Kate Lavery

@katelavery

When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist - the Norwegian Nobel Committee

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Kate Lavery@katelavery· 15d

Great day for lunch and a book signing with @dorothywinsor.bsky.social . Great to see you, daw!

The author Dorothy Winsor signing books at a local restaurant

Kate Lavery@katelavery· 24d

WHY IS THEIR HAIR SO PERFECT

Robert Pattinson in The Odyssey looking like he just came from the salon.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· 29d

(Gift Article) Embedded Cascadia Daily article about Yellowstone Bison attack suspenders guy, Carl Isom McDaniel, who sounds like a super nice person, wish him a speedy recovery www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/dec/04/... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Screen shot from the linked 2025 article about Carl McDaniel, the Yellowstone bison attack victim, "Carl McDaniel: East Whatcom good samaritan, showing a head shot of a 64-year old white man with glasses and a long grey beard standing in front of pine trees

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 11

2016: @dorothywinsor.bsky.social : hey there's this Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton, but with rap music. Me: ??? Daw: No, it's really good tho. Me: ??? Daw: Sends me CD. Me: Plays on repeat for 785 days. 2020: I get HBO for a year just to watch film 2026: Collector's edition 4K HD DVD

Image of the cover of the 2026 release of the Hamilton film DVD

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 9

Uh-huh, sure

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 9

Here's a white guy guy wearing a backwards baseball cap and dog tags to work out in the gym—Pod Save's next new DudeBro Dem candidate, probably

White guy, 40, goatee, white baseball cap on backwards, tight-fitting black hoodie, and dog tags on a chain, demonstrating a wallet while standing in front of gym equipment

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 7

Oh just GFY

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 5

Reaction in Norway

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 5

My post from 5 days ago: It's supposed to be 99F in DC on Saturday, so likely after the first 10K (fireworks) nobody will see the rest anyway for all the smoke hanging in the air.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jul 5

Well, the NYC fireworks were awesome anyway

Freedom 250 announcement: At President Donald J. Trump's direction, gates to the National Mall will reopen at 9:45 PM. The Salute To America celebration will move forward, the President will deliver remarks at 11:00 PM, adn the fireworks spectacular will follow.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 30

😂

zoom out showing a large green lawn with about 10 spectators

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 28

Best thing you'll read all day

An image from a 1973 Habitat catalogue showing a woman with shoulder-length brown hair dressed in a striped jumper sitting in a chair and taking notes. Across the desk sits a man with a bad comb-over, wearing a suit. He is, perhaps unconsciously, leering at her. Caption below:As Anita took notes for the much-anticipated Scunthorpe meeting, Roy admired her soft yet precise hands and the penwomanship of the various folkloric doodles she had included in the margins. He wished he had hair exactly like hers and thought about all the nice photos he would pay people to take of it if he did. It was precisely seven years since he had last killed a man and this evening he would celebrate.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 18

The power of representation: This 1643 poem by American poet Anne Bradstreet about Queen Elizabeth I

Who was so good, so just, so learned so wise,
From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.
Nor say I more then duly is her due,
Millions will testifie that this is true.
She has wip'd off th' aspersion of her Sex,
That women wisdome lack to play the Rex

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 17

My daily reminder that AI is not only evil but stupid and I am an idiot for I don't know, trying to find a printer manual online instead? Which is worse??

Discussion with AI to try to fix a printer issue:
You don't need to go to the printer yet. We're just checking whether pressing that button actually activates WPS on the router. Tell me what happens to the lights after you press it.

THAT TURNED THE WIFI TO THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OFF YOU ABSOLUTE IMBECILE

You're right. I got that wrong.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 16

The FBI has an annual budget for cash awards but even one $8K award would be more than most agents see in their entire career. My eyes popped at $40K PER AGENT. Good for Raskin.

Excerpt from the article:“By issuing these side payments, your office may be knowingly breaking federal law,” the letter says. “In some cases, nearly $8,000 payments have been made to multiple individuals every two-week pay period despite many of the beneficiaries of your selective generosity already maxing out on a federal employee’s salary.”

The letter says it is unclear exactly how much each of the agents has received, but “we can confirm that numerous loyalist employees have received at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to nearly $40,000 per agent. We can also confirm you have depleted this reserve at such a frenzied rate that some of the payments have bounced back from exhausted accounts.”

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 15

Could we have some State Farm ads with this guy please

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 15

🤷‍♀️

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 11

January 21, 2029

Berlin Wall being torn down by citizens, 1989

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 2

Memories of a great trip to Spain 14 years ago this week... @cowudi.bsky.social

A friendly Labrador retriever looking in to the inn from the lawn

Smoke from burning tires on the highway from Oviedo to Madrid set by striking coal miners.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· Jun 1

6. I mean...

Mississippi River from Guttenberg Iowa with the bluffs of Wisconsin seen across the river

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 31

Any past president would have been crucified just on the basis of deforestation alone.

Section of the original post photo focusing on a large area of mature trees that were cut down for the Big Beautiful Ballroom.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 29

Thanks! I had my annual birthday trip for gluten-free pancakes

A plate containing 3 gluten-free pancakes topped with bananas, blackberries, and candied pecans

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 22

This is a public service announcement

WebMD: How Your Hands Changes As You Age: Pictures of Aging Hands with a photo of an elderly person's hands with senile purpura

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 20

The author is upset (rightly) that for-profit companies are buying up youth sports leagues, but you don't have to look further than the first two sentences to find the real problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The first sentence of the article: My 14-year-old son is in a serious, multi-state hockey league. During his five-month, 60-game season, he travels up and down the East Coast

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 19

Yikes. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/s...

Images of a molar subjected to Neanderthal root canal 60K years ago, showing a large hole drilled in the top. Text: Recreating the procedure on modern human teeth showed the process would have taken 35 to 50 minutes of continuous, high-pressure drilling to penetrate the dentin and expose the pulp chamber.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 19

Oh my god😂

Rip Wheeler looking exactly like somebody named Rip Wheeler should look

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 19

Far be it from me to criticize anybody's taste in pop culture entertainment, and I would almost watch Ed Harris in anything, but I keep getting these ads for the new Yellowstone (which I have never seen) spinoff, Dutton Ranch and I'm like, could these people look more intentionally J6-rioter-coded

Two MAGA-looking people from Dutton Ranch

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 19

Gift link: It's insane how much serious thought has gone into analyzing something that is literally a made-up construct in the first place. Landon Jones has a lot to answer for. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Of course, you can splice and dice any cohort differently and come up with what’s called a “microgeneration.” But this poll echoed something I’ve heard in my reporting before: Gen Z, which encompasses people born from 1997 to 2012, splinters into an older and a younger group that tend to behave quite differently. Rachel Janfaza, who researches and writes about this age group, has referred to them as Gen Z 1.0 and 2.0. The generational researcher Meghan Grace described them to me as “Big Zs” and “Little Zs.” Whatever you call them, the split seems like a meaningful one.

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 17

I hope they enjoy digging their way through this

Roll of sturdy critter-proof (I hope) garden fencing

Kate Lavery@katelavery· May 17

Who wants to go next?