Kaytie Lee
@kaytiemlee.bsky.social
Urban Archeologist
Whisk(e)y Enthusiast
Whisk(e)y Enthusiast
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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It’s the Portland way.
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It’s the Portland way.
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Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing
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'(Hoch)Stapelei' Anselm Kiefer - 20 Jahre Einsamkeit. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg #FotoVorschlag
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'(Hoch)Stapelei' Anselm Kiefer - 20 Jahre Einsamkeit. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg #FotoVorschlag
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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This is how we're all going to die, innit?
Unfixed anthropogenic climate change and a CDC in the hands of a mad eugenicist crank causes an out of control pandemic of human flesh-eating screwworm …
Unfixed anthropogenic climate change and a CDC in the hands of a mad eugenicist crank causes an out of control pandemic of human flesh-eating screwworm …
A row is brewing in the US over the first human case of the flesh-eating screwworm in Maryland, Reuters reports. Agriculture officials say the CDC is not being forthcoming about the case. Screwworms normally infect livestock.
An outbreak in Texas would cost the economy more than a billion dollars.
An outbreak in Texas would cost the economy more than a billion dollars.
August 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is how we're all going to die, innit?
Unfixed anthropogenic climate change and a CDC in the hands of a mad eugenicist crank causes an out of control pandemic of human flesh-eating screwworm …
Unfixed anthropogenic climate change and a CDC in the hands of a mad eugenicist crank causes an out of control pandemic of human flesh-eating screwworm …
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza.
Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k
Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
wapo.st
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza.
Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k
Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k
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And we are LAUNCHED!
And holy handlebars, bikeman, we're already getting backers!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
And holy handlebars, bikeman, we're already getting backers!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
The Pedal Turns the Crank
A fun, beautiful picture book that teaches the parts of a bicycle drivetrain while families of all kinds have bike adventures together!
www.kickstarter.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
And we are LAUNCHED!
And holy handlebars, bikeman, we're already getting backers!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
And holy handlebars, bikeman, we're already getting backers!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Good info for the fascism fight.
Good info for storytellers.
The fencers already know this, I hope
Good info for storytellers.
The fencers already know this, I hope
Because I'm a complete goddamn nerd, I'd like to explain to folks (particularly Liberals) what a feint is, in sword fighting.
People think it means "a fake attack."
It doesn't.
People think it means "a fake attack."
It doesn't.
March 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Good info for the fascism fight.
Good info for storytellers.
The fencers already know this, I hope
Good info for storytellers.
The fencers already know this, I hope
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I will *not* be watching the State of the Union tomorrow evening. Nothing enrages Trump more than us tuning him out. Instead, I will be viewing and contributing to the State of the People, a 24-hour livestream of counter-programming beginning this evening. Register at stateofthepeople.media.
March 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I will *not* be watching the State of the Union tomorrow evening. Nothing enrages Trump more than us tuning him out. Instead, I will be viewing and contributing to the State of the People, a 24-hour livestream of counter-programming beginning this evening. Register at stateofthepeople.media.
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By the way, if you have ever wanted to join The Stranger team, now's your chance! www.thestranger.com/housekeeping...
The Stranger is Hiring!
We’re looking to grow our little team with two staff writers: an enterprise reporter and a news reporter. Not a writer, but still want to be a part of the team? Our parent company, Noisy Creek, ...
www.thestranger.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
By the way, if you have ever wanted to join The Stranger team, now's your chance! www.thestranger.com/housekeeping...
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Always remember: unlike many countries, the UK doesn't allow people to apply for asylum *unless* they pay criminals to cross the Channel. You can't arrive by plane on a tourist visa and do it. This policy is entirely to reduce non-white migration.
Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others
Record number of children died crossing Channel last year, says UN
Data from UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project should serve as ‘wake-up call’, say officials
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Always remember: unlike many countries, the UK doesn't allow people to apply for asylum *unless* they pay criminals to cross the Channel. You can't arrive by plane on a tourist visa and do it. This policy is entirely to reduce non-white migration.
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He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
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The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’
Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Happy Christmas Eve from Betty Page, Divine, the 5 South in Seattle, and me
December 25, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Happy Christmas Eve from Betty Page, Divine, the 5 South in Seattle, and me
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
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Well, now I know we made the right decisions
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Well, now I know we made the right decisions
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Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
November 17, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
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Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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Please read and share this open letter from 99 doctors who have volunteered in Gaza to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and urge your elected officials to support their demands. www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-o...
USA Letter | October 2 — Gaza Healthcare Letters
www.gazahealthcareletters.org
October 11, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Please read and share this open letter from 99 doctors who have volunteered in Gaza to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and urge your elected officials to support their demands. www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-o...
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This is abusive and unacceptable, especially as the app prices are often higher than taxis.
To get around minimum wage laws in New York, where drivers must be paid for time on the clock in between rides, Uber and Lyft are simply locking them out of the app so there's no record that they're on the roads.
Incredible, infuriating story by @leonyin.org
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Incredible, infuriating story by @leonyin.org
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay
Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay
www.bloomberg.com
October 11, 2024 at 11:44 AM
This is abusive and unacceptable, especially as the app prices are often higher than taxis.
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In 1907, Congress passed a law that American women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold this act.
It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.
It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.
Some people think the threat doesn't apply to them. But there is nothing you can do to prove you're a citizen to a govt that doesn't want you to be, b/c the way you prove it is by giving them your documents. and then they have your documents.
& that's if they don't change the rules retrospectively.
& that's if they don't change the rules retrospectively.
"threat" is important here, because they don't even have to do it to everyone; they just have to do it to enough people to frighten everyone else into accepting second-class citizenship: "don't make trouble or..." "don't ask for higher wages or..." "don't unionize or..." "don't protest or..."
September 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM
In 1907, Congress passed a law that American women lost their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold this act.
It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.
It was changed in 1940, but citizenship was not restored to those women, nor their children.