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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 1d

I was texting my wife that all the dogs had gone out except the hound, who told me to go fuck myself. But Siri corrected it to “conduct myself.” Sorry Siri. Truvy is not that genteel.

A very grumpy hound dog with brown and black spots. She is mostly asleep and not taking requests.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great read and a spectacular ad!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a guy on my street (in MA, for context) who has a bumper sticker on his work van that says “Why do I have to press 1 for English?”

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 4d

Were they roommates, or am I merging stories together? I remember EG would go to the football games in a full raccoon coat.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 4d

Thank goodness!

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like the queen's gonna be okay.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dolly Parton's sister 'didn't mean to scare anyone' with call for prayers

The singer's sister had asked fans to pray for her after the star postponed gigs due to health issues.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 20d

Disney REALLY hopes releasing a new STAR WARS trailer will make everyone stop talking about how they’re the villains in STAR WARS.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 21d

There’s some terrible grammar there. I kept editing to try not to use “thrust” and missed a few words…

Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 21d

I think it has to do with a bull charging he starts with his head down, and then bucks his horns upward into its adversary; but when a bear attacks, it swipes down with its claws.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 22d

I even feel the cities here are mostly suburbs.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 22d

It is baffling, for sure.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 22d

Probably Lynn

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 23d

Oh, for fuck's.

THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT.

DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON A LIST IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO THE GOVERNMENT WANTS LISTS OF.

PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL THE LISTS IF YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON THEY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PROSECUTE EN MASSE. FLOOD THE ZONE.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 24d

Also, if everything is descending into hell, I want a cigarette, goddamn it!

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 24d

I stumbled into a Casablanca rewatch and cannot stop weeping.

Where the fuck is our Victor Lazlo? Or even our Rick?

Also, not for nothing, but I expected that if we had to resist Nazis again that there would be better art direction….

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 26d

Six Degrees of Separation with Allison Janey and Corey Hawkins

Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 26d

The guy who played Ted in How I Met Your Mother held the door for me while we were exiting a Broadway show.

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 28d

CVS in Kingston, MA. Easy to book online (I’m an ex-smoker, so could click the high risk box, but I think that may also be sorted now)

Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · 29d

This is a really important point (and a really good thread) about how different populations encountered this human. I had no idea.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29d

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · Sep 12

I would have watched seven seasons of just Ellen Greene and Swoozie Kurtz!

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pushing Daisies

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · Sep 12

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · Sep 12

It’s a hard day. And hard to find something to say that adds anything. I believe that all violent deaths are tragic. I think lives spent espousing violence are also tragic. I want to focus my time and attention to those that want to fight violence. Hug your loved ones. Protect the vulnerable. Love.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Sep 12

Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever.

We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb

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Kate of Kate Hall @plainkate.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hooray! Celebrate every win! I’m sure it was hard won for both you and the kiddo—congratulations!

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