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Kara Jorgensen

@authorkaraj.bsky.social

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Queer, nonbinary author, MFA, adjunct professor, and dog mom. Your local ND science-goth crocheter. Julia Child meets Vincent Price. They/them karajorgensen.com

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Oct 20

Hi, I'm Kara (they/them). I'm a queer, autistic author who writes queer historical-paranormal fantasy books.
I've published 10 novels, a handful of short stories, and a novella, which you can get by joining my newsletter.
My newsletter: eepurl.com/bfJTW9
My books: books2read.com/ap/nAkLmr/Ka...

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 5h

Yup x___x it's so frustrating. You don't want to start shit, and if it isn't earth shattering, you don't want to be an asshole about it. Still, we live with the knowledge that someone is awful and other people like them >.>

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 5h

EESH, yeah, she's dead to me, and I don't even know her. You don't complain about free food or bitch at overtaxed staff

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 6h

It's the worst when the person is in your general genre orbit, and they are 100% dead to you 😂
Someone mentions them, and your face goes:

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 6h

She sounds like an absolute horror. Being rude to the waitstaff is an automatic no thank you

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a mood 😂

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10h

From The New Yorker

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly! 😂 Everyone is queer because I said so

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 7h

PS- I highly recommend QUEER AS FOLKLORE by Sacha Coward if you want more queer magic and monster connections

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Sears also said that being fired for being gay “is not discrimination.” That’s going in ads. #VAGov

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 7h

Kara, why are so many people in the Paranormal Society queer?
Because witch trials and witch panics also focused a lot on homosexuality or people who were gender nonconforming, so magic and queerness go hand-in-hand.
And because I wanted to.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 1d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 17h

Btw, this is not tooting my own horn, I was just a different flavor of nightmare for everyone else to deal with.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 17h

I love seeing everyone else's "I pulled an all-nighter to write a masterpiece essay" stories because that was not me 😂
I emailed my English professors in July being like give me the syllabus, so I can start reading and taking notes on now. I will be so horrifically prepared everyone else hates me.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

www.semafor.com

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 8h

Except that I could never live with myself for being a grifter, it would be so easy to be a Christian grifter because they just say the weirdest shit. Just say the most out of pocket thing laced with Jesus buzzwords and prosperity gospel, and you're good.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 14h

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Libra Summers @iliibra.bsky.social · 12h

Hallelujah, Audra Winter is pausing her Patreon 😱

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 9h

Hormone replacement therapy helps restore immune function in menopausal women, reducing inflammaging and preserving monocyte function. open-access
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Extends what I previously summarized from immune system clocks
erictopol.substack.com/p/new-anti-a...

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 18h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 9h

If we prosecute no one else—and to be clear we should prosecute so many people—we have absolutely got to go after this guy as hard as humanly possible

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 11h

it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 10h

I will not be reacting to what The Orange Men have to say about autism. It is ridiculous. At some point you gotta stop repeating your opponent's absurd claims, even if only to refute them, and get back on message.

Autism is a normal occurrence among humans; autistic people are worthy.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 10h

Toothless
Unbothered
Slightly crusty
In a pretzel
Thriving

Finn sleeping with his tongue sticking out. Laying on a blue towel over a pee pad in a pretzel shape. He is a black dog with a white face and feet

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 10h

People who don't want to think for themselves >.>

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly, like a recommendation from a friend who is has similar type is one thing, but making someone else's taste my whole personality or scope of consumption is weird AF

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