Kathryn Shrader
@kmshrader.bsky.social
On a journey to learn how all my teenage faves were problematic, develop healthier relationships with a load of new faves, share what I’ve learned with skeptical teenagers and keep my cats fed and happy.
Been listening to short stories by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle this holiday. Why are Christie’s writing about women so much more repellent than Doyle completely ignoring half the population? (Also, I do NOT recommend Grant Allen. An author best left forgotten, in my view.)
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Been listening to short stories by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle this holiday. Why are Christie’s writing about women so much more repellent than Doyle completely ignoring half the population? (Also, I do NOT recommend Grant Allen. An author best left forgotten, in my view.)
Saw two shows on the West End today.
The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clarkston ⭐️🚩
The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clarkston ⭐️🚩
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Saw two shows on the West End today.
The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clarkston ⭐️🚩
The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clarkston ⭐️🚩
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And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
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(bravely) children shouldn’t be deprived of food or medicine
July 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(bravely) children shouldn’t be deprived of food or medicine
I’ve always said that I couldn’t work in sales, but I am incredibly good at selling things that I believe in. Have you heard about the concept of human rights, or literature?
When you truly believe in something or someone, the easiest thing in the world is to be the loudest ally
July 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I’ve always said that I couldn’t work in sales, but I am incredibly good at selling things that I believe in. Have you heard about the concept of human rights, or literature?
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This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
July 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.
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THE REPORTING HERE IS IMPORTANT:
“Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.”
truthout.org/articles/sex...
“Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.”
truthout.org/articles/sex...
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
truthout.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
THE REPORTING HERE IS IMPORTANT:
“Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.”
truthout.org/articles/sex...
“Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors.”
truthout.org/articles/sex...
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The word 'god' underwent a gender change.
It comes from the neuter Proto-Germanic noun *gudan.
This is shown by Old English, Old Norse and Gothic, where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.
Their masculine gender was introduced by Christianity.
Click my graphic for more:
It comes from the neuter Proto-Germanic noun *gudan.
This is shown by Old English, Old Norse and Gothic, where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.
Their masculine gender was introduced by Christianity.
Click my graphic for more:
May 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The word 'god' underwent a gender change.
It comes from the neuter Proto-Germanic noun *gudan.
This is shown by Old English, Old Norse and Gothic, where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.
Their masculine gender was introduced by Christianity.
Click my graphic for more:
It comes from the neuter Proto-Germanic noun *gudan.
This is shown by Old English, Old Norse and Gothic, where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.
Their masculine gender was introduced by Christianity.
Click my graphic for more:
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A student is absent for whatever reason, say sports, or illness and they need to make up some work.
They take awhile to make it up, and then complete the work. Their parents want their grade immediately updated and they do too.
You have 180 students, so that's not possible. What happens?
They take awhile to make it up, and then complete the work. Their parents want their grade immediately updated and they do too.
You have 180 students, so that's not possible. What happens?
May 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A student is absent for whatever reason, say sports, or illness and they need to make up some work.
They take awhile to make it up, and then complete the work. Their parents want their grade immediately updated and they do too.
You have 180 students, so that's not possible. What happens?
They take awhile to make it up, and then complete the work. Their parents want their grade immediately updated and they do too.
You have 180 students, so that's not possible. What happens?
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i think this tumblr post is incredibly important for baby gays (all queer people really) to read at least once before they try to fit themselves in a neat heteronormative little box, cause fascists WILL put a pink triangle on your box and send you and all of us other 'degenerates' to a death camp.
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
i think this tumblr post is incredibly important for baby gays (all queer people really) to read at least once before they try to fit themselves in a neat heteronormative little box, cause fascists WILL put a pink triangle on your box and send you and all of us other 'degenerates' to a death camp.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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☕ Happy World Book Day! 📚✨
April 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
☕ Happy World Book Day! 📚✨
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What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities.
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a beautiful May Day to launch the fight for the rights of our labor - #NEH staff and grantees alike - and for the #humanities.
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
Our work to preserve and make accessible #history and #culture for all people is NOT expendable. @paulakrebs.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social
Spent an hour this morning trying to research cat food and having my time utterly wasted by AI slop. These are the thousand cuts that make me want to throw the whole field off a cliff.
April 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Spent an hour this morning trying to research cat food and having my time utterly wasted by AI slop. These are the thousand cuts that make me want to throw the whole field off a cliff.
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Timeline cleanse: cat vandal edition
A modern re-make of a Roman tile makers experiences, in Gaul circa 120 AD.
April 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Timeline cleanse: cat vandal edition
Plus @electrolemon.bsky.social — I don’t know if they D&D but they were hilarious in the pilot of Parlour Room.
THEMension20 with ally beardsley, alex song-xia, vic michaelis, and erika ishii
April 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Plus @electrolemon.bsky.social — I don’t know if they D&D but they were hilarious in the pilot of Parlour Room.
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On dehumanizing photos from overseas prisons. CECOT, Abu Grahib, and what shocks us. With an opening essay from @pastpunditry.bsky.social -->
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Prisons, Photos, CECOT, Abu Ghraib, and What Shocks Us (Some Sunday Context)
Podcast Episode · This Day · 04/20/2025 · 26m
podcasts.apple.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On dehumanizing photos from overseas prisons. CECOT, Abu Grahib, and what shocks us. With an opening essay from @pastpunditry.bsky.social -->
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.
I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).
We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods
I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).
We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.
I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).
We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods
I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).
We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods
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American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
April 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
First, Prop 8 banned gay marriage in California. I had a bunch of gay people in my life and felt righteously angry. Then the bathroom bills started coming down and it felt like the same bullshit.
Also, right-wing media deadnaming and misgendering Chelsea Manning. It was just unnecessarily rude.
Also, right-wing media deadnaming and misgendering Chelsea Manning. It was just unnecessarily rude.
cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
April 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
First, Prop 8 banned gay marriage in California. I had a bunch of gay people in my life and felt righteously angry. Then the bathroom bills started coming down and it felt like the same bullshit.
Also, right-wing media deadnaming and misgendering Chelsea Manning. It was just unnecessarily rude.
Also, right-wing media deadnaming and misgendering Chelsea Manning. It was just unnecessarily rude.
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Today seems like a great day to debunk these 12 myths about taxing the rich.
12 Myths About Taxing the Rich | Robert Reich
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America. Watch More: Do Corporate Tax Cuts Actually Help Amer
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today seems like a great day to debunk these 12 myths about taxing the rich.
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New podcast episode from Literature and History on Pre-Islamic Arabia available now! literatureandhistory.com/episode-111-...
April 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New podcast episode from Literature and History on Pre-Islamic Arabia available now! literatureandhistory.com/episode-111-...
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Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?"
Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."
Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."
April 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?"
Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."
Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."