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Kathryn McMahon

@katoscope.bsky.social
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Therapist. Writer of strange, dark short fiction and flash. In Pseudopod, Split Lip, Smokelong, and more. Social justice, nature, stories, dogs, food. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. She/they. 🏳️‍🌈 🥄 #endometriosis

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
queen water lily by elsa beskow, 1914
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 23h
Why would anyone want to live in an HOA when they could live like this??? 💚💚💚
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23h
given that we're trapped in a movie script, i prefer more slapstick and less horror this is genuinely hilarious
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also love this clip of indigenous women veterans dancing on Custer’s flag
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Kyle @plugtypeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I may have found the best yard skeleton in South Minneapolis
A lawn skeleton continuously shitting green liquid into a trash bin of radioactive waste. The skeleton holds a bag of Taylor Farms lettuce in one hand, a bag of Taco Bell in the other
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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The annoying: Sam’s Club is apparently using AI to create official product pics. The horror: AI made Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pies into tacos. 😱 (Hat tip to Reddit. Verified in Sam’s app. This is image 9 of product.)
AI has made oatmeal crème pies into tacos.
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Process
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/10/2026
What I like about Bluesky is that Ukraine's bombing of the Russian Bots has no effect on traffic here, we all blocked those bots long ago
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/10/2026
Poets gotta have a dark and nasty aura It's canon
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
so you liked my horror movie did you. well i hope you also like the eight sequels prequels and reboots where i systematically dismantle everything that made my horror movie scary in the first place
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
People block words and phrases related to things they don't want to see on Bluesky. Sometimes these are genuinely triggering things; sometimes it's just preference. Include a pic with no alt text, and you're forcing them to see blocked content.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No more hypotheticals anymore, we’re here.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 11/10/2026
A pair of assassins named Terms and Conditions
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Velocirapture
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 10/10/2026
Join me for some spooky writing fun on Halloween Eve 🦇⚡️ we'll be talking about how horror contributes to every genre & how to capitalize on each deliciously bloody drop of it in your stories
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
fugue state and chill
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
remember how we’d Halloween-ify our Twitter handles, back when there was joy and groceries
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anand Giridharadas is awesome. I highly recommend his book, The Persuaders. It gave me so much hope.
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
True! While I doubt my family would ever use AI to "resurrect" me for any reason, I'm thinking I might add "absolutely no AI" to my will...
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bear.
Black bear on a rocky hillside
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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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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This strikes me as really fuckin bad
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
love this time of year when I pass several large skeletons on my morning walk & smile in greeting like I’m seeing old friends
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My god, that’s almost one per day during the academic year.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I never give money to the DNC. If you can donate, give it straight to the candidates.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The states in aqua green have same day voter registration which means you can register and vote on the same day. The states in white require you to register before (usually 28/30 days before). In Florida the deadline to register to vote is MONDAY October 5, 2026. Get your act together. 🗳️
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."
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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
a haunted house but it’s just all the projects I’m behind on
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Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gang. We need to stop with the AI tools and take a breath. Research shows they flag up autistic people's writing as AI, for starters. I just ran my 2019 matchbook story The Diamond Factory through this popular one and it said it was 73% AI. This was published 3 years before the release of Chat GPT.
AI detector result showing my own story, written and published several years before the invention of generative AI, as 73% AI.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 01/10/2026
Teen girls shouldn't have to invent anti-rape technology.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See how easy it is?
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally some good news
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026
George W. Bush? The TORTURE GUY???
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh no!!! I'm so very sorry. 💔💔💔
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"He wants the election to be a referendum on how you feel about trans issues while trying to make your local community louder, more polluted, and more expensive with nothing in return."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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