Kate Kirk 🐿️
@katekirk.bsky.social
The Duchess of Squirrels: “vile Walmart intellectual” and “crusty post-wall foid”. Anthro student. Interpersonal authoritarianism, fantasy 🖋️, trauma-informed, disability. Owned by Juice🐈. AuDHD+hEDS. In N95s forever. Californian on Awaswas (Ohlone) land. 🕎
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Kate Kirk 🐿️
@katekirk.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Back with my densest Substack yet on the four different extremes I’m seeing in how men and women relate to each other. 😮💨
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
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You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
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It’s absurd to say that asthma can be cured by inhaling vaporized oregano oil.
You also need to snort crushed croutons and use balsamic enemas—and if that doesn’t work, don’t go to the hospital. Go to the Olive Garden.
You also need to snort crushed croutons and use balsamic enemas—and if that doesn’t work, don’t go to the hospital. Go to the Olive Garden.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It’s absurd to say that asthma can be cured by inhaling vaporized oregano oil.
You also need to snort crushed croutons and use balsamic enemas—and if that doesn’t work, don’t go to the hospital. Go to the Olive Garden.
You also need to snort crushed croutons and use balsamic enemas—and if that doesn’t work, don’t go to the hospital. Go to the Olive Garden.
On Monday, Juice passed in my arms. He knew love until the end. He was truly a once in a lifetime cat, and my life feels incredibly empty without him. 🐈🧡
October 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
On Monday, Juice passed in my arms. He knew love until the end. He was truly a once in a lifetime cat, and my life feels incredibly empty without him. 🐈🧡
Juice is starting his final lap. What I thought might’ve been a sprained paw has evolved into a complicated neurological event. He either had a stroke or the cancer is in his brain, but he’s still fighting, so I will give him all the help I can.
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Juice is starting his final lap. What I thought might’ve been a sprained paw has evolved into a complicated neurological event. He either had a stroke or the cancer is in his brain, but he’s still fighting, so I will give him all the help I can.
> matched on a dating app with a very Slavic looking man with a very Slavic name
> bio says, “Bet you can’t guess my first language.”
> message him with, “Ты поваришь по-русски?”
> immediate unmatch
Well then.
> bio says, “Bet you can’t guess my first language.”
> message him with, “Ты поваришь по-русски?”
> immediate unmatch
Well then.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
> matched on a dating app with a very Slavic looking man with a very Slavic name
> bio says, “Bet you can’t guess my first language.”
> message him with, “Ты поваришь по-русски?”
> immediate unmatch
Well then.
> bio says, “Bet you can’t guess my first language.”
> message him with, “Ты поваришь по-русски?”
> immediate unmatch
Well then.
A plethora of Indeed postings have appeared for specialized work that all require a bachelor’s degree, and they’re all paying less than $25 an hour.
I’m near San Francisco, y’all. This isn’t be tenable for most people.
I’m near San Francisco, y’all. This isn’t be tenable for most people.
August 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A plethora of Indeed postings have appeared for specialized work that all require a bachelor’s degree, and they’re all paying less than $25 an hour.
I’m near San Francisco, y’all. This isn’t be tenable for most people.
I’m near San Francisco, y’all. This isn’t be tenable for most people.
I’ve not really seen anybody talk about the dread and frustration that comes out of being an adult and watching your parents enthusiastically make a decision that you know is terrible and short-sighted, a decision that you know you’d be criticized for making.
August 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’ve not really seen anybody talk about the dread and frustration that comes out of being an adult and watching your parents enthusiastically make a decision that you know is terrible and short-sighted, a decision that you know you’d be criticized for making.
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god
August 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god
I have a date tomorrow and the guy is driving quite a distance. He asked where it would be “reasonably safe” for him to leave his car because I’m driving into the national park we are going.
Oh my sweet summer child, this isn’t SF. Nobody will bother your car in my mountain town. I promise.
Oh my sweet summer child, this isn’t SF. Nobody will bother your car in my mountain town. I promise.
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I have a date tomorrow and the guy is driving quite a distance. He asked where it would be “reasonably safe” for him to leave his car because I’m driving into the national park we are going.
Oh my sweet summer child, this isn’t SF. Nobody will bother your car in my mountain town. I promise.
Oh my sweet summer child, this isn’t SF. Nobody will bother your car in my mountain town. I promise.
My startle reflex for night encounters must be improving living in the woods again because I just startled a rat in the driveway, it ran into my ankle in its confusion (I wasn’t scratched or bitten), and I was just like, “Ah well that happened.🤷♀️”
July 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
My startle reflex for night encounters must be improving living in the woods again because I just startled a rat in the driveway, it ran into my ankle in its confusion (I wasn’t scratched or bitten), and I was just like, “Ah well that happened.🤷♀️”
Back with my densest Substack yet on the four different extremes I’m seeing in how men and women relate to each other. 😮💨
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Back with my densest Substack yet on the four different extremes I’m seeing in how men and women relate to each other. 😮💨
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
I, a literal trauma trainer, am required to sit in a training for trauma-informed care. It has on the whole about half as much material as I got through in half as much time.
She’s made a big emphasis on the agency’s “trauma-informed interior design”.
Hours of my life I’ll never get back.
She’s made a big emphasis on the agency’s “trauma-informed interior design”.
Hours of my life I’ll never get back.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I, a literal trauma trainer, am required to sit in a training for trauma-informed care. It has on the whole about half as much material as I got through in half as much time.
She’s made a big emphasis on the agency’s “trauma-informed interior design”.
Hours of my life I’ll never get back.
She’s made a big emphasis on the agency’s “trauma-informed interior design”.
Hours of my life I’ll never get back.
I am wrapping one substack article in the next few days and immediately diving into another, because holy hell did I read something (in a different study) that absolutely broke me and needs to be discussed.
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am wrapping one substack article in the next few days and immediately diving into another, because holy hell did I read something (in a different study) that absolutely broke me and needs to be discussed.
I have been encouraged to try again with dating and thus far it’s been one single, extended multi-day argument about Marxism.
No, this is not a weird metaphor. This has been an actual match and its ensuing conversation.
No, this is not a weird metaphor. This has been an actual match and its ensuing conversation.
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July 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I have been encouraged to try again with dating and thus far it’s been one single, extended multi-day argument about Marxism.
No, this is not a weird metaphor. This has been an actual match and its ensuing conversation.
No, this is not a weird metaphor. This has been an actual match and its ensuing conversation.
I had a training on cultural competency today and was in a breakout room with a guy who infodumped on Zoroastrianism. At the end of it, he said, no joke, “So ultimately the way I see it, we’re all just Catholic, but some of us took extra steps.” 🙃
July 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I had a training on cultural competency today and was in a breakout room with a guy who infodumped on Zoroastrianism. At the end of it, he said, no joke, “So ultimately the way I see it, we’re all just Catholic, but some of us took extra steps.” 🙃
I just spoke to a very enthusiastic, knowledgeable Mexican man as he infodumped to me on tires as best he could in a mixture of Spanish and English, trying to help me make an informed decision on which new tires to get. I love California.
June 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I just spoke to a very enthusiastic, knowledgeable Mexican man as he infodumped to me on tires as best he could in a mixture of Spanish and English, trying to help me make an informed decision on which new tires to get. I love California.
I’m finally covering boymoms as an interpersonal authoritarian outcome for my Substack and my god I feel like a bunch of insecure enmeshed mothers are going to come for my throat.
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’m finally covering boymoms as an interpersonal authoritarian outcome for my Substack and my god I feel like a bunch of insecure enmeshed mothers are going to come for my throat.
I see daily on Twitter panic about standard atmospheric events. I have seen this particular thing with my own eyes several times. It’s called ✨resetting the radar✨, and I don’t know why technical issues aren’t someone’s logical first thought when they see something like this. (1/3)
June 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I see daily on Twitter panic about standard atmospheric events. I have seen this particular thing with my own eyes several times. It’s called ✨resetting the radar✨, and I don’t know why technical issues aren’t someone’s logical first thought when they see something like this. (1/3)
New “don’t high-five your children” just dropped. 🤦♀️
June 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New “don’t high-five your children” just dropped. 🤦♀️
I’ve never read Dworkin, but damn at this point I might have to, because damn this is spot on and deeply in alignment with trauma in women and the authoritarian personality.
June 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I’ve never read Dworkin, but damn at this point I might have to, because damn this is spot on and deeply in alignment with trauma in women and the authoritarian personality.
I’m ending care with my amazing vet because I’m moving and I sent her an email to thank her. She emailed me back, “Thank you for always giving him the best care through all his strange diseases.”
Yes, my boy absolutely has some of the strangest diseases known to veterinary medicine. 😂
Yes, my boy absolutely has some of the strangest diseases known to veterinary medicine. 😂
May 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I’m ending care with my amazing vet because I’m moving and I sent her an email to thank her. She emailed me back, “Thank you for always giving him the best care through all his strange diseases.”
Yes, my boy absolutely has some of the strangest diseases known to veterinary medicine. 😂
Yes, my boy absolutely has some of the strangest diseases known to veterinary medicine. 😂
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Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
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This about sums it up.
May 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This about sums it up.
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It's eugenics. It's all eugenics, folks.
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's eugenics. It's all eugenics, folks.