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Pica with mouth open as if giving keynote my husband is on the phone in the background.

Sign up for a seminar from #picathecat
“Staffing Difficulties of the Modern Feline: Getting the Most From Lazy Humans”

Price: 0.5 BTC or two cans beef purée and a dozen ‘scritches’

A close-up, low-angle view of a carpet of fallen autumn leaves. The image is dominated by several large, star-shaped leaves that are vividly colored in the warm hues of the season. The colors transition dramatically, featuring bright red and deep crimson at the edges and centers, fading into rich yellow and golden orange.

LeafScrolling

#LeafScrolling #Autumn #Nature #Photography

[seeking breakfast ideas, ph]

@ProcessParsnip
Reheated leftovers from the day before? (foods that normally suit your digestion)

I like leftovers for breakfast (anything from beans & rice to soup) but I don't make a distinction between what I eat at breakfast vs. other meals.

Another easy […]

Student group on the lawn in front of the house built for Jefferson by enslaved laborers.

What a day.

Can’t overstate the importance of the work being done at Monticello to recalibrate the site and unpack the lives of the 607 enslaved people who lived, worked, and died there to make Jefferson’s life of learning, leisure, and service possible […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]

A male kingfisher dazzles with electric blue plumage, a rich orange chest, and a dagger-like bill poised for precision dives.

Haven't been out looking for Kingfishers for a while, and this morning was ideal for it. So, with no apologies from me, there maybe quite a few pics today of Kingfishers. Enjoy.

The sun on the orange leaves of the trees behind perfectly compliment this Male […]

[Original post on ohai.social]

He talked about how France is the only country in Europe that has gotten less light polluted in recent years. Most cities and towns turn off their streetlights at night. (Part of the reason for this is because of energy prices increasing due to Russia invading Ukraine)

Notes that traffic […]

I just was on a panel for DarkSky International's Under One Sky conference. The panel was about novel and emerging sources of light pollution, I was there to yell a lot about Reflect Orbital.

One of the other panelists was Jolyon Troscianko, who studies animal vision at night (how totally […]

My dad who is 81 recently got into trouble cause the app where he pays his bills decided that his phone is too old.

He has a fully functional phone that’s a couple of years old but he now needs to throw it away because of software.

I think this is bullshit.

@shanoreily 😂

A tree with vibrant orange and red autumn leaves stands against a clear blue sky.

Good morning. Fall colors are peaking in these parts before the first wave of winter weather crashes in tomorrow and of course, on Monday. #Photography #Today #Chicago #Fall

@shanoreily Awww 😻

You can either share your furniture with her or you can *be* the furniture.

Those are your only choices! 😁

I got one of those big Criss-cross seat compliant office chairs. I thought comfort and sprawling was in my work from home future. I forgot I have a Velcro cat that would see this as room for her. #caturday #catsOfMastodon

A sleeping short-haired brown dog with floppy ears is curled up on a plaid blanket, resting on a leather couch.

Ivy says good night. #dogsOfMastodon

Flier for The Cartoonist Conspiracy of San Francisco that shows a robot sitting at a table with a cup of coffee and some jam, while the robot draws on a sheet of paper. The robot is thinking "Everybody hates my art". The info on the poster says these CCSF meetups happen on the second tuesday of each month from 7-9pm at Finjan Qahwa coffee shop in San Francisco. Text at the bottom of the page says "Human-made art by @urfspace, @ekimtiki, @DocPop, and @HappyFreakShow

Bay Area art friends: it's time for another SF Cartoonist Conspiracy jam. Come draw comics with us on Tuesday November 11th at Finjan Qahwa cafe in the Mission. https://cartoonistconspiracysf.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/sf-cartoonist-conspiracy-on-november-11th-2025/

It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.

A lower resolution cell phone photo of 2 snowy-white stratovolcanos coming out of mixed fluffy cloud cover against a bright blue sky background. Mt Rainier is further away and slightly to the right of Mt Adams due to the direction the photo was taken from (not due south)

Nice to see some snow on the mountains! Back home after a work trip.

Looking from the ~SE at Mt. Adams and Rainier. St. Helens was pretty much under cloud cover.

#pnw #mountains

If you can, please give a few bucks to Mastodon For Hunger Relief. https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/xBnCKKa/Mastodon-for-Hunger-Relief

Food banks are swamped. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5600001/snap-usda-food-banks-pantries-demand-thanksgiving

SNAP benefits: Trump admin seeks emergency block on order to pay food stamps in full

[Politics, SNAP]

Yes, yes, the billionaires want you to starve, deliberately.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/snap-trump-appeals-food-stamps.html

A goat and a sheep nuzzling

🐑 🐏🐑 🐏🐑 🐏

#DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon starts now! It's time for lamb spam - shear joy and woolly good vibes all day!

On this day every year we celebrate our fuzzy farm friends by drowning the fediverse in sheep!

Got no sheep? We happily accept goats […]

[Original post on toot.wales]

"10 things to know about the SNAP crisis and what’s being done to help"

gift link = https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/11/10-things-to-know-about-the-snap-crisis-and-whats-being-done-to-help.html?gift=4ce8715c-8634-4350-9e14-3f1becde9ae0

Note for Oregonians: The Oregon Dept of Human […]

Keep 'em coming

#Oregon

"Oregon’s hazelnut harvest could break records"

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/05/oregon-hazelnut-harvest-could-break-records/

"Thanks to new hazelnut varieties developed at Oregon State University, the industry is thriving in spite of setbacks"

"Oregon produces 99.7% of the hazelnuts in […]

An immensely floofy and somewhat dazed Maine Coon named Gracie

Gracie is made of 110% bedhead #CatsOfMastodon

Matilda the bunny on the yellow rug in my home office, standing up on her hind legs looking straight at the camera

Oh hi there Matilda! How nice of you to come visit me… though I’m sure you’re more interested in the jar of treats than me…

#Bunny #HouseRabbit #BunniesOfMastodon

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

@thetnholler.bsky.social
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Screenshot of an opinion piece in The Guardian with the headline, "Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump."

#AltText4You #USPol

This cartoon has four panels. PANEL 1 Two women, a dark-haired woman with glasses (who I was thinking of as Latina when I drew her, but looking at the finished drawing I have to admit she looks racially ambiguous) and a blonde white woman in a polka-dot skirt, are standing outside, talking on a sidewalk. Glasses is saying something enthusiastically; Polka is listening with a hand on her chin. GLASSES: No regular person can afford a million dollars in medical bills if their kid is in an accident. So we’d ALL be helped by Medicare For All. POLKA: That makes sense. PANEL 2 The two are walking as they talk. GLASSES: We need food stamps and rent subsidies. Because no one in a rich country should be hungry or homeless. POLKA: I hear you. PANEL 3 GLASSES: And maybe we need some sort of federal job guarantee, so everyone who wants to work, can. POLKA: That would have helped me a lot last year. PANEL 4 Glasses continues to talk happily, hands outspread in a “it’s all so reasonable” gesture, but Polka is angrily yelling, pointing one finger into the air. GLASSES: Plus, these programs can do a lot for groups like the Black- POLKA: THESE IDEAS ARE SOCIALISM AND I’LL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM!

Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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A close shot of a tuxedo cat's fluffy white chest. Or maybe a snowscape?

Snow.

#TuxedoCat #CatsOfMastodon