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Cat Kimbriel

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Writer (SFFH) with Weird Health. She/her; Alien DNA; sentinel antennae. Masked. Dragon. Avatar by Ethan Kocak. My lake sunset photo. Also FB/Mas/DW. Lead with kindness. 😷

Most current pubs bookviewcafe.com/bvc_author/katharine-eliska-kimbriel

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I think most of us have put together some small, important things that speak to us of stories, of maps to navigate a challenging world.

If you haven't, think about it. It's all right if the purpose of the items change in your mind's eye.

That could be the point.

news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

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Eileen Clancy's avatar Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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NYC: if you can, now would be a great time to donate blood!

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Preeti Chhibber's avatar Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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Literally took me less than two minutes to get my comment in! Let's gooooo

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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧'s avatar Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social
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Just a couple hours from now. I hope to see y'all there!!!

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David O's avatar David O @anatotitan.bsky.social
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This great spangled fritillary was so into that sweet sweet milkweed nectar that I managed to get a shot. It's been eluding me for days.

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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A lot of people in the comments to this post want like six independent citations for the suggestion that booster availability might be limited. That's the wrong way to think about this. The right way is: It takes no effort to tell the CDC to do the right thing, so do it.

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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My friend Phil's coffee company is absolutely sick, it tastes great (like really really good), 40x concentrate but no acid. I am not paid for this. Phil has faced headwinds due to the post-Elon algorithms/Google. He makes it all himself.

Use code SMILINGMAN for 10% off.
shop.funraniumlabs.com

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I'm wondering if I can still get a writer's visa to visit Canada for six months, if everything goes haywire down here. :( If 30% of the population overwhelms the other 70%, I don't blame you for worrying about heading south. Those of us here paying attention are worried.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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if there’s any issue on which “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” applies to Biden it’s climate - the IRA has been a tremendous success beyond all expectations and the news on the renewable energy front is excellent depressing to see it lumped in with issues on which he’s actually bad

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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A techbro idiot is going to open a restaurant with exclusively AI generated recipes in the immediate future. It will get immense press. The food will be anywhere from awful to actively dangerous. It brings me no pleasure to tell you this

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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My grandmother has only ever been here one time, long before I ever was and she told me "America is a very odd country, they get the people to buy all kinds of things they don't want and in return they make them give up the things they need" never forgot that line

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Assistant to the Professor's avatar Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social
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I'm not joking -- headlines should read "Trump aims to increase inflation by 100s of percent" We had a national freakout about 7-10% inflation for a few months. This would be astronomical.

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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Oh, yeah. Dragging through packing to leave somewhere right now............

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That is why I am intrigued. The Marquis could be an actor at heart. Or a very good card player, as we might say in this world.

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Hylobatidae's avatar Hylobatidae @thomedysci.bsky.social
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Me: I didn't study for this test. The devil on my shoulder: You can see that person's test. No one would know. No one would be harmed. The angel on my shoulder: Honesty is a passing grade. Do your best. The AI in my pocket: Try adding cayenne pepper to your asthma inhaler to keep away ghosts.

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I actually have a list somewhere when I realized how many times Death has said, "Eh, keep going." We have a deal, and I can't live up to the rest of my part if I don't heal and keep going. So assuming this will be fine!

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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The new opera was *awesome* and I'd love a few more hints about the subversive art supporter funding the opera.

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Trying. I am throwing things into bags and watching the weather report. Don't really want to drive a new-to-me rental through a hail storm!

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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That is very wicked of you to tease us like that, and I am down for it! (Some of us seem to be rooting for Thara, and some of us seem to be into his suffering, and I am not sure what to think about that. But something for everyone!)

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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So am I. Thara is such a kind man, who has had a tortured life where even family had no place for a priest of the Death God. I hope he can find a place teaching what he's learned, good friends, and even more. He has those friends. Hope he can see it.

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Locus Magazine's avatar Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social
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Join us Thursday 6/20 with Tananarive Due and Kelly Link! These Locus Award nominees will be reading from their incredible work.

Check out the schedule here for more nominee readings: tinyurl.com/locusawa...

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#LocusAwards2024 href='https://bsky.app/search?q=%23sff'>#sff

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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I'll be going Dark for a couple of weeks in a sorta kinda last ditch attempt to heal somewhere away from this air quality. If all goes well I disappear tomorrow and reappear July 1. Until then, pray for peace and take care of yourselves and others. It's the only thing that matters, in the end.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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a very important skill for Online is (if you are not directly affected) to be able to look at the day's discourse and go "no, absolutely the fuck not" and then not post about it

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Grand Moff Shaun Duke's avatar Grand Moff Shaun Duke @shaunduke.bsky.social
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A friendly and delicious reminder that I'm selling a huge portion of my book collection. I'm moving, so... wee!

1500 books. Scifi, fantasy, Manga, graphic novels, non-fiction. Weeee!

Spreadsheet listed here. Will ship.

Go get you some #books.

shaunduke.net/2024/06/book...

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C.A. Petrov's avatar C.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social
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As looks like we have some record heat predicted for the eastern US next week, here's a handy infographic explaining the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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This is like following a cryptid into the mists. . . .

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Elizabeth Spiers 's avatar Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social
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I'm looking to hire a social media / audience person of the extremely online persuasion for a new progressive culture site that's launching in Texas. Would love to have someone TX based but open to remote. FT with benefits. If you or someone you know fits the description, DM me!

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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That was a great show, I have the book and will resurrect it when I have my library back in-house! I suspect my contribution is still being written. Starts with a kid being bitten at 9 by a tick cocktail. And then she didn't die within two years. Still have hopes I can pull off a big finale.

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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Just thinking about going around and tidying up places that are placeholders, because I found out some troll came at me via Amazon to Goodreads. So, the only protection is creating maybe one page of "This is where I am. All else is imposters" and punting?

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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And rah--way back, when I went into LJ After the Fall, we had to deal with the ToS even Russian native speakers could not understand. So I signed, downloaded, moved to DW, and have left up "find me other places." All impt stuff there already copyrighted. Is it time to delete the floating LJ?

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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You may not want to delve back into this in any kind of order, & there may be areas you put "then shit happened that is still too dangerous to talk about" but a history of this, & how one woman fighting health weirdness still manages to ride the maelstrom & shape a lot of the web, *will* be read.

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Donna stole Roy Kent's Rolex's avatar Donna stole Roy Kent's Rolex @totallydonna.bsky.social
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I'm putting this link out there again, because the US is an interesting place to live with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

If you can spare a moment today to think good thoughts for me, I would greatly appreciate it.

gofund.me/722b515b

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(Chinese) Mustard on the Beat's avatar (Chinese) Mustard on the Beat @bankuei.bsky.social
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Hey loves, if a rando acct with no profile you've never interacted with is coming at you weird really just block. No one with no picture, 3 posts, & 6 followers has decided the first thing to do on Bluesky is get spicy on politics & identity on good will.

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Cat Kimbriel's avatar Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social
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Yup. But I will likely do that if 45 is re-elected, so that's just personal housekeeping. Friends will know how to find me, but not waiting for stinking rich.

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Wish we'd understood our modes of operation better even twenty years ago. I was training for risk management when the Life, Interrupted health demanded center stage. But as a risk manager, I could have lined up ducklings on paper, said, No, these may be killer swans, and gotten it off my conscience!

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Sarah Tuttle's avatar Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social
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Yeah, I think we've passed the point where we need to be very serious about considering who is unable to travel when we plan conferences and pick conference locations.

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UK folks: London hospital ransomware attack is causing them to rapidly deplete their supply of O- (and to some extent, O+) blood. If you have type O blood, please consider donating ASAP.

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A glass booth with my German holiday tree in it, and the Solstice ornaments I have collected since I was a child, or inherited, or have been given. Cats can't get into it. All six plus feet of it. Pay someone very well to repack the ornaments after Epiphany.

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