Kris Orion
@k-orion-s.bsky.social
They/Them, B.S. & M.S. IO Psych, PhD-to-be, bullshit afficionado, writer, mid-core gamer, anti gen-AI/NFT, fuck Trump, stop the genocides.
usually i end up disappointed when a great product is acquired by a bigger company, but i think Canva actually did some goated shit with Affinity? still trying it out, but im hopeful!
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
usually i end up disappointed when a great product is acquired by a bigger company, but i think Canva actually did some goated shit with Affinity? still trying it out, but im hopeful!
@govpritzker.illinois.gov please support the plan for transit funding! We really depend on it!
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov please support the plan for transit funding! We really depend on it!
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
i love chicago. i love living here. i love the people here. i love the architecture. i love the cultures. i love all the book stores and restaurants and libraries and cultural institutions. i love it i love it i love it.
October 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i love chicago. i love living here. i love the people here. i love the architecture. i love the cultures. i love all the book stores and restaurants and libraries and cultural institutions. i love it i love it i love it.
i got back into Minecraft recently and its so fun to just sandbox for hours
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
i got back into Minecraft recently and its so fun to just sandbox for hours
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In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com
In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska | Alaska Beacon
Residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok began evacuating en masse on Wednesday, flying in military aircraft from their western Alaska communities which were devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong. On Wednesday…
alaskabeacon.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
In photos: Mass evacuation of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents begins from western Alaska, reports Corinne Smith for the @alaskabeacon.com
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i also want to reiterate that so many of yall DO NOT know how to act around disabled people. why did these two ladies cut me off at the train today, AFTER seeing me with my walker, and they took the last disabled seating. now i had to sit on the walker and hold on for dear life as i got rolled.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i also want to reiterate that so many of yall DO NOT know how to act around disabled people. why did these two ladies cut me off at the train today, AFTER seeing me with my walker, and they took the last disabled seating. now i had to sit on the walker and hold on for dear life as i got rolled.
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“The facts do not justify the President’s actions.”
The federal courts continue confirming what we all know: there’s no need to deploy military troops in Illinois.
The federal courts continue confirming what we all know: there’s no need to deploy military troops in Illinois.
Appeals court denies Trump administration appeal of National Guard deployment ruling in Illinois
On Thursday, an appeals court denied the Trump administration's appeal to continue the deployment of National Guard troops from any U.S. state in Illinois.
abc7chicago.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“The facts do not justify the President’s actions.”
The federal courts continue confirming what we all know: there’s no need to deploy military troops in Illinois.
The federal courts continue confirming what we all know: there’s no need to deploy military troops in Illinois.
ik theyre saying the Rat Hole was actually made by a squirrel, but Squirrel Hole doesnt really have the same oomph as Rat Hole does
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ik theyre saying the Rat Hole was actually made by a squirrel, but Squirrel Hole doesnt really have the same oomph as Rat Hole does
made progress on my thesis. have the topic of interest, need to build my theoretical basis.
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
made progress on my thesis. have the topic of interest, need to build my theoretical basis.
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A pandemic, fascism, open racism, food insecurity and book bans will do that
New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. n.pr/473xAwC
In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump
New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.
n.pr
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A pandemic, fascism, open racism, food insecurity and book bans will do that
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Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.
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Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...
Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza
Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...
@chicagocta.bsky.social bus 3 going north stopped due to driver getting a phone call and all the riders were removed from the bus. Thankfully another 3 bus was right behind us, but we were not told why we had to get off. Kinda concerning!
October 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@chicagocta.bsky.social bus 3 going north stopped due to driver getting a phone call and all the riders were removed from the bus. Thankfully another 3 bus was right behind us, but we were not told why we had to get off. Kinda concerning!
How does one get strangers to stop touching your walker? Like, on the bus people love to lean on my mobility aid and grab it and I'm so done with it. Idk where yalls hands have been! Leave me alone!
October 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
How does one get strangers to stop touching your walker? Like, on the bus people love to lean on my mobility aid and grab it and I'm so done with it. Idk where yalls hands have been! Leave me alone!
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My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.
October 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.
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"Meta is in the best position to resist providing this information, and the fact that they appeared willing to comply without any thought for the constitutionality of the request essentially leaves it up to the individuals targeted to ... contact lawyers to intervene on a very tight timeline."
Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.
Trump’s ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants
ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Meta is in the best position to resist providing this information, and the fact that they appeared willing to comply without any thought for the constitutionality of the request essentially leaves it up to the individuals targeted to ... contact lawyers to intervene on a very tight timeline."
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
my earbuds kept falling out and i was too lazy to change the size of the rubber caps until tonight and now i can shake my head around without them falling out. interesting how doing things means that things get done lmaooo
October 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
my earbuds kept falling out and i was too lazy to change the size of the rubber caps until tonight and now i can shake my head around without them falling out. interesting how doing things means that things get done lmaooo
bless up to my beefy desktop computer. running analyses in R Studio for a dataset with a sample over 53,000 people with very little load time 😌
October 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
bless up to my beefy desktop computer. running analyses in R Studio for a dataset with a sample over 53,000 people with very little load time 😌
in good news, i feel like purple is starting to make a comeback. it is such a goated color and it's been slept on too damn much!!!!
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
in good news, i feel like purple is starting to make a comeback. it is such a goated color and it's been slept on too damn much!!!!
me: ooh autism is trending, i wonder why?
*reads the context*
me: oh...
*reads the context*
me: oh...
a close up of a white cat 's face in a black and white photo
Alt: a close up of a white cat 's face in a black and white photo
media.tenor.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
me: ooh autism is trending, i wonder why?
*reads the context*
me: oh...
*reads the context*
me: oh...
been mostly using a cane, but sometimes a walker (for when im esp tired or know i will be). the cane is whatever, but the walker? the amount of people who look flabbergasted at the sight of a young person with a walker is kinda funny. even better when im riding the bus and people dont wanna move...
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
been mostly using a cane, but sometimes a walker (for when im esp tired or know i will be). the cane is whatever, but the walker? the amount of people who look flabbergasted at the sight of a young person with a walker is kinda funny. even better when im riding the bus and people dont wanna move...
kinda miss the era of deep fried memes...
September 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
kinda miss the era of deep fried memes...