Kallie Kosc

From rats to laps: cat domestication and the role of the farm - The Museum of English Rural Life What role did the farm play in the domestication of cats? And why are cats stereotyped as enjoying milk? Find out in our latest blog.

Short piece from @themerl.bsky.social about the history of domestic cats! It's refreshingly accurate about the Middle Ages, saying cats were generally valued for utilitarian reasons (not widely reviled for religious reasons as many internet sources love to claim). merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2023/10...

The lighting is the only thing keeping me from going bankrupt at Target

He’s here. Now we can get the party started 🦋🌈📖

The Ring Nebula looks like a portal

- James Webb Space Telescope

me leaving a zoom meeting to which i contributed nothing

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Two cats, one gray, one white, brown, and black, lounge on a geometric rug of white, pink, yellow, and blue

Happy Monday from Princess and Lily ☕️

This was me last week. Am now in “it’s going to be a smooth, great year” denial

Folks:

Articles making bold pronouncements about the Harris campaign based on “normal” political times have lost their way. (For ex., the NYT—“Joy is not a Strategy.”) The current political moment has its own logic for a LOT of reasons.

Watch for more from me in coming days. (I’m on an airplane!)

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Happy paper jam day to those who still print out their syllabi 🙃

This literally just happened a few months ago at my uni 🤔

💯 Young enough to still have no filter or shame, old enough to comprehend increasingly sophisticated references and where the soft underbelly is.

We don’t stand a chance 😂

There is something particularly devastating about the burn capacity of the 10-12 yo demographic

I need to finish my syllabi, so I thought it was a good time to finally migrate to this platform 📑🙃