@annamcduff.bsky.social
Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in embroidery, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
📽️NEW: The DOJ is sitting on half the Epstein Files — and Congressman Robert Garcia says that's no accident.
Rep. Garcia breaks down where the Epstein investigation stands: who's been subpoenaed, what the DOJ is hiding and why this is already worse than Watergate.
https://bit.ly/47zoAAn
Timeline cleanser
Shoshana Strock is the daughter of the Minister of Settlements in Israel.
She came forward with allegations of horrific childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her parents, an influential rabbi, and others and pleaded publicly for protection.
She has reportedly been found dead, possibly by suicide.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
Anyone in Oakland/Berkeley with space for a dumped cat or kitten?
Local lady just had a mixed lot of a dozen dumped in front of her home
I.e., out on the street in front of her second-floor apartment
Will pass along any offers or advice
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
if you ask a random person how high the tallest building is, they inevitably say a number way bigger than reality, ask how fast the fastest car or plane is and they come up with a number much bigger than reality and this holds true at all points until for some reason you ask how big a cargo ship is
The best thing you can do to be an ally on Covid is wear a respirator mask in public spaces, particularly indoors.
The second best thing you can do is put on a mask if you see someone masking. Don’t wait for them to ask, just put it on.
This will go a long way to diminishing stigma and save lives.
Re the Hormuz, not saying I'm an expert on the sitch, but are we really too proud to try historically vetted measures like sacrificing a high ranking member of the royal family to propitiate the sea god
Goodnight.
I was wondering how long after “the death of the paperback” was announced that we would see someone trying to reinvent the concept of pocket-sized books. Took about 5 minutes. #LivingBookHistory
That purple and yellow (amethyst and citrine?) one on the bottom row is a stunner. On a tray with so many other stunners! I can see you are going to be making us goblins happy and contented for a quite a while with all these pretties!
Oh, I love!!!!
I think size matters less than temperament. A large dog? No problem. A horse? No problem. A moose? No! Problem! A f*ing chimpunk that appears to be on cocaine? BIG PROBLEM.
Meanwhile Israel is pulling a Gaza on Lebanon, they are bombing ambulances, healthcare facilities, schools, everything. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I really hope Starmer won’t give this scorpion another ride on his back, but he has such bad political judgement he probably will. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Is it normal for the president of the United States to pathetically plead for the nations of the world to come bail him out of the disaster he created entirely on his own?
Trump two weeks ago: woooooo!!! America!!! yeah!!!
Trump today: hopefully China, France, Japan, others will be sending ships..
Starting the day off right with a big bowl of my favorite cereal
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
I don’t know what it says about the present moment that I’ve been craving sugar in my tea. I’ve drunk tea unsweetened for circa 30 years and now it only tastes right with one sugar.
If you feed your cat Quest freeze-dried cat food: there's a recall because the product contains dangerously low levels of thiamine www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
Yknow, if someone is ignorant enough to unironically claim that feminists "hate tech bros," as though there's no REASON for it...
Seriously, I've been laughing for hours. It's the *other way around, bro.*
Bros literally think being a woman is an "edge case." As in, not worth building for.
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the best part of this joke really is that the mayor in the JAWS *novel* is a thinly, barely-veiled stand in for Donald Trump. there's an entire mafia-backed real estate development scam he's in the center of!
Ooh, these are lovely!!
When I ask people to mask it’s not out of a virtuous superiority or even an ethical code. It is because I am in the depths of this hellhole, and I am *screaming* at you not to come down here, and definitely not to shove anyone else in.
I’m so so sorry. I hope someone figures out a way to help you soon. It’s so tough.