Katy Drake Bettner
@katydb.bsky.social
Co-CEO Wildcard Alliance, Core Contributor Thousands, Fairy Godmother, friend of Bill W. Evan Smith called me: “so smart, so fun & so bitchy in all the right ways” Boards: @19thnews.org & Austin Film Society
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What’s safe? How do we know? The anxiety of pregnancy in America. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg... via @19thnews.org
What’s safe? How do we know? The anxiety of pregnancy in America.
The way the government talks about pregnancy has transformed, putting choices about medications, vaccines and care under heightened scrutiny.
19thnews.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What’s safe? How do we know? The anxiety of pregnancy in America. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg... via @19thnews.org
The 17 year old: “Curious for life. If I don’t get one new fact a day I will shrivel up and die.”
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The 17 year old: “Curious for life. If I don’t get one new fact a day I will shrivel up and die.”
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we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
June 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mckinney” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Mckinney · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mckinney” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Over 1,400 No Kings events are planned in all 50 states and abroad. We truly have the opportunity to make June 14 (the day of Trump’s military birthday parade) one of the biggest days of mass protest of our lifetimes, but we need everyone who's able standing with us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Over 1,400 No Kings events are planned in all 50 states and abroad. We truly have the opportunity to make June 14 (the day of Trump’s military birthday parade) one of the biggest days of mass protest of our lifetimes, but we need everyone who's able standing with us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Let me say this again for the folks in the back.
HOLY. SHIT.
HOLY. SHIT.
Typical drop-off rates run 1-2%. Gaps of 23% or -9% are surprising and could indicate that votes were miscounted.
finance.yahoo.com/news/retrans... RETRANSMISSION: 2024 Presidential and Senate Results Called Into Question as Lawsuit Advances
finance.yahoo.com/news/retrans... RETRANSMISSION: 2024 Presidential and Senate Results Called Into Question as Lawsuit Advances
RETRANSMISSION: 2024 Presidential and Senate Results Called Into Question as Lawsuit Advances
NEW CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 29, 2025 / Aseminal casequestioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward. In open cour...
finance.yahoo.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Let me say this again for the folks in the back.
HOLY. SHIT.
HOLY. SHIT.
Drop-off is a measure of the difference between the presidential candidate and a major down-ballot candidate of the same party. A large positive drop-off indicates an "overperformance" by a candidate, meaning the candidate received more votes than is typical.
June 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Drop-off is a measure of the difference between the presidential candidate and a major down-ballot candidate of the same party. A large positive drop-off indicates an "overperformance" by a candidate, meaning the candidate received more votes than is typical.
So apparently in the UK, the national Police Chiefs Council is being told to confiscate phones and laptops after a pregnancy loss. In case you think it is escapable.
May 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So apparently in the UK, the national Police Chiefs Council is being told to confiscate phones and laptops after a pregnancy loss. In case you think it is escapable.
Just signed.
Cost of Living Tax Exemption url:https://costoflivingexemption.com/
Cost of Living Tax Exemption url:https://costoflivingexemption.com/
May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just signed.
Cost of Living Tax Exemption url:https://costoflivingexemption.com/
Cost of Living Tax Exemption url:https://costoflivingexemption.com/
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People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?
Starved for Care
People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?
starvedforcare.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?
The husband got himself banned from the PoE2 community on Twatter😂. That’s my man.
April 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The husband got himself banned from the PoE2 community on Twatter😂. That’s my man.
Welp, looks like I know what I’ll be doing after work!
A bit late, but, here's my new game for Spring Thing 2025! Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 is an alternate history political simulator/card game about the Russian Revolution.
red-autumn.itch.io/petrograd-1917
#InteractiveFiction #GameDev
red-autumn.itch.io/petrograd-1917
#InteractiveFiction #GameDev
Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 by Autumn Chen
A revolutionary alternate history.
red-autumn.itch.io
April 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Welp, looks like I know what I’ll be doing after work!
Book: LAMB by @theauthorguy.bsky.social
Series: YEARS & YEARS
Feature: WOMEN TALKING
Documentary: THE GRAB
Album: GRACELAND
Series: YEARS & YEARS
Feature: WOMEN TALKING
Documentary: THE GRAB
Album: GRACELAND
April 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Book: LAMB by @theauthorguy.bsky.social
Series: YEARS & YEARS
Feature: WOMEN TALKING
Documentary: THE GRAB
Album: GRACELAND
Series: YEARS & YEARS
Feature: WOMEN TALKING
Documentary: THE GRAB
Album: GRACELAND
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It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.
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MAGA love to sling around the phrase "cultural Marxism" about anything they don't like, but then literally attempt a Maoist cultural revolution by attacking the civil servants and academics and resigning them to manual labor.
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
MAGA love to sling around the phrase "cultural Marxism" about anything they don't like, but then literally attempt a Maoist cultural revolution by attacking the civil servants and academics and resigning them to manual labor.
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looking at the screen with dead eyes whenever I stumble across a new legacy media piece like
Are Monsters Having Their Moment? As Monster Attacks On the Rise, We Asked the Monsters to Tell Us More
Are Monsters Having Their Moment? As Monster Attacks On the Rise, We Asked the Monsters to Tell Us More
April 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
looking at the screen with dead eyes whenever I stumble across a new legacy media piece like
Are Monsters Having Their Moment? As Monster Attacks On the Rise, We Asked the Monsters to Tell Us More
Are Monsters Having Their Moment? As Monster Attacks On the Rise, We Asked the Monsters to Tell Us More
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Within less than 24 hours of each other. I wonder if they even realize these are connected.
April 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Within less than 24 hours of each other. I wonder if they even realize these are connected.
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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this is a very church-kid intrusive thought but the thing circling around in the back of my head 100% of the time is you’re supposed to give the baby to the person who *doesn’t* agree to chop it in half
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
this is a very church-kid intrusive thought but the thing circling around in the back of my head 100% of the time is you’re supposed to give the baby to the person who *doesn’t* agree to chop it in half
I keep reading about people going to the Minecraft movie and freaking out about how wild the experience is. It is easy to forget that Minecraft is the closest thing this generation has to a mall or an arcade or a neighborhood in the summer. It IS thier shared 3rd place.
April 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I keep reading about people going to the Minecraft movie and freaking out about how wild the experience is. It is easy to forget that Minecraft is the closest thing this generation has to a mall or an arcade or a neighborhood in the summer. It IS thier shared 3rd place.
I ALMOST replied with this to a thread on twatter, but I don’t feel like arguing with crypto bros turned global economic specialists so I am posting here. No context. Just a rant.
What some get wrong is the level of certainty re: American importing stability.
What some get wrong is the level of certainty re: American importing stability.
April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I ALMOST replied with this to a thread on twatter, but I don’t feel like arguing with crypto bros turned global economic specialists so I am posting here. No context. Just a rant.
What some get wrong is the level of certainty re: American importing stability.
What some get wrong is the level of certainty re: American importing stability.
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i feel like im watching my 11 yr old nephew play civ on the hardest difficulty setting
April 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i feel like im watching my 11 yr old nephew play civ on the hardest difficulty setting