Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started
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Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
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I keep getting better at adding alt-text and making it part of the rhythm of my online conversations by having this button on. Writing alt-text as my default means that I never forget it and it becomes my normal. Make alt-text your normal!
What’s cool is that I just watched these friends get married in my living room as I hosted their wedding! What’s less cool is that they had to leave for a hospital right after because cancer is the fucking worst. If y’all could help make the cool thing nice by covering the not cool one, please do.
Because my friends are extremely normal people who are not online, my posts will be the only ones on here with the link to support them through bone cancer. This site has saved my life more than once, and now I’m hoping it can do the same for them.
January 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
What’s cool is that I just watched these friends get married in my living room as I hosted their wedding! What’s less cool is that they had to leave for a hospital right after because cancer is the fucking worst. If y’all could help make the cool thing nice by covering the not cool one, please do.
Ok, but the opening theme of True Blood goes so hard
January 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Ok, but the opening theme of True Blood goes so hard
White supremacy has always been a shared political project across the US spectrum, and the exceptions prove the rule
I don’t think they’re embarrassed to say so I think they’re ambivalent about these statements at best.
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
White supremacy has always been a shared political project across the US spectrum, and the exceptions prove the rule
Haha, that’s fun
January 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Haha, that’s fun
No we’ve been absorbed into a socialist sharia borg hivemind
Is New York still there
January 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
No we’ve been absorbed into a socialist sharia borg hivemind
Pretending that I’m still awake so I can wish the west coast a happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Pretending that I’m still awake so I can wish the west coast a happy new year
Not me getting on every website I’ve left in my tabs where I have a shopping cart and buying things before the end of the year
Those HSA funds won’t spend themselves, ok?
Those HSA funds won’t spend themselves, ok?
Ending this year on a weeks-long migraine that destroyed much of my capacity for joy seems like the perfect metaphor for how bad 2025 has been
January 1, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Not me getting on every website I’ve left in my tabs where I have a shopping cart and buying things before the end of the year
Those HSA funds won’t spend themselves, ok?
Those HSA funds won’t spend themselves, ok?
Ending this year on a weeks-long migraine that destroyed much of my capacity for joy seems like the perfect metaphor for how bad 2025 has been
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Ending this year on a weeks-long migraine that destroyed much of my capacity for joy seems like the perfect metaphor for how bad 2025 has been
I’m not at my usual sharpness and I’m still fatigued, but damn if migraine drugs blocking my pain receptors didn’t give me back quality of life
January 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I’m not at my usual sharpness and I’m still fatigued, but damn if migraine drugs blocking my pain receptors didn’t give me back quality of life
Los Angeles used to have the most extensive street rail network in the world 🫠
To be fair to myself, while my opinion is radical, checking out the rhetoric of the policymakers who enabled this more or less confirms that US suburbs were explicitly formed to increase anti-social behavior and foster both racial segregation and individualist capitalism
December 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Los Angeles used to have the most extensive street rail network in the world 🫠
My most extreme and radical opinion is that US suburbs are inherently anti-social and bad and should all be ripped out and replaced by much denser infrastructure that enables the movement and autonomy of people who cannot drive *above* anyone behind the wheel of a car
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My most extreme and radical opinion is that US suburbs are inherently anti-social and bad and should all be ripped out and replaced by much denser infrastructure that enables the movement and autonomy of people who cannot drive *above* anyone behind the wheel of a car
The mid-century building pattern was and is very bad and has created more problems than it has solved and everybody* loves it so it is impossible to fix
The real villain (which people absolutely do not want to hear) is the prioritization of single family homes and the build in pattern that endorses sprawl, lawns, and car dependency, which inherently creates scarcity. No one accepts that single family homes are basically small mansions.
December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The mid-century building pattern was and is very bad and has created more problems than it has solved and everybody* loves it so it is impossible to fix
As a person of interest in January 6th and a believer in QAnon, MTG has never demonstrated a commitment to democracy. She’s only ever shown a willingness to do whatever it takes to attain and hold power. That fascist tendency is the last thing a pro-democracy coalition needs.
The pro-democracy movement needs to include factions which we disagree with vehemently on all other matters.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As a person of interest in January 6th and a believer in QAnon, MTG has never demonstrated a commitment to democracy. She’s only ever shown a willingness to do whatever it takes to attain and hold power. That fascist tendency is the last thing a pro-democracy coalition needs.
My entire family got the flu over Christmas and my husband’s best friend just got diagnosed with cancer, so yes, I’ve got many reasons to keep wearing a mask during “people coughing into each others’ faces” season
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My entire family got the flu over Christmas and my husband’s best friend just got diagnosed with cancer, so yes, I’ve got many reasons to keep wearing a mask during “people coughing into each others’ faces” season
White men are 36% of the population but 80% of the outrageously whiny mediocrities who think they deserve more without any effort (the other 20% are white women)
Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
White men are 36% of the population but 80% of the outrageously whiny mediocrities who think they deserve more without any effort (the other 20% are white women)
Going to say something controversial and state that cultural impact is not about merchandise or box office, but memory. In 10 years, after this series of Avatar movies is over, will anyone be sharing them with the generations that come after?
December 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Going to say something controversial and state that cultural impact is not about merchandise or box office, but memory. In 10 years, after this series of Avatar movies is over, will anyone be sharing them with the generations that come after?
Chose “Remember the Night” a love story between Barbra Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray which had a Black butler character answer the phone for one scene just to emotionally humiliate me for loving this movie
Even though this was *not* a Christmas movie, I have been given due recompense by continuing the Christmas movies into Boxing Day and getting an extra pick when we usually alternate
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Chose “Remember the Night” a love story between Barbra Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray which had a Black butler character answer the phone for one scene just to emotionally humiliate me for loving this movie
Now finishing Christmas night with Christmas sushi and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (which my husband reminded me is a Christmas movie)
That was pleasantly surprising! Kiernan Shipka has a fun role here, and I can tell my husband liked this for a perfect Wonder Woman joke
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Now finishing Christmas night with Christmas sushi and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (which my husband reminded me is a Christmas movie)
My husband said that Red One is good background noise and surprisingly enjoyable, so I’m subjecting myself to that
That was very fun, and now we’re trying to find something else now that we know Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ which we canceled and did not re-up
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My husband said that Red One is good background noise and surprisingly enjoyable, so I’m subjecting myself to that
As per tradition, hubs and I are watching Christmas movies all day, so this is the reminder that Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas movies that integrate the holiday into their plots.
December 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
As per tradition, hubs and I are watching Christmas movies all day, so this is the reminder that Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas movies that integrate the holiday into their plots.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Merry Christmas you filthy animals
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I hope everyone finds some kind of comfort today. It’s a hard time. I pray today isn’t.
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I hope everyone finds some kind of comfort today. It’s a hard time. I pray today isn’t.
So much of my joy is drained out of my life because of this pain
Migraines suck.
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
So much of my joy is drained out of my life because of this pain