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A grey tabby in a basket bed making biscuits while giving a murderous glare.

A grey tabby in a basket bed making biscuits blissfully, getting deeply into it with eyes narrowed.

A grey tabby making biscuits in a basket bed looking judgemental at your life choices and perturbed at being interrupted.

A story in 3 parts.

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

A trail of red clay leading into a forest of beech, oak, and hickory, with dark green ferns dotting the underbrush. The leaves of the trees are changing to gold and deep orange and they are scattered along the trail.

💚 Home.

If you ever thought science was too tame a career, how does kite skiing 4,000km across Antarctica over 3 months sound?
#antarctica #adventure #expedition #science #climatechange

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Absolutely no one is surprised that he's a spineless SOB.

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

They see a lack of income as a moral failing, so they treat those less fortunate than them as less than human, undeserving of basic decency or even the ability to enjoy a goddamn snack or nice food every once in a while. To them, if you don't make a living wage, life is meant to be miserable.

It's pretty clear that they hate it so much because they want low income people to be as miserable as possible. They don't want them to have choices. They want them to suffer, because they feel they don't deserve to eat if they can't afford it.

I am once again pissed beyond belief at some people's absolute delight at the loss of SNAP benefits, which will affect millions of people.

They claim that they're so happy because they're upset that people on benefits buy snacks and unhealthy foods.

Come on. We know the real reason.

He doesn't seem to understand that the majority of SNAP participants are white women and children.

Have reached the "bought child locks for the cabinets" stage of cat guardianship, and subsequently, the "watching cat figure out/open the child locks on the cabinets" stage. RIP, our toilet paper supply.

gone. just fucking gone. all that beauty, all that history. destroyed, just so that a broken-inside narcissist fuckstain can build his tacky dance hall for billionaires. what a fucking travesty. our next Democratic president is going to have a lot of cleanup work to do — but one of the many things they must campaign on is a vow to put all this shit back the way it was before Cankles McRottinghand assaulted it. not just the Epstein Ballroom, but also the parking lot where our beloved Rose Garden used to be. oh, and how about next time, we actually hold Little Donny Fuckface accountable for his crimes, and not sleepwalk for three years until it’s too late to do anything.

I HAVE A TREMENDOUS IDEA: HOW ABOUT THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT NOT JUST REBUILD ALL THE SHIT DONNY DESTROYED, BUT ALSO ACTUALLY HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS CRIMES — AND LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP ALREADY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST, WHICH YOU CAN READ HERE: bit.ly/4hrlTV9

Day 24 of Prez’s shutdown. This is very stressful for federal workers. If you have the resources, take a fed for coffee, buy them lunch, or have them over to watch a game. Kindness helps

Making America God Awful, I guess.

You ever have a moment where you feel you are about to fly apart emotionally, but you have too much to do and too much responsibility to feel your way through it so you just stuff it down and keep going? Asking for a friend.

For future reference (when I'm on a computer).

A green field of zinnias against a lightly clouded blue sky, the closest flowers at eye-level and brilliant reds, pinks, and oranges.

A pathway cut into a lush green field of sorghum, the green stalks reaching against a lightly clouded blue sky.

A field lush with cotton underneath a heavily clouded grey sky. A windbreak of trees is on the horizon.

A pile of polished multicoloured stones, largely in blues, purples, turquoise, and indigo.

Photos from today. #TimelineCleanse

Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.

It was really nice to get out among friends today. 💛

It actually extremely upsets me that we feel compelled to block these accounts, but whoever is running them right now apparently is riding the far-right fascist line.

Finally, an accurate ICE job ad. INSECURE WITH YOUR MASCULINITY? C STUDENT AT BEST IN HIGH SCHOOL? TOO UGLY TO SHOW YOUR FACE? JOIN ICE!

🔥 🧊

This isn’t the whole story, of course – but if it’s not at the core of your story, you’re on the wrong track.

Add “Once democracy made it possible for women to threaten patriarchal domination and for queer people to publicly affirm their identity” – and we’re already very, very close.

Finally read "On Tyranny" and it is quite depressing to think of how the cult like mentality results in everyday professionals sliding slowly into fascism. A brief glance at political comments anywhere online would tell you there are plenty of Nazis-in-training.

And they certainly were not passed to protect white people from so-called anti-white discrimination.

This shit broke me today.

Remember when everybody got upset over the term "deplorables"?

Yeah, I feel this. I keep thinking that while 2016-2020 was a bad wild ride of incompetence and norm-bending, it wasn't the unhinged cruelty and casual authoritarianism we see now. I suppose the time wasted not defending democracy/holding him accountable does that.

Only a couple more months for humans to invent the massive kaiju-fighting robots of Pacific Rim, which takes place in 2025. My optimism is waning.

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Sometimes I think the worst thing about losing our democracy is that we are losing it to some of the dumbest/least competent people. They claim to have God and the founding fathers on their side when it's clear they've never read a Bible or the Constitution, and have a stunning lack of education.