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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈

@karads9.bsky.social

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Engineering student, StarTrek fan, Ghostbuster, theme park and Churro enthusiast and Cosplayer ..and I do Twitch streams sometimes. She/her #notacylon ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/karaamens

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hi all my new followers, it’s been a crazy week
I imagine most of you know me from the ‘other place’
But if not I’m Kara, and I typically post about Star Trek and other fun nerdy stuff
I also make costumes and props and I’m part of a Ghostbusters group that raises money for children’s hospitals

Picture collage of Kara as Supergirl, also in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit and Proton pack standing in front of the ECTO-1, and as Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. Also has pictures of props she made, some Star Trek PADDs and isolinear rods in multiple colors

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 6h

Trump and his family have amassed over a billion dollars in cryptocurrency since he took office. Can everyday Americans say the same?

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10h

President Donald Trump and his family have reaped more than $1 billion in crypto cash over the past year, thanks to an industry boom fueled by the administration’s own crypto-friendly policies.

Trump’s Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab

The president’s son said the true total is “probably more.”

trib.al

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

😡😡😡😡

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · 7h

Do you even Frisbee bruh?

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Carlos Vergara (Comms open!) @krls81.bsky.social · 8h

The Borg Queen just chilling, a quick redraw from some time ago.

#startrek #art

Illustration of the bust + spinal cybernetic cord of the borg queen from star trek.

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · 8h

ULTIMATE!!!

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 9h

Bonelord loading screen from Morrowind. Text says "silence only supports the oppressor, never the oppressed".

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · 11h

Yes. Just this once

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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 22h

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility....
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.the-independent.com

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · 21h

Oh Spock you horn dog

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

This DS9 illustration from a few years ago is probably still my favourite Star Trek fan art creation.

An illustration of Terok Nor, aka Deep Space Nine, in the style of the Cardassian computer interfaces used on the show.

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LastOneOut @lastoneout.bsky.social · 22h

Guys I think Prodigy might actually be my favorite Star Trek show.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 23h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

GOP gave $20 billion to Argentina yesterday

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Star Trek Corrupted Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 1d

School can be a tough time.
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekDS9

Top left panel: Chief O'Brien is filling in as teacher for Keiko on DS9. He's standing at the front of the classroom, looking stern. His caption reads, "Nog, if I gave you a bar of latinum and your father gave you a bar of latinum, how many bars of latinum would you have?"

Top right panel: Nog is seated at a desk. Behind him, a handful of other students can be seen including Jake Sisko. Nog looks at the Chief and answers, "One bar."

Bottom left panel: Chief O'Brien chides, "You don't know your arithmetic."

Bottom right panel: Nog smiles as he replies, "You don't know my father."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Kara Amens 🏳️‍🌈 @karads9.bsky.social · 1d

Jadzia was a strong strong woman ..

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JeffNJ @jeffnj1701.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 1d

Janice Rand is so important that, when the captain's yeoman job is phased out in the TNG era, most of her duties pass to the first officer

Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 1d

Trektober, Day 8 - Underrated Character. Rand isn't some damsel, she's the PA for one of the most dangerous men in the quadrant. She has to ask the captain to intervene in conflicts because of how bad she might hurt THEM. She paints, she does botany, Rand is awesome, no arguments taken.

Cartoon of Yeoman Janice Rand from Star Trek. She looking extremely badass and is holding a tricorder in one hand whilst firing a phaser with the other. In the background is a pink-and-black colour scheme with the words 'Janice FRICKEN' Rand' writ large. It was going to be 'Janice FUCKMOTHERING Rand' but I chickened out.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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