Kallastra
@kallastra.bsky.social
Former Sexy Murder Poet, Current Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat. (H/T Liam Bright).
Here to play academic and learn. Interests: philosophy, poetry, knitting, spinning, law, community, running when health permits
Here to play academic and learn. Interests: philosophy, poetry, knitting, spinning, law, community, running when health permits
This gives me goosebumps. I love thinking of and thanking all the hands that go into enabling my putting food on my table. Interdependence is real and magical and takes my breath away.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This gives me goosebumps. I love thinking of and thanking all the hands that go into enabling my putting food on my table. Interdependence is real and magical and takes my breath away.
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Is my image in the mirror another person? He seems to be left-handed whereas I am right-handed.
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is my image in the mirror another person? He seems to be left-handed whereas I am right-handed.
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Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
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The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
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CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.
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I get not wanting to look ignorant, but as I've gotten older, I've learned that people freakin' love to teach other people. Wanna become better friends with someone? Ask them to show you how to do something.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I get not wanting to look ignorant, but as I've gotten older, I've learned that people freakin' love to teach other people. Wanna become better friends with someone? Ask them to show you how to do something.
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
What the fuck is going on this here timeline, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
What the fuck is going on this here timeline, Charlie Brown?
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Lmao this is the first thing my doctor told me about my meds.
“It’s a tool. It is not a silver bullet. You still are going to have to work on things.”
“It’s a tool. It is not a silver bullet. You still are going to have to work on things.”
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Lmao this is the first thing my doctor told me about my meds.
“It’s a tool. It is not a silver bullet. You still are going to have to work on things.”
“It’s a tool. It is not a silver bullet. You still are going to have to work on things.”
“If all time is eternally present / All time is unredeemable.” (TS Eliot, Four Quartets)
When did all web pages decide to do away with dates? So, like, I have no idea when something was published, or when x product was released, or y essay/blog was written, unless it's in a bonafide newspaper?
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“If all time is eternally present / All time is unredeemable.” (TS Eliot, Four Quartets)
I needed to know this! Desperately!
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I needed to know this! Desperately!
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Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
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(This is almost certainly a phishing attempt, for the curious, I've seen almost the exact same email go out about Discord, Reddit, and a million other similar sites, usually using some legitimate but compromised email server from a different unrelated company. Always check the sender, etc.!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
(This is almost certainly a phishing attempt, for the curious, I've seen almost the exact same email go out about Discord, Reddit, and a million other similar sites, usually using some legitimate but compromised email server from a different unrelated company. Always check the sender, etc.!)
I had to remove the obligatory repost to replace it with this quote repost to say: Don’t sleep on the article: truly worthy analogy making and a perfect length.
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I had to remove the obligatory repost to replace it with this quote repost to say: Don’t sleep on the article: truly worthy analogy making and a perfect length.
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They ask ‘how many immigrants do you think is OK’, but never get asked the converse.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
They ask ‘how many immigrants do you think is OK’, but never get asked the converse.
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there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
Bureaucracy is essential to freedom, it’s just hard to see this because not only can it enable tyranny, the mechanisms that make freedom possible superficially resemble tyranny as well. Postal services and secret police alike keep standardized registries of the names and homes of the citizenry.
Look it's weird to say "the city is liberation. Bigness is liberation. Bureaucracy is liberation." But it so often is. The village is inherently tyrannical. Sherly Jackson knew this.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
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Oh no apparently fiber has replaced protein as the internet food obsession and these influencers will overhype it so much without any warnings they’re gonna have people shitting their brains out.
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Oh no apparently fiber has replaced protein as the internet food obsession and these influencers will overhype it so much without any warnings they’re gonna have people shitting their brains out.
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She doesn't want to be in the tent, she wants to be out of the storm. And the second that storm is up, she's going right back to destroying the everything in and out of that tent.
I welcome all who reform their old ways, but that doesn't mean that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I welcome all who reform their old ways, but that doesn't mean that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
She doesn't want to be in the tent, she wants to be out of the storm. And the second that storm is up, she's going right back to destroying the everything in and out of that tent.
I welcome all who reform their old ways, but that doesn't mean that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I welcome all who reform their old ways, but that doesn't mean that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
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The last thing I’m gonna say about the current news cycle is that there are people all around you carrying the enormous pain of having been abused underneath the brave face they had to learn to wear.
Listen to survivors who are ready to talk. Do not press those who are not. And step gently.
Listen to survivors who are ready to talk. Do not press those who are not. And step gently.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The last thing I’m gonna say about the current news cycle is that there are people all around you carrying the enormous pain of having been abused underneath the brave face they had to learn to wear.
Listen to survivors who are ready to talk. Do not press those who are not. And step gently.
Listen to survivors who are ready to talk. Do not press those who are not. And step gently.
I have been thinking this, actually: many who are invested in normalizing Epstein behavior could be those most invested in normalizing their own trauma. To tangibly grapple with it could very well break them.
If these people think Epstein is no big deal, family might be the last people they should be spending time with...
November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I have been thinking this, actually: many who are invested in normalizing Epstein behavior could be those most invested in normalizing their own trauma. To tangibly grapple with it could very well break them.
I spend so much time at work and on social media trying to prove I’m a Real human or ascertain if somebody else is Real - it’s been bumming me out lately.
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I spend so much time at work and on social media trying to prove I’m a Real human or ascertain if somebody else is Real - it’s been bumming me out lately.
The history books about this time are gonna read like season four where the shark gets jumped so hard they cancel the show mid season
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The history books about this time are gonna read like season four where the shark gets jumped so hard they cancel the show mid season
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But actually, yes. The not-normal thing is that it was nationally televised.
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
But actually, yes. The not-normal thing is that it was nationally televised.
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.