Stephen Fruchtman

Sun dappled orange and white cat laying against his human’s chest.

Sun dappled orange and white cat curled up in the crook of his human’s arm.

I miss my pointycat. It’s been 8 months without him.

A bold jumping spider sitting on a rusty metal fence, eating a smaller light brown spider.

I joined a bold jumping spider for lunch today #MacroMonday #spiders #nature #macro #macrophotography #nature

Tuxedo cat looking toward the left of the frame, his face and long whiskers lit by the afternoon sun.

Roundcat has long whiskers. #cats

Who you should ask instead of ChatGPT:
A friend
A lawyer
The guys who sit on plastic chairs out in front of the corner store
The tarot cards
Yourself, in your journal
The cicadas singing in the trees behind your apartment building
The moon
Any librarian
An entomologist
Your local birdwatching group

Who amongst us hasn’t paused our favorite audiobook to beseech the universe: “can’t this narrator sound more uncanny valley? I also really want to hear the wails of starving voice actors in the background.”

Pay human artists, you despicable corporate ghouls.

A real actual ad I just got on YouTube: if you frequently go walking at night, you need this special forces flashlight that blinds people from up to 50 ft away!

Me to Roundcat: IDK, I would personally consider that to be a major design flaw in a flashlight.

Roundcat: purrrrrrrr

a woman in a purple suit looks surprised in front of a statue of a man Alt: Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury, rolling her eyes as if she’s listening to discourse about AI creative writing.

I guess we may as well all decide now: should AI get an MFA? On the one hand it’ll give AI the time to write and get invaluable craft lessons, on the other hand maybe it’ll take away its unique creative voice and make it write like it has an MFA.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

So sorry. A problem through all healthcare, it seems. Our cvs has the plush of this dog.

Best thing mavid dammit ever did

An orange and white cat with an orange smudge on his nose loafing on a teal and black plaid flannel shirt on the floor.

Today @stephenfruchtman.bsky.social coined the best term: a flannel floaf, to describe our floofkitten loafing on his favorite flannel shirt, which he dragged out of the laundry basket for floof-loafing (floafing) purposes. #cats

Even when called out by Bojack’s creator *twice.*

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Elon musk is a proponent of the great replacement

“If I don't win this election - and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that” - donald trump

Watched the Gavin Creel memorial on YouTube. Powerful and moving, and really accessible, complete with asl interpretation.

I do kind of find it frustrating in a very on the nose kind of way that artist memorials and retrospectives are more accessible than their actual performances.

And then the Dems took the Republican Covid policy (e.g. systemic abandonment) and ran with it, dropping every social safety net they could. I voted for Harris because I knew trump would be awful on current and incoming pandemics, but jfc it feels like Biden threw the game on this issue.

My mother passed from leukemia before Covid and we all had to mask to see her. This level of regression is infuriating.

If you aren't even able to take the initiative to mask in public to protect other people from Covid because you'll feel self conscious, why would I believe that you won't obey the Trump administration in advance if you're put in a position where your actions will help them execute their agenda?

Yeah, it looks pretty intense but I’ve wanted to see Cohn explored more in-depth so I’ll definitely check it out.

Thought for a second he’d been in Angels in America…

Shoutout to davidfolkenflik.bsky.social et al for their turn toward anti-antifascism. Alienating people while pandering to those who will never support you worked out exactly as well as it always does.

Theatrics, hatred and Linda McMahon: how pro wrestling explains Donald Trump The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn’t seem like a threat. That’s what makes her one

🚨🚨🚨MY DEBUT GUARDIAN OP-ED IS UP

At first the situation makes the lawmen look so filthy,
But they investigate themselves and it turns out that they're not guilty .
Hey, hey, Daloy politzei…

I continue to be gobsmacked by gamergate targets who decide to align with gamergate values and actual gamergaters. Like, she’s being mass blocked instead of constantly barraged with threats, and that’s worse, somehow?

the blue no matter who crowd insists that Biden beat covid in addition to his not being a war criminal, and anyone who visibly goes against that narrative is the enemy.

Im so Velvet Goldmine brained that this took me a second

Makes sneaking NINA into everything all the more impressive

Heh, I was going to say that they’ve been fascist for so long that they fully cooperated with HUAC, too, but then I realized you wrote the article I learned that from

Seeing that Conway himself is so popular on this platform is rather disconcerting

People are getting defensive about the Lincoln project of all things as if George Conway doesn’t actively profit off of trumpism