Karen
@kokeeffe.bsky.social
pro-trans and anti-car. i sew! i do peloton. i PM. i mom.
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If you've yet to purchase Woodworking, the debut novel from Emily St. James (that's me), the ebook is on sale everywhere for a few days. Just $1.99!
Also, the hardcover is readily available, and you can preorder the paperback, out in May. Hurrah!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Also, the hardcover is readily available, and you can preorder the paperback, out in May. Hurrah!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025<br><br>“Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America’s most popular...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you've yet to purchase Woodworking, the debut novel from Emily St. James (that's me), the ebook is on sale everywhere for a few days. Just $1.99!
Also, the hardcover is readily available, and you can preorder the paperback, out in May. Hurrah!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Also, the hardcover is readily available, and you can preorder the paperback, out in May. Hurrah!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Nothing bleaker than when you're trying to find ice cream sound effects for a kids audio podcast and you end up in the corner of youtube where it's all the sounds of people EATING ice cream which is the exact opposite of what I want ever ever in life
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Nothing bleaker than when you're trying to find ice cream sound effects for a kids audio podcast and you end up in the corner of youtube where it's all the sounds of people EATING ice cream which is the exact opposite of what I want ever ever in life
Visual representation of me going on vacation to NY and then immediately returning to a life where I have to drive to work every day because my husband‘s recording an audiobook at home and the 15 miles from 2nd kid‘s school to the office takes a full hour every morning
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Visual representation of me going on vacation to NY and then immediately returning to a life where I have to drive to work every day because my husband‘s recording an audiobook at home and the 15 miles from 2nd kid‘s school to the office takes a full hour every morning
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This is one of the most annoying claims Altman and friends make because it implies that there's a simple solution to climate change that doesn't involve any tough choices or sacrifices by industry or political leaders or regular people and the only problem is we're not smart enough to think it up
While spinning a BS narrative about how eventually once we've diverted 90% of the world's electricity into data centers, we'll get "AGI" and AGI will give us some magic easy solution to stop climate change.
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is one of the most annoying claims Altman and friends make because it implies that there's a simple solution to climate change that doesn't involve any tough choices or sacrifices by industry or political leaders or regular people and the only problem is we're not smart enough to think it up
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1. In exchange for her NDAA vote, MTG has announced that her national felony trans youth care ban will go to the floor December 17th.
It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
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It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
What To Know About Marjorie Taylor Greene's Felony National Trans Youth Care Ban, Which Will Receive A House Vote
Though the bill stands little chance of becoming law, it will be a major messaging vote for congresspeople on both sides of the aisle.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
1. In exchange for her NDAA vote, MTG has announced that her national felony trans youth care ban will go to the floor December 17th.
It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It is not expected to pass into law due to the U.S. Senate.
Still, it will be a terrible historic moment for anti-trans bills.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Today was the day I moved my 401K out of the large cap index fund! I know nothing about anything but I don't feel bad about it to be honest!
🎧LEVER TIME: How Wall Street is quietly shorting its own AI investments as chips are depreciating faster than they can come online.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
At risk is everyone's 401k(s), pensions, savings - and the entire economy.
Search "Lever Time" in your podcast app. Guests include @edzitron.com & Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
It’s Not An AI Bubble. It’s A Black Hole.
How $400 billion in AI spending became a gravitational force that's distorting the entire economy.
www.levernews.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today was the day I moved my 401K out of the large cap index fund! I know nothing about anything but I don't feel bad about it to be honest!
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PS: last chance to grab an Extremely Accurate Birds calendar from my webstore to guarantee Xmas shipping is December 13th! thanks for supporting independent artists instead of Jeff Bezos’ helicopter collection, xoxo
www.tommysiegel.net
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December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
PS: last chance to grab an Extremely Accurate Birds calendar from my webstore to guarantee Xmas shipping is December 13th! thanks for supporting independent artists instead of Jeff Bezos’ helicopter collection, xoxo
www.tommysiegel.net
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Absolute lunacy to me that we just accept that 1/4 of drivers on the road have this level of visibility for 30 minutes in the morning and at night each day. Illegal to wear category 4 sunglasses while driving or tint your windows. Is any car company (or other research group) working on this???
December 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Absolute lunacy to me that we just accept that 1/4 of drivers on the road have this level of visibility for 30 minutes in the morning and at night each day. Illegal to wear category 4 sunglasses while driving or tint your windows. Is any car company (or other research group) working on this???
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I hope you like gridlock!
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
Rivian's CEO said self-driving cars shouldn't just be able to drive, but also run errands for you like a secretary
CEO RJ Scaringe said he wants his AI-powered cars to be able to coordinate their own servicing, so their owners don't have to.
www.businessinsider.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I hope you like gridlock!
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
"[Rivian CEO] Scaringe said he was 'very bullish' on his cars being self-driving in the next couple of years, such that 'you can own a car, but it can drop you at the airport, it can pick your kids up from school, it can go get things from the store for you.'"
Got halfway through my final sewing project for the extended family and realized I hadn’t cut out sleeves and had no remaining fabric so I rage quit and that person will probably get a candle or something I don’t know.
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Got halfway through my final sewing project for the extended family and realized I hadn’t cut out sleeves and had no remaining fabric so I rage quit and that person will probably get a candle or something I don’t know.
Ramit strongly affirming him after this guy comes out as trans and then immediately going on a related rant about ICE and this country making people feel unsafe… we appreciate it. The anti Ramsey.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Ramit strongly affirming him after this guy comes out as trans and then immediately going on a related rant about ICE and this country making people feel unsafe… we appreciate it. The anti Ramsey.
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I don't know why I haven't made this before now.
July 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I don't know why I haven't made this before now.
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States,
generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
www.pnas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
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this places rules and if you're too afraid to visit that's between you and your tiny baby brain
New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
this places rules and if you're too afraid to visit that's between you and your tiny baby brain
The proper attire to wear to the airport is actually "as much of the big / heavy winter clothing you're bringing as you possibly can as well as your big ol snow shoes so you don't have to check your bag"
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The proper attire to wear to the airport is actually "as much of the big / heavy winter clothing you're bringing as you possibly can as well as your big ol snow shoes so you don't have to check your bag"
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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so basically we’re going to have to figure out how to go back to building systems of knowledge based almost entirely on confirming sources - like you needed to do pre-photograph and video - since all true videos will seem fake and fake videos will seem true
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
so basically we’re going to have to figure out how to go back to building systems of knowledge based almost entirely on confirming sources - like you needed to do pre-photograph and video - since all true videos will seem fake and fake videos will seem true
The thing about LA is that there may be famous people but they’re all in their cars. In NY you might be waiting for the train listening to a podcast and when you look up from your phone the person taking through your earbuds is right next to you (ask how I know).
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The thing about LA is that there may be famous people but they’re all in their cars. In NY you might be waiting for the train listening to a podcast and when you look up from your phone the person taking through your earbuds is right next to you (ask how I know).
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Admiral Rachel Levine served as a top health official — the first ever Senate-confirmed transgender person.
The bullies running our country just changed her official portrait to her dead name.
We’ll change it back when we tear down Trump’s ballroom & remove his birthday as a national park holiday.
The bullies running our country just changed her official portrait to her dead name.
We’ll change it back when we tear down Trump’s ballroom & remove his birthday as a national park holiday.
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Admiral Rachel Levine served as a top health official — the first ever Senate-confirmed transgender person.
The bullies running our country just changed her official portrait to her dead name.
We’ll change it back when we tear down Trump’s ballroom & remove his birthday as a national park holiday.
The bullies running our country just changed her official portrait to her dead name.
We’ll change it back when we tear down Trump’s ballroom & remove his birthday as a national park holiday.
Drives me crazy when people walk away from car crashes in movies/tv that would cause death or serious injury with nary a scratch or ache; looking you at Stranger Things.
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Drives me crazy when people walk away from car crashes in movies/tv that would cause death or serious injury with nary a scratch or ache; looking you at Stranger Things.
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All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
The little devil inside your head at 4am saying “go ahead, check your phone, there probably won’t be life shattering news”
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The little devil inside your head at 4am saying “go ahead, check your phone, there probably won’t be life shattering news”
What a wonderful think to wake up (in the middle of the night) to deadline.com/2025/12/netf...
Netflix Wins Bidding War For Warner Bros. Discovery, Will Start Exclusive Deal Talks
Netflix has emerged victorious with what appears to be the highest bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and the two sides are set to start exclusive talks.
deadline.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
What a wonderful think to wake up (in the middle of the night) to deadline.com/2025/12/netf...