Amy Karafin
@karafin.bsky.social
Patient education, former palliative care, recovering writer. I left my heart in Mumbai.
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no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders
February 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders
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This piece from @youngmimayer.bsky.social had me in *shambles* youngmimayer.substack.com/p/soon-yi-pr...
soon yi previn our worthless daughter, you are so pretty i'm going to die
우리 쓸데없는 딸내미 이뻐죽겠내
youngmimayer.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This piece from @youngmimayer.bsky.social had me in *shambles* youngmimayer.substack.com/p/soon-yi-pr...
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Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
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We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!
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February 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...
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Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
www.standwithminnesota.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
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"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.
Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.
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Hawk pants
Red-tailed Hawk 📷🌿🪶
Red-tailed Hawk 📷🌿🪶
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Hawk pants
Red-tailed Hawk 📷🌿🪶
Red-tailed Hawk 📷🌿🪶
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Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Hard to underestimate my admiration and gratitude to our friends in Minnesota rn
January 24, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Hard to underestimate my admiration and gratitude to our friends in Minnesota rn
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 PM
this is not a tiktok it is a documentary
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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
December 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
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Over 500 people showed up to my neighborhood meeting this morning. We love our city and we are fired up.
As one of our state reps said, “Because we’re winning, they’re coming twice as hard at us. They want us to be scared…but they don’t know us.”
Some more:
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As one of our state reps said, “Because we’re winning, they’re coming twice as hard at us. They want us to be scared…but they don’t know us.”
Some more:
1/n
January 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Over 500 people showed up to my neighborhood meeting this morning. We love our city and we are fired up.
As one of our state reps said, “Because we’re winning, they’re coming twice as hard at us. They want us to be scared…but they don’t know us.”
Some more:
1/n
As one of our state reps said, “Because we’re winning, they’re coming twice as hard at us. They want us to be scared…but they don’t know us.”
Some more:
1/n
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The reason fingers work on touchscreens but not inanimate objects is the phone is powered by consuming a tiny piece of your soul
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The reason fingers work on touchscreens but not inanimate objects is the phone is powered by consuming a tiny piece of your soul
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this is a helluva story by the local news outlet @minnesotareformer.com on the heroic ICE watch efforts in MN. Read the entire piece including how ICE is now not just crashing into, stalking, arresting and spraying chemicals agents at activists, ICE is also going to activists homes.
You need to understand the heroism of these everyday people in Minneapolis minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...
January 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
this is a helluva story by the local news outlet @minnesotareformer.com on the heroic ICE watch efforts in MN. Read the entire piece including how ICE is now not just crashing into, stalking, arresting and spraying chemicals agents at activists, ICE is also going to activists homes.
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For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
For today's horribles: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on banning trans athletes. It's the most bigoted thing they'll do this term. I'll be jotting down my thoughts here.
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Second 5MR owl of the day
📷🌿🦉
📷🌿🦉
January 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Second 5MR owl of the day
📷🌿🦉
📷🌿🦉
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There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨
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THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
December 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM