writing is hard. Let's go shopping.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz

It's all official and everything. I'm running for TAFF. It's exciting and nervewracking at the same time as I step out of my quiet shadow and in front of all fandom. If you're eligible, please vote. If not, I'll take all the luck I can get. :)

This year is the year I've decided to try to step out of my comfort zone more often, and nowhere was that more than throwing my hat in the ring to be the #TAFF delegate. It's all done and dusted and the voting starts soon... we'll see what happens from there.

My dream decided to give me statistics about my dream before it woke me up. I don't remember much, but the "number of moon incidents" remained safely at zero, so there's that.

Back from a protest. It went very well, we must have had at least two thousand -- if not more -- in a very purple area in the Sac Metro Area. I got a little overstimulated and maybe slightly too much sun, but it was a good time. #nokings

I've been a baseball fan a long time, and I'll be a baseball fan for the rest of my life, but I don't think I'm seeing another catch like that. HOLEE WOW.

Hello Bluesky, I'd like you to meet Lassen Lafayette, the newest member of our household. #cat #proofofcat

Power lines. Altadena in the wake of the #EatonFire

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

Saying goodbye.

If there's anybody out there, I could use your thoughts and prayers for my little buddy Winter. He's hospitalized right now and he may not make it through. We really desperately need a Christmas miracle, and if there's anybody out there that can help... This was the first photo we ever took of him.

Winter is very very sick. I hope he stays my #proofofcat. gofund.me/03415c58

I know I don't post on here much, but I have a very sick kitty that I'm afraid we may have to put down due to costs. If you could contribute a bit to my gofundme, or at least share, I'd really appreciate it. His name is Winter. gofund.me/03415c58

Even if you're not moved by the argument that Twitter is a rightwing cesspool thanks to its redpilled owner, the fact that foreign enemies are expressing concern that they won't be able to use Twitter to manipulate Americans anymore should be enough to warrant the exodus.

My mountain.

When I was a kid (in the mid-1980s) my folks were friends w/the editor of the local newspaper. One day, we were at his office & he let me have my pick of the various press kits for new syndicated comic strips. ME: "THIS one looks GREAT. The art is terrific & it's really funny." #CalvinAndHobbes

Today is my birthday. Got a couple things planned, but it's mostly going to be a quiet day.

Okay, this cracks me up. Xbox suggests games that "happen to contain soup".

A checklist for crawling out of a hole.

Well. That could have gone better.

Breakfast of champions.

I found this thread fascinating.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,886! (I don't know if 124,886 is first 10%, that math seems a little sketch unless Bluesky is up to 12.5 million users now...)

When there's a box in my sunny spot... #proofofcat

THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE EATING OUR CATS

This is what social media feels like to me. Fun, but SO MUCH WATER.

It's important to get the italics right.

Tabby would like me to remind you all that you should work hard and sleep harder. #proofofcat #meow

And, I suppose I'm saying that it's important that we appreciate and love the people that are in our life, because you don't know when they could be gone forever. I didn't lose my son yesterday, but there is a father I don't know that lost his.

This, I have to admit, is pretty awesome. Only in baseball.

I am sharing the bed with two sleepy kitties, one at my feet and this handsome mustachioed devil on the cat bed next to my head.💤💤

I, too, am America. I think this is going to bounce around in my head for a bit...

But Mama, I'm cozy under here. #proofofcat

This cracked me up and is worth your time.

God: When the humans are alone, they should be able to hear music in their heads sometimes. Angel: That's a lovely idea. God: And it should be a 8 second loop of a song they don't really like and can't exactly remember the lyrics to. Angel: ... God: There's no way to make it stop.

Ever feel called out by a fortune cookie?

Long time no see. Been busy with life, as we have no kitchen. So it goes.

If you are in need of a cat picture today, I aim to please.

If I fits, I sits.

It's a box full of dinner and snacks, Mama! And I fits!

Stop telling kids that are autistic 'gifted' or they will 'go far in life' Its the best way to make sure they self destruct. I remember being told this all the time and it actually did no good at all.

my relationship with social media is complicated. This is why I half-jokingly have my name set to 'an Internet nobody'. That said, being an Internet somebody might just be a nightmare in and of itself.

adulting is hard. Let's go shopping.

Cartoon: We don't talk about Hugos.... With thank to @rds773.bsky.social for the inspiration :) Hope folks enjoy.

Kurt Vonnegut said the moral of Mother Night is "you are who you pretend to be, so be careful who you pretend to be." I think it's a pretty good rule to live by.

♥️ me some Thai boba tea.

My friend Will just said the most awesome thing on IRC: "Quantum theory says information can't be destroyed. Thermodynamics says lol yeah but we can blender it into so many pieces you can't put it back together with magnets and duct tape."

I said, "Kat. K-A-T." I got: