Kate Foster
@kitefosta.bsky.social
love: dogs • oceans • winter • writing • comedy • football ⚽️• dance • hogging a mic • traveling • pining • sex ed • strong tea • knowing everything
if other ppl can fundraise just for being racist cretins, why can’t i fundraise just for making dick jokes & being a sweetie pie? #comefundme
May 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
if other ppl can fundraise just for being racist cretins, why can’t i fundraise just for making dick jokes & being a sweetie pie? #comefundme
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Can’t imagine what this poor little guy is thinking tonight
March 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Can’t imagine what this poor little guy is thinking tonight
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.
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I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
December 30, 2024 at 12:19 AM
I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
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ME: and the hell, is it fresh?
2025: oh yes, the freshest
2025: oh yes, the freshest
December 30, 2024 at 2:28 PM
ME: and the hell, is it fresh?
2025: oh yes, the freshest
2025: oh yes, the freshest
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Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code. The tax that funds Medicare, because it’s aimed mainly at wages, hits even the poorest American workers. But the wealthy could easily avoid paying their share. So lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to ..
Billionaires aren't paying their Medicare and Net Investment Income Taxes.
They're writing off their private jets and yachts.
They're not being taxed on capital gains.
This is what it looks like when billionaires pay millionaires to write our tax laws.
www.propublica.org/article/bill...
They're writing off their private jets and yachts.
They're not being taxed on capital gains.
This is what it looks like when billionaires pay millionaires to write our tax laws.
www.propublica.org/article/bill...
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code. The tax that funds Medicare, because it’s aimed mainly at wages, hits even the poorest American workers. But the wealthy could easily avoid paying their share. So lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to ..
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It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
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*tap tap*
are we allowed to swear on this thing? or use offensive words like “sex” or “Palestine”?
are we allowed to swear on this thing? or use offensive words like “sex” or “Palestine”?
November 24, 2024 at 9:13 AM
*tap tap*
are we allowed to swear on this thing? or use offensive words like “sex” or “Palestine”?
are we allowed to swear on this thing? or use offensive words like “sex” or “Palestine”?
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I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
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Scotland looks stiff this morning.
November 22, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Scotland looks stiff this morning.