KT Byrde
@smithk654.bsky.social
Book nerd, servant to 2 spoiled cats, menace to society.
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Sinners may be the best movie I have ever seen. Highly recommend it.
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sinners may be the best movie I have ever seen. Highly recommend it.
From a local protest today
April 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
From a local protest today
Today, the day of my birth, has had a lot of historic events. Including the death of a Republican President. If the universe really wanted to give me a present…
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today, the day of my birth, has had a lot of historic events. Including the death of a Republican President. If the universe really wanted to give me a present…
I don’t know that we should be talking about Kissinger valuing freedoms. There are a ton of Laotians and Cambodians who would like a word.
“What did they have that eludes their lesser-known heirs today? The answer is that Kissinger & Brzezinski were immigrants. Newcomers often value America’s freedoms more than its native-born and are statistically far likelier to start companies, win Nobel Prizes & launch schools of thought.”
~Ed Luce
~Ed Luce
April 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I don’t know that we should be talking about Kissinger valuing freedoms. There are a ton of Laotians and Cambodians who would like a word.
My tiny Midwest town has a little boba shop and it is my favorite thing. Is it traditional? No idea. But the blended pineapple milk tea with raspberry popping boba is amazing.
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My tiny Midwest town has a little boba shop and it is my favorite thing. Is it traditional? No idea. But the blended pineapple milk tea with raspberry popping boba is amazing.
Just applied for my Real ID. I had backups for my backups for paperwork. Watched at least 5 people get sent back for not having the right papers. Is that what not having anxiety is like? And they were fine about it?
March 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just applied for my Real ID. I had backups for my backups for paperwork. Watched at least 5 people get sent back for not having the right papers. Is that what not having anxiety is like? And they were fine about it?
What in the hell? Join our team for 3 weeks before we shut down all locations! It’ll be fun! We swear! And we’ll probably pay you!
March 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What in the hell? Join our team for 3 weeks before we shut down all locations! It’ll be fun! We swear! And we’ll probably pay you!
Sitting at a coffee shop overhearing a woman talk about how great private/home schools are while pushing her daughter to utilize the benefits of the local public school.
Oh, and she’s on the board of one of those bullshit “pregnancy centers”.
Oh, and she’s on the board of one of those bullshit “pregnancy centers”.
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sitting at a coffee shop overhearing a woman talk about how great private/home schools are while pushing her daughter to utilize the benefits of the local public school.
Oh, and she’s on the board of one of those bullshit “pregnancy centers”.
Oh, and she’s on the board of one of those bullshit “pregnancy centers”.
Spending my lunch hour on the phone with a utility company…
How’s your Friday going?
How’s your Friday going?
March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Spending my lunch hour on the phone with a utility company…
How’s your Friday going?
How’s your Friday going?
I don’t know who judges my writing more harshly, my inner editor or this cat.
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I don’t know who judges my writing more harshly, my inner editor or this cat.
It is a truth universally avoided that as soon as a writer has a project to work on their house is suddenly spotless and their to do list empty.
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It is a truth universally avoided that as soon as a writer has a project to work on their house is suddenly spotless and their to do list empty.
Went to see DJ James Kennedy on Black Wednesday last year.
February 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Went to see DJ James Kennedy on Black Wednesday last year.
New post, if you’re into history your high school teachers forgot to tell you… kt-byrde-writes.ghost.io/buried-histo...
Buried History Part 2: Taking the Fight To Congress
Previously on Buried History: As an independence movement in Puerto Rico falters, two men attempt to take down President Truman while he's staying at Blair House in Washington, DC.
In the aftermath o...
kt-byrde-writes.ghost.io
February 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New post, if you’re into history your high school teachers forgot to tell you… kt-byrde-writes.ghost.io/buried-histo...
Reposted by KT Byrde
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
Sometimes, although it may be insufficient to lighten the darkness in your own soul, your light can eliminate the darkness in someone else’s, at least for a moment.
February 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Sometimes, although it may be insufficient to lighten the darkness in your own soul, your light can eliminate the darkness in someone else’s, at least for a moment.
Just heard an ad on Peacock use “Gulf of America”. Wtaf. 🤢
February 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just heard an ad on Peacock use “Gulf of America”. Wtaf. 🤢
I realize there’s probably a good reason for it, but hearing a drug ad say “don’t take if you’re allergic” to this medication makes me die a little inside.
February 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I realize there’s probably a good reason for it, but hearing a drug ad say “don’t take if you’re allergic” to this medication makes me die a little inside.
This! If history has taught us nothing else, it’s that totalitarians use these stupid laws to test your willingness to go along. Protest everything. While we still have the ability to.
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
February 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This! If history has taught us nothing else, it’s that totalitarians use these stupid laws to test your willingness to go along. Protest everything. While we still have the ability to.
February 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A friend taught at an army school in Iceland in the 70s or 80s. Her roommate had a friend from Denmark who was a Communist. One night he drunkenly told the roommate that individual houses keep Americans from organizing because you don’t interact with your neighbors like you do in apt buildings.
February 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A friend taught at an army school in Iceland in the 70s or 80s. Her roommate had a friend from Denmark who was a Communist. One night he drunkenly told the roommate that individual houses keep Americans from organizing because you don’t interact with your neighbors like you do in apt buildings.
If you need a soundtrack for today, this would be a good addition: open.spotify.com/track/0dyz56...
Well, This Is Shit
Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq · Making Friends at 40 · Song · 2021
open.spotify.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you need a soundtrack for today, this would be a good addition: open.spotify.com/track/0dyz56...
Reposted by KT Byrde
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
Anyone else’s weather apps suddenly unreliable? Two instances since Friday where app said 0% chance of precipitation or 0” of precipitation in the past 24 hours. And then you look outside and it’s snowing and accumulating.
February 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Anyone else’s weather apps suddenly unreliable? Two instances since Friday where app said 0% chance of precipitation or 0” of precipitation in the past 24 hours. And then you look outside and it’s snowing and accumulating.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM