K. W. Knight
@kwknight.bsky.social
So Cal, Oregon, New York.
Avi image detail from "Sisters of the Moon Diana" by Leonora Carrington
Avi image detail from "Sisters of the Moon Diana" by Leonora Carrington
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"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
Oregon teenager’s ICE detention sparks high school walkout
Hundreds of McMinnville High students walked out Monday, days after ICE detained Christian Jimenez, 17.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
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You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
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Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
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I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
Two little kids, no relation, dressed as Spiderman, going opposite directions on the moving walkway
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Two little kids, no relation, dressed as Spiderman, going opposite directions on the moving walkway
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Once upon a time, and I forget the name of the game but maybe someone else will remember it for me, there was a multiplayer kids' game that Solved Safety Forever by only allowing everyone to select from a very small number of prewritten messages, no custom chat.
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Once upon a time, and I forget the name of the game but maybe someone else will remember it for me, there was a multiplayer kids' game that Solved Safety Forever by only allowing everyone to select from a very small number of prewritten messages, no custom chat.
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Ooh! Look! My li'l dogwood has sprouted a dimensional portal into this one particular evening last month!
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ooh! Look! My li'l dogwood has sprouted a dimensional portal into this one particular evening last month!
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I’m going to start calling black Friday “tv sound bar and robot vacuum” day
Maybe something in there about insta pots
Maybe something in there about insta pots
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’m going to start calling black Friday “tv sound bar and robot vacuum” day
Maybe something in there about insta pots
Maybe something in there about insta pots
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"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I'm usually cold but I'm really hot on this flight. And we're "going through some weather" so I can't ask a flight attendant to do something about it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm usually cold but I'm really hot on this flight. And we're "going through some weather" so I can't ask a flight attendant to do something about it.
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Roasting is a vehicle, not a destination.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Roasting is a vehicle, not a destination.
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Being vulgar isn’t the goal of roasting. EARNING CAMARADERIE IS THE POINT. You display the empathy to accurately asses others’ vulnerabilities, the craft to make fun at them without destroying underlying respect for their humanity, and you earn satisfaction of earning their esteem.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Being vulgar isn’t the goal of roasting. EARNING CAMARADERIE IS THE POINT. You display the empathy to accurately asses others’ vulnerabilities, the craft to make fun at them without destroying underlying respect for their humanity, and you earn satisfaction of earning their esteem.
Air travel needs dance party breaks
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Air travel needs dance party breaks
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“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
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Black Friday sale prices are last year’s retail prices.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Black Friday sale prices are last year’s retail prices.
Why is travel coffee so bad so much of the time?
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Why is travel coffee so bad so much of the time?
Early boarders of this flight were about 1/3 masked. Later boarding groups pretty much fully not masking. 🫤
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Early boarders of this flight were about 1/3 masked. Later boarding groups pretty much fully not masking. 🫤
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I appreciate Dr. David Gruber’s thoughtfulness around incorporating LLMs into his research and how it might further human understanding - of ourselves as a species as well as cetaceans www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I appreciate Dr. David Gruber’s thoughtfulness around incorporating LLMs into his research and how it might further human understanding - of ourselves as a species as well as cetaceans www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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If the economy relies on us re-purchasing durable goods every two years, the economy is broken.
It didn't have to be this way.
We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
It didn't have to be this way.
We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If the economy relies on us re-purchasing durable goods every two years, the economy is broken.
It didn't have to be this way.
We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
It didn't have to be this way.
We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
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The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The presenter at this training suggested folks stop in at local businesses with “Immigrants Welcome” signs & offer this (or similar) more useful & forceful alternative. Something small you can do when you have a bit of time. I am.
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
Printable signs here: www.ojrc.info/kyr
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I automatically read anything by Kaitlyn
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I automatically read anything by Kaitlyn
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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Hey
go help Charlie pls
Seriously, this kind of last-minute complication suuuuuuuucks, it's the kind of thing that can really break you. Help if you can, okay?
go help Charlie pls
Seriously, this kind of last-minute complication suuuuuuuucks, it's the kind of thing that can really break you. Help if you can, okay?
gofund.me/dbd60eb45
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
Y’all, things are dire since my car has been stolen a week before our move. We were counting on having it. Things have been really rough & being on disability, which I’ve been on since my lymphoma diagnosis, limits my budget drastically. If you can help or share I’d be grateful.
Donate to Charlie’s Urgent Relocation Fund, organized by Kristen Maloney
My name is Kris, and I have created this GoFundMe on behalf of my partner, Charlie. T… Kristen Maloney needs your support for Charlie’s Urgent Relocation Fund
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey
go help Charlie pls
Seriously, this kind of last-minute complication suuuuuuuucks, it's the kind of thing that can really break you. Help if you can, okay?
go help Charlie pls
Seriously, this kind of last-minute complication suuuuuuuucks, it's the kind of thing that can really break you. Help if you can, okay?