Katie Lark

Inside of the restaurant showing a long wooden table and artful varied hanging lamps throughout the space

The patio where the dinner took place with tables covered in red and white checkered tablecloths lit by candles and fairy lights

Selfie of Katie at the table on the patio with a view of the inside of the restaurant behind her.

Crystal cut short-stemmed glass with a bourbon-based cocktail in it shown in front of a large half-melted white candle in a glass display on the dinner table.

Burger with mushroom sauce around it on the plate and a bowl of fries

Apple crisp dessert with ice cream on top

Had a lovely night out at Buck’s Fishing and Camping - the fries were correct 😊🕯️🌃

Damn you Jon M Chu… and thank you 💖💚

You know what fortune cookie? Go off.

🌈☀️✨ Day 21:

Since we featured the Stand Up for Science letter in the Good Trouble segment of the Daily Beans podcast this morning, signatures have gone from roughly 5,000 to 15,000! You can add your name by clicking the link below:

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

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Doing Bi-pride eyeshadow is so much more enticing than leaving on time to go play capitalism. Ah well, adhd wins again, I won’t be THAT late, Happy Pride!

#pride #bipride #adhd #hahaistillhavetogetdressedwhelp

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From a friend at work now:

“Please don't share directly from me.

DOGE is currently swarming NIH and putting people on admin leave for minor infractions

NIH is also not allowed to issue diversity supplements. Supporting underrepresented groups is no longer allowed.”

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

Picture of the more options list from viewing a web page after clicking a Facebook link. The list does not include “open in external browser”

Also “open in external browser” seems to no longer be an option in the “more” list, to keep you connected to Facebook while you browse.

Heads-up - I just clicked a link in a facebook post & got a pop-up for turning on link history. Yes was already selected.

I went to make sure it was off in settings & clicked their link “How Link History Uses This Information”. Seems to only be a help page to turn it on or off, no data use info.

I'll keep it a buck, when they first announced it I was unsure if I would be able to stop shopping there because it was my second home, but I'm still going strong!

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

They’re saying it’s because the live sports and 24/7 channels they’re adding naturally come with ad-breaks, but it sure doesn’t limit to just that in the user agreement language.

So this seems to be a growing trend for streaming services. Just got this email from Disney+. What are people with ad-free even paying for then? Disney 100% doesn’t need MORE money to ‘struggle through’ making new content available.

Furby themed crocs in a window display

What fresh hell is this?

Hot topic for my therapist and everyone else lately: regulating the nervous system. I’m so sorry to tell you, my system is nervous, I don’t think that’s avoidable in this timeline 🤷‍♀️

You should be able to write off the charity work of trying to teach that man to read on your taxes. Exhausting.

Our President plans to send 30,000 more people there. THIS is what that looks like. TikTok video by reb for the rebrand

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jRH32r/

Not pictured: @tarynltup.bsky.social and @richardkitch.bsky.social (because we didn’t think to take a selfie until the END of the night 😅) OR any of the delightful crew from the separate game night last night. I think I need to own more board games 🤔

Selfie of Katie with her eyes closed to show off pink to blue eyeshadow. Wearing a teal tank top with “I believe her” printed on it.

Drag queen in a fabulous black and white bodysuit with knee high black boots and a maroon curled wig accepting a tip during a performance.

Katie and four friends in a selfie at game night.

The main white box and the smaller green expansion box for the card game “Radical Queer Witches”

Delightful weekend of Drag and board games 😊 #findingjoy and #buildingcommunity

The titles of the executive orders are unfathomably unhinged. And please describe these “adverse consequences”.

Friend of a friend got this in their work email on Thursday. Straight from a fascist playbook.

Reminder: If a man tries to play chicken with you on the sidewalk, you don’t have to be the one to step out of the way.