Caitlin Sainio
@caitlinsainio.bsky.social
Engineer and microscopist. Retired crochet designer. Loves science and pretty pictures. She/her.
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
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Since I seem to now being doing my Best Threads of 2025, consider the drunken mattress rating system:
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
I have an overlarge glass of wine because the bartender tried to describe the size in milliliters and I panicked.
I shall now rate the mattresses in the following cities based on having stayed at one hotel there.
*clears throat*
*sips wine*
I shall now rate the mattresses in the following cities based on having stayed at one hotel there.
*clears throat*
*sips wine*
December 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Since I seem to now being doing my Best Threads of 2025, consider the drunken mattress rating system:
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
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Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit
The Trump administration is lashing out at performers who have chosen to cancel performances at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s recent decision to deface the cultural institution with ...
www.dailykos.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.
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Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...
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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
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Oh man they’re so close to getting it
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Oh man they’re so close to getting it
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Unless you need advice on how to use your dad’s diamond mine money to help overstay your visa and then work in the US, and buy the work of others but claim it’s your own genius, and be shockingly racist & incurious & cruel, never listen to a word Elon Musk says about anything
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Unless you need advice on how to use your dad’s diamond mine money to help overstay your visa and then work in the US, and buy the work of others but claim it’s your own genius, and be shockingly racist & incurious & cruel, never listen to a word Elon Musk says about anything
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“MAHA Santa” is a perfect allegory for the MAHA movement: fat-shaming a fictional character who is literally immortal for eating cookies one night a year, while our surgeon general nominee is advertising (for $) milkshakes as “healthy” if they’re made from raw milk…
MAHA: where the most insufferable people you know gather to feel even more self-righteous.
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“MAHA Santa” is a perfect allegory for the MAHA movement: fat-shaming a fictional character who is literally immortal for eating cookies one night a year, while our surgeon general nominee is advertising (for $) milkshakes as “healthy” if they’re made from raw milk…
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Cats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, when wild cats encountered the first human settlements and saw an opportunity to constantly be in the way
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, when wild cats encountered the first human settlements and saw an opportunity to constantly be in the way
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Bari Weiss, who made her career sowing distrust in the mainstream media, is now pretending other people did that and she’s here to help right the ship
December 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Bari Weiss, who made her career sowing distrust in the mainstream media, is now pretending other people did that and she’s here to help right the ship
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Gosh. I'm wondering what ruling by which Supreme Court Justice might have previously given CBP and ICE the idea that they could just detain people and throw them behind bars for an extended period of time based on the color of their skin and nothing else?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Gosh. I'm wondering what ruling by which Supreme Court Justice might have previously given CBP and ICE the idea that they could just detain people and throw them behind bars for an extended period of time based on the color of their skin and nothing else?
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this seems bad.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
this seems bad.
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Like the Kremlin does.
Trump’s 'National Security Strategy' declares the US will focus on 'cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.' That amounts to a declaration the US will promote regime change in countries that remain governed by pro-democracy parties that support the EU and NATO"
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Like the Kremlin does.
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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How the IRS is going to have to be moving in 2029:
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
How the IRS is going to have to be moving in 2029:
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"the vice president is neutral on bigotry" is damning on its own as a headline, IMO, but still underplays just how much of what he said was actually pro-bigot
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"the vice president is neutral on bigotry" is damning on its own as a headline, IMO, but still underplays just how much of what he said was actually pro-bigot
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This really is the most important bit:
No matter how "confident" "Gen AI" sounds, it's only calculating what you're mostly likely to accept.
Like a pickup sleazebag or the current occupant of the oval office, maybe Something it says will resemble the truth, but it doesn't know or care if it does.
No matter how "confident" "Gen AI" sounds, it's only calculating what you're mostly likely to accept.
Like a pickup sleazebag or the current occupant of the oval office, maybe Something it says will resemble the truth, but it doesn't know or care if it does.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This really is the most important bit:
No matter how "confident" "Gen AI" sounds, it's only calculating what you're mostly likely to accept.
Like a pickup sleazebag or the current occupant of the oval office, maybe Something it says will resemble the truth, but it doesn't know or care if it does.
No matter how "confident" "Gen AI" sounds, it's only calculating what you're mostly likely to accept.
Like a pickup sleazebag or the current occupant of the oval office, maybe Something it says will resemble the truth, but it doesn't know or care if it does.
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sometimes the food you're buying from us is going to contain assorted non food mixed in but that's a risk we all have to live with you guys gotta understand how much money this saves us in order to deliver to you something no one has ever asked for
So… these "questions of accuracy" were always going to happen once the Washington Post chose to make "Personalized AI Podcast" bullshit, bc statistically generative sycophantic bullshit engines are not, & frankly cannot be about "accuracy." You know that, right NPR? Please say you know that by now…
Questions of accuracy arise as Washington Post uses AI to create personalized podcasts
The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
sometimes the food you're buying from us is going to contain assorted non food mixed in but that's a risk we all have to live with you guys gotta understand how much money this saves us in order to deliver to you something no one has ever asked for
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Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!
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The CISA's new director, hand-picked by Kristi Noem, asked to be "read in" to highly sensitive, compartmentalized intelligence shared with a select few people in the civilian agency by the NSA or CIA.
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The CISA's new director, hand-picked by Kristi Noem, asked to be "read in" to highly sensitive, compartmentalized intelligence shared with a select few people in the civilian agency by the NSA or CIA.
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel. 1/
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The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. https://cnn.it/44DLntx
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The trigger: CBS News suddenly shelved a segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. https://cnn.it/44DLntx
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yeah I have so many people replying to me like "they don't plan to answer to the voters"
I mean of course they don't but their "plan" is, by all appearances, of underpants gnomes level of sophistication.
1) Do crime in public.
2) ???
3) Never lose power.
I mean of course they don't but their "plan" is, by all appearances, of underpants gnomes level of sophistication.
1) Do crime in public.
2) ???
3) Never lose power.
i know one view is that "they don't intend to lose power" but i honestly think this gives them way too much credit.
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
yeah I have so many people replying to me like "they don't plan to answer to the voters"
I mean of course they don't but their "plan" is, by all appearances, of underpants gnomes level of sophistication.
1) Do crime in public.
2) ???
3) Never lose power.
I mean of course they don't but their "plan" is, by all appearances, of underpants gnomes level of sophistication.
1) Do crime in public.
2) ???
3) Never lose power.
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‘Drift’
Oil and acrylic on canvas 1.1Mx1.1M
Oil and acrylic on canvas 1.1Mx1.1M
September 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
‘Drift’
Oil and acrylic on canvas 1.1Mx1.1M
Oil and acrylic on canvas 1.1Mx1.1M