katherinewhatever

This is just my personal blog, so it's a mix of rambly posts about my life and then whatever I'm interested in. If you have anything you need me to tag plz let me know. Pronouns are she/her. If you’re a terf, fuck off

[katherinewhatever]

it’s so so wild seeing people freak the fuck out over my future congresswoman’s views being too extreme when literally this is the first time I’ve had a rep I felt aligned with and her views just represent my day-to-day values

[depsidase]

[trapny]

This is more inspirational than I think it was originally intended to be

[neenarchive]

companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

[neenarchive]

learning to ask 'is this an ad' will save your life

[partisan-by-default]

FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones

Privacy advocates and domestic violence groups say ID mandate is a big mistake.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence described extensive concerns with the list of potential information the FCC may require collecting. The proposal “asks whether providers should exclude or subject to heightened scrutiny virtual addresses, shared office locations, PO boxes, and mail-forwarding services, and whether providers should rely on customer-characteristic ‘red flags’ to identify potentially suspicious customers,” the group said. “While these questions arise in the context of fraud prevention, they also implicate practices that survivors routinely use to protect themselves from being monitored or harmed by abusive actors.”

The proposal “asks whether providers should collect copies of government-issued identification, verify information using public databases; consumer reporting agencies; financial institutions; and commercial records, and retain those records for four years after the customer relationship ends,” the group said.

People fleeing domestic abuse “may be living in a shelter, transitional housing, a hotel, a car, a friend’s spare room, or another location they cannot safely disclose,” the group’s filing said. “Many rely on address confidentiality programs (ACPs), governmental programs that provide survivors with a substitute legal address and mail-forwarding services precisely because disclosure of a residential address can expose them to renewed violence.”

Victims of abuse frequently relocate and need to establish new email accounts and phone numbers, the FCC was told. While the National Network to End Domestic Violence is focused on domestic violence survivors, the group pointed out that similar concerns about the FCC plan have been “raised by leading privacy and civil liberties organizations.”

Eric Null, director of the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told 404 Media recently that “to address the scourge of illegal robocalls, the FCC has unfortunately proposed to force every wireless subscriber in the nation to sacrifice their privacy and give up significant personal details before receiving or renewing a wireless line. While some carriers already collect such details, there are specific circumstances where a person may need privacy and anonymity when seeking a cell phone, including if that person is a victim of domestic violence, or is a journalist or whistleblower.”

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

prayer to whichever dead catholic person is most appropriate: may I not have to run a whole week of surprise camps on crutches. in a knee brace.

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Im agnostic raised liberal protestant, but absolutely the catholics got saints right. Sometimes your problem is so fucking specific you need Some Guy. If you're listening, Guy of Workers Who Have Strain Injuries,

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

No fucking WAY, there's actually a knee injury Guy? Catholicism accidentally reinventing the medical specialty system......

[youremysunshine8]

I know you're wondering: are there slutty pictures of him revealing his knees?

Saint Roch, by Francesco Ribalta, c. 1625, Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia

[image id: st. Roch staring soulfully and hiking up his robe to show that his thigh has a bubo on it, also sluttily revealing his knees]

[running-with-toast]

what the dog doin

[werewolf-transgenderism]

they’re having an auction of ALA “Read” posters and I need everyone to get in on this:

SIGNED Spike Lee? the iconic Nicolas Cage one? Xena and Gabrielle? the one that just says “SEX”? LeVar Burton?? and there’s so much more on the site like Fabio and a signed one with Mikhail Baryshnikov and one with Brandy, etc., etc. I wish I had money to drop on this

[sideblogtointeract]

30 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR THE CRIME OF OWNING ZINES

Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind

Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help wi

“The need to deter this type of conduct is high,” That's what U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said to justify the ludicrous sentencing of Des Revol along with the other eight individuals arrested for their involvement in the Prairieland Detention Center protest. It doesn't matter that Des Revol didn't participate in said protest and wasn't in the area, or that he was arrested two days later at gunpoint. O'Connor and the Texas state court want to make an example of Revol in the hopes it will deter future criminal activity. His crime? Having a box of free zines, pamphlets, and art in his truck. Free speech isn't illegal yet and we won't let Texas pretend that it is! In Des's own words(taken from his first public statement):

"If this is happening to me now, it’s only a matter of time before it happens to you."

Learn more At:

[lucylehane]

You do an eclectic celebration of dance!

The Birdcage (1996)

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[probuccalfat]

man, i’m sorry—this breaks my heart. i went to odisha during one of the trips home to india to visit my mom’s family and it is one of the most remarkable and deeply wondrous places that i have ever seen. i wish that was how i could speak about it all the time. it’s a place that eternalizes human creativity and devotion towards the sublime. i wish anybody cared about india as much as it deserves to be cared for, starting with care from our own government.

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 22, 2026 - Mass protests have broken out across Colombia after Trump-backed millionaire far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella claimed a razor-thin victory.

Preliminary counts show de la Espriella leading by fewer than 250,000 votes. Leftist Senator Iván Cepeda announced that party lawyers are contesting 27% of the ballot boxes due to irregularities.

Outgoing President Gustavo Petro leveled serious allegations of foreign meddling, claiming Israeli intelligence interfered in the electoral process.

The far-right leader’s victory speech has already escalated tensions. De la Espriella issued a chilling openly urged his supporters to "confront" anyone questioning the vote.

His aggressive rhetoric mirrors his recent pledge to Donald Trump, where he vowed to use his platform to target the left and aggressively dismantle progressive political movements.

De la Espriella, a millionaire lawyer turned ultra-conservative influencer, anchors his hardline platform in deep-rooted alliances with traditional corporate elites and the global far-right.

Known for defending figures linked to right-wing paramilitary groups, he campaigns on aggressive military crackdowns and mega-prisons. [video]

[tomorrowillbeyou]

nice outfit dude LOL. legolas called. apparently they're taking the hobbits somewhere really crazy

[rubysapphrald]

i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people

[rubysapphrald]

people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[deaddogbrain]

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[itastelikesand]

[emortal-l-deactivated20250308]

[ID: a screenshot of a comic speech bubble. The black text in it reads "No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old learned hidden biases that I need to examine. It is my responsibility to check myself daily for my stereotypes, prejudices and, ultimately, discrimination." /ID end]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[pupucino]

antiracism is a constant process. i was raised in a racist village and it's not easy to get rid of it. i moved away over 10 years ago but those ideas are still haunting me.

[genderkoolaid]

also keep in mind that shame + guilt are not conducive to growing as a person. when it comes to "checking yourself" it should be a non-judgemental process. it's not about flagellating yourself for every bad thought or trying to purify your mind of all corruption. it's only when acknowledging your own racist thoughts doesn't fill you with dread that you can really progress past the white guilt of it all.

radical self-acceptance & genuine self-critique are not opposites. they need each other. do not let obsessive-compulsive behaviors colonize your desire to grow as a person.

[katherinewhatever]

lmao I've given my new job my availability several times and they keep being like "are you available tonight???" rather than just putting me on the schedule and I'm like. no girl. schedule me. schedule me and I will be there. lets not play these games

yesterday they texted me "can you come in tonight?" and I was like "yeah thats already what we had agreed upon?" like. what. but also they're nice enough that I think I can get whatever schedule I want. so it's whatever. like there's value to me in being able to set my schedule