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Prick implies some kind of maliciousness, I think. Dick is just a one syllable way to say asshole

A black and white cat sleeps in almost perfect ball on a cat bed. His paws are curled over his face.

Happy Caturday y’all

No one does chaos quite like Philly

A little black cat is asleep with his butt in a tube with his front paws curled over his face.

A black and white cat is asleep with his face in a tube. The rest of his body is outside of the tube.

Cats in a tube time? Cats in a tube time.

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday
theonion.com/it-only...

525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: 'Not an Option' An Altadena, Calif., man was shocked to discover he couldn't return to his home — which he evacuated due to the Eaton fire — because a 525-lb. bear had nested in the crawl space under his house. It to...

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

This got me to call my congresswoman and senators to complain about Musk's nonsense, especially with the GSA. I felt like an absolute LUNATIC doing it but god he sucks so bad guys

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

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They don’t get all of that money. Just a fraction.

But also, you don’t get all of their programming.

Instead, donate $5 to PBS.org directly, get MORE programming, and they get more money.

Despite being Canadian, I have done this since 2018.

God tier glitch during the Critical Role stream just now 😂

this is what mary shelly envisioned while she was watching lord byron top her husband

(The horrors are persisting so I’m persisting with cat photos)

A black and white cat and a black cat sitting on a bed on top of a cat condo next to a window, looking at the camera

Came down the stairs and interrupted their nap

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Libro.fm has the same subscription type service, lets you pick a local bookstore to support, and has most audiobooks I’ve wanted to listen to in the last year if that helps! (I think they’re a little pricier per month than Audible though unfortunately)

Oh this is good, good news. Also, if you're still using Amazon and not Bookshop -- I mean, c'mon, use Bookshop when you can, please and thank you. (Or, obviously, the library.)

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

A black cat and a black and white cat sit cuddled together on a cat bed near a window and are giving you some serious stank eye

I tried to catch a photo of them snuggling and they caught me 😂

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

If China made use of US TikTok data, my guess is that it would mostly be for OSINT purposes, which is something that you can do on Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media platform that allows people to post pictures and yell about things, so it’s not more dangerous than anything else online

Now that US TikTok data is stored stateside (and owned/managed by an Oracle offshoot), I’m deeply ambivalent about China’s ability to access it tbh. Also bluntly they don’t need it. Their APTs have had embarrassingly good luck with hacking US companies so they’ve got reams of our data to utilize

Any company having that much data on you and about you is a massive security risk to you, regardless of whether or not an adversarial government is also seeing it. It’s also just flat out a breach of your privacy, which was more my overall point about why I wanted Congress to deal with all the apps

It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do. With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.

My MLK day piece is up.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Yeah the first iteration of it was basically a rootkit. I don’t know how much better the current version is but it’s definitely still hoovering up your data to feed its algorithm. I wish they’d actually addressed the data security issues present in all apps instead of just flailing about this one

For reality A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality

State Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted. Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote…

NEW: In 2019 and 2020, Jefferson Griffin voted in North Carolina elections using military absentee ballots. Now, as he seeks to overturn the results of a state Supreme Court election, Griffin is asking that same court to disqualify similar votes.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

$10.24 a day to risk their lives – and a lot of pride: incarcerated LA firefighters speak out People serving out their prison terms as firefighters form an integral part of the response to the devastating LA wildfires

I spent time with incarcerated firefighters on the frontlines in Pasadena. They're working 24-hour shifts, hiking for hrs thru darkness + steep rugged terrain, dodging debris + embers, clearing brush by hand. They make $5-10 a day and $1/hr bonuses on fires

"When things get rough, we push through"

My god no one does it like Italy

Literally everyone in the office with me today is visibly getting over some kind of illness. RTO was a mistaaaaake