adrienne with an A as in Abolish the police

I think this is a stolen version, the original is the wonderful Pennsylvania-based printer BumLung www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung

I see them everywhere it’s WEIRD

How is there one of those new Wonder ghost kitchens on like EVERY FUCKIN CORNER IN PHILLY NOW. They are like a fucking virus but they all popped up seemingly overnight it’s so weird and seems completely unsustainable as a business model??

as someone who knows a lot about protests if you're worried about what to wear tomorrow I'm here to tel you that you should just go with clothes

A close up of a tuxedo cat very comfy sleeping on a puffy comforter that is also black and white.

We want to put them both in a position to maintain these improvements and allow Calypso to live a happy, healthy life with her mom! Ms. L is very involved in the community and always running around helping others. I'm hoping we can give back and help her in this moment!

A mischievous kitty sniffs curiously and looks longingly at a falafel sandwich that a human is holding

To stay healthy, Calypso's treatment is maintaining a diet of only the Rx food (not the falafel pictured 😂), formulated to reduce thyroid levels to normal. Untreated can lead to heart failure, kidney disease, & eventually death. W/treatment, they can live out the rest of their lives pretty normally!

A very silly picture of a tuxedo cat rolling over showing her belly, with her head tipped upside down to the side looking at the camera

It’s been stressful but I’m grateful to support my neighbor by taking some of this stress off her shoulders. Ms. L does not have the financial means to cover the cost of the tests we needed and the expensive prescription food.
Calypso has so much love left to give and life to live.

A small tuxedo cat stands stoically behind a person sitting at a desk chair. The cat is taking up most of the chair, so the person can barely fit.

Calypso's been staying with me for the summer and while here, she started getting sick - and w/ a vet visit and bloodwork was diagnosed w/hyperthyroidism. She is SUCH a lovebug and chatterbox, and w/ prescription food that manages her thyroid levels - she's doing SO much better.

a small tuxedo cat curled up and sleeping with her little paws tucked up by her chin

My neighbor Ms. L is a long time resident in her mid-60s, overwhelmed by navigating stressful and bureaucratic government programs to try and make necessary structural repairs on her home, as well as some other matters. This is her beloved fur baby, Calypso

Donate to Support a long-time West Philly community member & her cat!, organized by Adrienne Standley As you may know, I’ve been unofficially fostering a cat (Caly… Adrienne Standley needs your support for Support a long-time West Philly community member & her cat!

Hello friends! I'm helping out my neighbor, who is on a v limited income and truly being hit by all the stress that life has to offer right now, and her cat - & we could use your help!
tl;dr, we're fundraising to cover vet bills and treatment - more info in the GFM and thread ⬇️⬇️
gofund.me/de3b7fdff

I highly recommend adopting this into your shopping practice

If I’m doing any kind of proper shopping trip in center city, an essential and important stop is getting a $1.50 bag of dark chocolate peanut chews and laffy taffy from 5 Below.

Doing an afternoon of multi store clothes searching/shopping? Protein + chocolate snack! Like I can’t do it without.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Some pantry moths got into my kitchen, and i am so sorry to report that the tiktok Aesthetic Girlies have been correct all along to be "decanting" all their dry goods into plastic/glass containers 🫠 🫠

(just make sure they're airtight)

I keep chuckling and saying “Vergecast bf, 404 Media gf” despite very specifically not liking that gendered term for myself lol

My partner subscribing to the @theverge.com 🤝 me subscribing to @404media.co

✨ supporting good tech journalism ✨

I get why it’s today, but still… the first day of SEPTA cuts being on a Sunday schedule (and 10k race day) is ROUGH 😩

What if we just funded the things that people need???

For all real ass website fans, I'm told Monterey Bay Whale Watch is going to update to WordPress any day now, leaving behind the current 1997 format. Very sad. Please enjoy while you can. gowhales.com

I personally have always loved neighborhood fireworks, but currently dogsitting and quickly decided that like, all I ask is folks wrap it up by likeeeee 10:30pm?? That would be amazing.

Watching my favorite tv show on full blast: “Relaxing Music for Dogs to Calm Down: GREAT FOR FIREWORKS” on YouTube 😩

Cherelle Parker vastly underestimated Philly’s commitment to letting her fuck around until she finds out.

Back offline for me, I remain in the fight and will continue. I know that many of you are too because this is a fight for our lives, the lives of our loved ones, and the lives of strangers. Each of those lives matters. Take care of yourselves and I will be back online later next week. Peace to you.

🫡🫡 living with my smelly apartment out of spite and solidarity

If it’s allowed, I figure I can offer to my neighbors to carpool our trash to a sanitation center 😂 but otherwise, it’s just gonna have to be smelly!!

Bart Simpson chuckles as he staples a banana peel to the trash bag in a garbage can that is completely overflowing

Question, Philly! In the case of a DC33 strike, bringing our own trash to the sanitation center, is that scabbing? If there’s a strike, we doin’ it like the Simpsons?

(I do wish that I’d brought my current, very smelly trash bag with old wet cat food in it to the drop off center late last week lol)

An actual nightmare. These cuts will cause so much pain for so many people in our city if implemented. We badly need to EXPAND public transit, not defund it!!!

do we have Black immigration experts here on bluesky? looking for some to follow

i love y'all for this whole episode, but especially "go analyze some polls, bitch" which i WILL be stealing and using

You need this in your life. Sorry. I'm not one to tell people what to do, but you need this. 🪶 🐣

even putting aside that the promise of "the help they need" is completely uninformed, vague, and impossible under current structures...

"i will take every homeless person off the trains and subway stations" is a terrifying statement