Kat Flint

Kat Flint

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Plant breeder, beekeeper, antifascist, queer, sometimes writer. Here for jokes. she/her
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I was gonna get up off the couch to do stuff but the dog is using my foot as a pillow 😭

Noshes! Cherry tomatoes, several types of cheese, crackers, olives, fresh fruit, maybe some little freezer section hors d'oeuvres if we have the patience for preparing then

ok prompt time!! what do you/your family call a meal that is basically a gathering of little snacks that you can graze on, and what do you like to include with such meals?

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oh look it's the time of the week again

most of you would be better served by developing a set of personal ethics instead of just huffing the morality juice laying around the internet in unsealed red cups

I think windows ate the ubuntu partition

I am trying to boot up an old-ish desktop that I definitely put an ubuntu partition onto, but windows is booting every time...did windows eat the ubuntu partition....

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Writing this felt somewhat impotent but what is the internet if not screaming into the void kathleenflint.com/posts/dowhat...

Do Whatever You Want, Forever | Kathleen Flint Presents A Very Good Blogkathleenflint.com Thoughts, opinions, shitposts, etc.

I am trying to boot up an old-ish desktop that I definitely put an ubuntu partition onto, but windows is booting every time...did windows eat the ubuntu partition....

Been out of the neighborhood with all the gunshots for about 6 months, still jumpy as hell about fireworks

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

the feeling of the day after submitting a grant and before a long weekend is something I wish I could bottle

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Sticking with Biden or running Harris would be *far* less risky than dedicating two of the next four months to Democrat infighting, followed by an unprecedented delegate voting process and dubious chances of even getting on the ballot. Knowing this shit is supposed to be these people's job

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A common lament is there is no civility left these days, because those on the “left” refuse to be friends with the “right" over "political views." This implies something startling: conservatives want to be friends with the rest of us. Had you realized? www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?www.the-reframe.com A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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the purpose of a system is not what IT SAYS IT DOES or what you want it to do but what it actually does.

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

where is Diamond Joe when we need him most

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Thanks to everyone who recommended comfort reads, watches, and listens. I assembled a whole bunch of your suggestions in a big-ass blog post! If you're looking for something nice to put your brain, there are a ton of great ideas here:

A Living Compendium Of Stuff That’s Just Nicehomewiththearmadillo.blog Wherein the people come together to recommend a crowd-sourced repository of comfort watches, listens, and reads.

Writing this felt somewhat impotent but what is the internet if not screaming into the void kathleenflint.com/posts/dowhat...

Do Whatever You Want, Forever | Kathleen Flint Presents A Very Good Blogkathleenflint.com Thoughts, opinions, shitposts, etc.

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Rare Spanish-Irish joke

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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.

the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

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BATTLE AWAITS. TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Came across a questionnaire explicitly designed *not* to foster intimacy between two people and it is a flashback of all the worst first dates I've ever had www.stafforini.com/docs/Aron%20...

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Yeah fuck people who need health care! Leave 'em to die!!

Every doctor in these anti abortion states should pack up and leave!!! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/u...

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

compared to the general population, a suuuuper high proportion of trans folks serve or want to serve in the US military

There are certainly a lot of people who lean conservative in the military, and there definitely are some MAGA folk, but I've found that people consistently underestimate how many POC, immigrants, and LGBT people work in the military. A lot of people with disabled family members as well.

idk if the horse had a cigarette last time I saw this image, but I appreciate the addition

Totes appropes

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In other words: there are a LOT of people in our exceptionally diverse US military who can absolutely be reasoned with and who don’t like Trump any more than we do. Much, much more so than is the case with US cops.

Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.” This is absolutely NOT the case.

as an ag scientist whose research has moved west in the past year, it's nice to get validation that I'm not just losing it with regard to weather forecasts

How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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I still think everyone should vote for Biden, but a lot of the centrist vote-scolds remind me of this shit:

More chilling resonance with the present in Arthur Koestler’s memoir of early WWII, SCUM OF THE EARTH This is from the end of a long section about his time in a hellish concentration camp for “undesirable aliens” that the (pre-Nazi and ostensibly democratic!) French government had set up:

I've been on threads for two days and the only word I can think of to sum up the vibes over there is "yucky"

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Before I got hired in my current role I was working on a story about protests. Like the shape and nature of it. And I talked to an expert on protest and I asked him if people in the US should learn from other country's histories and he responded that we were unwilling to learn even from our own