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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood

@kjsassypants.bsky.social
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Everything comes back to paradox - without paradox, no aliveness. Ocean floor meets night sky. No elevator goes down far enough for me. Dogs=life. She/they, queer AND peculiar. Archetypal astrology is my primary language.

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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Most people in the US don't seem to understand this (and partly I get why that is) so it needs to be REPEATED LOUDLY AND FREQUENTLY.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So deceptively simple. So peaceful. So lovely.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Look at this gorgeous being! Hummingbirds are a huge favorite and this little snowcap makes me happy.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I find the whole idea of Severance terrifyingly dystopian (to the point that it's not remotely entertaining and I won't be watching) and I still paused for a minute on this and thought, "I might take that deal if it existed." 😖😵‍💫😵
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I SHALL NOM IT AND YOU CANNOT PREVENT ME
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Froggy magic! This is awesome!
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today was opening the wrong latch on the big vaccum and dumping the chamber on the front mat, which then I had to vaccum up with the hand vaccum. Seems like a metaphor of some sort, but I'm too tired and dusty to figure out what it is.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I've been reading & learning and HOLY SHIT THIS IS BAD. If you were immunized as a child before the 1980s, either get a titer test to check your immunity or just get a booster with the updated vaccines - ask your dr which is best but me, I'm going to be getting the new round. Christ on a cracker.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Reminder to everyone: if you were born before 1989, there's a good chance you only received one lifetime dose of MMR vaccine. Ask your doctor to check your immunity with a blood test or just give you a booster.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Anyone who's worn an actual bodice should be cheering this. THOSE THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE, LATHANIEL. Extra points for correct usage of Elizabethan-era second-person singular pronoun, and associated correct usage as extended through the piece.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It doesn't seem fair that when the world is this ACTUALLY DANGEROUS, in real time, the inside of my head is the most dangerous place of all. I'm very cross about that today. 😡
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I have really tried to like Harumi Murakami's work. I just...don't. I read the entirety of The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and The Wild Sheep Chase, and while the latter was better, still nope. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle freaked me out so I had to stop. Hard not to wonder if it's me somehow?
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I'm not sure why this makes me laugh like a hyena but it does. Probably I've just been alone in the house for too many days in a row, but seriously, the visual on this was worth the mockery I undoubtedly deserve.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I kept thinking this and couldn't put it into words. Also, the mirror image of this is "there's nothing I can do" bc ppl think "do" means "one giant movie-climax action that nukes the bad guys and saves the city" and really it's only the steady, small actions that will save anything.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Just to remind you of how much essential, delightful weirdness life still serves up.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Shouting out the scientist-artists again because they make shit like THIS. 😱❤️ Wow and wow and some more omg beautiful wow.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Peaceful rocky cold beauty. I just want to stare at this for an hour.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Also this.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Aaannndddd this is one example of why Scalzi must be forgiven for anything ever forever.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There's really no feeling quite like spending more than your monthly rent on surprise vet bills in the space of 10 days. But it's for your 11yo rescue with chronic anxiety bc of what was done to him as a puppy so you just can't...not, you know? Still. My nervous system when she said the number. 😱
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is a pretty important thing to remember. Malicious compliance, plausible deniability, innocent sabotage...these are all tools that people without overt power have been using to resist tyranny (petty to extra-large) for a long time.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/01/2025
Bluesky had bots/trolls/chuds from the beginning. If there's social media, you have assholes and automated accounts. Fortunately, Bluesky's blocking and moderating tools are best in class, so the bots/troll/chuds don't have to be more than a momentary problem.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you get a reply that's polite-enough but attempting to rebut whatever you said, odds are good it's this kind of bot, sometimes abbreviated as RGaaS (for the name of the network.) Report them as rahaeli suggests below - it helps Bluesky get them out of here. Also pls follow @rahaeli.bsky.social
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
*sigh*
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you don't follow The Awkward Yeti, you're missing out. I'm living this for reals right now and am profoundly grateful that my Brain and Heart are (mostly) in the same boat these days - Heart gets less bruised but Brain has more fun!
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I cooked. Actual food. AND THEN I CLEANED THE PAN AN HOUR LATER. This could viably be taken as evidence that the aliens are already here and that I am now among them. That said, if that's their gig, I might be forced to accept the superiority of our new alien overlords.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
But there's also, always, this. And this matters more, because it's true regardless of circumstances. I've been sinking under the weight of the world HARD the last few days, and this is buoyant in ways I needed very badly. Throw as many seeds as possible into the darkness. I can do that.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Yes it's the Onion - but the reason the Onion is so beloved is because they hit right on the nerve, they're just funny about it. This is pretty much where we're at.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
America really is the Corporation Rim. Getting to be time to find my own Preservation Alliance planet and get the hell out of here, before we all actually are owned in perpetuity.
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dymaxion pad @lucite.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is what I’ve been thinking of when I see people say things like “who cares if a bunch of rich people lost their homes”— Altadena was a historically black neighborhood, a place full of small family homes. now all of those people are displaced, it’s a an absolute tragedy.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Some days, strong hot black tea with lots of honey and lemon is the only possible response.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You just have to shake your damn head about people. Otherwise you have to start rage-screaming and breaking things and that just takes too much energy. I also wish an excellent year to my fellow vaccinated humans who, shockingly, are still alive!
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Just bc I haven't been on in a couple days and my feed is drowning in "end of year" shit - THE "OFFICIAL" CALENDAR IS NOT THE BOSS OF YOU. This particular set of days means *nothing* to me. My personal annual rhythm ends in Feb and begins in March, and I follow the seasons, and bday-to-bday. 1/4
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Also kind of obsessed with this gorgeous photo from @nikkiana.bsky.social , who apparently just took it whilst passenging?? That's kind of an offensive level of talent, really. But this photo is an entire story, and I'm not sure if I really want to know what it is, but I keep coming back to look.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I am a person who staunchly believes that gifts are not purely for designated "holidays" and should be given freely when the perfect item becomes known. I mean, you know...just sayin'. (What I'm really doing right now is SCREAMING BC LOOK!! AT!! THIS!!!!! No further words, just screaming.)
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A dubious first for my bsky - having to ban all (about 7 ppl, to be clear) of the new followers for all being bots. Photos of older white dude-presenting ppl with 3 cheesy inspiration memes and Jesusy stuff in the bio and that's it. I swear it's starting to look like it's just the *same guy*. 🙄
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
One of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. You have to scroll down to see a photo of Onions the Dachshund, who now apparently has an offer of tenure?? Exactly the right note to end this *#!)!_~&#$%^ year.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
So much here I don't even know what to say. Made me happy (bittersweet happy) so here you go.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
My ADHD brain is going to be singing this to me ALL DAY. But it's so genius I don't think I can be mad about it, and I feel all kinds of ways about that.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Random note - I block comfortably. I block about a third of my follows, and probably 20% of those are real people (the rest are clearly bots.) I'm pretty broadly tolerant, and I expect the same from people I am around, but if there's a clear worldview clash, it's cleaner to avoid that altogether.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This thread will take a minute to read (bc the comments are deeply thoughtful, mostly, and there's some great discussion) but if you have ANY interest in AI-in-education, and the many terrifying issues with AI interacting with ppl's knowledge and expression, READ IT. At least all the OP's posts.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Y'all. There is a feed for science art and scientist-artists. I am *done for*, in the happiest possible way. GET AMONGST IT, YOU LOT. Thanks @liapas.bsky.social (whose art is amazing and you should follow) for this goodness!
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Very heartening to see a LARGE corporation fully commit to diversity, equity and inclusion, even if their structures aren't as good as they could be. Given the many corps who only ever pretended and then caved, this is nice to see. Costco's shareholders tried to erase DEI and the board said NO.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
There are so many fucking *brilliant* scientist-artists on here and I am loving every minute of it.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Many things are still extremely terrible but not all things! It's important to celebrate these moments *even as* we continue to fight against the other terrible things. The good moments, the wins, the effective defense against the brutality, are what keep us alive and remind us why we do it.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
An easy mistake to make!
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I am in love with this. I would eat soup or ice cream or stir fry out of this, knowing it would mean I'd get 5 bites and have to go back for a refill. It would be *totally* worth it.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I guess when the system is this fucked, you just have to work it however you can.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I just keep reading and re-reading this. It's the most seductive moment I've experienced in a very long time, and that should tell you anything you need to know about me.
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Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood @kjsassypants.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Books I wish I'd written: LotR (but not the Hobbit) The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, who is now deeply problematic but this has been my fav book for 30 yrs The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship of Her Own Making, by Cat Valente 1/2
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