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@askanaspergirl.bsky.social

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Queer 🏳️‍🌈 woman. Poet. Mixed media artist. Intermediate knitter. Cats’ carer. Service terrier handler. AuDHD-er. Barbie collector. Home for [The] little Monsters. NWSL fan. Fellowjacket. Often #TVYellingWithKat

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Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 14d

After fucking with my pattern for what feels like forever, I made this for one of my little monsters: www.reddit.com/r/labubu/s/U...

From the labubu community on Reddit: Finished Sea Salt Coconut’s knitted hat (with open top for ears) and infinity scarf (!)

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Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

>> Anniversary’s explanation of why the U.S. voluntarily turned itself into a one-party state basically amounts to “some lady wrote a real persuasive book.”

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

The Handmaid’s Tale’s vision of the future is chilling because it’s rooted in prejudices and social structures that exist now, and it depicts exactly how these forces might be weaponized to convince millions of Americans to willingly surrender their democracy while rolling over those who refuse. >>

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

“But the thing that renders Anniversary’s vision of dystopia so implausible and so impossible to invest in is its refusal to give us a sense of what makes The Change so incendiary >>

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

'Anniversary' Review: Democracy Dies in This Incredulous Thriller www.slantmagazine.com/film/anniver... #SeeAlso

'Anniversary' Review: Democracy Dies in This Incredulous Thriller

Jan Komasa's 'Anniversary' is a curious thing: an overtly political film that’s hesitant to express its own political sentiments.

www.slantmagazine.com

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

>> the emergency workers showed up with a cheap-looking Lionsgate movie about how awful it feels to die in a fire.”

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

“The result is a hollow synecdoche of today’s America that seems timely and ridiculous in equal measure, the way it would be if someone were trapped in a burning house and, instead of a ladder or a hose, >>

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 3d

Anniversary' Movie Review: Kyle Chandler, Diane Lane Thriller www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

‘Anniversary’ Review: Fascism Tears a Family Apart in a Hyper-Topical Thriller That Strains Believability

Diane Lane plays a Georgetown professor whose daughter-in-law inspires an authoritarian takeover in a movie that shouldn't be this hard to swallow.

www.indiewire.com

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 4d

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... #AmListening via @coolzonemedia.bsky.social

Part One: Bishop David E. Taylor: Jesus Christ's Best Friend

Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 10/28/2025 · 1h 1m

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5d

Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness.

We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

I’m reminded again that these are people with a great deal of privilege finding the idea of wellness checks intolerable — not expecting them to happen to their kind(s) of people. Monied people. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so glad we’re hearing from Hannah now. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

I would love to see adult adoptees perspective on this mom, on these parents. Because this sounds disturbing too. I hear her identifying with the Stauffers too. And she made a Reddit thread??? This is still troubling. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

“Dissolution” feels like such an overly neutral euphemism. Very bureaucratic. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily // I don’t know what to do with this couple who was part of the dissolution of the adoption of their prev child (2nd adoptee?). I hear them taking on too much, from the beginning. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

And the internet doesn’t forget. “If it’s ever existed online, people will find it.” // Wellness checks have happened with less evidence, with less concern. But these usually happen to parents with considerably less power and privilege. // did all of this happen around same time as Wayfair rumors?

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

When someone puts many hours of their parenting online and monetizes their adopted kiddo, they shouldn’t be surprised when the internet analyzes these hours of footage. Might have been the only way accountability could have happened. Poor H. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily #DocumentaryYellingWithKat

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

The media storm, re: the Stauffer parents abandoning their adopted child, feels very turnabout is fair-play. And it’s definitely anger-inducing. For once, the internet had good reasons to be pissed in real time; this outcome was predictable from the beginning. Including haters. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Being the transracial international adoptee preschool age child of extremely online and visible to the public parents made H. extremely vulnerable. #AnUpdateOnOurFamilyDoc

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

And here’s where the warning signs are big 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩: parents of autistic kiddos who film their everyday lives for the internet to consume. That gets scary for these kiddos so quickly. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Still #DocumentaryYellingWithKat as I watch #AnUpdateOnOurFamily #TVYellingWithKat

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, I’m adding this to my long list of reasons why functioning labels are extremely unhelpful for parents learning their child is autistic via formal diagnosis. Here all hearing H. “Has level 3 autism” did was promote fear and lower expectations for this kiddo who’d already been through so much. >

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

I also suspect // vaguely remember H. being pushed down the overly intrusive way too intense pipeline of intensive ABA (aka 40 hours a week, for years on end — whose founders sought to make young children indistinguishable from their non-Autistic peers). This narrative is all-too-familiar.

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, I’m adding this to my long list of reasons why functioning labels are extremely unhelpful for parents learning their child is autistic via formal diagnosis. Here all hearing H. “Has level 3 autism” did was promote fear and lower expectations for this kiddo who’d already been through so much. >

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

“My child is not returnable.” ~ Myka Stauffer (past Myka should have met future Myka.) 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 a plenty by the end of episode 1. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Hannah is also a n international adoptee from Korea, so her story is especially pertinent to this doc. #AnUpdateOnHerFamily

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

Hannah. Storyteller in #AnUpdateOnOurFamilyDoc and Asian mom of 1.

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

“Rehome” feels like a horrible word for such a messy story but does reflect the former adoptive parents’ actions and attitudes towards the former preschool age adoptee (Huxley). I’m glad one of the storytellers is an Asian mom of 1 who followed this world; she shares some of Huxley’s demographics.

Kat @askanaspergirl.bsky.social · 6d

And the internet, understandably, freaked out at Myka and husband, b/c their response to their disabled child was & is horrifying. Myka and husband disappeared Huxley from their online life and their accountability could go with it. The whole situation was/is just so fucked up. #AnUpdateOnOurFamily