Kate Whittle

Going back to cave bye

Emerged from a literal cave in Costa Rica. Now to take a big swig of coffee and find out what my state’s elected representatives are up to

“Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm.”

it was upsetting. i tried to watch it on a plane and was too grossed out by the violence (and there was a kid next to me)

i went to Batman v Superman on opening night with a bunch of comic nerds who just got quieter and quieter as it went on. we waited IN LINE for that.

LOL

The bar is run by the Philadelphia police association.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

Of all the things I have heard said about Tyra Banks, this might be the most devastating? You have to leave a very particular mark on people for them to say THIS about you.

Pretty bad look when a centuries old hereditary monarchy is more accountable than rich people here!

Our ocean faces many crises simultaneously, and the solution to most of them will not be a new technology, but new and more and stronger laws based on data and evidence.

But sure there are some places were new tech can help. I listed some.

Did I miss any?

thanks for your guesses everyone, the katrinkles prompt customer service tells me it's a sew-on tag

my thought too!

Hey #knitsky what do we think wooden heart things are in my katrinkles gift subscription? It doesn’t seem functional as a button 🧶

surely you could not use a generative AI image that harms local waterways to promote this good work

This is one of those areas where California can (and will) hold the line, simply due to how many cars get sold in this state.

I remember the smog as a kid, and I’m sure plenty of others do too. We’re not going back to that.

gosh i'm sorry that we live in a time of increasing fascism and that's not super inspiring to vote against! jfc

Love Can Look Like Anything, Even Marriage Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman on choosing a "structurally vanilla" life.

The nice people at Playboy asked me to write something about the good parts about being married, and I was happy to. :)

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

👇👇

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here in the intermountain west we *are not having a winter* due to climate change and I could care less what planet-burning toys can accomplish. we're all going to die in a desert

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true:

There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

reposting for that photo obvs

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all.
The system does not hold people accountable.

watched the '99 house on haunted hill recently and my god it is bad!!

i personally know a ton of anti-voting leftists. if Bernie isn't on the ballot, they're convinced no one else could possibly do any good

Power! At The Fish Disco

love my friends who do not follow olympics coverage so when I was telling them about Quad God they assumed I had made that up