rae kocatka
@ygrae.bsky.social
neuroqueer writer, saturnian, dark souls autist. clarion west '18. they/them
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rae kocatka
@ygrae.bsky.social
· Nov 7
organize this, mutual aid that. how many of you still wear a mask when you go out. quickly
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today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM
today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform
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Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
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Some of y'all never met a Holocaust survivor in person. Laying low while hoping the fascism just blows over is not a viable option.
I hear your passion. However, by doing that you are giving Trump what he wants. A military state. A reason to declare the insurrection act. Trump knows he’s on his way out. This is why he’s trying to start a war. Weather in the US or outside. He does not care if we all die. He probably prefers it.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Some of y'all never met a Holocaust survivor in person. Laying low while hoping the fascism just blows over is not a viable option.
mine is the Lehigh. love every minute I’ve spent in your gross and dark waters
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM
mine is the Lehigh. love every minute I’ve spent in your gross and dark waters
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Second covid booster recommended by CDC for adults 65 and older and those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised
"Individuals do not need documentation to prove immunocompromised status, and vaccinators are explicitly instructed not to deny vaccination" for lack of documentation.
"Individuals do not need documentation to prove immunocompromised status, and vaccinators are explicitly instructed not to deny vaccination" for lack of documentation.
"Overall, it is reassuring that protection remains available for those who need it most, though it’s befuddling why the announcement recommending additional covid boosters was so quiet," Dr. Leana S. Wen writes. https://wapo.st/3Nm9JBY
Opinion | The CDC quietly recommends a second covid booster for vulnerable adults
Careful, evidence-based vaccine guidance now arrives with little fanfare.
wapo.st
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Second covid booster recommended by CDC for adults 65 and older and those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised
"Individuals do not need documentation to prove immunocompromised status, and vaccinators are explicitly instructed not to deny vaccination" for lack of documentation.
"Individuals do not need documentation to prove immunocompromised status, and vaccinators are explicitly instructed not to deny vaccination" for lack of documentation.
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If you find any gen A.I. images in academic journals that are not in my collection yet, you can report them at this form:
bit.ly/JournalSlop
bit.ly/JournalSlop
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
Please check this list to see if the image is alread...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
If you find any gen A.I. images in academic journals that are not in my collection yet, you can report them at this form:
bit.ly/JournalSlop
bit.ly/JournalSlop
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements.
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements.
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana #callforsubmissions #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
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To accept and use this AI tech is to say I myself am so deeply incompetent and mediocre that a useless machine which cannot actually do the required work is still better than any effort I can make.
Seriously. Just stop.
Seriously. Just stop.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
To accept and use this AI tech is to say I myself am so deeply incompetent and mediocre that a useless machine which cannot actually do the required work is still better than any effort I can make.
Seriously. Just stop.
Seriously. Just stop.
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A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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“Long Covid only happens to leftists”
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“Long Covid only happens to leftists”
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
Or society’s ableism is so rampant and devastating that becoming disabled commonly functions as a radicalizing experience. Who can say.
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people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...
tenebrouspress.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
🏳️⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️⚧️
Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.
All the deets: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Donate: ko-fi.com/tenebrouspress
enormously fucked up and retriggering that survivors just have to bathe in the news cycle about how no one in power has ever had the bravery to apply a consequence to a predator
September 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
enormously fucked up and retriggering that survivors just have to bathe in the news cycle about how no one in power has ever had the bravery to apply a consequence to a predator
my historic orchard has no apples for the third year in a row and I felt visceral dread seeing it on their website
September 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
my historic orchard has no apples for the third year in a row and I felt visceral dread seeing it on their website
my insurance just sent me a SECOND email about what I’m doing to curb the wildfire spread of rsv. it’s July. every single healthcare provider I’ve seen since spring is unmasked
July 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
my insurance just sent me a SECOND email about what I’m doing to curb the wildfire spread of rsv. it’s July. every single healthcare provider I’ve seen since spring is unmasked
gen AI can’t love you back but the novel you’re working on can
July 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
gen AI can’t love you back but the novel you’re working on can
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Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
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Regular sleep is not enough. I must slumber. I require a hoard upon which to lay, in a dark cave deep in the mountains, and I will not awaken for nine generations.
July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Regular sleep is not enough. I must slumber. I require a hoard upon which to lay, in a dark cave deep in the mountains, and I will not awaken for nine generations.
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