Reposted by KathAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap 492156972961
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Read, w/ all replies. Could be very good theater or cinema. Fascinating issue. (Note: also, there's some possible minor goods news about microplastics cited a few replies in). 000
Reposted by KathVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I see you are also one of the six people whose memories extend further back than 2015 1211
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"We should also not forget that the shingles vaccine prevents shingles, a dangerous, painful, and disfiguring disease." 000
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When did we decide that truth-in-advertising law should not apply to ads on the internet? 000
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I continue to be stunned by the number of Bsky posters who don't know about how the Amish or other traditional isolated religious communities live. We need (at least) two different but related things to happen ASAP: 1/ 111
Reposted by KathAmelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026...this is a beautiful thing to have pop up on the TL without context lmao 0221
Reposted by KathGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Would you bring an iced coffee to an exorcism 16459576
Reposted by Kathryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12352981372
Reposted by KathStheno @sthen0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The only good thing to come out of them was Fred Clarke’s read-along blog/close reading/deconstruction. 031
Reposted by Kathjoel hanes @joelhanes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If it's a treadle machine, until her 80s my grandmother made most of her clothes on one very like it, and sewed a nightgown or set of pajamas for Christmas for each of her twelve grandchildren, and made hand-knotted quilts from the scraps and worn-out sheets. 0101
Reposted by KathJohn Walling @johnki7yra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Right wing Republicans are jumping off the MAGA boat: Erick Erickson, John Cornyn, Karl Rove, Tucker Carlson, Ken Griffin, and many more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Px... ..youtube.comPolitics Chat, September 17, 2026YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson 003
Reposted by KathScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sen John Cornyn (R-TX) says he will join Karl Rove in voting for the Democratic candidate for Texas RR Commission because of Bo French's racist twitter posts.texastribune.orgJohn Cornyn says he won’t vote for Bo French after racist postThe outgoing U.S. senator called the Texas Railroad Commission candidate “an embarrassment to the Republican Party.” 48322
Reposted by KathC.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist, endorsed a Texas Democrat this week and wrote that the Republican Party's "stables need a cleaning." Cornyn reposted it. Twice. When Rove and Cornyn quote each other endorsing Democrats, the fracture isn't a wing. It's the load-bearing wall. 1114
Reposted by Kath🧡🐕🧡ISLAtheMightyToyFoxTerrier 💛💙🌻🇺🇦🌻💙💛 📎📎 @truthseeker1983.bsky.social · 19/09/2026HCR said, Karl "freaking" Rove tweeted that he would vote for a Democrat in November. Senator Cornyn retweeted that message. 001
Reposted by KathStella Ducks @stelladucks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Cornyn reposted a comment made in a WSJ op-ed titled “Why I’m Voting for a Texas Democrat.” by Gophead Karl Rove, a Dubya Bush advisor: “The GOP’s stables need a cleaning. This is a good place to start." www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/j...texastribune.orgJohn Cornyn says he won’t vote for Bo French after racist postThe outgoing U.S. senator called the Texas Railroad Commission candidate “an embarrassment to the Republican Party.” 001
Reposted by Kathmikestarace.bsky.social @mikestarace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)...posted a Wall Street Journal article...: “Why I’m Voting for a Texas Democrat.”...Rove wrote the raw racism, religious bigotry & sexism coming from French has driven him to support French’s Democratic opponent, Jon Rosenthal, for railroad commissioner.heathercoxrichardson.substack.comSeptember 18, 2026According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon. 001
Reposted by KathSortadandy @sortadandy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026 -from Heather Cox Richardson ([Karl] Rove was an advisor to Pres. George W. Bush. [John] Cornyn is a lame duck Senator from Texas.) 011
Reposted by KathCate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I grew up in the woods, and let me tell you, there is nothing more stifling than the politics in a small town where every single person knows you, your mama, your granny, and your third cousin Beulah Ann. 761382
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Does it really count as disagreeing if I say that there might have been some even more foolish votes taken by the electorate of Athens during classical antiquity? 000
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not a single reply on this thread comes from someone admitting to more years on this planet than I have. Hmmm. 120
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think it's kind of a problem that we've allowed a national & global situation to develop where anyone offering guidance & advice - including official govt sources - have to tell people who get a phone call purporting to come from a govt agency they should just - hang up before they get scammed. 000
Reposted by Kathsascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It certainly wasn't a perfect time by any means, but as we approach tomorrow's anniversary I would sing encomiums and glad songs of the interregnum between January 1st, 2000, when nothing of note happened because so many of us worked to save the world from Y2K (and we did); and September 10th, 2001. 121
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 07/09/2026She turns out to be a "she." She's orange so I'd just assumed male, as did the vet on her first visit (which featured welding gloves). But she was much tamer by the 2nd visit allowing a more thorough exam. She's fearless. She tackles my large 2yr-old males (neutered, but still) in ferocious play. 010
Reposted by KathAbacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Regrettably it appears that Pestilence has come back from retirement and is now in charge of the Department of Health. 081
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You know, a propos of nothing in this thread - this is such a good idea. Excellent security technique. 000
Reposted by KathMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/08/2026You don't have to love party leadership or think they're doing enough, but if your argument is that the party has moved right since 2016, listing six things where the party is either provably to the left or doing standard governing isn't going to cut it. 211727
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I think I really like the term expressive listening. It's so, um, expressive. 000
Reposted by KathRobert @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The powerful wizard Biden has cast such a powerful spell over the world that none of Trump’s incantations can overcome it. 221
Reposted by KathJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"Garry isn’t accepting new doctoral students, because he can’t guarantee funding their work, and he’s spent the past two years nudging his researchers into jobs elsewhere."bloomberg.comA Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at StakeThe battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats. 47837
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I once lived a few blocks from the lowest overpass on Memorial Drive (across the river from Storrow Drive). We called it the Truck-Eating Bridge. 1/2 110
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Drinking caffeine at 7:00pm after my 16yr-old warned me it's too late in the day: "herbs that are good for an old Franciscan are not good for a young Benedictine." 010
Reposted by KathCoconino from 🌶️ New Mexico @coconinoite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Privatization of public and quasi public services like transportation and utilities is a just a bad idea. 031
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Astonishingly casual news articles about the rabid goats at a petting zoo this month. 000
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Way to go, Google AI. When asked for more about the specific scene from the mistakenly identified source of the quote: "The quote actually appears in Chapter 6 of Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel Ethan of Athos (1986), rather than Mirror Dance as previously noted." 010
Reposted by Kathcumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You are statistically much more likely to survive an impact with a joke if you're not a bluesky user. 3864
Reposted by KathFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 26/08/2026For those of you who don’t think cats are magical creatures, Jinx is literally licking rainbows onto herself. 13105389
Reposted by KathDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership. 18134151387
Reposted by KathRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Personally, I think Canada should solve everything by renaming Lake Ontario the Gulf of Mexico 511042159
Kath @kathmarval.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Some ideas to think about in this interview (gift article - you can read it for free without a subscription). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Why People Hate the Government (Gift Article)Annie Lowrey, the author of “The Time Tax,” explains how the government steals Americans’ time — on purpose. 100
Reposted by KathRoto BOOOOO-tor @rototudor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Whoever saves one person saves the whole world. 222748