Kathleen
@kathleenparham.bsky.social
She/her. RN CCM. Kiddo wrangler extraordinaire. I like reading, writing, knitting, playing video games, and being angry pretty much all the time about the US health care system.
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Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
My extremely niche pet peeve is (otherwise excellent!) audiobook narrators mispronouncing things associated with the Pacific Northwest
January 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
My extremely niche pet peeve is (otherwise excellent!) audiobook narrators mispronouncing things associated with the Pacific Northwest
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I truly have to believe this (and I do! like, I think it is absolutely true). But I need to remember and hold it inside my heart these days.
As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I truly have to believe this (and I do! like, I think it is absolutely true). But I need to remember and hold it inside my heart these days.
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
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Cool how Gen Z get to experience 2003 and 2008 at the same time. Speed running the Millennial Experience.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Cool how Gen Z get to experience 2003 and 2008 at the same time. Speed running the Millennial Experience.
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so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
Not sure if it was the fireworks keeping me awake or my brain trying to eat itself, but either way I’m heading in to work at ass o’clock after sleeping for, oh, about four hours and change
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
January 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Not sure if it was the fireworks keeping me awake or my brain trying to eat itself, but either way I’m heading in to work at ass o’clock after sleeping for, oh, about four hours and change
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
GONNA BE A GREAT DAY HAPPY 2026 EVERYONE!!!
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Him retiring when he did and in this way is still one of my big "this is how to grow up to have integrity" memories and models <3 🐯🛷
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
January 1, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Him retiring when he did and in this way is still one of my big "this is how to grow up to have integrity" memories and models <3 🐯🛷
Question has been definitively answered.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?
December 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Question has been definitively answered.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
I got sick. Spouse got sick. Kiddo has been sick for like a solid month. May God bless our poor unholy house of pestilence.
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the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
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I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I find it moving that David Lynch loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE so much he couldn't talk about it without crying. His sincere belief in the redemptive possibilities contained in that film and what it said about people seems to me like a key element of understanding his own work.
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Ah yes, the eternal question: am I getting sick, or am I just really burned out?
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
Spouse just gave me a Living Dough sourdough starter as an early Christmas present and I am SO EXCITED.
I’ve named it Herman and he smells very nice. He’s now freshly fed and hanging out in a spot of honor on the kitchen counter
I’ve named it Herman and he smells very nice. He’s now freshly fed and hanging out in a spot of honor on the kitchen counter
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Spouse just gave me a Living Dough sourdough starter as an early Christmas present and I am SO EXCITED.
I’ve named it Herman and he smells very nice. He’s now freshly fed and hanging out in a spot of honor on the kitchen counter
I’ve named it Herman and he smells very nice. He’s now freshly fed and hanging out in a spot of honor on the kitchen counter
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Kiddo just informed me that they’re going to change their name to “Wall Bat” when they grow up, because they’re “going to be a dark ninja that perches on walls like a bat”.
Me: “Oh, like Batman?”
Kiddo: “NO!!! I mean a REAL ninja!”
Me: “Oh, like Batman?”
Kiddo: “NO!!! I mean a REAL ninja!”
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Kiddo just informed me that they’re going to change their name to “Wall Bat” when they grow up, because they’re “going to be a dark ninja that perches on walls like a bat”.
Me: “Oh, like Batman?”
Kiddo: “NO!!! I mean a REAL ninja!”
Me: “Oh, like Batman?”
Kiddo: “NO!!! I mean a REAL ninja!”
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[transylvania, police interrogation room]
COP: you stabbed Dimitri in the heart… with a…
VILLAGER: with a stake, yes
COP: and he died… meaning he was…
VILLAGER: was a dracula
COP: was a dracula
POLICE CAPTAIN *nodding*: was a dracula
COP: you stabbed Dimitri in the heart… with a…
VILLAGER: with a stake, yes
COP: and he died… meaning he was…
VILLAGER: was a dracula
COP: was a dracula
POLICE CAPTAIN *nodding*: was a dracula
November 9, 2023 at 7:19 PM
[transylvania, police interrogation room]
COP: you stabbed Dimitri in the heart… with a…
VILLAGER: with a stake, yes
COP: and he died… meaning he was…
VILLAGER: was a dracula
COP: was a dracula
POLICE CAPTAIN *nodding*: was a dracula
COP: you stabbed Dimitri in the heart… with a…
VILLAGER: with a stake, yes
COP: and he died… meaning he was…
VILLAGER: was a dracula
COP: was a dracula
POLICE CAPTAIN *nodding*: was a dracula
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may every trans child grow into a trans adult
February 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
may every trans child grow into a trans adult
Even just reading this scene on the page gives me literal chills.
Ryan Coogler's script for #Sinners and more 2025 screenplays are now available to download for free.
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thefilmstage.com/download-the...
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Even just reading this scene on the page gives me literal chills.
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Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
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what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...