Kate Harding
@kateharding.bsky.social
Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.
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The meteorologists got it right this time. Other parts of Chicago may have gotten around 4”, but up here on the north side we have over 10” on the ground. There’s more than that piled up on furniture, and it was a few feet deep drifted up against the garage.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The meteorologists got it right this time. Other parts of Chicago may have gotten around 4”, but up here on the north side we have over 10” on the ground. There’s more than that piled up on furniture, and it was a few feet deep drifted up against the garage.
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❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
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I think it’s pretty telling that no one can explain why immigration is bad without lying.
The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think it’s pretty telling that no one can explain why immigration is bad without lying.
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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The only reason to go kill the survivors and lie about it is because you knew the boat wasn’t carrying drugs
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The only reason to go kill the survivors and lie about it is because you knew the boat wasn’t carrying drugs
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Excellent read. Here’s the gift link. archive.is/2025.11.26-1...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excellent read. Here’s the gift link. archive.is/2025.11.26-1...
Yesterday, I roasted a boneless turkey breast that came with gravy concentrate to make up for lack of giblets/drippings. Googled cooking instructions from couch. A.I. response included "Do NOT remove gravy packet." 🧐
Multiple surveys are telling the same story: AI adoption has stalled. Census data shows ~11% of workers use AI, with rates falling at 250+ employee firms. Surveys show usage spiked then plateaued.
Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today
Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Yesterday, I roasted a boneless turkey breast that came with gravy concentrate to make up for lack of giblets/drippings. Googled cooking instructions from couch. A.I. response included "Do NOT remove gravy packet." 🧐
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Me using the Cuisinart: hell yeah yes!!!
Me washing the Cuisinart: well this sucks wtf
Me washing the Cuisinart: well this sucks wtf
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Me using the Cuisinart: hell yeah yes!!!
Me washing the Cuisinart: well this sucks wtf
Me washing the Cuisinart: well this sucks wtf
Periodic reminder that libraries allow you to read for free without stealing from authors, and used bookstores will charge you just a few bucks for books you can keep. Fuck's sake.
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Periodic reminder that libraries allow you to read for free without stealing from authors, and used bookstores will charge you just a few bucks for books you can keep. Fuck's sake.
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THE GROUND HOG IS BACK
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
THE GROUND HOG IS BACK
I just deleted two snarky skeets in a row, so Santa'd better be watching.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I just deleted two snarky skeets in a row, so Santa'd better be watching.
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Our illiterate ungovernable Nazi cops will have shiny badges and new uniforms, that is the democratic promise
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Our illiterate ungovernable Nazi cops will have shiny badges and new uniforms, that is the democratic promise
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same, but offense
I’m not picking now to pay for a man’s Substack, no offense
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
same, but offense
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
At some point, you have to conclude the university shares his views on women.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At some point, you have to conclude the university shares his views on women.
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Possibly unpopular opinion but I think tenure should be revokable when you express bigotry toward the immutable characteristics of part of your student body. Such as saying women are naturally not as good at science and engineering. How many young women students has he harmed since saying that?
2/2 Summers did some disgusting predatory stuff. It's genuinely not clear to me whether it would legitimately be grounds for tenure revocation. But I would hope that folks at Harvard are looking into it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Possibly unpopular opinion but I think tenure should be revokable when you express bigotry toward the immutable characteristics of part of your student body. Such as saying women are naturally not as good at science and engineering. How many young women students has he harmed since saying that?
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anyway; looking forward to WaPo issuing a statement retroactively firing Jamal Khashoggi for getting murdered in a way that inconvenienced President Trump.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
anyway; looking forward to WaPo issuing a statement retroactively firing Jamal Khashoggi for getting murdered in a way that inconvenienced President Trump.
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is it subjective to call him a traitor if he keeps doing treasonous shit
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
is it subjective to call him a traitor if he keeps doing treasonous shit
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Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.