Kai Rowan (they/them)
@catsbatsandtea.bsky.social
33. Queer. Enby. AuDHD. hEDS.
Avid reader.
Horror, fantasy, and sci fi enthusiast.
Anti-Capitalist. Liberationist.
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Avid reader.
Horror, fantasy, and sci fi enthusiast.
Anti-Capitalist. Liberationist.
🗣️: 🇺🇸/🇮🇩
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I will repost this forever.
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I will repost this forever.
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Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here
mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them
If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far
mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them
If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here
mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them
If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far
mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them
If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far
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Assata Shakur
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Assata Shakur
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Word to the wise, protest is gonna require some of you to let go of American exceptionalism.
You’d never wear that red hat, but some of you still think America can be great again. Trouble is, a nation built on stolen land by stolen people was never great at all.
Be clear on what you’re protesting.
You’d never wear that red hat, but some of you still think America can be great again. Trouble is, a nation built on stolen land by stolen people was never great at all.
Be clear on what you’re protesting.
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Word to the wise, protest is gonna require some of you to let go of American exceptionalism.
You’d never wear that red hat, but some of you still think America can be great again. Trouble is, a nation built on stolen land by stolen people was never great at all.
Be clear on what you’re protesting.
You’d never wear that red hat, but some of you still think America can be great again. Trouble is, a nation built on stolen land by stolen people was never great at all.
Be clear on what you’re protesting.
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Them: You don't look autistic
Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting
Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Them: You don't look autistic
Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting
Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting
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Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.
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1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.
Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".
Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.
Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".
Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.
Anyone who celebrates the release of a prisoner will be considered a target for "punishment and arrest" by Israel. Are you fucking kidding me?
Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners’ releases
* * *
www.timesofisrael.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.
Easily one of my favourite reads of this year. If you enjoy horror and haven’t read this yet, definitely give it a go!
'A Native American's trail of vengeance. Addictive, secretive and with stylish prose. Combines the best of horror and historical fiction.'
#EditorsChoice: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, review by Peggy Kurkowski
#EditorsChoice: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, review by Peggy Kurkowski
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Historical Novel Society
The trail of vengeance for one Native American is a long, bloody, and supernatural one in Stephen Graham Jones’s powerful novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. When a journal written by Lutheran pastor Arthur...
historicalnovelsociety.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Easily one of my favourite reads of this year. If you enjoy horror and haven’t read this yet, definitely give it a go!
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Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
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The fact that white nationalists feel a need to make a halftime show just for them communicates clearly that they understand safe spaces. They just don’t want anyone they deem “other” to have one.
Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.
Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.
October 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The fact that white nationalists feel a need to make a halftime show just for them communicates clearly that they understand safe spaces. They just don’t want anyone they deem “other” to have one.
Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.
Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.
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“This is not sustainable”
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“This is not sustainable”
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1. The effects of strokes can be FULLY REVERSED within 2 hours if you get them immediate medical treatment
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1. The effects of strokes can be FULLY REVERSED within 2 hours if you get them immediate medical treatment
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
2. The fact that they felt comfortable alluding that it was okay to let a drug addict die in custody without medical attention is INSANE
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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.
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And if Dems ever get back in power they will REFUSE to fix or acknowledge anything that has or will happen up until then
But want somebody to vote for them. Why?
If nothing is going to change, WHY should people vote for you? Thats the FUNDAMENTAL question.
But want somebody to vote for them. Why?
If nothing is going to change, WHY should people vote for you? Thats the FUNDAMENTAL question.
honestly, let's look at a few more thing, Biden could have run in 2016 and didn't because of personal issues, then decided he had to run in 2020 because of an event in 2017 and stuck to that line, won, and then pretended we could go back to pre-2016 without actively punishing what just happened.
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
And if Dems ever get back in power they will REFUSE to fix or acknowledge anything that has or will happen up until then
But want somebody to vote for them. Why?
If nothing is going to change, WHY should people vote for you? Thats the FUNDAMENTAL question.
But want somebody to vote for them. Why?
If nothing is going to change, WHY should people vote for you? Thats the FUNDAMENTAL question.
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The Democrats are voting LOCK STEP with Republicans.
But you dare lecture people on blind loyalty to that party for “the greater good?”
Eat glass
But you dare lecture people on blind loyalty to that party for “the greater good?”
Eat glass
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Democrats are voting LOCK STEP with Republicans.
But you dare lecture people on blind loyalty to that party for “the greater good?”
Eat glass
But you dare lecture people on blind loyalty to that party for “the greater good?”
Eat glass
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Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss
October 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss
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I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here:
Let This Radicalize You
Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I am currently out of copies to give away, but if you are new to organizing and activism, and you could use some insight and guidance, you can find Let This Radicalize You at a discount here: