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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

See that’s perfect! Warm brownies are a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

If you don’t drink, make a tea service, keep cookie dough balls in the freezer you can bake from frozen. Most of all, just practice saying yes, ask if people want to come over for an afternoon snack or nightcap. People love watching the prep process too, it feels caring and special.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

The older I get the more I respect the ancient art of hospitality, and how it’s about keeping things around that make it easy. We have bar snack mixes, freezer cocktails, wine and seltzer chilled, Marcella Hazan bolognese in the freezer so I can just boil pasta. People love cheese plate dinner!

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 7h

I have a million opinions on this but a big one is to practice at just having 2-4 people over more often. Pick up takeout, toast frozen appetizers, eat chips and dip and just focus on the bathroom if you don’t have time to clean. No one cares. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

Very rude to find out it is not actually common for press to wear ex: a hat that says PRESS and that's only really in movies. I think it would make some of our officials/candidates behave better if there was someone in the front row with one on.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

The Jewish Hello: upon arrival, declining to greet anyone and going straight to the bathroom.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

More people really need to pull their weight around here with the charity auctions. We keep being the only people who bid on things at like, the community mental health hub open house, and now we accidentally have a Blackstone Griddle we have to go pick up at some point.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

One of the joys of living in a small town: there simply aren't enough people around to stop you.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 9h

Scheming with my husband: easily one of my favorite couple activities.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 12h

Like I can't even tell you how much more overwhelming it was 10 years ago to be in a workplace where every other person was doing paleo or low carb or drinking replacement shakes. Now people just eat, and if they take half of it home it's not my business to scrutinize their appetite!

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 12h

Like no matter how many ads you might see for GLP1s, think about how many ads you don't see for Nutrisystem or Special K cereal or whatever anymore. I remember when the algorithm was packed to the ceiling with South Beach and WW and whatever else. The medication ads are IMO mild by comparison.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 12h

I'm hoping there's room for a slightly different take here but there's no more diet talk in my family and friend groups anymore, and it's a very good thing. I think people underestimate the extent to which GLP1s killed off a bunch of the industry. Most people I know on them just live their life now.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 12h

Conversely: the too many people who debate over whether the end of Midsommar was a girlboss moment or not. It is clearly an Everyone Sucks Here situation meant to show how people tend to leave one toxic dynamic for another.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 12h

The number of people I know who watched Hereditary and thought it had too negative a portrayal of women. 🫠

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All of The Shining is amazing, but portraying the raw terror of a child with an unstable/unreliable parent is something this movie does uniquely well. The practiced routine of self-enabling Jack slips into of justifying himself every time he sits at the bar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzY...

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The Shining 4K | Bar Scene

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On a rewatch I actually feel like this is one of the most disturbing and dread-inducing scenes in The Shining, especially if you were a kid with an adult in your life who also did this kind of "tell me what I want to hear or else" routine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_O...

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The Shining - Jack comforts Danny : " I would never do anything to hurt you, ever "

YouTube video by Meghna Saha

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you're looking for an incredible no jump scares/no slashers scary movie, La Llorona, the actually good 2019 one directed by Jayro Bustamante, is on a bunch of free streaming platforms! Follows a genocidal general haunted by the ghosts of his crimes. www.criterion.com/films/33103-...

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La Llorona

A country’s bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante’s transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of th...

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think these questions are only going to get more interesting as "companion AI" continues to change shape, now including a small but growing market of people hiring cosplayers to be IRL surrogates so they can go on dates with their AI companions: news.sky.com/video/robot-...

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Robot girlfriends and cosplay dates: how love is changing in China

Many people in China are opting for digital or AI-based companionship over human-to-human interactions.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

~85% of users of AI companions don't use them every day, ~90% keep sessions under an hour. For the vast majority, an AI companion is treated no differently than their other daily tech use. I hope this gives us better foundations to ID and help people that struggle. www.media.mit.edu/articles/sup...

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Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health – MIT Media Lab

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1 in 7 young adults in committed relationships regularly interact with an AI romantic companion. Men were slightly more likely to experiment with them, but the gender gap was small. This result has been repeated several times in other surveys. wheatley.byu.edu/Secret-Soulm...

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Secret Soulmates

A surprising number of young adults in real-life romantic relationships are simultaneously maintaining secret romantic interactions with AI chatbot companions.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Research from MIT Media Lab looked closely at regular companion app users and found that only 12% were driven to the apps to cope with loneliness, and only 14% used them primarily to discuss mental health or personal issues. www.media.mit.edu/articles/sup...

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Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health – MIT Media Lab

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of the notable paradoxes I find as someone who loves bringing my basket of gender to tech convos: most people using companion AI apps are actually socially active, partnered, or mentally healthy. The % of lonely users is higher than in the general population, but still a distinct minority.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2001 also has an abnormal amount of "real time" scenes, where we follow characters through many minutes of a process, really feeling how long it would take if we were there. The slice-of-life vignettes throughout, including meals, are so unusual compared to the pacing of other sci-fi films.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2001: a Space Odyssey is indeed all about food! How we eat, what we eat, where it goes with us through the cosmos, taking time in various scenes to seat our most human concerns in otherworldly places. www.markslutsky.com/archive/some...

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Something Good #19: A Gustatory Odyssey

For as long back as I can remember, my favourite film has been Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (well, The Neverending Story filled that role for a...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Housing in SF is a bloodbath. CA requires San Francisco to plan for and permit 82,000 new units by 2031. So far this year they've managed to complete about 405. It's comically horrible, and everyone has spent decades pretending anything but building a lot more apartments will make a dent.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I moved to SF in 2011, during the startup surge that would birth the first "unicorn" company, and then by 2013 my rent had more than doubled. It's so easy for landlords to consolidate power and capital when there's so few units and no one can build more. Yes, even with rent control.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This has been a problem in SF for 20+ years, surges during every tech boom cycle, and it's fueled directly by the city dragging its ass on making it easier to build more dense apartment housing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘Nowhere left for people to go’

According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love how in 2001 Kubrick was so incredibly excited to show you in basically every other scene how people get their snack on in the future. Snackleboxes galore.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And now the only certified wastewater poop supervisor at the poop plant quit with no notice (gee I wonder why with this crowd) and now it’s pandemonium. The mayor declared it a state of poopmergency and the council spent the next meeting getting mad he had the power to do that. It’s better than tv.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This particular council, all of them hate each other and a lady made a public comment that was all the local gossip about how the mayor drives to Idaho to pick up “floozies.” They spend every meeting trying to use Roberts rules to bicker and name call. I love it. It is the antidote to national news.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can’t tell you what a soothing balm it is to cover the most local of news in these horrific times. I am healed by watching the neighboring city council (pop 1400) bicker because the only man who runs the water treatment plant quit and there’s no one to make sure the poop is treated properly.

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ceej @ceej.online · 09/10/2026

I hope you all had fun getting mad on here today

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A house fav snack that I modified with homemade pear chutney for a pear season party, was a huge hit. We like ours with aloo bhujia crispy sticks, and tortilla chips if papdi isn't available. www.indianveggiedelight.com/indian-chaat...

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Indian Chaat Dip (Party Dip)

This Indian Chaat Dip is a party-friendly version of classic papdi chaat, combining thick yogurt, chutneys, potatoes, & spices into a dip.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

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Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans

Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

About to testify in favor of this and am going to lift up @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's amazing book There is No Place for Us, which details how corporate behaviors directly lead to people being pushed into homelessness, where they are still used as instruments of profit for shareholders.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And the difference between medicine even 30 years ago and medicine now is among the largest in the lowest resource places! The difference ex: basic vaccines, antibiotics, medical plastics have made especially for people who are often excluded from modern medical infrastructure is baffling.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My biggest “kids today don’t know how good they have it” gripe is when people take modern medicine for granted. I feel like it’s this indicator that you possibly haven’t had any serious medical emergency happen to you yet if you can think today is like, uniquely bad in human history.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In digging through old newspaper clippings I found a story of a civilian who escaped a battle on the Columbia River in the 1850s by paddling away riding a barrel of butter. I am now attempting to make "taking the butter barrel" regional slang for making a hasty exit.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I never thought I'd be writing newsletter reporting about oil wells, salmon hatcheries, and owls but it's like that guy says in the Grand Budapest Hotel: "Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you." Sometimes they even drop off drives of data at my house!

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am positive the original owner asked 0-1 government agencies to bury a home heating oil tank sometime from 1930-1970. I now must beg several of them and take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential liability for the right to dig a small hole to test if it caused any pollution.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One day I can't wait to talk about the Kafkaesque experience that has been trying to complete an environmental review and potentially remediate a home heating oil tank that was buried long before I was born. 5 govt agencies and counting to try to get permission just to sample surrounding dirt.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something that may be ecologically and scientifically sound, necessary watershed infrastructure like widening creek buffers, can be really scary to the people who now live inside the new ones. Govt must do more to help people manage these changes, esp with something as existential as their home.

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