kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 15hEvery time I find a new DIB company (usually VC funded in some form) named after something from Tolkien I have a tiny meltdown. HE WOULD HATE IT IF HE WAS ALIVE, DID YOU NOT READ THE SCOURING OF THE SHIRE PART AHHHHHHHHHHH 010 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...m.youtube.comPunch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MAYouTube video by Less Than Face Productions 000 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kC...m.youtube.comSarah Jarosz crushes Massive Attack's "Teardrop" with Punch BrothersYouTube video by Less Than Face Productions 100 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8XF...m.youtube.com"The Obvious Child" - I'm With Her (LIVE on The Late Show)YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 221 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If I think too hard about the hypocrisy of him being willing to accept his daughter benefiting from NIH-funded cystic fibrosis research and then turning around and trying to ensure that *no one else should ever benefit from government-funded research ever again* I’ll implode into a black hole. 030 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It grates so, and I have similar feelings about wishing to ban “this is the way.” 110 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026They seem … fragile?? It can’t last, riiiiiight? Who am I kidding at this point, they’ll probably rampage through the semifinals too. 010 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 19/02/2026One of the best answers to the hypothetical “what if a jazz band decided to play punk music?” (Black Eyes is one of the other good answers to that question) 170 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 25/01/2026But also, never y’all mind those sweet smol beans from J6 who went out and bought BEAR SPRAY and various other tools for mayhem, they weren’t “incredibly organized” in the least. I can’t stand it. 080 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 11/01/2026This is me, playing my silly space ninja MMO until my back starts yelling at me for sitting like a gargoyle and I have to resurface into reality. 110 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I am going to cry laughing in some combination of schadenfreude and abject misery if/when the reprogramming requests come out and the defense committees flip the fuck out over what accounts got raided to make this work. 000 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I’m also very fond of Nagel’s “History of Government Contracting” but that’s for the real nerds on acquisition like myself scholarship.law.gwu.edu/history_gov_...scholarship.law.gwu.edu A History of Government Contracting by James F. Nagle | Government Procurement Law Archives | George Washington University Law School A History of Government Contracting is the authoritative source on the history of U.S. procurement. This book covers the history of government contracting from the French and Indian War to 2011. 160 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 06/01/2026On acquisition, Wilson is a good pick but I’d rec Fox instead— no slop or gizmos, goes beyond WWII. He lays out the pieces & the deep lore that inform the modern context history.defense.gov/Portals/70/D...history.defense.gov 110 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025I’m a misanthropic construct-slash-security consultant who hacked my governor module, so that’s neat. 060 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025One of my nieces whispered to another while we were in a multi-kiddo hug: “Auntie X gives the *best* hugs.” & a random person at the pool one morning made a point of telling me: “You’re very smooth in the water … you just sort of glide across the top.” 010 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Going on 40 something and some days still can’t make the jump between “do all my friends secretly hate me???” and “oops, forgot to eat something that wasn’t coffee.” 010 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Repeating your point for emphasis: the logies in the tail are the reason the teeth even have sharp pointy objects in the first place. 000 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025my entirely petty issue with this is that I’m essentially forever condemned to have to find and replace uses of DoD in shit I write (presuming that Congress rolls over and inserts language in the FY26 NDAA to make it so for real). 020 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025All rise for these sweethearts! If you gave them little lace collars they’d absolutely look like they’re wearing judicial robes. 190 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I’m in the middle of getting my HPV vaccines because fuck. this. bullshit. and also that seems like another one they’d want to take away… 160 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I got so irrationally angry in the theater when all the New Republic ships show up to blow up the stupid fucking fleet of Mega Death Destroyers or whatever and it turned into non-stop cameos. 0100 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 18/07/2025That interview grew a mental connection for me to the Mountain Goats song Isaiah 45:23. “If my prayer goes unanswered that's all right. If my path fills with darkness and there is no sign of light, Let me praise you for the good times, let me hold your banner high.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkB...m.youtube.comThe Mountain Goats - Isaiah 45:23YouTube video by Dan Schram 1230 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Have to go with “I Think I Need a New Heart” although “I’m Sorry That I Love You” and “You’re My Only Home” are also strong contenders. 150 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 10/07/2025JENNIFER KNAPP that is all. Also Derek Webb so maybe that wasn’t quite all. I may think of more! 240 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Cheers for the recommendation—looking forward to reading this! 020 0
Reposted by kate slayNewfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I have discovered a planet. It is a sphere devoid of sleep. A burning hot moon drifts alone beneath its blood-red sun. Maybe you could find truth there. 0223 0
Reposted by kate slayEntnoot @entnoot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️ Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894) #lordoftherings #lotr #eowyn #lotrfanart #illustration #fantasyart #tolkien 142780920 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 25/04/2025“—Boris, do you remember, товарищ, when we infiltrated the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by compromising multiple supply chains to put bugs in the typewriters? The golden days. We shall never see their like again, товарищ.” spectrum.ieee.org/amp/the-craz...spectrum.ieee.orgThe Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s TypewritersThe NSA engineer who discovered the Cold War scheme came away with admiration for his adversary’s ingenuity 070 0
Reposted by kate slayDorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"versus the Encroaching Forces of Darkness" Jan 31 2017 329271 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48501/...poetryfoundation.orgThe Envoy of Mr. CogitoGo where those others went to the dark boundary for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize go upright among those who are on their knees among those with their backs turned and those topple... 000 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025be courageous when the mind deceives you be courageous in the final account only this is important and let your helpless Anger be like the sea whenever you hear the voice of the insulted and beaten 110 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Go where those others went to the dark boundary for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize go upright among those who are on their knees among those with their backs turned and those toppled in the dust you were saved not in order to live you have little time you must give testimony 110 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025speed running telling all of our allies to fuck off, the 2025 story www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.auTrump admin to Australia: spending $56 billion on defence isn’t enough by halfOne of Trump’s top Pentagon picks, Elbridge Colby, made the United States’ first explicit call for Australia to massively increase defence spending to counter China. 010 0
Reposted by kate slayJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025“Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.” - Annihilation 638355 0
Reposted by kate slayAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/02/2025GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better. 113677074112434 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 13/02/2025“If you don't fund [State] fully, then I need to buy more ammunition … The more that we put into … diplomacy, hopefully the less we have to put into a military budget if we deal with the outcome of an apparent American withdrawal from the international scene.” www.c-span.org/clip/senate-...c-span.orgUser Clip: MATTIS AMMUNITION*MATTIS 3/5/13: If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately*. So I think –it's a cost benefit ratio. The more that we put into the state department's di... 020 0
Reposted by kate slayJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com 3139121320 0
kate slay @kateslay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The Orangey Scrum always makes me happy. Thank you for all you do, and for sharing it with us. 030 0
Reposted by kate slayvalentine @valentinemsmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025and this one was always. see you on the other side #criticalrole 29625 0
Reposted by kate slayVanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Inside me are two wolves...and one of them is effing tired 121319270 0
