K. A. Smock
@kierensmock.bsky.social
freelance editor and indie author. working on a new audiodrama horror script. cripplepunk.
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K. A. Smock
@kierensmock.bsky.social
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K. A. Smock
Blog // 01.17.25
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It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
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NBC News actually published this: "While Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures."
Just imagine NBC framing it this way if Hamas engaged in "regular strikes against Israel?"
This is how legacy media normalizes genocide & white supremacy.
Just imagine NBC framing it this way if Hamas engaged in "regular strikes against Israel?"
This is how legacy media normalizes genocide & white supremacy.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NBC News actually published this: "While Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures."
Just imagine NBC framing it this way if Hamas engaged in "regular strikes against Israel?"
This is how legacy media normalizes genocide & white supremacy.
Just imagine NBC framing it this way if Hamas engaged in "regular strikes against Israel?"
This is how legacy media normalizes genocide & white supremacy.
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Please consider helping this delightful little family
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Please consider helping this delightful little family
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I made a new goal a few days ago. Thank you all for surpassing the goal so fast!! This will help me so much regarding my surgery (in 5 weeks) and taking care of myself. Thank you all for being so kind to me!!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩💥 127% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩💥 127% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
Support Bibi
Support Bibi
ko-fi.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I made a new goal a few days ago. Thank you all for surpassing the goal so fast!! This will help me so much regarding my surgery (in 5 weeks) and taking care of myself. Thank you all for being so kind to me!!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩💥 127% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩💥 127% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick.
Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.
Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.
Does wearing a face mask stop you catching flu? Experts give verdict
Wearing a mask is inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as lockdowns
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick.
Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.
Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.
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Gentle reminder that BDS - Boycott, Divest, Sanction - is something that every one of us should be doing for Palestine, Sudan, and Congo. It's easy. Just don't buy Israeli products or brands that support the Occupation. Don't go to Dubai or fly Emirates. Don't buy gold or new consumer electronics.
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gentle reminder that BDS - Boycott, Divest, Sanction - is something that every one of us should be doing for Palestine, Sudan, and Congo. It's easy. Just don't buy Israeli products or brands that support the Occupation. Don't go to Dubai or fly Emirates. Don't buy gold or new consumer electronics.
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used to be like "ha ha how could people fall for snake oil" and now it's like "oh everyone falls for every kind of snake oil possible all the time including billionaires and politicians, just guzzling up snake oil at a horrifically alarming rate and vomiting out onto the rest of us" 🫠🙃
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
used to be like "ha ha how could people fall for snake oil" and now it's like "oh everyone falls for every kind of snake oil possible all the time including billionaires and politicians, just guzzling up snake oil at a horrifically alarming rate and vomiting out onto the rest of us" 🫠🙃
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A winter's night warning
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A winter's night warning
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Please continue to send funds to mutual aid orgs like the Sameer Project that are actually on the ground providing relief to Palestinians, including setting up campa for ppl w/no shelter to return to: chuffed.org/project/1491...
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Please continue to send funds to mutual aid orgs like the Sameer Project that are actually on the ground providing relief to Palestinians, including setting up campa for ppl w/no shelter to return to: chuffed.org/project/1491...
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If you want to help her family, Adriana’s mother has a gofundme to help pay the ongoing hospital bills
This is the painful reality of forced birth policies.
They force the birth and then abandon the child.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
This is the painful reality of forced birth policies.
They force the birth and then abandon the child.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey
www.gofundme.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you want to help her family, Adriana’s mother has a gofundme to help pay the ongoing hospital bills
This is the painful reality of forced birth policies.
They force the birth and then abandon the child.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
This is the painful reality of forced birth policies.
They force the birth and then abandon the child.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
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For those who are interested in tackling the most challenging head angle, here's how I would approach it. I left some notes, hope it helps
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For those who are interested in tackling the most challenging head angle, here's how I would approach it. I left some notes, hope it helps
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
if a bluegrass murder ballad is what gets me to listen to an album, by golly that album needs to have more than just the one. gimme a whole album of those.
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
if a bluegrass murder ballad is what gets me to listen to an album, by golly that album needs to have more than just the one. gimme a whole album of those.
oh no, the album i listened to today did not live up to the song i already knew from that album.
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
oh no, the album i listened to today did not live up to the song i already knew from that album.
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We never had to capitulate to Covid.
If we had taken collective steps to protect one another, we would have been able to drastically reduce transmission.
I will never understand why so many people were willing to subject themselves to repeat infections when there was (and is) another path
If we had taken collective steps to protect one another, we would have been able to drastically reduce transmission.
I will never understand why so many people were willing to subject themselves to repeat infections when there was (and is) another path
“we’re all gonna get it” is every bit as defeatist and doomerist as “we can’t do anything about climate change”. why do so many who are so fervent about protecting the environment refuse to acknowledge this? is our collective health not equally important?
“Well everyone else was doing it too” is never a worthy excuse. Just because practically no one masks or keeps up with the alarming science on COVID doesn’t exempt everyone from responsibility.
#MaskUp and protect yourself and others. In the future, you’ll be glad you did.
#MaskUp and protect yourself and others. In the future, you’ll be glad you did.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We never had to capitulate to Covid.
If we had taken collective steps to protect one another, we would have been able to drastically reduce transmission.
I will never understand why so many people were willing to subject themselves to repeat infections when there was (and is) another path
If we had taken collective steps to protect one another, we would have been able to drastically reduce transmission.
I will never understand why so many people were willing to subject themselves to repeat infections when there was (and is) another path
i was worried to listen to the entire holy hell album by architects because of how deeply i love the song "doomsday" (in case the rest of the songs couldn't compare). they compared, all right. new favorite album. 5/5 stars.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
i was worried to listen to the entire holy hell album by architects because of how deeply i love the song "doomsday" (in case the rest of the songs couldn't compare). they compared, all right. new favorite album. 5/5 stars.