Ketzi, Cryptid Queen of Cats in the Evil Tiara

Waiting at the optometrist and there's a dude not using earbuds. I asked him to turn it down, and he didn't even look at me, just covered his ears for a minute. Mind, this guy is older and, based on his loud conversation with his daughter, successful.

What a weird reaction. And it's still loud.

He said give him a call.😂

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS
1. Super Bingus
2. Tender Loaf
3. Crime Bean
4. Le Squishe
5. Load-bearing Tater
6. Royal Softling
7. Electric Spiceweasel
8. Pantaloosian
9. Tammy
10. Dinky Porch Pebble

text reads: lot of negativity towards Al lately, but consider: are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

Someone let me out! Now I'm part of the parade.

I think half an hour is long enough to wait. Time to take a chance.

Without Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel would not have been so effective in media-suppression

Without Peter Thiel, we wouldn't know today's Musk or JDV

Without Musk, we wouldn't have DOGE (and would still have Park Service, State Dept, NIH, etc)

So we note Hulk Hogan's passing, as we might Roy Cohn's.

i want to note that the christofascist attack on "porn" isn't actually an attempt to make the internet or the world child safe in any real way. these people abuse the fuck out of children and oppose sex education largely because it makes children able to identify and name that abuse

Don't hate the playa hate the game

wanted to link this in my OP b4 but hadn't pinned it- great🧵 from Bilbo Yaga about how and why to add alt text💖

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Maybe we could find out.

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I've been here for over 20 minutes so far.

Stuck in the hospital parking deck because apparently there's a parade happening behind me.

waffle house sign

have you seen the yellow sign?

@bramble-lyric.itch.io

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

On the way to do errands, we're at a light behind an SUV and a guy on a Harley, wearing an Iron Horseman vest, and we hear the original "Can't Hurry Love" blaring. Turns out it's from the Harley guy, and that just made me smile on a rough day.

You beat fascism by making common cause with everyone who is not a fascist and not a collaborator, but that second part is critical. It’s a non-ideological coalition in which we don’t have to agree about anything except the need to fight.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Cohen Children’s Medical Center has confirmed that it has successfully ELIMINATED sickle cell disease from Sebastien Beauzile, using the groundbreaking genetic treatment Lyfgenia. He has made HISTORY by becoming the FIRST in New York to be CURED of sickle cell anemia! 🧪🧵⬇️

Thank goodness that's an experience I'll never have again. Not the worst encounter with a dentist, but not something I'd recommend for fun, either.

Currently some small aches and occasional pain, quite a lot of swelling, and the stitches are annoying and oogy. (Not oozy tho)

Definite pain

Teeth are extracted with the help of drugs and music and sheer cussed stubbornness

Took another dose of meds, bottom is done

Good to revisit this piece from 2020.

When #disabled people refuse offers of abled help, no matter how we phrase or tone it, abled people often either ignore us and do the thing regardless, or turn from “nice” to hostile on a dime. Don’t be that abled person. It sucks.

At the dentist far too early for a procedure that's far too much. On the bright side, they gave me (low dose and limited) drugs and I have a plushie, so I'll be OK.

(Her name is Blair and she's a large blue bear. She went to the hospital with me so she's well qualified to be a support bear.)

I am happy to report that I have one organ system (respiratory/lungs) that works as it should!

Now if everything else could get on board, I'd be thrilled.

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts."

Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them.

This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

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ONE BIG THING. When I mentioned that I had heard of at least one person who had already missed a Social Security payment, the staffers snapped to attention. That's a huge deal.

If you or someone you know has missed a Social Security payment, call your reps IMMEDIATELY.