Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have one spoon that pleases me. She is perfection. 020
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026An eucalyptus in bloom Original post 13791128
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres... 426044
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop: 743189
Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Look at what my sweet friend did! #dollyforever www.usatoday.com/story/entert...usatoday.comDolly Parton's niece goes behind the scenes at icon's new Nashville museum | ExclusiveDolly Parton's niece Rebecca Seaver opens the doors to Parton's 20,000-square-foot museum filled with family treasures, rhinestones and music. 010
Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Roy Acuff was my friend when I was 16, working at Rivergate Mall. Old Nashville in full effect. I still carry an old photograph of him with me. www.tennessean.com/story/entert...tennessean.comRoy Acuff's four decades as the face of country musicFrom concerts to presidential visits and Opry anniversaries, these photos chronicle Roy Acuff as one of Nashville's most beloved ambassadors. 000
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134473773
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanCatesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"This is a ginned up trans panic, brought to you by Republicans who know that if you can manipulate public opinion on the culture war issue du jour, you can distract people from the economic issues that actually matter to them: outrageous gas prices and barely affordable groceries."rewirenewsgroup.comThe Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: OpinionRepublicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. 0137
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27/09/20269/26 Pensacola Vibes "This evenings full Harvest Moon over Pensacola Beach, Florida" Gulf of Mexico 55311
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanCareful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻♀️🩷🧛🏻♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026WANTED: someone to grease me up like the saxophone guy from The Lost Boys. No weirdos. 1923117
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMeatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I believe in a future Blississippi more than I’ve ever believed in anythingapnews.comSouthern Democrats see hope for first time in years, seek to build on discontent of midterm votersDemocrats see hope for political gains in the Deep South this year despite disappointments in previous elections. 0263
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596023540
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...npr.orgHow unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 citiesAlternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? 5756271
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Girl dinner 6274911670
Reposted by Kristen Chapmanlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434438787
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMs. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 23/09/2026In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center. Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.msmagazine.comA Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a GunNearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ... 10239311903
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanIrma Squirma 👻 🐛 @eckslibris.northsky.social · 23/09/2026@jamestalarico.bsky.social My response to your fundraising text is, suppprt trans people. Unequivocally. 1748589
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanAmy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people. 172059806
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMelissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Being in your 50s is confusing. On paper, I’m 55. At a concert, I’m 24. After 8/9 PM, I’m 88. Getting up off the floor makes me 115. But when the'80s music starts playing, I’m 17 all over again. 1722720321
Reposted by Kristen Chapman⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...med.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 1332613842
Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We agree there's good weird and bad weird, right? 160
Reposted by Kristen Chapmanᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This genuinely made me laugh out loud today 104038817
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanVery Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026When you’re good and gahtdayum ready and not a minute before. 02612
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11997001921
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize. 102593621
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanCorpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." Bertrand Russell 1105
Reposted by Kristen Chapmantamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.” 0887290
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanAcademician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026FBI: While it may be detrimental to agency morale the threat facing immigration enforcement is of such a serious nature we must inform you that, yes, you are all unfuckable losers. 15658124
Reposted by Kristen Chapman👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026i need to know what happened 309163483178
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What goes on at the secret "puppet slams" held at DIY venues in Brooklyn, and why participants say they're a salve to the pacifying sameness of slop: hellgatenyc.com/new-york-is-...hellgatenyc.comNew York Is a Real Puppet TownA summer inside our city's thriving, political, increasingly weird puppet underground. 1735259
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've cooked for men I should have poisoned, so yeah, I do have self control. 2054076312
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanSteve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The natural world that so astonished Annie Dillard & Wendell Berry is right outside your front door, right now, hungry to be encountered. Encounter it. Be an instrument of awe. 313941
Reposted by Kristen Chapmanthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134311139
Reposted by Kristen Chapmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026some people are expressing their displeasure about obits of annie dillard that talk up her looks, and that’s a reasonable take, but let me be clear. in the event of my own untimely death. i expect all obituaries to describe me as a total smokeshow. it’s ok if that’s the bulk of the obituary, even 2079633
Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Annie Dillard is another luminous soul whose words helped heal me. 000
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s... 29775871485
Reposted by Kristen Chapmanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217572547
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanScary Hokum @yocham-ta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If Mitch McConnell comes out today, does that mean 6 more years of fascism, or how does this work? 39845159
Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Pro: Ms Rachel & Macklemore Anti: Pink & Ed Sheeran What a world! 100
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanCrip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My absolute, rock-bottom standard for trans allies right now is that when they see a post from a trans person saying that they can't vote for some anti-trans Dem & they're sick about all this, you offer a shoulder to cry on instead of a lecture on electing Nazis. That's it. That's all you gotta do. 922153
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don't care about fairness in sports nearly as much as I care about fairness in bodily autonomy. 593107450
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care. 722267116329
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanEnough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland 682127575
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanThe Baldfather @solochills.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026Remember when that man threw his loafer at Bush? Good times 68114
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I still haven't gotten over the way fascism creates a moral inversion across broad swaths of public life where what was evil 5 years ago is now at least potentially good while what was agreed on as good is all but assumed to be evil. 14916185
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow! 32253646
Reposted by Kristen ChapmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases 2544993913