Kate M
@k8madison.bsky.social
archives and libraries. chronic illness and disability. queerness (and asexuality). books and fandom. all the above and more. she/her. | live long, and prosper 🖖
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there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
there’s an interesting thing we’ve done in our social circle as a result of Covid which is: now we let people know before social activities if anyone has any symptoms of anything potentially contagious, so everyone can make their own risk assessment
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: 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 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Oh, man. So saddening 💔
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
This is so devastating to hear. Alice was a legend—an incredible writer and a fierce advocate. Here is some of the work she did for the Disability Visibility Project. As @helenrottier.bsky.social said, she will be missed by many
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oh, man. So saddening 💔
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Rest in peace, Alice Wong. A great light in disability justice has gone out.
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Rest in peace, Alice Wong. A great light in disability justice has gone out.
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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
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The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
Obligatory I follow royal news because I find it fascinating from a historical-anthropological lens.
HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT.
No one in my life IRL cares, lol.
HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT.
No one in my life IRL cares, lol.
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Obligatory I follow royal news because I find it fascinating from a historical-anthropological lens.
HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT.
No one in my life IRL cares, lol.
HOLY SHIT THEY'RE STRIPPING ANDREW OF HIS TITLES. HOLY SHIT.
No one in my life IRL cares, lol.
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the Andrew formerly known as Prince
October 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
the Andrew formerly known as Prince
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Yup.
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yup.
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Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.
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For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophy, ethics, & the studye of the diversitye of historyes & literatures & languages. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will create nothing but wayes of makinge old injustices happen faster.
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophy, ethics, & the studye of the diversitye of historyes & literatures & languages. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will create nothing but wayes of makinge old injustices happen faster.
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there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.
I've spent my entire life being told that everything I do is useless, mocked and being told no one should be paid for "underwater basket weaving," and now they're like, "I must steal all the underwater basket weaving lore because it's imperative for my survival"
Eat farts, my dudes.
Eat farts, my dudes.
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.
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Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
I did not find out about Taylor Swift's engagement via the Destiel meme, and I'm kinda sad about that.
August 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I did not find out about Taylor Swift's engagement via the Destiel meme, and I'm kinda sad about that.
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just about the only thing that is within my control that helps at all is just loving the people I love even harder than before and being in community with them in all the ways I can
it doesn’t, like. fix the Supreme Court. but it fixes me a little each time and that’s also important
it doesn’t, like. fix the Supreme Court. but it fixes me a little each time and that’s also important
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
just about the only thing that is within my control that helps at all is just loving the people I love even harder than before and being in community with them in all the ways I can
it doesn’t, like. fix the Supreme Court. but it fixes me a little each time and that’s also important
it doesn’t, like. fix the Supreme Court. but it fixes me a little each time and that’s also important
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My ability to cope is, at any given moment, resting entirely on a bunch of fictional love affairs.
August 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My ability to cope is, at any given moment, resting entirely on a bunch of fictional love affairs.
Too many books? No - not enough bookshelves!
I attended a book swap, and I left with more books than I brought.
This is not a problem in regards to this specific event (lots of books left over, and apparently the series I zeroed in on had survived multiple swaps with no takers).
It is, however, a problem for my bookshelves.
#librarylife
This is not a problem in regards to this specific event (lots of books left over, and apparently the series I zeroed in on had survived multiple swaps with no takers).
It is, however, a problem for my bookshelves.
#librarylife
August 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Too many books? No - not enough bookshelves!