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Karen M. Poremski

@kmporemski.bsky.social
1.7K followers 746 following 6.7K posts

Writer, reader, knitter, spinner, spouse, parent, bossed around by cats. Fan of bike races. Haver of chronic illnesses. Living by the Patapsco, on the ancestral land of the Piscataway and Susquehannock people.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 11h
Use ALT text. It's relatively easy to do, you can set Bluesky to not allow you to post pics without it, and you can easily search up best practices for it. The added bonus is that you're more likely to get more engagement as well.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The price of admission. That plus death.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm just shocked, again and again, by the lack of leadership from those who won't stand up to the fascists. Like, regular degular people in Minneapolis last winter showed 100 times more courage than people who are supposed to be our leaders (in government, academia, business). Such failure.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This leads me to ponder... at some stage in his life, this was a strategy that worked--it got him what he wanted/needed, so the pattern stuck. Which, of course, makes me wonder about his family of origin and their pathologies.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, HE can certainly do anything without repercussions, and probably his friends, but that doesn't mean anything for the rest of us.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looking for an employment lawyer who has supported people with Long Covid for an article I'm working on who would have 15 minutes to speak Monday-Wednesday next week. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So shiny and lustrous!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus fucking hell. What in the actual fuck.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Haha, that was my first thought!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's a rhetorical move the Founding Fathers adopted: look back to ancient Greece instead of England, in order to differentiate the U.S. and give it deep roots. Also see: the architecture of the period.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congratulations!! 🎉🎉
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WTF is he talking about??
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why is she leaning like that?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
God damn it.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am very lucky to have both at hand every evening. 💕
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Goth goobers.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I notice there are no units of measure here.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In summary, this technology is a blight. We're sleepwalking into normalizing it bc we're scared of sounding too extreme. Enough.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The fish stinks from the head down.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so sorry you went through this. That email is truly psychotic. Thank goodness you were able to get away.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your periodic reminder: ICE must be abolished
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My partner and I are so, so grateful that our relationship with our adult son is nothing like our relationships with our parents. (It wasn't something that happened by accident, but we also feel lucky.)
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe *he* doesn't hear it, given the circles he travels in. My circles are talking about it & dealing with it daily. We shall be known by the company we keep.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NO WAY. Damn, that is a BAD decision, especially when everything is so expensive as to make day-to-day living difficult. They need to change this asap!!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WHAT.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How is this real??
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very well, then, I eat my pizza crusts. I am large, I contain gluten.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I read it to my partner today, so we could both admire it. 😂😂
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That seems unacceptable!!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh thank goodness. That's my one piece of (gov't.) good news for today.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No, it's me!! (I learned on a 1972 Ford station wagon; anything after that is easy! 😂)
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I coulda been a contender!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What rock did he crawl out from? Sheesh.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh crud, I hope he heals quickly. Also, this made me chuckle because I can totally hear it. I am heartened by the fact that kids remain creative. 💕
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you have to work over 4 hours at minimum wage to buy a 80 count box of name brand trash bags
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The khakis! 😂😂
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can hear this post.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you look in the women's section, there are! We even have sweaters with the shoulders removed in case you'd like to have literal cold shoulders.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you put a red piece of laundry in the dryer, you won't even need to dye the lint!
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I need that skirt! NEEEEDDD.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Karen M. Poremski @kmporemski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you for sharing.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 03/10/2026
Since 👇 post 9 days ago, Elon has spent almost $11 million more, over a million bucks a day. In the Senate races alone, he's spent: $8.7m in Texas $4.5m in Ohio $4m in Michigan
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