Keri Culver

Clean start Quitting smoking, and feeling good.

Clean start

Quitting smoking, and feeling good.

True love Marrying my Spaniard, after quite a long time together, means making permanent what had already felt timeless. I love this man!

Marrying my Spaniard, after quite a long time together, means making permanent what had already felt timeless. I love this man!

What a woman Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.

Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.

The prettiest place you’ve never heard of A late summer respite in the Spanish Pyrenees, with biking and bagpipes. It was great to get to someplace cooler and more remote and then to feel like... home?

A summer sojourn to the Spanish Pyrenees to see ski towns, eat tapas, bike, hike, and dance. Worth another visit and soon...

Evaluator effects Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.

Evaluator effects

Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.

So familiar, but entirely new I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.

I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.

Wide open Skye It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!

Wide open Skye

It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!

Obliterating Objectivity Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.

Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.

Language first Without good language skills field work is just colonialist claptrap that serves researchers' needs but wastes respondents' time.

Without good language and translation, there is no field work. There is only colonialist claptrap serving researchers' needs and wasting respondents' time. Don't do that!

Is it time to rethink foreign aid? I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.

I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.

What’s your name? Inside my fevered mind, thinking about my career and my identity, while I figure out what's next after the gutting of USAID.

Reliving my beloved career, pondering identity, and figuring out what's next after the gutting of USAID.

Ffs.

What a scumbag. Wow, Indiana, great choice of Senator - can he punch a baby, too?

Obliteration of witness and dissociative episodes. I spent a lot of time (including for at least a month after using the drug) having times when I was completely not present. I don’t remember my behaviour and actions - they have been recounted to me by others. I was not at all able to be responsible for my actions. It’s terrifying and terrible. A ketamine user cannot be counted on. I thought I knew everything. It was very strange. And I did know a lot - my mind was very good at constructing narratives. Some of them, however, made zero sense. The grandiosity combined with delusions is oh so dangerous. Glitch in the matrix. I believed I was in a glitch for about two weeks. Everything appeared insane to me. I tried to get out by thinking about movies I had watched about the matrix and trying to determine the secret door to get out and basically just doing more ketamine to try to snap out of it. It was horrific. Tony Hseih of Zappos another ketamine user who eventually died through bizarre actions was also obsessed with simulation theory. This is another weird shadow experience on ketamine - matrix theory isn’t my thing but it became my thing.

YIKES! 👀 A terrifying account of what ketamine did to this former addict’s brain:

Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥

tinyurl.com/ketamusk

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Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵

It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech.

👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼

This must go VIRAL!
Start now!!!

Used a vrbo last week for the first time. The selection of properties was as good as Airbnb which came as a surprise. #nomoreairbnbmonopoly #vrbo

Me too! First time vrbo user, very happy with the selection and the app. Stayed in one already for a week. #vrbo #nomoreairbnb

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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Focusing on Rigor in International Development Evaluation - Keri Culver This article delves into why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.

Why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders.

kericulver.com/2025/03/20/f...

This from a man who wielded a chainsaw and laughed about feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Poor baby.

Are those little sweaters standard issue for Finnish chickens?? Adorbs.

If he doesn’t understand why the hate and “violence” against him, he is more sociopathic than I gave him credit for. Vile, monstrous, hideous scumbag.

This is the biggest scam in American history, Trump and Elon should be in prison.

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Vance Blasted After Latest Attack On 'Insane' Democrats Is A Spectacular Self-Own You're so close, JD. So close.

So close... and yet...

The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop

Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱

What Democracy Brings And What the Cuts to the National Endowment for Democracy Take Away

What Democracy Brings
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If I’d seen these before it aired, I might have watched! Then again… nah. He hasn’t ever made a truthful statement before and it appears he added to his lying streak quite handily.