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@kayleitha.bsky.social
a.k.a. katyakoshka or peripheralobse1
Gothy left-leaning mom w/trigeminal neuralgia. Knitter, reader, casual gamer, drinker of coffee & tea. Big on lurking. Trans rights are human rights. ADHD-minimum neurospicy. Caretaker of 3 cats. (she/her)
Gothy left-leaning mom w/trigeminal neuralgia. Knitter, reader, casual gamer, drinker of coffee & tea. Big on lurking. Trans rights are human rights. ADHD-minimum neurospicy. Caretaker of 3 cats. (she/her)
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I'd actually argue that Summers' has such extreme biases when it comes to race and gender, that his expertise is suss.
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I'd actually argue that Summers' has such extreme biases when it comes to race and gender, that his expertise is suss.
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@authorwinifred.blacksky.app Can’t reply directly to your meme post, but I wanted to make sure you had this gem
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@authorwinifred.blacksky.app Can’t reply directly to your meme post, but I wanted to make sure you had this gem
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Oh, yes Sir, this meme definitely restore trust and order in the land.
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Oh, yes Sir, this meme definitely restore trust and order in the land.
It's official. Out of my two kids, I have two autistic kids. Shocking, I tell you. Shocking.
(Not actually shocked. I am both glad to have answers and terrified of what it means in this current political climate, but hiding is what they want, so the fash can fuck themselves.)
(Not actually shocked. I am both glad to have answers and terrified of what it means in this current political climate, but hiding is what they want, so the fash can fuck themselves.)
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It's official. Out of my two kids, I have two autistic kids. Shocking, I tell you. Shocking.
(Not actually shocked. I am both glad to have answers and terrified of what it means in this current political climate, but hiding is what they want, so the fash can fuck themselves.)
(Not actually shocked. I am both glad to have answers and terrified of what it means in this current political climate, but hiding is what they want, so the fash can fuck themselves.)
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
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There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!
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Remember that we're all fighting our own battles. You never know who's silently suffering.
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Remember that we're all fighting our own battles. You never know who's silently suffering.
So, this afternoon, our youngest cat was curled up with my husband when he startled and scratched up my husband's wrist while fleeing.
I have now had call to use things I learned and/or remembered from my first aid training *twice* today.
The fuck, you know?
I have now had call to use things I learned and/or remembered from my first aid training *twice* today.
The fuck, you know?
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So, this afternoon, our youngest cat was curled up with my husband when he startled and scratched up my husband's wrist while fleeing.
I have now had call to use things I learned and/or remembered from my first aid training *twice* today.
The fuck, you know?
I have now had call to use things I learned and/or remembered from my first aid training *twice* today.
The fuck, you know?
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I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
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There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
Nope, I'm not nervous in the slightest, not me!
*twitch*
*twitch*
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Nope, I'm not nervous in the slightest, not me!
*twitch*
*twitch*
I think I'm going to put padding on that corner.
This is the first time I've clipped it, but I doubt it will be my last. I know myself.
This is the first time I've clipped it, but I doubt it will be my last. I know myself.
My right side is weaker in many ways, including visual perception of objects. This is merely the most physically painful episode.
But, yeah, tried rounding the corner of my bed, and instead hit the corner straight on with my knee.
But, yeah, tried rounding the corner of my bed, and instead hit the corner straight on with my knee.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think I'm going to put padding on that corner.
This is the first time I've clipped it, but I doubt it will be my last. I know myself.
This is the first time I've clipped it, but I doubt it will be my last. I know myself.
Having an unexpected day off after I accidentally kneed the exposed wood corner of my bedframe. It's "only" bruised, but to the extent that walking is Not Great, and the urgent care NP told me to rest, ice & elevate it (compression on kneecaps is... difficult).
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Having an unexpected day off after I accidentally kneed the exposed wood corner of my bedframe. It's "only" bruised, but to the extent that walking is Not Great, and the urgent care NP told me to rest, ice & elevate it (compression on kneecaps is... difficult).
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Let’s talk about why I am increasingly uneasy about the upcoming flu season. A new H3N2 influenza variant has been emerging globally, and it carries mutations linked to immune escape i.e the virus’s ability to bypass some of our pre-existing immunity. 🧵
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Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season | Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
Background: All of the major antigenic changes in influenza A(H3N2) viruses since 1968 have involved mutations at just nine amino acid positions, called cluster transition sites, surrounding the receptor binding region of the hemagglutinin surface protein. During the northern hemisphere (NH) 2024–2025 influenza season, A(H3N2) variants emerged with multiple parallel substitutions affecting cluster transition sites 135, 145, 158 and/or 189, with implications for the 2025–2026 season. Methods: Using >24,000 global A(H3) sequences between September 2024 and August 2025, we assess the nature and frequency of amino acid mutations among emerging NH and southern hemisphere (SH) A(H3N2) variants relative to the 2024–2025 subclade J and updated 2025–2026 subclade J.2 vaccine reference strains. We contextualize based upon historic amino acid variation among >210,000 global A(H3) sequences since 1968 and publicly available antigenic characterization data relative to 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 vaccine reference strains Results: Virtually all circulating A(H3N2) viruses in 2024–2025 were subclade J.2. In Europe, about one-third had cluster transition site mutations, mostly T135A with S145N. In North America, more than two-thirds had cluster transition site mutations, including T135K or S145N, with late-season increase in doubly mutated J.2.3 (N158K + K189R) and J.2.5 (S145N + N158K) subclades. The SH 2025 season showed increase in J.2.3 and emergence of J.2.4 (T135K + K189R) including a further drifted J.2.4.1 variant with additional N158D and other mutations, recently renamed subclade K. A substantial proportion of J.2.3 and J.2.4 viruses are antigenically distinct from the 2025–2026 influenza vaccine. Conclusion: Influenza A(H3N2) variants with a combination of cluster transition site mutations emerged during the NH 2024–2025 season. A further drifted and vaccine-mismatched variant now called subclade K arose during the SH 2025 season and is projected to predominate among A(H3N2) viruses for the NH 2025–2026 season. While mismatched vaccines may still provide protection, enhanced genetic, antigenic and epidemiological (eg, vaccine effectiveness) monitoring are warranted to inform risk assessment and response.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Let’s talk about why I am increasingly uneasy about the upcoming flu season. A new H3N2 influenza variant has been emerging globally, and it carries mutations linked to immune escape i.e the virus’s ability to bypass some of our pre-existing immunity. 🧵
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What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
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Happy holidays!
Annual shoutout to that one time in early November when I was getting lunch at the bar and the manager put on Christmas carols.
The entire waitstaff went deadly silent, disappeared into the back room, and then the GAME OF THRONES soundtrack kicked on.
The entire waitstaff went deadly silent, disappeared into the back room, and then the GAME OF THRONES soundtrack kicked on.
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Happy holidays!
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Exciting news! We’re partnering with @americanprogress.bsky.social to launch the Transgender Veterans Toolkit—a practical, state-focused resource for policymakers
If you work on state policy, know folks who do, or want to be part of the solution, SHARE this video.
Learn more here: lnkd.in/gXFMYeQe
If you work on state policy, know folks who do, or want to be part of the solution, SHARE this video.
Learn more here: lnkd.in/gXFMYeQe
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Exciting news! We’re partnering with @americanprogress.bsky.social to launch the Transgender Veterans Toolkit—a practical, state-focused resource for policymakers
If you work on state policy, know folks who do, or want to be part of the solution, SHARE this video.
Learn more here: lnkd.in/gXFMYeQe
If you work on state policy, know folks who do, or want to be part of the solution, SHARE this video.
Learn more here: lnkd.in/gXFMYeQe
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Our culture and government is still so pickled in rape culture. There was this fear that #MeToo was going too far, but it absolutely hasn’t even touched the constant sexualization & predation of young girls (or adult women, but particularly young girls).
We've shared the stories. We've been sharing the stories for 19+ years.
No one with the authority to do anything gives a shit. There's no accountability. There's no resolution.
We have to live with this every day.
And live with the risk that it can (and probably will) happen again.
No one with the authority to do anything gives a shit. There's no accountability. There's no resolution.
We have to live with this every day.
And live with the risk that it can (and probably will) happen again.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Our culture and government is still so pickled in rape culture. There was this fear that #MeToo was going too far, but it absolutely hasn’t even touched the constant sexualization & predation of young girls (or adult women, but particularly young girls).
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
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Michael Wolff suggests in an email (in 2015) that if Trump were to say in public that he had never been to Epstein’s house or on his plane, Epstein would have leverage over him.
Which…means that Trump was at his house and on his plane and that Epstein had the receipts to prove it. So.
Which…means that Trump was at his house and on his plane and that Epstein had the receipts to prove it. So.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Michael Wolff suggests in an email (in 2015) that if Trump were to say in public that he had never been to Epstein’s house or on his plane, Epstein would have leverage over him.
Which…means that Trump was at his house and on his plane and that Epstein had the receipts to prove it. So.
Which…means that Trump was at his house and on his plane and that Epstein had the receipts to prove it. So.
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.