if you see a faded sign at the side of the road, that says FIF, TEEN, miles, to the,

A detective on a far-future spaceship wakes up in the wrong body and has to figure out why – just as a murder is committed. Maybe the sultry yarn store owner knows more than she’s telling? Murder by Memory, available now! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... #booksky 💙📚

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right? Right?

Hello. Right now Steve is determined to eat yarn. Do not like 0/10. This is what I wish he was doing instead. But no. #dailysteve

Putting the Japanese Americans in camps was shit too. A shameful period. Are we not supposed to evolve as humans, as a country? I mean, killing everyone so we could steal the land is how we started the USA, so we've never been great.

One of the things we are going to have to be very, very aware of is that a lot of people who are being heavily armed right now will simply not be willing to accept the results of a democratic election because they will go to jail.

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

Today's #dailysteve is why I had to wait before I could get dressed yesterday. Someone was on my shirt.

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

Just started a book known as a "TikTok viral sensation" and couldn't even complete a chapter. Holy infodump, Batman! One paragraph of narrative. Eight backstory. One more narrative. Seven infodumping about magic. Etc etc. And the NAMES omg. Were they parodies?

My Daily Steve #dailysteve is ready for today. Who weighs 4 lbs and has had all his kitten shots? THIS guy! Who wouldn't hold still enough for all his beans to be counted? THIS guy!

Got a great #dailysteve kitten photo today. LOOK AT THE LOVE!

So cute!

Instead of a #dailysteve today you get a Tanuki! No not the large balled Japanese raccoon dog of myth. The cat we found in a parking lot who preceded Steve, since the weekend Kid1 took Tanuki to her house, we got Steve!

Think of it as an episode of Hoarders. It’s overwhelming. But just pick a corner and start cleaning.

Are the military paychecks being stopped during shutdown??

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising. Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

House Republicans aren’t even in DC this week, and that should tell you all you need to know. They are not interested in negotiating a bipartisan deal that funds the government and protects Americans’ health care. Democrats are here and standing up for you.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Need some Steve? When we made a trip to the vet last week, all I had to do was put his crate on the ground and leave it open. #dailysteve BTW everyone at the vet had to come in and count beans.

The president is a fascist potato. If you make fat jokes about him, I block you. Fat people deserve to live a life believing you, the person making the fat joke, won't just arbitrarily swap to talking shit about their bodies on a dime if they piss you off.

A Daily Steve series entitled: the sunspot and me. One, this chair leg is making me SO mad but at the same time I feel so peaceful and warm. #dailysteve

This whole section really.

Daily Steve. First, I have to tell you. He keeps leaping onto my lower half and climbing me with all his many claws. It really hurts. I do not like this. I think he uses the extras to climb faster and dig in more. #dailysteve

I broke my thread. Cut to the queen with her new boyfriend. He says they have everything now and don't need anything else. She says she doesn't have everything. Cut to heroine putting on a bunch of silver. Drax is romantically telling her silver won't be enough.

We are going to watch a movie I suspect is going to be Very Terrible. Getting the main actor looking straight at the camera for the beginning warning us, this is no fairy tale there are no happy endings. I bet I feel that way after this movie for sure.

Hey. Hey friends. Steve might not be very...smart.

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Authors, one more time: 📣 ANY use of genai will get you onto my "do not read" list. Cover art, interior art, character pages, extras, bookmarks, ads, marketing material, website, all of it. Using it AT ALL means you do not respect or understand the damage that genai has done and actively does.

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

Note that a President approving lethal force on American citizens doesn’t garner the fainting couch concern of a Biden stutter.

Very early Daily Steve for #caturday #dailysteve All I had to do before his vet visit was leave his carrier out and open and he jumped in and had a fight with his tail. rftg[;p''''''dc-x (this last is Steve's contribution)

War-ravaged Portland

Boosting this for the afternoon:

Completely agree. It teaches a poor work-life balance, a bad and blurred separation between the two, and an inability to completely switch off from work as a positive rather than damaging trait. It also increased stress and anxiety and negative attitudes towards going to school.

Had signed up to participate in a local author book festival today but woke up feeling as cruddy as I did yesterday and bailed. I did NOT expect the triple shot fandango to take me out this forcefully.

Daily Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve! #dailysteve One tonight, gotta get up early. A closeup.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

September is almost over! Last chance to get my new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, as an Amazon First Reads pick. Prime members can grab it for free; other people pay only $1.99! Full book release is Oct 1st in print, ebook, & audiobook. amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]

Joe Biden got tired. He never dispensed insanely bad medical advice about vaccines or Tylenol. But in the Beltway journalism world of @jaketapper.bsky.social & others, who cover politics as theatre & spectacle instead of as substance, being tired is a far bigger sin than what Trump is doing.

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

The #dailysteve is at a reasonable time today! It's not one of my dance studio nights, so I'm not crawling to the computer at 11 pm to check emails at last. Steve is adjusting quickly to the other cats, and them to him. Steve would like to cuddle with the other cats. Such as, Magnus.

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

It is not a coincidence that most of the videos you see of ICE agents using excessive force seem to feature unarmed women half their size. 🙃

Donald Trump is about to have me indicted on bogus charges. Here’s why I’m still glad I got him elected in 2016. by James Comey

Sometimes Steve has the couch to himself. #dailysteve