Tom Gehring

Finding Francine: How Lowe’s brought a beloved cat home to Richmond Finding Francine: How Lowe’s brought a beloved cat home to Richmond

#Francine is back in #RVA and all is (kinda) right with the world. I love this city.

It's kind of a preemptive cringe at this point. Like when I use the phrase "it's electric" and I *know* my husband, wherever he is in the world, will whisper "boogie-oogie-oogie."

Haven't posted here in a minute ( #NSFWsky is far less depressing), so have some Cecil being a ridiculous potat for #cattax.

#catdad #cecillyboye #oneorangebraincell #ginger #orange #catsofbluesky

Aww. Black cats are best cats. Total snugglebugs.

This is where we are now.

You can tell the people in charge are smart because one of them says "What if we forced this entire nation full of people who are barely holding it together off their meds" and nobody else says, you know, maybe not?

I read Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" in 9th grade. It's stuck with me ever since. I just wish we weren't living it out 90 years later.

Passed right through the uncanny valley without blinking.

I remain convinced the intention on the part of his handlers is to ride his insanity out as long as they can, then invoke the 25th Amendment and have him replaced by JD Vance. If he makes it past January 20, 2027, their puppet Vance would be eligible to run in 2028 and 2032.

Chicken soup chefs of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your hunger. #teamchickensoup

Time to accept that we simply have a mad king. The guy slapping 25% tariffs on Canada's postage while calling for its annexation - and releasing scarce water into the Central Valley to fight already-contained fires in LA - isn't doing a bit or pursuing a secret, rational strategy

What do you want to bet the IRS isn’t sending out tax refunds this year?

Have you, in fact, fired no guns and shed no tears?

What is to be done?

We just recently got a printer after not having one for years. Cheryl has her doubts.

“What is South Africa” would be my guess.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

If US media were covering current domestic events as though they were happening overseas.

“Does Canada consider Virginia a Republican state?” is not a question I ever thought I’d need to Google.

Yeah, we really screwed that one up. (No sarcasm.)

Great. Swastikars in three dimensions with a gravity assist.

I seriously heard this as an ad for Arby's in Cecil's voice.

"... Arby's."

-Welcome to Night Vale, probably

Last time I was at my parents, my stepmom said something about using "real butter." I said, "Yeah, Country Crock like we always had."

I was this many years old when I discovered I'd been eating margarine my entire life.

Peak Sitkakeit? (-kayt? Yiddish works about like German that way, yeah?)

And they're even letting him use the big boy marker. I guess he's graduated up from crayons, but a pen still requires too much in the way of fine-motor skills.

Trying to read Lies, Incorporated by Philip K. Dick, and... yeah. I don't know why I do this to myself.

the woke left? without saying goodbye????

Watch as I Destroy Your Society, Gradually, Over the Course of One Hundred to Two Hundred Years Now that I have defeated you, I shall feed my conceit and explain the horrors I will enact upon you… Behold despair. Behold destruction. Behold the...

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most societal collapses aren’t that dramatic. Everyone imagines like a hurricane made of tornadoes or AI cyborgs declaring war on humanity. Or worst yet, AI cyborgs taking white-collar jobs."
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