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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️

@kassiesharp.bsky.social
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Enjoying a wry smile at one of life's little vagaries. My longer scribblings are at such-small-portions.ghost.io she/her

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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Belly Against Me
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's because she 1) is involved in an embarrasing scandal, 2) is female, 3) does not look like Ivanka.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Do you know who's wife she was? This fucking guy.
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What does it say about me that my first response is "poor kitty"
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happened to watch Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" for the first time on Saturday, and "Project Hail Mary", also for the first time, on Sunday, and halfway through the latter I turned to my spouse and said, "Is it wrong that I'm thinking of this movie as "Sunshine for Dummies"?
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is this the way to the natatorium? I'm Peter Graves and I'm attending a swim meet.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sense8 is Enough
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Homer to Bart: "You tried and you failed. The lesson is: never try."
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Paris, Texas Chainsaw Murders
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
God damn it. This is especially infuriating coming from a pediatrician who has in the past been supportive of trans rights.
erininthemorning.com
SC Dem Senate Candidate Annie Andrews Releases Ad Calling Trans Women “Biological Men”
She also said she would not change the youth HRT and puberty blocker ban in South Carolina.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ooh, I have to look for that.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From mine. It's a fair cop.
Product Preferences: Purchases books opportunistically at low prices.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, philosophically speaking, aren't we *all* just bots in a way, responding as dictated by our neural hardware and societal firmware? 🤷‍♀️Or, in other words, bleep blorp, I appreciate you, fellow humanbot.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kirsty MacColl's cover of Billy Bragg's 'A New England'
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Kirsty MacColl - A New England
YouTube video by stiffrecordsuk
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Next they'll be telling us not to use the <blink> tag... What's that you say?
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Forest Gump
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lidocaine injections before electrolysis is a miracle, y'all.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loved Nato's opening set last night for @wkamaubell.bsky.social at Stanford Memorial Auditorium. Check out his album!
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bonk bonk on the head.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck-a-doodle-doo
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Simon Pegg Cheers with Beer
Alt: Simon Pegg Cheers with Beer
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope she has a GFM so I can contribute to her legal expenses.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still say that in just that way when the word shows up in a crossword or something. I thought I was the only one! 🤩
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...the fuck?
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tubular Bells. I listened to this every day after school for months back in the day.
Record cover of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Twin Peaks It Is Happening Again
Alt: Twin Peaks It Is Happening Again
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An idea for a Star Trek meme popped into my head this morning, so now you have to see it too. Welcome to my world. #StarTrek
Image 1: The alien from Star Trek: TNG "Darmok" saying "Darmok and Jelad at Tenagra, etc."
Image 2: Chief Vanderberg from Star Trek: TOS "Devil in the Dark" saying "Schmitter, burned to a crisp."
Image 3: The alien from Darmok looking quizzical.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this the bookstore in Berkeley, CA?
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Substitute ‘anti-Semite’ for ‘gender critical transphobe’ and Jean-Paul Satre absolutely describes the behaviour of the current wave of TERFs and bigots to a T! 😳 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
66 Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge.
But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The secret ingredient is hormones.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The one thing that makes me want Kamala Harris to run again is that Gavin Newsom said he won't run if she does.
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Kamala Harris is belatedly courting progressives. Is it too little, too late? | Arwa Mahdawi
As she mulls another presidential run, the former VP is building bridges with progressive and Arab American leaders
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This appreciation of Camp Miasma gave me some much needed joy amidst my typical hours of morning doomscrolling.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the way.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As the kids used to say, it me.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really good article on why we need to stay in the fight.
newrepublic.com
Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up
The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's almost like the Democrats don't *need* to attack trans people.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's okay!
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...
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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for writing this. Made me a little weepy, tbh.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The most disheartening thing is how unnecessary it is. I'm losing any enthusiasm I've had for electioneering.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagining Trump and Hegseth as the actors in this drama is especially terrifying.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
North Korea
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Currently reading Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobs, presenting a minute-by-minute account of an attack on the US and our response. Strangely, it is doing nothing to calm my current state of anxiety.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never underestimate the desperation of a ruling class and their subordinates in the superstructure when they feel they have lost control over popular narrative and understanding.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Counting down to Democratic candidates "recalibrating" their support for halal cheese.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Considering that Talarico just brought on an aide to John Cornyn as a policy advisor, I doubt he's going to change his stance once in office.
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎵Walkin' 'way from Omelas, whoa-oh🎵 🎵Walkin' 'way from Omelas, whoa-oh🎵 🎵And don't it feel sad!🎵
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
3) I have no memory of the island of the warlike giants in shiny armor from said 8th grade reading. 4) Overall, really great performances, but sorry to say that Matt Damon didn't impress me. 5) I kept whispering "run away!" a la Monty Python to my spouse at key points in the movie. 2/2
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Kassie Withakay 🏳️‍⚧️ @kassiesharp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I saw The Odyssey yesterday in IMAX 70mm. Good movie. Takeaways: 1) I don't remember the moral of the story being "don't do war crimes" from when I read it in 8th grade, but I approve. 2) IMAX is impressive, but I wasn't ready for how dim the picture would be. Not worth it, imo. 1/2
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