Karolyn
@etcandsoforth.bsky.social
Unapologetically defying pithy description.
Salty we’re having to start over. Again.
Shouting love, kindness, sass, and swears into the void…along with cat pics, knitting, and occasional “Story Time”. Dem, T1D, ADHD, she/her (🚫TERFs, 🚫MAGA)
Salty we’re having to start over. Again.
Shouting love, kindness, sass, and swears into the void…along with cat pics, knitting, and occasional “Story Time”. Dem, T1D, ADHD, she/her (🚫TERFs, 🚫MAGA)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Turns out, I am a little bit “that person.” 🧵
In this case, I am referring to that person who asks you if they can get you anything, then balks at your answer.
That person SUCKS.
In my case, I asked my niece what sort of junk food/ treats she’d like in a care package.
1/
In this case, I am referring to that person who asks you if they can get you anything, then balks at your answer.
That person SUCKS.
In my case, I asked my niece what sort of junk food/ treats she’d like in a care package.
1/
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Turns out, I am a little bit “that person.” 🧵
In this case, I am referring to that person who asks you if they can get you anything, then balks at your answer.
That person SUCKS.
In my case, I asked my niece what sort of junk food/ treats she’d like in a care package.
1/
In this case, I am referring to that person who asks you if they can get you anything, then balks at your answer.
That person SUCKS.
In my case, I asked my niece what sort of junk food/ treats she’d like in a care package.
1/
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The only thing cheaper under Trump is human life.
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The only thing cheaper under Trump is human life.
Hey — remember back in Jan/Feb when the house passed a rule declaring the entire legislative session would be “one legislative day” so that Trump’s “Emergency” tariffs couldn’t be reviewed?
I keep hearing that a discharge petition requires a vote be scheduled “in two legislative days” so…🤷🏻♀️
I keep hearing that a discharge petition requires a vote be scheduled “in two legislative days” so…🤷🏻♀️
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Hey — remember back in Jan/Feb when the house passed a rule declaring the entire legislative session would be “one legislative day” so that Trump’s “Emergency” tariffs couldn’t be reviewed?
I keep hearing that a discharge petition requires a vote be scheduled “in two legislative days” so…🤷🏻♀️
I keep hearing that a discharge petition requires a vote be scheduled “in two legislative days” so…🤷🏻♀️
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It’s pretty telling that nobody is taking Trump’s call to release the files at face value other than the press who still believes things he says for some reason.
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It’s pretty telling that nobody is taking Trump’s call to release the files at face value other than the press who still believes things he says for some reason.
Ok, #KnitSky, let’s play: Help a Noob Avoid a Delusional Project Selection 🧶
I want to knit a sweater.
I have never knit a sweater.
I’m not sure how to adjust a fit for my body.
So: is there a Universally Flattering (or Easily and Clearly Customizable), Starter Sweater pattern you’d recommend? 🙏
I want to knit a sweater.
I have never knit a sweater.
I’m not sure how to adjust a fit for my body.
So: is there a Universally Flattering (or Easily and Clearly Customizable), Starter Sweater pattern you’d recommend? 🙏
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ok, #KnitSky, let’s play: Help a Noob Avoid a Delusional Project Selection 🧶
I want to knit a sweater.
I have never knit a sweater.
I’m not sure how to adjust a fit for my body.
So: is there a Universally Flattering (or Easily and Clearly Customizable), Starter Sweater pattern you’d recommend? 🙏
I want to knit a sweater.
I have never knit a sweater.
I’m not sure how to adjust a fit for my body.
So: is there a Universally Flattering (or Easily and Clearly Customizable), Starter Sweater pattern you’d recommend? 🙏
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Tonight, I’m drinking a glass of “F*** Stephen Miller” — because I SWEAR that’s how I read it the first time… and now it’s become canon in our house.
(M is not a red drinker, but occasionally adds it to a Naked Wine order…because he knows “F*** Stephen Miller” is always the correct sentiment)
(M is not a red drinker, but occasionally adds it to a Naked Wine order…because he knows “F*** Stephen Miller” is always the correct sentiment)
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Tonight, I’m drinking a glass of “F*** Stephen Miller” — because I SWEAR that’s how I read it the first time… and now it’s become canon in our house.
(M is not a red drinker, but occasionally adds it to a Naked Wine order…because he knows “F*** Stephen Miller” is always the correct sentiment)
(M is not a red drinker, but occasionally adds it to a Naked Wine order…because he knows “F*** Stephen Miller” is always the correct sentiment)
Good News! It was NOT just me in the rain with a sign. It was me, M, and about 50 new friends! Dems, DSA, Indivisible, educators, and neighbors standing out in the rain, outnumbering the bigots.
My sign may have melted, but I stand by the sentiment.
My sign may have melted, but I stand by the sentiment.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Good News! It was NOT just me in the rain with a sign. It was me, M, and about 50 new friends! Dems, DSA, Indivisible, educators, and neighbors standing out in the rain, outnumbering the bigots.
My sign may have melted, but I stand by the sentiment.
My sign may have melted, but I stand by the sentiment.
Great visualizations of income/weath in this thread. Take a look!
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Great visualizations of income/weath in this thread. Take a look!
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Have you noticed now that the Epstein files all point back to Donald Trump, his MAGA base wants to change the motherf*cking subject?
These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥
These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Have you noticed now that the Epstein files all point back to Donald Trump, his MAGA base wants to change the motherf*cking subject?
These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥
These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥
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This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
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“With immigration agents under intense pressure to deport thousands of people each day, Ms. Lopez was pushed through the system swiftly and was deported within four days of the factory raid.
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“With immigration agents under intense pressure to deport thousands of people each day, Ms. Lopez was pushed through the system swiftly and was deported within four days of the factory raid.
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
As a result, Jorge is now cared for by two siblings who are barely adults themselves.”
Update: No infection, no underlying injury.
Apparently Ivory has injured himself by “shaking his head too hard at…who knows, could be anything.”
$153 to learn my cat is deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the world.
Same, kitty. Same.
Apparently Ivory has injured himself by “shaking his head too hard at…who knows, could be anything.”
$153 to learn my cat is deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the world.
Same, kitty. Same.
Today in How Elderly Cats are Like Elderly Humans: random bruising
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Update: No infection, no underlying injury.
Apparently Ivory has injured himself by “shaking his head too hard at…who knows, could be anything.”
$153 to learn my cat is deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the world.
Same, kitty. Same.
Apparently Ivory has injured himself by “shaking his head too hard at…who knows, could be anything.”
$153 to learn my cat is deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the world.
Same, kitty. Same.
Today in How Elderly Cats are Like Elderly Humans: random bruising
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Today in How Elderly Cats are Like Elderly Humans: random bruising
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
Know how old people seem to bruise for no reason?
Welp…
Let’s just say, Ivory is feeling his 18 years today.
Off to The Bad Place soon. #CatsOfBluesky
Today I’m pulling out my checkbook to pay a bill out of frustration and pettiness…
A small company who did some work for me, keeps emailing me a “link to pay” except that it’s just a statement and it WON’T LET ME PAY. I have called them and explained. Twice. The resend the same damn email.
A small company who did some work for me, keeps emailing me a “link to pay” except that it’s just a statement and it WON’T LET ME PAY. I have called them and explained. Twice. The resend the same damn email.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today I’m pulling out my checkbook to pay a bill out of frustration and pettiness…
A small company who did some work for me, keeps emailing me a “link to pay” except that it’s just a statement and it WON’T LET ME PAY. I have called them and explained. Twice. The resend the same damn email.
A small company who did some work for me, keeps emailing me a “link to pay” except that it’s just a statement and it WON’T LET ME PAY. I have called them and explained. Twice. The resend the same damn email.
At some point we REALLY need to have a conversation about the pathological compulsion to absolve attractive white people who seriously fuck up in any number of ways by writing glamorous puff pieces in order to “see things from their perspective.”
Hint: it’s white supremacy and classism.
Hint: it’s white supremacy and classism.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
At some point we REALLY need to have a conversation about the pathological compulsion to absolve attractive white people who seriously fuck up in any number of ways by writing glamorous puff pieces in order to “see things from their perspective.”
Hint: it’s white supremacy and classism.
Hint: it’s white supremacy and classism.
I knew about Brown v. Board of Ed., but I DIDN’T know SCOTUS basically gutted it 20 years later.
TIL something new:
TIL something new:
In 1954, the SCOTUS decided Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark opinion famous for its ruling that "separate but equal [is] inherently unequal" and education "is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms."
So what happened? Why are schools just as segregated now as in 1954?
So what happened? Why are schools just as segregated now as in 1954?
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I knew about Brown v. Board of Ed., but I DIDN’T know SCOTUS basically gutted it 20 years later.
TIL something new:
TIL something new:
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Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
My face is melting.
But my favorite allergens are cuddled up so sweetly beside me. And my leg is a pillow. So I will have to get my allergy meds later. When it’s less disruptive.
But my favorite allergens are cuddled up so sweetly beside me. And my leg is a pillow. So I will have to get my allergy meds later. When it’s less disruptive.
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 AM
My face is melting.
But my favorite allergens are cuddled up so sweetly beside me. And my leg is a pillow. So I will have to get my allergy meds later. When it’s less disruptive.
But my favorite allergens are cuddled up so sweetly beside me. And my leg is a pillow. So I will have to get my allergy meds later. When it’s less disruptive.
I’m just hearing about this now.
I don’t know if there is organized opposition among my #Bothell and/or Northshore School District peeps, but even if it’s just me — I’ll be there.
No one’s gathering signatures for bigoted, anti-trans ballot initiatives in my backyard without some pushback.
I don’t know if there is organized opposition among my #Bothell and/or Northshore School District peeps, but even if it’s just me — I’ll be there.
No one’s gathering signatures for bigoted, anti-trans ballot initiatives in my backyard without some pushback.
Um..... Why is there a hate rally next week at a public school in Bothell?
Northshore Middle School
portal.momsforliberty.org/events/3195/
Northshore Middle School
portal.momsforliberty.org/events/3195/
Event - Super Signer Rally
portal.momsforliberty.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’m just hearing about this now.
I don’t know if there is organized opposition among my #Bothell and/or Northshore School District peeps, but even if it’s just me — I’ll be there.
No one’s gathering signatures for bigoted, anti-trans ballot initiatives in my backyard without some pushback.
I don’t know if there is organized opposition among my #Bothell and/or Northshore School District peeps, but even if it’s just me — I’ll be there.
No one’s gathering signatures for bigoted, anti-trans ballot initiatives in my backyard without some pushback.
How long before we get to the “It was a PERFECT phone call!” stage of the Epstein Files?
And how many Republicans are gonna be willing to say — on camera — that “Look, HE didn’t traffic these girls, he just had sex with them. As men do. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
And how many Republicans are gonna be willing to say — on camera — that “Look, HE didn’t traffic these girls, he just had sex with them. As men do. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How long before we get to the “It was a PERFECT phone call!” stage of the Epstein Files?
And how many Republicans are gonna be willing to say — on camera — that “Look, HE didn’t traffic these girls, he just had sex with them. As men do. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
And how many Republicans are gonna be willing to say — on camera — that “Look, HE didn’t traffic these girls, he just had sex with them. As men do. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
TIL:
Dr. Drew: “Look! I have made a scientific breakthrough that will save countless lives”
White people: “That’s nice. But it needs some racism.”
Dr. Drew: “Look! I have made a scientific breakthrough that will save countless lives”
White people: “That’s nice. But it needs some racism.”
Here's a fun fact for you: Charles Drew, a Black man, is the "father of the blood bank." He figured out how to store, ship and transfuse blood.
But he resigned from the Red Cross because they insisted on "segregating" blood by race.
But he resigned from the Red Cross because they insisted on "segregating" blood by race.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
TIL:
Dr. Drew: “Look! I have made a scientific breakthrough that will save countless lives”
White people: “That’s nice. But it needs some racism.”
Dr. Drew: “Look! I have made a scientific breakthrough that will save countless lives”
White people: “That’s nice. But it needs some racism.”