Ann Tandy-Treiber

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

The effort to make us forget that Covid forced governments round the world to take fast, effective steps for the collective good is probably greater by this point that the efforts taken to contain Covid.

America *ended child poverty*, then voted to reinstate it because it was off message.

This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

Well SOMEONE has no joy

Jane Austen’s Persuasion on my lap, pen in hand, dog on couch next to me.

Am working

Futurama "not simply eat" meme

Why does Trump, the larger authoritarian, not simply eat Putin

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

this is so fucking dumb.

THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks

Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children,
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country,
But grow like savages—as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood⁠—

Now she and the dog are tag-teaming the poor thing. Godspeed, little mouse

Just caught the cat carrying a mouse in her mouth and when I yelled at her to leave it alone she 100% dropped it and then sat on it and pretended like she didn’t know what I was talking about

Open freezer: two packages of butter propping up vacuum-sealed steaks

“Careful honey—that’s load-bearing butter.”

my birthday is around the corner, and the start of the school year is still far enough off that I’m not yet panicking.

Sometimes things are still good. ♥️

It’s Peak Leo Season—the weather is gloriously sultry, my deck and front garden are full of flowers, the tree frogs and crickets are getting busy, our farmers market is full of all the best corn and tomatoes,

We have failed Mr. Rogers.

The Inconvenient Faith of Stephen Colbert The core of why Trump World hates him.

"It’s statements like these from Mr. Colbert that have rankled many rightwing fundamentalists over the years because they can’t simply claim he’s being inaccurate or even particularly judgy."

Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’

The only way to prevent AI-produced slop from becoming the default is to refuse to watch, play, read, or listen to stuff like this.

ranked choice voting question from aurin chowdhury, asks each candidate say what they admire in each other and why the other 2 should be on our ballots too, starting with dewayne davis on jazz hampton and omar fateh @dewayneforminneapolis.com

Yes hi I just walked my dog through a public park here in Minneapolis. The most threatening thing we encountered was the heat.

Sleeping cat, ignoring Wimbledon

Cats just don’t appreciate Wimbledon.

A pressed tin sculpture of an Absolute Unit of a ram in golden hour light.

Hey @themerl.bsky.social, check out this Absolute Unit the wife scored while thrifting. Thanks @anntandy.bsky.social! #AbsoluteUnit

Cat: I bite?
Me: no cat leave my ankle alone
Cat: I bite a little?
Me: seriously, no
Cat: jus a lil nibble
Me: NO
Cat: …toe?
Me: DAMNIT

1. I live in a Blue state, which means that the infrastructure protecting the Public Good is functional and maintained. If a storm threatens a tornado, sirens go off telling us to head to safety. These sirens are tested monthly. When flash floods are warned we get loud alerts on our phones.

🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️

We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights,

the "no means no" jokes write themselves

Heard it immediately in my brain

Minneapolis, this man is for real. Honest to the core and so, so driven to all things good!

Oh no oh no OH NO parents of offspring heading off to college FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY tell them they should ASK PROFESSORS if we are willing to be references BEFORE they submit our names

ASK ME HOW I KNOW