Karthik Kakarala
@kakarala.bsky.social
The question isn’t what charges we’ll eventually get AI Capone on, it’s how excessive the charges will be on the power grid and water supply
February 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The question isn’t what charges we’ll eventually get AI Capone on, it’s how excessive the charges will be on the power grid and water supply
Art is political.
Most debates about that fact are about intentionality.
Most debates about that fact are about intentionality.
January 30, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Art is political.
Most debates about that fact are about intentionality.
Most debates about that fact are about intentionality.
I have seen most of the films that are Academy nominated in one way or another, and will likely get to the remaining ones in the leadup to the awards themselves.
That said: I’m not entertaining any discussions about it with anyone who hasn’t seen SINNERS
That said: I’m not entertaining any discussions about it with anyone who hasn’t seen SINNERS
January 22, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I have seen most of the films that are Academy nominated in one way or another, and will likely get to the remaining ones in the leadup to the awards themselves.
That said: I’m not entertaining any discussions about it with anyone who hasn’t seen SINNERS
That said: I’m not entertaining any discussions about it with anyone who hasn’t seen SINNERS
Got around to seeing Marty Gordita Supreme, and a bunch of folks who claim to be incisive and critical about films have some explaining to do (but won’t, of course).
Anyway, see The Bone Temple.
Anyway, see The Bone Temple.
January 21, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Got around to seeing Marty Gordita Supreme, and a bunch of folks who claim to be incisive and critical about films have some explaining to do (but won’t, of course).
Anyway, see The Bone Temple.
Anyway, see The Bone Temple.
Hundreds of letters were sent to terminate grants for mental health, addiction, and homelessness.
Federal funding that, by no hyperbole, saved lives.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...
Federal funding that, by no hyperbole, saved lives.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...
Trump administration cuts up to $1.9 billion from mental health and addiction treatment programs
SAMHSA canceled up to $1.9 billion in grants without staff consultation, accelerating the mental health agency's deterioration under President Trump.
www.statnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Hundreds of letters were sent to terminate grants for mental health, addiction, and homelessness.
Federal funding that, by no hyperbole, saved lives.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...
Federal funding that, by no hyperbole, saved lives.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...
I’ve re-decided that some gatekeeping is very good.
If you go out of your way to not be critically opposed to police/federal violence, you’re not rock n’roll.
You’re not punk.
You’re not metal.
If you go out of your way to not be critically opposed to police/federal violence, you’re not rock n’roll.
You’re not punk.
You’re not metal.
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I’ve re-decided that some gatekeeping is very good.
If you go out of your way to not be critically opposed to police/federal violence, you’re not rock n’roll.
You’re not punk.
You’re not metal.
If you go out of your way to not be critically opposed to police/federal violence, you’re not rock n’roll.
You’re not punk.
You’re not metal.
So, two things can be true:
•The U.S. House voted to extend ACA subsidies for three years.
•the various negative health effects of extended stress on the body are known, and I entirely appreciate and support that you shouldn’t have had to go through that on literal healthcare costs.
•The U.S. House voted to extend ACA subsidies for three years.
•the various negative health effects of extended stress on the body are known, and I entirely appreciate and support that you shouldn’t have had to go through that on literal healthcare costs.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 AM
So, two things can be true:
•The U.S. House voted to extend ACA subsidies for three years.
•the various negative health effects of extended stress on the body are known, and I entirely appreciate and support that you shouldn’t have had to go through that on literal healthcare costs.
•The U.S. House voted to extend ACA subsidies for three years.
•the various negative health effects of extended stress on the body are known, and I entirely appreciate and support that you shouldn’t have had to go through that on literal healthcare costs.
The sentence should never be death.
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The sentence should never be death.
Hey, I know you’re busy.
However: Please do not connect your medical records to an “AI” Chatbot.
You may not think I’m any smarter than one, but I absolutely care about your privacy more.
However: Please do not connect your medical records to an “AI” Chatbot.
You may not think I’m any smarter than one, but I absolutely care about your privacy more.
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Hey, I know you’re busy.
However: Please do not connect your medical records to an “AI” Chatbot.
You may not think I’m any smarter than one, but I absolutely care about your privacy more.
However: Please do not connect your medical records to an “AI” Chatbot.
You may not think I’m any smarter than one, but I absolutely care about your privacy more.
I occasionally idly* (feeling, not considered fully) envy people who see their Upcoming/New Year with more clarity than a grainy bootlegged movie teaser trailer.
(Mine tends to look like reality-warping glitch art, btw)
(Mine tends to look like reality-warping glitch art, btw)
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I occasionally idly* (feeling, not considered fully) envy people who see their Upcoming/New Year with more clarity than a grainy bootlegged movie teaser trailer.
(Mine tends to look like reality-warping glitch art, btw)
(Mine tends to look like reality-warping glitch art, btw)
Dear Especially Vulnerable to the Sun People,
Please inform the rest of us when specifically we can address the racist turns or lives of recently deceased people.
Thank you
Please inform the rest of us when specifically we can address the racist turns or lives of recently deceased people.
Thank you
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Dear Especially Vulnerable to the Sun People,
Please inform the rest of us when specifically we can address the racist turns or lives of recently deceased people.
Thank you
Please inform the rest of us when specifically we can address the racist turns or lives of recently deceased people.
Thank you
It is freeing to repeatedly write and delete drafts of posts on weeks when politics tries to refute medical science.
Freedom to then do *what* is the part that could still be argued, of course.
Freedom to then do *what* is the part that could still be argued, of course.
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It is freeing to repeatedly write and delete drafts of posts on weeks when politics tries to refute medical science.
Freedom to then do *what* is the part that could still be argued, of course.
Freedom to then do *what* is the part that could still be argued, of course.
Reposted by Karthik Kakarala
I cannot tell you just how *tremendously hard* various volunteers have worked on this massive @unbreaking.org update: sifting through awful, terrible news every single day, identifying connections and themes, all to build a clear picture of the harm the federal government’s caused.
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I cannot tell you just how *tremendously hard* various volunteers have worked on this massive @unbreaking.org update: sifting through awful, terrible news every single day, identifying connections and themes, all to build a clear picture of the harm the federal government’s caused.
If for some reason you’re trying to be “apolitical” due to not caring about the health of trans kids (which btw, is willfully avoidant in the face of data), we should note that the current HHS is terminating American Academy of Pediatrics grants.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/h...
Leading pediatrics group loses funding for grants that HHS says don’t align with administration’s priorities | CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics has joined the ranks of organizations that are losing funding for grants that, federal officials say, don’t align with the Trump administration’s missions or priorit...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If for some reason you’re trying to be “apolitical” due to not caring about the health of trans kids (which btw, is willfully avoidant in the face of data), we should note that the current HHS is terminating American Academy of Pediatrics grants.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/h...
Reposted by Karthik Kakarala
Watching a noise set is kind of like watching a heist movie in that the situation forces you to root for the villain. Even though you know what they are doing is totally wrong, you want them to somehow defy the odds and get away with it.
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Watching a noise set is kind of like watching a heist movie in that the situation forces you to root for the villain. Even though you know what they are doing is totally wrong, you want them to somehow defy the odds and get away with it.
“Relive your best memories with a calendar!”
Okay, I appreciate the marketing, but I don’t know if I want to footnote every single good thing with some version of:
•This thing from 2024 haunted me through the smiles
•Here’s the global event that I also had on my mind
•best…? 2026 will decide THAT
Okay, I appreciate the marketing, but I don’t know if I want to footnote every single good thing with some version of:
•This thing from 2024 haunted me through the smiles
•Here’s the global event that I also had on my mind
•best…? 2026 will decide THAT
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“Relive your best memories with a calendar!”
Okay, I appreciate the marketing, but I don’t know if I want to footnote every single good thing with some version of:
•This thing from 2024 haunted me through the smiles
•Here’s the global event that I also had on my mind
•best…? 2026 will decide THAT
Okay, I appreciate the marketing, but I don’t know if I want to footnote every single good thing with some version of:
•This thing from 2024 haunted me through the smiles
•Here’s the global event that I also had on my mind
•best…? 2026 will decide THAT
Primal Scream still rules, and the only thing that I regret in blasting that particular album in college was that my dorm sound system was underpowered for what I put it through.
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Primal Scream still rules, and the only thing that I regret in blasting that particular album in college was that my dorm sound system was underpowered for what I put it through.
Me in the midst of refusing to let @perefex.bsky.social bounce away a post-set compliment
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Me in the midst of refusing to let @perefex.bsky.social bounce away a post-set compliment
Do I mean Grammer?
Do I mean Neeson?
Yes!
But I formatted it to be future proofed, because well. Yeah.
Do I mean Neeson?
Yes!
But I formatted it to be future proofed, because well. Yeah.
Perpetually incredible to have it confirmed that an actor is particularly good at his craft via the proof that they are not in fact a clever doctor, but live as a partisan buffoon who ignores peer review and expertise in their spare time
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Do I mean Grammer?
Do I mean Neeson?
Yes!
But I formatted it to be future proofed, because well. Yeah.
Do I mean Neeson?
Yes!
But I formatted it to be future proofed, because well. Yeah.
Perpetually incredible to have it confirmed that an actor is particularly good at his craft via the proof that they are not in fact a clever doctor, but live as a partisan buffoon who ignores peer review and expertise in their spare time
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Perpetually incredible to have it confirmed that an actor is particularly good at his craft via the proof that they are not in fact a clever doctor, but live as a partisan buffoon who ignores peer review and expertise in their spare time
Now that 2025 has brought society back to appreciating Paul Dano, loving Nine Inch Nails, and Brian Wilson has passed away, it is beyond time for you to see the 2014 film “Love & Mercy”
m.imdb.com/title/tt0903...
m.imdb.com/title/tt0903...
Love & Mercy (2014) ⭐ 7.4 | Biography, Drama, Music
2h 1m | PG-13
m.imdb.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Now that 2025 has brought society back to appreciating Paul Dano, loving Nine Inch Nails, and Brian Wilson has passed away, it is beyond time for you to see the 2014 film “Love & Mercy”
m.imdb.com/title/tt0903...
m.imdb.com/title/tt0903...
Spotify costs more than Tidal.
Costs more to pay artists less.
The ads on the free include ICE recruitment ads, and so include a direct tax on your soul.
This isn’t “no ethical consumption under capitalism,” this is literally *paying more* in order to endorse stuff like that.
Costs more to pay artists less.
The ads on the free include ICE recruitment ads, and so include a direct tax on your soul.
This isn’t “no ethical consumption under capitalism,” this is literally *paying more* in order to endorse stuff like that.
(1/2) Tidal has their own version of Wrapped.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Spotify costs more than Tidal.
Costs more to pay artists less.
The ads on the free include ICE recruitment ads, and so include a direct tax on your soul.
This isn’t “no ethical consumption under capitalism,” this is literally *paying more* in order to endorse stuff like that.
Costs more to pay artists less.
The ads on the free include ICE recruitment ads, and so include a direct tax on your soul.
This isn’t “no ethical consumption under capitalism,” this is literally *paying more* in order to endorse stuff like that.
(1/2) Tidal has their own version of Wrapped.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
(1/2) Tidal has their own version of Wrapped.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
Heck, so does YouTube.
You don’t need Spotify.
“Karthik, it seems like the only media you ever care about is music, these days”
Fair, but: I have been seeing new movies all year at an okay clip. Rental Family is one of the very best ones.
See it if you’ve ever had emotions or ever had family.
Fair, but: I have been seeing new movies all year at an okay clip. Rental Family is one of the very best ones.
See it if you’ve ever had emotions or ever had family.
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Karthik, it seems like the only media you ever care about is music, these days”
Fair, but: I have been seeing new movies all year at an okay clip. Rental Family is one of the very best ones.
See it if you’ve ever had emotions or ever had family.
Fair, but: I have been seeing new movies all year at an okay clip. Rental Family is one of the very best ones.
See it if you’ve ever had emotions or ever had family.
After yesterday’s shoveling*, I came back inside to a frosty pint glass with a beer^ being poured (perfectly, btw) into it while my glasses defogged.
…how am I supposed to go back to whatever it is my usual life is, now?
…how am I supposed to go back to whatever it is my usual life is, now?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
After yesterday’s shoveling*, I came back inside to a frosty pint glass with a beer^ being poured (perfectly, btw) into it while my glasses defogged.
…how am I supposed to go back to whatever it is my usual life is, now?
…how am I supposed to go back to whatever it is my usual life is, now?