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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"I left our conversation feeling both grounded and lit up." I love helping people root and reframe... and feel like more is possible. Getting this note after a coaching chat was affirming.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

After last week’s attack, I remembered this exchange between @warren.senate.gov & @karaswisher.bsky.social: 🎙️“Are you yourself fearful of your safety?” 👩🏻‍🦳“…I don't want to publicly answer that question...” 🎙️“Well?” 👩🏻‍🦳“I don't want to talk about it.”

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m wondering how this whole “work to get social benefits” and “ai is wiping out jobs” thing is gonna shake out.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“We’re halfway between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day—the messy middle. Perhaps this in-between time is for thinking about all the in-between adults that love our children into being.” My sparkly neighbor shared an excerpt of our piece on creative kinship this week open.substack.com/pub/sparklan...

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🔭🗺️🧭 Explore: Guncles, Godmothers, and the Need for More Good Adults In Kid’s Lives

Welcome to Sparklandia ⚡️🪩⚡️ An alternative empire with a mission to spark better living—boosting your energy, renewing optimism, & building community. This ship is captained by Mary Bergstrom + the e...

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” 🐚 🌀The edges are where life evolves. In the sea, but also in our systems, organizations, and disciplines. Look to the edges. Happy belated, Rachel Carson.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Slides, cells, sticky notes, social missives— Does your brain ever get tired from thinking in little boxes? What’s gained? What’s lost? What’s changed?

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Here’s the thing about me: I keep state fact sheets about Medicaid on hand when in the comments section. It’s honest work. I try to stay grounded. www.kff.org/interactive/... 👀

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Can we build a world worthy of our daughters’ dreams? Reflections from an auntie and designer on Mother's Day on little worlds and worldbuilding. open.substack.com/pub/themeld/...

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This is disgusting. But it also the type of move that sets back 20 years of progress in digital services and community engagement. How will we reach communities in the future as a government if we’ve done the EXACT OPPOSITE from what we promised.

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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2025

Although most abortions remain illegal in Alabama, the decision allows doctors and advocacy groups to tell patients about abortion options in other states, and help with travel and other costs.

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Judge rules Alabama can't prosecute groups helping patients get abortions elsewhere

Although most abortions remain illegal in Alabama, the decision allows doctors and advocacy groups to tell patients about abortion options in other states, and help with travel and other costs

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’ve always thought that Facebook’s newsfeed was the equivalent of slapping an interstate highway through a vibrant neighborhood. Now, they are “beta testing” a friends only feed. Get real. The damage is done.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Indi is one of the only people talking about the deeper, cognitive aspects of design research. As someone who studied learning, I appreciate it so!

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Head in the clouds” “Blue sky thinking” My 13-yo neighbor makes the most fanciful things.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Long-distance auntie tips: 🎊 Mark not-so-mini milestones (potty, big kid bed) 💌 Celebrate in between holidays (eg valentines) 🚌 Join school drop-off when home 📆 Schedule or squeeze in 15-min-calls 📫 Send postcards from biz trips 📚Start book club

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Don’t comply in advance. Hold fast, USADF.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Whenever a house republican posts, remind them (and their comment section) of how much of their constituency is on Medicaid/CHIPS. Link to fact sheet. Socialize facts. State fact sheets: @kff.org www.kff.org/interactive/... By county: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/06/m...

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Medicaid State Fact Sheets | KFF

What percentage of people are covered by Medicaid in your state? Our State Medicaid fact sheets provide a snapshot with key data for Medicaid in every state related to current coverage, access, and fi...

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Designers must craft and hold processes where people can practice together. When people have a felt experience of what’s possible, they can make it reality. Especially now.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We need like 3 billionaire divorcées, stat. Stave off the apocalypse and help us birth something new.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#TheOscars are next Sunday. What if celebrities shared the mic with civil servants? Here are some of the pairings I’d draft: 🎤Cynthia Erivo and the NEA’s Maria Rosario Jackson 🎤Timothèe Chalamet and Kennedy Center’s Deborah Rutter 🎤The Wild Robot and National Park Rangers 💭 Who would you add?

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This year is the 150th anniversary of Carmen. The @detroitsymphony.bsky.social is putting on a show— and they are live streaming it Sunday at 3pm. 🎭🎶 Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CV... (Bonus: My twin-in-law, Claire, is in the chorus.)

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BIZET'S CARMEN - Sunday Feb. 23

YouTube video by Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Neighbors helping neighbors. Who doesn’t need a giant cake to pop out of? Less facisim, more joy.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

💯 I’ve always wanted to burst the bubble. If I was a foundation, I’d fund relational cross pollination: Imagine if every professional conference reserved: 10% seats for other professions 10% seats for students 10% for everyday folks & enthusiasts 70/30 Rule? Open to critique on ratios.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Amen. Canada and Europe are eyeing them. Even if you start with a temporary program while you get things sorted.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We’re all about to get really good at systems thinking in real time… …as our systems crumble around us.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A request for someone to build a spam-bot to crash this website: defendinged.org/join-the-mov... The founder is worried that schools are “smuggling” in DEI by calling it “belonging:” www.instagram.com/share/BALAXM...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This auction house really picked the wrong person to try to screw over… ✅ Better Business Bureau on two addresses ✅ Platform reporting ✅ Bank fraud reporting Don’t mess with me and my Anni Albers lithograph dreams.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I may not be Lutheran anymore, but do not f* with my people. And you know WHY these payments largely go to faith organizations?! They are filling the GAP. The government largely stops supporting refugees/asylees directly after 90 days from resettlement. 90 DAYS.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Action: ☎️Add your reps #s to your phones. 👉🏻Reduce your friction to action. 💬Get comfortable with basic script: ⚠️“I’m calling about ____, Please do ____, It matters to/impacts me bc ___.” Or ✅“Thank you for _____, hold the line.)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Just look at these fantastic spaces in brand-new libraries opened across the Brooklyn, NY, and Queens library systems last year (Sunset Park, Inwood, Far Rockaway)

Sunset Park: looking down the stairs, past a colorful full-wall mural, toward a seating area and reference desk; windows look onto the street

Sunset Park: looking into the children's area at Sunset Park; juxtaposed bright orange and blue walls

Inwood: upper-floor seating with red chairs surrounding small white tables; book stacks ringing the walls; skylight

Far Rockaway: concrete beams, looking up from the foyer, featuring bentwood chairs, toward an orange tessellated ceiling with prismatic glass

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

You know what’s not efficient? Organizational whiplash, fear, transition, and churn. We’ll never know the true costs of this invisible debt. But I hope someone tries to make it legible.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Signals that I'm fed up: • A M*GA dude trolled an old post. I screen-shotted it and sent it to his mother • OAN News got my email address and can't unsubscribe. Sent an email to the president threatening to report to the Federal Trade Commission and quoted MLK. 👀

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“We have to celebrate to get through these trying times.” Troy Anthony, Fire Ensemble BAM’s MLK gathering Timeline cleanse. Gather well in these dark times. Make light.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Is there a plug-in to hide his face? Think Baldessari.

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Welp, MLK reading us: "When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. ... Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments." #MLKDay

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

During the eve of the election and new year, I sent out copies of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's "A Paradise Built In Hell." On the eve of this week, I'd like to do the same. 🐌 💌 Drop a reply if interested, I'll draw names

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Melanie Kahl @melaniekahl.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Severance. When we cut our ‘corporate corpus callosum’ — the bridge between our identities at home and work— what could go wrong? Dropping season two as companies drop their DEIB work is wild timing.

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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

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