Katie Skeen, PhD
@skeen.bsky.social
Cold-eyed warm-hearted editor researcher mother radical optimist.
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I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.
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I was on Jeopardy! the week that Alex Trebek shaved off his mustache.
Pinned
I CAN'T with these assholes.
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For #BlueSkyMonday, this is looking from Castlerock towards the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal.
Hope everyone has a great week!!
#clouds #sea #ocean #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland
Hope everyone has a great week!!
#clouds #sea #ocean #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For #BlueSkyMonday, this is looking from Castlerock towards the Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal.
Hope everyone has a great week!!
#clouds #sea #ocean #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland
Hope everyone has a great week!!
#clouds #sea #ocean #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #Ireland
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"She said that lenacapavir has become a kind of diplomatic carrot — and stick.
Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."
Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."
The US is fast-tracking this important HIV drug — for everyone except South Africa
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"She said that lenacapavir has become a kind of diplomatic carrot — and stick.
Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."
Friendly, compliant governments, like Eswatini, have received early shipments, whereas South Africa or Nigeria — countries that have fallen out of favor with Trump — seem to have received the short end of the stick."
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yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
Course | Reading Johnson and Boswell with Jack Lynch | Virtual — The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Over the course of four biweekly meetings we’ll read some of Johnson’s most important works—essays, poems, fiction, travel narratives, biography—and selections from Boswell’s Life . The focus will al...
www.rosenbach.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
yo nerds
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
take a online class with me
read books ’n’ stuff
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Month #3 is done. 10/30. Better than before but still poor form by @npr.org. Normalizing fascism 2/3rds of the time. They’ll get their $100 donation. Can they do better in month #4? Let’s see.
Month #2 in the books and @npr.org got 9 days of 30 where they didn’t normalize fascism. I docked them two days because of egregious normalization of fascism or outright propaganda. So, 7/30 again. Poor form. Let’s see how month #3 does.
Hey @npr.org - I think an independent public media is essential, but I’ve been disappointed by your light coverage of the daily outrages committed by the Trump admin.
So, here’s the deal. For each day you don’t sanewash Trump, I’ll donate to you. By “sanewash,” I mean the following:
So, here’s the deal. For each day you don’t sanewash Trump, I’ll donate to you. By “sanewash,” I mean the following:
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Month #3 is done. 10/30. Better than before but still poor form by @npr.org. Normalizing fascism 2/3rds of the time. They’ll get their $100 donation. Can they do better in month #4? Let’s see.
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
She wore a
Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her.
Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her.
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
She wore a
Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her.
Raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her.
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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it's great how much of our interaction with AI is just figuring out how to make it go away.
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
it's great how much of our interaction with AI is just figuring out how to make it go away.
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Check your Gmail & Google Workspace settings - I was opted in to all of this by default. No clankers!
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Check your Gmail & Google Workspace settings - I was opted in to all of this by default. No clankers!
Ron Gallo sang beautifully and movingly and angrily at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert (conveniently moved close enough for me to bike to).
Protect this human being!
Protect this human being!
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ron Gallo sang beautifully and movingly and angrily at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert (conveniently moved close enough for me to bike to).
Protect this human being!
Protect this human being!
"Are you really living when you've got a penchant for human sacrifice?"
👏👏 for Ron Gallo singing "Peter Thiel" at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert 👏👏
👏👏 for Ron Gallo singing "Peter Thiel" at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert 👏👏
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Are you really living when you've got a penchant for human sacrifice?"
👏👏 for Ron Gallo singing "Peter Thiel" at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert 👏👏
👏👏 for Ron Gallo singing "Peter Thiel" at today's WXPN Free at Noon concert 👏👏
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These studies keep returning the same positive results but we're gonna keep running them as limited pilots until the heat death of the universe
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
These studies keep returning the same positive results but we're gonna keep running them as limited pilots until the heat death of the universe
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This tiny human. “Attorneys, of course have to parse the language”???
What a pious phony.
What a pious phony.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This tiny human. “Attorneys, of course have to parse the language”???
What a pious phony.
What a pious phony.
OMG yes. This. A thousand times this.
Signed, former "corporate communications" laborer
Signed, former "corporate communications" laborer
I swear there has never been someone described as a "thought leader" whose actual thoughts turned out to be worth paying attention to
"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
OMG yes. This. A thousand times this.
Signed, former "corporate communications" laborer
Signed, former "corporate communications" laborer
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Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.
19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-...
19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-...
Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...
19thnews.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leaving the children behind.
19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-...
19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-...
This is how we do it.
Gum up the works.
Gum up the works.
"The way Grambo sees it, it’s a numbers game. If he can draw the attention of officers to himself, perhaps fewer immigrants will get swept up, and that’s a win. “I know I can’t stop them,” he said, “but if I can suck up their time, then at least I can help some people.”"
This is the way.
This is the way.
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is how we do it.
Gum up the works.
Gum up the works.
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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Dandelions.
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Dandelions.
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"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
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After we investigate all the ways that Harvard helped whitewash Epstein can we just continue on investigating all the ways the Ivies function as gigantic reputation washers for a whole rotten layer of evil doers TYSM.
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
After we investigate all the ways that Harvard helped whitewash Epstein can we just continue on investigating all the ways the Ivies function as gigantic reputation washers for a whole rotten layer of evil doers TYSM.
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New way of saying a thing is unlawful just dropped
President Trump's efforts to send National Guard troops to U.S. cities have been repeatedly met with resistance in the courts — most recently, in Tennessee. n.pr/3LLFeoq
Trump's National Guard deployments face mounting legal pushback
President Trump's efforts to send National Guard troops to U.S. cities have been repeatedly met with resistance in the courts — most recently, in Tennessee.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New way of saying a thing is unlawful just dropped
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Really important point from this article. If you're going to argue that the humanities are out of touch and elitist (disagree), then maybe the answer should be MORE equitable access to a humanities education--not less.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Really important point from this article. If you're going to argue that the humanities are out of touch and elitist (disagree), then maybe the answer should be MORE equitable access to a humanities education--not less.
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Thank you for spreading the word about the destruction of the humanities and social sciences at Montclair State (where I teach). It's incredibly demoralizing to have the place demolished around you while you're still just trying to do this job.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Thank you for spreading the word about the destruction of the humanities and social sciences at Montclair State (where I teach). It's incredibly demoralizing to have the place demolished around you while you're still just trying to do this job.