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Katherine Kane

@epigrammatickat.bsky.social

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It all fits together. Linguistically driven, writing since pre-K, aphantasiac, student older than my profs. mobility challenged, Comp. Sex-Ed advocate. https://linktr.ee/katherinekane

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · Jul 13

I think variations of this line are going to become my new signature, of sorts. Because I like being who I am and I have no interest in changing it - or pretending I should.

white text on a purple background, reads "I'd apologize for how long this is, but I'm verbose AF, and I see no reason to be sorry for that. :)"

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Just cram in "...delicate flower the glistening color of freshly fallen snowflakes, created in the image of white Republican..." and you got yourself an anthem of our age.

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Screen/silk printing has taken the world of premade costumes to dizzying places - you can be a taco or a burrito. You can be an inflatable eagle, an inflatable dinosaur, or a person riding an inflatable eagle or dinosaur.

You can be cats & dogs living together - mass hysteria! :)

Whereas my youth.

Mannequin in front of blank wall, wearing a 1980s kid's Halloween costume, consisting of a black vinyl smock over the shoulders and a big, vinyl, blow-up head of a bat on its head. The front of the smock is decorated with images of cartoon cats of varying colors and the words "Kooky Spooks" written in neon green at the bottom.

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Long may they boogie!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly the National Guard is needed to save us all from:

Dancing unicorns
Gyrating frogs
ICE fisherman

And our hard working immigrant friends and neighbours.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, that's where my brain went once I understood the ick of what Zelda is receiving Apparently MLK Jr.'s daughter has also co-signed.

Having lost my dad when I was 6, I suppose it's fitting that I'm predisposed to identify with daughters of men who were the closest thing I had to father figures.

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

UR giving them too much credit. Took 10yrs to bring myself to revisit his more tear-inducing films. I, a fan, would never presume upon loved ones like that.

It's horrifying to imagine throwing superficial copies at any surviving daughter; but when dementia steals a life like that, it's disgusting.

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Precisely why even calling it an "Intelligence" is so harmful - people think it can do more, convey more, comprehend more, accomplish more than it is remotely capable of doing. Because that's what the term "AI" implies; no 'generative' modifier diffuses the hyperbole.

Just another Mechanical Turk.

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

OMG, I hadn't even thought of this as a consequence of the hype of pseudo-artificial-intelligence. Of all the people to create a craven copy of. Robin's astonishing mind & heart deserves better. Poor Zelda.

And now I'm wondering if Kelly Carlin has been having an equally horrific influxes of this.

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at another man .

Alt: From a 2010 Nintendo commercial: Robin Williams, with a full beard and mustache, is smiling and laughing with his daughter, Zelda Williams.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, the man who wrote a book on the “unfortunate consequences” of the Civil Rights act is here to (quite turgidly) defend Hegseth’s anxiety-riddled bigotry.

And, despite having never served has thoughts about unit cohesion.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Precisely. Users with vision impairments shouldn't have to guess that an image is a text quote, go read the article and guess what quote it is, or ask you to specify what it does say. Alt text provides them access to participate equally in the conversation, w/o imposing all the extra effort on them.

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my dog ate the epstein files @maison21.bsky.social · 2d

we have “auntie tom”. works for all the letters in LGBT.

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CalmUrZeitz @calmurzeitz.bsky.social · 2d

💯 And need an equivalent for uncle tom too FFS 🙄 this was so cringe AF to see as I peel back this fraud's onion.. what a bootlicking traitor

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persistentfeminist.bsky.social @persistentfeminist.bsky.social · 2d

I am forever thinking that we queer folks need a catchy equivalent to "your skin folk ain't always your kin folk." Because it comes up a lot.

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Grr, this is why we need edit.

"Not the same" is actually 1/2

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Don't like to think of what else she "really" thought. Or what other horrifying things she said behind closed doors, that I never saw the faintest whispers of before.

There's contextualizing their choices in 'different times' and there's realizing they are part of why so little has changed. [2/2]

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Not the same, but I had the 'benefit' of the 1 grandparent I actually trusted, dying not that long after I heard her say, she was "not telling her family that her granddaughter is having no half-black baby." She wasn't even talking about me, but it hit me like a punch to the solar plexus. [2/2]

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Whole thread is worth a read. But bill will never see daylight. The film/TV industry alone will decimate it - you cannot strip the internet of Victor/Victoria... Torchsong Trilogy... Monty Python... Mrs. Doubtfire! THIS!

youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Even SCOTUS will balk at that transparent overreach.

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

But I'd add that; around 40 I also thought I'd shuffled off A LOT of my fucks, about small-minded projections of small-minded people. But it's like that mid-40s realization of what a dipshit U still were in your 30s, while U had been marveling at what a git 20s you had been.

More #fuckthatBS2come

Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Paradoxically, I agree/disagree. Yeah, 30-35 is when it begins to creep in. But, at least IME, even careening past 40 it'll still have deep claws dug in. I recently passed 50 and felt huge chunk of GAF just drop in the last year. HUGE!

Bonus: Betcha the more each gen shares this, speeds things up.

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 2d

ICE would have shot at Christ, too

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 2d

Moranis & Zuniga - plus Bill Pullman & his kid, who was Bob the Void in Thunderbolts, which knocked me flat in ways I'm still searching struggling to fully articulate. Even Sandurz is back!

I'm in a geek spiral, but how could I not be?

Holy.
Mother.
Forking.
Schwartz Balls.

2027 is far far away.

Screenshot of the top of the Wikipedia page for upcoming film Spaceballs 2.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 13d

Well...

Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 13d

I've eaten pizzas more supreme than this court

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Katherine Kane @epigrammatickat.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds an awful lot like the kind of thing a younger news reader in the US would say on air, and (when accounting for panel shows) several people at the BBC would deride ceaselessly, as a corruption of their mother tongue.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 13d

I just heard a BBC World News reader refer to a situation that is escalating as "hotting up" and I categorically reject that this could be an acceptable journalistic term phrase. Absolutely not.

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