✏️If you're looking for a new, indoor hobby as we move into cooler, darker months ahead and one that may tend to your mental health as we lose opportunities for vitamin D and to socialize, consider joining a writing workshop at @writepittsburgh.bsky.social ✏️ Full list here: tinyurl.com/mppsh7yd

There is no transparency around where our tax dollars are going! 🚨The current regime decided that it could cancel or restrict Congress's decisions about our $. Without an ability to track the $ we have a recipe for fraud, waste, and abuse. Too many Republicans seem to be OK with that.

This morning while I did my PT, I watched A Walk in the Woods with Robert Redford. It was made 10 years ago, never heard a peep about it before, and it pissed me off. Two old guys hike the Appalachian Trail, both carrying hiking poles on their packs, but they never use once? C’mon man! 😂

Found a Civil War bullet that says “states’ rights” on it. So that’s settled now.

L starts a work program next week with the Private Industry Council. Such a proud mama moment! (Now if only mama could find a job…)

Looks like Merky is ready to Power Nap.

So they stole it

Jimmy Kimmel for America’s Dad

Downtown. The bath tub has an accident holding everything up. Good luck non locals figuring this out one.

Just in: WLP, Berger Montague, and law professor David S. Cohen filed a complaint against UPMC Children’s Hospital for unlawfully denying gender-affirming care to transgender patients under 19.

Praise Keir, he’s finally done yapping. 🙄

Dear God, this speech to the UN General Assembly is a doozy. Thank god I’ve already given birth to my autistic children so I can safely have a fistful of Tylenol.

Youngest has been watching Chief of War on Apple+ with me and asking me tons of questions about Hawaiian history, the white Eurocentric biases he saw in AP American history, and the evils of colonialism. This autistic kid is gonna be ok.

Did my 108 Sun Salutations for the Equinox. I fully expect not to be able to function tomorrow.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

No Kings in the Neighborhood -- Oakland! 🚫🤴 Join Stand Up for Science & Indivisible Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood this Sunday! Meet at the intersection of Fifth Ave & Bigelow Blvd in Oakland at 12:30! 🧪🔬

Good hed from @apnews.com

Aaaaand here comes the depression. Yay me.

🔥 I LOVE Jameela Jamil for giving this devastating critique of liberals - from her view as a fellow liberal. 🤍

Everyone should read this, from the best writer in the transit/urbanism space

Today I am finishing up my rewatch of #Andor before I officially cut the cord. Who’s to say if or when I’ll have to opportunity to see it again?

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Had a lovely afternoon/evening out with my offspring visiting friends, thrifting, & dinner (although dinner at a new to us place was seriously underwhelming)

May your #caturday be full of big-boned cats and red catnip mousies

Starvation. Mass displacement. Slaughter of innocent children. A siege of Gaza City. This is wrong. The U.S. should not send one more penny to fund Netanyahu's war machine.

I’d like to offer a birthday challenge if you’re so inclined: make a piece of protest art (that isn’t AI) and share with us. I’ll be doing the same. (It’s wonderfully convenient that there’s an art supply store across the street)

Every year I get myself a new hardback gardening book. This one is a beaut!

I must say it’s nice living in a smaller city where the mayor actually wishes you a happy birthday on FB because he grew up with your dad.

Hey @karen-or-garden.bsky.social it’s our birthday!

Yinzers, Sinclair owns WPGH and Nexstar owns the local CW affiliate, WPTY-TV. Just because it’s not WTAE/ABC doesn’t mean you can’t make some noise.

Birthday #karaoke Open Your Heart—Madonna Fight for Your Right to Party—Beastie Boys Fortress Around Your Heart—Sting White Rabbit—Jefferson Airplane Birthday—The Sugarcubes Shiny Happy People—REM Lovefool—The Cardigans Sunday, Bloody Sunday—U2 My Heart Will Go On—Celine Dion

BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Is season 1-2 of Andor actually available for purchase? I searched online but what I found didn’t exactly look legit…

It was surreal being in a zoom with former co-workers who were all excited to see my cats again. 😂

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Solid idea!

Exactly this

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Youngest is supposed to be doing testing for a work program through the Private Industry Council. We’ve been here over half an hour while 6 people are frantically searching for the missing keys for the test cabinet. 🫤

Good news: made the first batch of roasted roja salsa of the season today from my tomatoes and jalapeños. Bad news: we inhaled it and there’s barely a cup left. I’m not quite ready to start picking 20lbs of green tomatoes so they can ripen inside, but I’m getting there.

It’s been decades since I last watched Sneakers. What a treat to see it again. It’s even better than I remembered.

The legendary @billybragg.bsky.social opening the Stop Trump rally with Woodie Guthrie’s ‘You fascists are bound to lose’

Watching all of the arse kissing for the felon’s state visit is embarrassing. I understand this is an extreme use of soft power and catering to the felon’s ego to get trade concessions and influence where they can. But damn. It’s so gross.

Looks like my birthday week is going to be filled with #Redford films. I’m starting with the one I have easily seen the most (probably 100+ times) Out of Africa.

Look, @theautobodyshop.bsky.social needs some funds to stock up on emergency contraceptives for the comrades, and I feel like there’s a solid chance someone in my pervert-tier friend group wants but does not yet possess this extremely special item, so. Get you some merch.

Aging sucks. Today I spent several hours trimming hedges and my right shoulder, hand, and arm are still on fire, and my neck is insanely crunchy. But at least I got to spend quality time with this fuzzy.

A Very Merry Book Launch Day to @theandrewkclark.bsky.social ! Congrats on your second novel, Monk! 🖤

We lost one of the greats. #RobertRedford