Kara Barkman
@karabarkman.bsky.social
Knitter, Coffee enthusiast, Outdoor chiller
Working with asylum seekers and refugees
MA in Refugee Integration
Free Palestine
Working with asylum seekers and refugees
MA in Refugee Integration
Free Palestine
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...
I also doom knit, what a way to get out of my head for a bit...
Thank you, I’ll have plenty! I used to crochet a long time ago and just started knitting a few weeks ago.
It’s been a great way to stop doomscrolling and reflect 😌
I’ve finished a Sophie scarf and have started a sweater. (I’m waiting for more purple yarn & am casting on a new cardigan as I wait 🫣)
It’s been a great way to stop doomscrolling and reflect 😌
I’ve finished a Sophie scarf and have started a sweater. (I’m waiting for more purple yarn & am casting on a new cardigan as I wait 🫣)
January 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I also doom knit, what a way to get out of my head for a bit...
I did a project on "The Big One" for my Translation in Crisis course last spring, and it horrified my Irish professor that in the PNW we grow up with this impending sense of doom
January 26th was the 325th anniversary of the last Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake & tsunami. The CSZ is WA’s greatest earthquake & tsunami threat. Subduction zones generate destructive earthquakes & tsunamis that impact entire ocean basins. Learn more here: www.usgs.gov/special-topi...
January 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I did a project on "The Big One" for my Translation in Crisis course last spring, and it horrified my Irish professor that in the PNW we grow up with this impending sense of doom
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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
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Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
January 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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A ceasefire in Gaza is just the beginning. The occupation must end. Permanently.
BREAKING: Israel's army announces attack in Jenin in the occupied West Bank without providing further details. Yesterday, an Israeli air attack killed six Palestinians in Jenin, including a 15-year-old child.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f56saw
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f56saw
January 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A ceasefire in Gaza is just the beginning. The occupation must end. Permanently.
Time for my annual NYE tradition:
✨️ Some God self care - bath, face masks, etc
✨️ Some Journaling about dreams, goals, and how the last year went
✨️ Watch the Bridget Jones trilogy with a glass of wine
✨️ Probably cry at some point about a whole variety of things
✨️ Some God self care - bath, face masks, etc
✨️ Some Journaling about dreams, goals, and how the last year went
✨️ Watch the Bridget Jones trilogy with a glass of wine
✨️ Probably cry at some point about a whole variety of things
January 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Time for my annual NYE tradition:
✨️ Some God self care - bath, face masks, etc
✨️ Some Journaling about dreams, goals, and how the last year went
✨️ Watch the Bridget Jones trilogy with a glass of wine
✨️ Probably cry at some point about a whole variety of things
✨️ Some God self care - bath, face masks, etc
✨️ Some Journaling about dreams, goals, and how the last year went
✨️ Watch the Bridget Jones trilogy with a glass of wine
✨️ Probably cry at some point about a whole variety of things
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