Every time I’m at the cardiologist w/my 89yo mom who whines about masking, doc always says “it’s your choice” like she doesn’t need to wear it. I’m no longer silent. I usually say something about protecting the vulnerable. Today I said “I prefer to have a functioning p53 tumor suppressing gene.”

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.

Tons of variety in the offerings, wow!

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Racial profiling (a huge) aside, what in the fresh fuck? I’m Floridian and not once have I ever taken my passport with me fishing.

Is it too much to hope for the Royal Family to be the ones to leak the Epstein files now that they’ve publicly ditched Andrew?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Halloween edition #ThrowbackThursday This was 2021, our 1st 🎃 together. Walked him down to the neighbor’s on Halloween & well…

This is a great idea. Where I live, this would prob be best down by the curb where the parents hang out with🍹while the kids go to porches. Lower in the thread, someone had a cute poem- Trick or treat, smell my feet, make sure kids have food to eat.

Halloween edition Won’t Look Wednesday 🎃 “Hey Mom, I found some more of those really skinny neighbors!”

Happy Halloween edition #TongueOutTuesday

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Not so Sunday Scaries- Mateo decided he’d just take a rest by this guy 🎃

With all the US-government-induced strife, I returned to a book that resonated with me some years ago- Kate Harris’ Lands of Lost Borders. Travelogue heavy with history & introspection. This quote about borders hits me still.

Walkies are getting frightening around the ‘hood! “What do you mean it’s behind me?!”

**PLEASE SHARE** Melissa is forecast to bring anywhere from 12 to 30 inches of rain to Jamaica over the next 4 days. If you or someone you know live within the flood zone areas, now is the time to seek higher ground.

(Denver Post) - Colorado insurance commissioner warns that premiums could rise 160% next year, with the hardest-hit households facing a $22,000 increase in their annual costs .. @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/10/23/c...

#ThrowbackThursday all the way back to Monday! Hiking in the morning mists really messed with Mateo’s ‘do 🤣

Always fun to burst into tears when you get a live person on your House Rep’s DC line when calling to encourage them to hold firm on replacing the ACA subsidy issue. (Got vmail on my 2 GOP Senators of course). I encourage everyone to do so. I don’t know anyone who can come up w/xtra $1000/mo 🤬

Mateo eeking in a last minute #TongueOutTuesday from his road-tripping long weekend.

We’ve been on a wild last-minute short road trip. Mateo has decided he wants to take Amtrak home 😜

My sign for the first No Kings had Elvis & Abe Froman the sausage king. It might have been a little high concept for Tampa 😅

It’s been a heavy squirrel surveillance week. Mateo will resume the hard work tomorrow 😊 We have one poorly coordinated one that has fallen off branches & the fence right in front of him 3x. Luckily Mateo’s good about being called off.

Participating in a #NoKings event this Saturday? Bring parks to your local protest! We've got flyers, postcards for you. Print 'em up and hand em 'out. drive.google.com/drive/mobile... #saveOURparks

Always one to hold his toy in the weirdest way possible 🤣

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything. Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

I’m a Scorpio. 90% of my life is doing things through spite.

@nedpyle.com Wake up- there’s STILL baseball on 😛

This would turn me into John Wick for the rest of my days 🤬

#ThrowbackThursday to Mateo’s first autumn with me. Posing at a little fall set at a local brewery 🍁🧡

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020. $0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

🚨PSA fellow dog owner bargain shoppers (Mateo & his issues are a 💰 pit-Rx food savings few & far between) Rakuten 20% Petsmart cash back today! But if you’re buying kibble, first go into your Rewards acct & activate the 10x points for 20lb+ bags of food. Then you’ll get 20% now & 20% next bag.

Hey @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social time for Feta to start earning her keep 😉 Though she’s probably better at eating feta than recipe development.

If I have to be pissed off on a Sunday night, it’s good to see a federal judge even more so.

I’ll take the tiniest bit of anti-grifter good news, even if I don’t expect much from it in the end. floridapolitics.com/archives/759...

This is how Mateo rings the dinner bell 🛎️🛎️🛎️ How does it go at your house?

TFW you’re at the pharmacy to p/u your mom’s new dose of cards med & the tech tells you about 3 stories why it isn’t ready. (I never tell them I’m a pharmacist & is it interesting!) It doesn’t come in 180mg ER (yes it does)…Ins doesn’t cover that strength (here I screencapped the formulary)

Mateo is home with a healthy teeth & gums report and a funky chicken compression bandage 😊

Sunday Funday! It’s finally time to break out one of the $1 clearance toys I got at Lowes last Feb when I had to emergently buy a new washing machine 🎃 Mateo loves him. And by that I mean has set out removing his parts 🤣

Adding to the complete fucking insanity of this whole verbal diarrhea dump is that there aren’t individual measles, mumps, or rubella vaccines.

Ghost has had a turbulent life so far, but this sweet 2-year-old Great Pyrenees mix is looking for his forever home! He's fun, goofy, good with other dogs, and has good manners on a leash! Ghost is available at the Humane Society of Fremont County, info below: #COwx

First Mateo had a bath outside & then he suffered for a happy hat friends post 😁

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

"If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it. Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand."

I know #ParkChat has at least a couple teachers, if this is of interest.

Today's furcast comes from Finn and Flynn, a package deal available for adoption from MaxFund Colorado! They're "full of stories and full of love" according to the great folks at MaxFund! (Also apologies for my slacking on these lately) #COwx

Sad about the passing of Robert Redford. I love way too many of his films to pick a fave. (Though the aught’s Spy Game & Lions for Lambs should’ve gotten more love imo, lost to the rah rah Iraq war vibes.) My nerdy computer brother’s was hands down, Sneakers. What a catalog of work!

Gimlet! She is so much fun! She’s da life of da pawty! She’s such a special & sweet girl! She’s been in foster fur 9 months. Please consider sharing dis post to help her find her FURever family! She’s being fostered in Greenville,SC & is available with Lucky Pup Rescue SC.