kathryn
@clipperdoodle.bsky.social
overly invested in sports — currently Carolinian, Midwestern for life — she/her
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
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Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
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[gestures at everything] ew
December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
[gestures at everything] ew
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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Buddy of mine said the reason College Football is such an excellent product is that it's basically a melodramatic BravoTV show from Monday to Friday until Saturday when they play football and they rest on Sunday and start the cycle all over again on Monday and he's right and it's a good pitch
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Buddy of mine said the reason College Football is such an excellent product is that it's basically a melodramatic BravoTV show from Monday to Friday until Saturday when they play football and they rest on Sunday and start the cycle all over again on Monday and he's right and it's a good pitch
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Adults need to make the Christmas magic themselves. You want cookies and tree decorating? Start a tradition of doing so with people you love! Go to holiday events! Drive around and look at lights! Kids get magic made for them; you're grown now. It's your turn to make it.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Adults need to make the Christmas magic themselves. You want cookies and tree decorating? Start a tradition of doing so with people you love! Go to holiday events! Drive around and look at lights! Kids get magic made for them; you're grown now. It's your turn to make it.
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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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🎄 GOOD MORNING, and welcome back to the annual Italian Christmas Donkey Challenge 🫏
The rules are simple 🌟
You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:
youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...
The rules are simple 🌟
You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:
youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...
Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey (HQ Audio)
YouTube video by Christmas 365
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December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎄 GOOD MORNING, and welcome back to the annual Italian Christmas Donkey Challenge 🫏
The rules are simple 🌟
You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:
youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...
The rules are simple 🌟
You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:
youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...
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Yes, it’s nigh on two hours of disaster yarns and other crunchy bits for those of you with long drives or long stretches in front of the stove, stay hydrated out there 🦃 🔥 🍊
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THANKSGIVING DISASTERS, PART 2
Podcast Episode · Shutdown Fullcast · 11/26/2025 · 1h 58m
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November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Yes, it’s nigh on two hours of disaster yarns and other crunchy bits for those of you with long drives or long stretches in front of the stove, stay hydrated out there 🦃 🔥 🍊
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Waking up from the post dinner nap
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Waking up from the post dinner nap
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this is a semantic distinction that is also completely pointless, but:
while Hot Fuss is the ~greater~ album (it’s a debut, it sounded unlike anything else out there at the time), Sam’s Town is actually the ~better~ album imo (it’s more cohesive, its high points are better than Hot Fuss’s)
while Hot Fuss is the ~greater~ album (it’s a debut, it sounded unlike anything else out there at the time), Sam’s Town is actually the ~better~ album imo (it’s more cohesive, its high points are better than Hot Fuss’s)
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
this is a semantic distinction that is also completely pointless, but:
while Hot Fuss is the ~greater~ album (it’s a debut, it sounded unlike anything else out there at the time), Sam’s Town is actually the ~better~ album imo (it’s more cohesive, its high points are better than Hot Fuss’s)
while Hot Fuss is the ~greater~ album (it’s a debut, it sounded unlike anything else out there at the time), Sam’s Town is actually the ~better~ album imo (it’s more cohesive, its high points are better than Hot Fuss’s)
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ah! common mistake. it should have been “we’re on to winston-salem,” as wake forest university is there, and not wake forest, n.c., which is 100-plus miles east of winston-salem
and now they’re on to the bus home
and now they’re on to the bus home
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ah! common mistake. it should have been “we’re on to winston-salem,” as wake forest university is there, and not wake forest, n.c., which is 100-plus miles east of winston-salem
and now they’re on to the bus home
and now they’re on to the bus home
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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I shouldn’t complain but man, espn, if I’m watching Louisville - Cal at 10:35 on a Saturday night, you can probably assume I know how college overtime works
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I shouldn’t complain but man, espn, if I’m watching Louisville - Cal at 10:35 on a Saturday night, you can probably assume I know how college overtime works
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With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
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This is also a problem in the non-profit sector, where people think that leadership making six figures is a sin against the public interest, not realizing that means you’re getting leadership that is either inept or independently wealthy.
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is also a problem in the non-profit sector, where people think that leadership making six figures is a sin against the public interest, not realizing that means you’re getting leadership that is either inept or independently wealthy.
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In Mexico, I asked Lewis Hamilton about what pet ownership taught him about himself. A simple question... but one with a LOT of baggage in the #F1 paddock.
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In Mexico, I asked Lewis Hamilton about what pet ownership taught him about himself. A simple question... but one with a LOT of baggage in the #F1 paddock.
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
This is your sign to ask your questions, no matter what others think.
open.substack.com/pub/deadlypa...
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FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.
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as someone who was on SNAP four times let me tell you it would be *phenomenally hard* to exploit, they put *a lot of effort* into giving you *as little as possible* and are horrendously understaffed
if someone has managed to abuse the system they are Danny Ocean and you should respect the hustle
if someone has managed to abuse the system they are Danny Ocean and you should respect the hustle
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
as someone who was on SNAP four times let me tell you it would be *phenomenally hard* to exploit, they put *a lot of effort* into giving you *as little as possible* and are horrendously understaffed
if someone has managed to abuse the system they are Danny Ocean and you should respect the hustle
if someone has managed to abuse the system they are Danny Ocean and you should respect the hustle
A small joy is that the trees around us are hitting peak color and the sun is out so I had a nice drive in to work today
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A small joy is that the trees around us are hitting peak color and the sun is out so I had a nice drive in to work today