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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

2025 is so so so bad, and babies -- it's gonna be getting a lot worse these next couple few years. Save up whatever energy you can, and try this new rule: If it doesn't give you more energy than it takes from you, cut it.

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

Planning to continue my social media diet, tightening the belt further by canceling podcasts that leave me feeling drained. We have a long fkn haul ahead of us. If I'm barely able to function and we're just at the beginning of the road, my resourcing ~has to become impeccable~ for survival.

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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

This mostly looks like Gaza and the West Bank??? Am I tripping?

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

Fuck I really needed the laugh this just gave me 🤣

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

Thanks friend. I haven’t been able to sleep, either. I don’t know what Rx (medical or otherwise) is gonna end up working but I gotta figure something out.

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

❤️‍🩹 Thanks, stranger-friend. Really appreciate this.

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

Which one of them shot her family dog?

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

Netanyahu, Putin, Trump — same violent strategy for holding power in a chokehold until someone rips it from their bloody fingers. bsky.app/profile/chad...

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

Not difficult to imagine, whatever the method

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

Her face would look so much better smashed in with a bat. Just my aesthetic opinion.

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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

Consider it might not actually be funny that GOP members of Congress are leaving DC and skipping Trump’s sickening military parade. What if they know the Feds are mobilizing armed violence against the American people this weekend? This is what ICE is for, after all.

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

The center is NOT holding. Feds threatening to overthrow a democratically-elected government in a U.S. State is the end of American democracy. If the Supreme Court doesn’t stop these fuckers from blowing up our government, the US is gone.

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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

And admit they were full of shit the whole time? lol nevaaarrrrr

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

Apparently they kind of can’t go back? The last part of that article was kinda like, lol, oops 🤷‍♀️

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

Where indeed. “Elon wanted it”; wasn’t that what Trump said when journos asked him what the fuck? If people are seeing what’s up it’s just because they don’t want to. Everything is right out here in the open.

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

Trump used them as culture war trophies then dropped them? What a shocking turn of events.

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

What we are in right now is levels on levels of exhausting. I haven’t recovered from the 2024 campaign and I don’t even do this for a living.

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

The fucking audacity! As if black Americans haven’t literally lead every battle for human rights in the country since we allegedly rejected monarchy

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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

Less Lennon. More Sweet Honey. It’s possibilities, but also time to grieve so people remember that making moves from love is the point. youtu.be/RRpzEnq14Hs?...

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Sweet Honey in The Rock - Wade in the Water

YouTube video by Riddle Films

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

I’d go with the 12:15 they put in their table

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

Ah. Here’s the source. You can poke around with the real data here: scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Maps/...

scedc.caltech.edu

List of Earthquakes for Los Angeles

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

There are a couple other smaller fires too, one in San Bernadino and one in the Riverside area. Various fire dept air assets all over the area. Wish the Feds would get the fk out of here and let us take care of business.

CALFIRE screenshot showing air assets around several LA area fires.

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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

I see why you’re asking. It may have first registered at 12:15 but had magnitude updated three min later?

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

Ha, glad to meet another geology-curious person. 12:18pm looks right to me.

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

And yet: “They continue to urge so-called nonviolence even as such directions can feel quite difficult to follow in a cloud of tear gas you did not set off.”

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“They continue to urge so-called nonviolence even as such directions can feel quite difficult to follow in a cloud of tear gas you did not set off. It's nearly impossible to figure out what compliance is supposed to look like when police are launching weapons of war on the public. In such a gross imbalance of power, the police are the ones really drawing the lines. No matter what a peaceful protester may intend, it's police who are deciding when to use violence and whom to use it against—and nothing we saw this weekend indicates their violence was confined to those who were not "peaceful."

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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

Are there fiftyeleven candidates on that ballot yet? Bc that was the funniest part of the general election to me

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

It IS cold in June tho. We’ve got the June Gloom from the Pacific. Just saying, this fit is weather appropriate IMO

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

Didn’t Poilievre lose his seat?

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

Some days I’m like “hmm I feel a little earthquaky” and then the next day the earth quakes. 🤷‍♀️ Wish my radar worked over a longer timeframe but it’s really that quick.

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

They did this to my tiny company last month. And we can’t actually turn OFF any of the AI features we hate and don’t use. My IT guy did a little research for other options and it turns out Google is a monopoly! Quick someone tell the regula— oh. Right. We are fucked.

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