Kate Schaefer
@kateschaefer.bsky.social
She/her. Everything is more complicated than that. I volunteer with Carl Brandon Society, Clarion West, Otherwise. I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago. I read a lot. I sew a lot. I garden a little. My grandchildren are old enough to vote. I digress.
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A reminder that I have a book out and I’m available for podcasts
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A reminder that I have a book out and I’m available for podcasts
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We’re so excited to be a part of this!
So cool to see this exciting collaboration move forward! Congratulations to @marneechua.bsky.social and the entire @clarionwest.bsky.social team
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We’re so excited to be a part of this!
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From my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: "Now is not the time for federal judges to be removing ICE skeptics from jury selection... [the] community’s informed distrust of the government’s actions is not a bias to be purged."
Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics from Jury Selection
When the government acts aggressively, its agents lie, and the community witnesses the erosion of justice, that community’s informed distrust of the government’s actions is not a bias to be purged.
www.cato.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
From my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: "Now is not the time for federal judges to be removing ICE skeptics from jury selection... [the] community’s informed distrust of the government’s actions is not a bias to be purged."
Asterisks! Asterisks can be very, very sexy, if introduced at just the right moment.
Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions
There's nothing wrong with literary porn, but some of the crap those guys wrote was "Have you actuallly ever HAD sex?"
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Asterisks! Asterisks can be very, very sexy, if introduced at just the right moment.
Damn this adminstration for another stupidity. I can no longer log in to my existing ssa.gov account but must set up a new Login.Gov account, which I do not trust at all. I'll have to wait for physical mail to know what is going on in the future, or give up control of more of my personal data.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Damn this adminstration for another stupidity. I can no longer log in to my existing ssa.gov account but must set up a new Login.Gov account, which I do not trust at all. I'll have to wait for physical mail to know what is going on in the future, or give up control of more of my personal data.
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Congratulations to the team at Common AREA Maintenance! We can't wait to support this project and find a home for the workshop!
Abandoned Belltown building bought by Seattle artists with big plans
Abandoned Belltown building bought by Seattle artists with big plans
Common AREA Maintenance announced that it is acquiring the historic El Rey building, with plans to transform it into affordable housing for artists, a gallery and event space, and more.
www.seattletimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Congratulations to the team at Common AREA Maintenance! We can't wait to support this project and find a home for the workshop!
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haha oh god the consequences of this are going to be so incredibly grave in five to ten years time
Outrage after Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’
Nursing organizations warn limiting access to student funding ‘threatens the very foundation of patient care’
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
haha oh god the consequences of this are going to be so incredibly grave in five to ten years time
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
Miami County in Ohio has different problems from Miami in Florida.
Starting with wearily saying, No, Ohio, not Florida, but then cheerfully displaying an Ohio sense of humor.
Starting with wearily saying, No, Ohio, not Florida, but then cheerfully displaying an Ohio sense of humor.
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Miami County in Ohio has different problems from Miami in Florida.
Starting with wearily saying, No, Ohio, not Florida, but then cheerfully displaying an Ohio sense of humor.
Starting with wearily saying, No, Ohio, not Florida, but then cheerfully displaying an Ohio sense of humor.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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The US secretary of defense is taking time out from his attempted sham prosecution of the astronaut senator to condemn Scouting for being too woke www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The US secretary of defense is taking time out from his attempted sham prosecution of the astronaut senator to condemn Scouting for being too woke www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
In fairly petty annoyances: I write all the checks in our household. I suggest the nonprofits we support. My spouse agrees before I mail the checks. I write and sign the checks, which list both of our names. Most nonprofits manage to thank both of us, but if it's just one, too often, it isn't me.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In fairly petty annoyances: I write all the checks in our household. I suggest the nonprofits we support. My spouse agrees before I mail the checks. I write and sign the checks, which list both of our names. Most nonprofits manage to thank both of us, but if it's just one, too often, it isn't me.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Both! Both! Let's do both!
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Both! Both! Let's do both!
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And for those wondering why this classification actually matters, it's so they can cheap out on student loan assistance: www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And for those wondering why this classification actually matters, it's so they can cheap out on student loan assistance: www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Gulf of Mexico. Guilty, guilty, guilty.
Lysenko: still wrong. Wakefield: still wrong. Putin: still bad. Trump: still bad.
Lysenko: still wrong. Wakefield: still wrong. Putin: still bad. Trump: still bad.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gulf of Mexico. Guilty, guilty, guilty.
Lysenko: still wrong. Wakefield: still wrong. Putin: still bad. Trump: still bad.
Lysenko: still wrong. Wakefield: still wrong. Putin: still bad. Trump: still bad.
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🧵 Let’s be so effing for real right now. The Department of Education saying these jobs are no longer PROFESSIONAL is dumb as hell and insulting as fuck. It takes YEARS of post-graduate training, including passing certifying exams, to earn degrees in these fields. #fdt #momsky
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
No one needs to continue to pretend that there is anyone in this administration who is sincere about being against anti-semitism.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
No one needs to continue to pretend that there is anyone in this administration who is sincere about being against anti-semitism.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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