Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My thoughts on Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (which I loved): 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/w...0katherine.neocities.org🌿 A Commonplace Boke 000
Reposted by Katherine Traylorhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday 1417260
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's so good. Like Midnight Mass but less soul-crushing. 110
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I didn't even blink at that headline. 100% believable. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is sounding a whole lot like people are being murdered. 000
Reposted by Katherine TraylorBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle. 241275315
Reposted by Katherine TraylorIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026Still cracking up over the idea of a movie asking "What if Scrooge had a point," because A) he didn't and B) it's not as if we haven't already had the entire run of DuckTales to explore this question 674326658
Reposted by Katherine TraylorAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Congratulations to MapQuest for becoming the #1 navigation app in the App Store. And thanks for being the navigation app of the resistance! ✊ 221115352108
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think initial counts are just the number of people they can physically see who didn't make it. :( 110
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Because men are socialized to view the physical beauty of their partners as a measure of their own personal success. 010
Reposted by Katherine Traylorchrisjuhn.bsky.social @chrisjuhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I witnessed Spider-Man going into action yesterday in Minneapolis. He rode in on the back of a muscle car. Then leaped onto the pickup, right before unleashing a hail of fists onto his nemesis, Jake Lang, Jayden Scott, and their minions. 37877202
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is my group! I hope you'll check it out. My story is a comic-book-inspired not-quite-novella about supervillain family drama. 🦹🦸♀️🦹♀️ 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This was my immediate thought on hearing this. I'm sure a motorcycle could also outrun Usain Bolt. 000
Reposted by Katherine TraylorDanny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Writers who sell more books than me say it’s best to stick to a “niche” and I think they shut up and stick to being DORKS. 031
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I dreamed there was a mineral called "apocrypha" that you could buy at crystal shops. It looked like white marble or ceramic, with little dark scribbly marks that turned out to be the remnants of prehistoric drawings. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I just watched the 1995 'Street Fighter' for the first thing and it was the most gloriously silly thing I've seen in years.static.klipy.comBad Movies Rule Street Fighter MovieAlt: Raul Julia as Bison in 1995's Street Fighter movie clenching his fists and yelling "Game! Over!" 020
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A really cute bird talking in bird language. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The pioneers scalded their milk before they drank it. 190
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I just looked up a photo to check a detail after months of working on an Edwardian period piece about a haunted rocking horse, and WHAT DO YOU MEAN bow rockers had mostly been replaced by "safety stands" by the 1910s? How can it creak ominously through the house at night if it's on a SAFETY STAND? 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026He's starting to look a little like Old Darth Vader. Maybe it's the leather.static.klipy.comDarth Vader UnmaskedAlt: Darth Vader Unmasked 010
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This was always going to be the next step. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I did it once, tried to edit the novel, and realized that it basically could not be edited. Never again. 110
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Kool-Aid Man (for documented destructive power), Jolly Green Giant (for majesty and squishing), Wendy (for strategy, judging by her mean and clever online persona), and Jack Box (because he's fucking terrifying and I don't want him trying to kill me). 010
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Hasn't this been said about just about every war in history? "It'll be over by Christmas." "It'll be over in a week." They should have known it was bullshit. 020
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026You'd probably be a lot more likely to see someone with African ancestry than someone who looked "Aryan." 020
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Including 175 enslaved by him personally at the time of his writing and a total of over 600 throughout his life, of whom several were his own children. He freed his sons (when he DIED), but his daughters had to run away. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026They seem to be the only ones who haven't determined it. 020
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026White House announces plans to kill a whole lot of innocent people. 000
Reposted by Katherine TraylorProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2026The rise in rulings on the “shadow docket” has been driven, at least in part, by Trump’s losses in lower courts. “The patterns show a court going out of its way to enable Trump,” one scholar said. “That’s the real blow to the court’s credibility.”propublica.orgA Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little JustificationProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation. 22920397
Reposted by Katherine TraylorEuropean Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 17/07/2026Trees act like natural air conditioners, and they do it in two ways: Shade: They block the sun from hitting the ground. Active cooling: This is the cool science part. Trees "sweat" by releasing water into the air. 23323
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026They do, though. Every country has horrible politicians. The specifics of our system are the issue: unchecked corporate influence is permitted, the president has WAY too much power, winner-take-all elections enforce polarization, we have no no-confidence option to recall bad politicians, etc. etc. 0110
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I've been thinking of it as the hive mind. Incredible processing power, and incredible information-sharing potential, but we're not hive insects so we shouldn't spend so much time linked up to it. 020
Reposted by Katherine TraylorUAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026California Tribe Sues Feds for Planned Mass Removal of Wild Horse Herd on Ancestral Lands. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...nativenewsonline.netTribe Sues Feds for Planned Mass Removal of Wild Horse Herd on Ancestral LandsA California tribe is suing the federal government to stop the removal of more than 600 wild horses from its homelands. The Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation filed a federal... 38545
Reposted by Katherine TraylorProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.propublica.orgA Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little JustificationProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation. 26874398
Reposted by Katherine TraylorUAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026California has transferred a 136-acre piece of coast in Mendocino known as Blues Beach to a tribal nonprofit, returning stewardship of the bluffs, shoreline and cultural sites to the descendants of the Indigenous people who lived there for generations. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...yahoo.comCalifornia returns stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. 'This is beyond huge'State transportation officials recently approved the transfer of Blues Beach and the surrounding bluffs to Kai Poma, a nonprofit founded by representatives of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians,... 08328
Reposted by Katherine TraylorThe Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Weatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating: Study shows falling dust levels are making clouds more reflective, an effect not taken into account in climate models Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust in the a...theguardian.comWeatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heatingWeatherwatch: Cleaner clouds may slow rate of global heating: Study shows falling dust levels are making clouds more reflective, an effect not taken into account in climate models Cleaner clouds are helping to slow the rate of global heating, a study shows. Falling levels of dust in the a... 043
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Don't call it enforcement. These are illegal arrests that violate due process. These are abductions. 0163
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Individual air conditioning is definitely a serious environmental problem, but the recent heat wave reportedly killed 1000 people in France. Cooling technology is essential. It would be better to focus on making air conditioning technology more environmentally friendly. 000
Reposted by Katherine TraylorAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public. 312756792
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026My dad liked the Beatles and Hot Rize. My mom liked (and still likes) BB King, Buena Vista Social Club, Manu Chao, and CAKE. But they had a collection of 80s new age CDs (Narada compilations, Fresh Aire, Tangerine Dream) that formed the basis of my personal taste. 000
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Mine occasionally do it in the litter box, which I think is very considerate of them. 010
Reposted by Katherine TraylorDanny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I think one of the reasons I love seeing good writing news is because that means that people—despite everything going on—are still creating art. Like that’s a good thing. 0122
Katherine Traylor @katherinetraylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Saying that is like a conservative saying they "belong to MAGA" or are "an operative of MAGA." Antifa is a sociopolitical movement, but it's not an organized group with registered members and a leadership tree. 041