Soli rhymes with Julie #BLM #LandBack

As people react to Prince Edward’s arrest & S. Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conviction, a quick reminder that the USA’s culture of impunity stretches back to the Civil War. Jefferson Davis & the rest should have been hung for treason as was customary then. But they weren’t & here we are.

An orange tabby/tiger cat under a table, looking up and to the right in the photo.

Wait wait, new update! Tiggy is in the living room cat tree and Nebula came out for 30 seconds. Then she saw him and got cranky.
Here he is, not knowing why Other Cat does not want to play.
He is now under the table next to me.

I am hoping that since the Eye Saga is over it will be easier for me to wear him out. ADHD does weird things with my brain, mostly making me freeze with doing anything I enjoy.

I have been struggling because of her stress and not wanting to give up Tiggy. I think he has figured out some of my strategy too. She gets food while under the couch, and he will be laying on the floor a few feet away.
What I do: feed them at the same time, and play with Tiggy as much as I can.

A small black cat on alert against an annoying huge kitten, not pictured.

Cat update:
Nebula has spent most of the past month living under the living room couch. This morning she came out for several minutes while Tiggy was at the other end of the house. We are making progress, people.

they should invent a cost of living that goes down

Taxing rich people into oblivion is good for democracy. The revenue generated, while not sufficient for our purposes, is just a secondary benefit.

an under-discussed trope in the cyberpunk genre was the idea that once one achieves ludicrous levels of wealth, they cease to be “human” in any meaningful sense.

This is the reason behind the Trump
administration’s intense desire to ban Talarico content.

If they lose the evangelicals, they lose all their power.

and such procedures automatically result in a cataract.)
Vision today is even less blurry than yesterday.

The whole ordeal has been a burden for 18+ months. I feel so much lighter today. Freer, even.

Yesterday was first follow up appointment. Everything is going great, and can already read text like I did pre-floaters.
(For those unaware, the saga is this: got floaters, retina started to detach within weeks, fully detached, had it reattached 9/24...

Update:
I was worried when I heard two other people in the waiting room called for my dr. Turns out he is so good at this he can do the procedure in 15 MINUTES.
All I remember is my head being set in place, then a whole lot of drops going into my eyes. A proverbial blink and done.

And every time libraries "step in" to do things, it's added load to library workers who too often are seen as "no one."

A good thing about expressing our value commitments clearly, say ‘no kids in cages’ as opposed to just ‘this is outrageous,’ is it leads you to ask—where else might kids be caged.

“These hoes wanna live in Omelas” is going to stick with me.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.

Some of the kids are more than alright. #hope

Me in 2000 playing Majoras Mask: Nintendo is so weird and surreal. Don't the adults in Termina realise the world is going to end? Why do I, a literal child, have to save them?!

Me in 2026: *Takes a long drag on a cigarette*

Opinion | Confessions of a Former Body Positivity Influencer

I feel like this video is less about the dangers of “body positivity” and more about how the internet and TikTok dumb down everything they touch and turn it to the most strident and least nuanced version of itself

Happy yeet the cataract day to me!

at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

This is exactly what I needed in my day

For people who keeps saying “where are the protests?” they’re just about everywhere

Can you help out an awesome person?

A very rare (depressingly rare) thing: Support for low income students who want to study at MA level. Please share with anyone who might be able to get this info to aspiring postgrads. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

A second round of thank you for your service.

My new response for anytime someone answers with any chatbot garbage.

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox