Katie McKearney 🇨🇦
@katiemckearney.bsky.social
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I just got off an extremely depressing call with my amazing Canadian collaborators at Natural Resources Canada who are facing cuts, retirement buy-outs, and layoffs for biologists across the board. This just seems a slap in the face to scientists in Canada.
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I just got off an extremely depressing call with my amazing Canadian collaborators at Natural Resources Canada who are facing cuts, retirement buy-outs, and layoffs for biologists across the board. This just seems a slap in the face to scientists in Canada.
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Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Canadian scientist here. I don't want this. I want you to fund our excellent early career scientists who do great work in Canada. Fund them properly and that will help 1000x more than recruiting handfuls of cherry picked bigwigs from Harvard, Stanford and MIT who will leave after a few years.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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You’re in her DMs.
I’m sending her pictures of my cat.
We are not the same.
I’m sending her pictures of my cat.
We are not the same.
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You’re in her DMs.
I’m sending her pictures of my cat.
We are not the same.
I’m sending her pictures of my cat.
We are not the same.
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
Everyone's dad:
Why do they keep making new music when the best stuff all came out when I was a teen?
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Everyone's dad:
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Fun fact: For the movie Alien, they actually used a man in a practical suit because the studio was unable to afford a real Xenomorph.
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fun fact: For the movie Alien, they actually used a man in a practical suit because the studio was unable to afford a real Xenomorph.
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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Maybe it’s just my brain chemistry changing, but I’m starting to enjoy books in the way mid-2000’s library propaganda said I would.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Maybe it’s just my brain chemistry changing, but I’m starting to enjoy books in the way mid-2000’s library propaganda said I would.
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If you get to a trillion dollars you should have to start the game over from the beginning at a higher difficulty like your parents not owning a bunch of emerald mines or whatever idk that’s just a random example
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you get to a trillion dollars you should have to start the game over from the beginning at a higher difficulty like your parents not owning a bunch of emerald mines or whatever idk that’s just a random example
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It's no secret that part-time contracts in Nova Scotia don't fairly compensate instructors for their labour. We're just starting to align with Ontario wages from the early 2000s. When I moved back to Halifax from Ottawa in 2010, I was appalled by my first contracts at the Mount and SMU. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's no secret that part-time contracts in Nova Scotia don't fairly compensate instructors for their labour. We're just starting to align with Ontario wages from the early 2000s. When I moved back to Halifax from Ottawa in 2010, I was appalled by my first contracts at the Mount and SMU. 🧵
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I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”
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one of the (many) benefits of wealth is that they have space. They don’t have to operate at 100% for their entire lives. They can grieve, rest, think, innovate etc. without having the constant pressure of earning.
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
one of the (many) benefits of wealth is that they have space. They don’t have to operate at 100% for their entire lives. They can grieve, rest, think, innovate etc. without having the constant pressure of earning.
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You should get paid overtime when you dream about work. They already steal most of your waking hours, how dare they infringe on your sleeping ones?
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
You should get paid overtime when you dream about work. They already steal most of your waking hours, how dare they infringe on your sleeping ones?
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
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I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.
September 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.
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This is basically what I feel like all the time now
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is basically what I feel like all the time now
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How your email finds me:
September 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
How your email finds me:
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Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
September 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
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condos be like
August 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
condos be like
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Abortion should never be criminalized.
Evidence shows that criminalization of abortion drives women and girls towards unsafe procedures – to the detriment of their safety, their health and their rights.
Evidence shows that criminalization of abortion drives women and girls towards unsafe procedures – to the detriment of their safety, their health and their rights.
August 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Abortion should never be criminalized.
Evidence shows that criminalization of abortion drives women and girls towards unsafe procedures – to the detriment of their safety, their health and their rights.
Evidence shows that criminalization of abortion drives women and girls towards unsafe procedures – to the detriment of their safety, their health and their rights.
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How about fewer stories on companies being "woke" and more stories on wage theft?
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How about fewer stories on companies being "woke" and more stories on wage theft?