Kellum Tate-Jones, PhD

Hi y'all! I'm Kellum, executive director of Refugium, LLC, a consulting agency focused on community engagement, strategic planning, and facilitation in STEM and academia. I'm a queer, neurodivergent Earth scientist, poet, storyteller, birder, forager, gardener, and cat mama. Excited to join y'all!

A beautiful ending to a shit month. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, August.

found a looseleaf sheet with my son's handwriting titled "We Didn't Start The Fire 2025" and the first line is "crypto, spongebob, got my dick caught in the gun safe". the rest of the page is blank.

Why is everything so bad

This is an interesting time to be reading all the pandemic sci-fi I've been consuming over the last three months....

God stuffing me full of insecurities and ADHD

As if the DQ workers are gonna be sharing their molly and cocaine in this economy

Make ass*ssination great again

I know I'm months late to the party but the second season of Andor seems to really just be ICE IN SPAAACE (SPACE Space space space....)

The only law of the land is consume

Are we still talking about the hundreds of kidnapped men in the Cecot concentration camp or what

I identify as a threat. My pronouns are try/me.

Am I manic or just reacting to my ADHD meds after skipping them for a week: a saga

Eh they've been doing this forever *gestures vaguely at the Crusades and Inquisition

YODA: yoda my name is LUKE: how do you spell it YODA: *starts sweating*

Why are so many girls out here faking cancer though

I really fucking want this. I have a family member who recently committed suicide and there was a direct link to ChatGPT usage. Put his ass in a deep dark dank hole. Preferably with scorpions.

Admittedly I am a huge fan of John Bolton's moustache

I told you not to take everything I say clitorally

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

Love is love.

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

I just need to scream about how happy I am about how this batch of #pottery came out. It's not every day the kiln gods deliver but today they DID. #ceramics

Me and my COVID test after coming up positive two days before the trip to Scotland I'd planned for two years

IT'S HERE IT'S FINALLY HERE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I've been waiting for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang for over a year now and it's finally miiiine all miiiine 😈😼😈

Just thinking about how I should be looking at great tits in Scotland right now but instead I'm home with COVID. (The birds.)

Watched Nosferatu on edibles AND covid last night please pray for me I am unwell

Fuck it time for some edibles

Gotdamn this is some good shit right here.

Texas is a majority-minority state, yet Republicans drew maps that make white votes carry 2-3 times more political power than Black or Hispanic votes. That’s what gerrymandering does: it cracks and packs communities of color so their growing numbers translate into less representation.

Love now I think to myself, I'll just read this book about native plants to help me get sleepy, as if I'm not completely hyper-fixated on native plants right now

Just over here trying to push those numbers back down all by myself; finished the third book of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy today and I definitely recommend it. 67 books for 2025 down.

🥲

Bitch that was my entire childhood

First thing I thought when I saw this wolf was "sexy" and that's how I know COVID is altering my brain function

I only read the first three GoT books because they just weren't my thing and in general, I love Sanderson (even if his prose isn't great). BUT. This would be a *horrendous* fit. Give old George all the time he needs. Fans need to calm down.

I love the way this list is just about all the awesome shit the Smithsonian is doing. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

My finest hour

Does Trump complaining about how Smithsonian museums talk too much about "how bad slavery was" imply that he'd rather them talk about how awesome it was?

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This site is worse than the old Twitter I swear to god

Walruses can and do suck their own [redacted]

In addition to Kindred, I also felt similarly about James by Percival Everett. There's a particular scene where white people are picnicking next to the torture of an enslaved man. One of the most gruesome scenes I've ever read and that was just one single story.

A civil war is almost certainly going to target Black and brown people, and we know that because IT ALREADY IS.

Drinking Emergen-C out of a wine glass

Fell off the wagon again. (I'm watching Bachelor in Paradise.) (It's the butts.)

Once when I was getting my keys at a rental car place the guy behind the counter was like "Last name Tate? Are you related to Andrew Tate? That guy is awesome!" They say my internal scream is still echoing out past Jupiter.

Partner is listening to metal core featuring incomprehensible screaming and I've never related to music more