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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · 7d

This is way overdue: Picture it, small town WI, ca. mid-'90s. When I wasn't listening to industrial, metal, and goth, I was listening to the songs on your Doctorate Rock BYR2k countdown, @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social. Even PfP. 😀🐕🐈🐇

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today I was asked if I work at Walgreens because I looked "no nonsense" and like I knew what I was doing. I guess I appreciate that?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 25

Netanyahu: “Hamas is stealing the aid”

Update:
www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 24

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Read my latest:

Gaza is starving

Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jul 23

Really enjoyed the thoughtfulness of the College Rock Chronicles pt 2 on BYR 2k, @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social -- a few gems for sure. As an almost-47-year-old, the '90s should be my foundational music, but I want to burn most of it to the ground. 😅🔥

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jun 26

I think I watched every episode of NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS on Friday nights (I led such an exciting early 2000s) 😢

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 26

BREAKING: Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned prize-winning TV journalist, has died at 91.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, has died at 91.

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jun 26

Inspired by what's been going on in NYC? Wisconsin can have fresh, progressive representation again. Get involved in a party that puts people over profits @wiprogressiveparty.bsky.social

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 20

Is Big AI paying men to get in their feelings when someone doesn’t have any interest in their product? They take it so personally! Have an iced tea bro! It’s summer.

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jun 20

Late on this, but your Beyond Yacht Rock 2000 Crooner Career Crisis!! list was creative and thoughtful, as usual, @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social. Two things: "gently satanic facial hair" had me 😈 and that Mel Torme tune is a banger

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 26

Top notch content (ep 110) yet again from Beyond Yacht Rock 2000. Strong entries, @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social, but I'm not sure anyone beat Hunter's arguments for Clark County, NV, the great country of Canada, and Bay City, MI. I need to check out that small museum in the splinter ward 😆

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 19

I am angry when I see people talking about the way JB has been walking, speculating about health problems and hiding things from the public. F you. Cancer in your bones is painful like a motherfer. Shame on all of you aholes. May you never have to deal with seeing a loved one die in this way. 2/2

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 19

Because I've seen some conspiracy theory level bs being thrown around: the prostate cancer Joe Biden has comes out of nowhere. His previous exam would have shown no cancer, then suddenly stage 4. My dad had this very cancer, metastisized to his bones as well. It is painful, he died from it. 1/2

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 17

Italy, you've charmed me with your glam Eurovision entry this year

Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 9

Another thing I could die from that I can now obsess about

Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · May 8

An estimated 6 million Americans have an unruptured brain aneurysm, but funding for research surrounding this condition has been inadequate.

I was proud to meet with the Brain Aneurysm Foundation and the family of Ellie Helton as we work to pass Ellie's Law and bolster research & treatment efforts.

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Brent Black @brentalfloss.bsky.social · May 8

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · May 8

Another killer list, @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social Your Beyond Yacht Rock (2000 and before) episodes are the best. Chef's kiss taste in music.

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Apr 11

Fritz the Hat

*ba-dum ching*

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Feb 9

I enjoy finding my (deceased) dad's handwriting on things 😂✝️

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Feb 6

Listening to a podcast from 2017, and the hosts are lamenting some of the terrible things the president is talking about doing. Just wait until 2025, boys. Just wait.

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jan 22

Please consider donating to help a friend

Donate to Help a Disabled Trans Woman (and her cats) Keep Their Home, organized by Erys Purmoar

Hi there, I'm a queer, disabled trans woman in her 40s who was… Erys Purmoar needs your support for Help a Disabled Trans Woman (and her cats) Keep Their Home

gofund.me

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jan 20

Is it Jared?

Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jan 15

How weird that everyone is talking about Neil Gaiman today. Did something happen with that story just now? I listened to a whole podcast and read a bunch of articles about it a few months back. I thought that guy was already a forgotten slime of history.

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Kara Z @kazavada.bsky.social · Jan 6

Do regular people use windsocks anymore? I made like two of them in middle school