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Lady Knight sketch:

Happy 60th birthday to Head Start, which has helped put generations of Americans on the path to success from an early age.

We must keep fighting to protect Head Start and stop the Trump Administration from doing away with this critical program.

This is good news. And no, poor families do NOT have to have Netflix to access Sesame Street. Netflix will release episodes to PBS the *same day* they drop on Netflix, which is significantly better than the prior deal with HBO, which delayed episodes for 9 MONTHS before porting them over to PBS.

Black and white photo of a medium haired tuxedo tabby caught mid yawn. It is sitting up in loaf position on a folded burlap sack in front of a wooden wall.

We have always loved kitty yawns. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

#PhD students are hearing this advice too and I know people who are pivoting. I would argue that the work they're defunding is probably more important now than it was a year ago.

If you haven’t read them in a while, here is a partial list of books banned in some school districts/states:

Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Brave New World
1984
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Captain Underpants
Anne Frank
Ender’s Game
I know why the caged bird sings
Source: ALA, Chicago

all of my writing is created using 100% certifiably organic intelligence. by which i mean i'm raising my freelance prices by 20%. if anyone complains, i'm including the word artisan in there and raising my prices by another 20%.

So my oldest daughter bought 4 banned books for her brother to read. I love my kids.

was looking for an image of a ps2 controller and found this absolute masterclass out in the wild

this is my first black history month working at a black-owned bookstore, and yesterday i was sitting at the desk feeling like i was missing something. but in fact i did not need to curate a bhm display bc over half our stock is black books. a surprising relief that i’m still processing

Yikes, the discourse around protest is terrible right now.

Is anyone keeping a timeline of events since January 20th?

I'm backfilling my five year journal, and I cannot believe the Potomac crash was less than a week ago... it feels like it's been longer!

This sense of time warping and generalized surreality reminds me of the early days of COVID.

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card

He is cutting aid to South African to punish them for ending apartheid.

Some fed employees have been advised to download their
Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) because they're hearing OPM is planning to cut off access tomorrow.

The folder includes all personal identifying info, performance reviews, benefits selections, raises.

Unclear why they'd do this.

Here with my bestie, Kuromi 🩶 loving Hello Kitty Island Adventure so far!

when i have to eject my cat out of the fridge and he trots away pouting and crying like “aowaowaowaowao”

What’s so scary about TikTok is that people with zero reading comprehension will “read” an article, jump to an inaccurate conclusion, and then make a video about it that then spreads misinformation like wildfire.

Took my cat to the strip club so he could lay on all the discarded clothing.

Cats that say meow vs cats that say mrrow vs cats that say sprigatito

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

"don't talk about your oppression or else men will turn fascist" is SO. FUNNY.

some guy on tiktok said women and girls need to watch how they talk about men online so they don't go down the alt-right pipeline and he got rightfully DRAGGED. 😂

A picture of the pokemon Scorbunny

A picture of the pokemon Fuecoco

Why do they keep slapping Kraft Singles onto fire starter pokemon lately?

A digital drawing of a Pokemon Espurr wrapped in a blanket beside a fireplace drawn by Seavalanche.

Snuggly
Happy Espurr Day!

#ニャスパーの日 #Espurr

Deciding between Gengar, Espurr and Chandelure was tough

Favorite Pokémon | Favorite Starter
Favorite Legendary | Favorite Mythical

↺ with yours!
#promosky + #pokemon