Mþ. Kestrel (pronounced Myth)

A dark grey cat loafed inside a white drs office cabinet on the lower shelf

At the vet for check ups for Binghe and Yuan, and Binghe has just completely made himself at home. Ridiculous! 😆💚🤭

(And Now Yuan keeps standing up on the sink to groom him but he stops every time I try to get a picture! 😅) #Cats

A black cat sits on a wicker basket reading the book PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld... Ok, so she's not really reading it. She's not even quite looking at it to be completely honest. But it is possible to imagine that she is reading and thoroughly enjoying it.

It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

As someone in a MAGA whacko’s district, can confirm they’re still MAGA sadly.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

Y’all, my family in Chicago are asking us to write to our Congress critters, even the MAGA ones, demanding a stop to the ICE terrorization of Chicago residents. I’m worried about them. All are born US Citizens, but many are BIPOC & I fear their targeting. Use @resist.bot to make it easy!

Does anyone else have to sit up when writing an email? Like I can make posts lying in bed on my phone all day. But as soon as it’s “Serious”, even if I’m still on my phone, I gotta sit up to concentrate!

In this case, my cats immediately stole my spot I was lying in. 😆

Watch the full clip before reacting. You’ll enjoy it I promise. 🤭

This is so exciting! Mychal is lovely & will fit into this perfectly! Plus it’s so exciting to see a program I loved as a child coming back!! Too bad my son is too old now!

Thank you!!

It is legitimately the hardest test I’ve ever taken so I don’t blame you. At least they give you lots of time and most of the technical questions are easy to find answers to on various digital archiving bodies’ websites!

I PASSED MY DIGITAL ARCHIVIST EXAM FINALLY!!! I am officially a certified Digital Archivist from the @saa-official.bsky.social, after 2 years, thousands of dollars, & two tries at the exam. It was legitimately harder than either Master’s!! 🎉🎊🏛️

I have finally found a pumpkin spice flavored item I actively don’t like. I didn’t think that was possible, but Milanos have managed to finally disappoint me. The pumpkin spice Milano tastes like a chunk of wood to me. And not even an interesting chunk of wood. I didn’t even finish my 1st one. Bleh

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

It's confirmed that we will have a Black Zine Fair 2026. Pray for @netabomani.com and me, lol.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

A motorised fire engine in 1920s style leaving the fire station in St Andrew's Street. A full crew of six are perched on top, all looking natty with their shiny helmets.

We had a fire drill at work yesterday, so here's a picture of Cambridge's new fire engine leaving the station in St Andrew's Street in 1920.

At the end of the day, if the “concern” you have about your country or neighbourhood is that there are too many Black or Brown people living there, then that is racism. Yearning to make the place you live more white is, in fact, white supremacy. Just saying.

Just got $26 from a FB Consumer Privacy settlement. Which is just. Feels almost insulting. All the evil you’ve done with my information, and it’s worth $26? That’s it? The full settlement probably didn’t even make a dent in your total profits for the period either. The system is so broken.

What a very distinguished old madam! Very obviously the queen of her domain!!

Just got home from a very successful first date and I am absolutely vibrating with happiness. There is joy in the world, even when it’s crumbling around us. Anyway I got a lil forehead kiss at the end & when I gave her the flowers I brought her she said no one had ever given her flowers before. 💚

Had a dream this afternoon that made me realize most of my trauma happened 30+ years ago. There’s a couple things that are “only” 20+ years old, but the trauma of them largely stems from the older trauma.

How am I not better yet?? That’s so many years!

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

No particular reason

What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity

You can spend today seeking a way to support and uplift the many marginalized groups that Kirk demonized and harmed.

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

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In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content