Kit Connolly
@kitforkat.com
tech / digital marketing ~ pnw
exvangelical ~ antifascist
luddite ~ rebel
anti-segregation
he/they
we’re not going back
exvangelical ~ antifascist
luddite ~ rebel
anti-segregation
he/they
we’re not going back
Pinned
Kit Connolly
@kitforkat.com
· Jan 4
The time of men’s rights is over. The time of men’s liberation has begun.
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Same way I found out about Epstein
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Same way I found out about Epstein
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One false dichotomy that makes leftists allergic to feminism is their insistence on a clean difference between material & dignity harms, which in practice are interdependent. Same with the insistence on distinguishing “state” & “interpersonal” violence, which in reality are not so easy to separate.
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One false dichotomy that makes leftists allergic to feminism is their insistence on a clean difference between material & dignity harms, which in practice are interdependent. Same with the insistence on distinguishing “state” & “interpersonal” violence, which in reality are not so easy to separate.
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I'm glad there's no historical precedence for this kinda thing going badly or boy I sure would be worried for myself and my community!
“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“
Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using the DMV to help.
A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list fo...
www.kut.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm glad there's no historical precedence for this kinda thing going badly or boy I sure would be worried for myself and my community!
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man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.
I and I do think many others have changed and grown from being online. But it wasn’t from arguments, it was from seeing people unlike me and seeing discussions happening in my industry.
I think trying to go witness is fruitless, just show up and engage with the people where you’re at
I think trying to go witness is fruitless, just show up and engage with the people where you’re at
First, you're not going to win arguments on the Internet.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I and I do think many others have changed and grown from being online. But it wasn’t from arguments, it was from seeing people unlike me and seeing discussions happening in my industry.
I think trying to go witness is fruitless, just show up and engage with the people where you’re at
I think trying to go witness is fruitless, just show up and engage with the people where you’re at
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Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
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For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
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Yes. I wrote about one of those cases of alleged "ISIS plots". Watching FBI interrogation footage (that is, fwiw, withheld from the public and press) was definitely an enlightening experience.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Yes. I wrote about one of those cases of alleged "ISIS plots". Watching FBI interrogation footage (that is, fwiw, withheld from the public and press) was definitely an enlightening experience.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
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Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
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Using the popularity of this post to remind folks to check if your library subscribed to Hoopla and/or Kanopy, because you can stream music and movies FOR FREE with NO ADS. I’m about to watch Scrooged.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Using the popularity of this post to remind folks to check if your library subscribed to Hoopla and/or Kanopy, because you can stream music and movies FOR FREE with NO ADS. I’m about to watch Scrooged.
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It is actually wild to think about how rare it is to have agency over what you consume. Our lives are dictated by algorithms. Streaming services & chain bookstores push items they deem “better” or “marketable”. In a library, our only qualifier to recommend titles is if we think YOU would like it
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It is actually wild to think about how rare it is to have agency over what you consume. Our lives are dictated by algorithms. Streaming services & chain bookstores push items they deem “better” or “marketable”. In a library, our only qualifier to recommend titles is if we think YOU would like it
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We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
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100%
"Creative iteration that used to take hours, days or weeks, can happen in minutes"
He just described the death of creativity and has no clue
"Creative iteration that used to take hours, days or weeks, can happen in minutes"
He just described the death of creativity and has no clue
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
100%
"Creative iteration that used to take hours, days or weeks, can happen in minutes"
He just described the death of creativity and has no clue
"Creative iteration that used to take hours, days or weeks, can happen in minutes"
He just described the death of creativity and has no clue
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Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Solidarity with young people in Hillsboro standing up for themselves and their communities.
Would love to be helpful to anyone doing the same in Portland (or anywhere else in the metro area).
Would love to be helpful to anyone doing the same in Portland (or anywhere else in the metro area).
Hundreds of young people, led by students at Hillsboro High School, walked out of their classes Friday morning in protest of ICE activity in their communities.
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...
December 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Solidarity with young people in Hillsboro standing up for themselves and their communities.
Would love to be helpful to anyone doing the same in Portland (or anywhere else in the metro area).
Would love to be helpful to anyone doing the same in Portland (or anywhere else in the metro area).
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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Never a great idea to tell people what rattles you online but I hate how every time I post about the many horrors related to freebirthing I get some bright spark saying something about "Darwin awards". Wow you really owned all those dead newborns! Genuinely disgusts me, we are not on the same team
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Never a great idea to tell people what rattles you online but I hate how every time I post about the many horrors related to freebirthing I get some bright spark saying something about "Darwin awards". Wow you really owned all those dead newborns! Genuinely disgusts me, we are not on the same team
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If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
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At the time, I didn’t think too much of this. A lot of candidates haven’t thought of these things until asked. I just assumed another politician unprepared for the job.
I was wrong. As she says in her moving speech, politicians don’t deserve our votes, they earn it.
I was wrong. As she says in her moving speech, politicians don’t deserve our votes, they earn it.
Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
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December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
At the time, I didn’t think too much of this. A lot of candidates haven’t thought of these things until asked. I just assumed another politician unprepared for the job.
I was wrong. As she says in her moving speech, politicians don’t deserve our votes, they earn it.
I was wrong. As she says in her moving speech, politicians don’t deserve our votes, they earn it.
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it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law