Kate Farley
@katefarley.bsky.social
Anthropologist, wild plants enthusiast, avid kitchen experimenter.
The Japanese Garden at @mobotgarden.bsky.social is looking absolutely magical today in the snow
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Japanese Garden at @mobotgarden.bsky.social is looking absolutely magical today in the snow
It’s November 18 and I just picked a few last ripe yellow raspberries from my backyard berry patch 🌱
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s November 18 and I just picked a few last ripe yellow raspberries from my backyard berry patch 🌱
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If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust.
If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.
If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.
How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left
If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust.
If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.
If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.
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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
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March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
It just occurred to me that we could have been drinking Dark and Stormys or even Hurricanes last night—what a missed opportunity. Is there a cocktail called a Tornado?? #stlwx
March 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It just occurred to me that we could have been drinking Dark and Stormys or even Hurricanes last night—what a missed opportunity. Is there a cocktail called a Tornado?? #stlwx
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Posted at the Piedra Lisa South Trailhead in Albuquerque.
February 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Posted at the Piedra Lisa South Trailhead in Albuquerque.
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Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
February 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
So, given the *gestures vaguely at everything* I find myself wanting to watch movies in which Nazis get punched, literally or figuratively. Recommendations??
February 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
So, given the *gestures vaguely at everything* I find myself wanting to watch movies in which Nazis get punched, literally or figuratively. Recommendations??
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.
www.propublica.org/tips/#signal
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February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.
www.propublica.org/tips/#signal
www.propublica.org/tips/#signal
I just donated money to my local food bank. I feel so powerless these days and it is such a small action but I guess it’s something. It just makes me so angry that the government is implementing policies that will lead to more hunger in a nation that is full of abundance.
January 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I just donated money to my local food bank. I feel so powerless these days and it is such a small action but I guess it’s something. It just makes me so angry that the government is implementing policies that will lead to more hunger in a nation that is full of abundance.
Just called my senators here in MO to tell them to take a stand against Trump’s authoritarian EOs. It feels like screaming into the void but at least it’s something. No actual humans answered the phone. I left a voicemail for Schmitt. Hawley’s voicemail box was full so I couldn’t even do that.
January 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just called my senators here in MO to tell them to take a stand against Trump’s authoritarian EOs. It feels like screaming into the void but at least it’s something. No actual humans answered the phone. I left a voicemail for Schmitt. Hawley’s voicemail box was full so I couldn’t even do that.
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I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.
I know you hate this advice. I know you hear it all the time, but for gods sake you need to be calling your congressperson. Now. Today.
If you have a GOP representative, you need to call and ask if they approve of stripping congress of its constitutional authority. If they like being powerless.
If you have a GOP representative, you need to call and ask if they approve of stripping congress of its constitutional authority. If they like being powerless.
January 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.
I’m getting really frustrated with people catastrophizing based on rumors and hearsay. Stay skeptical and check your sources. To effectively fight authoritarianism we need to target the real problems, not imagined or exaggerated ones.
January 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’m getting really frustrated with people catastrophizing based on rumors and hearsay. Stay skeptical and check your sources. To effectively fight authoritarianism we need to target the real problems, not imagined or exaggerated ones.
Nearly two weeks after the big snow and my street is finally getting plowed… with a bulldozer. I don’t think they actually made anything easier to navigate. #stlwx
January 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nearly two weeks after the big snow and my street is finally getting plowed… with a bulldozer. I don’t think they actually made anything easier to navigate. #stlwx
The thing is it hasn’t always been like this. There’s a long history of conservatives who have advocated for responsible use of nature & lots of US conservation orgs exist because of them. Remnants of that attitude still exist on the Right and may be a place to find allies or common ground
i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated
January 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The thing is it hasn’t always been like this. There’s a long history of conservatives who have advocated for responsible use of nature & lots of US conservation orgs exist because of them. Remnants of that attitude still exist on the Right and may be a place to find allies or common ground
The Last Word is now in the running for my favorite cocktail
January 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Last Word is now in the running for my favorite cocktail
I’d really love to go for a hike today to get my mind off of that thing that’s happening in DC today, but it is currently 9 degrees and all the walking paths I can think of are ice sheets.
January 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’d really love to go for a hike today to get my mind off of that thing that’s happening in DC today, but it is currently 9 degrees and all the walking paths I can think of are ice sheets.
I am trying to adjust my reaction to someone stating opinions I disagree with from an immediate “no you’re wrong and here’s why” to an open-ended “why do you believe that and why is it important to you?”
January 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I am trying to adjust my reaction to someone stating opinions I disagree with from an immediate “no you’re wrong and here’s why” to an open-ended “why do you believe that and why is it important to you?”
Maple is “hiding” #cats #catsofbluesky
January 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Maple is “hiding” #cats #catsofbluesky
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Good Saturday morning. If you are reading this, you are vulnerable to weaponized disinformation and the only one who can reliably protect you: you.
Two weekend challenges:
1. Do one thing that builds your critical thinking skills
2. Engage with another human in a way other than social media
Two weekend challenges:
1. Do one thing that builds your critical thinking skills
2. Engage with another human in a way other than social media
January 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good Saturday morning. If you are reading this, you are vulnerable to weaponized disinformation and the only one who can reliably protect you: you.
Two weekend challenges:
1. Do one thing that builds your critical thinking skills
2. Engage with another human in a way other than social media
Two weekend challenges:
1. Do one thing that builds your critical thinking skills
2. Engage with another human in a way other than social media
There is a perfectly nice cat fountain full of clean water about 5 steps away, but it is apparently not as nice as the forbidden human water glass
January 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
There is a perfectly nice cat fountain full of clean water about 5 steps away, but it is apparently not as nice as the forbidden human water glass
I’m conflicted about the impending TikTok ban. I never liked TikTok/short form video content anyway so I partly don’t mind seeing it go. But the way the gov’t has handled it has been super clumsy & highlights how out of touch they are with how lots of normal people interact with media & the world.
January 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I’m conflicted about the impending TikTok ban. I never liked TikTok/short form video content anyway so I partly don’t mind seeing it go. But the way the gov’t has handled it has been super clumsy & highlights how out of touch they are with how lots of normal people interact with media & the world.
With all the ice and snow this week I forgot to post this earlier but… the 2025 gardening season has officially begun! This year I am trying to cold-stratify seeds for the first time 🌱
January 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
With all the ice and snow this week I forgot to post this earlier but… the 2025 gardening season has officially begun! This year I am trying to cold-stratify seeds for the first time 🌱