Kim Stiens
@kimstiens.bsky.social
Nonprofit operations in DC - currently working with the best people in the world at Employ America. she/her
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November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover!
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Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025<br><br>“Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America’s most popular...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover!
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It's time for the monthly AMA -- send me your questions, it's my favorite post of the month.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's time for the monthly AMA -- send me your questions, it's my favorite post of the month.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Kathy Hochul is a Democrat, right? She could be quietly working with a member of her own party to get a better deal for their constituents - even if "free" is somehow impossible, many other things are possible! - and she's going with "loud opposition" instead?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Kathy Hochul is a Democrat, right? She could be quietly working with a member of her own party to get a better deal for their constituents - even if "free" is somehow impossible, many other things are possible! - and she's going with "loud opposition" instead?
zeteo.com/p/democrats-...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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man who is gonna run the headline thats
"Fight Or Flights?"
"Fight Or Flights?"
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
man who is gonna run the headline thats
"Fight Or Flights?"
"Fight Or Flights?"
The fact that Progressives still say stuff like this in 2025 - regarding the 50mil+ Black people in America as a monolith of magical wise sages - is one of the bigger indictments of DEI and identity politics as practiced over the past decade
This isn't liberatory, it's condescending as hell
This isn't liberatory, it's condescending as hell
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The fact that Progressives still say stuff like this in 2025 - regarding the 50mil+ Black people in America as a monolith of magical wise sages - is one of the bigger indictments of DEI and identity politics as practiced over the past decade
This isn't liberatory, it's condescending as hell
This isn't liberatory, it's condescending as hell
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Water? You mean ice lava?
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Water? You mean ice lava?
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ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
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for some reason i find local LLMs kind of charming in a way the mass consumer stuff is not. you built a mini-cluster out of raspberry pis that takes 37 minutes to generate a 3 second clip of video that sucks? i don't see the point but that's classic computer dork shit, have fun pal
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
for some reason i find local LLMs kind of charming in a way the mass consumer stuff is not. you built a mini-cluster out of raspberry pis that takes 37 minutes to generate a 3 second clip of video that sucks? i don't see the point but that's classic computer dork shit, have fun pal
I think the dumbest thing about this position - and I certainly don't want to shortchange all the other ways it's dumb - is the supposition that the approach implied here would cause people to buy healthcare directly, rather than using it to buy (less) insurance. Healthcare costs too much for that!
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I think the dumbest thing about this position - and I certainly don't want to shortchange all the other ways it's dumb - is the supposition that the approach implied here would cause people to buy healthcare directly, rather than using it to buy (less) insurance. Healthcare costs too much for that!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
One of the worst American instincts (and I do think it is American) is to see people getting "free" stuff and, instead of thinking "maybe everyone can get better, including myself" they think "fuck them, no one should get anything"
Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
One of the worst American instincts (and I do think it is American) is to see people getting "free" stuff and, instead of thinking "maybe everyone can get better, including myself" they think "fuck them, no one should get anything"
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Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues
There’s a cottage industry of investors who monitor former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s disclosed stock trades, match her every move, and usually make a profit along the way.
That trend will now end in 2027.
That trend will now end in 2027.
Stock traders might miss Pelosi after she retires | CNN Politics
There's a cottage industry of investors who monitor former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's disclosed stock trades, match her every move, and usually make a profit along the way.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
The Dems complaining about how Zohran promises too much really give themselves away.
Legislators will *always* deliver less than they promise. You have lofty ideals, and then you compromise. You iterate and build toward long-term goals.
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Legislators will *always* deliver less than they promise. You have lofty ideals, and then you compromise. You iterate and build toward long-term goals.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Dems complaining about how Zohran promises too much really give themselves away.
Legislators will *always* deliver less than they promise. You have lofty ideals, and then you compromise. You iterate and build toward long-term goals.
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Legislators will *always* deliver less than they promise. You have lofty ideals, and then you compromise. You iterate and build toward long-term goals.
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Must read thread from Katie, with new analysis from her and the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social
New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Must read thread from Katie, with new analysis from her and the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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'Our primary focus is on winning and therefore it's a real problem that someone we don't like is winning'
![Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreidedpbe5cweyx6x5pz66ypn74fumifyvinjjr4prysjpvopaqi4vi@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
'Our primary focus is on winning and therefore it's a real problem that someone we don't like is winning'
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oh hey just gonna mention once more that @ryansimmons.bsky.social and I did a whole season of a podcast asking regular people about their experiences playing sports. It's subscriber-only, but we made the first episode with @jonbois.bsky.social available to everyone
if you want to try before you buy, we just made the @jonbois.bsky.social episode free:
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November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
oh hey just gonna mention once more that @ryansimmons.bsky.social and I did a whole season of a podcast asking regular people about their experiences playing sports. It's subscriber-only, but we made the first episode with @jonbois.bsky.social available to everyone
Feels like a lot of policymakers refuse to face the stone-cold fact that any given person's employment is dependent on an employer being willing to hire them
You can have all the skills in the world, that is no guarantee that there is a company out there with the means and inclination to hire you
You can have all the skills in the world, that is no guarantee that there is a company out there with the means and inclination to hire you
Welfare payments are increasingly conditional and subject to the whims of profiteering job agencies - who can't even help people find work!
We must stop expecting Labor to be better. Maintaining an underclass of people living in permanent precarity is part of their business model.
We must stop expecting Labor to be better. Maintaining an underclass of people living in permanent precarity is part of their business model.
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Feels like a lot of policymakers refuse to face the stone-cold fact that any given person's employment is dependent on an employer being willing to hire them
You can have all the skills in the world, that is no guarantee that there is a company out there with the means and inclination to hire you
You can have all the skills in the world, that is no guarantee that there is a company out there with the means and inclination to hire you