Fran “Double” Poodry

A black kitten sits upright on a soft fuzzy cream-colored cat bed. The kitten is facing the camera and has a white chin and white bib.

A grey tabby kitten faces the camera, reaching forward with its left front paw. The kitten is on a dark colored fluffy cat bed.

Last week, my husband and I adopted two kittens! Introducing Damian (black) and A’ja (grey tabby). Thanks to Cat’s Cradle Rescue in Oregon for bringing these lively goofballs into our house!

This so much larger than saying it's a loss. The impact of this decision is incalculable.

Sorry for the binge liking on your posts…I’m not being weird but I haven’t been on here and I missed the arrival of the beautiful Spatula! Congratulations to both you and her! I’m sure Poseycat will grow to love (tolerate) her new sister!

Relatable Corvid

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I saw Santa Claus getting coffee in downtown Beaverton this morning!

If anybody needs an ethical place to buy art supplies, I suggest these folks.

(Blick is not ethical, sorry to say. They're trying to create a monopoly.)

shop.stlartsupply.com

This is actually a great idea for multiple reasons. AWS has become too important to the structure of the web itself to persist as a private entity.

Post-menopause here and I am going through it. I keep losing things! Forgetting things! I hate it!

This is what I do.
Except when I don’t do it and have to go back and forth between where I realized I needed the thing and the room where I think the thing is.
🙄

The best thing to do is not read the NYT

Seriously arrest every single one, idc what their party or their corporation is, they belong under the jail with every pedosadist in history

Goon Girl

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

I mean, covfefe, amirite?

* after being kicked off the team. The "why" of the suicide is easily traced to its origins if you don't elide the facts.

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Very thorough reporting here.

Tea Is Love by Adib Khorram: 9780593618530 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A lyrical ode to the warmth, comfort, and traditions of tea drinking, from award-winning author Adib Khorram and Caldecott Honor and the APALA winner Hanna Cha Tea is a plant. Tea is a ceremony....

Today's the day! TEA IS LOVE, illustrated by @hannayoonicha.bsky.social and written by me, is out in the world!! Go grab a copy!!

An excellent 2021 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. And a glass of water, because I gotta work tomorrow.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !! Alt: a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!

Hi everyone! As quarter one ends, there are a couple of things we could use. If you are able to help our classroom, I would greatly appreciate it! For those of you that don’t know me, I teach 7-10th grade science a public school in NW Ohio.

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Ugly doesn’t matter as long as you get it done. You showed where hard work gets you! 👏

My next squat goal is 200 lbs.

I’ll pass this along.

A hand holding a sticker that says Live Laugh Graph with a background of an upwardly swooping graph. In the near background to the right is a big sign that proclaims Enter to Win! with additional images and text that are unreadable at this range. In the farther background to the right, there is a table with a teal tablecloth and a Vernier Science Education logo, with items on the table.

My new favorite sticker! But honestly our sticker game is 🔥
If you are at CASE in Palm Springs, stop by to say hello!
#VernierScienceEducation
#CASE25
#ITeachPhysics

A Guardian article says KPop Demon Hunters is “about rival bands” and

I guess? But not at all how I would describe it.
#kpdh

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.