Kris Ripper (ze/zir)
krisripper.bsky.social
Kris Ripper (ze/zir)
@krisripper.bsky.social
I write books.
Ok, American football is a fucked up, and high school football is so bullshit on many levels...

But my kid is in the band, so I'm listening to the game livestream (so I don't get there too early), and honestly it's delightful. The other coach just got a sideline penalty for shouting at officials!
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Starbucks is probably the best corporation I've ever worked for...because when I worked there, it *chose* to be fairly decent.

This is why we need unions: treating employees ethically should not be a *choice*. When your locals baristas strike, get your latte somewhere else.
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Y'all. America. What is UP? Damn, girl, you're looking so good! Did you cut your hair? Are those new hot pants you're wearing?
a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses is looking good .
Alt: Gif from an old film of a white lady (famous actress, obvious movie, like think Breakfast at Tiffany's or something) pulling down an enormous pair of sunglasses with the text LOOKING GOOD
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here
“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The thing that most helps get me through this puppy life I'm currently living is the mantra "at least he's not a human baby, at least he's not a human baby". 😂

No shade to human babies or the people who love them! I'm good with babies. I just don't want to cohabitate with one.
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I don't know who needs to know this, but if you look for synonyms for "asshole" on OneLook, the term "Mel Gibson" is number 79. YOU'RE WELCOME.
September 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Okay, who had "on hold at Planned Parenthood and their hold music is muzak Lynyrd Skynyrd" on their bingo card?? Because that's the alternate timeline my Tuesday morning is taking.
September 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's astonishing how many (white, they have all been white) moms tell me I'm lucky my kid is a boy because boys are so much easier than girls. Like. Is this just projection? Do these people not have brothers or friends who experienced boyhood? It's wild as fuck. Adolescence screws every body.
September 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Me at the high school football game taking many pictures of my kid, who's playing tonight.

He's in his cute little uniform and shit just like all the other kids.

And yes, he plays tenor sax. 😂 Was there something else going on tonight? <looks around vaguely>
September 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
That moment when you're agonizing over wtf happens in the last 25% of a novel (and your deadline is in like a couple of weeks), then it occurs to you to read the synopsis you wrote two months ago where, miracle of miracles, you spelled out a fun, exciting, nail-biting last 25%.
snoop dogg is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying i wanna thank me for believing in me
Alt: Snoop giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying, "I wanna thank me for all the hard work. I wanna thank me for believing in me. I wanna thank me for no days off."
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September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Which is also why they reacted so strongly to being called ‘weird’.
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I keep learning new things. I thought "planking" referred to people doing, you know, planks in public. Like. The exercise. I didn't get it, except I have seen people post workout videos so hey.

APPARENTLY IT'S EVEN WEIRDER THAN THAT.

Gif is what I thought people were doing...
a woman is doing a plank with a dog on her back and the words the petcollective are visible
Alt: White woman with ponytail is doing a plank (the exercise kind) on a yoga mat while a truly delighted dog climbs under her and lies down on her arms, then proceeds to lick her face. RELATABLE THOUGH.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I just this minute figured out what kind of animal Wile E Coyote was supposed to be. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you need to know, hit my DMs.
wilee the coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open .
Alt: wile e coyote from looney tunes is standing in the desert with his mouth open (love that AI; he's actually raising and lowering his eyelids really fast)
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May 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Look the JK Rowling thing is pretty cut and dry she is still personally being directly enriched by consumption of Harry Potter and then using those riches to actively participate in a campaign against trans people

This ain't a case of a problematic author, it's material support to terrorism
April 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I am over the moon that Black AF book is being sold Onyx Oasis bookstore. It's a dream come true that my Black af books are being sold in a Black independent bookstore! onyxoasisbookstore.com/products/spl...
April 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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When the US began to strip trans people of rights, revert documentation, move trans women to men's prisons, censor research, and move towards healthcare bans, most cis people posted things like "the government can't tell you who you are!"

They think our biggest issue is validation, not actual harm.
April 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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⚠️🤖AI in healthcare is already showing bias

A study of 9 LLMs found medically unjustified differences in care based on patient identity – with Black, LGBTQIA+, and unhoused patients often receiving worse or unnecessary recommendations.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AI 🧪
Sociodemographic biases in medical decision making by large language models - Nature Medicine
A panel of nine LLMs was exposed to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recomm...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I know folks shy away from this, but I don't see how there is any other conclusion to draw. I am white; I vividly remember other white people giving me the "I don't like him, but I don't think he's *racist*" line in 2016. White liberals pulled this shit. SOMEHOW THEY STILL ARE.
All shade, but this is also happening because people underestimate the overwhelming evil nature and racism of white people.
April 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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All shade, but this is also happening because people underestimate the overwhelming evil nature and racism of white people.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I know a lot of non-binary folks are afraid to call themselves trans. Because they don't experience biological gender dysphoria or any dysphoria at all.

And I'm here to tell you: You are trans.

Being transgender means that your gender does not match you assigned sex at birth. That's it!
April 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM