Kathleen
@kathleenparham.bsky.social
She/her. RN CCM. Kiddo wrangler extraordinaire. I like reading, writing, knitting, playing video games, and being angry pretty much all the time about the US health care system.
Look, if I’m the one that made the giant loaf of sourdough bread, it’s totally fine and good for me to be the one to eat most of it. Right? Right.
January 28, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Look, if I’m the one that made the giant loaf of sourdough bread, it’s totally fine and good for me to be the one to eat most of it. Right? Right.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
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A MOST NOBLE WOLF
January 26, 2026 at 5:43 PM
A MOST NOBLE WOLF
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If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help
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standwithminnesota.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
If folks don't know what to do with their rage today, and they have cash, I suggest going to standwithminnesota.com and finding someone who needs help
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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Crown shyness. Pretty Zen, no? Stare. Lose yourself. Come back though.
January 23, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Crown shyness. Pretty Zen, no? Stare. Lose yourself. Come back though.
Anyone who thinks old dogs can’t learn new tricks has never owned a food-obsessed Boston Terrier.
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Anyone who thinks old dogs can’t learn new tricks has never owned a food-obsessed Boston Terrier.
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Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
My extremely niche pet peeve is (otherwise excellent!) audiobook narrators mispronouncing things associated with the Pacific Northwest
January 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
My extremely niche pet peeve is (otherwise excellent!) audiobook narrators mispronouncing things associated with the Pacific Northwest
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I truly have to believe this (and I do! like, I think it is absolutely true). But I need to remember and hold it inside my heart these days.
As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I truly have to believe this (and I do! like, I think it is absolutely true). But I need to remember and hold it inside my heart these days.
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
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Cool how Gen Z get to experience 2003 and 2008 at the same time. Speed running the Millennial Experience.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Cool how Gen Z get to experience 2003 and 2008 at the same time. Speed running the Millennial Experience.
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so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
Not sure if it was the fireworks keeping me awake or my brain trying to eat itself, but either way I’m heading in to work at ass o’clock after sleeping for, oh, about four hours and change
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
January 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Not sure if it was the fireworks keeping me awake or my brain trying to eat itself, but either way I’m heading in to work at ass o’clock after sleeping for, oh, about four hours and change
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Him retiring when he did and in this way is still one of my big "this is how to grow up to have integrity" memories and models <3 🐯🛷
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
January 1, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Him retiring when he did and in this way is still one of my big "this is how to grow up to have integrity" memories and models <3 🐯🛷
Question has been definitively answered.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?
December 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Question has been definitively answered.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
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the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
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I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?