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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

I'm keeping a long list of research questions for if/when I someday get graduate students interested in how surveillance tech has become yet another extraction economy in rural America. I will help you write your grants, for real.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Even the issue of huckleberries being overpicked and poached berries fenced to commercial buyers, I keep hearing people suggest solving this problem with more forest service policing and even cameras. The encroachment of surveillance tech into the most remote places instead of addressing poverty.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Much like at the US border, where tech is tested on border town populations, other rural places are also testing sites for surveillance tech and practices, "understaffing" a typical excuse.
With our tiny budgets, policing, prisons, and surveillance also disproportionately drain our counties dry.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Dumps, prisons, distribution warehouses, data centers, telecomms, water treatment, energy production facilities are typically sited in rural places.
Areas like where I live are also home to what we locally call "Bombs Incorporated," aka military drone tech, especially imaging systems.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Were that I had five more lifetimes worth of time, I'd be transitioning to working more on surveillance in rural America, the inversion of how highly-surveilled systems and industries are pushed out to places with growing BIPOC, poor, elderly, populations.
Ex: drones are built and tested out here.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah I think most BLM "full time" campers are the people who put in a lot of work to stay out of sight and out of the enforcement crosshairs. I'm in a car camping group for women on FB and I would venture a guess that it's about 1/3 people who are living this way.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

The aesthetic and moral paradox of rural America plays out over and over again: people want it to be these beautiful "unspoiled" places where they can recreate or be closer to nature. But it's also where they push everything they don't want to look at, including people with no other home.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

No commercial licenses were given out for huckleberries in our local forests this year. I can't read this @highcountrynews.org article on the current crisis for Indigenous huckleberry needs without seeing how poverty plays a role in who goes out to pick anyway. www.hcn.org/issues/57-3/...

The true cost of the huckleberry industry - High Country News

The Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation has wanted an end to commercial picking of a critical cultural resource for years. Finally, the Forest Service is expected to make a decision.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

In my own tiny 12000 person mostly federal land county, the fingerprints of the housing crisis from larger cities like Vancouver and Portland are everywhere. National forests are not built for ex: a meaningful level of trash removal, and forgeable food now needs to feed many more people full time.

Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

An excellent article from @highcountrynews.org that digs into the role public lands play in the question of where unhoused families go when they're pushed out of everywhere else. www.hcn.org/issues/53-10...

Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis? - High Country News

As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

An excellent article from @highcountrynews.org that digs into the role public lands play in the question of where unhoused families go when they're pushed out of everywhere else. www.hcn.org/issues/53-10...

Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis? - High Country News

As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.

www.hcn.org

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

I just don't think there's any conversation you can really have about public lands, about preserving them and managing them and funding them without talking about how (much like public libraries) they become this unintentional safety net for people who are violently "swept" out of everywhere else.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

On the number of unhoused people living in national forest land:

Howard Hudson @hwrdhdsn.bsky.social · 19h

It’s certainly true in Oregon. It also makes delivering any level of services vastly more complicated. Well baby care? Food delivery? Vaccines? Child protective services? Schooling? Elder care? Emergency services? Drug & alcohol treatment services?
BLM is REMOTE, and often cut off by rough weather.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like most people truly have no concept of how many unhoused people now live in state and national forests, particularly on BLM land. Especially families living out of vehicles.
I've become really impatient with environmental orgs and activists who refuse to engage with this reality.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking a lot about how it's often Jews who get disproportionate punishment from Zionists for "stepping out of line," for implied betrayal of some obligation.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Out of nine groups targeted by the Trump admin in its initial crackdown on left-wing organizing, two - Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow - are explicitly Jewish. Throw in Soros and it’s three of nine - one third. Trump thinks a third of the US left is Jewish. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

During the Red Scare of the 1950’s, two-thirds of the people questioned by McCarthy were Jewish. A war against the left is always going to disproportionately target Jews.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Out of nine groups targeted by the Trump admin in its initial crackdown on left-wing organizing, two - Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow - are explicitly Jewish. Throw in Soros and it’s three of nine - one third. Trump thinks a third of the US left is Jewish. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

The Cold Open has become so consistent in horror that it really jumps out at me when there isn't really one, or it kind of softballs it on a weird bit of visual. Ex: House of the Devil (no cold open at all, retro!) or Vivarium (softball).

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

The Cold Open (spooky thing in the first scene to prep the audience) has become ubiquitous in horror movies. I really like it, and appreciate its place in the distraction age.
I think it helps the audience to context-switch from whatever they were up to before they sat down for the movie.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

I've long wondered why there are no Hannukah versions of those Target birds, especially because these ones are IMO VERY Jewish.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed! I think Marlon Wayans was amazing in it, I hope he continues to do more horror roles.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 3d

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 2d

That definitely might be true. I feel like the genre isn’t full of fans that are hard to please, so why take ourselves so seriously!

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno why critics judged HIM so harshly. If it was an episode of a horror anthology show like Cabinet of Curiosities I feel like people would have considered it one of their favorites.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 2d

It’s exactly what it seems to be IMO in a good way.

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