Katrina Rex
@katrex.bsky.social
Artist, garden gnome, nerd. She/her.
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Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.
Naming your ChatGPT is like naming your copy of Microsoft Word. "This is Barbara, my writing assistant." Truly one of the more bizarre aspects of this dystopian timeline.
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Naming your ChatGPT is like naming your copy of Microsoft Word. "This is Barbara, my writing assistant." Truly one of the more bizarre aspects of this dystopian timeline.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
The fact that I have to shove nutrients in my mouth three times a day is ridiculous
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that I have to shove nutrients in my mouth three times a day is ridiculous
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According to the most recent USDA data available, as of 2023, white people make up 35.4% of SNAP recipients, African Americans 25.7%, Hispanic people 15.6%, Asian people 3.9%, Native Americans 1.3%, and multiracial people 1.0%. The race of about 17% of participants is listed as unknown.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
According to the most recent USDA data available, as of 2023, white people make up 35.4% of SNAP recipients, African Americans 25.7%, Hispanic people 15.6%, Asian people 3.9%, Native Americans 1.3%, and multiracial people 1.0%. The race of about 17% of participants is listed as unknown.
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5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
When future generations study the decline of the United States as a world power, private equity firms will be at the top of the list. Their unchecked greed is literally killing people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds
The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When future generations study the decline of the United States as a world power, private equity firms will be at the top of the list. Their unchecked greed is literally killing people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
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it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!
I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!
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I really can’t recommend strongly enough attending an in-person mtg of @demsocialists.bsky.social. Face to face, hands on work is how we defeat the barbarism we’re faced with. DSA is a great place to start: www.dsausa.org/chapters/%E2...
Chapters - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Our full list of chapters is below, sorted by state. You can search through the list below using the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the table. Chapter List Once you find and CLICK on yo...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I really can’t recommend strongly enough attending an in-person mtg of @demsocialists.bsky.social. Face to face, hands on work is how we defeat the barbarism we’re faced with. DSA is a great place to start: www.dsausa.org/chapters/%E2...
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[in a voice that sounds like old roofing nails churning in a children’s rock tumbler] autism is caused by women thinking too much about the color green
September 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
[in a voice that sounds like old roofing nails churning in a children’s rock tumbler] autism is caused by women thinking too much about the color green
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Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.
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this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”
My big problem with the phrase “granola fascism” is that granola is delicious as hell, granola does not deserve to be catching strays like this. “Raw milk fascism” is more appropriate. Thank you.
September 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”
I genuinely enjoy thinking about someone trying to wrangle thousands of people with untreated ADHD and anxiety into DOING ANYTHING.
In case anyone needs a refresher on RFK Jr.'s plans for people on SSRIs.
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
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August 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I genuinely enjoy thinking about someone trying to wrangle thousands of people with untreated ADHD and anxiety into DOING ANYTHING.
Love this. www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/20/b...
Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonialism: Brian Eno on Carnival as a Model for Saving Culture
The prisons we choose to live inside hardly ever look like prisons while we are living in them. If the twentieth century was the age of dictatorships — I grew up in one — reducing human…
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August 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Love this. www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/20/b...
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July 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today's nineties jam: music.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkR...
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I'm reading "Sting of the Wild" by Justin Schmidt, who is the guy who developed the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. He ranked the amount of pain he was in after stings from 83 different stinging insects. I will list some of his descriptions following this.
July 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm reading "Sting of the Wild" by Justin Schmidt, who is the guy who developed the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. He ranked the amount of pain he was in after stings from 83 different stinging insects. I will list some of his descriptions following this.
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DOD using Grok is burying the lede.
This is about funnelling government money to X. Which is in deep financial shit right now.
This is about funnelling government money to X. Which is in deep financial shit right now.
The US Defense Department is going to start using Elon Musk’s GROK under a new contract.
GROK will also be available for other government agencies.
The Defense Department’s contact with GROK is said to have a ceiling of $200 million.
GROK will also be available for other government agencies.
The Defense Department’s contact with GROK is said to have a ceiling of $200 million.
July 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
DOD using Grok is burying the lede.
This is about funnelling government money to X. Which is in deep financial shit right now.
This is about funnelling government money to X. Which is in deep financial shit right now.
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Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞