Pavlovian response! 🦎

I made two and a half gallons of chicken stock yesterday and kept thinking about trad wife social media content. Thinking women should perform household labor in a submissive and performative feminine way is like expecting a professional RN to offer a sponge bath in a sexy nurse costume.

I remember reading a pre ACA news story about a man who signed up in his early thirties to get his wife who had cancer on TriCare. Seems relevant.

I realized I have been remiss in lizzer posting 🦎

Here's the correct take.

So Target corporate wants human employees to engage in the same kind of fawning behavior as chatbots?

I'd kind of like him to show up and answer every question, "On the advice of counsel, I invoke my fifth amendment privilege against self incrimination," just so we can clear up that non citizens DO have civil rights and get due process in the United States.

I am currently enduring a classic Doctor Who watch thru, and I just realized that the Thermians in Galaxy Quest sound exactly like the original Cybermen. It may have been kind of a standard classic sci-fi robot voice, but the similarity is remarkable. youtube.com/shorts/QO0hg...

Oh is THAT why my kid has been getting pushed YouTube videos about Aztec human sacrifice?

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

What's on sale? My books! Fantasy, horror, folktales, fairy tales, little sci-fi for kicks, adventure quests, eldritch beings, a wise-cracking noir detective, illustrations, nonbinary autistic ace folks Something for every taste! itch.io/s/164248/hal... $1.50 or less per book or $11 for all!

Amazing 🧵 describing how Judge Sara Ellis dog walked Greg Bovine. I've seen criticism that her orders haven't been restrictive enough, but to me she looks like a very smart judge who keeps feeding rope to DHS, who have ignored her mild "wear body cams and give warning before using tear gas" order.

There's about to be a surplus of scripts and novels in which AI gets beaten to death in creative ways.

The whole family just went together to get our flu and covid vaccinations. (Due to schedules, this is the start of our weekend.) 🎉 We're in Florida, but didn't need an Rx and insurance covered both. Positive reinforcement and Netflix suggestions welcome!

I mean so what if bluesky is a retirement home for people who’ve been online too long, we get our little bingo nights & whatever popping.

absolut herrlich

Updating my LEGO White House

Timeline tattoo cleanse.

A perfect day for non-fascist skull art.

I don't even know how to access it and I will never learn. Do you go to a website? Download an app? Lick an electrical outlet? Don't know don't care

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Popping over to post for my #foodallergy friends that "peanut allergy" is on the federal list of banned words and phrases, which does not bode well either for research or educational accommodations. pen.org/banned-words...

I wasn't fast enough to get video before Grendel woke up, but we were able to see the lizzer moving her eye in REM sleep. She was probably dreaming about crickets. #herps

Trump Regime illegally fired the federal public servants who ensured the $15B that ED sends to school districts to serve 7.5M disabled kids every year actually gets spent on special ed Anyone who has ever been in an IEP meeting can tell you what's about to happen www.patreon.com/posts/141171...

"The tradwife movement is cosplay." youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk?...

Then perish.

This is exactly right. Techbros created machines that produce infinite, nauseating flattery because that is how they believe they should be treated by other humans. They get very angry when other people (especially women or others who they believe should be *grateful*) don't act that way.

QRP with your skull art 💀 #watercolor #gouache

Platonic ideal of Boys Will Be Boys

It's here! Roadkill is out in the world. I can't in good conscience recommend it to all readers. A sad and angry book. 90% of the animal characters are dead at the outset & the humans don't fare much better. But if you're in the mood for an unconventional eco-horror experience, links in comments!

"Medical implants as a service" capitalism horror thread:

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," sounds like political pragmatism until you realize it's only vulnerable communities that are ever expected to take one for the team.

Spent yesterday at Necronomicon Tampa and got to listen to Seanan McGuire talk about cryptids (her brain is a treasure), saw and bought some really neat art, and got this picture of Timothy Zahn absolutely delighted at making a new bird friend. Tiny con, highly recommend!

This is especially ridiculous because the (expensive) antivenin they administered was kept by the zoo itself specifically for accidents like this. It's like helping someone with their own EpiPen. (I'm also wondering if the original policy change was because the stuff costs so much.) #herps

You're my Ksoda pop!

And I should be able to buy it, not rent it. And if I pay for it, there shouldn't be ads. AND it doesn't need AI shoved into it.

The Disney fans could push back on Kimmel because there was an easy way to express their displeasure, unsubscribe. Almost all of us are unhappy, but without an effective way to complain. Our reps are either Republican accomplices or Democratic quislings. I hope the Kpop stans find a button to push.

I had to go on FB to look up a local business today, and it tried to suck me back in with this glamour shot I took of Millie about a decade ago, when she was a young and lithe ball python. #herps

Show off your snake art! 🐍 Working on the underpainting for my next snek. #watercolor #SciArt

Just last night I used it to find links to news reports from the early 2000s that had been preserved on the Wayback Machine and I couldn't find via search engine. (Autocorrect, I do not EVER want to use the word "wetb*ck" instead of wayback. Why is that even an option???)

I MADE THE TOAD BREAD AND IT'S CURSED 🐸

I think most of us DON'T want to engage with politics. I would much rather enjoy my little hobbies and obsessions, but I've spent my entire life with weird religious freaks trying to take away my rights and rich, powerful men hoovering up every bit of my personal welfare for themselves.

Currently watching Sneakers.

Florida friends!

oof

"Heathcliff, it's me, your Cathy, I've come hooooooome..."

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.