Katharine Ada

@yourpalkat

chickadee on a dodge dart | she/her free palestine | wear a mask | trans liberation now

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Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· 6d

hi. i’ve been on vacation. don’t tell me what i missed while i was gone, i’ve been enjoying not being here much

kat (brunette, stunningly beautiful) in a black summer dress, sitting on a terrace. she looks well rested for once

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· 27d

i took a short break from worrying about our various overlapping apocalypses and got my hair cut

A beautiful middle-aged woman in a black sleeveless halter top; her brown hair is cut in a shoulder-length shag

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jul 9

i’ll see you and raise

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jul 9

my apologies to the staff and patrons of the coffee shop for walking in literally dripping with sweat, but in my defense i did very much need a cold coffee beverage

kat in a black sports bra, black spandex shorts, white adidas running shoes, and a pink kn95 respirator. she is very shiny

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jul 2

lol. lmao, even

screenshot of my phone's weather app, showing a "temperature map" that's just a big red and orange blob in which the great lakes are only vaguely discernible by being a lighter shade of orange

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jun 30

i'm not fast anymore but i look better than ever in my race day photos and if we're being honest, that's what really counts

photo from a 5K running race. kat in a neon green singlet and black spandex shorts, running alongside another woman in a red sports bra, pink sleeves, and red spandex shorts. they are well ahead of the other runners, they both have reflective sunglasses, and they both have long hair in ponytails flowing behind them

similar shot as previous, but the framing is pulled back a bit to show the whole bodies of both runners; they're both mid-stride and appear to be floating several inches above the ground

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jun 23

it’s a shoulders out summer

kat (a hot older woman) in denim cutoffs and a black off-the-shoulder tee

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jun 21

the toronto trans memorial

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jun 13

it's my birthday and i'm making it everyone else's problem i'm fifty and you are legally obligated to be nice to me and/or tell me how hot i am

kat (old, wizened) in a black cropped tee with a cutout along the decollete, a black miniskirt, and patterned sheer tights

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jun 4

everything past this era of web development was a mistake

a screenshot of Cameron's World, a "web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009)"

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· May 12

the training plan for this race was insane, if not outright disordered. 100+ km weeks, four weeks at 130km, no days off, only 10km+ "recovery runs", many days with multiple runs, a mid-week "medium long" 20km run that i had to wake up at 4:30am for to do before work, etc

a calendar of completed running workouts; there's no week lower than 113km, and a few approaching 130km.

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· May 12

some dipshits will do almost anything instead of simply going to therapy and taking estrogen

A summary of Kat's 2013 Chicago Marathon results (42.2km, 3:00:33 time, 4:17/km pace)

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Apr 15

you, a fool, an utter buffoon: the cover of a lighting catalogue from 1970 is a dumb thing to pattern a website after me, a fool of a different sort: lol get bent

Front cover of a 1970 catalogue from Italian design company Artemide

screenshot of a bunch of headings and filler text

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Mar 17

like?????? come on??????

a little two-carriage electric train going over a low trestle bridge, surrounded by snowy trees

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Mar 9

I'm Kat, a front-end web developer & occasional graphic designer based in Toronto. I'm looking for work! I make complex ecommerce sites, lightweight sites for communities and nonprofits, fun web toys, & more! Do you need a web site? Sure you do. Reach out and say hi! Portfolio: katharinemurr.com

screenshot of a product display page on inkbox.com, an ecommerce web site

screenshot of a carousel widget on richardson.com

screenshot of a menu and application page on a site for Juno College of Technology

Screenshot of Brite Lites, a silly web toy I made that is similar to, but legally distinct from, Light Bright

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Feb 5

whee, i added dark mode to my site finally (instead of, you know, applying to jobs or for EI)

screenshot of my portfolio website in the dark mode i added today

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 28

what

a pop-up notification in apple’s music app which reads “Open in Apple Music Classical: Discover more in the app designed for classical music”

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 26

i recently watched "What a Way to Go!" where Newman plays a disheveled, bearded american artist living in poverty in France and oh my god

Paul Newman, covered in dirt in a frankly sexual manner

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 21

share a bird pic you took

a pigeon hopping off of a rock ledge onto some granite pavers in an urban plaza. it looks like it's about to face-plant.

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 16

graffiti reading “arm trans kids with bazookas”

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 5

"it's important to hold people accountable for their words and actions, especially transfems. mostly transfems. almost exclusively transfeminine people"

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Jan 2

me to the only girl who liked this:

William Petersen in Manhunter saying "it's just you and me now, sport"

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Dec 19

watching a silly but charming children’s movie from japan about a christmas dinosaur and every one of this little girl’s outfits are amazing

a small child and a dinosaur. the dinosaur is wearing a santa hat

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Dec 8

this is an incredible paragraph, from JP Brammer on the pantone colour of the year: johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

As you can see, Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service. The color of bad news delivered with bureaucratic indifference. The color of congressional insider trading. The color of a person’s thoughts while ignoring war. The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.” It is the color of a slightly crooked command hook in a college dorm. The color of the humming sound that an overhead fluorescent light makes in a disillusioning job. The color of the familial obligation that pushes you to begrudgingly accept a call. The color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular. It is not, as some are saying, the color of a white person. It’s a decidedly nonhuman, anti-human hue. It is, however, the color of the discussions on the subject, as well as the color of the awareness of the context from which those discussions inevitably spring. It is the color of offending by trying very hard not to offend. It is the color of a corporate apology. It is the color of a machine saying, “I hear you.” When the decision was revealed, I knew I would never own a house.

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Nov 28

i love reading margaret, and this one really spoke to me, maybe you would like to read it too

I think everyone I know has the fantasy of destroying their phone or their computer. Everyone has a different but oddly specific way they’d do it: smash it with a rock, throw it off a skyscraper, set it on the train tracks. Myself, and I know this isn’t environmentally friendly, I imagine myself on a tiny sailboat somewhere on the ocean (even though I don’t sail) and I cast my devices overboard. I don’t want to just destroy my phone or my computer, I want to sacrifice these machines to the gods of the ocean.

We have these thoughts, but we’re mistaken about why we have them. Most of the time, when I’m imagining the depths swallowing my phone, I think it’s because I want to disappear from society, that I want to leave the world of people behind. I want to set the computer on the tracks and then walk into the woods, forever.

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Nov 11

this morning's ambiance

the soundtrack to "Berberian Sound Studio" by Broadcast

the album "Out of Season" by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Nov 9

Anthony Oliveira
@meakoopa

the queers who were nice/patient/gentle all got shot or bullied to death all that's left r me & the other pissed-off cockroach motherfuckers

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Oct 31

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Oct 28

looking at liquid glass interfaces and becoming a RETVRN girl but for when the eudora email client added a preference for "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

Screenshot of the Settings panel in the Eudora email client on i think Mac System 7? featuring a checkbox labeled "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

Katharine Ada@yourpalkat· Oct 6

[sigh] et tu, iTerm