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 🫏
The view from my office while I work on lesson plans (during my bar #friendsgiving.
Food and dogs and food and dogs.
Food and dogs and food and dogs.
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The view from my office while I work on lesson plans (during my bar #friendsgiving.
Food and dogs and food and dogs.
Food and dogs and food and dogs.
God I love the internet.
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
God I love the internet.
As the daughter of a very smart engineer with serious social-emotional problems, I would like to tell Katherine:
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
As the daughter of a very smart engineer with serious social-emotional problems, I would like to tell Katherine:
📖 🚀
Starting a new bit of fun and spotted a familiar name here at the beginning. Hadn’t realized this book was about the events involving Pynchon’s ancestor.
Starting a new bit of fun and spotted a familiar name here at the beginning. Hadn’t realized this book was about the events involving Pynchon’s ancestor.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📖 🚀
Starting a new bit of fun and spotted a familiar name here at the beginning. Hadn’t realized this book was about the events involving Pynchon’s ancestor.
Starting a new bit of fun and spotted a familiar name here at the beginning. Hadn’t realized this book was about the events involving Pynchon’s ancestor.
Enjoying reading things to help me cultivate a vision as I start on this teaching journey.
Love this as a goal for education.
More and more I want to throw devices into the sea, simplify, and focus.
Love this as a goal for education.
More and more I want to throw devices into the sea, simplify, and focus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Enjoying reading things to help me cultivate a vision as I start on this teaching journey.
Love this as a goal for education.
More and more I want to throw devices into the sea, simplify, and focus.
Love this as a goal for education.
More and more I want to throw devices into the sea, simplify, and focus.
📖 🫏
A friend sent me this.
I have some quibbles:
- I feel like the English die for stupid/lost causes lol)
- Also- Don Quixote would *totally* die for honor. It’s just funny to watch him do it.
A friend sent me this.
I have some quibbles:
- I feel like the English die for stupid/lost causes lol)
- Also- Don Quixote would *totally* die for honor. It’s just funny to watch him do it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
📖 🫏
A friend sent me this.
I have some quibbles:
- I feel like the English die for stupid/lost causes lol)
- Also- Don Quixote would *totally* die for honor. It’s just funny to watch him do it.
A friend sent me this.
I have some quibbles:
- I feel like the English die for stupid/lost causes lol)
- Also- Don Quixote would *totally* die for honor. It’s just funny to watch him do it.
He’s just over on the left there
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
He’s just over on the left there
Soup season motherfuckers!
Lentils, sausage, tomatoes, kale and a dollop of sour cream. Not bad for a first go, next time will be even better.
Lentils, sausage, tomatoes, kale and a dollop of sour cream. Not bad for a first go, next time will be even better.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Soup season motherfuckers!
Lentils, sausage, tomatoes, kale and a dollop of sour cream. Not bad for a first go, next time will be even better.
Lentils, sausage, tomatoes, kale and a dollop of sour cream. Not bad for a first go, next time will be even better.
New phone lock screen? 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
New phone lock screen? 🤔
Just appreciating how terrifyingly many industries this paragraph could refer to:
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Just appreciating how terrifyingly many industries this paragraph could refer to:
So many good lines in this book: “The capitalist economy and bicycle riding have this in common: stability requires forward motion.”
Content aside it’s been a pleasure to just read some surprisingly good writing in a book I wasn’t really interested expecting it from.
Also- we must end capitalism.
Content aside it’s been a pleasure to just read some surprisingly good writing in a book I wasn’t really interested expecting it from.
Also- we must end capitalism.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So many good lines in this book: “The capitalist economy and bicycle riding have this in common: stability requires forward motion.”
Content aside it’s been a pleasure to just read some surprisingly good writing in a book I wasn’t really interested expecting it from.
Also- we must end capitalism.
Content aside it’s been a pleasure to just read some surprisingly good writing in a book I wasn’t really interested expecting it from.
Also- we must end capitalism.
Trying to escape present horrors by revisiting this nation’s many past horrors.
Currently disappointed with how little the curriculum where I am training to teach engages with this history. 📚 🗺️ 🍎
Currently disappointed with how little the curriculum where I am training to teach engages with this history. 📚 🗺️ 🍎
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Trying to escape present horrors by revisiting this nation’s many past horrors.
Currently disappointed with how little the curriculum where I am training to teach engages with this history. 📚 🗺️ 🍎
Currently disappointed with how little the curriculum where I am training to teach engages with this history. 📚 🗺️ 🍎
We had a board special for the season today :)
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We had a board special for the season today :)
Feeling cursed after a few days medical leave and serious rest.
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Feeling cursed after a few days medical leave and serious rest.
🫏 📖 A few days off work for medical things and yessss trying to catch up on Don Quixote.
And I *finally* got myself a big comfy cross legged desk chair for reading/schoolwork.
We’re back!
And I *finally* got myself a big comfy cross legged desk chair for reading/schoolwork.
We’re back!
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🫏 📖 A few days off work for medical things and yessss trying to catch up on Don Quixote.
And I *finally* got myself a big comfy cross legged desk chair for reading/schoolwork.
We’re back!
And I *finally* got myself a big comfy cross legged desk chair for reading/schoolwork.
We’re back!
Everything is on fire but my classroom Christmas cactus bloomed over the weekend so eeeeeeeeeeee 🥰
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Everything is on fire but my classroom Christmas cactus bloomed over the weekend so eeeeeeeeeeee 🥰
‘Tis The Season!
(For putting on cold weather clothes for the first time in months and finding things in the pockets you’d thought you’d lost!)
🌧️ 🍁 💨
Happy Pocket Treasures Season to you all!!
(For putting on cold weather clothes for the first time in months and finding things in the pockets you’d thought you’d lost!)
🌧️ 🍁 💨
Happy Pocket Treasures Season to you all!!
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
‘Tis The Season!
(For putting on cold weather clothes for the first time in months and finding things in the pockets you’d thought you’d lost!)
🌧️ 🍁 💨
Happy Pocket Treasures Season to you all!!
(For putting on cold weather clothes for the first time in months and finding things in the pockets you’d thought you’d lost!)
🌧️ 🍁 💨
Happy Pocket Treasures Season to you all!!
“The unavoidable necessity of growing up and getting a job in the US forces us all to become less than we could be: less free, less secure, in short less happy.”
Finding my #teacher credential classes unsatisfying, so making my own #education reading list.
Any recs out there?
Finding my #teacher credential classes unsatisfying, so making my own #education reading list.
Any recs out there?
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“The unavoidable necessity of growing up and getting a job in the US forces us all to become less than we could be: less free, less secure, in short less happy.”
Finding my #teacher credential classes unsatisfying, so making my own #education reading list.
Any recs out there?
Finding my #teacher credential classes unsatisfying, so making my own #education reading list.
Any recs out there?
Y’all, what are we even doing here.
AI is gonna have us so cooked.
AI is gonna have us so cooked.
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Y’all, what are we even doing here.
AI is gonna have us so cooked.
AI is gonna have us so cooked.
Read a chapter or so of this in college way back last Millenium and it made such an impression I decided - since I’m becoming a teacher - to order myself a copy and see how it’s aged.
Let’s goooooo
Let’s goooooo
October 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Read a chapter or so of this in college way back last Millenium and it made such an impression I decided - since I’m becoming a teacher - to order myself a copy and see how it’s aged.
Let’s goooooo
Let’s goooooo