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Kate Whittle

@kettlemt.bsky.social
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western Montana writer, once and future journalist. Also into cats, knitting, bicycles. I’m super fun at parties!

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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry but how is this AI yassified campaign ad legal
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
marketing vs reality
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
what friends, my feeds are 90% algo content and bra advertisements
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@dril

oh you dont like my AI generated crap? ill just AI generate some people who do. then ill AI generate $1000000 and a wife who likes my posts
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if its snowing on Logan Pass does that mean I should turn my heater on at night
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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 01/09/2026
The CBC reporter said that the City estimated that it could cost up to $48M to remove the lanes!!
youtu.be
Ford government to begin Toronto bike lane removal
YouTube video by CBC News Toronto
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The carrot approach to speed cameras: Speed-detecting traffic signals that reward drivers for obeying the speed limit. If a driver is speeding towards the light, it will turn red. If the driver is approaching at a safe speed, it will turn green. These signals reduce speeding and injury crashes.
khon2.com
Cities see benefits from speed-detecting traffic signals
“The data is telling us that we’re seeing major, major reductions in both speeding drivers and in injury crashes,” Turner said.
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
wendell berry was still alive? RIP sir, your work convinced me I should try running away from a desk job and work on a farm for a summer. It turned out I am incredibly allergic to most things on a working farm.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@SomeChrisTweets

When you are cursed to ride into legend as a harbinger of death upon a steed most ignoble but also it's your birthday

(painting of weird green little guy on a horse/bull shooting an arrow after fleeing townspeople and he's wearing a red party hat)
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s perfectly legal to bike on the sidewalk in my town and my god the local self-appointed police who don’t know that
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
wedding inspiration right here
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades idp.nature.com/authorize?re... Donald Trump and Republicans are anti-science and anti-innovation.
idp.nature.com
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"To be honest I don't even know what urbanism means and I don't really care"
a bar with empty stools

Local woman who just wants to be able to walk to a bar to drink and stumble home now a leading urbanist.
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Jenny Gray @jenny-gray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Pacific bluefin tuna were once reduced to just 2% of their historical population. Their recovery shows what science-based conservation can achieve and the Aquarium has played an important role. It's another example of the Aquarium's ability to provide global leadership in ocean conservation.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday
gizmodo.com
'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I LOVE THEM - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELETEN REACHEN FOR A "KEI TRUCK " I NEED ONE OF THOSE FUCKEN TINY TRUCK'S!!! I DONT KNOW WHY!!! I SAW ONE AND NOW IM OBSESSED!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN AND I KNOW THEY DONT GO FAST AND THATS PART OF THE APPEAL "CANT RUSH A GOLF CART" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
i've been through a "white fragility" work seminar and it was just white ladies being defensive
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Eastcoastitnotes @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
LAZY
Panel 1: coworker says to another "I just can't work this much for such little pay" coworker responds "yeah it's terrible"
Panel 2: A human sized robot spider witha  human head walks up and says "See THIS is what is wrong with your generation"
Panel 3: he continues "Back in my day if work got tough, we weren't afraid to sell our organs and limbs and live as a giant spider robot"
Panel 4: the coworkers run away as the robot spider man yells "Oh classic young people. Running away from the first sign of manmade horros beyond your comprehension. Typical!"
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Freelance budgets are painfully small and editors at any given moment have far more good story ideas than they can actually commission.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
404media.co
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The new me-time, getting your oil changed
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
we all know this classic way
cover of POUNDED BY THE ACHES AND PAINS I GET AFTER DOING A SIMPLE PHYSICAL TASK THAT I WOULDNT EVEN THINK TWICE ABOUT DOING WHEN I WAS YOUNGER featuring a bummed out buckaroo holding his back on the left he is shirtless and handsome. to the right is a physical manifestation of his aches and pains ALSO HANDSOME
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i can't believe jaya got to interview the absolute baddest bitch in the food blogging game i'm in awe
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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Then lower the speed limit for cars on residential streets to 20. I already get harassed, tailgated and threatened for riding near 25 in a 25. Forcing ebikes under the lowest speed limit for cars puts them in danger. Cynically starting to think this is on purpose.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every single claim here is false
The WIV's collection of bat samples represents a documented source of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses in Wuhan, a significant distance from where they are endemic. WIV researchers conducted studies of the genetic changes necessary for adaptation of SARS-related viruses to humans; manipulated genomes which resulted in increased infection of human cells and pathology in animals expressing the human receptor; proposed to construct viruses with genomic elements like those found in SARS-CoV-2; and conducted much of their research in laboratories that most experts agree lacked the sufficient level of biosafety for research of pathogens with pandemic potential
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
did people not learn this from the X-files when the plot totally crapped out
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/07/2026
Bookmark this! Happening tomorrow!
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
love this newsletter so much. consider the cosmos through pop open.substack.com/pub/haterade...
open.substack.com
All Soda Yearns to Be Red
A selective history of the “suicide”
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is just to say I have eaten the lotus flowers that were somewhere can't remember where and which you were probably saving for some reason forgive me I can't remember who you are or who I am The lotus flowers were good though
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
already getting ads for Jimothy products. good lord. this poor lil raccoon
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i think it would be pretty cool and fun to experience life as the type of writer who is default assumed to know what she's talking about when covering one of her areas of expertise. so i guess a man. the type of writer who is a man
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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 16/07/2026
Why Does Every Adaptation of Carrie Forget That She’s Fat?
pajiba.com
Why Does Every Adaptation of Carrie Forget That She’s Fat?
We're getting a new adaptation of Carrie this Halloween season. Mike Flanagan, a man who knows a thing or two about the genre, is the showrunner of this latest version of Stephen King's debut novel. This one will star Summer... Read more...
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
i have arrived
facebook suggesting i join a group for "matured lesbians aged 40+"
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is a fascinating read about a very Instagram-friendly organisation that may not be what it says on the tin.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
# youtube_nusic: ~l.5h runtine # 113,879 hours of youtube_rusic 12,287 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics 16,843 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics_for genius_hg: -1.3h runting 17,615 hours of genius_hq 41, 544 hours of genius_hq lyrics 17,387 hours of genius ha_lyrics_ foreign freesound: -B.2h runting 410 hours of freesound # insip: -B.2h runtine 19,514 hours of insip # jamendo: ~B.1h runtine 3,726 hours of janendo * ponds_music: ~1.1h runtine # 62,117 hours of ponds_music # deezer: -8. 5h runtine 12,287 hours of deezer 10,175 hours of deezer_lyrics 6,699 hours of deezer_lyrics_foreign * ytn_tagged: ~2h runtine # 152,162 hours of ytn_ tagged # musescore: -B.1h runtine 183 hours of nusescore_lyrics
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New art appeared in the alley where I walk my cat #keepmissoulaweird
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
People also just don’t KNOW without massive campaigns to remind them. My town is getting a huge Biden admin-funded transit overhaul that won’t even break ground until next year.
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ok friends what's the apparatus to fight this? What groups are suing?
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Eastcoastitnotes @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Oh boy here comes hot take from guy-in-car profile pic I bet it will be fairly balanced and reasonable
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 14/07/2026
This is why, every week, my Talking Climate newsletter does not only share how climate change affects our lives. I also talk about solutions that are already being implemented, and what individuals can do to make a practical difference in their lives and for the world. It’s free, check it out!
talkingclimate.ca
Extreme heat is everyone's problem
Football speaks up, Europe's worst heatwave on record, and call it what it is — climate change
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Kirsteen Sullivan MP @kittysull1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A major win for our oceans🌊🐋🐠 The UK has officially ratified the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, also known as the High Seas Treaty, helping to protect nearly two thirds of the world’s ocean.
gov.uk
World’s ocean to be better protected as UK ratifies landmark treaty
UK ratifies the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
granta.com
Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
if you had just hypothetically purchased a cargo ebike, what would be important to know about this new lifestyle
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 29/06/2026
This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.
usatoday.com
Dangerous, record-smashing heat wave to scorch millions
A prolonged, dangerous heat wave will intensify across most of the central to eastern U.S. this week, the National Weather Service said.
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s “bike to the secret unmapped waterfall” season, bitches
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Transit agencies still talk of ridership as % of pre-COVID levels. They want to say they are "back." This is misleading the public. Ridership is up, but we will never go "back". The world of 2019 is gone and so are its hordes of commuters. 1/🧵
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Even as night falls, the heat remains unrelenting across France. @ 9 pm local time, some towns are still recording humidex values up to 50°C (122°F) Even at 9 pm , Romilly-sur-Aigre in north-central France remains 35.6°C (96°F) with a dew point of 27.4°C (81.3°F) Extreme, even, lethal, heat
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.
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Kate Whittle @kettlemt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
the national parks should be open to bikes and buses only
Cyclist riding up going to the sun road in glacier parkScenic AF sweeping vista sans traffic stress!!
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