Kim the Metalsmith
@burnishedbat.bsky.social
Lab manager by day, metalsmith by 5pm. Hoarder of video games and dessert recipes. Garden hobbit. ⚒️🪴🏳️🌈👾
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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I'm retiring the Browns as my No. 1 team until Jimmy and Dee Haslam are no longer owners. I wish I could say it's been a fun last 35 years, but it hasn't. I'll still wish for the Browns players to succeed, but between this and the Watson trade, I'm done. www.cleveland.com/open/2024/10...
Browns owners among biggest donors in effort to stop anti-gerrymandering issue
Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam each contributed $50,000 toward the effort to stop Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would put citizens in charge of redistricting in Ohio.
www.cleveland.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I'm retiring the Browns as my No. 1 team until Jimmy and Dee Haslam are no longer owners. I wish I could say it's been a fun last 35 years, but it hasn't. I'll still wish for the Browns players to succeed, but between this and the Watson trade, I'm done. www.cleveland.com/open/2024/10...
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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There is a time and a place for wasps to build a nest, but that place is not the planter on our front porch, and the time is not now.
May 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There is a time and a place for wasps to build a nest, but that place is not the planter on our front porch, and the time is not now.
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part of why white supremacists & the wider right have worked so hard to falsely frame immigration as an "invasion," & why it has manufactured propaganda about a "great replacement," is to create the pretext for precisely this: an authoritarian government that gets to decide who it gets to disappear
Stephen Miller: "The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at."
May 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
part of why white supremacists & the wider right have worked so hard to falsely frame immigration as an "invasion," & why it has manufactured propaganda about a "great replacement," is to create the pretext for precisely this: an authoritarian government that gets to decide who it gets to disappear
Red Butte Garden is having their plant sale all weekend. The amphitheater is packed with almost everything you could imagine. Picked up some water wise Rocky Mountain Goldenrod for my front yard 😊
May 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Red Butte Garden is having their plant sale all weekend. The amphitheater is packed with almost everything you could imagine. Picked up some water wise Rocky Mountain Goldenrod for my front yard 😊
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I'm not sure what's the most graceful way to say this, so bear with me.
Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.
(long thread)
Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.
(long thread)
May 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm not sure what's the most graceful way to say this, so bear with me.
Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.
(long thread)
Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.
(long thread)
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Mass classification of people is a critical framing genocidal logics require. A tool to do so need not be very accurate, it only needs to convince people it is accurate enough, at least enough to allow them to enact policy of harm.
Genocide is a policy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Genocide is a policy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
www.motherjones.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Mass classification of people is a critical framing genocidal logics require. A tool to do so need not be very accurate, it only needs to convince people it is accurate enough, at least enough to allow them to enact policy of harm.
Genocide is a policy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Genocide is a policy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Columbia cancelled my Race, Media and Int'l Affairs course.
But I'm teaching it anyway.
In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled.
If you are interested in a scholarship, email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request".
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
But I'm teaching it anyway.
In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled.
If you are interested in a scholarship, email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request".
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
Enrollment for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 is now open!
Grab your spot in Karen Attiah's Resistance Summer School pilot course.
karenattiah.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Columbia cancelled my Race, Media and Int'l Affairs course.
But I'm teaching it anyway.
In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled.
If you are interested in a scholarship, email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request".
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
But I'm teaching it anyway.
In just two days, 360+ of you enrolled.
If you are interested in a scholarship, email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com w/ subject line, "Scholarship Request".
karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...
The seedlings are doing really well this year! Working up the courage to cut the weaker of these two😅
April 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The seedlings are doing really well this year! Working up the courage to cut the weaker of these two😅
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@danirabaiotti.bsky.social had a huge role in bringing scientists over in the very early days of Bluesky. She & @bossett.social created the Science Feed and both deserve much praise for their time and hard work! @katharinehayhoe.com also brought over many scientists and helped people connect!
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
@danirabaiotti.bsky.social had a huge role in bringing scientists over in the very early days of Bluesky. She & @bossett.social created the Science Feed and both deserve much praise for their time and hard work! @katharinehayhoe.com also brought over many scientists and helped people connect!
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Time to get rid of my Shopify store.
Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job
Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job
Tobi Lütke shared a memo outlining the expectation.
buff.ly
April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Time to get rid of my Shopify store.
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"The company later created a 'Politicians – Academics – Journalists' category in its biometric database."
The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
www.motherjones.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"The company later created a 'Politicians – Academics – Journalists' category in its biometric database."
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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
Last weekend’s success at the bench: hinged bale. One step closer to making more complicated designs ☺️ #art #metalsmith #jewelry
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Last weekend’s success at the bench: hinged bale. One step closer to making more complicated designs ☺️ #art #metalsmith #jewelry
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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I don’t have enough Taco Bell sauce packets to get me through this economy
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I don’t have enough Taco Bell sauce packets to get me through this economy
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To return to what we talking about earlier, a lot of men have this dual need to both absolve AI for any errors (as you say, infantilising it) & also apotheosise AI as essentially divine. I can only explain it as a desperate self-delusion, like creating a clockwork messiah.
April 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
To return to what we talking about earlier, a lot of men have this dual need to both absolve AI for any errors (as you say, infantilising it) & also apotheosise AI as essentially divine. I can only explain it as a desperate self-delusion, like creating a clockwork messiah.
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The way a lot of men defend, infantilize and absolve AI of responsibility when it does something women say is wrong, gaslighting, or harmful is.... INTERESTING.
And... familiar.
And... familiar.
April 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The way a lot of men defend, infantilize and absolve AI of responsibility when it does something women say is wrong, gaslighting, or harmful is.... INTERESTING.
And... familiar.
And... familiar.
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This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.