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Katie MacBride

@msmacb.bsky.social

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Journalist, dog lover, goat wrangler. I write a newsletter about substance use & addiction recovery: askasoberlady.substack.com. It’s free and I have low self-esteem; please subscribe. Librarian always.

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · Aug 20

I hate that I had to write this but I didn’t know how not to askasoberlady.substack.com/p/gluey-brai...

Gluey brain and leaden bones

Sally helped keep me sober for a decade and a half. Now that she’s gone, everything hurts and nothing makes sense.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 1d

Lookit this gopher hunting psychopath (fortunately she doesn’t seem very GOOD at finding gophers, just hunting them with gusto)

A black chiweenie on a leash looking away from the camera with her muzzle covered in dirt

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 1d

Like you realize you haven’t heard them in too long and immediately knew they’re either doing the grossest thing you can imagine or something that has killed them

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never had a puppy this high energy, 100% mischievous, and fearless before and let me tell you, I now viscerally understand why parents get nervous when their kids get quiet

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 1d

Looking to chat with drinkers who have taken a GLP-1 (for any reason) *and no longer do* about how it affected their alcohol use. This is for my newsletter, and you can be anonymous. katiemacwrites at gmail com! #sourcerequest

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Beyond not believing that ten cars rammed them, no rational person believed that was even spatially possible on a Chicago street. It makes no sense!

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 6d

I wish I could say it’s worth the wait…

Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 6d

If you read it, I’m curious to hear if you agree!

Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 6d

She was so mad that I wouldn’t let her eat my croc that she’s very dramatically ignoring me

Tiny dog sitting on a chair with her back to me looking like she’s about to say “you’re not my real mom!”

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 6d

I had some issues with the book that didn’t have anything to do with the whole murder plot thing. askasoberlady.substack.com/p/elizabeth-...

Elizabeth Gilbert Falls for the Oldest Trick in the (Big) Book

Experience, strength, and NOPE.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall, you absolute hero. The world needed more of you.

The episode of First Look from which this clip is taken is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcL4...

First Look at Jane | National Geographic

YouTube video by National Geographic

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 9d

Good interview on how originalism is nonsense

Jill Lepore - “We the People” & Understanding How the Constitution Is Meant to Work | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 9d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario

The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9d

Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has pointed to Tile as a “bad actor” in the tracker space for a long time due to its lack of concern for inherent security flaws.

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 9d

bras are a bullshit lie, and it’s offensive that those of us with tits have to spend money on boob incarceration in order to be “professional” or whatever

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 12d

Katiemacbride at protonmail dot com. I’m away with my nieces this weekend but I’ll get back to you as soon as I can

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 12d

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man” ― T.S. Eliot

On this day, in 1888, poet and Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot was born. #TSEliot #💙📚 #Booksky

A photograph of T.E. Eliot at his desk, his papers spread out before him.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 13d

Wrote a lil thing
“Very quickly, I realized that I’d fallen into the same trap many of us do in this era of wellness crazes, ubiquitous therapy-speak, and diagnosing oneself via random TikTok videos. I’d pathologized something that was actually...pretty normal.”
open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...

Hi, my name is Katie, and I'm addicted to dogs

The perils of over-pathologizing and the importance of pain relief.

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 13d

Forever disappointed this isn’t Irritable Bowel Disease Weekly

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d

Gonna spend more time focusing on the messages on bullets than who the bullets actually hit.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14d

Hours after a shooting of ICE detainees, the FBI says “early evidence” of messages on the rounds are “anti-ICE in nature.”

Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14d

From invaluable @calmatters.org, funding update for Calif Prop 50. "Support" lets CA gerrymander to offset TX

-"Support" has 100x more "small-dollar" money
-Nearly all "oppose" money comes from one person: Charles Munger Jr, like DJT a princeling heir

Vote YES

calmatters.org/california-v...

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