Quistote
@kquist.bsky.social
She/her. Friendly neighborhood anti-capitalist bartender & teacher. Former wannabe journalist. Book worm, angry idealist, shaker of cocktails/fists. I make drinks and I read things. Bay Area.
Doing a year-long read of Don Quixote #dq25 🫏
Doing a year-long read of Don Quixote #dq25 🫏
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Quistote
@kquist.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Don Quixote 2025 Schedule
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Bienvenid@s! Below is the Don Quixote 2025 info/schedule/resources sheet.
It's verrry spread out to be compatible with other reads/projects/life events hopefully (I have many right now myself).
Reply here to be added to feed, mark posts with #dq25 or 🫏 for posts to appear.
bit.ly/4fjfBEH
It's verrry spread out to be compatible with other reads/projects/life events hopefully (I have many right now myself).
Reply here to be added to feed, mark posts with #dq25 or 🫏 for posts to appear.
bit.ly/4fjfBEH
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New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
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My favorite bit of trivia is this, and if you already know it, I find it’s always great to hear it again. As a child in rural France, Andre the Giant was too big to fit on the little country school bus. So his neighbor, Samuel Becket!!!, would take Andre to school in his pick-up truck!
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My favorite bit of trivia is this, and if you already know it, I find it’s always great to hear it again. As a child in rural France, Andre the Giant was too big to fit on the little country school bus. So his neighbor, Samuel Becket!!!, would take Andre to school in his pick-up truck!
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The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are
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Lorenzo Music, who was the voice for Garfield on TV, volunteered at a suicide hotline. Distressed callers would get distracted because the person they were talking to sounded like Garfield.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Lorenzo Music, who was the voice for Garfield on TV, volunteered at a suicide hotline. Distressed callers would get distracted because the person they were talking to sounded like Garfield.
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This effort is more important than every AI data center set to suck the life out of your community.
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This effort is more important than every AI data center set to suck the life out of your community.
I’m not fact checking any of these quoteskeets.
I am choosing to believe every last one of them.
I am choosing to believe every last one of them.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m not fact checking any of these quoteskeets.
I am choosing to believe every last one of them.
I am choosing to believe every last one of them.
Cool kids know the solution.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Cool kids know the solution.
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Believing the bourgeois state will magically become socialist without open conflict is idealism (wishful thinking as a worldview)
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Believing the bourgeois state will magically become socialist without open conflict is idealism (wishful thinking as a worldview)
I'm ready.
Can we bring back “pinko” in a loving way?
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm ready.
Me.
Just me.
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Just me.
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a most delectable mess
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Me.
Just me.
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Just me.
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Brain is glitching but..
In the Heart of the Sea (maybe too obvious)
Under the Banner of Heaven (evil mormons!)
The Ruin of All Witches (which I'm currently burning through)
In the Heart of the Sea (maybe too obvious)
Under the Banner of Heaven (evil mormons!)
The Ruin of All Witches (which I'm currently burning through)
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Brain is glitching but..
In the Heart of the Sea (maybe too obvious)
Under the Banner of Heaven (evil mormons!)
The Ruin of All Witches (which I'm currently burning through)
In the Heart of the Sea (maybe too obvious)
Under the Banner of Heaven (evil mormons!)
The Ruin of All Witches (which I'm currently burning through)
The quoteskeets here are going to annihilate my reading list.
There will be no hope.
I will be buried under books forever.
There will be no hope.
I will be buried under books forever.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The quoteskeets here are going to annihilate my reading list.
There will be no hope.
I will be buried under books forever.
There will be no hope.
I will be buried under books forever.
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Idiots lament their idiot king
Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Idiots lament their idiot king
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This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
This is my baby, Frankenstein Lockjaw. I love him.
This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.
Elite parenting
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
This is my baby, Frankenstein Lockjaw. I love him.
you know who was a real political reporter
a Denver Post writer whose name you don’t know and I don’t even remember despite being fairly sure we were Facebook friends at one point
her name was never the story
but a friend once saw an elected official HIDE UNDER HIS DESK when she entered the room
a Denver Post writer whose name you don’t know and I don’t even remember despite being fairly sure we were Facebook friends at one point
her name was never the story
but a friend once saw an elected official HIDE UNDER HIS DESK when she entered the room
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This is how I learn there’s a #tilesontuesday community that is exactly what it says it is, and I didn’t know I needed this.
Hôtel-Dieu #Beaune #France
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This is how I learn there’s a #tilesontuesday community that is exactly what it says it is, and I didn’t know I needed this.
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Somehow I don't think the party of parents who put their pre-teens in child pageants is going to be particularly bothered by the Epstein files. More and more I think the appeal of Pizzagate/Qanon was the revelation of Satanic rituals not pedophilia
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Somehow I don't think the party of parents who put their pre-teens in child pageants is going to be particularly bothered by the Epstein files. More and more I think the appeal of Pizzagate/Qanon was the revelation of Satanic rituals not pedophilia
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They conditioned y'all to be like this with them Nextdoor accounts
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
They conditioned y'all to be like this with them Nextdoor accounts
Oh cool gonna have fresh relevant new connections to make for my US history students when we get to this later in the year. 😬
The whole “Rise of Fascism” part of history class has a different sort of feel.
The whole “Rise of Fascism” part of history class has a different sort of feel.
VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Oh cool gonna have fresh relevant new connections to make for my US history students when we get to this later in the year. 😬
The whole “Rise of Fascism” part of history class has a different sort of feel.
The whole “Rise of Fascism” part of history class has a different sort of feel.
This was such a good read and since I’m a nerd and subscribe to @thebaffler.com I got to read on pretty paper about how reading is so cooked.
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This was such a good read and since I’m a nerd and subscribe to @thebaffler.com I got to read on pretty paper about how reading is so cooked.
Using clips of JD Vance to teach students about the word “xenophobia” in class today.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Using clips of JD Vance to teach students about the word “xenophobia” in class today.
This is about to become my evergreen skeet.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is about to become my evergreen skeet.
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I still can’t believe I went to journalism school. for what exactly I’ll never know
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I still can’t believe I went to journalism school. for what exactly I’ll never know
"While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations" - WTF?
Can you *imagine* being one of his students right now?
Like what IS the vibe when he gets up in front of a group of students right now? I NEED TO KNOW.
Can you *imagine* being one of his students right now?
Like what IS the vibe when he gets up in front of a group of students right now? I NEED TO KNOW.
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations" - WTF?
Can you *imagine* being one of his students right now?
Like what IS the vibe when he gets up in front of a group of students right now? I NEED TO KNOW.
Can you *imagine* being one of his students right now?
Like what IS the vibe when he gets up in front of a group of students right now? I NEED TO KNOW.