Kristin
@kristin52.bsky.social
Author, writer, reader, organizer. I like turtles, walks, blueberries, naps, and Doctor Who. I have a blog at kristinking.org.
The latest installment in a series of year-end favorites. This is put out by Aqueduct Press and its authors. Aqueduct Press does science fiction and fantasy, but the recommendations are wide-ranging. This one by Tansy Rayner Roberts celebrates live theater.
Tansy Rayner Roberts writes about her favorite books, films, television, and theatre performances of 2025.
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt. 12: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Theatre and Other Pleasures in 2025 by Tansy Rayner Roberts My year has been a difficult one, and so as always I have turned to the co...
aqueductpress.blogspot.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The latest installment in a series of year-end favorites. This is put out by Aqueduct Press and its authors. Aqueduct Press does science fiction and fantasy, but the recommendations are wide-ranging. This one by Tansy Rayner Roberts celebrates live theater.
THIS. I signed up for what was perhaps Ursula K. LeGuin's last workshop, a weeklong at Flight of the Mind. Joy is a good word for the experience.
In adulthood, I get to correspond with so many of the people whose games and books and art I devoured as a kid and young adult, and I gotta say, this is SUCH a joy and somewhere my teenage self just squeals with glee every once in a while. #bestlife
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
THIS. I signed up for what was perhaps Ursula K. LeGuin's last workshop, a weeklong at Flight of the Mind. Joy is a good word for the experience.
Seattle must be the most awkward city anywhere, with respect for transportation. Doesn't matter if you're driving or taking transit, the route is bound to be an embarrasment. Now that I've said that, though, I recall the magical route to Carkeek Park. Well, the awkward is also beautiful.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Seattle must be the most awkward city anywhere, with respect for transportation. Doesn't matter if you're driving or taking transit, the route is bound to be an embarrasment. Now that I've said that, though, I recall the magical route to Carkeek Park. Well, the awkward is also beautiful.
Human beings make this kinda stuff. Cool, eh?
These appeared in the free zine corner and they're so cool??? Full of notes about local park trails and more! And the printing is so nice too. :0
December 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Human beings make this kinda stuff. Cool, eh?
Permission to hate AI.
This is such an amazing piece by @anthonymoser.com .
It should be spread far and wide, and read far and wide.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
It should be spread far and wide, and read far and wide.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Permission to hate AI.
Oooh, a zine about fascism told through bunnies and frogs. I love it!
btw readable and printable versions of the frog/bunny WHAT IS FASCISM zine are available for free!
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oooh, a zine about fascism told through bunnies and frogs. I love it!
Post a female character you love.
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Post a female character you love.
Repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Excellent post about organizing. It's rooted in successful union organizing but is also broadly applicable. firewithfire.blog/2025/11/22/b...
Building Organizing Networks through 1-on-1 Conversations
This post analyzes two types of activists: “floaters” who attend events without deep engagement, and “builders” who cultivate meaningful relationships through 1-on-1 convers…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excellent post about organizing. It's rooted in successful union organizing but is also broadly applicable. firewithfire.blog/2025/11/22/b...
Happy birthday, @nisishawl.bsky.social ! kristinking.org/2025/11/02/s...
Kristin Ann King
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November 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy birthday, @nisishawl.bsky.social ! kristinking.org/2025/11/02/s...
"Those were the two choices. Violent or nonviolent. A binary. I was absolutely not expecting amphibians. And yet, here we are." kristinking.org/2025/10/17/r...
A Digression from Jung: FROGS!
Who knows what silliness lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows!
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October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Those were the two choices. Violent or nonviolent. A binary. I was absolutely not expecting amphibians. And yet, here we are." kristinking.org/2025/10/17/r...
From his FB page: "The portals this project have created are beginning to open. the portal I most want to see open, is the concept that home owners can hire artists to do work on their homes on any available surface they have."
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From his FB page: "The portals this project have created are beginning to open. the portal I most want to see open, is the concept that home owners can hire artists to do work on their homes on any available surface they have."
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
October 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
The people with money and power will be the first to roll over to fascists. They are weak where they thought they were strong.
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The people with money and power will be the first to roll over to fascists. They are weak where they thought they were strong.
I would rather no war, and most definitely, if there happened to be a war, I would rather be somewhere else.
Time to reup the “What if they gave a war and nobody came?" slogan of the 1960’s.
September 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I would rather no war, and most definitely, if there happened to be a war, I would rather be somewhere else.
Yeah, that's me! If not explicitly given permission, or even if I am, it freaks me out a little to send a message.
Aldrich said: “How many WhatsApp messages in a row is too many? Where’s the sweet spot between ‘I like you and wish to cultivate a friendship’ and ‘dear God stop before this person takes out a restraining order’?”
Autistic woman really sorry to bother you with her friendship
An autistic woman has spent every single moment of her friendship with you worried that she’s intruding on your precious time here on Earth, it has been revealed. Megan Aldrich, 24, reportedly loves…
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September 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yeah, that's me! If not explicitly given permission, or even if I am, it freaks me out a little to send a message.
Love the train, but King Street Station always fails accessibility for hard of hearing folks. I have normal hearing and cannot make out the oral instructions. Do better, Seattle!
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Love the train, but King Street Station always fails accessibility for hard of hearing folks. I have normal hearing and cannot make out the oral instructions. Do better, Seattle!
Post a female character you love.
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Post a female character you love.
I have this fear that some of those missing were murdered. That's what happens outside of accountability. Also, I was unaware that this concentration camp was reopened. No words are adequate.
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I have this fear that some of those missing were murdered. That's what happens outside of accountability. Also, I was unaware that this concentration camp was reopened. No words are adequate.
13 minutes of your time, and in exchange you will know the difference between mobilizing and organizing. Go forth and be wise!
A YouTube video that everyone ought to watch - it's long but worth it. Share share share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSedLUR5KU
The Minnesota Miracle Playbook - how Minnesota organized and accomplished amazing things for their citizens.
The Minnesota Miracle Playbook - how Minnesota organized and accomplished amazing things for their citizens.
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
13 minutes of your time, and in exchange you will know the difference between mobilizing and organizing. Go forth and be wise!
Reposted by Kristin
So let me get this straight: Florida, home of Disney World, wants to become vaccine-free, so that tourists will have to weigh the fun of going to a theme park against the risk that their kids will get polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, or rabies?
Huh.
Huh.
September 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So let me get this straight: Florida, home of Disney World, wants to become vaccine-free, so that tourists will have to weigh the fun of going to a theme park against the risk that their kids will get polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, or rabies?
Huh.
Huh.
In other news, Carl Jung said the collective unconscious was intersex. "If it were permissable to personify the unconscious, we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes..." (From the essay "Analytical Psychology.")
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In other news, Carl Jung said the collective unconscious was intersex. "If it were permissable to personify the unconscious, we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes..." (From the essay "Analytical Psychology.")
"We are the people our parents warned us against" - Nisi Shawl
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"We are the people our parents warned us against" - Nisi Shawl
Long story short, I kept getting lost on level 2. Eventually, though, I found the Wizard of Oz table to visit Laura and Eric Gjovaag, and later, the Octavia Butler exhibit. Two hightlights of my short visit. Also, the Eileen Gunn reading. #worldcon #aphantasia (4 of 4)
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Long story short, I kept getting lost on level 2. Eventually, though, I found the Wizard of Oz table to visit Laura and Eric Gjovaag, and later, the Octavia Butler exhibit. Two hightlights of my short visit. Also, the Eileen Gunn reading. #worldcon #aphantasia (4 of 4)
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
Four hours at Worldcon yesterday -- a wonderful experience -- and still exhausted. Is this what cons are for me now? Four hours and done? (1 of 2) #worldcon
August 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)