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christykarras.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher, traveler. Loves the arts, the interesting stuff people do, and the weirdness of words. Dream life: getting paid to know things. She/her.
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I couldn't NOT do this.

submitted 19 days ago • 104 comments

The students who've sent me kind end-of-year notes have boosted me more than they could possibly know. This goes beyond education, of course. If you appreciate someone, let them know!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

So many of our loudest First Amendment enthusiasts have no idea that freedom of assembly is right there in it, on equal footing with freedom of the press or freedom of religion

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

Tiny wildlife crossings can have big results. These 5-feet tall, 5-feet wide tunnels have reduced salamander and toad deaths by up to 94%. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

submitted 25 days ago • 52 comments

"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

submitted 33 days ago • 40 comments

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

submitted 33 days ago • 89 comments

From fall 2001, now a classic

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

President Declines Gift (1925)

submitted 44 days ago • 57 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

submitted 69 days ago • 839 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 76 days ago • 1313 comments

Bonus, it's weirdly satisfying to suggest your library system purchase a book and then see it appear in the catalog (and then in your hands).

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

just observed an author crowing about driving their publisher crazy because they just kept making changes in pass after pass all the way to the printer deadline and I'm thinking not in my g.d. house on my g.d. watch you didn't

submitted 77 days ago • 10 comments

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

submitted 81 days ago • 72 comments

Just a reminder that anyone can nominate books for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Only a week left to do so -- nominations close at midnight Pacific on March 31.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Sickening. How small-minded and unimaginative to think that accomplishments by people who are not white males cannot be true accomplishments and need to be reviewed. wapo.st/4iv3aIe

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Why hyphens matter. As written, this means the dog trainers sniff out disease. Should read "disease-sniffing-dog trainers." A woman I met published a poem called "On the Importance of Hyphens." It goes Pink skinned baby.

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

submitted 104 days ago • 82 comments

"I only hurt people from a distance. How does that make me a bad person?" 🙄

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments