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Kat Beaufort

@onbearfeet.bsky.social

830 followers 200 following 4.3K posts

Writer, teacher, weirdo. Queer as hell. Chaotic good. May or may not have an army of ninja bears at my back. Aware of the fascism, but trying to post things worth fighting for. She/her. patreon.com/user?u=34623230

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · Feb 26

Welp, guess I need a pinned post. I write stuff, I have a Patreon, I edit freelance, and here's the thread about the time I started an antifascist hallway riot in the third grade. Raise a jelly nougat to Granddad!

Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · Feb 16

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences.

AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade.

Grab your beverage of choice.

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, the "live long enough to deserve a chance at life" plan. I know it well.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Diwali. The world needs the light.

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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 23h

No thoughts, just Howl

A white and tabby cat in a green reusable bag on a tile floor

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like the people conducting these studies have never been the only one who does anything on a "group" project. Of COURSE adding an extra incompetent dumbass to the team and insisting that the one worker compensate for them too would slow that worker down!

Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link

David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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Kittens MLT (ASCP) @warkittens.makeitbouncy.net · 1d

Forget all the bs you're dealing with and enjoy an urban Minneapolis turkey. This one was on the tracks at the ADM plant on Hiawatha. He didn't give a fuck. People had to drive around him. Be the problem you want to see the in the world.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23h

Is this my beautiful house? Is this my beautiful life?

Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 1d

Two books for spooky season:
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 22h

(No, I can't take her myself. Her majesty does not tolerate the presence of other small to midsize vertebrates.)

Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 22h

Omg someone adopt this perfect bloodthirsty murderbaby and post a million photos and videos of her. I need them.

TV-MA is not sharing drugs w/ trick or treaters @tv-ma.bsky.social · 19d

Vampire is available to adopt in LA or Orange County!

2 weeks ago I found a small kitten trapped in the middle of a busy intersection. Now she's 6 weeks and ready to find her forever home.

Adoption application available on VIDA. Dm if you have questions about her! www.petfinder.com/cat/vampire-...

Pic of a 6-week tabby kitten against a pink bg

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

I learned how to quilt over the autumn and winter of 2020. 😂 I was specifically in need of a distraction from my anger that someone with covid had gone to visit my best friend and her newborn daughter, unmasked, with predictable results. Sometimes you just need to stab.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 1d

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

But would she stab a Nazi? Or, more importantly, someone who threatened to ruin a quilt?

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men,
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

And she would absolutely shank somebody if she decided it was necessary.

Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't even have time to explain that I had committed a terrible sin.

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Gami @theorigamigamer.bsky.social · 1d

I need one of these with a picture of The Librarian that says OOK.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I need one with a Feegle saying "Nae King" (and another, of course, saying "Crivens!")

Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

I created a monster when I introduced you to the Librarian.

I'm so proud.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

Quality slogans all around!

Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! We put this to good use. The one in the middle was made by my youngest ❤️🐸

Three homemade posters for the No Kings rally, each using the Obama-eque frog that says “HOP.” One is white and reads “Toad-ally opposed to fascism.” One is black and reads “NO KINGS EVER” in kids handwriting. The last is white and reads “I have friends on every lily pad”

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

True, it's unusual. The traditional activity is knitting.

Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities, who knits the names of her enemies to be executed by the French Revolution

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you've never been to a quilting guild without telling me you've never been to a quilting guild.

Quilters are patient, strategic, and filled with the controlled rage necessary for a million precise stabbings.

Ian Robberson @microberust.bsky.social · 2d

The Venn Diagram of protestors today who would count as hardcore antifa that are ready to take up arms for the revolution and people whose primary hobby is quilting would be interesting to see.

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 2d

This post is funny, but it just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of feminine labor and craft.

Spinsters dismantled the Spinning Jenny by hand. Suffragettes used acid and bombs to attack politicians. Militant textile workers went on strike by the tens of thousands.

Ian Robberson @microberust.bsky.social · 2d

The Venn Diagram of protestors today who would count as hardcore antifa that are ready to take up arms for the revolution and people whose primary hobby is quilting would be interesting to see.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

Come on then, and remove him.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 1d

Y’all pumped about joining in trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?!

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Evan Hadfield @evanhadfield.bsky.social · 1d

If there's a God he dies tonight and the last thing he ever did is posted the diarrhea jet video

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking on behalf of the bears, emails are much scarier.