Kat Benatar
@feliskathryn.bsky.social
🇧🇷🇺🇸kat/kathryn, cat herder & wrangler extraordinaire. spoonie. neurospectacular. fat af. she/her ♿️
banner is a silhouette of a cat yawning. profile pic is my Vovó (grandma) as a young school graduate. she looks very glamorous
banner is a silhouette of a cat yawning. profile pic is my Vovó (grandma) as a young school graduate. she looks very glamorous
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Kat Benatar
@feliskathryn.bsky.social
· Aug 27
I think I’m gonna have to formally step back from bluesky. it’s just been stressing me out a lot for a while now. might try threads, idk. you can find me on insta tho. same @ everywhere 🖖🏼
I think I’m gonna have to formally step back from bluesky. it’s just been stressing me out a lot for a while now. might try threads, idk. you can find me on insta tho. same @ everywhere 🖖🏼
August 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I think I’m gonna have to formally step back from bluesky. it’s just been stressing me out a lot for a while now. might try threads, idk. you can find me on insta tho. same @ everywhere 🖖🏼
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We aren’t meant to live under constant threat
Our nervous systems weren’t designed for it
End stage capitalism and fascism are existential threats to our survival… and the 24 hour news cycle makes it impossible to get a break.
It’s ok to unplug.
It’s ok to rest.
It’s ok to prioritize yourself.
Our nervous systems weren’t designed for it
End stage capitalism and fascism are existential threats to our survival… and the 24 hour news cycle makes it impossible to get a break.
It’s ok to unplug.
It’s ok to rest.
It’s ok to prioritize yourself.
August 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We aren’t meant to live under constant threat
Our nervous systems weren’t designed for it
End stage capitalism and fascism are existential threats to our survival… and the 24 hour news cycle makes it impossible to get a break.
It’s ok to unplug.
It’s ok to rest.
It’s ok to prioritize yourself.
Our nervous systems weren’t designed for it
End stage capitalism and fascism are existential threats to our survival… and the 24 hour news cycle makes it impossible to get a break.
It’s ok to unplug.
It’s ok to rest.
It’s ok to prioritize yourself.
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Oh, remember that I have autism memes, all made by me.
No AI was used to generate these memes, all text generated by my puny simian brain.
No AI was used to generate these memes, all text generated by my puny simian brain.
I made a ton of popular autism memes on Twitter, so I should port them over here. I'll probably remove the ones I thought were crap though.
Common autistic experience here.
Common autistic experience here.
August 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Oh, remember that I have autism memes, all made by me.
No AI was used to generate these memes, all text generated by my puny simian brain.
No AI was used to generate these memes, all text generated by my puny simian brain.
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Casually grabbing breakfast
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Casually grabbing breakfast
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦
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Just in case you thought I was exaggerating, this is from a year ago. This is who Newsome is.
Gov. Newsom vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments
California Governor Gavin Newsom has a message to local governments: clear homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year.
www.cbsnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just in case you thought I was exaggerating, this is from a year ago. This is who Newsome is.
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“While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels…”
August 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels…”
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✨ HOW TO support artists for a lil money ✨
- ko-fi tip jar - buy a coffee!
- patreon - a lot of artists have $1-5 tier ranges!
- become a twitch sub (payout min)
- sticker shops can have a lower price point!
a couple bucks can go a LONG way for artists! u don't have to drop hundreds to support ✨💫
- ko-fi tip jar - buy a coffee!
- patreon - a lot of artists have $1-5 tier ranges!
- become a twitch sub (payout min)
- sticker shops can have a lower price point!
a couple bucks can go a LONG way for artists! u don't have to drop hundreds to support ✨💫
August 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
✨ HOW TO support artists for a lil money ✨
- ko-fi tip jar - buy a coffee!
- patreon - a lot of artists have $1-5 tier ranges!
- become a twitch sub (payout min)
- sticker shops can have a lower price point!
a couple bucks can go a LONG way for artists! u don't have to drop hundreds to support ✨💫
- ko-fi tip jar - buy a coffee!
- patreon - a lot of artists have $1-5 tier ranges!
- become a twitch sub (payout min)
- sticker shops can have a lower price point!
a couple bucks can go a LONG way for artists! u don't have to drop hundreds to support ✨💫
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Mods are asleep, post toebeans 🐾
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Mods are asleep, post toebeans 🐾
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Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
August 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
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Considering how the anti-crime panic of the past several years has enabled Trump’s takeover of DC, I’ve been thinking about this piece I wrote for @newrepublic.com in 2021 about John Walsh, America’s Most Wanted, and our distorted understanding of “crime.” 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1632...
The New “Crime Wave” Panic and the Long Shadow of John Walsh
We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Considering how the anti-crime panic of the past several years has enabled Trump’s takeover of DC, I’ve been thinking about this piece I wrote for @newrepublic.com in 2021 about John Walsh, America’s Most Wanted, and our distorted understanding of “crime.” 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1632...
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
hehe can’t wait for mine
hi please give me 5 dollars to draw an animal of your choice with my left hand because right hand bad right now
ko-fi.com/c/7066fcfe91
ko-fi.com/c/7066fcfe91
August 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
hehe can’t wait for mine
dean cain is a twatwaffle of a person
August 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
dean cain is a twatwaffle of a person
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Are you disabled and looking for a space to work while hanging out with other disabled people?
Looking for a place to socialize, work on projects, get stuff done together?
Come to #CripCreate!
Wednesdays 4-6 pm EST
Saturdays 7-9 EST
✨🌸✨🍓
callingupjustice.com/cripcreate/
Looking for a place to socialize, work on projects, get stuff done together?
Come to #CripCreate!
Wednesdays 4-6 pm EST
Saturdays 7-9 EST
✨🌸✨🍓
callingupjustice.com/cripcreate/
Crip Create - Calling Up Justice!
cripcreate is a Disability Justice centered accessible coworking and socializing space for all Disabled people
callingupjustice.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Are you disabled and looking for a space to work while hanging out with other disabled people?
Looking for a place to socialize, work on projects, get stuff done together?
Come to #CripCreate!
Wednesdays 4-6 pm EST
Saturdays 7-9 EST
✨🌸✨🍓
callingupjustice.com/cripcreate/
Looking for a place to socialize, work on projects, get stuff done together?
Come to #CripCreate!
Wednesdays 4-6 pm EST
Saturdays 7-9 EST
✨🌸✨🍓
callingupjustice.com/cripcreate/
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Next month will be @tinu.bsky.social 's yahrzeit and this is still not finished for her family.
This is so close do the goal now!!
If Tinu meant something to you, please share this everywhere!
If you can't help, please share everywhere!
Let's get this done! 💖❤️🌸🌺
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
This is so close do the goal now!!
If Tinu meant something to you, please share this everywhere!
If you can't help, please share everywhere!
Let's get this done! 💖❤️🌸🌺
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
Donate to Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support, organized by Brooke Crume
In loving memory of Atinuke Abayomi Paul (Tinu), beloved daughter, gran… Brooke Crume needs your support for Honoring Tinu's Legacy with Compassionate Support
www.gofundme.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Next month will be @tinu.bsky.social 's yahrzeit and this is still not finished for her family.
This is so close do the goal now!!
If Tinu meant something to you, please share this everywhere!
If you can't help, please share everywhere!
Let's get this done! 💖❤️🌸🌺
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
This is so close do the goal now!!
If Tinu meant something to you, please share this everywhere!
If you can't help, please share everywhere!
Let's get this done! 💖❤️🌸🌺
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...
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I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.
August 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.
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"you can't uninvent a new technology" well no, not with that attitude you can't
August 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"you can't uninvent a new technology" well no, not with that attitude you can't
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Someone just donated $25 can anyone match or double that?
Only at 35/550 so far. The situation is an emergency
Only at 35/550 so far. The situation is an emergency
I got kicked off my benefits over bureaucratic nonsense (I've already appealed) but I won't receive anything this month so I desperately need $550 to keep myself fed and pay my phone bill
I need #MutualAid
paypal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar
I need #MutualAid
paypal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Someone just donated $25 can anyone match or double that?
Only at 35/550 so far. The situation is an emergency
Only at 35/550 so far. The situation is an emergency
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THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 11:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
August 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 11:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
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Hey, Alaa has an ask nested in this post, through Molly, if you could help out.
I used to hear the term ethnic cleansing.
I didn’t understand it, or feel it, and I never lived through it.
But now, I am living ethnic cleansing in every sense of the word,
and I am trying to survive it either from genocide or from the Bluesky platform.
I didn’t understand it, or feel it, and I never lived through it.
But now, I am living ethnic cleansing in every sense of the word,
and I am trying to survive it either from genocide or from the Bluesky platform.
I’d appreciate if you all used this form to ask for the things we asked for in the open letter regarding Palestinians on here
August 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hey, Alaa has an ask nested in this post, through Molly, if you could help out.
how do I tell one of my doctors “I told you so” w/o saying it lol because… I told him so
(he’s perfectly nice he just was wrong about me not having a pain flare from a cortisone shot)
(he’s perfectly nice he just was wrong about me not having a pain flare from a cortisone shot)
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
how do I tell one of my doctors “I told you so” w/o saying it lol because… I told him so
(he’s perfectly nice he just was wrong about me not having a pain flare from a cortisone shot)
(he’s perfectly nice he just was wrong about me not having a pain flare from a cortisone shot)
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Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.
More than 100 groups blast Israel’s ‘weaponisation of aid’ as Gaza starves
Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.
bit.ly
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?