Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge
@riceboilsover.bsky.social
#TeamOrca. I live in the woods. Book collector. Former sociologist. Plant nerd. Fan of squirrels.
#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
#COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild
(she/her)
#MaskUp because why would you want to be sick?
#COVIDisNotOver and #COVIDisNotMild
(she/her)
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*Literal* death threat. Not quoting song lyrics, no comedic exaggeration. Actionable threat, @safety.bsky.app. Is it in your backlog too?
okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
*Literal* death threat. Not quoting song lyrics, no comedic exaggeration. Actionable threat, @safety.bsky.app. Is it in your backlog too?
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Sometimes you are just overwhelmed by the sentence, over and over, “This is so gross.”
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sometimes you are just overwhelmed by the sentence, over and over, “This is so gross.”
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This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
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Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities.
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
Thank You Alice Wong
Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.
www.disabledginger.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities.
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice.
She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor.
She won’t be forgotten.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down:
www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...
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"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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On a personal note, I just set up a monthly donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice's memory. chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
On a personal note, I just set up a monthly donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice's memory. chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Oh this is absolutely one of the great perks of parenting! We also love 7 Wonders!
As a very particular kind of nerd, one of the things I've looked forward to most as a parent is having an in-house third for board game nights.
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh this is absolutely one of the great perks of parenting! We also love 7 Wonders!
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every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
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A case in WA of H5N5 (not H5N1), a strain of avian influenza not seen in humans before:
“This is a severely ill patient,” hospitalized w/ high fever, confusion & respiratory distress, said the state epidemiologist.
They have a mixed backyard flock...
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“This is a severely ill patient,” hospitalized w/ high fever, confusion & respiratory distress, said the state epidemiologist.
They have a mixed backyard flock...
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state
The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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The calculation here is that battling bigotry is a political loser, which is both an indication of Buttigieg’s amorality, and an admission that he and his ilk don’t believe that an enduring pluralistic democracy is possible in America.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The calculation here is that battling bigotry is a political loser, which is both an indication of Buttigieg’s amorality, and an admission that he and his ilk don’t believe that an enduring pluralistic democracy is possible in America.
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Beyond this being extremely cruel, it’s going to make Assistance offices backed up and anyone on SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, etc. will be left waiting for benefits and benefit decisions. Republicans literally want people to die and starve and I hope people remember that
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Beyond this being extremely cruel, it’s going to make Assistance offices backed up and anyone on SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, etc. will be left waiting for benefits and benefit decisions. Republicans literally want people to die and starve and I hope people remember that
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“Bereavement is the No. 1 predictor of poor school outcomes.”
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Who’s Left Out of the Learning-Loss Debate
Critics of school closures undermine the two groups who could do the most to help students recover—parents and teachers.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Bereavement is the No. 1 predictor of poor school outcomes.”
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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when faculty complain about students, I want to ask them if they factor in pandemic trauma + COVID itself.
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
when faculty complain about students, I want to ask them if they factor in pandemic trauma + COVID itself.
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
Then I recall that we are all pretending that the pandemic is over, and no one needs to worry about COVID anymore, and that I might explode if I have to talk about this once more and keep quiet
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It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
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Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
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It's funny how we can find government money to throw at things like this because people think they'll get rich, but we couldn't find the same money to throw at a massive push to switch to renewables, isn't it?
If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It's funny how we can find government money to throw at things like this because people think they'll get rich, but we couldn't find the same money to throw at a massive push to switch to renewables, isn't it?
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
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even just the fiscal trade off between one disposable mask versus the cost and amount of supplies and waste generated from a singular emergency room visit let alone the course of a viral induced chronic illness should make the decision to mitigate apparent and frankly logical.
If you pitched “wearing a mask in crowded places” as a startup, everyone would invest in it
Getting even a mild cold burns hundreds of dollars per day in opportunity cost, while the cost of wearing a mask is almost certainly orders of magnitude smaller…
Getting even a mild cold burns hundreds of dollars per day in opportunity cost, while the cost of wearing a mask is almost certainly orders of magnitude smaller…
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
even just the fiscal trade off between one disposable mask versus the cost and amount of supplies and waste generated from a singular emergency room visit let alone the course of a viral induced chronic illness should make the decision to mitigate apparent and frankly logical.
Rapidly cycling between being broken hearted and furious.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Rapidly cycling between being broken hearted and furious.
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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A not-important thing these email drops have nevertheless left me thinking about: Do people type this way? Even on phones, I don’t get it. Why the random spaces? Is this text all copy-pasted from WordPerfect 5.1? I don’t care about people typing informally in emails and texts, but I’m so confused.
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A not-important thing these email drops have nevertheless left me thinking about: Do people type this way? Even on phones, I don’t get it. Why the random spaces? Is this text all copy-pasted from WordPerfect 5.1? I don’t care about people typing informally in emails and texts, but I’m so confused.