Cara Gerard

One of us clipped their nails tonight and one of us gave them some treats for being very brave. Care to take a guess?

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”

Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you

the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

Happy to oblige! Here’s an abbreviated version on her Bluesky account: bsky.app/profile/itsj...

If you are still on Insta, I think it’s a little more fleshed out in Threads.

I signed up for two Red Cross courses in Psychological First Aid. First one is Self-Care (putting on one’s own oxygen mask and all that) and then Caring for Others. Thanks @thos.bsky.social for the article you posted. It’s a little way I can feel like I’m doing something useful.

3/ I spent some time researching Canadian brands and chuckling about hockey games and a certain governor of Maine who has surprised pikachu face because she just realized how tied to the Canadian economy her state is.

2/ I also cancelled Amazon Prime today. They are closing all of their Québec warehouses because they unionized. It’s something I should have done a long time ago but better late than never.

1/ A friend posted a really good article on FB today about not getting overwhelmed by the amount of bad news that we are being hosed with right now. To pick a couple small things to focus on. I’d link to the article but I have FB blocked after 9PM for my mental health.

Hey remember when George Lucas was like “hurr durr Trade Wars” and we were like that’s so silly and he was like no wait that’s how Emperor Palpatine comes to power and we were like you are obviously dumb Jorge.

JEFF @jeffisrael.bsky.social • 1h The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin Richard Zussman @richardz... • 1h NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight's hockey game.

Figure it out.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

@bronwynjoye.bsky.social maybe “borb” should be the Bluesky word for “tweet”.

We can’t call these tweets, so what are we going to call them? I’d like to cast my vote for bluebs (rhymes with boobs).

Two Cornish Rex cats snuggled together. One is orange and white and has two brain cells, one is lynx point with crazy eyes and zero brain cells. They are both perfect.

Start as you mean to go on…here’s a picture of my cats.