Kathy Tafel
@kathytafel.bsky.social
iOS dev | conference speaker | Mac addict
https://www.therecipeboxapp.com
Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun
SF—>Bkln—>Berlin
Retweets ≠ 👍🏻
She/her
🇺🇦🍉🤎🌮
We all breathe the same air.
https://www.therecipeboxapp.com
Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun
SF—>Bkln—>Berlin
Retweets ≠ 👍🏻
She/her
🇺🇦🍉🤎🌮
We all breathe the same air.
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Kathy Tafel
@kathytafel.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Excited that we managed to ship The Recipe Box for iPad and iPhone with Liquid Glass support and recipe timers ready for download on new iPhone day. Get it here for iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-r...
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Racism is the best-correlated variable for Trumpism.
The problem is that the conclusion is repugnant (that an entire political party has mostly gone “gutter racist”) and this makes it hard to talk about without having that same party scream “bias!”
The problem is that the conclusion is repugnant (that an entire political party has mostly gone “gutter racist”) and this makes it hard to talk about without having that same party scream “bias!”
Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Racism is the best-correlated variable for Trumpism.
The problem is that the conclusion is repugnant (that an entire political party has mostly gone “gutter racist”) and this makes it hard to talk about without having that same party scream “bias!”
The problem is that the conclusion is repugnant (that an entire political party has mostly gone “gutter racist”) and this makes it hard to talk about without having that same party scream “bias!”
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Jerry Seinfeld: What's the deal with airline food?
Me: It's only for rich-ass jerks who fly first class
Jerry Seinfeld:
Me:
Jerry Seinfeld: Guys can't be funny anymore cuz of woke
Me: It's only for rich-ass jerks who fly first class
Jerry Seinfeld:
Me:
Jerry Seinfeld: Guys can't be funny anymore cuz of woke
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Jerry Seinfeld: What's the deal with airline food?
Me: It's only for rich-ass jerks who fly first class
Jerry Seinfeld:
Me:
Jerry Seinfeld: Guys can't be funny anymore cuz of woke
Me: It's only for rich-ass jerks who fly first class
Jerry Seinfeld:
Me:
Jerry Seinfeld: Guys can't be funny anymore cuz of woke
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Being Interdisciplinary feels like practicing non-attachment. Different disciplines come in & out of focus in waves, each a whole world. Engaging with philosophy gives access to different ontologies than engaging in neuroscience or AI. This helps us evaluate each field from within & outside itself.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Being Interdisciplinary feels like practicing non-attachment. Different disciplines come in & out of focus in waves, each a whole world. Engaging with philosophy gives access to different ontologies than engaging in neuroscience or AI. This helps us evaluate each field from within & outside itself.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
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Guess they’re gonna have to tear down all those New Deal buildings and artworks.
For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.
For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Guess they’re gonna have to tear down all those New Deal buildings and artworks.
For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.
For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.
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My Keynote talk on 'Skill Trees: Gamifying The Hard Things' from the Everything Open Conference is now available! Have you ever wanted to use video game skill trees for tracking real life skills? My talk is all about my work on the open access Skill Trees Project.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPW...
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My Keynote talk on 'Skill Trees: Gamifying The Hard Things' from the Everything Open Conference is now available! Have you ever wanted to use video game skill trees for tracking real life skills? My talk is all about my work on the open access Skill Trees Project.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPW...
For my US friends, European style social democrats are the barely left of center party in Germany. There are two other parties (at least) farther to the left (the greens and ‘the left’).
A European style social democrat is not bad. Theyre everywhere in Europe. He's still a Democrat.
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For my US friends, European style social democrats are the barely left of center party in Germany. There are two other parties (at least) farther to the left (the greens and ‘the left’).
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unprecedented levels of rizz
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
unprecedented levels of rizz
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Honestly if you'd told me Steve Wozniak was going to be literally the only unproblematic person from early Silicon Valley, I absolutely would have believed you, just not how wide the gap is between him and literally everyone else from that era.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Honestly if you'd told me Steve Wozniak was going to be literally the only unproblematic person from early Silicon Valley, I absolutely would have believed you, just not how wide the gap is between him and literally everyone else from that era.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
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🚨🚨🚨 "Because if you just look at item four it says that the US will mediate between NATO and Russia to create a European security arrangement. The US in this document is talking as if it's not part of NATO, that when when US, a founding member, talks about NATO, it means the Europeans."
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨🚨🚨 "Because if you just look at item four it says that the US will mediate between NATO and Russia to create a European security arrangement. The US in this document is talking as if it's not part of NATO, that when when US, a founding member, talks about NATO, it means the Europeans."
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This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
Great idea. Flipping hippies.
She’s right. The government started putting gender on passports in 1972 out of concern that men and women were getting too hard to tell apart, what with all the hippies with long hair and feminists in pants and whatnot.
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov
@murray.senate.gov When the government is back in session, will you introduce a bill to take “sex/gender” off passports? There is no reason for it to be there, and, indeed, it’s only been there because of the misogyny of our government in 1972?
I’d appreciate a response.
I’d appreciate a response.
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great idea. Flipping hippies.
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WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
This is ridiculous and disproportionately affects female coded work. FU everybody who voted for Trump.
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is ridiculous and disproportionately affects female coded work. FU everybody who voted for Trump.
Quick, call Kendrick.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Quick, call Kendrick.
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Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
I ask myself this every day.
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I ask myself this every day.