meeps

update: it was a momentary delay; I said “breakfast” and he was off like a shot to meet me at the usual place by the kitchen door for belly rubs, along with his brother, before I filled their bowls 🖤🩶

I was going to get up, but Coal trilled at me and got in my lap, so guess I’m not getting up just yet 🤷‍♀️

Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, and Coal, a black cat, look out the windows with concern as the wind blows and people, bundled up, walk by on the sidewalk below. a building covered in reflective glass and some trees with yellow leaves are visible through the windows.

we have a Synchronized Concern about the chilly fall weather outside

what! these sound incredible

Coal, a black cat, and Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, curled up together at the foot of the bed. they’re on blue sheets with a green and white comforter next to them.

sweet cuddly boys taking a nap together 🥹

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

I made it to the coconuts before I was laughing too hard to keep going. YouTube likes to drop shorts like the original into my feed out of nowhere. this is so much better, thank you!

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*.

on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Coal, a sleek black cat, looks wide eyed and alert

Coal looks at his brother Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, who’s at the top of a beige cat tree. Coal is trying to figure out if Steele heard those meows too.

I was playing Little Kitty, Big City last night and the cat sounds were a little too realistic for Coal @littlekittybigcity.bsky.social

Kaohly Her wins historic election, will be St. Paul’s first Hmong mayor Her, who entered the race in August, defeated her former boss Mayor Melvin Carter in his bid for a third term.

St. Paul -in a race between respected young leaders, a second-round-of-ranked-choices upset of an incumbent mayor by a Hmong legislator www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

Steele, a gray tuxedo cat with white paws and a tiny white mustache, looks at his mom with an irritated expression on his cute little face. there is a window behind him, which he was looking out before she interrupted him.

tfw mom sneezed and it interrupted your very important people-watching work

spent an extra 15 minutes in bed this morning because Coal was standing on my back, purring and making biscuits. and who am I to interrupt the artistry of a skilled baker?!

it took him a while to truly let his guard down and I am so, so happy he has. 🥹

first day of my new job starts in about 12.5 hours and I have a group of inflamed pimples that looks like the Big Dipper on my cheek 🙃 and putting on makeup (which was the plan) is going to make it worse 🙃🙃

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

he’d be an “inside your skin” cat if he could

Coal, a sleek black cat, curled up on a green blanket with an abstract white floral pattern in his mom’s lap

Coal, who is very much Not A Lap Cat, is currently in my lap.

I am so proud (and very cozy)!

looks like you found the perfect sum beanz, Dougie! ☀️

looking forward to this!!

Coal, a black cat, and Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, watching over the neighborhood from the living room window. they are on top of a black shelving unit. Coal is lying down and Steele is sitting up.

every day is national cat day at our house, but happy national cat day anyway

*they’re drinking tea, I am not. in that branch of the family, coffee drinkers are almost nonexistent. but I’m drinking coffee.

one of my favorite things in recent weeks is meeting my aunt and grandmother over FaceTime for tea on Saturday mornings.

my Saturdays are more productive when I’m starting them with 60-90 minutes of conversation with family 700 miles away than they would be if I just slept in late instead.

Strange cafe ad that says “BRUNCH WITH SYRUP AND SWAGGER”

Brother I can’t brunch any other way

Coal, a black cat, is perched on a shelf on top of an old tablet. his big yellow-green eyes are very bright and he almost looks like he’s smiling.

Coal is a very handsome boy, and he knows it!

thank you!!

didn’t mention it out of anxiety that things wouldn’t work out, but I accepted a job offer on Friday. back to the legal field I go! first day there is November 3.

while the boys are thrilled their treat budget will increase, I don’t think they realize it means Mom will be gone all day 🙁

I’m so sorry. this sounds terrifying for you, him, all his other family, and everyone who’s trying to take care of him. 🙁

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?