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Karina Coombs

@karinacoombs.com
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Writer in Massachusetts interested in pop culture, news, and books. YIMBY in NIMBYtown.

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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 54m
That was an unexpected journey!
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 58m
I avoid FL so I get it.
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 4h
On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home
Tom Ford spring 2027 runway look
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 5h
I honestly cannot fathom that it’s come to this. Everyone fawning over this delusional and doddering fool as he casually threatens blowing up a country.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 5h
As a 56 year old woman and a mother of two young adult daughters, this is disheartening to see.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 5h
I don’t know. Being obsessed with the shit he’s obsessed with seems pretty weak.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
OMG
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
The images and phrases are all so weird.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
Elitist and ableist.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
My favorite
Error page for America.gov featuring the text “Hot Dog” above an image of someone grilling hotdogs with a golden retriever trying to catch a falling one.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
Just describing who these people are to my kids makes me feel like I’ve lost it.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I need a cigarette after reading that.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
So if they ever make an AGI will it then be called Super-Duper Intelligence?
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
She’s really giving a bad name to blondes.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
Useless idiot.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I’ll admit that America.gov is entertaining.
Screenshot text from America.gov 

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Who is big balls

In congressional correspondence, "Big Balls" is described as an online alias used by Edward Coristine, a person associated with DOGE (the U.S. DOGE Service effort).

A Senate Small Business Committee letter (August 1, 2025) refers to him that way in connection with reported access to Small Business Administration systems: PDF 7. 

Other congressional items also name Edward Coristine among DOGE-linked staff (for example, this House resolution draft 7).
I cannot verify from those sources that this is an official job title, or confirm later employment status.
Ask anything...
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
Yes! Saw it on my Instagram feed and wait straight to the comments. 😂
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
Actual crimes are happening daily right in front of them and they are instead trying to seem like super geniuses by creating conspiracies that are easily disproved. These are not self-aware people.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
There are a lot of MAHA adjacent people in Concord and surrounding towns so this isn’t totally surprising. That said, they are still the minority in so I’d be curious to see how this goes.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I just saw this post. I’d been thinking about trying it out but I can’t give money to seed oil and tallow creeps. The comments on their Instagram will probably see them shift back sooner than later.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I would never show my face again if that was my fuck up.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I remember being at a parent orientation for my new college student and the entire theater erupted in cheers when some school officials emphasized the dangers of AI. This was an entire theater of parents. And my 18 year old and her peers ruthlessly mock the technology. There’s hope.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 28/09/2026
Fantastic city and biking infrastructure was unbelievable when I visited last in 1999, but I still have memories of dozens of bike bells shrilly ringing around me as I lazily rode because I was amazed at the sights and horribly jet lagged. They mean business.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 28/09/2026
He needs to be impeached and his enablers removed and prosecuted for any and all crimes
propublica.org
The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worst episode of Dr. Who ever
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
Too much Ellison in the news these days.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
Don’t forget the sperm. He’s very concerned about counting the sperm.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it’s not great. It’s also infuriating that - as a 56 year old woman - much of this stuff keeps happening despite a new awareness of consent and what rape actually looks like. I’ve been telling my daughters about my own rape for years in hopes they can protect themselves.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
He’s so sad he’s not running. Totally projecting how left out he feels.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
I have an 18 year old at college this year and I can’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had with her to prepare for some of this stuff. Always her response has been that a lot of this happens in high school too. At this point she just stays away from guys when she’s out…
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 27/09/2026
My place isn’t very airtight either judging by the wind blowing out of my kitchen electrical outlets…
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
And a Cracker Barrel on every corner.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
That face!
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
Exactly. When I used to type “58008” into my calculator, I never once thought it was actually thinking about human anatomy. But some jail cells are just hungry. It’s a fact. If we can sate their appetite by feeding them billionaires, who am I to judge.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
Not escaping the “weird” allegations.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
I used to be somewhat impressed by these prestigious schools, but they’ve shown very little backbone re: this administration’s determination to make schools white and male and this is just salt in the wound.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
When I was in college I wrote a 20+ page research paper in a night (courtesy of cigarettes, Gatorade, and speed). If I also had to deal with this AI bullshit I’d lose my mind.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
The same YouTube that rejected the ad buy for the Musk documentary because it was political?
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
He wouldn’t be satisfied even if we became the United States of Trump. He is delusional and it’s time for Congress to do something about it.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
We have a 5 year old highly reactive doodle. Even with tranquilizers, we’re always surprised the groomer hasn’t been mauled when we pick him up. “Didn’t see any blood and they didn’t say he couldn’t come back,” is usually what my husband reports when asked how it went.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
My kid wrote an essay an hour before it was due yesterday. “I’m worried the professor will think it’s AI because I wrote it so fast.” Tell me again how this tech is supposed to be improving our lives when an 18 year old spends more time worrying her writing being flagged than actually writing.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
His stories are fantastic and my kid who just started Emerson is following him with great enthusiasm!
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
He’s a human Superfund site. We’ll be cleaning up his mess forever.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
You just know she was insufferable in high school. And all this failing up isn’t helping.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
Imagine saying all this stuff out loud and thinking it makes you sound like a big thinker. I think he maybe needs to pull back some skills he offloaded…
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
20% enjoying his own bed 30% missing the college student (who actually owns the bed) 50% pouting because the other dog won’t let him on my bed
A light tan labradoodle curled up in ball atop a bed with a checkered quilt and stuffed animals and in front of a white curtained window.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
Well that’s humiliating.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
Did spending 6 million on gold leaf make the list?
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