This wise person distills our working economy perfectly. youtube.com/shorts/NfRi3...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

With lightning, thunder, and a downpour the Valkyries came for our eldest early yesterday evening. Greyson was 12, and he timed out. He went peacefully, in his beloved rain. He heard the thunder and hurried to lay in the downpour as was always his wont and pleasure. We'll miss you, baby cat. 😻

Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, May 02, 2026. We just got a thunderstorm and downpour with no warning. It smells LOVELY! 😁 Our plants are going to be so happy!

"Knowledge is what saves democracy." He is not wrong. youtube.com/shorts/Efh-u...

THIS! It is not "overpaid" workers who cause prices to rise, it is the greedy corporators and shareholders squeezing us at every opportunity.

I haven't used Amazon for years. They certainly showed their true colors after they had gotten their hooks into everything.

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

I am not much of a Kimmel fan but he truly NAILED it. bsky.app/profile/staa...

What a chain of coincidences! 🤣

What proper gentlemen and heroes; "Women and children first!"

Dudley, the foot-tall red maple we planted on Arbor Day '24. Now he's over six feet and happy. He joins our redwood, cypress, black oaks, Ponderosa pine, pear, and plum trees.

Johnny Cash is smiling.

This is Smokey, and abandoned indoor/outdoor cat from two blocks away. He found our place. Skittish, and worse for the wear. Now he is an integral part of our crew. It took a while but now he wants us to touch him, now he hangs happily with our plethora of cats. 😻

THIS! Think about it.

Translated doublespeak at its finest! "Double plus ungood?"

I got up up around 0600 hours to feed Penny-dog, let her out to do her business, and then to tend to our cats. By around 0900 she had bullied me into taking her to Dutch Bros. for a pup cup. Who am I to deny her? From there we cruised. Grants Pass is a tiny valley in the midst of *CRAZY*...

SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Draft-Dodging Donald loves sending other people’s children to war… Just 2 weeks into this war Trump said he needed $200 BILLION to fund it — that’s a decade of nationwide universal pre-k… instead, a war no one voted for, and no one can explain.”

"The secret to happiness is to spend more time with animals and less time with idiots." ~ #unknown

History was always my favorite subject. Reliving it, not so much.

I can't see a single lie here.

I truly believe that Mayor Mamdani is onto something. WE HAVE THE NUMBERS. Lets show them on May Day, and for as long as it takes. If WE don't work, if WE don't spend, THEY lose their precious profits. "It's the only way to be sure."

Happy Caturday! This is Maui, a local feral who was led by another to our front porch for catfood about a year ago when he was a wee kit. He has been an integral part of our plethora for about ten months now. He integrated quickly with our crew of (then) nine cats and a dog. Such a sweetie!

She makes a very valid point.

A quick thought about turn signals: I've been driving for 45 years. I use mine, reflexively, every time, even when I'm just backing out of the alley to park behind our barn. I also look out for others using theirs. I was stopped at a red and a pickup approached from behind with their right...

This little guy joined me last night while I was having a midnight snack. I poured a little puddle of water on the kitchen counter and he drank as I ate.

There is deranged, and then there is this: youtube.com/shorts/oFCZo...

I am not anti-technology, but AI is something beyond a tool.

Evil is a puppetmaster: youtube.com/shorts/DYrXM...

Greyson, our eldest cat, back when he was just under a year old. youtu.be/ZB0Jed_tNa0?...

This was amusing in 2014. Not so much in the US today. youtube.com/shorts/31C_d...

May 1, 2026. GENERAL STRIKE! Show them who the bosses are. Don't work, don't spend. Take away their sustenance. Extend as needed.

Cartoon by Chan Lowe

Our 2026 Bingo Card absolutely SUCKS!

Penny insisted on going for a drive earlier this morning. I can't say no to a pooch who has been family for 12 years so off we went. 😁 Our animal companions need little more than food, shelter, attention, and affection. In my experience they reciprocate at least fivefold.

Our six feral rescues enjoying the yard together a few years ago. (Now we are owned by ten, but I haven't persuaded them to take a pose together.)

Says a lot, does't it?

Alright… hold on a second. Back when I was cutting my teeth in radio, a march rolled past the station windows — homemade signs, people shoulder to shoulder, nobody waiting for permission or a camera crew to say it mattered. Real change rarely checks in at the front desk.

Here’s ICE being chased by the residents of Los Angeles. 👏😎💙

I wouldn't advise my worst enemy to come to the US at the moment. They are disappearing & murdering US citizens over trifles. What do you think they might do to those they see as "foreigners?" What have they already done? Apparently "inconceivable" does not mean what it used to mean.

The question is never "what is reasonable." The question has always been "what is possible." Napoleon taught us this. It behooves us to study his lessons and learn from them.

Greyson, Bob, and Wolverine. Bob got him a kitten, Wolverine, because friends had rescued his pregnant mother. Greyson was a tiny feral stray we heard crying and took in.

Seven years ago we took in Tiger Lily (and her brother Marco Polo). A friend of a friend had rescued a quintet of ferals from his backyard-parked boat. Bast's network gave us these two so they all got homes. She's always my sweet little girl, purring and keeping my headaches down.

Bob, our "seed kitty," in 1997. Our daughter found an earnest kitten waiting outside our front door. I said "NO," we'd lost two to ilness in the previous three years; the heartbreak was too much. My better half was uncharacteristically sick that day. She opened the door, he made his way in.

THIS is what insurrection looks like. DO YOU REMEMBER ?

Khym gave me "anyone lived in a little pretty how town." I replied with "she being brand." We knew one another. I still smile and tear up decades later. 😁

Our Penny, chasing hose-water.