Caitlin 🐈🐈‍⬛

T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

That's because they coddle them too much now. Back in my day, it only took 20 years for T-Rexes to fully mature, because they had discipline. Spare the rod, spoil the terrible tyrant lizard.

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Most likely outcome is that asshole dies of old age and leaves everyone else to clean up his mess, capping an 80 year run of never experiencing consequences. Only in America baby!

Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America The Tennessee Republican recently introduced legislation banning immigration from some Muslim-majority nations.

There is a growing sickness in the Republican Party that spawns this virulent hatred.

Replace 'Muslims' with any other faith & this man would be run out of Congress.

Their tolerance for this bigotry is a cancer in their ranks. Hate, in all its forms, should find no refuge here.

Reminder to tip your delivery drivers a lot more as most are suffering a huge loss with these higher gas prices.

The Bottom Line In many ways, the room in Charlotte felt familiar. It’s what I hear in cities across the country every week. But the intensity feels different. The exhaustion is deeper. And hearing the word “survival” replace “living” — that still stops me. The affordability crisis is the master key. Every other issue — mental health, healthcare, war, civic engagement — runs through it. When you’re working three jobs and can’t miss a day, every policy failure lands exponentially harder. Withdrawal is the gravest threat. Not a partisan swing. Not apathy. Active withdrawal by good people who work hard, care about their neighbors, and have simply run out of capacity to carry the weight of a system that doesn’t carry them back. But trust is rebuildable. These young people aren’t cynically anti-government. They named specific local leaders they admire. The formula is brutally simple: promise something, deliver it, let them see it. One broken promise poisons the system. One kept promise can start to repair it. And the partisan divide? It’s thinner than it looks. A MAGA Republican and a Jill Stein voter sat in the same room on a Saturday morning in Charlotte and discovered they wanted many of the same things. Too much of our politics depends on people never having that realization. When they do, the overlap is hard to ignore.

"These young people aren’t cynically anti-govt. They named specific local leaders they admire. The formula is brutally simple: promise something, deliver it, let them see it. One broken promise poisons the system. One kept promise can start to repair it." dellavolpe.substack.com/p/its-not-li...

It's real.

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Gov. Cox rushes to sign final-hour GOP bid to sink Prop 4 signature removal efforts Gov. Cox signed a bill early Saturday morning targeting Better Boundaries' effort asking Utahns to remove their signature from an initiative that seeks to end Utahs gerrymandering ban.

Gov. Cox signed a bill early Saturday morning targeting Better Boundaries' effort asking Utahns to remove their signature from an initiative that seeks to end Utahs gerrymandering ban.

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:

1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden

2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough

3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

@peggyflanagan.bsky.social at the SD66 convention “I am running to avenge Minnesota”

The Utah legislature tried more last-minute shenanigans to split Salt Lake County (the main Dem county in the state) but failed by 5 seconds. Karma

& Muted by "A Very British Bigotry" I am in no way antiTrans. But

Many such cases

Also this would have been hilarious “oh no riverton secedes making Salt Lake County even Bluer? “

Would this be a good copypasta or is that the edible talking

(Polio. It's polio)

I’m just an anemic girl trying to donate plasma and my protein levels refuse to cooperate

I find relitigation of past elections mostly unproductive.

But with VP Harris she said that it’s her intention to run again. So for people that support her, I think that in order to strengthen her as a candidate it is necessary to hold her accountable for her past failures rather than deflecting.

editor's note: it was in fact her job

didn't you hear me I said we don't want any more remakes

Sunset view with buildings

Downtown Salt Lake

I’m so stressed my eczema is getting worse. I can’t stop being itchy

Poor taste I feel like

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal