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Kari Dru
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And like it sure the fuck does in fact it is DISASTROUS.
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Kari Dru@karidru.bsky.social |
1113 followers 777 following 9345 posts
Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
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Kari Dru
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And like it sure the fuck does in fact it is DISASTROUS.
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Kari Dru
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CN sexual assault, abuse It's also harder to get that shit out of your community because it doesn't look like what it is. Yes I'm subtweeting. I'm waiting on further info before I form a course of future action, BUT if it is what it looks like, there's always a raft of "that doesn't count."
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Kari Dru
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Content note: sexual assault. As I percolate thoughts further, I just wanna say, as the unfortunate owner of a fawn response, I have significantly more trauma from times I was "persuaded" than times the cops would call it rape. It's actually so much fucking worse when it's not violent... yet.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸
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Multiple people have literally started masking because of my posts (they told me this directly) and stopped themselves (AND others) from living a life with additional chronic illness and early death. People underestimate the impact that they can have online.
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🌸
@goddessblade.bsky.social
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I don’t care if I sound like a Kumbaya loser saying this: the energy for the future has to come from love or it’s not going to be worth it.
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Mx. Fee
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It's not just one or two people so I'm sharing this again. Please, think of disabled people. It's Disability Awareness Month so time to think about others. There is no need to post a whole string of emojis. It doesn't make your post stand out - it just makes me less likely to read and share it.
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Kari Dru
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Ask the guy I'm quoting for confirmation, but my understanding is it's his image which he compiled the data for by reading the longer document. I just typed his words in a way that is accessible to screen readers.
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Kari Dru
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LRT: THAT is an alt text fail.
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Kari Dru
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part 2:
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Kari Dru
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With thorough alt text, part 1:
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Kari Dru
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I wonder sometimes. Even stuff from back then. Lots of people were writing that kind of thing and lots of them were less overt.
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Kari Dru
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OK joking aside this is why I was slow to come around on "this is MCAS." Fermented and aged foods that have been properly stored don't seem to set me off. Day old pie tho, god.
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Stonkers
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Completely mind melted by how amazing this embroidery by peacocksandpinecones.co.uk is. Zoom in on the detail
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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I've been seeing people saying that because JK Rowling routinely uses UK libel law to silence critics, Gaiman's failure to immediately do so shows his guilt. That's incorrect, and I think it's worth talking about why - it goes to important facets of defamation law abuse. 🧵⚖️
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Kari Dru
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Sometimes clicking a heart feels weird when I know someone is hurting, no I don't "like" this, but I do it anyway just so they know I saw.
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Kari Dru
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For me it often is. I think it helps to know people are listening. I'll catastrophize really bad if I'm alone, but knowing other people can see me is a bit grounding.
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Kari Dru
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Yelling online might not be fruitful in terms of "getting things done", but I think at times it might be one of the better options available for working through some emotions.
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Mary Sue
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Colin McMillen
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i feel the fundamental difference is Posting For Community vs Posting For Clout (and usually the belief that one is posting for "activism" is cloutposting with an excuse)
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Shepherd
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I am not kidding when I say that Romancing the Vote has out-organized and done more to materially improve conditions in the southeastern US than any explicitly leftist org. Romancelandia ain't here to fuck around.
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Kari Dru
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*Sighs* At the very least, and this is actually major, none of us has to face three AM alone anymore.
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Kari Dru
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We're accomplishing a hell of a lot and that's why the money men keep fucking with it.
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Kari Dru
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And I'm not having to reinvent the wheel because organizers a billion miles away were able to tell others how they did what they did. I've donated my time and money to causes I wouldn't even KNOW about. All we have is us, and social media helps make "us" bigger.
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Kari Dru
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Pretty sure I am literally alive because of Twitter, given how many medical mysteries I've been able to sort out as a result of community. I'm certainly a better person because of all the people I've met. I've got more hope than I'd have otherwise because I see how hard people are fighting...
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Kari Dru
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A friend of mine once, while looking at USian politics, said "When they go low, we go high? No, when they go low we go to Hell." I need everybody who's running for anything right now to embrace that energy.
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Moira Donegan
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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Kari Dru
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*Sings* "Moles, you're not invited!"
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Kari Dru
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Damn right. It's supposed to be fun and sparkly inks definitely help.
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Kari Dru
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This actually explains everything. I would run through the woods in my good clothes and be late for work for that particular mushroom also.
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Kari Dru
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Oh gosh that's such a good example of my actual gripe. No, it wasn't okay. He was awful. His cat deserved better. We don't have to pretend otherwise; in fact doing so is kind of weird.
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Celeste Pewter
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Kari Dru
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I stand by it! At the same time, well, time itself is finite.
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Kari Dru
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here it was freaking 2023 and I realized for the first time ever that my writing style came straight outta this. I had no idea. I knew I liked it. Remembered it fondly. Recced it if people wanted vintage sword and sorcery, but if somebody had asked for my influences I wouldn't have thought of it.
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Kari Dru
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Emphatically no. For one thing I'm not confident that we're good at acknowledging everything that went into a work in the first place. Even when it's OUR WORK. I recently started a reread of Andre Norton's Witch World series for the first time since high school and...
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Kari Dru
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Where I'm making faces is every time an author has feet of clay, people are like "well I read lovecraft and it doesn't make me racist in fact his stories aren't really racist..." And I'm just like *Holding globe* "Please point to the place where anybody asked."
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Kari Dru
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I get why he's mentioned when the subject is horror. My only quibble then is people are ignoring vast swathes of other artists who were active at the time, and to the impact on publishing- I think there's a case to be made that the credit is partially August Derleth's. ...
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Kari Dru
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I had not read that one, did like The Ballad of Black Tom, and it might actually work for me to go in backwards, and read Red Hook NOW, so that I can see what he did there.
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Kari Dru
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I have accepted that I, too, am vintage. I haven't really got a choice seeing as my first fountain pen was a Waterman Phileas, bought new.
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Luke’s American Revolution
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When Trump tweeted out what became the transgender military ban with a 17-minute gap between tweets, I was on the phone with someone on the JCS. During the lag, we debated if we'd feel it if he nuked North Korea.
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Kari Dru
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Cosmic horror in general is off and running and I do enjoy it. Notable stand out to me was Premee Mohamed's Beneath the Rising series, which managed to necessitate world travel and finding forbidden books in foreign lands without making the people in those lands the problem.
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Kari Dru
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Absolutely. If you can enjoy the ideas in spite of all else that is present then hey it's your free time. Go wild. It's the assertion that racist ideas were not detectable in the stories that make me bust out the side-eye. And to be honest I'm starting to wonder why people ALWAYS mention him.
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Kari Dru
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She, specifically, must be stopped and the only way to do that is destroy her social cred. Like at this point I don't even want to hear what anybody's patronus is.
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
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Unless you’re part of a revolutionary vanguard party or an underground militant cell, I really don’t know what your refusal to vote adds up to, other than a complete misreading of the point of politics: changing OUTCOMES, not purifying INTENTIONS
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Courtney Milan
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.
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Kari Dru
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I don't care if people read him. I care that they say they do and then say "the stories aren't racist just because he was". I'm starting to suspect that a lot of people who don't say they do in order to sound edgy.
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Kari Dru
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I keep trying to read Lovecraft because "nono, you have to read the GOOD ones..." and they're still all racist as hell! I suspect they're good in many ways in ways I can't appreciate because I'm still reeling from whatever nonsense he came up with this time.
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Kari Dru
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Even then I only really care about THAT when they're actively using the money for evil. Like eating at Chik fil A. Absolutely inexcusable, specifically because they donate to homophobic causes. Reading JKR; gods, I blame her direct actions for a LOT. Least favorite ink is politically involved.
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Kari Dru
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I missed a lot when I was young. I burned through my dad's weird tales paperbacks. So I can also say that "everyone else was as bad back then" is distinctly untrue. He really stands out.
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Kari Dru
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I'm not saying don't read it. I'm saying I need people to be honest about this. Some people like the stories enough to look past on-the-page racism. Fine, just don't tell me it's not there.
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Kari Dru
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I don't make a habit of reading Lovecraft so I'm not the most educated person on this but every time I have tried to read lovecraft, an Arab was evil, the evil was in some foreign place, Native Americans did it, or immigrants are literally the worst.
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