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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 1h

Ahahahaha!

Last one holding the bag when the glorified ponzi scheme busts

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 15h

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 1d

oh my god?? it feels completely unreal to have someone running for office actually stand up for us like this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 1h

#NeverForget

A Native woman giving the camera the finger. Text says Fuck Christopher Columbus

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Jul 15

What happens when your new fling turns out to be a legit goddess? And her ex is trying to overdose humanity on old magic?

What to do, what to do.. 🤔

Once Upon a Punk Show. Sing together. Save the world together. Out now!

Full blurb and links below ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...

Once Upon a Punk Show

For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …

katelynforrest.com

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

But I bought it with literally 12 miles on it so I've gotten my money's worth.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

Ooof. I wish that was the case. Full time all wheel drive means tires get $$$ cause all four have to match or it borks the transmission.

The nastiest one that's got me was replacing the axel. Twice. 3k cause I was getting out of the way of a firetruck and a curb fucked it.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

Every time I've gotten a new car it was due to catastrophic failure. I swear I'd still be driving my 87 Civic as a commuter car if it hadn't been totaled by a lifted F250.

Current Subie is at 140k and 10 years old. Only drive it to work now so fully expect my kids to drive it.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

I was known for playing the weirdest stuff on air..... and on a college radio station that could be *very* weird.

Welch reggae metal certainly qualified.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

Here's a blast from the past...

I used to spin this song by Skindred on the radio when I was a DJ.

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5h

Music by Skindred

youtu.be/lnY4dYpDqUg

Skindred - Nobody

YouTube video by Jamie Lee

youtu.be

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

My pay is roughly 25k/yr behind where inflation says it should be compared to 2010.

If you factor in that I've had multiple promotions since then, it's more like 40k.

Female at Law @femaleatlaw.bsky.social · 7h

The problem is less that Americans "want" to buy cheap things than that wages have not kept up with inflation. Sure, buy a couple of "timeless pieces," but if you need a full work wardrobe and it costs 8-10% of your gross income... 🤷🏻‍♀️ Vintage doesn't address the issue of availability of larger sizes

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 5h

This car should be doing shenanigans.

I will never understand people who buy cars to just look at them.

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 5h

16k-Mile 2005 Dodge Neon SRT-4 Commemorative Edition

Bid for the chance to own a 16k-Mile 2005 Dodge Neon SRT-4 Commemorative Edition at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #215,398.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 7h

Jeez this is like a Voltron of sketchy tech scams.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 8h

Related... for many years, companies exploited the eff out of the Northern Mariana Islands... a US territory most people don't know exist... to exploit workers under sketchy "immigration" schemes in sweatshop conditions in order to slap "Made in USA" tags on things.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 8h

"Velocity, signed Quality Department."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 23h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 9h

America would be so much better off if a majority of people understood this.

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 9h

political parties have a vested interest in wanting to convince you they are your friend and the responsibility of the citizen is to understand the difference between a coalition and a political alliance and not get sucked into to cults of personality

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 12h

always a better choice than *gestures at everything else*

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13h

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 9h

Trash pokemon FTW

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 12h

Sagittarius: Today’s planetary configuration resembles a middle finger but it’s probably nothing.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 11h

I saw someone say to start with ADIEU cause it's got 4 vowels to lock in quick

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Samantha 🏳️‍⚧️ ™ @goddamnitsamantha.bsky.social · 11h

could you imagine the freakout if the Samus Aran gender reveal happened these days and not on first release?

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 11h

The enemy of my enemy means I have two enemies now.

FaultyPenis🎃 @faultypussy.bsky.social · 4d

people like Gavin Newsom because they think the phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a universal truth. they cannot comprehend two separate groups hating you.

if racists and misogynists were in a fight, black women don't see one side as the enemy of their enemy, therefore a friend.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 11h

Ignyte Awards are always on the cutting edge of SFFH writing.

Stack your reading list with the winners below.

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, hello

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 14h

Danke 😁 The years of practice are paying off

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14h

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: we just learned that howard had 3 girlfriends
Barker: and they were all so normal!
Barker: he never even fucked one on a parent's grave
Mary Shelley: what was that
Barker: i said
Shelley:
Barker: never mind
Shelley: yeah that's what i thought

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