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@katerosebee

(she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.

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Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· 29d

Kite wife:

Woman in a long sleeve black dress flying an oval shaped kite on a wide beach with waves in the background

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jul 10

Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants. By which I mean the tax trap that invites in extraction industries like data centers.

Bar chart ranking Washington's 39 counties by how much new construction each needs every year just to keep county services flat under the state's 1% property tax levy cap, relative to how much it actually builds (median of 2023–25, assuming 3.5% cost growth). A dashed red line marks 1.0, where real-world building covers the gap: only Kittitas (0.86) and Franklin (0.79) fall left of it. The median county needs 1.9× its actual construction; Garfield County tops the chart at about 11×. Klickitat (2.2×) and Skamania (1.8×), in bold, sit mid-pack. Bar colors show whether each county taxed at its legal maximum in 2025: blue = levied exactly at the 101% cap (10 counties), purple = levied above it via road-levy shifts or lid lifts (11), gray = left capacity unused (18). Source: Washington Dept. of Revenue levy detail files, taxes due 2023–2025.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jul 10

We have off work this week so, because I'm very normal, I spent some time plotting out how rural counties like mine become vulnerable to ex: data centers because of regressive tax policies like Washington's 1% levy cap. Sure looks tempting when you're structurally forced into ballooning deficits.

Two side-by-side line charts titled "The levy scissors: allowed revenue vs. the cost of standing still." Left panel: Klickitat County current expense fund. Right panel: Skamania County current expense fund (placeholder inputs). Both plot dollars in millions over 15 years.
In each, a red line rising steeply shows the cost of holding services flat at 3.5% annual growth. A dotted red line below it shows an optimistic 2.5% cost scenario. A blue line rising far more slowly shows the allowed property tax levy under Washington's 1% cap plus organic new construction. The widening shaded area between the blue and red lines is the structural gap: by year 15 it reaches about $2.0 million in Klickitat.
A green dashed line shows what one $500 million project, built in year one, does. It jumps once, then flattens to the same slow slope, and a marked vertical line shows the year the project's headroom is spent: about year 8 in Klickitat, year 12 in Skamania. A purple dash-dot line shows a sustained $100 million per year construction pipeline, which is not one project.
Caption below the charts reads: a one-time project raises the levy base once; the base then grows at 1% per year like everything else. It shifts the level, not the slope.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jul 8

Made our way to the glorious World Kite Museum in Long Beach, Washington. Some incredible kites, including ones that IMO rival anything you’d see at QuiltCon. I loved many things about it, but especially Silas J Conyne, apparently the original Kite Diva.

A spacious room inside the World Kite Museum filled with colorful kites on display. Various kites hang from the exposed wooden ceiling beams and stand on the floor, including a prominent square kite with a black, white, red, and blue geometric pattern.

A large, complex cellular kite displayed against a white wall. The kite has a broad, six-pointed star shape constructed from dozens of interlocking hexagonal cells in a vibrant array of colors, including pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, and red.

A large, dramatic kite shaped like a majestic bird, suspended as if in mid-flight inside a museum. The bird has a reddish head and expansive wings beautifully painted with detailed layers of pink, yellow, red, and black feathers. Other large kites are folded on the floor behind a stanchion barrier in the background.

A close-up of informational museum placards about kite history. The central placard is a vintage advertisement that reads, "Least You Forget! My Business is Up In The Air. I make my living off the wind... I Run A Farm. I Raise Kites that will raise Big Advertising Banners hundreds of feet up in the air... Silas J. Conyne--Kite Farm, 401 McLean Avenue, Chicago." It includes a line drawing of a Conyne-Kite.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jul 5

Fire set off a few towns over by fireworks, making me feel vindicated for cracking down on the people who try to light them off when they park in front of our house to watch the Hood River display. “Even sparklers?” Yeah they burn 1200F+ a stray spark from one of those is plenty to light dry grass.

Photo of a raging inferno in the night burning up trees and bushes on a waterfront.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 22

My custom Ferric local public meetings archival tool helps me track gaps in my collection, generates public records requests I need to file, and allows me to do something incredible: generate a comprehensive, fact-checked (eventually sharable) database of when local government decisions were made.

A retro-styled computer interface with amber text on a dark, scanline-textured background. The screen displays a section titled "ACTION LOG" which contains a chronological, bulleted list of municipal decisions and administrative events dated between January and April 2026. The entries provide examples of typical local government actions, such as swearing in council members, adopting resolutions and ordinances, authorizing the Mayor to sign agreements, and awarding construction and utility contracts.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 22

What started as a desire to write a free newsletter covering public meetings in my rural WA counties, has turned into an archival project I'm so incredibly proud of. Every week I now use a tool suite I made to convert video and audio to transcripts, OCR gigantic agenda packets, track my storage:

A retro-styled computer interface with amber text on a dark background with subtle horizontal scanlines. At the top, the title reads "FERRIC" followed by "OPEN GORGE ARCHIVE TERMINAL // THE TAPE REMEMBERS // LAST SYNC 2026-06-22 16:23" and the phrase "PLAYBACK IS AN ACT OF MEMORY".

Below the header are highlighted status boxes displaying: 60.5% ARCHIVE INTEGRITY, 235 TRANSCRIPTS, 517 DOCUMENTS, 26/26 CHANNELS ONLINE, and a TAPE RANGE of 2024-12 – 2026-06. A status bar underneath reads, "NO CHANGE SINCE LAST SYNC — THE ARCHIVE HOLDS."

Under a row of navigation tabs (with "MATRIX" selected, alongside Dossiers, Case Files, and Commendations), a main section is titled "GAPS TO FILL (17) — PRIORITY ORDER". The first two items are listed as missing tape:
01 [NO TAPE] EFSEC — document on file for 2026-06 — no transcript (meets as-needed)
02 [NO TAPE] Klickitat-PlanningCommission — agenda, document on file for 2026-06 — no transcript (meets monthly)

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 21

My little solarpunk floating convenience store management game is coming along! I used premade tilesets for RPG Maker, and next I'll be figuring out the easiest way to not only let you pick your stock for each town's preferences, but shelve and arrange it. Calling it DriftMart. ❤️

pixel art of a convenience store on a pontoon boat on a river, with railings and life rings, a hydrant on the deck. it floats on a river with reeds and rolling green hills in the background.

overhead pixel art of a convenience store on a pontoon boat on a river, with railings and life rings, a planter on the deck, with a gangway going off to th eright.

overhead pixel art of a post-apocalyptic city overgrown with plants, along a river in the foreground. but on the boardwalk, the city is being rebuilt with open stores, clean and updated, coming back to life!

overhead pixel art of a convenience store interior, with a bank of cold cases in the back, register and posters, with aisles of goods. in the foreground are frozen sliding cases and planters.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 7

On the anniversary of D-Day, thanks to my Zeyda (left), the oldest 2nd Lieutenant in the US army, commissioned as an expert industrial boatbuilder and welder to lead teams to do the necessary modifications to the landing craft that carried the Allies to the beaches of Normandy that day.

two WWII soldiers in uniforms and helmets, one with a mustache and the other with sunglasses, in front of a building with two windows

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 3

Me settling in for a relaxing evening with a claustrophobic, foreboding, gore-splattered horror movie about a guy trapped in a submarine in a blood ocean full of cosmic nightmares.

Tiny white dog in a fuzzy hoodie tucked into a comfy hotel bed with paws on the bedspread like a person, a relaxed look on its face.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 3

I love when a movie is so clearly made by and for horror fans, especially for people who love soaking up the atmosphere of horror games. Iron Lung was exactly that for me, an indulgent watch.

Movie poster for "Iron Lung," a film by Markiplier. The poster has a dark, claustrophobic horror aesthetic. At the top and bottom, giant, jagged, bone-like teeth or ribs frame the image, framing a dark void in the center. Inside the top jaw, a skeletal spine and ribcage are visible embedded in dark, fleshy matter.
Large, blood-red, textured text in the center reads "IRON LUNG". Below it, white text reads "ONLY IN THEATERS JANUARY 30" and "A FILM BY MARKIPLIER". Detailed production credits for Mark Fischbach and the crew are listed in small white text at the very bottom.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 2

I saw the NYC mayor’s office made a web directory of free stuff for kids to do during the summer, so I made a Columbia Gorge web directory of free stuff for kids to do during the summer: www.opengorge.org/summer

A screenshot from the movie *Mean Girls* showing a student speaking in a crowded school hallway with the text: "I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops, so I bought army pants and flip flops."

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Jun 1

Took my software defined radio mobile setup out to test before I stuff it all in a rugged cyberdeck case. Need to work out some power issues, but made progress!

A casual outdoor software-defined radio (SDR) setup resting on a weathered wooden picnic table. The tech setup includes a small tablet with a compact dark grey and orange keyboard, connected via cables to a silver SDR dongle, a black power bank, and a rabbit-ear dipole antenna mounted on a mini tripod. Surrounding the electronics is a relaxing patio spread: a pint of light beer, a pink iced drink with a straw, a food basket containing sliced bread and dipping sauce on black-and-white checkered paper, and two pairs of sunglasses.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 21

We both still need to work this much because we’re financing our institute dream on top of normal expenses. We chose this but even so, our apt is our last un-renovated space and I watch our less employed friends in the wine cafe garden commercial space we just finished renovating downstairs like

Screenshot of squidward watching SpongeBob and Patrick frolick outside his window through horizontal blinds

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 16

It is frustrating to live on the front lines of climate change and the conflict between whether fixing it means “putting everything back the way it was” or trying to engineer a new kind of survival. But as a bonus: I get to see the Juvenile Fish Transportation Barge go by my house. Fish bus! 🐟🚌

A tugboat pushes two long red barges down a wide river. In the foreground, just past a two-lane road and concrete barriers, sit large stacks of rectangular concrete ties. On the far side of the river, a town is nestled at the base of rolling, forested hills under an overcast sky

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 13

One of my favorite eerie documentaries Some Kind of Heaven, about the gigantic retirement community The Villages in Florida, is finally available to watch for free on Tubi!

Poster for documentary some kind of heave. With a line of elderly synchronized swimmers from behind, tagline: America's seniors have discovered the fountain of youth.
It's in The Villages, FL.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 11

Getting into this freediving fit was its own accomplishment. These are 7mm thick spearfishing suits that are sewn into a top and bottom with no zippers so as to not let cold water in. You have to literally lube up the entire inside with diluted conditioner to pull them on.

A person stands on a grassy field in front of a blue pop-up tent labeled "ODYSSEY FREEDIVING." They are wearing a full camouflage-patterned freediving wetsuit with a hood and are striking a confident pose with one hand on their hip and the other giving a thumbs-up. In the background, other people in wetsuits are visible, along with parked cars and a gray, overcast sky. The foreground includes a pile of gear, including a black and white patterned towel.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 10

I probably would have gotten into freediving sooner if I knew it was an activity literally based around who can be the most relaxed. My friend and I in “otter mode” on the right just getting used to the ridiculous buoyancy of our 7mm(!!) wetsuits.

4 people float in a pool, 3 on their backs in a widespread relaxed pose, in heavy patterned dark green and gray wetsuits. On the side of the pool is a building with windows and long curtains, with short decorative palm trees and a sunning chair lining the side.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 4

The Galapagos is one of the few volcanic island clusters not on the edge of a tectonic plate, bubbling up and creating almost alien landscapes. View of a lifetime.

Wind Cut rock face showing sharp spines along the front with layers of volcanic ash cut into blade like divots

Penguins sitting on a rock in front of a dramatic angled rock wall dotted with scrub bushes

A wide volcanic lava flow bay with flow lines visible in semicircles in the ocean

Kicker rock in the Galápagos Islands, a sharp pointed triangular cluster of volcanic islands against a grey cloudy sky

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 4

Was as obsessed with the textures of the Galápagos Islands as the wildlife. These volcanic landscapes are powerful and humbling, I could stare at them all day.

Textured dramatic rock wall in the Galápagos Islands, a thin line of ocean shoreline

Edge of a volcanic island with layers of compacted ash and a wind cut face

A cave in a volcanic island with clear blue water in the foreground, layers of volcanic ash visible and a quote from Dune: “The mystery of life isn't a problem to be solved, but a reality to experience”

A sea lion hanging out in a dramatic cave of a volcanic rock wall, a red crab on a lower ledge

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 3

Imagine you sunburn your asscheeks while snorkeling, and this is what now greets you as you try to shop for dive skins. I hope someday women will gain the right to a whole swimsuit.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 2

My Galapagos trip summed up in one photo: living my childhood dream of live drawing these creatures and landscapes, just like in all the books I read about Darwin’s journey.

A woman in a black dress, rubber boots, straw hat and purple umbrella sketching a Galapagos tortoise lounging in an algae-filled pond. Only the shell is visible. Trees and bushes fill the sunny background.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 1

On this trip to the Galapagos it was easy to stop and let the group move ahead, sketch or paint for a few minutes till everyone looped back. Having time (despite the strict blocks for visitors to protect these ecosystems) to look deeply at this place was wonderful, a childhood dream fulfilled.

Watercolor painting of a baby boobie bird held up by a hand against a backdrop of greenery and pathways, blurry birds dotting the landscape

A hand holding up a sketchbook where a part of an island has been painted to continuously match an island in the distance, a palette for watercolor clipped to the book

Painting of a frigate bird with wings spread and balloon inflated next to a margarita and sunglasss on a table, Putin a boat in the ocean

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 1

This trip to the Galápagos Islands has been the trip of a lifetime for me, something I’ve dreamed of since I was a kid lugging my sketchbook to natural history museums. Getting to see these dramatic volcanic landscapes and creatures up close, painting them live in the field, I’ll never forget it.

Harsh rocky volcanic lava flow landscape near a bay in the Galapagos

Two male frigate birds with their red balloons inflated under their throats, sitting in bushes

A baby blue footed boobie on a walk across some lava rocky path

A family of Galapagos penguins hanging out on rocks near water

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 1

Also got to free dive with a family of eagle rays at Devil’s Crown. No feeling quite like getting to glide along the same current with these creatures.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· May 1

I would like everyone to know that today while snorkeling in the Galapagos I was blessed with the presence of a 15ft giant alien/manta ray, indicating that I am clearly pure of heart and my wish (spill the blood of my enemies) will be granted. Example pic below.

Scuba diver overhead shot next to a giant black and white oceanic manta ray, about 20ft wing tip to tip

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Apr 23

This Earth Day I am grappling with the common self-assured refrain that the ideal state of nature is “untouched,” making invisible the incredible amount of labor ex: the Skamania Forest Youth Success program and their adult mentors put in every year in critical forestry work on public lands.

A line of approximately ten young people in the Skamania Forest Youth Success program hikes single-file along a narrow dirt trail. They are surrounded by a lush green meadow filled with white wildflowers, with a densely forested mountain rising under a cloudy sky in the background. Each person wears a bright yellow hard hat and a high-visibility orange safety vest over their hiking clothes, carrying tools and supplies for their fieldwork. The perspective is from behind the group, looking down the trail as they head toward the woods

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Apr 19

Was tonight reminded of when I got stuck on a layover in Dalles and the airline put me in a hotel that had actually declared bankruptcy and was waiting out the last of its contracts. As a horror buff I was over the moon. This was the middle of the day, utterly impeccable vibes.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Apr 13

I went to Budapest a few months ago, and after this election I hope you will now feel more confident in visiting too. It’s an electric retrofuturist metropolis filled with wonderful people who really know how to live. They deserve this brighter future.

Don’t Post About Crimes@katerosebee· Apr 13

Me in this entire thread: