Kelly Smith 🍁
@kellymjsmith.bsky.social
Proud Canadian. 🇨🇦 Quilter, writer, tea and chocolate lover, and amateur genealogist. Feminist, atheist, flaming progressive. Reader of SF, spec fic, and non-fiction. Member of ACES and DRII. Work in business continuity and disaster recovery. She/her.
"There are about a thousand of us."
How many more girls and women have to suffer before we start taking this kind of thing seriously?
How many more girls and women have to suffer before we start taking this kind of thing seriously?
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"There are about a thousand of us."
How many more girls and women have to suffer before we start taking this kind of thing seriously?
How many more girls and women have to suffer before we start taking this kind of thing seriously?
It's me, too. And all but one woman I know. I'm 56 and know a LOT of women. I only know one who has not (yet) been assaulted.
It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's me, too. And all but one woman I know. I'm 56 and know a LOT of women. I only know one who has not (yet) been assaulted.
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That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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"A new tragedy caused once again by the Kremlin."
Nearly four decades later, the widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is killed by a Russian drone attack...
kyivindependent.com/natalia-khod...
Nearly four decades later, the widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is killed by a Russian drone attack...
kyivindependent.com/natalia-khod...
'A new tragedy caused once again by the Kremlin' — Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later
Nataliia Khodemchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodemchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on ...
kyivindependent.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"A new tragedy caused once again by the Kremlin."
Nearly four decades later, the widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is killed by a Russian drone attack...
kyivindependent.com/natalia-khod...
Nearly four decades later, the widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is killed by a Russian drone attack...
kyivindependent.com/natalia-khod...
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I saw the most bonkers conversation on tiktok where people were arguing that Romance doesn’t need an HEA and authors were fighting for their lives in the comments trying to explain what a genre convention is. Again, trying to sell me a mystery with no crime and see what happens.
God we need more craft discussions and less fights about which tropes are good or bad that play out in a way that makes it clear no one even understands what a trope is anymore.
Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I saw the most bonkers conversation on tiktok where people were arguing that Romance doesn’t need an HEA and authors were fighting for their lives in the comments trying to explain what a genre convention is. Again, trying to sell me a mystery with no crime and see what happens.
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#ResistanceEarth
Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation an "existential threat." If the AMOC collapses this century as predicted, it would have a catastrophic impact on global weather, climate and sea level.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation an "existential threat." If the AMOC collapses this century as predicted, it would have a catastrophic impact on global weather, climate and sea level.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat | CNN
Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of collapse and the country is preparing for this “existential threat.”
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
#ResistanceEarth
Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation an "existential threat." If the AMOC collapses this century as predicted, it would have a catastrophic impact on global weather, climate and sea level.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation an "existential threat." If the AMOC collapses this century as predicted, it would have a catastrophic impact on global weather, climate and sea level.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
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Maybe someone should tell Megyn R. Kelly 15 is not “barely legal”, it’s actually quite illegal?
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Maybe someone should tell Megyn R. Kelly 15 is not “barely legal”, it’s actually quite illegal?
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This is an offshoot of my argument that the proper solution to any debate over the removal of a confederate monument is 50 feet of chain and a truck
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is an offshoot of my argument that the proper solution to any debate over the removal of a confederate monument is 50 feet of chain and a truck
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It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.
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At this point the fury is motivational.
I am more motivated to eat well, sleep, exercise, take my vitamins-solely for the purpose of living longer & being my best self when these mthrfckers finally die. I want to be alive & fully present for the occasions
Their ragebait is basically sustaining me
I am more motivated to eat well, sleep, exercise, take my vitamins-solely for the purpose of living longer & being my best self when these mthrfckers finally die. I want to be alive & fully present for the occasions
Their ragebait is basically sustaining me
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
At this point the fury is motivational.
I am more motivated to eat well, sleep, exercise, take my vitamins-solely for the purpose of living longer & being my best self when these mthrfckers finally die. I want to be alive & fully present for the occasions
Their ragebait is basically sustaining me
I am more motivated to eat well, sleep, exercise, take my vitamins-solely for the purpose of living longer & being my best self when these mthrfckers finally die. I want to be alive & fully present for the occasions
Their ragebait is basically sustaining me
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Same.
Being bipolar doesn't MAKE you a Nazi, anymore than five shots of tequila make you a racist, or a hard day at work plus being cut off in traffic makes you resort to violence.
That was already part of you. It just got off the leash.
Being bipolar doesn't MAKE you a Nazi, anymore than five shots of tequila make you a racist, or a hard day at work plus being cut off in traffic makes you resort to violence.
That was already part of you. It just got off the leash.
Beyond tired of him hiding his hatred behind the nebulous excuse of mental health issues when he refuses to make any efforts to address them...
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Same.
Being bipolar doesn't MAKE you a Nazi, anymore than five shots of tequila make you a racist, or a hard day at work plus being cut off in traffic makes you resort to violence.
That was already part of you. It just got off the leash.
Being bipolar doesn't MAKE you a Nazi, anymore than five shots of tequila make you a racist, or a hard day at work plus being cut off in traffic makes you resort to violence.
That was already part of you. It just got off the leash.
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Hell has frozen over. I agree with the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
www.wsj.com/opinion/50-y...
www.wsj.com/opinion/50-y...
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hell has frozen over. I agree with the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
www.wsj.com/opinion/50-y...
www.wsj.com/opinion/50-y...
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As always: ban all AI "content," enforce fines & jail time for those creating it, drive all AI companies & FB into the depths of the earth never to return.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As always: ban all AI "content," enforce fines & jail time for those creating it, drive all AI companies & FB into the depths of the earth never to return.
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"This is all no big deal and the president is currently strategizing his response with his aides in the White House Situation Room. No big deal at all."
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"This is all no big deal and the president is currently strategizing his response with his aides in the White House Situation Room. No big deal at all."
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As someone whose family came here to escape Franco, it's hilarious to me that people think any dictator can't or won't do something. The law does not matter. The system does not matter. I heard this from people before the election and I'm like, tell it to my ancestors who didn't make it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As someone whose family came here to escape Franco, it's hilarious to me that people think any dictator can't or won't do something. The law does not matter. The system does not matter. I heard this from people before the election and I'm like, tell it to my ancestors who didn't make it.
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Many of the Democratic Party’s most committed progressives are over 70. Robert Kuttner argues the problem with the party isn’t gerontocracy—it’s the corporate Democrats in charge. trib.al/8IHWe26
The Myth of the Democrats’ Gerontocracy Problem - The American Prospect
The Democrats’ problem is not age—it’s corporate and centrist Democrats of all ages. What distinguishes some of the most successful young Democrats is not just their youth but the fact that they are compelling progressive populists.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Many of the Democratic Party’s most committed progressives are over 70. Robert Kuttner argues the problem with the party isn’t gerontocracy—it’s the corporate Democrats in charge. trib.al/8IHWe26
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Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
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Exclusive: Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample, health institute says reut.rs/47OVa0n
Exclusive: Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample, health institute says
The wild form of virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation's main public health body told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for efforts to rid the world of the deadly disease.
reut.rs
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Exclusive: Wild form of polio found in German sewage sample, health institute says reut.rs/47OVa0n
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A good day in the courts
Sandwich guy: Delivered
SNAP bennies: Released
Chicago Thugs: Enjoined
Sandwich guy: Delivered
SNAP bennies: Released
Chicago Thugs: Enjoined
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A good day in the courts
Sandwich guy: Delivered
SNAP bennies: Released
Chicago Thugs: Enjoined
Sandwich guy: Delivered
SNAP bennies: Released
Chicago Thugs: Enjoined
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A dear friend is a Starbucks union leader. Starbucks bullies & intimidates employees for trying join unions. They use dirty tricks like denying raises & cutting hours if employees mention unions. The close profitable stores because they're unionized.
Fuck Starbucks. I stand with the workers.
Fuck Starbucks. I stand with the workers.
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A dear friend is a Starbucks union leader. Starbucks bullies & intimidates employees for trying join unions. They use dirty tricks like denying raises & cutting hours if employees mention unions. The close profitable stores because they're unionized.
Fuck Starbucks. I stand with the workers.
Fuck Starbucks. I stand with the workers.
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here's today's post: "Democrats, fuck yeah!" — scenes from a very good night.
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Democrats, fuck yeah!
scenes from a very good night
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November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
here's today's post: "Democrats, fuck yeah!" — scenes from a very good night.
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