Catherine, working on Great
@doublespace.bsky.social
Researcher(liberal arts and social sciences), fiction writer, crazy cat lady. Escaped academic.
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I will die on the hill of: fictional characters can be essential sources of inspiration, support, & modeling for complex trauma survivors who grew up surrounded by toxic family, peers, & culture.
This is part of what makes libraries so magical. It’s where the other people, the safe ones, live. Bookstores and rooms with stacks and stacks of books work, too.
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Mandatory repost of this extremely ahead-of-its-time commercial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgT...
He-Man and Skeletor Dancing | Money Supermarket Commercial
YouTube video by AV Enthusiast
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Mandatory repost of this extremely ahead-of-its-time commercial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgT...
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I Am Richard Pryor is on TV.
Carolina won.
I ordered the fancy sushi.
Gonna have a martini.
Life won’t win today.
Carolina won.
I ordered the fancy sushi.
Gonna have a martini.
Life won’t win today.
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I Am Richard Pryor is on TV.
Carolina won.
I ordered the fancy sushi.
Gonna have a martini.
Life won’t win today.
Carolina won.
I ordered the fancy sushi.
Gonna have a martini.
Life won’t win today.
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Today is a good day for self care.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Today is a good day for self care.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Donald Trump is:
- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people
- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Donald Trump is:
- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people
- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people
Right. Don’t repost or quote post, that would be rude to Kid Rock and his claims about his origins.
Hey y'all please do me a favor.
Kid Rock absolutely HATES that people remember that even though he claimed he's "straight out the trailer", he actually grew up in a 5600 sq foot home in Romeo (not Detroit), MI.
So please stop saying it. DO NOT quote this, or repost it, or anything like that. Thx
Kid Rock absolutely HATES that people remember that even though he claimed he's "straight out the trailer", he actually grew up in a 5600 sq foot home in Romeo (not Detroit), MI.
So please stop saying it. DO NOT quote this, or repost it, or anything like that. Thx
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Right. Don’t repost or quote post, that would be rude to Kid Rock and his claims about his origins.
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I never should've quit dancing for my ~*~academics~*~ because me coding will never look as cool as this
Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I never should've quit dancing for my ~*~academics~*~ because me coding will never look as cool as this
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Words of Dwight D Eisenhower are as true today as they were in 1945. After Trump is no more Republicans will claim the Trump years were a wonderful time of peace and prosperity. It is up to all of us to document the reality of Trump’s madness. The media cannot be trusted #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
February 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Words of Dwight D Eisenhower are as true today as they were in 1945. After Trump is no more Republicans will claim the Trump years were a wonderful time of peace and prosperity. It is up to all of us to document the reality of Trump’s madness. The media cannot be trusted #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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I hope you have a nice night.
I hope you look at the stars with wonder.
I hope you're never lost in the catacombs without a lantern.
I hope you're always able to find room for one more book on your bookshelves.
I hope you feel at home in the forest, because you're always welcome there.
I hope you look at the stars with wonder.
I hope you're never lost in the catacombs without a lantern.
I hope you're always able to find room for one more book on your bookshelves.
I hope you feel at home in the forest, because you're always welcome there.
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I hope you have a nice night.
I hope you look at the stars with wonder.
I hope you're never lost in the catacombs without a lantern.
I hope you're always able to find room for one more book on your bookshelves.
I hope you feel at home in the forest, because you're always welcome there.
I hope you look at the stars with wonder.
I hope you're never lost in the catacombs without a lantern.
I hope you're always able to find room for one more book on your bookshelves.
I hope you feel at home in the forest, because you're always welcome there.
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Every woman that didn't vote for Harris sold herself and the rest of us out. Don't even form your crusty lips to talk about solidarity.
The Heritage Foundation’s “save the family” plan isn’t about saving anyone. It’s about dragging women back 60 years—shrinking our choices, our power, our futures. We’re not going back. We’re building a world where women are equal
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Every woman that didn't vote for Harris sold herself and the rest of us out. Don't even form your crusty lips to talk about solidarity.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
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Brigham Young University guys.
That’s why MAGAs dreams of being the Galactic Empire can only go so far.
There are simply not enough true believers even in reliably red states to make it work.
That’s why MAGAs dreams of being the Galactic Empire can only go so far.
There are simply not enough true believers even in reliably red states to make it work.
About 500 BYU students, alumni and others protested Thursday against Border Patrol’s presence at a job fair on the Provo campus, chanting “BYU get ICE out” and “Border Patrol has got to go.”
(Video by The Tribune’s Francisco Kjolseth)
Read more here: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
(Video by The Tribune’s Francisco Kjolseth)
Read more here: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Brigham Young University guys.
That’s why MAGAs dreams of being the Galactic Empire can only go so far.
There are simply not enough true believers even in reliably red states to make it work.
That’s why MAGAs dreams of being the Galactic Empire can only go so far.
There are simply not enough true believers even in reliably red states to make it work.
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I am not looking forward to the giant smoking crater that will be created when the AI bubble pops, but the faster it happens, the smaller the crater. Also, if the digital-crime-tulip market went with it, that would be awesome.
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I am not looking forward to the giant smoking crater that will be created when the AI bubble pops, but the faster it happens, the smaller the crater. Also, if the digital-crime-tulip market went with it, that would be awesome.
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Solid. AI does nothing I need, it costs stupid amounts of money and resources, it’s bloatware that makes my existing devices and software harder to use, and was built on top of stolen labor. People understand it, they just don’t want it.
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Solid. AI does nothing I need, it costs stupid amounts of money and resources, it’s bloatware that makes my existing devices and software harder to use, and was built on top of stolen labor. People understand it, they just don’t want it.
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okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
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And I was thinking that, even in this scriptural source, concepts of due process and citizenship in the early empire—Tiberius’s reign—are represented as stronger than they are in America today.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
And I was thinking that, even in this scriptural source, concepts of due process and citizenship in the early empire—Tiberius’s reign—are represented as stronger than they are in America today.
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Perfection
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
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Perfection
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worth 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
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth 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
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
Homan in Minneapolis: "Effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today."
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."
This presser worked like a charm.
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"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Democrats Ease Up On 1 Of Their Biggest ICE Demands
Masks might still be OK in "extraordinary and unusual circumstances," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
www.huffpost.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...