Kim Haas
@kimhaaswriter.bsky.social
Writer, reader, yoga teacher, showing up daily to my messy, perfectly imperfect life. I want all of us to write anyway, create anyway. Now more than ever the world needs our words, our art. www.kimhaaswriter.com
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What kind of asshole still supports a politician after it becomes glaringly obvious they’re a pedophile?
August 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What kind of asshole still supports a politician after it becomes glaringly obvious they’re a pedophile?
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Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
July 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Leaning into the freedom of summer…How do the different seasons impact your creative endeavors?
The Lush Whimsy of Summer.
Flowing creatively with the seasons.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Leaning into the freedom of summer…How do the different seasons impact your creative endeavors?
What I’ve been reading lately. How about you? ❤️📚
Books Read in May + June, 2025.
She takes us deep into the experience of being ill then stepping back into the world of the well but never feeling fully present in either world.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What I’ve been reading lately. How about you? ❤️📚
The delay is deliberate. It’s strategy. Let’s make sure it absolutely backfires on them.
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The delay is deliberate. It’s strategy. Let’s make sure it absolutely backfires on them.
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It’s been a brutal day for anyone with a moral compass or empathy. I felt like I was going to crawl out of my skin so I put on my sneakers, leashed the pup and headed to park. No podcast, no music, no audiobook. Just some peace.
Peace of trees.
Peace of water.
Peace of movement.
Peace of breath.
Peace of trees.
Peace of water.
Peace of movement.
Peace of breath.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s been a brutal day for anyone with a moral compass or empathy. I felt like I was going to crawl out of my skin so I put on my sneakers, leashed the pup and headed to park. No podcast, no music, no audiobook. Just some peace.
Peace of trees.
Peace of water.
Peace of movement.
Peace of breath.
Peace of trees.
Peace of water.
Peace of movement.
Peace of breath.
She looks positively haunted by her vote. As she should. It should haunt her for the rest of her life. Even Susan F*cking Collins did the right thing for once.
July 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
She looks positively haunted by her vote. As she should. It should haunt her for the rest of her life. Even Susan F*cking Collins did the right thing for once.
I am floundering. I searched for tips on revising a novel and came across this spreadsheet based on the snowflake method. It’s helping me carve out some clarity. Onward!
Share any novel revising tips. I haven’t yet outlined anything. I am generally a pantser who later turns toward plotter🤷♀️
Share any novel revising tips. I haven’t yet outlined anything. I am generally a pantser who later turns toward plotter🤷♀️
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I am floundering. I searched for tips on revising a novel and came across this spreadsheet based on the snowflake method. It’s helping me carve out some clarity. Onward!
Share any novel revising tips. I haven’t yet outlined anything. I am generally a pantser who later turns toward plotter🤷♀️
Share any novel revising tips. I haven’t yet outlined anything. I am generally a pantser who later turns toward plotter🤷♀️
My heart❤️ One of the main reasons I don’t sink into a pit of absolute despair and depression every single day 🥺
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My heart❤️ One of the main reasons I don’t sink into a pit of absolute despair and depression every single day 🥺
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As a rule I avoid commenting on anyone’s appearance but I am so sick to death of Kardashian Mar-a-Lago face. The aspirational conformity of the plastic surgery work is a whole form of violent oppression as farmed out to the masses, and particularly young women. No one needs a fucking lip flip.
Ok now I understand. Anna Wintour took one look at this and quit.
June 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As a rule I avoid commenting on anyone’s appearance but I am so sick to death of Kardashian Mar-a-Lago face. The aspirational conformity of the plastic surgery work is a whole form of violent oppression as farmed out to the masses, and particularly young women. No one needs a fucking lip flip.
Read this in the latest issue of “Writer’s Digest.” Needed to read her take on writing amidst chaos. Words are healing. The right words reach me exactly when I need them. Words are magic.
June 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Read this in the latest issue of “Writer’s Digest.” Needed to read her take on writing amidst chaos. Words are healing. The right words reach me exactly when I need them. Words are magic.
I have to say yes or no to my writing every single day. Maybe days are a hard pass.
Avoiding the Muck of Maybe Days.
Maybe is a slippery slope into inertia.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I have to say yes or no to my writing every single day. Maybe days are a hard pass.
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We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.
June 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.
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my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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This is an absolutely critical read. Please take a few minutes and do so.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is an absolutely critical read. Please take a few minutes and do so.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
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Marissa Rothkopf @marissarothkopf.bsky.social shared this green sauce recipe on her Substack a year ago—before The Contrarian even existed.
It’s simple, adaptable, and turns even the dullest dinner into something worth craving.
Try it yourself:
It’s simple, adaptable, and turns even the dullest dinner into something worth craving.
Try it yourself:
Transformation sauce
A gift from me to you: Awesome green sauce that just makes everything better.
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May 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Marissa Rothkopf @marissarothkopf.bsky.social shared this green sauce recipe on her Substack a year ago—before The Contrarian even existed.
It’s simple, adaptable, and turns even the dullest dinner into something worth craving.
Try it yourself:
It’s simple, adaptable, and turns even the dullest dinner into something worth craving.
Try it yourself:
I love a good reframe!
It takes many, many hours to get good at something- don’t let it stop you!
May 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I love a good reframe!
Exactly.
Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.
May 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Exactly.
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China made ZERO concessions and American consumers will still have to pay a 30% import tax, driving up prices.
It’s just the latest proof that Trump is a TERRIBLE negotiator.
It’s just the latest proof that Trump is a TERRIBLE negotiator.
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
China made ZERO concessions and American consumers will still have to pay a 30% import tax, driving up prices.
It’s just the latest proof that Trump is a TERRIBLE negotiator.
It’s just the latest proof that Trump is a TERRIBLE negotiator.
Excellent question. What the fuck ARE we doing?
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Excellent question. What the fuck ARE we doing?
Lovely way to end a lovely day💕
May 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Lovely way to end a lovely day💕
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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
May 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
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AOC: This administration — and Noem — spits on the American flag every time they engage in that nonsense. So I don’t want to hear anything about “America First.” These people, and this administration, are putting America last by acting like their allegiance is to a man instead of the Constitution.
May 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
AOC: This administration — and Noem — spits on the American flag every time they engage in that nonsense. So I don’t want to hear anything about “America First.” These people, and this administration, are putting America last by acting like their allegiance is to a man instead of the Constitution.