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“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me." —Franz Wright American fiction writer, although Briony Tallis’s opening pages are my love language. Riding ebikes across foreign cities is pretty cool too, and gender equality.

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · Aug 12

Art by Stephen Powers

EVERYTHING IS SHIT Except you Love — a green pink and yellow screenprint by the artist Stephen Powers

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 20h

Women circle jerking in historically white men’s publications is a new low. It’s damn close to performance art.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t know Flanagan’s work, but this reads so poorly it’s like BW wrote it.

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 22h

A few small beers 🥹 he was so good

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 22h

🤣👏

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think they read anymore. They’re nihilists, who prefer the future to the present, and hate all living creatures.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love it

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when rich men just wanted their names on buildings?

It’s all house money to investors. 2008 collapse taught the banks and insurers like AIG that they could gamble irresponsibly because the govt will bail them out. The people who will be impacted have zero upside and no leverage.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that.

His post really drove home how much the tech billionaires hate humans and the present. They’re all for eliminating the present by building fantasy futures where humankind is optional. Sociopaths for sure

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

So is Sam like Bernie Madoff? Or Elizabeth Holmes? Does he know he’s a fraud?

There’s also a strange psychological impact of obscene wealth accumulation in dude bro tech zealots. Mars, Armageddon, Skynet. I’d love to read a study about it, but it may be too soon. McEwan calls is the derangement.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Attempt? Pshaw. I’ve followed you since I learned you repped Mike Chen. I’ve read everything you’ve written. It’s gonna be good. Release it to your friends. Or even strange para social folks on bsky who ghostwrite and edit for a living 😇

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

The person who wrote this doesn’t like people.

The epitaph of our age will read “The Peter Principle”

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Thought this was an @theonion.com headline

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

So tempting

Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 1d

The modern night trains will also serve the lines from Switzerland. Starting with the 2026 timetable.

From 2026 the new night trains will also depart from Switzerland.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to get my copy

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Charm City siesta. Love these sweethearts

#caturday

Two cats curled up asleep on a white sofa.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

In a NY Times interview, Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, 'What We Can Know,' which looks back on our time from 2120. He thinks people then will call our era The Derangement: 'We know what to do, but we can't somehow summon the political agreement on doing it or change our selfish behavior.'

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

They compulsively lie with every exhale.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Media is an entertainment.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Saw TH in 1985 at the limelight in Chicago, while I was touring northwestern as a senior. Fave band ever. Thx for sharing. Looks amazing

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh yessss

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 3d

Love this!

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 3d

I think this means you travel with a baseball bat 🦇

a woman singing into a microphone with the words " i got hot sauce in my bag " above her

Alt: Beyoncé singing into a microphone with the words " i got hot sauce in my bag " above

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