Bridget Koan, APR
@bridgetkoan.bsky.social
I'm a #KansasCity #PR professional. Book lover, news junkie & heavy metal fan. Living in #ChiefsKingdom. 📚✏️💻
@raygunsite.com If you make a shirt for girls that says “Learning how to ruin the workplace from my grandma” I will buy one. My granddaughter is two.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@raygunsite.com If you make a shirt for girls that says “Learning how to ruin the workplace from my grandma” I will buy one. My granddaughter is two.
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BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath lead singer and the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76 just weeks after farewell show.
Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
The gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne has died.
bit.ly
July 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath lead singer and the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76 just weeks after farewell show.
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I deserve the Nobel Pulitzer.
February 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I deserve the Nobel Pulitzer.
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
My cat seems to like horror movies.
January 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My cat seems to like horror movies.
When the kitty is comfy, everyone’s comfy.
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
When the kitty is comfy, everyone’s comfy.
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x
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
January 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Republicans are so accustomed to whining from the minority that when they’re actually in the majority and still can’t manage to pass a bill, their automatic reflex is to blame the Democrats.
Republicans wanted the majority. They got it. Learn how to fucking govern.
Republicans wanted the majority. They got it. Learn how to fucking govern.
December 20, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Republicans are so accustomed to whining from the minority that when they’re actually in the majority and still can’t manage to pass a bill, their automatic reflex is to blame the Democrats.
Republicans wanted the majority. They got it. Learn how to fucking govern.
Republicans wanted the majority. They got it. Learn how to fucking govern.
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First severe case of bird flu in a human in the U.S. reported in Louisiana | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
First severe case of bird flu in a human in the U.S. reported in Louisiana • Kansas Reflector
A Louisiana resident has contracted the country’s first severe case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a human, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.
kansasreflector.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:01 AM
First severe case of bird flu in a human in the U.S. reported in Louisiana | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
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"Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it"
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... #MisinfoResearch
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... #MisinfoResearch
Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco
Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:13 PM
"Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it"
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... #MisinfoResearch
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... #MisinfoResearch
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
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🧪 Claims about science & wellness are everywhere, making it tougher to sort fact from fiction. Today's issue of The Sift® helps you evaluate such claims & think critically about evidence presented, with an 8-question quiz!
🔗 Check it out: bit.ly/Sift25Nov2024
#ScienceLiteracy #EduLib #EduSky
🔗 Check it out: bit.ly/Sift25Nov2024
#ScienceLiteracy #EduLib #EduSky
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
🧪 Claims about science & wellness are everywhere, making it tougher to sort fact from fiction. Today's issue of The Sift® helps you evaluate such claims & think critically about evidence presented, with an 8-question quiz!
🔗 Check it out: bit.ly/Sift25Nov2024
#ScienceLiteracy #EduLib #EduSky
🔗 Check it out: bit.ly/Sift25Nov2024
#ScienceLiteracy #EduLib #EduSky
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The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
November 21, 2024 at 8:03 AM
The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
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I keep trying to tell people this. Glad to see more people recognizing it.
In short, the right people are working on this, they're not out to build a Twitter clone, they're out to reshape the web, and help us return to the original promise of an open platform, a sense of ownership, and the ability to share with each other on our own terms.
November 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
I keep trying to tell people this. Glad to see more people recognizing it.
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Vaccine safety and effectiveness is not controversial.
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The media HAS to get this right. You can be unbiased and say the above. Other opinions are misguided and/or outright malicious disinformation.
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The media HAS to get this right. You can be unbiased and say the above. Other opinions are misguided and/or outright malicious disinformation.
November 18, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Vaccine safety and effectiveness is not controversial.
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The media HAS to get this right. You can be unbiased and say the above. Other opinions are misguided and/or outright malicious disinformation.
/end
The media HAS to get this right. You can be unbiased and say the above. Other opinions are misguided and/or outright malicious disinformation.
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It hasn’t received a lot of attention, but a federal court this week chucked 40 years of rules governing America’s most controversial environmental law into the wood chipper. Here’s what happens next: heatmap.news/climate/nepa...
A Court Just Broke America’s Most Divisive Environmental Law. Here’s What Happens Next.
In a word: chaos.
heatmap.news
November 15, 2024 at 7:39 PM
It hasn’t received a lot of attention, but a federal court this week chucked 40 years of rules governing America’s most controversial environmental law into the wood chipper. Here’s what happens next: heatmap.news/climate/nepa...
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Betty White will once again grace Americans' lives, not on TV, but on your mail. The US Postal Service will honor the beloved American TV icon with her own stamp next year. cnn.it/4hUbv8c
November 16, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Betty White will once again grace Americans' lives, not on TV, but on your mail. The US Postal Service will honor the beloved American TV icon with her own stamp next year. cnn.it/4hUbv8c
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THIS…is how you fight: The Onion buys Alex Jones’s Infowars with backing from Sandy Hook families - Bloomberg
November 14, 2024 at 6:12 PM
THIS…is how you fight: The Onion buys Alex Jones’s Infowars with backing from Sandy Hook families - Bloomberg
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100%. Obviously block anyone you like—but there are bad actors out there creating huge blocklists they try to sell you on by pretending at great confidence about people they know nothing about. Study those lists and you realize they're full of good follows. Those lists are my only Bluesky complaint.
Regarding blocklists, don't blindly follow them unless you have a high level of trust and personally know the creator of the list. Previously on Twitter these lists were used to create division amongst online communities and blindly silenced valuable activists, and unrelated third parties.
November 12, 2024 at 5:35 AM
100%. Obviously block anyone you like—but there are bad actors out there creating huge blocklists they try to sell you on by pretending at great confidence about people they know nothing about. Study those lists and you realize they're full of good follows. Those lists are my only Bluesky complaint.
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Another useful tip.
if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji
then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
November 13, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Another useful tip.
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Bluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All
The app has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
slate.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Bluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
I joined Bluesky because people on Threads told me I should check it out 👍
My feed on Threads is just a bunch of people talking about how much better things are on Bluesky
November 13, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I joined Bluesky because people on Threads told me I should check it out 👍
So, a post is called a #skeet?
a woman is sitting on a couch and says am i right
ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch and says am i right
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:44 AM
So, a post is called a #skeet?