One of Bluesky's loveliest weekly threads is Womble's Sunday "What are you reading?" post, today with bonus favorite books of 2025.

Saved a photo of my favorite feline criminal helping open presents for #caturday.

Is there an emoji anyone's using as a response to AI slop in chats, etc.? Maybe a bucket? I don't want to debate whether that's really Liam Neeson in the Santa hat, and whether it's unethical or still funny if it's not him. I just want a mark of shame I can use and move on. 🪣

This is incredibly niche, but potentially useful info for #watercolor painters. Daniel Smith's single pigment Rich Green Gold paint is an almost perfect dupe for Sennelier's multi pigment (and now discontinued) Brown Pink/Stil de Grain.

ARTISTS! Pull your Art from Twitter right now! Look at this shit! You can ask Grok it to simply remove a watermark to repost it! (also follow @sakurachanart02.bsky.social for this amazing art! sry to use ur work as an example)

If you're looking for a last-minute holiday gift, @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Technical Assistance Program is a powerhouse of reuniting children who were left behind by ICE with their parents. 👇 www.theyoungcenter.org/donate/

I wish I could remember Douglas Adams' description of Dire Straits. Something about how Mark Knopfler played his Stratocaster like an angel on a weekend bender.

Bluesky doesn't have to tell you. If I unfollow someone, it's almost always because of ableism. If someone unfollows me, it usually means I've been bitching about DeSantis again instead of posting lizard photos.

Really need more sales before the end of the month! Bills are due soon. Boosts also super appreciated <3 Check out my work → cvkvlv.com Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr... Goal for December: $937/$3500 Mvto!! (Thank you!) #Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt

Crochet inspo cat.

Next set of crocheted cat butt coasters, this one for someone with a Siamese mix. 🧶 (Yarn is Sugar and Cream Chocolate Ombre and the pattern is by Mumma J Crochet )

Since the recipients aren't following me on here, I can post the set of cat butt coasters I crocheted as a tasteful wedding present. 🧶 (Pattern by Mumma J Crochet.)

I've always been careful not to anthropomorphize our pet reptiles. I'm attached to them, but don't presume the reverse. After seeing the nonsense that gets attributed to LLMs, I'm accepting the joy of my cross species relationships. They know me and get pleasure and comfort from me. #herps

Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨ Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)

One of my favorite feeds and worth a follow!

Yes! The future is not already settled. In fact, actual serious people (not tech bros or acolytes) are majorly calling into question every aspect of "AI" on a deep level. I compiled 18 pages worth of links to help resist "AI is inevitable" propaganda: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A LINK UP!!! 💙

Adding bioluminescence to my "mermaids are monotremes and their bellybuttons are actually cloacas" theory. www.livescience.com/platypuses-g...

Someone got *very* excited for her whole prey (defrosted fuzzy) meal 🦎

So anyone who creates a website that puts their expertise/creations online can't opt out of the AI that steals their intellectual property and presents it to searchers WITHOUT going to their website without also opting out of the largest search engine? This is the death knell of the Internet.

Yule Cat.

Raspberries were on sale, so guess who's been getting extra treats? 🦎

Okay but crocheting cat buttholes IS doing something useful.

All the new Visionary Vultures pins have arrived and they're amazing! Shipping for campaign pledges is underway; I'm working to get them graded, assembled, packed, & out as quickly as possible. If you're waiting, look out for a tracking email soon! visionary-vultures-4.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Public service plushie link: store.fieldmuseum.org/products/eco...

Real talk, absolutely no hyperbole, this is going to kill infants. Sleep deprived parents of newborns already have to navigate current knowledge vs out of date info from well meaning family. My mom made a *gorgeous* quilt and baby bumper set for my kid. Crib liners are an asphyxiation hazard. 1/

This is big. It means Florida Republicans are finally losing Cuban voters and that Dems can win here when the national party puts resources into races. I also don't think it's a stretch to say that ICE can take a lot of the credit. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Done pet sitting, but here's one more photo of the criminal. #caturday

There are really only two ways to interpret this: 1) They never had a plan and an anti-vaccine movement that was convenient during Covid to generate an anti-establishment political movement grew out of control and is now enacting policy to sustain itself. 2) Eugenics.

I had a coworker who buried a child with cystic fibrosis. My cousin has a breast cancer gene. My kid inherited life threatening food allergies. And I don't know how our capitalist society and profit based medicine can give us those life saving cures without commercializing eugenics.

Had to interrupt the Mighty Hunter on the patio last night. Pretty sure it was a southern toad not a cane toad, but my 🐸 identification is wobbly at best.

it's cyber monday baybeeeee. you can have 10% off of our Black Friday collection, as a treat! (ps the rest of the shop is still 20% off!) www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...

Crime spree continues.

New image in my threadless shop! For the blue jay (or pink dogwood) fan in your life Available on t-shirts as well as a variety of other products and everything is currently ON SALE!!! whistberry.threadless.com

Australia, where the blue tongue skinks just... let themselves into your house? 🦎

introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: southern sting ray moose gator loon dolphin

Gävlebocken livecam! www.youtube.com/live/P1VOrSo...

An unrepentant criminal.

A large chunk of the money that goes into food allergy research in the US is due to the fact that one of the Koch brothers has a kid with multiple food allergies. Which means how the money gets spent isn't determined by scientists but by the Koch family in (I imagine) a Shark Tank type fashion.

Resting peacefully after committing crimes. #caturday

A wild kitty appears. (And the kitty spam continues.)

[Lion King intensifies]

FREE COLORING PAGES! If you find yourself having to entertain bored kiddies today, you can download a set of 3 free coloring pages including this turkey fellow! (Or you can download for you? Do kids even color anymore? Do adults? I don't know anymore😂) whistberry.itch.io/bird-colorin...

Good morning!

I had forgotten the joy of "You will never pee alone again."

The thing that honestly has me upset about the whole "Nuzzi hot for geriatric presidential candidates" is that she was actually doing the things that the vile gamergate "ethics in video games journalism" trolls accused their innocent victims of doing. And then she was published bragging about it.

Dog panting is keeping me awake. Here's her unimpressed old lady lounging from earlier.

Puggles is allowed on top of the cabinets. (Because there's no way to actually stop him.)

I'm babysitting two cats and a dog this week, and I'm going to spam enough of their photos to be everyone's problem.