Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨
@kathryncramer.bsky.social
LLM researcher @UVM Computational Story Lab. Science Fiction Writer & Editor. Artist. Farmer. Westport, NY
Pinned
Taking David Hartwell out for dinner on the 10-year anniversary of his fatal fall.
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Even Lutnick is comparing the U.S. attempt to steal Greenland to the Russian attempt to steal Ukraine.
Lutnick: "I didn't understand why they sent a couple dozen military people to Greenland. It made no sense whatsoever. I mean, they didn't send those couple of dozen people to Ukraine before Russia came in. If you provoke the president, you're gonna get a response."
January 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Even Lutnick is comparing the U.S. attempt to steal Greenland to the Russian attempt to steal Ukraine.
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Easy to compare this to Hitler demanding the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to avoid war, but Sudetenland was German-speaking and there was strong support for German occupation (obviously not in rest of Czechoslovakia) this stands in sharp contrast where Greenland is strongly opposed to US occupation
Trump: "I'm seeking immediate negotiations to discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States"
January 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Easy to compare this to Hitler demanding the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to avoid war, but Sudetenland was German-speaking and there was strong support for German occupation (obviously not in rest of Czechoslovakia) this stands in sharp contrast where Greenland is strongly opposed to US occupation
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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This is like if Hitler were too brain-damaged to pronounce "lebensraum"
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."
(He means Greenland.)
(He means Greenland.)
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This is like if Hitler were too brain-damaged to pronounce "lebensraum"
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Trump: "If I want to really crush the housing market, I could do that so fast, and people could buy houses ... I always say, look, you know I can crush the hell out of the market, we can drop interest rates to a level -- and that's one thing we do want to do."
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Trump: "If I want to really crush the housing market, I could do that so fast, and people could buy houses ... I always say, look, you know I can crush the hell out of the market, we can drop interest rates to a level -- and that's one thing we do want to do."
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The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."
(He means Greenland.)
(He means Greenland.)
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.
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"She just rubbed me the wrong way" -- Trump is now rambling about the Swiss head of state, whose name and title he does not know
January 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"She just rubbed me the wrong way" -- Trump is now rambling about the Swiss head of state, whose name and title he does not know
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It's not like the Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments on whether this guy should have the power to invent reasons to fire members of the Federal Reserve board...
(Narrator: The oral argument in Trump v. Cook is set to begin in about 20 minutes.)
(Narrator: The oral argument in Trump v. Cook is set to begin in about 20 minutes.)
Trump: "We should be paying the lowest interest rate of any country in the world, because without the United States you don't have a country." 🥴
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
It's not like the Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments on whether this guy should have the power to invent reasons to fire members of the Federal Reserve board...
(Narrator: The oral argument in Trump v. Cook is set to begin in about 20 minutes.)
(Narrator: The oral argument in Trump v. Cook is set to begin in about 20 minutes.)
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Trump does not even remember where he plans to invade.
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Trump does not even remember where he plans to invade.
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Today is our 37th wedding anniversary! I looked long and hard for a recent selfie that didn't make @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social and me look drunk and/or criminal, and this is the best I could find.
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Today is our 37th wedding anniversary! I looked long and hard for a recent selfie that didn't make @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social and me look drunk and/or criminal, and this is the best I could find.
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everything is stressful and dumb, but there is a private kind of amusement at watching my nation’s cabinet officials trying to convince other nation-states to “quit whining and just indulge Sundowning Fascist Pop-Pop! that’s how all of us got here, don’t see what’s so hard about it!”
January 21, 2026 at 2:38 AM
everything is stressful and dumb, but there is a private kind of amusement at watching my nation’s cabinet officials trying to convince other nation-states to “quit whining and just indulge Sundowning Fascist Pop-Pop! that’s how all of us got here, don’t see what’s so hard about it!”
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My grandfather went to jail for this
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 1:33 PM
My grandfather went to jail for this
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The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
January 21, 2026 at 12:52 PM
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation
go.nature.com/4a48Ney
go.nature.com/4a48Ney
The US is quitting 66 global agencies: what does it mean for science?
The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation. Affected organizations tell Nature that their work continues.
go.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:18 AM
The US is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation
go.nature.com/4a48Ney
go.nature.com/4a48Ney
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You cant buy a house because our president is really mad he didn’t get a Nobel peace prize and so he is threatening Greenland.
January 21, 2026 at 12:59 PM
You cant buy a house because our president is really mad he didn’t get a Nobel peace prize and so he is threatening Greenland.
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Depressing to consider how different this country is if the election isn’t stolen from Gore in 2000.
January 21, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Depressing to consider how different this country is if the election isn’t stolen from Gore in 2000.
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Elon Musk’s X is helping people create indecent images of KIDS. His response to outcry this week? He doesn’t give a f*ck.
Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.
Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.
Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.
Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Elon Musk’s X is helping people create indecent images of KIDS. His response to outcry this week? He doesn’t give a f*ck.
Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.
Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.
Imagine his face if millions get the f*ck off of X though. Join millions deleting their accounts.
Link in bio to download this poster for free and spread this worldwide.
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i am very worried there is an emerging consensus from "trans-supportive" cishets in the US that's basically "you can be trans, but not if you're a child". trans rights ok if they don't have to cede property "rights" over their kids
there is no trans liberation without youth liberation
there is no trans liberation without youth liberation
I do have to point out that even with a more-accepting society, there is a gulf between "I am okay with queers" and "I am okay with my kid being a queer". People can support LGBT rights in the abstract and then get spooked when their own precious cinnamon roll makes them a "non-traditional family".
January 21, 2026 at 8:27 AM
i am very worried there is an emerging consensus from "trans-supportive" cishets in the US that's basically "you can be trans, but not if you're a child". trans rights ok if they don't have to cede property "rights" over their kids
there is no trans liberation without youth liberation
there is no trans liberation without youth liberation
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Paper: Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought ( www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.10825 )
Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought
Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across domains, yet mechanisms underlying sophisticated reasoning remain elusive. Recent reasoning models outperform comparable instruction-...
www.arxiv.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Paper: Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought ( www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.10825 )
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These numbers are a shitshow.
The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it.
That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.
The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it.
That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 AM
These numbers are a shitshow.
The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it.
That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.
The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it.
That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.
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Skeletons from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to first known pandemic
Skeletons from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to first known pandemic
Skeletons from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to first known pandemic
www.independent.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Skeletons from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to first known pandemic
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The masked aristocrats dressed as roman emperors in costume balls in late-18c Venice were mostly less corrupt than this crew
Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:35 AM
The masked aristocrats dressed as roman emperors in costume balls in late-18c Venice were mostly less corrupt than this crew
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it's really weird that Trump is setting up a board that will leave him King of Gaza (and in charge of a huge slush fund) even if he's not President
and the very people who made Gaza their whole personality in 2024 have nothing to say about that.
and the very people who made Gaza their whole personality in 2024 have nothing to say about that.
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 PM
it's really weird that Trump is setting up a board that will leave him King of Gaza (and in charge of a huge slush fund) even if he's not President
and the very people who made Gaza their whole personality in 2024 have nothing to say about that.
and the very people who made Gaza their whole personality in 2024 have nothing to say about that.
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Sometimes when I scan the AP News and Reuters headlines in the morning, I wonder if the editors who wrote them really think the regime won't kill them too
January 20, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Sometimes when I scan the AP News and Reuters headlines in the morning, I wonder if the editors who wrote them really think the regime won't kill them too
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Interested to hear what US energy pundits who advocated for surging natural gas exports to Europe a couple of years ago have to say about this.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows
European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensions
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Interested to hear what US energy pundits who advocated for surging natural gas exports to Europe a couple of years ago have to say about this.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...