Kadri Smith
@kadrismith.bsky.social
An Estonian in California
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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I think we all know what show should get the first interview
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I think we all know what show should get the first interview
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Being a California 2 (1?) in the era of popularized TikTok phrenology and still being in possession of a functioning scale of human emotions,whilst actively watching the the world burn just kinda makes me not wanna try anymore,y'know...
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Being a California 2 (1?) in the era of popularized TikTok phrenology and still being in possession of a functioning scale of human emotions,whilst actively watching the the world burn just kinda makes me not wanna try anymore,y'know...
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Been listening to Elliott Smith lately to retain my soul...
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Been listening to Elliott Smith lately to retain my soul...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
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Soviet economic and political history is enormously fascinating. It is unfortunately shaped by campists and anti-communists, both of whom don't actually seem to care about the reality of the Soviet system
The problem with saying "USSR bad, everything they ever did was bad, they are so bad that even discussing facts about them should be illegal" is that 1) it's easy to kneejerk to "Everything the USSR did was good", and 2) we can't have a meaningful discussion about actual Soviet policy on things.
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Soviet economic and political history is enormously fascinating. It is unfortunately shaped by campists and anti-communists, both of whom don't actually seem to care about the reality of the Soviet system
I grew up in a very small town and when the mentality there crushed me I held on to hope in a better stock of people I would meet along the way someday.
Not anymore.
Sanctimonious and nasty down to the marrow,most of you...
Not anymore.
Sanctimonious and nasty down to the marrow,most of you...
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I grew up in a very small town and when the mentality there crushed me I held on to hope in a better stock of people I would meet along the way someday.
Not anymore.
Sanctimonious and nasty down to the marrow,most of you...
Not anymore.
Sanctimonious and nasty down to the marrow,most of you...
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According to medieval astrology, Scorpio season is a bad time for planting trees, bathing, bloodletting, buying gold or silver, buying horses, and making new clothes.
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
According to medieval astrology, Scorpio season is a bad time for planting trees, bathing, bloodletting, buying gold or silver, buying horses, and making new clothes.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"Total interconnection and total communication by digital means does not facilitate encounters with Others. Rather, it serves to pass over those who are unfamiliar and other, and instead find those who are the same or like-minded, ensuring that our horizon of experience becomes ever narrower."
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Total interconnection and total communication by digital means does not facilitate encounters with Others. Rather, it serves to pass over those who are unfamiliar and other, and instead find those who are the same or like-minded, ensuring that our horizon of experience becomes ever narrower."
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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This is such a clear-eyed and straightforward explanation of both the root cultural logic of our times, and of the systemic role that social media platforms play in reproducing it.
"We have allowed public spaces to develop where everything is done to prevent reason, since, ultimately, the order of merit is that emotion is superior to argument and that negative emotion is superior to positive emotion."
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is such a clear-eyed and straightforward explanation of both the root cultural logic of our times, and of the systemic role that social media platforms play in reproducing it.
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I find it terrifying that people (men) think they are falling in love with AI chat bots.
The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.
The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.
October 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I find it terrifying that people (men) think they are falling in love with AI chat bots.
The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.
The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.
Many reasons to be terrified of people lately,as always. But man,those videos of rapture-is-coming nuts giggling and kicking their feet really freak me out...
September 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Many reasons to be terrified of people lately,as always. But man,those videos of rapture-is-coming nuts giggling and kicking their feet really freak me out...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Lovers with 3D Glasses at the Palace Theater, 1943 by Weegee
September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Lovers with 3D Glasses at the Palace Theater, 1943 by Weegee
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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
There's like 10 types of psychosis going around right now,all oppositional to each other.
September 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There's like 10 types of psychosis going around right now,all oppositional to each other.
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Maurice Chevalier (with Ernst Lubitsch) - BOTD
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Maurice Chevalier (with Ernst Lubitsch) - BOTD
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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I love you all but I refuse to get my hopes up, the universe is simply not that nice to us
August 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I love you all but I refuse to get my hopes up, the universe is simply not that nice to us