Kate / Katelyn Forrest
@kateforrest.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Doer of Things. 🏳️⚧️
Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15!
https://katelynforrest.com/
Once Upon a Punk Show available July 15!
https://katelynforrest.com/
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Once Upon a Punk Show
For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …
katelynforrest.com
Want to read sapphic godpunk?
Punk rocker Giulia crosses paths with a literal goddess back stage and whoops, the new fling's ex wants to OD the world on old magic and double whoops, turns out Giulia has some new magic powers too.
Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️
katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
Punk rocker Giulia crosses paths with a literal goddess back stage and whoops, the new fling's ex wants to OD the world on old magic and double whoops, turns out Giulia has some new magic powers too.
Full blurb and shopping links ⤵️
katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...
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I remembered I can draw literally whatever I want. So here's Godzilla as a butch biker punk. Enjoy.
February 18, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I remembered I can draw literally whatever I want. So here's Godzilla as a butch biker punk. Enjoy.
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This is fantastic. Never forget, my fellow creatives. You CAN draw/write/carve/compose literally whatever you want.
I remembered I can draw literally whatever I want. So here's Godzilla as a butch biker punk. Enjoy.
February 18, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is fantastic. Never forget, my fellow creatives. You CAN draw/write/carve/compose literally whatever you want.
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THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
Truthfully I know one single useful phone number.
I can call my wife and that's it. And I only got the number to stick when I was working out of an office with crap reception that I used the desk phone.
I can call my wife and that's it. And I only got the number to stick when I was working out of an office with crap reception that I used the desk phone.
February 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Truthfully I know one single useful phone number.
I can call my wife and that's it. And I only got the number to stick when I was working out of an office with crap reception that I used the desk phone.
I can call my wife and that's it. And I only got the number to stick when I was working out of an office with crap reception that I used the desk phone.
Mediocre at best. There's no style to this. Something that happens you'll never remember because it has no soul even if it technically checks off some boxes.
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ writer Rhett Reese reacts to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting:
“I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
“I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
February 19, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Mediocre at best. There's no style to this. Something that happens you'll never remember because it has no soul even if it technically checks off some boxes.
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lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
February 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
Neronha is *constantly* pushing back against the crap coming from Washington. I hate that he's term limited. Wish he'd run for governor. Or senator.
Attorney General coalition sues Trump Administration for illegal termination of energy and infrastructure funding
"Whether or not clean energy aligns with this President’s policy goals is irrelevant; he cannot and will not sideline the will of Congress," says RI Attorney General Neronha.
"Whether or not clean energy aligns with this President’s policy goals is irrelevant; he cannot and will not sideline the will of Congress," says RI Attorney General Neronha.
Attorney General coalition sues Trump Administration for illegal termination of energy and infrastructure funding
"Whether or not clean energy aligns with this President’s policy goals is irrelevant; he cannot and will not sideline the will of Congress," sais RI Attorney General Neronha.
steveahlquist.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Neronha is *constantly* pushing back against the crap coming from Washington. I hate that he's term limited. Wish he'd run for governor. Or senator.
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
Everything UH touches is crap.
Said by someone with crap UH health "care"
Said by someone with crap UH health "care"
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Everything UH touches is crap.
Said by someone with crap UH health "care"
Said by someone with crap UH health "care"
So a nazi had kids that were also nazis.
Nearly two years before Monday's deadly shooting at a Pawtucket, R.I., hockey game, a son of the suspected shooter tried to burn down a Black Pentecostal church in Rhode Island and is serving time in federal prison.
Son of Pawtucket rink shooting suspect tried to burn down a Black Pentecostal church in 2024 - The Boston Globe
Kevin Colantonio, 37, had written notebooks full of violent, racist comments before trying to burn down the Shiloh Gospel Temple in February 2024.
trib.al
February 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
So a nazi had kids that were also nazis.
Society is so screwed.
Of course, that's the way techbro fascists want.
Of course, that's the way techbro fascists want.
This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*.
www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...
www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...
Grammarly Revisited - Carleton College
A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools
www.carleton.edu
February 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Society is so screwed.
Of course, that's the way techbro fascists want.
Of course, that's the way techbro fascists want.
Finding out that a con i used to go to had a panel puffing up AI and the panelists were people I respected is not a great thing.
Plagiarism Machines have no place in creative works. Or at all. Fuck that noise.
Plagiarism Machines have no place in creative works. Or at all. Fuck that noise.
February 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Finding out that a con i used to go to had a panel puffing up AI and the panelists were people I respected is not a great thing.
Plagiarism Machines have no place in creative works. Or at all. Fuck that noise.
Plagiarism Machines have no place in creative works. Or at all. Fuck that noise.
It's true... Morgan is much cooler than all of us.
Read the books so you know why.
Read the books so you know why.
it is WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
February 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
It's true... Morgan is much cooler than all of us.
Read the books so you know why.
Read the books so you know why.
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it is WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
February 18, 2026 at 7:03 PM
it is WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
In Learn to Howl, wanted to write about family, identity, and that one older cousin who is SO MUCH cooler than you
books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
itch.io/c/5930931/le...
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2026 basically
February 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
2026 basically
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"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
February 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I am a chaos gremlin that has no idea how to do boom promo.
Memes count as book promo... right?
Memes count as book promo... right?
February 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I am a chaos gremlin that has no idea how to do boom promo.
Memes count as book promo... right?
Memes count as book promo... right?
I am a chaos gremlin balanced out by my wife being orderly.
In writing, I need a map. Doesn't have to be detailed, but otherwise the ADD takes hold and I meander around too much.
In writing, I need a map. Doesn't have to be detailed, but otherwise the ADD takes hold and I meander around too much.
A question for writers. I was thinking about the continuum between plotters and pantsers and wondered... Does writing style match your living style?
That is, are plotters more prone to organized clean workspaces while pantsers are more prone more chaotic and messy spaces?
#writinglife
That is, are plotters more prone to organized clean workspaces while pantsers are more prone more chaotic and messy spaces?
#writinglife
February 18, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I am a chaos gremlin balanced out by my wife being orderly.
In writing, I need a map. Doesn't have to be detailed, but otherwise the ADD takes hold and I meander around too much.
In writing, I need a map. Doesn't have to be detailed, but otherwise the ADD takes hold and I meander around too much.
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If you ever feel like your self-promos are "cringe," just remember that Neil Gaiman used his first statement addressing the multiple credible accusations of sexual assault against him to try to get everyone hyped for his new book.
February 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
If you ever feel like your self-promos are "cringe," just remember that Neil Gaiman used his first statement addressing the multiple credible accusations of sexual assault against him to try to get everyone hyped for his new book.
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Hot Take:
Most Indie authors don't know how to market their books.
... It's me. I'm most Indie authors.
Most Indie authors don't know how to market their books.
... It's me. I'm most Indie authors.
February 18, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Hot Take:
Most Indie authors don't know how to market their books.
... It's me. I'm most Indie authors.
Most Indie authors don't know how to market their books.
... It's me. I'm most Indie authors.
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AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
February 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
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Lmao this is at like 5 million views rn AKA double the average viewership of Late Night
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Lmao this is at like 5 million views rn AKA double the average viewership of Late Night
