Rev. Kate
@kateelizabeth.bsky.social
MCC clergy & university chaplain. God, justice, craft, walking, music, cats, LGBTQ+, mental health & neurodiversity. I take responsibility for my own views.
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Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Barbara G. Walker is no longer with us. A lifelong feminist, writer, folklorist, and knitting pioneer. A trailblazer, a guiding light, and a woman who always connected her making hands with her inquisitive brain. Vale, Barbara. Thank you for knocking down doors over & over.
She's brilliant and her legacy is a lot of warm people. Thanks, Barbara.
Rest in peace Barbara G Walker. A knitting genius. She invented the ssk, popularized knitting from the top down and most famously wrote THE knitting stitch dictionaries. And she was a celebrated author in other areas too.
December 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
She's brilliant and her legacy is a lot of warm people. Thanks, Barbara.
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You can read the hypocrisy here right?
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
You can read the hypocrisy here right?
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
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The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
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Weird how it's not some kind of existential crisis when cisgender people take literally the same drugs as trans people need access to
Earlier this year, we published an article on how women are increasingly seeking out testosterone to help with energy or their sex lives. We followed up with one woman who went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for her marriage.
What It’s Like When Your Wife Goes on Testosterone
She went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for their marriage.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Weird how it's not some kind of existential crisis when cisgender people take literally the same drugs as trans people need access to
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS
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So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
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"For transgender and nonbinary people, these manufactured firestorms are not abstract. A policy meant to ensure they can manage a basic bodily function without shame becomes a spectacle in which their needs are mocked as absurd or illegitimate."
From Restrooms to Rage: How ‘Tampon in the Men’s Room’ Posts Fuel the Anti‑Trans Backlash 😡🚻🌈 – Alaska Headline Living
alaskaheadlineliving.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"For transgender and nonbinary people, these manufactured firestorms are not abstract. A policy meant to ensure they can manage a basic bodily function without shame becomes a spectacle in which their needs are mocked as absurd or illegitimate."
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This is the thing about the "shift" that led to the 2024 results. It was entirely fake. Our culture is determined by fake accounts operating within a blackbox algorithm. None of it is real, and I think we all feel that.
This cultural shift isn't even real.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is the thing about the "shift" that led to the 2024 results. It was entirely fake. Our culture is determined by fake accounts operating within a blackbox algorithm. None of it is real, and I think we all feel that.
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Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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"Trump attorney Alan Garten told BuzzFeed News this week. “To discuss them is unfair. This happened a long time ago. "
...so this happened, is what you're saying.
...so this happened, is what you're saying.
Reminder that in June, 2016, a suit (w/witnesses) was filed against Trump re: his repeated raping of a 13 year-old child at an Epstein party.
(She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.)
We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.
(She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.)
We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.
Attorney: Donald Trump Will Have To Answer Teen's Rape Accusation In Court
A woman claims Trump raped her at a party in 1994 when she was just 13 years old.
www.buzzfeednews.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Trump attorney Alan Garten told BuzzFeed News this week. “To discuss them is unfair. This happened a long time ago. "
...so this happened, is what you're saying.
...so this happened, is what you're saying.
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Again, this is all right in front of your faces. You can read any survivor’s story to find out names. This testimony is horrifying and I read it almost a decade ago so the least you could all do is know this.
Reminder that in June, 2016, a suit (w/witnesses) was filed against Trump re: his repeated raping of a 13 year-old child at an Epstein party.
(She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.)
We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.
(She wasn't a "teen," in anything but the most technical of senses. She was a 7th, maybe an 8th grader.)
We've known he was a child rapist THIS WHOLE TIME.
Attorney: Donald Trump Will Have To Answer Teen's Rape Accusation In Court
A woman claims Trump raped her at a party in 1994 when she was just 13 years old.
www.buzzfeednews.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, this is all right in front of your faces. You can read any survivor’s story to find out names. This testimony is horrifying and I read it almost a decade ago so the least you could all do is know this.
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The forces of evil want you to feel alone and afraid. The ones who are cutting aid and deporting immigrants and making trans care illegal want you to feel powerless.
But we are not alone, and we do not need to be afraid. We have each other, and a God whose name is With Us.
But we are not alone, and we do not need to be afraid. We have each other, and a God whose name is With Us.
December 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The forces of evil want you to feel alone and afraid. The ones who are cutting aid and deporting immigrants and making trans care illegal want you to feel powerless.
But we are not alone, and we do not need to be afraid. We have each other, and a God whose name is With Us.
But we are not alone, and we do not need to be afraid. We have each other, and a God whose name is With Us.
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Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism
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This is a man who called himself an atheist until he was apprised that that was a political liability in Ohio. Now he calls himself a Catholic, while flouting the church's theology and holding the church itself up to ridicule.
JUST NOW: J.D. Vance gets 30 seconds of applause for declaring 🇺🇸 “a Christian nation” (as his boss covers up the Epstein files)
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is a man who called himself an atheist until he was apprised that that was a political liability in Ohio. Now he calls himself a Catholic, while flouting the church's theology and holding the church itself up to ridicule.
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
If you are in an organisation when you have any influence at all, please, please help them to resist compliance ahead of the law. Have your friends' backs.
Remember, my friends: Do not comply in advance, and do not cry in advance. The fear and despair is the point.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If you are in an organisation when you have any influence at all, please, please help them to resist compliance ahead of the law. Have your friends' backs.
Trying to remove trans people from public life. Tell me again how this isn't violent?
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Trying to remove trans people from public life. Tell me again how this isn't violent?
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When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm so tired. Working in education at the moment means being constantly on the lookout for the next thing that will come for the queer community and not knowing how to handle it. Our jobs are hard enough without this gaslighting over freedom of speech.
It sure is something watching Girl Guides protest the exclusion of their trans members, at the same time as the BBC pushes someone out for being a trans ally and routinely updates their news articles to insert transphobic terminology.
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I'm so tired. Working in education at the moment means being constantly on the lookout for the next thing that will come for the queer community and not knowing how to handle it. Our jobs are hard enough without this gaslighting over freedom of speech.
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It sure is something watching Girl Guides protest the exclusion of their trans members, at the same time as the BBC pushes someone out for being a trans ally and routinely updates their news articles to insert transphobic terminology.
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It sure is something watching Girl Guides protest the exclusion of their trans members, at the same time as the BBC pushes someone out for being a trans ally and routinely updates their news articles to insert transphobic terminology.