookseller Commission Bonuses from 4/24 to 4/26
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.
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Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year
RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread. Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff. 1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I think RFK Jr. read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix when he was a kid and mistook Miles Clifton for the protagonist
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/04/2026
A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.
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Long Covid Predicted to Cost OECD Economies $135 Billion a Year
The pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Labor force growth could be near-zero starting this year…unprecedented in recent US history…making negative job growth almost as likely as positive job growth + any growth in potential GDP will need to come entirely from productivity growth…a significant shift www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...
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Labor force growth, breakeven employment, and potential GDP growth
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
March reads! The Raven Scholar was my favorite fiction read this month - strong world building, some twists I saw coming and some I didn’t. First Freedom was the best nonfiction, gorgeous graphic novel about the life of Opal Lee #booksky
March 2026 Reads
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston 
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
First Freedom by Angelique Roche 
How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell 
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Shannon (They/Them) is Woke and Ghey and Loyal and Noisy @wildesidewalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Clue" is the closest you can ever get to making a Muppet movie with no Muppets.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am going to use this utter dumbfuckery to share that, because we grew up in south Louisiana which is not technically above sea level, my sister did not believe that basements were real until she was a teenager.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.
chart of Cumulative federal deficit in billions of dollars (nominal), FY2021-2026
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is gorgeous, @angeliqueroche.bsky.social!
First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth by Angelique Roche
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
For #LongCovid Awareness Day, we’re releasing the 2026 Long Covid Fact Sheet! This is a list of key statistics about LC, using recent data to reflect contemporary risks. We hope this will be useful for journalists, policymakers, patients, & others! /1
patientresearchcovid19.com
2026 Long COVID Fact Sheet – Patient Led Research Collaborative
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/03/2026
Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
6 good books in February + 1 bad one (not shown, because I DNFed) Into the Woods was my favorite. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a charming romance where each MC can stand on their own! #booksky
A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
Into the Woods by Jenny Holiday
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
James by Percival Everett
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There's been discourse on Long Covid on this site the past few days. I think some people are thoroughly underestimating how hellish chronic illness can make you feel, even if you aren't at an immediate risk of dying.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Four of the ten largest hospital systems in the U.S. are Catholic-affiliated
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 26/02/2026
Pssst - did you see the news that if you donate to your public library this week, you'll get a free audiobook credit from us? 👀⁠⏬
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I was a Paramount intern when Last Holiday came out. I did 8 pre-release screenings in two weeks and still loved this movie at the end of it.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Great morning for doing taxes! 💪🏻💃🏻 US folks, if you made under $69k last year, you are probably eligible for free tax prep assistance. Check this IRS site for a location near you www.irs.gov/individuals/...
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Free tax return preparation for qualifying taxpayers | Internal Revenue Service
The IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs prepare tax returns for free for qualifying taxpayers.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds
Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
If you don’t think you know anyone with long covid what you really mean is that people are uncomfortable sharing their health status with you or there are people who have dropped out of your life (due to illness) that you haven’t checked up on.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
To give context for what this area is like, my cousin owns a crawfish farm here This is also the district where Nottoway Plantation was, before it burned down
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/02/2026
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
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Karen C-M @karencampbellmoore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Good reading month! Tourist Season was my favorite, and A Gentleman in Moscow was the most beautifully written, but I’d honestly recommend any of these #booksky
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
standwithminnesota.com
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
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