Kathy Tafel
@kathytafel.bsky.social
iOS dev | conference speaker | Mac addict
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Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun
SF—>Bkln—>Berlin
Retweets ≠ 👍🏻
She/her
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We all breathe the same air.
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Kathy Tafel
@kathytafel.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Excited that we managed to ship The Recipe Box for iPad and iPhone with Liquid Glass support and recipe timers ready for download on new iPhone day. Get it here for iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-r...
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unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
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Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
💯 this.
Right. Like, I don’t have to like them or even believe them to acknowledge that it’s preferable that they are attempting to signal virtue rather than vice.
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
💯 this.
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The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.
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Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
This is clearly designed like a slave ship to transport deportation flights and make already miserable people miserable before we give them to countries that will run prison camps. Deporting people who have not been convicted of a crime. I can only hope this is AI slop or satire. But it’s too easy…
I’d like to say fuck you preemptively to any airline that attempts this strategy of torture. It’s miserable enough already.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is clearly designed like a slave ship to transport deportation flights and make already miserable people miserable before we give them to countries that will run prison camps. Deporting people who have not been convicted of a crime. I can only hope this is AI slop or satire. But it’s too easy…
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Charlotte's black sheriff, who was elected in 2018 and who has not cooperated with ICE, is one of the black sheriffs being targeted by the GOP in North Carolina. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE - Bolts
Editor’s note: The GOP-run legislature passed this bill in September 2024, sending it to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s desk. After Cooper vetoed the bill, Republican lawmakers overrode his veto in....
boltsmag.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Charlotte's black sheriff, who was elected in 2018 and who has not cooperated with ICE, is one of the black sheriffs being targeted by the GOP in North Carolina. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
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If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
My sister is an extra in that movie - in a group of girl scout brownies walking up the stairs in some segue. She is the best part of the movie :)
I remember how horribly disappointed I was in First Monday.
If Neal Katyal writes himself a cameo in the “West Wing for the Supreme Court” TV show he’s working on, do you think he’ll play a liberal lawyer who writes fawning op-eds about conservative judicial nominees, or a BigLaw partner defending child slavery
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My sister is an extra in that movie - in a group of girl scout brownies walking up the stairs in some segue. She is the best part of the movie :)
I made it halfway through Frankenstein from @realgdt.bsky.social on Netflix. It is really good. Maybe too good. I am having a hard time with the violence. It reminds me of present day violence. It is really good art. I will finish it eventually, but it may take a while.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I made it halfway through Frankenstein from @realgdt.bsky.social on Netflix. It is really good. Maybe too good. I am having a hard time with the violence. It reminds me of present day violence. It is really good art. I will finish it eventually, but it may take a while.
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I remember the days of yore when having a 30 or 40-year old mistress was enough to end a presidential campaign and being a child rapist meant you couldn't get a job as a dog walker much less make you the second coming of Jesus. Such innocent times.
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I remember the days of yore when having a 30 or 40-year old mistress was enough to end a presidential campaign and being a child rapist meant you couldn't get a job as a dog walker much less make you the second coming of Jesus. Such innocent times.
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“We can’t afford a king”
Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“We can’t afford a king”
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On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
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The problem with the “Joe Rogan of the left” trope is that the left doesn’t need its own Rogan; it needs an ecosystem where influence isn’t so concentrated. Similar issue here: we don’t need more woke straight hot guys; we need to value the opinions of people who aren’t woke straight hot guys.
Tim Miller makes a plea for more straight, woke influencers: "This is a message for hot straight men with muscles who work out, and who are also woke. We just need you to just do a little bit of commentary."
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The problem with the “Joe Rogan of the left” trope is that the left doesn’t need its own Rogan; it needs an ecosystem where influence isn’t so concentrated. Similar issue here: we don’t need more woke straight hot guys; we need to value the opinions of people who aren’t woke straight hot guys.
I watched MC Escher: Journey to Infinity, but you shouldn't. I really like Escher's art, and wanted to show it to my kid. I'm not sure she's at all excited about the art now, which is unfortunate. Honestly not sure how they could have made a more boring pedestrian version. Stunning in its awfulness.
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I watched MC Escher: Journey to Infinity, but you shouldn't. I really like Escher's art, and wanted to show it to my kid. I'm not sure she's at all excited about the art now, which is unfortunate. Honestly not sure how they could have made a more boring pedestrian version. Stunning in its awfulness.
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“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.
That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.
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Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."
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There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
The fascist's unemployment solution: hiring some people to terrorize and cage others
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
U.S. Hires 50,000 Federal Workers Under Trump, Boosting Immigration Roles
The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."