Karla L Miller

But I know at 18 I was absolutely unmoored. A kid brought up in poverty wanting a way out. A kid pressured by a parent. A kid who's going to need years to deprogram MAGA cult rhetoric.

No. I do not wish for death for them.

I wish for a better system so they don't feel a need to do this.

The average recruit into the military is 18.

Before your frontal cortex forms.

And can't really grok scale of consequence.

America is an aggressor and an empire that needs to fall, but I save some empathy for the 18 year olds we're about to kill, too.

No one should be dying to war. No one.

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Pink-slip cuisine: Stone soup An old fable offers a useful go-to recipe for the unemployed and budget-conscious.

I promise this isn't turning into a recipe blog, but I was asked for my tips for eating on a budget. Mexican chicken tortilla "stone soup" is my go-to. medium.com/@karla.mille...

I’m so sorry to hear this. Be gentle with yourself.

UNITED NEVER DEFEATED

Claiming you or your choices or your media preferences or whatever are "apolitical" is actually a declaration of your politics. And a very loud one.

JICYDK.

Karla L. Miller – Medium Read writing from Karla L. Miller on Medium. Hi. I'm Karla. You may know me from the Washington Post Work Advice column (2011-2025). Opinions, errors, swears, and serial commas are entirely mine.

Also, if you like Bluesky Karla, you’ll love my blog. All the words the Post wouldn’t let me print.

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Er … thanks? 😅

GeNeRaL WouNdwoRt and InLé hAvE cOmE for yoUr SoUL

Hell yeah avocados!!

A packaged chocolate bunny whose candy eyes are disturbingly misaligned

Pre-purchasing chocolate Easter bunnies and I am aiming for the most disturbed-looking ones

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Oh YEAH. My faves:
-Wasa topped with chicken salad for lunch
-Wasa topped with almond butter and really ripe banana slices for breakfast.

Selfie of me and my two cats looking up at the camera. The cats, one tortoiseshell and one orange, are both on my chest, close to my face. The tortoiseshell, Azula, has her paw on top of the orange cat’s paw (Katara).

Closeup of Azula’s paw on Katara’s

I… the cute. I cannot.

Hey, I’m not here to judge (I will judge elsewhere, privately)

Detention hearing scheduled Tuesday for teens arrested in Quakertown ICE protest Officials have not publicly released information about what charges the teenagers face.

Ridiculous! The 5 Pennsylvania high school students who were arrested on Friday for walking out of school to protest ICE ARE STILL BEING DETAINED. www.inquirer.com/news/quakert...

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I lost my job. Everybody’s gonna hear about it. Laid off? Dammit, Gondor, call for aid.

So I have some news: In addition to ending my column at the Post, I just lost my day job.

Time to road-test my own advice. medium.com/@karla.mille...

Oo, how long before we get the coca back in Coca-Cola and start handing pipes out to kids again?

I LOVE that feature. I’ll still leave cash if I can just to make sure it goes to the person servicing my room, but remembering to carry cash is a challenge for me.

AI is like they invented a way to sometimes turn gravity down to 20% and everyone went "yay, we can just moon-bounce everywhere!" And now they're all "oh no, my gummy bones!"

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Why did ICE shackle a British tourist, a grandmother with no criminal record, who had all the correct papers, and lock her in a cell for SIX WEEKS??

Because ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.

Eliminate this agency now.

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

Freaking EW. And he's an anesthesiologist, so I have to wonder what he's done to women who were unconscious in *his* workplace.

I would say "how do you go home to a husband who treats your workplace like Epstein's island," but sounds like she's just about as bad.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

People have complained about the way journalists have written about them for as long as journalism have existed lol

Sometimes they’re right but sometimes they just don’t like what they see.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

FML.

There appears to be an issue with scam calls to the families of people kidnapped by ICE. The callers claim to be immigration lawyers, say that they’re going to help, and demand an up-front payment over WhatsApp or similar.

Real lawyers don’t do that!

sorry to say but that's a ....naan starter

New Jersey. You got a problem with that?