KarenK (she/her)
@karenk.bsky.social
Weirder than that, but maybe not in the ways you think.
Yay for protesters against gerrymandering
July 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yay for protesters against gerrymandering
Me, making sure I have my list of medications before leaving the house for a first appointment with a new healthcare provider, "Heels, nails, blade, mascara. Fit check for my napalm era."
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Me, making sure I have my list of medications before leaving the house for a first appointment with a new healthcare provider, "Heels, nails, blade, mascara. Fit check for my napalm era."
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Hey folks, it's Jen. I need your help to save my sister.
These are outrageous times, and I find myself writing these words:
Please donate and spread the word, to help my sister fight FEDERAL charges...for vandalism. Of a Tesla dealership. No joke.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-lucy-...
These are outrageous times, and I find myself writing these words:
Please donate and spread the word, to help my sister fight FEDERAL charges...for vandalism. Of a Tesla dealership. No joke.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-lucy-...
Donate to Save Lucy, A Trans Woman FEDERALLY Charged - Tesla Vandalism, organized by Lucy Nelson
Save Lucy — A Trans Woman Facing Federal Charges for Tesla Va… Lucy Nelson needs your support for Save Lucy, A Trans Woman FEDERALLY Charged - Tesla Vandalism
www.gofundme.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Hey folks, it's Jen. I need your help to save my sister.
These are outrageous times, and I find myself writing these words:
Please donate and spread the word, to help my sister fight FEDERAL charges...for vandalism. Of a Tesla dealership. No joke.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-lucy-...
These are outrageous times, and I find myself writing these words:
Please donate and spread the word, to help my sister fight FEDERAL charges...for vandalism. Of a Tesla dealership. No joke.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-lucy-...
There are some topics where I disagree with the conventional wisdom. I think I’m right but I’m open to the possibility I might be wrong. However I’m tired of handling bad supporting arguments. I want to hear good ones.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There are some topics where I disagree with the conventional wisdom. I think I’m right but I’m open to the possibility I might be wrong. However I’m tired of handling bad supporting arguments. I want to hear good ones.
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made a new friend this weekend!
May 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
made a new friend this weekend!
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Any time I hear about the importance and inevitability of AI in business I think about those few years when everyone was certain that zeppelins were the future of air travel.
May 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any time I hear about the importance and inevitability of AI in business I think about those few years when everyone was certain that zeppelins were the future of air travel.
If you usually wonder whether a picture was created by AI,
If you often analyze whether a claim or suggestion is practical,
If you habitually consider who benefits from something,
Please continue doing those things when a post includes a person using a mobility aid.
If you often analyze whether a claim or suggestion is practical,
If you habitually consider who benefits from something,
Please continue doing those things when a post includes a person using a mobility aid.
May 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you usually wonder whether a picture was created by AI,
If you often analyze whether a claim or suggestion is practical,
If you habitually consider who benefits from something,
Please continue doing those things when a post includes a person using a mobility aid.
If you often analyze whether a claim or suggestion is practical,
If you habitually consider who benefits from something,
Please continue doing those things when a post includes a person using a mobility aid.
Delightful new Kpop MV released today, SHINee "Poet | Artist"
In computer science in the 1990s we called that symbol in the middle of the title a pipe, but what's it called in typography?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6P...
#Kpop #SHINee #Taemin #Key #Minho #Onew #Jonghyun
In computer science in the 1990s we called that symbol in the middle of the title a pipe, but what's it called in typography?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6P...
#Kpop #SHINee #Taemin #Key #Minho #Onew #Jonghyun
SHINee 샤이니 'Poet | Artist' MV
YouTube video by SMTOWN
www.youtube.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I love thinking about taxonomy problems.
Further, understanding some of the pitfalls of taxonomy gives me useful perspectives on current news issues. Who counts as an immigrant? It's complicated. Who qualifies for an aid program? It's complicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5o...
Further, understanding some of the pitfalls of taxonomy gives me useful perspectives on current news issues. Who counts as an immigrant? It's complicated. Who qualifies for an aid program? It's complicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5o...
This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make
YouTube video by MinuteEarth
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I love thinking about taxonomy problems.
Further, understanding some of the pitfalls of taxonomy gives me useful perspectives on current news issues. Who counts as an immigrant? It's complicated. Who qualifies for an aid program? It's complicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5o...
Further, understanding some of the pitfalls of taxonomy gives me useful perspectives on current news issues. Who counts as an immigrant? It's complicated. Who qualifies for an aid program? It's complicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5o...
I really appreciate the way @mercoglianos.bsky.social gives context to current events. He gives enough history and breadth to make news make sense, but he does it casually so it doesn't feel like a forced fact-filled flashback.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSS...
Estonia Attempts to Stop a Russian Dark Fleet Vessel Flying No-Flag | Jets Are Scrambled
YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping?
www.youtube.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I really appreciate the way @mercoglianos.bsky.social gives context to current events. He gives enough history and breadth to make news make sense, but he does it casually so it doesn't feel like a forced fact-filled flashback.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSS...
Any time I hear about the importance and inevitability of AI in business I think about those few years when everyone was certain that zeppelins were the future of air travel.
May 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any time I hear about the importance and inevitability of AI in business I think about those few years when everyone was certain that zeppelins were the future of air travel.
The hope chest my grandpa made has me thinking about product safety. It's shaped like an old-fashioned toy chest where the top swings open on hinges.
Child-me was warned to be careful opening and closing it because it could slam and hurt my fingers.
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Child-me was warned to be careful opening and closing it because it could slam and hurt my fingers.
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May 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The hope chest my grandpa made has me thinking about product safety. It's shaped like an old-fashioned toy chest where the top swings open on hinges.
Child-me was warned to be careful opening and closing it because it could slam and hurt my fingers.
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Child-me was warned to be careful opening and closing it because it could slam and hurt my fingers.
1/
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Popehat nods to my beloved Dwarf Fortress
/4 Anyway, sincerely, part of me enjoys really really complicated games that are somewhat stressful to figure out. Like the EU series, or Dwarf Fortress. It’s weird. It’s one of those gamer disorders like “I am paralyzed by indecision of what build to use for this character”
May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Popehat nods to my beloved Dwarf Fortress
I had a handed-down TRS-80 with a tape drive.
May 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I had a handed-down TRS-80 with a tape drive.
You've heard of apocryphal Spiders George who taught everyone about statistical outliers? Meet real Snakes Tim helping to rescue people from venom. I am astounded he's not from Florida.
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You've heard of apocryphal Spiders George who taught everyone about statistical outliers? Meet real Snakes Tim helping to rescue people from venom. I am astounded he's not from Florida.
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cultural work is work
writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK
over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics
happy may day!
writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK
over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics
happy may day!
NEW: 88 museum workers in Louisville are unionizing with @uaw.org.
May 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
cultural work is work
writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK
over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics
happy may day!
writing-creating-arting-publishing-librarying-museuming-teaching-professoring is WORK
over 25% of United Auto Workers members alone are academics
happy may day!
And on a day I can't take a step forward I can work at staying in place instead of losing ground.
And if I lose ground, eh, some days go like that and maybe tomorrow I can take a small step forward.
And if I lose ground, eh, some days go like that and maybe tomorrow I can take a small step forward.
April 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
And on a day I can't take a step forward I can work at staying in place instead of losing ground.
And if I lose ground, eh, some days go like that and maybe tomorrow I can take a small step forward.
And if I lose ground, eh, some days go like that and maybe tomorrow I can take a small step forward.
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The international food safety standards, ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 are third-party verified systems that guarantee food safety. Look for companies who are certified.
I hope some data nerd sets up a crowd source database of "food companies whose products don't make people sick."
Because we are all we have now.
Because we are all we have now.
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The international food safety standards, ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 are third-party verified systems that guarantee food safety. Look for companies who are certified.
The next time I sprain an ankle, I want to open doors with a button instead of holding them open with a crutch while I crutch through them.
If you won't make the world accessible to those currently disabled today, at least do it for your future self. Be as selfish as you like, say: "When I'm 80, I want to be able to get a coffee and pastry down the street, all by myself."
"Ability is, more or less, a temporary state. Each of us comes into the world helpless, and we leave it helpless.... It could happen to you tomorrow. If we make it so, life can be a broad path. There is room for all of us."
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
April 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The next time I sprain an ankle, I want to open doors with a button instead of holding them open with a crutch while I crutch through them.
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So many levels here
April 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So many levels here
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My latest post, about how important it is that we stand with transgender people right now. (Thank you to @gwenners.bsky.social for her help with this one! Follow her!)
Standing up with transgender folks
Lives lived fully are worth fighting for.
www.ihavedoubt.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My latest post, about how important it is that we stand with transgender people right now. (Thank you to @gwenners.bsky.social for her help with this one! Follow her!)
Taemin's performance of "Heaven" during his Ephemeral Gaze tour is amazing and portentous. This is a good thread.
#Taemin #Kpop
#Taemin #Kpop
#Taemin's Heaven is an emotionally gripping breathtaking performance. The paradoxical imagery enhances its impact & deepens its emotional resonance:
while he sings "Showing you Heaven/Taking you to Heaven/Save you", the visuals starkly contrast his words, immersing us in haunting depictions of Hell+
while he sings "Showing you Heaven/Taking you to Heaven/Save you", the visuals starkly contrast his words, immersing us in haunting depictions of Hell+
April 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM