Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hMy mother-in-law is a John Legend person, Callie requested Imagine Dragons, and as soon as my husband got the chance to pick the music he put on the new Phoebe Bridgers which is SUCH a choice. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hLoved the main text of Death of the Author but found myself frustrated with what I felt were some unrealistic story points and didn't like the book within the book; then a reveal at the end made it all hang together intellectually but left me frustrated. Still another good read! 000
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hThe Incandescent is also immensely readable with another fantastic world and fully realized magic system. I really loved the lead character and it brought me straight back to boarding school. God, rethinking my order again. They're all just so good! 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hI mentioned Shroud before, which took me about 100 pages to warm to but as soon as I realized we were getting the aliens' perspective I was obsessed. Very cool book. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hThe Raven Scholar probably has the most "modern YA fantasy" premise but it does it so very well, and I loved the way the author played with perspective. Another great world. Immensely readable. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hI've read all three of the Shadow of the Leviathan / Ana and Din books and perhaps Drop of Corruption ranked higher here because of an overall fondness for the series. The world is just so well realized and I hope I get to spend many many books exploring it. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hThe Everlasting I knew absolutely nothing about and I recommend you go into it that way too, but I loved the use of second person. It reminded me a lot of my other recent* favorite book (redacted because it would give away too much of the premise). *Recent as in last decade or so. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 9hGod this is so so hard but I think I might say, in rough order, The Everlasting, A Drop of Corruption, The Raven Scholar, Shroud, The Incandescent, Death of the Author, but honestly all 6 were fantastic and I could have a different order tomorrow. 100
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I bought every apple available at the Union Square farmer's market and we've been doing a week long taste-off - here to tell you that there's a CLEAR winner and it's Snap Dragon! 000
Reposted by Karen🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 877116511416
Reposted by Karenm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 07/10/2026if an actor doesn't want to talk about politics because he is a little bit or very conservative, you should consider that a cultural victory for the left 121215
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My version of "pancake that can talk" ended up talking like a character right out of Grease, naturally www.whatifworldpodcast.com/episodes/202...whatifworldpodcast.com333. Rory asks: What if pancakes were at a party and they fell? — What If WorldFred the Dog and Miss Karen join the fun as a pancake party turns to monster mayhem! Lessons include: We build resilience when we keep trying; syrup-drinking contests are only for pancake people. ... 010
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Few season to season character glow ups better and more extreme than Rumi from season 2 to season 3 of Colin From Accounts. 000
Reposted by KarenMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/10/2026You should need a commercial license and commercial insurance to drive any vehicle that weighs over 5,000 pounds. 2150959
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The people, they love me. They are crying out for more Miss Karen. Children every day they stop me on the street 000
Reposted by KarenAlastair Coote @alastair.is · 06/10/2026Recurring feature of our times (including all the way back to the way Uber rolled out) is that obeying the rules/laws makes you a sucker. Businesses don't, people see that, internalise it, act like selfish assholes. Go ahead, run that red light, we all know no-one is getting punished for it 052
Reposted by KarenKill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 05/10/2026I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects. 1666072
Reposted by KarenMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One half-baked theory I'm playing with is that fascism became inevitable when the basis of class solidarity (broadly construed) among the masses flipped from labor to consumption. We used (as in, a decade ago) to have the Fight for 15, now we have "the price of [fill in the blank]" 1352
Reposted by KarenJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851891380
Reposted by KarenInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People will roll their eyes at this over the combination of The Atlantic and the "well well if it isn't the consequences of my vote" genre but it's good that he feels this kind of shame, that's how a human should feel and Trump's power is built on people with no remaining capacity for it 2649110
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We bought my kid a Winnie the Pooh Yoto Card when she was 2 and she was utterly uninterested in any Pooh content until last month, and I just found out that based entirely on audio content she thought Christopher Robin was an actual robin (understandable! given owl and rabbit!!!) ❤️ 000
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fact that Zero in Star Trek: Prodigy is played by a scraggly young British man and not a kindly middle aged woman is blowing my mind, not in the “I thought that was weird and moved on” way but in the “it occupies my every thought as I watch the show” way 000
Reposted by KarenChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026If a man was at a party with a dozen women and he got so intoxicated that he couldn't function, he'd be about as safe as anyone could be because 99 times out of 100 the women would look after him and see that he got home safely. 211025112
Reposted by KarenNithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone. 832524546
Reposted by KarenHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 511668381
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My husband gets on my ass a lot about how much laundry and dishes he does but today I asked him to make pasta and he made half a box for our family of 4 because “it said that was 4 servings“ so my only conclusion is that he has never made pasta before in his entire life?!!?? 000
Reposted by KarenMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day. 19657109
Reposted by KarenDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”nyc.streetsblog.orgNYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on EnforcementNYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead. 222250
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mom tried to give me investing advice last night so I told her I just have stuff in target date funds and index funds which is when I found out all of the individual companies she‘s invested in have tanked but she‘s “made up for it in silver and gold.” exhausting. 010
Reposted by KarenJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we're going to have a death penalty it should be firing squad. 5 bullets to the head do quick work. There's no kind, compassionate way to kill someone. Let people see what it is that they support. 1726227
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still reading the 6th book but I'm ready to post my opinions about how good each book's title is: 1. Shroud Tied for 2. A Drop of Corruption / Death of the Author 4. The Raven Scholar 5. The Everlasting 6. The Incandescent (Would never in a million years have read the last 3 and they're all great!) 100
Reposted by KarenAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers. 221229278
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Someone just posted an announcement about Drawtober (draw every day in October) in our company slack with a clearly AI generated prompt calendar and why, why, I'm just so tired. 000
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I bet Skeleton Crew got better but I was so turned off by space suburbia in episode 1 I couldn’t continue. I’m sorry - thousands of light years away, endless technology, and all we can think of is another mapping single family car culture society? Boring. 120
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I heard Choosing Texas the morning of the viral skeet in an outdoor Peloton running class (the class was playing popular songs of the summer; I’d chosen it because I wanted to hear Drop Dead). It’s where I learn about 90% of new music to be honest. 010
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not a perfect insight but I am bound by duty to RT anything anti Newsom and anything DS9 that crosses my feed 000
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Eric and I went to a dance party for 40ish year olds and the music was deafeningly, painfully loud. We'd both brought our earplugs, and even with them in it was too loud. If we hadn't we would have left. 010
Reposted by KarenEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Many professional class whites seem to have decided that the moral of Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece is that she was wrong to care about the education of disadvantaged Black kids in the first place and nothing can be done. 1147466
Reposted by KarenKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...open.substack.comTrainwreckOld habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard. 1846681
Karen @kokeeffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ve been making it my job this year to read all of the Hugo Best Novel nominees and I cannot stress enough what a good decision this was. My plan was to come back with a ranked list but the top 4 so far are so slippery good, I can’t settle on an order! 100
