Reposted by Kateghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Swifties for Kamala has had three sitting Senators on the call so far, for those keeping score on the relative drawing power of affinity groups 7714111
Kate @silea.bsky.social · 31/08/2024Holy shit the number of people here who think summary execution is the appropriate punishment for negligent homicide. That’s fucked up. 000
Kate @silea.bsky.social · 31/08/2024I just read The Monster of Elendhaven, and at first I couldn’t figure out the ending. So i went and read a few online reviews, and some of them were so amazingly wrong that it finally clicked and i think i get it. Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA. 161
Reposted by Kate🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 31/08/2024Honestly I'm just kind of impressed by the idea of a judge who understands computers enough to know what a VPN even us 930918
Reposted by KateSam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 31/08/2024Anti-Communist propaganda is one of the core functions of the US government. 0385
Reposted by KateDrew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.commedia.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with a blurred backgroundALT: a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background 6147522353
Reposted by KateMichael P-ahhhhhh-l 😱🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 30/08/2024there should be a warning label for low entropy accounts 042
Reposted by Kate🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 30/08/2024this is so fucked up. these people should not be allowed to appropriate dinosaurs from people who are actually cool and good. we should send in the 82nd airborne. 1633643
Reposted by Kateatomly @atomly.com · 30/08/2024them: "gender?" me: "no thanks, i'm trying to quit." 411726
Reposted by KateKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/08/2024Honestly surprised to see the Brazil Twitter thing isn't a fascist crackdown but, like, a judge making a ruling against a corporation because it wasn't following the law? And so it's actually getting shut down? Like, a judge. Upholding the law?? 718231
Reposted by KatePaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 30/08/2024More than half of Caltech’s incoming undergraduate class in the fall will be women for the first time in its 133-year history. #STEM www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comCaltech's latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are womenThe California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history. 0346
Reposted by KateRed Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 30/08/2024its changed my life - I originally took out 90k in 1992 for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY after paying almost 188K over 25 years 3555
Reposted by KateDylan Meconis @dylanmeconis.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Blessings upon the nameless stranger who turned this vacant lot shrub into a No-Face cosplay. A+ Portlanding. 210425
Reposted by KateJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 30/08/2024Here’s the opening, where she makes clear that she is taking white women to task for the narrowness of their political imagination. 217638
Reposted by KateBNO News @bnonews.com · 30/08/2024UPDATE: Brazil's Supreme Court says anyone using VPN to access Twitter/X is subject to fines up to $8,874 a day 316457
Reposted by KateDaniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 30/08/2024do you ever think about how if we took the money, materials, work, and time it took to construct (and maintain!) all the cars and roads? we could probably use a fraction of those resources to build trains, busses, and bike shares, which would be more efficient and even save lives 33715
Reposted by KateAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Brazilian court formally orders X/Twitter offline and removed from App stores following noncompliance with Brazilian law. This could be pretty damaging to X/Twitter, as Brazil is one of their largest user bases.tecnoblog.netTwitter fora do ar: Justiça ordena que operadoras, Apple e Google impeçam acesso • TecnoblogAlexandre de Moraes deu prazo adicional de 24 horas para que empresa designasse representantes legais. 1023437
Reposted by KateJoe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 30/08/2024When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf. 161143347
Reposted by KateJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Every time the aristocracy reinvents itself, we have to deal with it. We can't just leave it up to the orcas, people. 534895
Reposted by KateExistential Dread Inc. 💀👺 @dchatenay.bsky.social · 30/08/2024If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh. 05217
Reposted by KateMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Dems should push back more, because the data is clear: mass deportations don't mean bigger slices of the pie for everyone else, they mean a smaller pie and thus smaller slices. It just damages the whole economy. Here's a paper that was just published. carsey.unh.edu/sites/defaul... 14612182
Reposted by KateGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/08/2024gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the failure to correctly label this kind of trash as racist and sexist is itself racist and sexist 9569149
Reposted by KateRebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Every person who has tried to have the “art should be made out of love, not a desire to get paid” argument with me has also been trying to get me to work for them without being paid. 🙄 717031
Reposted by KateSpider. @vaspider.gay · 30/08/2024woop woop woop independent artists, labor day sale, get cool shit, help me pay my payroll while i'm continuing to recover from my hysterectomy! :D my employees make a living wage, I get to rest, you get cool clothes and pins on sale, everyone wiiiins 0412
Reposted by Katenicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 30/08/2024the opposite of recklessness is reckfulness 001
Reposted by KateGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/08/2024I don't just want the MAGA GOP to stop threatening to deport people. I want us to address the fact that we have PURPOSEFULLY CREATED a class of people who live under constant legal threat and can not protest the abusive pay & working conditions, and that the "polite" GOP preferred it that way. 223169
Reposted by KateJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Texture mapping is a method of adding more realism to a low polygon model, so that it appears to have more detail than it does without adding more polygons. It is an effective way to create better looking 3D environments without adding unnecessary drain on your graphics card and memory. 731186
Reposted by KateErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Morning people, at night: I'm so eepy lol Night people, in the morning: [indiscriminate rage] MORNING PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED DO NOT SAY GOOD MORNING TO ME I WILL KILL U 915624
Reposted by KateHeather @cuppacalluna.bsky.social · 30/08/2024This is how every billionaire should feel 24/7. Every. Single. One. 052
Reposted by KateInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/08/2024“They won’t really deport that many people because it would be a logistical nightmare” is a particularly ignorant argument considering what ended up happening the last time a regime realized mass deportations weren’t practical 1141794
Reposted by KateSeth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 30/08/2024I’m reminded of a Mollie Hemingway tweet that always sticks in my mind, where she called liberals hypocrites for getting mad about the Access Hollywood tape because *they* go see “The Vagina Monologues,” as though the problem was the word Trump used and not that he was describing committing assault 13595111
Reposted by KateSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/08/2024"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...thebookseller.comWiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authorsThe US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs). 9212170
Kate @silea.bsky.social · 30/08/2024I get a call around 9-10am every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from the same local phone number. They never leave a voicemail. I can’t decide if I should answer or block the number. 100
Reposted by KateMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Venezuela is facing another nationwide blackout. Maduro blames sabotage. No one believes him. The last one, in 2019, lasted for weeks. Panic buying at supermarkets in Caracas right now. As if the Venezuelans haven’t suffered enough over the last few years. 69523
Reposted by KateTodd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 30/08/2024my daughter made her own jeopardy game but could only think of one topic 😂 421146108
Reposted by KateNoah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Agree with all of the below, but that post-pandemic spike indicates to me a lot of what I’ve talked about repeatedly on here the past few years — people seems to have completely abandoned not just courtesy, but the very social construct of following basic traffic laws 712745
Reposted by KateClarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 30/08/2024"I want to make a strong protest to you. That is, I hope you die ten years earlier." "it seems like you're bound to go to hell after you die. Haha." "Why haven't you been sent bombs and killed?" Samples from multiple emails titled "kill yourslef." The reason: our no "AI" policy. 59436104
Reposted by KateCathy W @cathyw.bsky.social · 30/08/2024people in the neighborhood facebook were like "what the heck, these guys were the greatest neighbors, real friendly, hard working..." - and I hope that got some of them thinking about immigration differently? 231
Reposted by KateBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Aside from it being, you know, gross and fashy, most undocumented workers are forced to live in substandard housing with way too many people in each house. Around here 10 adults in an outdated 2/1 is not unusual. 717623
Kate @silea.bsky.social · 30/08/2024My home insurance company, which has spent six months of our lives screwing us over, has sent me a ‘how did we do 😃 ?’ form to fill out. I’m gonna have a snack. And a cup of tea. Then I’m going to open it on a computer (instead of my phone) so I can type on a full keyboard. 130
Reposted by KateGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/08/2024Think about this in the context of Trump's mass deportation plan. densho.org/catalyst/sol...densho.orgSold, Damaged, Stolen, Gone: Japanese American Property Loss During WWII - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese InternmentImagine being told you had a week to pack up all your belongings. You can bring all the bedding, clothing, and toiletries you can carry, but you better find a... 17932
Reposted by KateBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 30/08/2024I get why managers do this. It's because their primary metric for productivity is being *seen* to be busy. 171
Reposted by KateJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/08/2024I think there's some value in an educational setting in approaching the creation of art independent of commercial factors AND ALSO I've long banged on arts programs for not preparing their students for real world aspects of a creative career (i.e., FFS put in a class about how to look at contracts) 1431534
Kate @silea.bsky.social · 30/08/2024As a white, female-presenting, non-poverty-coded, mentally well-passing individual, could I actually sing this to a cop without getting beaten/arrested? 010
Reposted by KateCognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 30/08/2024I did summer sales in Seattle, then Portland in consecutive summers in college. The meanest people in Portland were still nicer than the nicest people on Mercer Island. 031
