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Occasionally I find a stray whisker tucked into the knit of a sweater and I can always tell which cat it came from. It’s like a little visit from them. In other news, I’m never lint rolling anything I own ever again.

So sad to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s passing. We are all lucky to live in a world that she used her time to impact. She was such a force!

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Repost with an iconic fictional band. Because it’s literal icons, you see.

“It was time to show Satanis that he’d picked the wrong traumatized transsexual witch to fuck with.” Pals, the Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series is fun.

This morning I have four squirrels who sort of tolerate each other, two pairs of scrub jays who very loudly do not tolerate each other, and two crows who silently wait for a quiet window to swoop in, grab a peanut, and share it on a nearby rooftop. These weirdos are the best part of my day.

The constant low level buzz of Obergefell-related anxiety.

Corvid friendship update: I went out to the feeding spot during my Halloween party and even while I was in full witch costume with other people, two crows and a scrub jay followed me up there. Just in case. 🖤

… Florence Welch for Taskmaster New Year’s Treat.

I bet the ghost of Lord Byron feels extremely smug right about now.

I think the crows have finally decided they like me now! I gave everyone an extra helping of nuts to celebrate. Happy Halloween!

So many costumes on Greek row tonight, including no fewer than THREE sexy Grogus. Truly amazing work, college youths.

It’s always so hard to focus on work the Friday before my Halloween party. And just in general during the dissolution of our democracy.

Moomin has the right idea

Really challenging to not do at least the arms choreography when I listen to “Wuthering Heights” on my commute.

The problem with getting Hades II music stuck in your head is that there really aren’t a lot of contexts where singing under your breath about clawing out someone’s eyes is appropriate.

The axolotl and angler fish were my favorite of the many, many, many inflatable animals today!

Excellent! It was hard to see how big it was from inside the crowd.

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One of the things that absurdist protest accomplishes is making the people cracking down on it look absolutely ridiculous.

Someone on my commute who is definitely not cosplaying, is wearing the most America Chavez circa 2014 outfit with the most America Chavez energy. I wish it wasn’t creepy to take stealth photos to post for all my comics friends… and also I’m a little intimidated.

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you." - Miss Major, 2023 💔

She was a blessing and an inspiration.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Sorry friends, we may never hang out again because I’m slowly fighting my way out of the underworld and up to Mount Olympus. It’s been real.

Holy shit, it really is! Manohmanohman!

The article starts with a scroll through names and ages, in English and Arabic, with some pictures and descriptions of the children, including how they died. It’s heartbreaking and none of it is new information, which makes our continued complicity in the genocide all the more horrific.

I have to get to work early tomorrow for a very important presentation… so I guess now is the perfect time to download Hades II.

I've mostly disconnected how I engage with political news from social media, largely for fact check and wanting to consciously support journalism reasons. It means the rate at which I learn news is very controlled... except when I pop back onto platforms like this and question those boundaries.

Am accidentally becoming friends with two scrub jays. I know very little about this branch of the corvid family and I have so many behavior questions. Very excited to embark on this research journey.

An annoying side effect of publishing acquisition decisions being so opaque is that people who write about the industry often overly mythologize what are extremely boring and pedestrian parts of the process.

I find it very hard to remember that both the cats are gone. It happened so fast, one after another, and now the house feels extremely empty.

I forgot that the covid vaccines kick my ass this much. Really excited to get through the last couple of work hours so I can collapse into a hot puddle.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Yes, conservatives have been using a lot of "they did this" talk right now that's dangerous and bad And also Nice to know they're perfectly capable of using they/them pronouns after all.

Whenever I hear a word that rhymes with “tradition” my brain goes full Fiddler on the Roof. So every conversation around January 6 sounded like Seditioooon, sedition Sedition SEDITIOOOOON, SEDITION SEDITION

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

LOL. Guys. We don’t register to protest. We just show up.

This is what I want from my reps or I don't want them at all, tbh

I wonder if I’d have better executive function skills if my brain didn’t insist on retaining “Alo, salut, sunt eu un haiduc,” etc.

I don’t overly care about the Emmys, but I’m glad there was an award for the writing on Andor. “When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest” has stayed with me, for obvious reasons.

Petition to reinstate afternoon calls as a culture. I've had friends popping by all afternoon to pick up cat things and, aside from the grief, it's been lovely having people I like randomly show up for a short visit during a prearranged set of hours. More of this!

I have had an exceptionally shitty year full of too many deaths, serious illnesses, and other crises, just one after another. To cope, I've decided there's a ghost in my home who messes with me. It allows me to direct anger somewhere harmless, but I'm also lowkey impressed at the ghost's commitment.

Said goodbye to our beautiful, clever, friendly, silly, caring, wonderful Frankie. There will never be another like this special, remarkable cat. It’s too soon, especially only two months after Flicka.

Me, working: I have my favorite musical stuck in my head, so maybe I’ll listen to some of it while I get things done. Brian Stokes Mitchell: I see his face… Me, instantly sobbing, a mess: JUST KIDDING!

Good news, everyone! New DIE is just as beautiful and stressful and cool as the first series. BEAR GOD!!! 😬

Oh shit, I forgot today was new Florence day! I’m so ready for this witch album!!!

Man oh man, I do love a comic with a soundtrack! I’m not going to say our office comic book club was blasting music in a conference room for our True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys discussion, but we definitely made no effort to keep the volume down.

Uh oh. I accidentally allowed myself to think about musicals after 11 pm and suddenly it’s tomorrow. 😬