Karen deVries, PhD
@devriesious.bsky.social
Wayfaring Prodigal Daughter. Solvitur ambulando. Food and companion species lover. Queer. Montanan at heart. History of Consciousness alum. Currently professing in Philosophy and Religion at UC/Colorado Springs.
An article I started writing about a year ago is out. "Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication." Rereading it this morning, I'm feeling much gratitude for the web of wonderful scholars holding me and us.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An article I started writing about a year ago is out. "Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication." Rereading it this morning, I'm feeling much gratitude for the web of wonderful scholars holding me and us.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation
The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt
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This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
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Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go."
On necessary losses: www.themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/n...
On necessary losses: www.themarginalian.org/2023/11/21/n...
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leav…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world | PNAS
Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the
thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
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"...a 2024 study from Virginia’s state Legislature reports that residents could pay $37.50/month subsidizing data centers through their power bills." #mtpol
Sarah Borduin: With data centers, our security will be in the contracts — not the sales pitch
What is a data center and why does it matter?
www.bozemandailychronicle.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"...a 2024 study from Virginia’s state Legislature reports that residents could pay $37.50/month subsidizing data centers through their power bills." #mtpol
Depressingly accurate.
This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism
In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Depressingly accurate.
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Three specimens of mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland, previously one of the only places in the world without the insects, as the climate warms www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
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October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind.
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Susie Bright (@susiebright)
I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind … you may recognize it!
Please share with your fellow free-speech and show-biz collea...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind.
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!
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Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
September 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!
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If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?
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what does it meant to affirm life, to ease suffering, when there is no cure? what does grief teach about the art of life, about solidarity despite devastation? is grief a lens through which to assuage planetary harm?
thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
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thanks to the @carsoncenter.bsky.social 🌱
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September 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
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AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
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August 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...
An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR
A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...
Rewatching Nora Bateson’s documentary, An Ecology of Mind, about her father. I’m blown away by how much we need this kind of thinking now more than ever. Relations.
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Rewatching Nora Bateson’s documentary, An Ecology of Mind, about her father. I’m blown away by how much we need this kind of thinking now more than ever. Relations.
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A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
August 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like