Kaylee Swenson
@kayleeswenson.bsky.social
Trying my best • NSUOK & Mizzou Alum • Comanche • 2SLGBT+ ✨️
A year ago I never would have shared this photo online. I have spent so much of my life insecure about my stomach, and this photo really emphasizes it. But I love this picture and I think I look genuinely happy in it. Holding weight in my stomach could never matter more than that.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A year ago I never would have shared this photo online. I have spent so much of my life insecure about my stomach, and this photo really emphasizes it. But I love this picture and I think I look genuinely happy in it. Holding weight in my stomach could never matter more than that.
Unfortunately still learning new things about my autism through getting really really annoyed with others. Not my favorite kind of introspection, honestly.
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Unfortunately still learning new things about my autism through getting really really annoyed with others. Not my favorite kind of introspection, honestly.
Every time my brain brings up a memory of a time I was wrong, harmful, or even just cringe, I hit back with "I'm trying my best, bro! I'm learning and trying to do better!"
And honestly it's helping silence that internal bully a bit.
And honestly it's helping silence that internal bully a bit.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Every time my brain brings up a memory of a time I was wrong, harmful, or even just cringe, I hit back with "I'm trying my best, bro! I'm learning and trying to do better!"
And honestly it's helping silence that internal bully a bit.
And honestly it's helping silence that internal bully a bit.
Nature right outside of my front door 🕸
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Nature right outside of my front door 🕸
It's a heavy burden being this funny.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It's a heavy burden being this funny.
If you don't have days where you hope for more time at traffic lights so you can take pictures of the clouds, we will not truly understand one another.
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If you don't have days where you hope for more time at traffic lights so you can take pictures of the clouds, we will not truly understand one another.
Today I learned Liam Neeson is not the person I'm seeing in all of those Conclave memes
March 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today I learned Liam Neeson is not the person I'm seeing in all of those Conclave memes
The thing that always confused me about gossip is like... you can just ask.
One time a friend turned to me and said "I bet they've slept together" about someone at the table. So the next time one of them left to smoke I walked with them, and just asked (the answer was yes).
One time a friend turned to me and said "I bet they've slept together" about someone at the table. So the next time one of them left to smoke I walked with them, and just asked (the answer was yes).
a man standing in front of a white board with the words it 's actually very straightforward on the bottom
Alt: "It's actually very straightforward," I say about one of the very, very few social benefits autism gives me (being aggressively direct).
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March 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The thing that always confused me about gossip is like... you can just ask.
One time a friend turned to me and said "I bet they've slept together" about someone at the table. So the next time one of them left to smoke I walked with them, and just asked (the answer was yes).
One time a friend turned to me and said "I bet they've slept together" about someone at the table. So the next time one of them left to smoke I walked with them, and just asked (the answer was yes).
I get tired of the rhetoric "well half of the US voted for him."
No, if you actually calculate votes vs census data, only ~23% of the US voted for him. 23%.
Maybe more would have if every person voted, but only 23% actually DID cast votes for him.
To me, that's an important distinction.
No, if you actually calculate votes vs census data, only ~23% of the US voted for him. 23%.
Maybe more would have if every person voted, but only 23% actually DID cast votes for him.
To me, that's an important distinction.
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I get tired of the rhetoric "well half of the US voted for him."
No, if you actually calculate votes vs census data, only ~23% of the US voted for him. 23%.
Maybe more would have if every person voted, but only 23% actually DID cast votes for him.
To me, that's an important distinction.
No, if you actually calculate votes vs census data, only ~23% of the US voted for him. 23%.
Maybe more would have if every person voted, but only 23% actually DID cast votes for him.
To me, that's an important distinction.
I don't insist on they/them pronouns because my actual preferred pronouns are xe/xyr.
Read those pronouns and look at this picture of my formerly shaved head, and ask yourself if I care if a crusty 78-year-old man approves of my gender identity? 😂
(❤️ Becky Chambers for gender-affirming rep 🪐)
Read those pronouns and look at this picture of my formerly shaved head, and ask yourself if I care if a crusty 78-year-old man approves of my gender identity? 😂
(❤️ Becky Chambers for gender-affirming rep 🪐)
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I don't insist on they/them pronouns because my actual preferred pronouns are xe/xyr.
Read those pronouns and look at this picture of my formerly shaved head, and ask yourself if I care if a crusty 78-year-old man approves of my gender identity? 😂
(❤️ Becky Chambers for gender-affirming rep 🪐)
Read those pronouns and look at this picture of my formerly shaved head, and ask yourself if I care if a crusty 78-year-old man approves of my gender identity? 😂
(❤️ Becky Chambers for gender-affirming rep 🪐)
This is what she looks like right before she bites my hand as hard as her tiny jaw will allow.
January 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what she looks like right before she bites my hand as hard as her tiny jaw will allow.
Reposted by Kaylee Swenson
This? Good. Good. About damn long overdue. Yes.
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President Biden
The outgoing administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI...
www.mprnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This? Good. Good. About damn long overdue. Yes.
It seems like every 10 minutes I get a notification that another account has followed me, and without fail they are following 40k+ other accounts.
Surely this strategy doesn't actually work to gain followers? Do they also hire a bot to unfollow all of those accounts after a certain amount of time?
Surely this strategy doesn't actually work to gain followers? Do they also hire a bot to unfollow all of those accounts after a certain amount of time?
January 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It seems like every 10 minutes I get a notification that another account has followed me, and without fail they are following 40k+ other accounts.
Surely this strategy doesn't actually work to gain followers? Do they also hire a bot to unfollow all of those accounts after a certain amount of time?
Surely this strategy doesn't actually work to gain followers? Do they also hire a bot to unfollow all of those accounts after a certain amount of time?
Fun fact about me: when I emailed my committee that I would not be finishing my PhD, the subject line of the email was "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish."
in the beginning the universe was created it has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
Alt: GIF from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, specifically the part that says "in the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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January 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Fun fact about me: when I emailed my committee that I would not be finishing my PhD, the subject line of the email was "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish."
1) this was one of the better things I've written,
2) can't believe it took me so long to realize academia was killing me, and that I was letting it.
2) can't believe it took me so long to realize academia was killing me, and that I was letting it.
January 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
1) this was one of the better things I've written,
2) can't believe it took me so long to realize academia was killing me, and that I was letting it.
2) can't believe it took me so long to realize academia was killing me, and that I was letting it.
Reposted by Kaylee Swenson
sometimes when i’m reaping i’m like damn wtf did i sow
December 28, 2024 at 4:32 AM
sometimes when i’m reaping i’m like damn wtf did i sow
This is what it's like being friends with me (my uncle commented tonight that my aunt "drinks water like a fish")
December 27, 2024 at 5:40 AM
This is what it's like being friends with me (my uncle commented tonight that my aunt "drinks water like a fish")
Reposted by Kaylee Swenson
Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
December 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
I should live in one of those Hallmark cities where it's Christmas all year long
December 8, 2024 at 1:29 AM
I should live in one of those Hallmark cities where it's Christmas all year long
There are a few people I'm connected with here that won't see the Facebook and Twitter posts.
I am mastering out of my PhD program! I finally love myself enough to stop torturing myself! I will NOT be Dr. Swenson, and it is a joyous relief ❤️🎉
youtu.be/sJVJMXgzcJU?...
I am mastering out of my PhD program! I finally love myself enough to stop torturing myself! I will NOT be Dr. Swenson, and it is a joyous relief ❤️🎉
youtu.be/sJVJMXgzcJU?...
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December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
There are a few people I'm connected with here that won't see the Facebook and Twitter posts.
I am mastering out of my PhD program! I finally love myself enough to stop torturing myself! I will NOT be Dr. Swenson, and it is a joyous relief ❤️🎉
youtu.be/sJVJMXgzcJU?...
I am mastering out of my PhD program! I finally love myself enough to stop torturing myself! I will NOT be Dr. Swenson, and it is a joyous relief ❤️🎉
youtu.be/sJVJMXgzcJU?...
Matt. 2:9-10: "...and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy."
November 26, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Matt. 2:9-10: "...and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy."
I saw this quote from Suzanne Rivecca, and decided to make art that wasn't guaranteed to be impressive. Every few years I convince myself to make something just because I want to, even if it ends up ugly, and I would like for that to be the norm going forward.
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
I saw this quote from Suzanne Rivecca, and decided to make art that wasn't guaranteed to be impressive. Every few years I convince myself to make something just because I want to, even if it ends up ugly, and I would like for that to be the norm going forward.
Unfortunately this was not enough to tip the scale
New phone background is going to help me finish this degree
November 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Unfortunately this was not enough to tip the scale
I honestly believe some part of me chooses the fantasy book that will cause me the most emotional pain possible.
There's no way it's a coincidence I'm sobbing during each of these books.
There's no way it's a coincidence I'm sobbing during each of these books.
July 18, 2024 at 5:21 AM
I honestly believe some part of me chooses the fantasy book that will cause me the most emotional pain possible.
There's no way it's a coincidence I'm sobbing during each of these books.
There's no way it's a coincidence I'm sobbing during each of these books.
If exercise is good then why hurt?
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April 29, 2024 at 7:29 PM
If exercise is good then why hurt?