kat
@kitkat42.bsky.social
mostly void, partially stars
biologist, queer, perpetually sleepy
biologist, queer, perpetually sleepy
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
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i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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You do not need to be a lawyer to read this sentence: "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
(In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)
(In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
You do not need to be a lawyer to read this sentence: "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
(In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)
(In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)
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Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.
April 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.
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so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations.
everything.
everything.
April 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations.
everything.
everything.
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Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult
April 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult
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>half of the federal government has been laid off
>we’ve abandoned Ukraine
>we’ve deleted USAID and half of State
>the economy runs entirely off tariffs
>people are getting disappeared into foreign prisons
>Trump is defying the Supreme Court
>JD Vance killed the pope
>it’s only been three months
>we’ve abandoned Ukraine
>we’ve deleted USAID and half of State
>the economy runs entirely off tariffs
>people are getting disappeared into foreign prisons
>Trump is defying the Supreme Court
>JD Vance killed the pope
>it’s only been three months
April 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
>half of the federal government has been laid off
>we’ve abandoned Ukraine
>we’ve deleted USAID and half of State
>the economy runs entirely off tariffs
>people are getting disappeared into foreign prisons
>Trump is defying the Supreme Court
>JD Vance killed the pope
>it’s only been three months
>we’ve abandoned Ukraine
>we’ve deleted USAID and half of State
>the economy runs entirely off tariffs
>people are getting disappeared into foreign prisons
>Trump is defying the Supreme Court
>JD Vance killed the pope
>it’s only been three months
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Disabled leaders keep telling you that their plan is, quite literally, eugenics. Maybe you’ll start believing us now…
Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.
Greg: Because we're against it.
Greg: Because we're against it.
March 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Disabled leaders keep telling you that their plan is, quite literally, eugenics. Maybe you’ll start believing us now…
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Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.
aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.
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Yeah...
An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.
April 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Yeah...
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the only response that’s been more muted has been from political media and political elites. regular people once again have been more than pulling their weight
feels worth flagging that we've now had sustained disparate protest and One Big Day protest at or above the scale of 2017 so it might be time to drop the "public reaction to trump has been more muted in his second term" spiel
April 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the only response that’s been more muted has been from political media and political elites. regular people once again have been more than pulling their weight
Chuck Schumer is, once again, a spineless fool
March 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Chuck Schumer is, once again, a spineless fool
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there has never been a past without trans people and there won’t be a future without them either, no matter what. no law can change that. i refuse to allow them to talk about people i love like that.
March 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
there has never been a past without trans people and there won’t be a future without them either, no matter what. no law can change that. i refuse to allow them to talk about people i love like that.
I hate using my phone for so many different types of communication - what if I accidentally text my boss 'damn thats fucked up' or autocorrect gets me
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I hate using my phone for so many different types of communication - what if I accidentally text my boss 'damn thats fucked up' or autocorrect gets me
"you can be gay but only if you don't show pride" "you can be pro taiwan but only if you say taiwan is part of China" "you can X as long as you don't Y" guys maybe you don't need the brainrot platform or any alternative, maybe it's okay to touch grass
January 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"you can be gay but only if you don't show pride" "you can be pro taiwan but only if you say taiwan is part of China" "you can X as long as you don't Y" guys maybe you don't need the brainrot platform or any alternative, maybe it's okay to touch grass
my parents roomba is a fucked up little guy - born to clean, forced to headbutt all of the furniture at top speeds
December 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
my parents roomba is a fucked up little guy - born to clean, forced to headbutt all of the furniture at top speeds
my ideal social status is 'favorite human pet of an eldritch horror'
December 28, 2024 at 6:04 AM
my ideal social status is 'favorite human pet of an eldritch horror'
I'm almost done with my work deliverables for the year so I'm going to spend so much fucking mother fucking time reading ugh
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 AM
I'm almost done with my work deliverables for the year so I'm going to spend so much fucking mother fucking time reading ugh
I can't believe I got blue ballsed by a tsunami
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I can't believe I got blue ballsed by a tsunami
he martial on my law til I coup
December 3, 2024 at 3:56 PM
he martial on my law til I coup
God gives his hardest struggles (being sleepy) to his most fucked up little meow meow soldiers
November 29, 2024 at 8:21 AM
God gives his hardest struggles (being sleepy) to his most fucked up little meow meow soldiers
I maintain that 11 should have let Kahler-Jex die
November 27, 2024 at 1:02 AM
I maintain that 11 should have let Kahler-Jex die