Kari

@badguysequalxps.bsky.social

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Proud public Montessori teacher. Mama. Wife. Video and Board Game player. Music lover. Snuggle scientist. She/Her.

A black bookshelf with many children’s books. There is a gray float frame with a marker and pen drawing of Edgar Allen Poe in sunglasses that reads “I Put the LIT in literature.”
A birthday cake frosted in buttercream shaped like a stack of newspapers and a newsboy cap.
Caprese chicken with fresh basil, mozzarella, and heirloom tomatoes drizzled with balsamic on a blue plate, beside a big blue salad bowl with spinach, cucumbers, peaches, blackberries, pecans, and fresh mozzarella.
A man and a woman smile for the camera at House of Blues in Downtown Disney, 2008(?)
A screenshot from the City of Cleveland website regarding the opening of cooling centers. It reads: “Dates of service: Sunday, June 22, 2025 Monday, June 23, 2025 Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Time: 11:30a.m. – 10:00p.m. Locations: Zelma George Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 3155 Martin L. King Blvd. Collinwood Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 16300 Lakeshore Blvd. Gunning Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 16700 Puritas Ave. Kovacic Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 6250 St. Clair Ave. Michael Zone Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 6301 Lorain Ave. Frederick Douglass Neighborhood Resource & Recreation Center: 15401 Miles Ave. Each site will have comfort areas for residents and filtered water fountains.“
A visual representation of climate change in Cleveland Ohio over the last 175 years. The stripes begin mostly blue and by the end are mostly red.
A photo of some roughly chopped garlic scapes and beet greens in a food processor. You can see pieces of deep pink stem.
A blue bowl holds some pasta with green flecks of pesto sauce on it. It is mixed with tomatoes, cucumbers, mozzarella and cannellini beans.
A roasted beet and strawberry salad with honey balsamic vinaigrette. The strawberries and beets sit on butter lettuce and cucumbers. There is crumbly goat cheese and cannellini beans on top. The food is in a blue bowl on top of a woven placemat.
A dad and his daughter play My City
A pirate and a drag queen sit with a happy parents and two kids on stage after Drag Storytime.
Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues in Abbott Elementary.
A child in an orange dress with cars on it sits in a messy kitchen and paints foam on the blue water in a shoebox diorama.
A photo from ~1992 of me with my grandparents in their living room. My grandfather is mostly out of frame.
Mini-farfalle with a light cream sauce and Brussels sprouts sautéed with bacon. They food is in a stainless steel pan, on top of a crocheted trivet, sitting on a black table.
A spiky speech bubble on a cream postcard reads “Did you know you can easily redirect your state tax dollars to provide scholarships for [redacted] students?”
A woodcut, water colored print of “The Burning of the Library of Alexandria” by Unbekannter Künstler. Boats are in harbor of blue water, and the tan brick buildings are ablaze in orange flame. gray smoke billows from the top of the buildings.
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
A blue flyer which reads: Do cuts to the Department of Education have an impact in Ohio? Gutting the Department of Education would: -Deny 284,328 Ohio children of critical special education services. -strip over 1 million vulnerable Ohio kids of critical education services. -make college more unaffordable for working families. -Cut career and technical education programs. -Reduce teachers, increase class size. -Reduce direct support for children. #ProtectOurKids #AFT #OFT #CTU #UnionStrong
The Raincoat When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs to her the whole forty-five minute drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty- five minutes back from physical therapy. She’d say, even my voice sounded unfettered by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang, because I thought she liked it. I never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore. Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. -Ada Limón
I Do Not Love You I do not love you as if you were salt rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way that this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. -Pablo Neruda
The Orange At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist. — Wendy Cope
The cover for the first volume of delicious in dungeon by Ryoko Kui. The party is in a long hallway made of gray stone. Senshi (a dwarf), Chillchuk (a halfling), and Marcille (an elf) are in the background. Behind them is a red dragon. In the foreground on the left side is Laios, a blonde human male. He is wearing armor, has a pack and bedroll on his back, and is holding a frying pan in one hand and a spatula in the other.
The cover of “The Great Divide” by Cristina Henríquez. The background is red. Centered vertically between the title and author is a drawing of two men in a boat. Around the outside of the cover are drawings of native flowers, frogs, fish, a shovel, and a mosquito.
The book cover for H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert with illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook. The cover is cut into many small frames, featuring (from L toe, top to bottom): flames with the subtitle “climate change from A to Z; many small houses with solar panels on their roof; a lightning bolt; a bird flying out of a tree and a bee on a daisy; the title “H is for Hope;” a wind turbine; palm trees in a hurricane; power lines in front of dark clouds with the name of the author and illustrator; a barn with many cornstalks in front of it.
The cover of "The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society" by C.M. Waggoner. The cover is done in lavender and a dark blue/purple, made to look like a book shelf with an arched doorway cut out in the middle. The title is centered in that cut out. The O in Demon has horns, and the S in society has a devil's tail. There is a red cat sitting just above the author's name, batting at the devil's tail.
“ICE raid at Cilantro Taqueria on Coventry. The(y) took 3 people. Apparently other raids in Painesville and other Northern Ohio location(s) at the same time.”
A book cover. An orange cat peeks over the edge of a purple table at a plate with six sushi rolls and chopsticks on it.
A book cover with two women, one white and one Black. The white woman is standing in front of the Chicago skyline and the Black woman is standing in front of a surfboard and palm trees.
A book cover. A chef in black with a shaved head carries a crate of produce through a verdant garden covered in fog.
Vibrant flowers on a black background outline the shape of a woman and a man. The title of the book and author are written in all cap white letters.
Pasta with a butter, garlic and tomato sauce topped with Parmesan and an over medium egg. In a blue bowl, sitting atop a striped placemat.
A book cover with a light green background. There is a Black man in a blue hat, white shirt, and orange pants. He is holding something under his arm.
The book cover of Lightning in Her Hands. It is dark purple with flowers framing the page, Lightning in the Sky, and a man and a woman in silhouette.
The cover of “Rivers of London” by Ben Aaronovitch. Cream background with an illustrated map of London that has red marks all over it.
The cover of Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 2 shows an apprentice witch, Agott, sitting on a chair in the atelier.
A collage of the covers of the 59 books that I read this year!
A white man with curly hair gives a thumbs up next to “Computer Space,” an early video game.
At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter's accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents of the outhouse: light of the sun, growth of the ground, finished with one of their journeys. To the sky, to the wind, then, and to the faithful trees, I confess my sins: that I have not been happy enough, considering my good luck; have listened to too much noise; have been inattentive to wonders; have lusted after praise. And then upon the gathered refuse of mind and body, I close the trench, folding shut again the dark, the deathless earth. Beneath that seal the old escapes into the new.
A blue soup bowl with Italian Wedding Soup and a spoon in it.
Slightly grainy photo of a white and gray cat sitting on a woman in a white and gray cat kigirumi.
A very, very small registered trademark symbol is shown close up on a person’s finger
A picture of a record player playing Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant.
A selfie of a white woman in a red shirt and cherry apron standing at a kitchen counter. On the counter is a pastry mat covered in flour and dough bits, an empty bowl and a knife used for cutting the pie dough into two balls.
Book cover for Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. A woman’s face is at the center bottom of the cover and she is surrounded by the abstract faces of many spirits.
The image show the statistics for @BadGuysEqualXPs reading in the month of October. It states that she read 7 books, totaling 2,110 pages. It has four charts, and shows the covers of "Threadneedle" by Cari Thomas, as well as "Arsenic and Adobo" and "Blackmail and Bibingka," both by Mia P. Manansala.
The book cover for "Baby Goes to Market" by Atinuke and Angela Brooksbank. It has a blue background and shows an African mother with a basket balanced on top of her head and her baby lovingly hugging her around the neck.
A girl with orange hair, yellow pants, and a Green shirt skates on the cover of this book.
A book cover. Stick figure drawings are connected to one another by a squiggly line.
A book cover; a person stands outside with their face turned towards the light. They hole a shovel over their shoulder.