The Karuna Virus
@lakarune.bsky.social
Anti-Viral Chaos Barbie. An absolute angel. Voracious generalist. Volcano-worshipper. Uranian. I study humans and try to live like one, and actually stop to smell the flowers, every time.
Dropping something beautiful and magical for the top of my timeline until I can check in again. 🦉
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Dropping something beautiful and magical for the top of my timeline until I can check in again. 🦉
There are a couple other smaller fires too, one in San Bernadino and one in the Riverside area. Various fire dept air assets all over the area. Wish the Feds would get the fk out of here and let us take care of business.
June 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There are a couple other smaller fires too, one in San Bernadino and one in the Riverside area. Various fire dept air assets all over the area. Wish the Feds would get the fk out of here and let us take care of business.
LA airspace has been busy AF today, and while I expected to see lots of cop copters, I was surprised to see Fire helicopters out again. Turns out there’s a non-protest related reason: Bethany Fire, just NE of Burbank.
June 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
LA airspace has been busy AF today, and while I expected to see lots of cop copters, I was surprised to see Fire helicopters out again. Turns out there’s a non-protest related reason: Bethany Fire, just NE of Burbank.
And yet: “They continue to urge so-called nonviolence even as such directions can feel quite difficult to follow in a cloud of tear gas you did not set off.”
June 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And yet: “They continue to urge so-called nonviolence even as such directions can feel quite difficult to follow in a cloud of tear gas you did not set off.”
Lil earthquake here in West LA. 12:18pm, 3.4 magnitude centered off Manhattan Beach.
June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Lil earthquake here in West LA. 12:18pm, 3.4 magnitude centered off Manhattan Beach.
Desperately trying to improve my mood. I think the only choice I have now is to go back to the neighbor’s house where this bounty is blooming.
May 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Desperately trying to improve my mood. I think the only choice I have now is to go back to the neighbor’s house where this bounty is blooming.
Yup, if they are determined to regress us a century, let’s bring back the cocaine cure for ghosts in the blood.
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Yup, if they are determined to regress us a century, let’s bring back the cocaine cure for ghosts in the blood.
JFC, it’s literally the Vinayy skit.
May 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
JFC, it’s literally the Vinayy skit.
I gotta make some changes, man.
(I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)
(I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)
May 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I gotta make some changes, man.
(I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)
(I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)
How I check my negativity bias and rebalance my nervous system, Spring/Summer edition: a facefull of summer jasmine. I just inhale it until well-being courses through my circulatory system. Plant medicine.
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
How I check my negativity bias and rebalance my nervous system, Spring/Summer edition: a facefull of summer jasmine. I just inhale it until well-being courses through my circulatory system. Plant medicine.
My family hard agrees. 😂 Hubs found an app when he was out there a couple weeks back
May 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My family hard agrees. 😂 Hubs found an app when he was out there a couple weeks back
It looks like one of these.
Why is it on my porch, deceased? Does it have the bird flu? Do I have a feline stalker I’m unaware of? Is it an omen of some kind? Won’t someone please come fetch this for me? I don’t want it. 😭😭
Why is it on my porch, deceased? Does it have the bird flu? Do I have a feline stalker I’m unaware of? Is it an omen of some kind? Won’t someone please come fetch this for me? I don’t want it. 😭😭
May 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It looks like one of these.
Why is it on my porch, deceased? Does it have the bird flu? Do I have a feline stalker I’m unaware of? Is it an omen of some kind? Won’t someone please come fetch this for me? I don’t want it. 😭😭
Why is it on my porch, deceased? Does it have the bird flu? Do I have a feline stalker I’m unaware of? Is it an omen of some kind? Won’t someone please come fetch this for me? I don’t want it. 😭😭
Something terrible has occurred on my front porch and I am now trapped in the house until someone fixes this. 😭
May 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Something terrible has occurred on my front porch and I am now trapped in the house until someone fixes this. 😭
Did you peep the top comment?
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May 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Did you peep the top comment?
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I love volcanoes so damned much 😍
Have you ever seen this? (via @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social who is a volcanologist and got a stunning tattoo of it)
Have you ever seen this? (via @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social who is a volcanologist and got a stunning tattoo of it)
May 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I love volcanoes so damned much 😍
Have you ever seen this? (via @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social who is a volcanologist and got a stunning tattoo of it)
Have you ever seen this? (via @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social who is a volcanologist and got a stunning tattoo of it)
“Elections Canada warned final results could be delayed [for Poiliviere’s seat] because of the size of the ballot takes five times as long to count as a regular ballot.“ - “a historic 91 candidates running… candidates did not campaign or even visit the riding and were part of a protest.”
April 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
“Elections Canada warned final results could be delayed [for Poiliviere’s seat] because of the size of the ballot takes five times as long to count as a regular ballot.“ - “a historic 91 candidates running… candidates did not campaign or even visit the riding and were part of a protest.”
A surprise double rainbow a little before sunset.
I don’t know if words can express how desperately I needed this rainbow.
Cracked my heart wide open.
I don’t know if words can express how desperately I needed this rainbow.
Cracked my heart wide open.
April 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A surprise double rainbow a little before sunset.
I don’t know if words can express how desperately I needed this rainbow.
Cracked my heart wide open.
I don’t know if words can express how desperately I needed this rainbow.
Cracked my heart wide open.
Scribbled some notes on indications of the Mars/Pluto opposition. Sometimes astrology is fun; this one, not so much.
April 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Scribbled some notes on indications of the Mars/Pluto opposition. Sometimes astrology is fun; this one, not so much.
We are literally at the Stalin-era gulag jokes level of authoritarian fanaticism.
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We are literally at the Stalin-era gulag jokes level of authoritarian fanaticism.
Phoebe Philo’s trouser game is truly unparalleled.
No one lives the life that these trousers imagine for us, but oh wouldn’t that be a fabulous kind of life?
No one lives the life that these trousers imagine for us, but oh wouldn’t that be a fabulous kind of life?
April 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Phoebe Philo’s trouser game is truly unparalleled.
No one lives the life that these trousers imagine for us, but oh wouldn’t that be a fabulous kind of life?
No one lives the life that these trousers imagine for us, but oh wouldn’t that be a fabulous kind of life?
Jesus. Trump is breaking the apparel industry completely.
April 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Jesus. Trump is breaking the apparel industry completely.
This partially answers my question (from CNBC). The article says a round trip is typically 7 weeks, so China > US west coast shipping decrease should start to become stark by the end of the month I’d imagine…
April 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This partially answers my question (from CNBC). The article says a round trip is typically 7 weeks, so China > US west coast shipping decrease should start to become stark by the end of the month I’d imagine…
“For the true believers, this volatility is proof of the leader's indispensable uniqueness. But for capitalism it is disastrous. It shatters the necessary illusion of a knowable future.”
April 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“For the true believers, this volatility is proof of the leader's indispensable uniqueness. But for capitalism it is disastrous. It shatters the necessary illusion of a knowable future.”
“Third, there is the problem of predictability. Investment is driven by a belief that it is possible to foretell the future. That this is an obvious illusion does not make it less essential to capitalism. Yet…the very essence of the dictator is a monopoly on unpredictability.“
April 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Third, there is the problem of predictability. Investment is driven by a belief that it is possible to foretell the future. That this is an obvious illusion does not make it less essential to capitalism. Yet…the very essence of the dictator is a monopoly on unpredictability.“
“The second fault line is self-pity…But self-pity is bad for capitalism, a system that demands an endless supply of irrational exuberance: feel-good economics undercut by feel-bad politics.”
April 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“The second fault line is self-pity…But self-pity is bad for capitalism, a system that demands an endless supply of irrational exuberance: feel-good economics undercut by feel-bad politics.”