Larisa LaBrant

Fluffy gray tabby has CAUGHT the feather wand, but his victory is somewhat undermined by the ridiculous face he’s making - tongue sticking out, ears akimbo, eyes uneven, whiskers in disarray.

Bonus:

Fluffy gray tabby curls upside down asleep - despite one eye being cracked open. Trust me, he’s snoring. His lone fang is sticking out past his chin and his tongue is protruding cutely.

anyway good night

The wizard sleeps peacefully. A light rain drizzles outside.

One crazy way to lower your stress within 24 hours:

Turn off your social media notifications.

(Turn off email notifications too, if you’re not waiting on urgent emails. Or just whitelist essential names. Everything else can probably wait)

Things Women Couldn't Do In 1970 Women could not own credit cards under their own names Women could not lease property in their own names Women could be fired for becoming pregnant Women could not be admitted to an Ivy League University Women could not attend Military Academies Women could not be astronauts Women could not serve on Juries in all states Women could not serve as a Judge Women struggled to be able to get a birth control pill Women could not refuse sex from their husbands Women could not receive direct consultation about their physical and mental health Women did not receive any paid maternity leave Women could not protect themselves from sexual harassment Women could not be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company Women could not adopt a baby as a single person Women were not acknowledged for running in the Boston Marathon Women could not get abortions throughout the country and more ..... Girls could not wear pants to school No Title IX

To kick off Women's History Month, a look back to see how far we've come... and we've come a long way, baby... but we still have so far to go (and Republicans are desperately trying to drag women backwards):

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

Yet another reason to reconsider our apps.

www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

“There is still some good in the world, Mr. Frodo.”

Thread.😡

My Target revitalization plan includes re-committing to DEI, an exciting new lineup for Pride 2026, and eliminating locked cases for anything that was not locked up in 2018.

A fluffy black and white cat stares at the camera from where she sits in a box (she doesn’t quite fit.) The box reads “Beans are a roof over your stomach - John Steinbeck” on the top flap and “The first rule of Bean Club is that you never shut up about Bean Club.”

Extra toe beans in the @ranchogordo.bsky.social Bean Club box this month…

Just a tired little kit fox, watching the sun rise before going to bed.

Happy Birthday, Heather.

A female wolverine looking at the camera.

Zoo Boise recently welcomed Laura, our new wolverine, and she is already making an impression.

Although wolverines are found in parts of Idaho, they are rarely seen, making this a special opportunity to connect with one of North America’s most elusive mammals.

📸: Zookeeper Clint

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Hick is such a disappointment. Here in Colorado we have to stop letting libertarians run, and win, as democrats. Because Hickenlooper, Polis, and Bennet are the predictable results.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

good morning

it’s baby Mia

Night night sweet dreamies

Some days just feel heavier than they should.
Fed up doesn’t mean giving up.
It just means today took a little more than it gave.

But even fed-up days count.
They still move you forward.

Be gentle with yourself

The wizard sleeps gently. Something very large flies over the tower, casting it briefly in shadow.

The wizard is in his therapist's office. Friendly light pours in the windows through curtains.

The wizard is walking to town. He stops at the edge of the farm to pet the horse and feed it a sugar cube. Its horse lips tickle his hand.

The wizard holds a bottle of jade green liquid up to the light of the window.

The little cat steps on the wizard's head, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with passionfruit jam and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of parchment. The wizard reads the new issue of Magic-Users Weekly as he eats his breakfast.

Reminder that @nora.zone and I are building a bot that will respond with Gavin Newsom Facts when people @ it BUT we need your help to populate it before we can launch. Fill out this form to add your favorite moment(s) in Newsom history.

AAAAAAHHHH

The wizard sleeps well. Above the tower, clouds gather.

The wizard sleeps deeply. The little cat prowls the bedroom.

Stress Break, the joy of a perfect french fry

ah, yes: the lingually gifted