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Karen VH

@designinginward.bsky.social

Chaotic good (usually). Curious skeptic. Unfucker of clusters. I say what everyone else is thinking. Design is political. I swear because I care. she/her.

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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

09.02.2026 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4725    πŸ” 1121    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 41

patriots lose
seahawks don't lose
bad bunny wins

09.02.2026 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no, that was me actually
bsky.app/profile/desi...

09.02.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

09.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1604    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 25

In my defense, I'm a Lions fan. This is not familiar territory for me.

09.02.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that one was my fault, sorry

09.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

goddammit.

09.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

after that halftime show, the only thing that can increase my good vibes is if the Patriots cannot manage to get a single score in this game. I think that would fix the timeline, actually.

09.02.2026 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

last year I rewatched the halftime show five times the following day and I think I'm gonna top that this year.

09.02.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

they are like cockroaches, long after the rest of us are gone, they'll still be scurrying around

09.02.2026 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if I see a team of fucking Clydesdales selling crypto or a gambling ad I swear to god...

09.02.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

how dare you use karaoke for evil

09.02.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

I'm never going to a Dunkin ever again, you cannot trust a company where even one single employee thought that ad was a good idea (let alone the employee with the budget)

09.02.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna blow the minds of the writers of Page Six when they discover songs have lyrics

09.02.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No Kings includes Draft Kings

08.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 25804    πŸ” 6055    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 110

Reminder that you should listen to American Idiot in full this week, it absolutely holds up.

08.02.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

*sound engineer in booth who knows every lyric by heart β€œwait for it, wait for it”*

08.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

now feels like a good time to mention that the best concert I ever attended was Green Day.

08.02.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call it socialism, but I prefer funding research, education, and the arts through taxation to funding it through sucking up to sex criminals.

08.02.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

replace mainstream media with The Muppets, this is how we fix the timeline

08.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Maybe we should actually talk to some actual users."

07.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

WE all knew this, but it's good that The Guardian is reminding the normies.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

07.02.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

the best teachers are lifelong learners and are as invested in their own continual growth as they are their students. in addition, they are curious about the students themselves, what motivated them, moves them, inspires them.

06.02.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

curiosity.

06.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"fuck ice" is the moral position

06.02.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Senate Democrats" is the collective noun for a group of people who are illiterate at reading rooms

06.02.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 321    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

"It is easy to crush on someone you will never have to know, who will in turn never have to know you. It’s a trial run at learning what words belong to the immense sentence of yearning."

06.02.2026 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"I think we're gonna need a bigger Supreme Court"

06.02.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

06.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

apparently swearing is my super power.

06.02.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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