Kat
@kataschultz.bsky.social
Learning designer, book nerd (mostly SFF), cozy gamer, childless cat lady 😸 be the cringe you want to see in the world 🐸 she/her
JD Vance is the human equivalent of a menstrual cramp. Too bad ibuprofen doesn’t get rid of him 🙃
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
JD Vance is the human equivalent of a menstrual cramp. Too bad ibuprofen doesn’t get rid of him 🙃
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
The thought of going back to my pre-medication makes me sick to my stomach.
I was never violent. I was never homicidal or even suicidal. Just in a constant state of turmoil and dread. I did not know peace for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.
You know what does stoke violence though? Right-wing bullshit
I was never violent. I was never homicidal or even suicidal. Just in a constant state of turmoil and dread. I did not know peace for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.
You know what does stoke violence though? Right-wing bullshit
First they came for reproductive rights.
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
Then they came for vaccines.
Now they’re coming for mental health.
There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence.
You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds.
#GunReformNow
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The thought of going back to my pre-medication makes me sick to my stomach.
I was never violent. I was never homicidal or even suicidal. Just in a constant state of turmoil and dread. I did not know peace for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.
You know what does stoke violence though? Right-wing bullshit
I was never violent. I was never homicidal or even suicidal. Just in a constant state of turmoil and dread. I did not know peace for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.
You know what does stoke violence though? Right-wing bullshit
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
There are no citizens being arrested in Ba Sing Se
October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There are no citizens being arrested in Ba Sing Se
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NIMBYism is often discussed in terms of folks protecting their property values/nest egg. And I am sure that is a big part of it. But I suspect "I don't like change" and a healthy dose of racism and xenophobia are the biggest drivers.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
NIMBYism is often discussed in terms of folks protecting their property values/nest egg. And I am sure that is a big part of it. But I suspect "I don't like change" and a healthy dose of racism and xenophobia are the biggest drivers.
Happy National Black Cat Day to the goofiest little void I’ve ever known 
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy National Black Cat Day to the goofiest little void I’ve ever known 
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I will spare you a link to the original article. I'm just going to say this:
My PhD focused on fandom and copyright. I have read more about fandom than 99% percent of the human population. Many of the things written, including some written by learned scholars, have ben dumb.
None as dumb as this.
My PhD focused on fandom and copyright. I have read more about fandom than 99% percent of the human population. Many of the things written, including some written by learned scholars, have ben dumb.
None as dumb as this.
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I will spare you a link to the original article. I'm just going to say this:
My PhD focused on fandom and copyright. I have read more about fandom than 99% percent of the human population. Many of the things written, including some written by learned scholars, have ben dumb.
None as dumb as this.
My PhD focused on fandom and copyright. I have read more about fandom than 99% percent of the human population. Many of the things written, including some written by learned scholars, have ben dumb.
None as dumb as this.
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That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.
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Really, any group event.
Monthly civic org meeting? Food drive.
Board games at your house? Food drive.
Book club? Food drive.
Etc.
From what I've read, the SNAP expiration - especially atop the already enacted dismantling of federal funds to pantries - is pretty much apocalyptic.
Monthly civic org meeting? Food drive.
Board games at your house? Food drive.
Book club? Food drive.
Etc.
From what I've read, the SNAP expiration - especially atop the already enacted dismantling of federal funds to pantries - is pretty much apocalyptic.
IF YOU ARE ORGANIZING:
You should be hosting food drives at every event. Seriously.
You should be hosting food drives at every event. Seriously.
Reminder:
If you see somebody stealing food from a corporate grocery store, no you didn’t.
If you see somebody stealing food from a corporate grocery store, no you didn’t.
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Really, any group event.
Monthly civic org meeting? Food drive.
Board games at your house? Food drive.
Book club? Food drive.
Etc.
From what I've read, the SNAP expiration - especially atop the already enacted dismantling of federal funds to pantries - is pretty much apocalyptic.
Monthly civic org meeting? Food drive.
Board games at your house? Food drive.
Book club? Food drive.
Etc.
From what I've read, the SNAP expiration - especially atop the already enacted dismantling of federal funds to pantries - is pretty much apocalyptic.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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A very poignant summary explaining why my alma mater will never, ever get a dime of donation money of me 😶
If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A very poignant summary explaining why my alma mater will never, ever get a dime of donation money of me 😶
Every single day, I think to myself “we really, really, REALLY need to disbar more people.”
I also have to wonder how someone so unfathomably, unapologetically stupid could even pass the bar exam in the first place 🫠
I also have to wonder how someone so unfathomably, unapologetically stupid could even pass the bar exam in the first place 🫠
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Every single day, I think to myself “we really, really, REALLY need to disbar more people.”
I also have to wonder how someone so unfathomably, unapologetically stupid could even pass the bar exam in the first place 🫠
I also have to wonder how someone so unfathomably, unapologetically stupid could even pass the bar exam in the first place 🫠
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hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing
caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Resistance Is Cringe—But It’s Also Effective
Dismissing the movement as embarrassing pap ignores what has made it so powerful.
www.theatlantic.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing
caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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The antifa terrorist marxists are out
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The antifa terrorist marxists are out
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and by and by
Think that I am unking’d
Think that I am unking’d
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
and by and by
Think that I am unking’d
Think that I am unking’d
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Tariff Chicken found TACO Chicken, and the Grim Reaper.
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tariff Chicken found TACO Chicken, and the Grim Reaper.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech.
Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.
Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech.
Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.
Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.
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/3 Worry that we're descending into totalitarianism, that we're shedding the rule of law, and that we're abandoning every American value and norm. Worry that America is showing its ass.
Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.
Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
/3 Worry that we're descending into totalitarianism, that we're shedding the rule of law, and that we're abandoning every American value and norm. Worry that America is showing its ass.
Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.
Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.
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/2 Don't worry that your sign looks bad. Don't worry that you're too old or too young or too affluent or too poor or the wrong education or wrong profession.
Don't worry about the handful of sneering gatekeepers and protest-aesthetic snobs.
Don't worry about sneering Trumpers.
Don't worry about the handful of sneering gatekeepers and protest-aesthetic snobs.
Don't worry about sneering Trumpers.
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
/2 Don't worry that your sign looks bad. Don't worry that you're too old or too young or too affluent or too poor or the wrong education or wrong profession.
Don't worry about the handful of sneering gatekeepers and protest-aesthetic snobs.
Don't worry about sneering Trumpers.
Don't worry about the handful of sneering gatekeepers and protest-aesthetic snobs.
Don't worry about sneering Trumpers.
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
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Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1