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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · 1d

A summer sojourn to the Spanish Pyrenees to see ski towns, eat tapas, bike, hike, and dance. Worth another visit and soon...

The prettiest place you’ve never heard of

A late summer respite in the Spanish Pyrenees, with biking and bagpipes. It was great to get to someplace cooler and more remote and then to feel like... home?

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · 7d

Evaluator effects

Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.

Evaluator effects

Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Sep 3

I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.

So familiar, but entirely new

I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wide open Skye

It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!

Wide open Skye

It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Jul 4

Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.

Obliterating Objectivity

Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Apr 25

Without good language and translation, there is no field work. There is only colonialist claptrap serving researchers' needs and wasting respondents' time. Don't do that!

Language first

Without good language skills field work is just colonialist claptrap that serves researchers' needs but wastes respondents' time.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.

Is it time to rethink foreign aid?

I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Apr 19

Reliving my beloved career, pondering identity, and figuring out what's next after the gutting of USAID.

What’s your name?

Inside my fevered mind, thinking about my career and my identity, while I figure out what's next after the gutting of USAID.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Apr 14

Ffs.

Thinky Parts @thinkyparts.bsky.social · Apr 14

Here’s the clip.

Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Apr 1

What a scumbag. Wow, Indiana, great choice of Senator - can he punch a baby, too?

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Apr 1

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · Apr 1

YIKES! 👀 A terrifying account of what ketamine did to this former addict’s brain:

Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥

tinyurl.com/ketamusk

Obliteration of witness and dissociative episodes. I spent a lot of time (including for at least a month after using the drug) having times when I was completely not present. I don’t remember my behaviour and actions - they have been recounted to me by others. I was not at all able to be responsible for my actions. It’s terrifying and terrible. A ketamine user cannot be counted on.

I thought I knew everything. It was very strange. And I did know a lot - my mind was very good at constructing narratives. Some of them, however, made zero sense. The grandiosity combined with delusions is oh so dangerous.

Glitch in the matrix. I believed I was in a glitch for about two weeks. Everything appeared insane to me. I tried to get out by thinking about movies I had watched about the matrix and trying to determine the secret door to get out and basically just doing more ketamine to try to snap out of it. It was horrific. Tony Hseih of Zappos another ketamine user who eventually died through bizarre actions was also obsessed with simulation theory. This is another weird shadow experience on ketamine - matrix theory isn’t my thing but it became my thing.

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Kirsten Berg @kirstenberg.bsky.social · Mar 31

Pleased to relay that @propublica.org now offers SecureDrop— in addition to our Signal tip line and postal mail—as a way to reach our reporters with information: www.propublica.org/tips/

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · Mar 30

Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵

It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.

👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼

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LoriPica 💙 @loripica.bsky.social · Mar 26

This must go VIRAL!
Start now!!!

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Mar 26

Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 27

Used a vrbo last week for the first time. The selection of properties was as good as Airbnb which came as a surprise. #nomoreairbnbmonopoly #vrbo

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 27

Me too! First time vrbo user, very happy with the selection and the app. Stayed in one already for a week. #vrbo #nomoreairbnb

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 20

Why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.

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Focusing on Rigor in International Development Evaluation - Keri Culver

This article delves into why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.

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Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 19

This from a man who wielded a chainsaw and laughed about feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Poor baby.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Mar 18

You hurt his feelings.

Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 17

Are those little sweaters standard issue for Finnish chickens?? Adorbs.

Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · Mar 16

🐔 #Finland refuses to sell its eggs to #Americans

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The Finnish authorities, whom the #US approached for help, declined the export due to bureaucracy. NEXTA

Keri Culver @kericulver.bsky.social · Mar 17

If he doesn’t understand why the hate and “violence” against him, he is more sociopathic than I gave him credit for. Vile, monstrous, hideous scumbag.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 17

Also, DOGE's existential cuts to USAID will end lives not just now, but rippling out across generations.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Mar 17

Counterpoints:

- Tesla has the highest fatality crash rates of any car
- Tesla busts unions
- He pushes for dangerous safety deregulations that’ll result in people being killed
- His DOGE is taking away the healthcare of millions and fired over 250k people over the last 56 days.

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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧 @mayraphotography.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is the biggest scam in American history, Trump and Elon should be in prison.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Mar 11

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Mar 10

Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 5

So close... and yet...

Vance Blasted After Latest Attack On 'Insane' Democrats Is A Spectacular Self-Own

You're so close, JD. So close.

www.comicsands.com

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Dr Oddman - Fighting Fascism @droddman.bsky.social · Mar 5

The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop

Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱

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