Karen Sandler

@karensandler.net

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True blue Dem & Dodgers fan. Soy hispanohablante (no nativa). Novice Taiko drummer. I ❤ science. She/her/hers Tankborn Liberation series: https://store.karensandler.net/tankborn-liberation

Tabby cat is sprawled on the bathroom scale, looking up as if to say, You don't want to do this, Mom.
Tiny thumbnail-sized frog hopping in the grass at the park.
Gorgeous blue sky, rolling lawn shaded in the foreground, backed by sunlit trees with cattails in the distance.
A photograph of the head and shoulders of the Statue of Liberty with a back drop of a perfect blue sky. Lady Liberty holds up her right arm, lifting the torch of freedom skyward.
At the bottom of the image is the top of the writer's head from behind, with a computer screen full of words in front of her. Behind the computer screen are various tchotchkes on shelves: seashells, coffee mugs, cat alebrijes. Next to the shelves is a tall cupboard with plants on top.
A very sad, pale batard loaf of sourdough bread.
A woman is standing behind a glass display cabinet, positioned so that the mask inside covers her head. The mask is bird-like, with a giant beak and seven feathers arrayed around the head. The bird's eyes are half closed.
A sign on a building in Mexico City that reads Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor (National Institute of Copyright).
An orange tabby looks over her shoulder from under a blanket.
A tabby cat is lying on a cushion, twisted so her head is on the same side as her belly. Her belly is shaved after her spay.
A book cover of Pheno's Treachery, part of the Tankborn Liberation series written by Karen Sandler. A mixed race teen boy with medium brown skin, a gray T-shirt and black curly hair on top with sides and back shaved. Orange and blue circuitry is in the background.
A white and gray mini-pig sitting on its haunches as a dog would. Her nose is pink and black, and she's wearing a light green halter with a pink leash.
Two cats crammed into a cat bed lined with a colorful blanket. Alani, an orange female, is on the left/foreground and Zak, a mackerel and white tabby is on the right/background. They're both looking at the camera.
A photo of a praying mantis eating a bee. The mantis is sprawled on a peach colored rose and near its back right leg, another bee has flown in. There's a blue sky in the background.
A woman in a frog costume holds a sign that says Amphifa, amphibians against fascists.
The head of an alert orange cat pokes around a table holding a jigsaw puzzle.
A flyer reading: Writing Workshop, Everything is Worldbuilding, A Full-Day Writing Workshop with Publisher and Editor Stacy Whitman, Sept. 6, 10am - 4pm Eastern, Online workshop, $150 per person. Includes an image of a woman (Stacy) in glasses with long hair pulled back and a logo of the Curious Cat Bookshop in Windsted, CT curiouscatbookshop.com
A woman wearing sunglasses in a denim summer top with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me. --Pastor Martin Niemöller Below the poem: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ushmm.org
The screengrab reads "A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 50%."
Two orange-red roses in full bloom in a ceramic vase with lavender cyclamen painted on it.
Two cats curled up together in a cat bed, a mackerel tabby boy and an orange tabby girl. The boy cat's tail is hanging over the side of the cat bed.
Two bees who were trapped in our swimming pool when they went for a drink are recuperating in the pool net.
Extreme closeup of a flame-colored dragonfly perched on the top of a red tomato cage. It looks like it's smiling for the camera.
An older woman with a protest sign denigrating Trump with some bad language, a younger couple with signs that read "SAVE cfpb $21B BACK 2 CONSUMERS" and "Cuts to Data are Cuts to Democracy"
A full moon partially obscured by clouds reflected in a swimming pool. There's a fence around the yard and beyond the fence is a house with light coming from its windows.
On a blue background of DNA, the words "She escaped enslavement" appear with the word "tankborn" floating past. Then "At the cost of losing her identity" appears with the word "lowborn" floating past. Then the name "Mishalla" floats past as the words "Can she find herself again" appear. Then the cover of the book MISHALLA'S COURAGE appears with the subtitle "A new tankborn story."
A photo of the cast from "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" from 1979. Photo roughly left to right: George Takei, James Doohan, Grace Lee Whitney, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Collins, DeForrest Kelley, Majel Barrett, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Persis Khambatta, Walter Koenig
Closeup on the head of a white horse in a black bridle nuzzling an orange and white cat who's sitting on a mounting block. They look like good friends.
A screenshot from the Project 2025 opus with certain passages that refer to "leftist agendas" highlighted.
A young woman with long dark hair dressed in a red jacket and red pants beside her blond boyfriend who's wearing gray pleated bellbottoms and a dark green sweater with a gold-colored horse head on it.
A male and female goose glide by in the water. In the background the reflection looks like scribbles.
A scene from Nagai Park in Osaka, Japan. Two foot tall metallic silver eggs are scattered among a forest in the park.
Smiling older man in a light blue ball cap and Hangtown Jazz Jubilee t-shirt. He's standing in his workshop.
4 pies, top to bottom, egg nog, apple, chocolate chip pumpkin, chocolate fudge
Young Navy sailor from World War II in his blues with one foot up on a short concrete wall.