Karen deVries, PhD
@devriesious.bsky.social
Wayfaring Prodigal Daughter. Solvitur ambulando. Food and companion species lover. Queer. Montanan at heart. History of Consciousness alum. Currently professing in Philosophy and Religion at UC/Colorado Springs.
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“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
Time for Toni Morrison: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
Time for Toni Morrison: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
Time for Toni Morrison: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
Time for Toni Morrison: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
Best new year’s ritual: watching the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day concert eith my mom. Long live the Radetzsky March. youtu.be/JcMxJ4OhJQk?...
Radetzky March - New Year's Concert Vienna 2026 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin (The Best Ever)
YouTube video by ROBERTO VAHID NAEIMI
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January 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Best new year’s ritual: watching the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day concert eith my mom. Long live the Radetzsky March. youtu.be/JcMxJ4OhJQk?...
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I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
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"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
One of the few things I miss about Facebook and Instagram is sharing reading journeys at the end of the year. Feeling good about my reading practice. It grounds me in all kinds of introvert-friendly ways. Good books are important treasures.
December 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
One of the few things I miss about Facebook and Instagram is sharing reading journeys at the end of the year. Feeling good about my reading practice. It grounds me in all kinds of introvert-friendly ways. Good books are important treasures.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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Great birding today! American kestrel, Violet green swallow, Mountain bluebird, and California gull. 😂🌲🪶
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Great birding today! American kestrel, Violet green swallow, Mountain bluebird, and California gull. 😂🌲🪶
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Baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation 💔
‘DRAW SOMETHING RESEMBLING ANYTHING!’ youtu.be/AXnDqXSQwFc?...
Pictionary scene from 'When Harry Met Sally'
YouTube video by vixsta11
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December 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation 💔
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No. It is not surprising.
It's not surprising that a rapist's presidential administration is removing standards intended to prevent rape.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
No. It is not surprising.
An article I started writing about a year ago is out. "Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication." Rereading it this morning, I'm feeling much gratitude for the web of wonderful scholars holding me and us.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An article I started writing about a year ago is out. "Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication." Rereading it this morning, I'm feeling much gratitude for the web of wonderful scholars holding me and us.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation
The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
www.newscientist.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
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This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
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Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go."
On necessary losses: www.themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/n...
On necessary losses: www.themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/n...
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leav…
www.themarginalian.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world | PNAS
Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the
thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
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Depressingly accurate.
This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism
In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Depressingly accurate.
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Three specimens of mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland, previously one of the only places in the world without the insects, as the climate warms www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind.
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Susie Bright (@susiebright)
I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind … you may recognize it!
Please share with your fellow free-speech and show-biz collea...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind.
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
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Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
September 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
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If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
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what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
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thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
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September 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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