Kathrin
Rude AF hobbit, opinions on all the things, probably won't bite (too sleepy).
Typos in English, German, and Gibberish. she/her
- Never change, Lucas!
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- Reposted by KathrinFrom @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
- Die österreichische Kollektion ist voll nett. Würd ich sofort anziehen. Kleines Problem dabei: ICH BIN EINE STINKLANGWEILIG ANGEZOGENE PERSON MIT NULL STYLE
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- Ich brauche - wenn es hoch kommt - einmal im Jahr die Westbahn. Wer von euch hat sie genau jetzt ins Chaos gestürzt??
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- Reposted by KathrinCN Transfeindlichkeit Tod Suizid #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights
- Reposted by Kathrin1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by Kathrinthe Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
- I'm at an event. I should be professional and charming and getting some networking done. I am, however, neither professional nor charming. And my brain is playing "Loch Lomond" on max volume just to fuck with me.
- ["Bella Ciao" intensifies]
- Reposted by KathrinOnce again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
- Reposted by KathrinPeople get prickly about these requests bc they see them as individual critiques but they're really efforts to set norms and build culture around sharing information, which feels very meaningful and worthwhile to me in this moment.
- Reposted by KathrinWhy are the men’s names redacted and the victims names exposed?
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- Bildbeschreibungen werden Menschen mit Sehbehinderung VORGELESEN. Stellt euch vor jemand flüstert euch "hatetepedoppelpunktschrägstrichachrägstrichwewewePunktBitPunktLüSchrägstrichEinsZweiDreiVierFünfSechs" ins Ohr. Fändet ihr das nützlich?
- Bad news: Because my job is a bit weird I just saw a very detailed video of a surgical lower lid reconstruction. Good news: I'm now probably as prepared for The Pitt as it's possible to be without working in a medical field.
- Neues Jahr, neue Runde im ewigen Kampf Kathrin gegen Rollup.
- Reposted by KathrinIn other words, the United States wants to fund a fifth column in Europe that will undermine its allies and degrade European political culture in order to advance this administration's perverse interests.
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- Reposted by KathrinOne of the comments called this “Beige Against The Machine” and I made a noise that startled the dog.
- Reposted by KathrinOo-de-lally!
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- Reposted by KathrinI Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1789
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- Reposted by KathrinThis is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
- Reposted by KathrinWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- [spread across the bed on my back like a beached whale] On second thought... that *might* have been too much dinner.
- Reposted by KathrinThe pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
- Reposted by KathrinYou want 'British values', here's national treasure Ian McKellen performing a speech by national hero William Shakespeare about how we should be humane and welcoming to migrants and refugees. bsky.app/profile/lala...
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by KathrinThis is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- Reposted by KathrinBased in Nairobi, Kenya, @khoureld.bsky.social's most recent bylined article (she is now listed as a correspondent) was about how young Kenyans were tricked to fight for Russia in their ongoing invasion of Ukraine. But the Post's Ukraine Bureau Chief and Correspondent also got laid off yesterday:
- Reposted by KathrinEver notice how studies that overwhelmingly show that trans people are not what bigots claim is always phrased as "may not have"?
- The bottomless pettiness of it all just adds insult to injury.
- Reposted by KathrinThe entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances
- Ich: Schon ewig nimmer katholisch oder sonstwie religiös. Passt gut. Auch ich: 1) Die Piusbrüder soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen. 2) 🍿🍿🍿
- Wenn diese Vollpfosten ein Schisma veranstalten, dann dürfen sie die Minoritenkirche aber nicht behalten, oder?
- Reposted by KathrinThe Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.
- Reposted by KathrinJedes Kind hat das Recht, etwas für sich Nützliches und für die Gesellschaft Unnützliches zu lernen. Wir sind Individuen und keine Drohnen, deren Arbeitsspeicher für den Einsatz im Kapitalismus effizient maximiert werden muss.
- Reposted by Kathrinreposting with alt text bc i love this
- Reposted by Kathrin"I was told you're a monster," the hero said. "So they say," said the monster. "But you're beautiful!" "Thank you." "Have you always been a monster?" "Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden." "And became a monster?" "Got named a monster." "What did you do?" "I hit back."
- Reposted by KathrinBecause women from the beginning of time have proven how effective smear campaigns against men are. How we always win. How every accused man has disappeared from history. That's why we keep starting them. /s
- Reposted by Kathrinthe $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
- Reposted by Kathrinohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- Reposted by Kathrinworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by KathrinINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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- Reposted by Kathrinund wieder sagen sie was sie machen werden und wieder werden journalisten überrascht sein wenn es am ende so passiert
- Steve Bannon kündigte an, dass „die ICE im November die Wahllokale umstellen wird“, und erklärte den Demokraten, dass sie „das Land nicht erneut stehlen“ werden. Diese Äußerungen erfolgen vor dem Hintergrund wachsender Besorgnis, dass Trump plant, sich in die diesjährigen Zwischenwahlen einzumischen
