Kristin
@kristin52.bsky.social
Author, writer, reader, organizer. I like turtles, walks, blueberries, naps, and Doctor Who. I have a blog at kristinking.org.
Excellent post about organizing. It's rooted in successful union organizing but is also broadly applicable. firewithfire.blog/2025/11/22/b...
Building Organizing Networks through 1-on-1 Conversations
This post analyzes two types of activists: “floaters” who attend events without deep engagement, and “builders” who cultivate meaningful relationships through 1-on-1 convers…
firewithfire.blog
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excellent post about organizing. It's rooted in successful union organizing but is also broadly applicable. firewithfire.blog/2025/11/22/b...
Happy birthday, @nisishawl.bsky.social ! kristinking.org/2025/11/02/s...
Kristin Ann King
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kristinking.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy birthday, @nisishawl.bsky.social ! kristinking.org/2025/11/02/s...
"Those were the two choices. Violent or nonviolent. A binary. I was absolutely not expecting amphibians. And yet, here we are." kristinking.org/2025/10/17/r...
A Digression from Jung: FROGS!
Who knows what silliness lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows!
kristinking.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Those were the two choices. Violent or nonviolent. A binary. I was absolutely not expecting amphibians. And yet, here we are." kristinking.org/2025/10/17/r...
From his FB page: "The portals this project have created are beginning to open. the portal I most want to see open, is the concept that home owners can hire artists to do work on their homes on any available surface they have."
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From his FB page: "The portals this project have created are beginning to open. the portal I most want to see open, is the concept that home owners can hire artists to do work on their homes on any available surface they have."
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
October 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ryan Henry Ward is performing magic in Seattle. By the time patriarchy notices, it will be too late. Take note: 1000 Sasquatch are almost here.
The people with money and power will be the first to roll over to fascists. They are weak where they thought they were strong.
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The people with money and power will be the first to roll over to fascists. They are weak where they thought they were strong.
I would rather no war, and most definitely, if there happened to be a war, I would rather be somewhere else.
Time to reup the “What if they gave a war and nobody came?" slogan of the 1960’s.
September 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I would rather no war, and most definitely, if there happened to be a war, I would rather be somewhere else.
Yeah, that's me! If not explicitly given permission, or even if I am, it freaks me out a little to send a message.
Aldrich said: “How many WhatsApp messages in a row is too many? Where’s the sweet spot between ‘I like you and wish to cultivate a friendship’ and ‘dear God stop before this person takes out a restraining order’?”
Autistic woman really sorry to bother you with her friendship
An autistic woman has spent every single moment of her friendship with you worried that she’s intruding on your precious time here on Earth, it has been revealed. Megan Aldrich, 24, reportedly loves…
thedailytism.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yeah, that's me! If not explicitly given permission, or even if I am, it freaks me out a little to send a message.
Love the train, but King Street Station always fails accessibility for hard of hearing folks. I have normal hearing and cannot make out the oral instructions. Do better, Seattle!
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Love the train, but King Street Station always fails accessibility for hard of hearing folks. I have normal hearing and cannot make out the oral instructions. Do better, Seattle!
Post a female character you love.
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Post a female character you love.
I have this fear that some of those missing were murdered. That's what happens outside of accountability. Also, I was unaware that this concentration camp was reopened. No words are adequate.
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I have this fear that some of those missing were murdered. That's what happens outside of accountability. Also, I was unaware that this concentration camp was reopened. No words are adequate.
13 minutes of your time, and in exchange you will know the difference between mobilizing and organizing. Go forth and be wise!
A YouTube video that everyone ought to watch - it's long but worth it. Share share share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSedLUR5KU
The Minnesota Miracle Playbook - how Minnesota organized and accomplished amazing things for their citizens.
The Minnesota Miracle Playbook - how Minnesota organized and accomplished amazing things for their citizens.
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
13 minutes of your time, and in exchange you will know the difference between mobilizing and organizing. Go forth and be wise!
Reposted by Kristin
So let me get this straight: Florida, home of Disney World, wants to become vaccine-free, so that tourists will have to weigh the fun of going to a theme park against the risk that their kids will get polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, or rabies?
Huh.
Huh.
September 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So let me get this straight: Florida, home of Disney World, wants to become vaccine-free, so that tourists will have to weigh the fun of going to a theme park against the risk that their kids will get polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, or rabies?
Huh.
Huh.
In other news, Carl Jung said the collective unconscious was intersex. "If it were permissable to personify the unconscious, we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes..." (From the essay "Analytical Psychology.")
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In other news, Carl Jung said the collective unconscious was intersex. "If it were permissable to personify the unconscious, we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes..." (From the essay "Analytical Psychology.")
"We are the people our parents warned us against" - Nisi Shawl
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"We are the people our parents warned us against" - Nisi Shawl
Long story short, I kept getting lost on level 2. Eventually, though, I found the Wizard of Oz table to visit Laura and Eric Gjovaag, and later, the Octavia Butler exhibit. Two hightlights of my short visit. Also, the Eileen Gunn reading. #worldcon #aphantasia (4 of 4)
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Long story short, I kept getting lost on level 2. Eventually, though, I found the Wizard of Oz table to visit Laura and Eric Gjovaag, and later, the Octavia Butler exhibit. Two hightlights of my short visit. Also, the Eileen Gunn reading. #worldcon #aphantasia (4 of 4)
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
Four hours at Worldcon yesterday -- a wonderful experience -- and still exhausted. Is this what cons are for me now? Four hours and done? (1 of 2) #worldcon
August 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If the orientation of the map changes, everything I figured out in my head falls apart. I have to start over. For example, if I am using google maps to direct someone and it switches orientation, and I am asked the simple question "is the next turn a right or a left" I am unsure. #worldcon (3 of ?)
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
Four hours at Worldcon yesterday -- a wonderful experience -- and still exhausted. Is this what cons are for me now? Four hours and done? (1 of 2) #worldcon
August 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Mostly what exhausted me was getting lost a lot. I have aphantasia and maps are a challenge. My visual memory can only handle simple shapes, so I use a variety of tricks to get by. One is to anchor the map in one direction by fixing on known landmarks. (2 of ?) #worldcon #aphantasia
Four hours at Worldcon yesterday -- a wonderful experience -- and still exhausted. Is this what cons are for me now? Four hours and done? (1 of 2) #worldcon
August 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Four hours at Worldcon yesterday -- a wonderful experience -- and still exhausted. Is this what cons are for me now? Four hours and done? (1 of 2) #worldcon
Today's offering to the resistance: kristinking.org/2025/07/29/r...
Resist – what exactly?
I’m sure she recited the pledge of allegiance, but also certain the words “liberty and justice for all” went over her head.
kristinking.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today's offering to the resistance: kristinking.org/2025/07/29/r...
Where does the brutality of ICE goons come from? Some were prison guards. What we are seeing now out in the open has been happening behind closed doors. In other words, we have problems we've been sweeping under the rug even before this administration. We can't let any of it stand.
July 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Where does the brutality of ICE goons come from? Some were prison guards. What we are seeing now out in the open has been happening behind closed doors. In other words, we have problems we've been sweeping under the rug even before this administration. We can't let any of it stand.
Reposting (3 of 3)
For additional information or questions, contact Project Manager Irene Gómez at
Irene.gomez@seattle.gov or 206.684.7310.
Best,
Irene
For additional information or questions, contact Project Manager Irene Gómez at
Irene.gomez@seattle.gov or 206.684.7310.
Best,
Irene
Office of Arts & Culture | Seattle - Arts | seattle.gov
The Office of Arts & Culture envisions a city driven by creativity that provides the opportunity for everyone to engage in diverse arts and cultural experiences.
www.seattle.gov
July 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposting (3 of 3)
For additional information or questions, contact Project Manager Irene Gómez at
Irene.gomez@seattle.gov or 206.684.7310.
Best,
Irene
For additional information or questions, contact Project Manager Irene Gómez at
Irene.gomez@seattle.gov or 206.684.7310.
Best,
Irene
Reposting (2 of 3)
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist Press Release:
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAS...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist webpage:
www.seattle.gov/arts/program...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist Press Release:
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAS...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist webpage:
www.seattle.gov/arts/program...
July 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposting (2 of 3)
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist Press Release:
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAS...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist webpage:
www.seattle.gov/arts/program...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist Press Release:
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAS...
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / CityArtist webpage:
www.seattle.gov/arts/program...
Reposting (1 of 3)
The 2026 CityArtist Grant is currently open for Seattle-based artists, curators, and cultural-makers
Working in LITERARY, MEDIA/FILM/SCREENWRITING, and VISUAL ARTS.
Awards are $8,000 and includes a two-year contract to research, develop, and present work
in Seattle.
The 2026 CityArtist Grant is currently open for Seattle-based artists, curators, and cultural-makers
Working in LITERARY, MEDIA/FILM/SCREENWRITING, and VISUAL ARTS.
Awards are $8,000 and includes a two-year contract to research, develop, and present work
in Seattle.
July 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposting (1 of 3)
The 2026 CityArtist Grant is currently open for Seattle-based artists, curators, and cultural-makers
Working in LITERARY, MEDIA/FILM/SCREENWRITING, and VISUAL ARTS.
Awards are $8,000 and includes a two-year contract to research, develop, and present work
in Seattle.
The 2026 CityArtist Grant is currently open for Seattle-based artists, curators, and cultural-makers
Working in LITERARY, MEDIA/FILM/SCREENWRITING, and VISUAL ARTS.
Awards are $8,000 and includes a two-year contract to research, develop, and present work
in Seattle.
I forget to do alt text about half the time, so this setting is a must for me.
Periodic reminder that there is a setting (you have to toggle on mobile and desktop separately) that won't let you post an image without alt text!!!
Accessibility is punk!!! Posting without alt text is what fascists do!!!
Accessibility is punk!!! Posting without alt text is what fascists do!!!
July 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I forget to do alt text about half the time, so this setting is a must for me.