Kara McNair

Kara McNair

@karamcnair.bsky.social

You are very small & slow & I am training my cats to eat you; Tina Belcher, but without the kind loving parents. Never gives up her dead. Pushing around the weathervane Jesus. “IT WAS BEANS!” “Is it about my cube?” No dress rehearsal. This is our life.

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Fuck selling a book, you couldve done something about this

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social

"If Cole’s claims are accurate, Kushner’s political and financial relationship with the U.A.E.’s president, Mohammed bin Zayed ...constitutes what must surely be the worst case of U.S. foreign policy being conducted outside the law and democratic oversight since the Iran-contra scandal..."

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if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED@calligiovanini.bsky.social

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

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Jesus. That’s like doing a cancer study and not tracking of people’s tumors go away. It’s not even worth doing a study if you don’t track the main problem. Jesus fucking Christ

Jon Douglas@atranscendedman.bsky.social

Researchers reviewed 105 Long COVID and ME/CFS clinical trials and found major gaps in how treatment success is measured. Only 18% of Long COVID trials assessed post-exertional malaise (PEM). Many relied on fatigue scores that miss disability & crashes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

I don’t think it’s ok that they information for us to understand what the hate vector is. That’s a form of whitewashing. “This man did a bad thing because he hated people of a different race” but not telling us which race means we can’t track and combat trends of hate.

Was it antisemitism? was it islamaphobia (or anti-sikhism which is often assumed to be the same as islam)? was it misogyny? If the police feel strongly enough to tell the press that there was a “hate“ factor, tell us *which* kind of hate so we can add it to the stats and work to protect against it

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As someone who was hospitalized for five days after a cold turned into an inner ear infection and caused SEVERE vertigo, you can be perfectly healthy and still have major complications from "just a cold". It's 2.5 years later and I'm STILL using a cane and doing PT in the hopes of fully recovering.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

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"The 50-page report [...] contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine." "Five women said that Trump raped or assaulted them while Epstein was present." #USA #Trafficking #SexualViolence

truthout.orgNew Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to EpsteinA new report notes several patterns of conduct that Trump and Epstein shared in recruiting victims.

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So recap on some of this month’s notable winners: Vancouver: COPE sweep, Fry for Mayor Kelowna: Brady the guy with the “I barely want to do this” signs for City Councillor British Columbia: BC Conservatives Alberta: Stay in Canada, blaming newcomers Brazil: LULA Toronto: Chow for Mayor

Amanda Hu@amandalhu.bsky.social

I say this as a full fan of democracy: October 2026 has had too many elections. And I very much mean from the perspective of me trying to keep track of all of them.

The 👏 Point 👏 Of 👏 Education 👏 Is 👏 Not 👏 To 👏 Make 👏 Sure 👏 Enough 👏 Essays 👏 Are 👏 Produced 👏!!

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

If the thing that education needs to have happen is “essays produced” then by all means, let’s just set up a tight closed loop where a finite set of essays is fed into a machine that digests them into an essay-generator and let it chum itself to its own satisfaction yumyumyum.

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"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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There comes a time in every reactionary politician's life when he must steel himself, insert a nasogastric tube for unclear reasons, put on his bravest grimace, and give the weirdest thumbs-up anyone has ever seen.

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MANY people came to my table at the NYCC and thanked me for making noise and organizing around political issues. I thanked them back and said I'm just constitutionally incapable of keeping my mouth shut, which is true! But the real sauce: I'm part of multiple communities that make me braver.

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Replying to @rincewind.run

“they were always like this” yes they were but they didn’t feel like they could say it out loud at a campaign rally and it was better when they didn’t feel like they could do this

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bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

Johanna T 🔜 LBX@johannamation.bsky.social

I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!! Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏

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Congratulations to Toronto @mayoroliviachow.ca on her re-election tonight. Given Doug Ford’s constant interference & distractions, Toronto is arguably the hardest city in Canada to be the mayor of. I’m hopeful that in her first FULL term, Mayor Chow will lean in on more bold, creative city-building.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Toronto, don’t forget that polls don’t win elections. Turnout wins elections. Please go out today and #VOTE for @mayoroliviachow.ca.

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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You could imagine he became racist against Arabs because of Sirhan Sirhan, but he actually doesn’t believe Sirhan Sirhan killed his father! He got this way for pure love of the racism game

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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re: the elon and JFK jr comments today the more these people see heinous statements go completely unpunished and unconfronted, the increasingly fucked up their statements will become. It's the same tried and tested groomer pipeline: every time you do a little worse, pushing a little farther

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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Voting starts in Israel in a couple of hours. Please bear this in mind:

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social

But I need Americans to understand this, bc mostly y'all don't: Bibi is uniquely horrible, in part bc he's a uniquely skilled manipulator of people & politics who has kept his eyes firmly on one goal: Power. But his ouster WILL NOT MEAN AN END TO OCCUPATION, ETHNIC CLEANSING, OR SETTLEMENTS. 13/

I watched ”Loki” and internalized the idea of the Time Bureau (or whatever it was called) but Mamdani makes me think that there are subversive agents within the Time Bureau who are trying to fix the timeline that went wrong around the time Bowie & Prince died.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/De-epy1... there is video and it involves pickles hearing how brave he is for kissing the mayor, pickles is amazing