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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Dropping something beautiful and magical for the top of my timeline until I can check in again. 🦉

A big bushy green tree with a regal Great-Horned Owl at the top, feathers ruffling in a summer breeze. One of my neighborhood owls, right here in the City. Go outside where you are and find some magic, too.

The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hi beautiful people. I haven't posted in 25 days. Been on a social media diet. Realized social media was an energy leak, and the little ship that is my body has been sinking. Slowly repairing the leaks. It's a slower process than I realized.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Today has made me feel like I need to vomit until I pass out. I don’t have four years of this in me. I don’t know if I even have another month in me.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Just over four months of Trump. America in upheaval. The global economy overturned. The Middle East burning down.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

New thread #3 A US defense official tells the WP this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter.

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CAL FIRE @calfire.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🚩 RED FLAG WARNING 🚩 Low humidity and breezy southwest winds will bring elevated fire weather conditions to portions of North East California this evening. Stronger winds Friday may lead to 3–8 hours of #CriticalFireWeather. Fire ignition and rapid spread are likely.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Krispi Gnome wants to “liberate” Los Angeles of our democratically-elected leaders. What’s the word for this?

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

From Sen. @padilla.senate.gov's office: Padilla “is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations … He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed.”

Statement on Sen. Padilla’s Forcible Removal from DHS Press Conference in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, the Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, released the following statement after Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference while performing Congressional oversight in Los Angeles:

“Senator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations in Los Angeles and across California. He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem’s press conference. He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information.”

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The delusion-dissolution pipeline is so exhausting. Can we meet in material reality at some point soon and decide as a nation of millions to hold some power-obsessed goons to account?

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 11/06/2025

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

LA airspace has been busy AF today, and while I expected to see lots of cop copters, I was surprised to see Fire helicopters out again. Turns out there’s a non-protest related reason: Bethany Fire, just NE of Burbank.

CALFIRE screenshot of Bethany Fire evacuation zones, as of early evening June 10, 2025.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 10/06/2025

I don't know who needs to see this, but I'm not going back and forth with strangers online about what the protestors are doing. If you take issue with how they're protesting, I'm gonna tell you to head to the front line and take it up with them, personally. Thanks, Decidedly Not Management

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Correct. When the only so-called “provocation” is you existing somewhere, and you’re suddenly being attacked by heavily armed men, if your response isn’t to let yourself be pummeled, then your response is self-defense.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Lil earthquake here in West LA. 12:18pm, 3.4 magnitude centered off Manhattan Beach.

Screenshot from caltech showing time and location of a 3.4 magnitude earthquake 14 km (9 mi) WSW of Manhattan Beach, CA

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Can a producer for @lauracoates.com @cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social get in touch with me ASAP? Your guests are factually wrong on the law in California and this is dangerous. Press exempt from arrest per CA Penal Code 409.7. I negotiated language of the law. You need to correct this ASAP.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

So this is a civil war now, apparently?

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“Best prepared, most lethal military”

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This delivery, man. Almost makes me feel like I’m from here. 😂 Everyone in LA knows this guy. (Not this actual guy—just This Guy.)

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

IDK, IMO this slaps harder than ever.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Israeli prison officers threatening to mark Israeli Jews who dissent with the Star of David. Genuinely couldn't make this up. How can they not see who they look like?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thailand urging holiday travellers to wear masks in the wake of the latest Covid variant Nimbus (nicknamed razor blade throat). We’re starting to see more & more media outlets discuss masking… which is highly unusual given they’ve been driving the “it’s over” narrative for years. Respirators work!

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New Covid variant hits holiday hotspot as public told to wear masks and get jabs

Holidaymakers have been urged to follow health measures after a spike in Covid infections

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." Oh Antonio, if only you could see us now. It’s monsters all the way down.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

These Grits & Eggs guys are funny and pretty smart. I don’t know them, but their hearts seem really open. I know their podcast isn’t exactly FOR me, but let me learn something here.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Good god. The last verified number I’d heard a couple days ago was around 170,000. Hard to understand how there’s still any internal support for Russia’s invasion.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Right now is quite possibly the best New Moon of 2025. It’s unencumbered and fertile for aligning your emotions, your sense of self, and your mind, and then planting seeds of POSSIBILITY in rich & nourishing soil.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Cynicism is a survival mechanism we learned to keep us safe from disappointment, but living from survival mechanisms is as Hobbesian as it gets. If you want a nasty, brutish, and short life, then cynicism is fine. If you want something else, try moving different. Retraining the brain is fun.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It’s amazing how scrolling social media has a near-immediate negative impact on my mood. We are captured by cynicism, and I find it nihilistic. If you believe nothing else is possible, then you are working to make it so. This is a claim I can back up with neuroscience. Try something different.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Entertainment is a tried and true engagement strategy. But I’m still curious about David Bornstein’s proposition (see above) to engage from, well, curiosity. bsky.app/profile/mnol...

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Interesting convo happening around Bsky & general social media use. Is engagement across all social platforms dropping? If so, doesn’t it stand to reason that ppl can only take fear-farming for so long before complete nervous system collapse & platform abandonment?

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yes, we are living inside an era-ending rupture, and still, there must be a better way to inform ppl and talk about our present & futures than thru constant fear? This guy suggests our innate *curiosity* might the human tendency to lean into, given a choice, rather than fear. Worth a damned shot.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The limbic hijacking of our metrics-fueled media environment is definitely the source of much of my exhaustion. Listening to this convo opened up some space of possibility for me; a badly-needed (partial) counter-balance. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News

Podcast Episode · On Being with Krista Tippett · 05/01/2025 · 55m

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Why have I literally never fkn heard this?! Weight impacts effectiveness of emergency contraception?!?! Seems kinda important to know 🤦‍♀️

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This is true but also *Twitter* is dramatically less popular than it was 2-3 months ago. The engagement over there is complete trash. I’ve seen people say this entire social media format is dying, but rest assured I will never stop

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Desperately trying to improve my mood. I think the only choice I have now is to go back to the neighbor’s house where this bounty is blooming.

A bounty of warm-pink, gorgeously fragrant roses.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

You're using math, which has a well known liberal bias.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thank you, @willdalrymple.bsky.social. Even if it's not possible for this Labour government to feel shame, it's still good to see you articulating the collective revulsion of regular people up and down this country.

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William Dalrymple: UK must not support Israel’s ‘medieval siege’ on Gaza

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

JFC, it’s literally the Vinayy skit.

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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

US government bonds drop as worries over Donald Trump’s tax bill flare up www.ft.com/content/c2dd...

'The fresh bout of selling came as Republican leadership in Congress held intense talks to advance Trump’s tax legislation to a vote in the House. Trump’s proposal, which he has called a “big, beautiful bill”, is forecast by independent analysts to add at least $3tn to US debt over the next decade.
The worsening fiscal outlook has caused deepening worries among investors and last week prompted Moody’s to strip the US of its last remaining triple-A credit rating from a major credit agency.'

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just feeling this more and more every day, as we see more and more evidence of Trump’s corruption and incompetence. bsky.app/profile/laka...

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I gotta make some changes, man. (I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)

Meme of a failed Venn diagram, where the bubbles that are supposed to overlap at the center are:
Things I like to do
Things I'm good at
Things that make money

But the bubbles don’t touch, and instead there’s a drippy blobby scribble shape that oozes between the bubbles without touching any of them, which says:
Things I do

And why does this make me feel so naked today?

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Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Generally brilliant all round, but if you want to understand more about the background behind the current India/Pakistan troubles, then William Dalrymple and Anita Anand map out the colonial and post-colonial picture superbly. open.spotify.com/episode/51M9...

The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How I check my negativity bias and rebalance my nervous system, Spring/Summer edition: a facefull of summer jasmine. I just inhale it until well-being courses through my circulatory system. Plant medicine.

Star Jasmine, aka summer jasmine or night-blooming jasmine, wrapped prettily around the lower branch and trunk of a Banyan tree.

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quinoa joaquin @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Roses are red, Treats are not tricks, COVID's in semen,

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is exactly what the tariffs are—wealth redistribution from bottom to top. Also worth noting that “revolution” can be a radical consolidation of power at the top as much as it could theoretically be radically democratic.

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The Karuna Virus @lakarune.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I reflect often—probably too often—on the well-recorded phenomenon of the ancient Greek cognitive bias that had people believing that physical beauty was proof of a person's inner beauty—bc (1/2)

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