Karena 🧠🫀
@karena.blacksky.app
📍VA ✦ ♍️⋆☀︎.♑️˚☾.♓️ ˚⇡⋆
Plant Lady ✦ Associate Professor ✦ Lego Lover ✦ LPC & LMFT ✦ Ursula’s Apprentice 🔱 ✦ Director of MH Services ✦ Wanderer ✦ Qual Researcher ✦ Bird Nerd ✦ Black, White, & Neon Everything! 🖤🤍🩵
✨Celebrating the ✮⋆magic⋆✮ of being alive.🕯️
Plant Lady ✦ Associate Professor ✦ Lego Lover ✦ LPC & LMFT ✦ Ursula’s Apprentice 🔱 ✦ Director of MH Services ✦ Wanderer ✦ Qual Researcher ✦ Bird Nerd ✦ Black, White, & Neon Everything! 🖤🤍🩵
✨Celebrating the ✮⋆magic⋆✮ of being alive.🕯️
Sin, Santo, and Sage by Savoir Faire. Black owned and beautiful. Indicativa is a close second.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Sin, Santo, and Sage by Savoir Faire. Black owned and beautiful. Indicativa is a close second.
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savoirfaire.store/products/sin...
Yerp. Most def in my top 5. Top 3 even.
Easily.
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Yerp. Most def in my top 5. Top 3 even.
Body/Brain, we don’t have to work today and even if we did, when are we ever up this early??? 😭🫠
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Body/Brain, we don’t have to work today and even if we did, when are we ever up this early??? 😭🫠
She was barely in the rotation anyway.
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
She was barely in the rotation anyway.
Me, Nov. 2016: My biggest fear now that he’s elected is that he will embolden others to be exactly like him.
Everybody: Nahhh, that will never happen. You’re being so extreme.
Extreme? What say ye now? 🫠
(Don’t call me Cassandra though…)
Everybody: Nahhh, that will never happen. You’re being so extreme.
Extreme? What say ye now? 🫠
(Don’t call me Cassandra though…)
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Me, Nov. 2016: My biggest fear now that he’s elected is that he will embolden others to be exactly like him.
Everybody: Nahhh, that will never happen. You’re being so extreme.
Extreme? What say ye now? 🫠
(Don’t call me Cassandra though…)
Everybody: Nahhh, that will never happen. You’re being so extreme.
Extreme? What say ye now? 🫠
(Don’t call me Cassandra though…)
I was just informed that I am a Patagonia Black. Where my people at? 🤣
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I was just informed that I am a Patagonia Black. Where my people at? 🤣
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Concerned about FLOCK cameras in Charlottesville? The intersection of local and national law enforcement surveillance systems? Wanna strategize together about how to disrupt the surveillance state? Thursday night come meet community members who share these concerns.
May we present your THURSDAY night plans? Join us!
People's Activist Series—December 11 — Indivisible Charlottesville
We Keep Us Safe: How to Protect Each Other from Surveillance How are surveillance technologies being used to escalate the authoritarian threats we currently face? What can we do to keep each other s...
www.indivisiblecharlottesville.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Concerned about FLOCK cameras in Charlottesville? The intersection of local and national law enforcement surveillance systems? Wanna strategize together about how to disrupt the surveillance state? Thursday night come meet community members who share these concerns.
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Did I mention that we ate? Your girl has Alpha Gal Syndrome, so I couldn’t be knee deep in ramen, but I definitely didn’t starve.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Did I mention that we ate? Your girl has Alpha Gal Syndrome, so I couldn’t be knee deep in ramen, but I definitely didn’t starve.
My. Fuji. 😭 We first got a glimpse of Mt. Fuji at Lake Kawaguchi through the clouds. Then we stopped at the infamous Lawson’s with a view. And finally, on my last day in Japan, the clouds cleared and I could see her in all her glory from my hotel room.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My. Fuji. 😭 We first got a glimpse of Mt. Fuji at Lake Kawaguchi through the clouds. Then we stopped at the infamous Lawson’s with a view. And finally, on my last day in Japan, the clouds cleared and I could see her in all her glory from my hotel room.
We did a few nerdy things - Studio Ghibli, Sanrio Portland, Disney Tokyo. 🤓
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We did a few nerdy things - Studio Ghibli, Sanrio Portland, Disney Tokyo. 🤓
Will accept the peace lily and flowering cactus for any upcoming holiday. 🙃
Three LEGO Botanical Collection Plant Series January 2026 Sets Revealed (11504 Peace Lily, 11508 Daisies & 11509 Flowering Cactus) – US/Canada Prices & Release Dates
Full details available on our website: www.toysnbricks.com/forum/index....
Full details available on our website: www.toysnbricks.com/forum/index....
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Will accept the peace lily and flowering cactus for any upcoming holiday. 🙃
The correct answer is triangular on everything except fried bologna sandwiches. Leave that shit regular, don’t even cut it.
Alright, y’all, serious question:
Triangular-cut sandwich?
-or-
Square-cut sandwich?
Triangular-cut sandwich?
-or-
Square-cut sandwich?
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The correct answer is triangular on everything except fried bologna sandwiches. Leave that shit regular, don’t even cut it.
What a tragedy.
51 is so young.
An RVA legend.
Long live, D’Angelo. 💔
51 is so young.
An RVA legend.
Long live, D’Angelo. 💔
Very sad news…
The incredible D’Angelo has died.
A pioneer of the neo-soul movement, he was 51.
His musical legacy continues to have a massive impact today.
This means that his son, Michael, has lost both his mother, Angie Stone, and his father within just a matter of months.
The incredible D’Angelo has died.
A pioneer of the neo-soul movement, he was 51.
His musical legacy continues to have a massive impact today.
This means that his son, Michael, has lost both his mother, Angie Stone, and his father within just a matter of months.
October 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What a tragedy.
51 is so young.
An RVA legend.
Long live, D’Angelo. 💔
51 is so young.
An RVA legend.
Long live, D’Angelo. 💔
Thisss. Y’all, please get it together. Flu and COVID are amping up already. If washing your hands is too big of an inconvenience, keep your doo doo hands at home.
So many folks don’t wash their nasty ass hands
October 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thisss. Y’all, please get it together. Flu and COVID are amping up already. If washing your hands is too big of an inconvenience, keep your doo doo hands at home.
100% accurate!!! Stop with the ridiculousness!!!
people stay getting this confused, when it is so easy.
If the WMATA doesn't touch it, it's not the DMV.
Take this picture. Draw a Circle that connects all of last stops.
Everything inside that circle is the DMV.
If the WMATA doesn't touch it, it's not the DMV.
Take this picture. Draw a Circle that connects all of last stops.
Everything inside that circle is the DMV.
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
100% accurate!!! Stop with the ridiculousness!!!
Study up, y’all!
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Study up, y’all!
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professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
August 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:
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"show at MOCA will include statue of Stonewall Jackson removed from perch in Charlottesville in '21 and of Jefferson Davis that protesters knocked off pedestal in Richmond in '20. Its to illustrate the figures evolution from symbols rooted in a "funerary impulse" to ones of resurgent white supremacy
Richmond Confederate monuments returning to public view in Los Angeles
Confederate monuments taken down in Richmond after George Floyd’s murder are headed to Los Angeles for an exhibition on the impact of the racist Lost Cause.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"show at MOCA will include statue of Stonewall Jackson removed from perch in Charlottesville in '21 and of Jefferson Davis that protesters knocked off pedestal in Richmond in '20. Its to illustrate the figures evolution from symbols rooted in a "funerary impulse" to ones of resurgent white supremacy
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM