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Kjerstin Johnson
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writer living in Portland, OR. Formerly: Bitch, Rethinking Schools, The Nib, The Ringer. Now at YES! Magazine.
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When Amy Goodman has to move on from last night’s election results and read the rest of the headlines
A picture of “cursed wojak”—a human head that is cast entirely in shadow, with hollow black eye sockets.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Me watching the Slanted! Enchanted! footage in the PAVEMENTS movie
The meme from Euphoria where a character says “Wait, is this fucking play about us?”
June 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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PAVEMENTS (2025) premiere in Portland tonight
A text message from someone else. It reads: “This concesh line is bananas. Almost entirely one type of dude.”
May 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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A screenshot from the TV cartoon The Critic. Jay‘s dad is in the cockpit of an airplane and looking down at the pilot, a penguin (who can’t fly).
April 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Your friend who is reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals and won’t shut up about it
A screenshot from the final episode of season three of The White Lotus. Two panels of Carrie Coon at the dinner table with her two friends delivering her monologue about friendship. In the first panel, she says “I don’t need religion or God to give my life meaning.” In the second panel, she says “because time gives it meaning.”
April 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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My spread for the Severance finale isn’t lazy… it’s conceptual…
Two round plates. One has round crackers. The other has square crackers. Both plates have two types of cheese that are cut into circles and squares. There is a sign that labels the plates: innies and outties.
March 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Not now, newspapers.com
A screenshot of a Gmail inbox. At the top is an unopened email from newspapers.com. The subject line reads “did your ancestors travel in steerage class?”
March 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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me, back on mat, two minutes into Gentle Yoga, and realizing I have no memory of locking my bike up two blocks away.
A side by side closeup image of Squidward from SpongeBob. On the left his green eyes are closed; he is slumbering. On the right, his same eyes are wide open and bloodshot. Squidward is awake.
March 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Laughing crying throwing up at copy on the back of Social Security Administration mail i just got (scammers are pretending to be government employees)
The back of an envelope from the US Social Security Administration that reads “Scam Alert: scammers are pretending to be government employees. They may threaten you and may demand immediate payment to avoid arrest or other legal action. Do not be fooled!” The front of the envelope showing it was sent by the actual Social Security Administration in Maryland
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Seattle—catch Victor Luckerson speaking on Tulsa and memory at the University of Washington this Wednesday. Free and open to the public (registration required). www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...
An orange graphic created by the University of Washington Public Lectures for an event happening February 26, 2025. The talk is called "A scheme to forget, a demand to remember: the century-long battle over the memory of the Tulsa race massacre." It is a talk by Victor Luckerson, author of Built From the Fire.
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A screenshot from the same episode—the Hank Scorpio episode—with a newspaper with the headline SUPERVILLAIN SEIZES EAST COAST with a picture of Hank Scorpio
February 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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wifi down … watching a DVD
A photograph of a still from Season 8 of The Simpsons where Lisa Simpson is walking through a forest
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Love them or hate them, Kansas City (my hometown) is in the Super Bowl again. I wanted to highlight some local trans-led orgs whom you could send some dollars to during the game 🏳️‍⚧️🩵
A graphic highlighting three trans-led organizations in the Kansas City area with their fundraising info: Trans Women of Color Collective, Trans Joy KC, and Trans Lawrence Coalition. You can google them to get their donation info as well.
February 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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just ordered a bunch of these www.etsy.com/listing/1600...
a small button that says in black letters FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE with a background of the trans pride flag. This is a line from David Lynch's Twin Peaks television series. Lynch, playing a FBI bureau chief, tells Denise Bryson, a trans DEA agent played by David Duchovny, that when she transitioned he told her colleagues to fix their hearts or die.
February 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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SPOTTED: extremely Lynchian object on the sidewalk. Emitting quiet white-noise hum
A small box-like radio with dark faux-wood paneling and a small antenna, maybe 3“ x 3“, sits upon the sidewalk A small box-like radio with a small antenna on the sidewalk, photographed from above. a small panel at the bottom of the radio reads “realistic weather radio.”
January 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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In awe of my YES! Media colleague @sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social, who has continued to report and bear witness to the Eaton fire + Altadena neighborhood while also dealing with her own displacement. She has been on Democracy Now! a few times and will be doing an IG live this Thursday as well:
A square graphic about the Instagram Live that Yes! Media is doing on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 3pm Pacific. It is called "Justice in the Wake of California Fires: A conversation with YES! Senior Editors Sonali Kolhatkar and Breanna Draxler.
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Xmas outfit inspo is “Paul Hunham cleans out his office”
A white woman with shoulder-length hair wears a grey sweater over a button-collar shirt with black corduroy pants
December 26, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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Merry Christmas ❤️
A screenshot of a Gmail inbox. The email is from YouTube and it begins, “hi Kjerstin, Thanks for purchasing The Holdovers on YouTube”
December 26, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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here are my favorite books I read this year (that were published in the last four years) (ordered from most recently read to last)
All Fours* by Miranda July (2024), Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021), Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser (2021), Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (2023), We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian (2023), Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (2024), Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas (2024), The Book of Love* by Kelly Link (2024), Either/Or* by Elif Batuman (2022), The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (2022),
December 22, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Going to start telling people they have cake flour energy
An Instagram graphic from Cooks Illustrated demonstrating “the effect of protein levels in cake.” On top is a long piece of cake supported on either side by a ramekin, demonstrating bread flour. The text reads “the cake made with high-protein bread flour was tough and resilient. It supported its own weight for 30 minutes.” Below is a picture of similar cake that has broken in the middle. This label reads “the cake made with low-protein cake flour was incredibly tender. It crumbled under its own weight within five minutes.”
December 20, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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Chuck Mangione tee goes … extra hard now??
A picture of an unironed t shirt on a bed. It is white with a vertical orange rectangle, with an illustration of a fugelhorn with a pork pie hat, the calling cards of musician Chuck Mangione. Beneath the illustration, it reads “Mangione” in black text
December 19, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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I am reading Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for the first time, and of course it is invading my every thought—such as seeing it depicted in this Kenny Loggins album cover
The album cover for Kenny Loggins' Nightwatch. Loggins with mustache and long hair is in the bottom right corner, looking pensive. He is in an empty, white, apartment room. Through a large window in the center, a diminutive man stands by a streetlight in the shadows. Across from Loggins, in the apartment room, is a door ajar with the shadowy silhouette of a man who stand behind it.
December 16, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Found a beetle in my bulk menstrual-health tea. 😖 Going to tell myself it means 7 years no cramps.
A picture of an open white palm next to a pitcher and small bag off loose-leaf herbal tea. In the palm is a small (but not THAT small) brown and desiccated beetle.
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Just finished this zine on the construction of Dodger Stadium by Todd Taylor of Razorcake.

Picked it up in Lawrence, KS at Wonder Fair and just realized it’s distributed by Portland’s own Antiquated Future! antiquatedfuture.com/zines/zisk-3...
A picture of a black and white zine titled Zisk: the baseball zine for people who hate baseball zines. The zine is called Dodger Blues, eminent domain and broken promises in Chavez Ravine. the picture on the front of the zine is of two police officers roughly handling a woman who has been evicted from her home in Chavez ravine in order for construction of Dodgers stadium.
November 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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i actually don't like these
November 1, 2024 at 11:52 PM