Patti Thomas🐈‍⬛

Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.

Ata mãrie, Tarãwhiti Doc. Your photos and videos of the pre-dawn skies, and sunrises over the waters, help to ease the knots and to start my days here, in the US, with a smile. And longing.

Thank you.

Sunrise, Saturday, 30 August, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

I’m headed out to the beach for sunrise soon, and the stars in the early morning sky are brilliant here in dark sky te Tairāwhiti.
This is an iPhone photo of Matariki, the appearance of which is Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first indigenous holiday.
(This cluster is also known as Pleiades)

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Royce didn’t want me to post this outtake but I am posting it because dogs are good…even if the photo isn’t.

a bird that looks kind of like a slice of watermelon

look at this elegant trogon

Trump's cabinet live broadcast has dragged on for over three hours now.

22 people are attending. That’s 66 hours of collective time from the most senior officials in the US federal government.

No work has been done - just delusional Trump rants and sycophantry.

The administration ending "waste".

Whoa!

as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school

We have federal troops occupying the capital of our country, a mostly black city led by black people. It’s not a distraction @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social it’s actually happening.

ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’.

They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters.

Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care.

ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity.

The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This is my contribution to society

Young Americans say friendship is too expensive; nearly half skip events due to costs: study

Back in my day a bunch of us used to just show up at a friend's place and shoot the shit all night it cost like whatever a six pack and a bag of Doritos was at the time

fox32chicago.com/news/young-a...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Photo of Wendy Carlos smiling and sitting at a desk with multiple piano keyboards. Text reads: Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happens to be trans.

Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happens to be trans.

#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransRights #TransHistory #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT #Queer

POETRY by Em Setzer [Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy]  Quote "When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do." 18 August 2025 Strange Horizons

[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy] 
by Em Setzer

"When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

In case you haven't seen this: "Are you out of your damn mind?"

Someone wants to say Hello Bluesky… 🦭

Two floofy cats laying side by side on a carpet, one grey and one black, seen from above. The black one is noticeably bigger than the grey one.

What you need is a set of these, to never travel in a straight line in the home, ever again

"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!"

"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"

- and loop.

bsky.app/profile/koja...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Saturday, 19 July sunrise from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

This morning we’ll trace some Little Blue Penguin tracks from the rocks where it roosted overnight down to the ocean where it walked this morning long before sunup.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Ara mārie to you.

Thank you for your gorgeous photos and videos. They bring me beauty, and moments of peace, joy, and reflection, each day.🌅

Sunrise 19 August from Okitu Beach.
(The photo version 👍🏽)

Sunrise, Tuesday, 19 August from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Fun (?) fact. There is no “South Star” but you can approximate the South Celestial Pole by drawing a perpendicular line between α and β Centauri and finding where it intersects a straight “tail” from the Southern Cross “kite”.
Thus less star blurriness as you get closer in this 45 sec exposure.

Pre-dawn skies, Saturday, 16 August.
Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand
(I did not touch saturation, this is the actual vibrancy)

Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar 🐛 munching on Passion Flower Vine.
#nativegarden #nativeplants #butterflies #caterpillars #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #nature