Looking back on 2025 and the question I am left pondering on NYE is "What the actual fuck was that?" A truly emotionally baffling year. Hope 2026 is gentle with all of us since 2025 certainly wasn't!

I'm live on Twitch if you wanna hear my cat scream like he's neglected! www.twitch.tv/abookwitch 🐱

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

The end of year final boss isn't getting through the last couple weeks of work, it's coordinating the multi-household holiday plans when your parents are divorced, you and your partner's families live in different corners of the state, and you need a pet sitter for your chronically ill cat. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

For the past 2 or 3 days, Dipp refused to eat his wet food breakfast unless it was brought to him in bed. Today? He tried to BURY IT IN OUR BLANKETS, but when I brought it out to his dining spot in the living room he ate the whole thing 🫠 Why do cats make so little sense 😭

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Took Dipp to the vet because he's been limping and after xrays he's been diagnosed with WIGGLY KNEECAPS.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

Honestly it's a good thing there's no negative psychological consequences to everything being casinos and upsells everywhere you look, all the time, in all of society

I know every year has so much loss and suffering, but this year is feeling extremely brutal and seems to be impacting myself and my close circles harder than other years. It’s not fair, it’ll never be fair, and I wish that everyone could just have a fucking break and a moment to breathe.

It has been 0 days since the vet jokingly offered me a job because I am well-informed and proactive about my pet's medical conditions (this should be the norm for both human and animal health literacy).

Both of my Libby holds on T. Kingfisher's new horror books becoming available in October? Hemlock & Silver being the perfect creepy appetizer for the season?? What Stalks the Deep beginning on a "brisk October morning," which we had today??? Could not have timed these holds better if I'd tried! 👻📚

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

The thing that should worry the regime is that the librarians have somehow become MORE radicalized than they already were

They're playing TWICE in the World Market. Unfortunately, I am the target audience for everything in this store.

Besties are #cat sitting while we're away and the photo/video updates are keeping my anxious brain sane. He is apparently being a total angel for them about taking his hidden-in-food meds, which is the opposite of how he acted all week while we tried to get him used to taking them that way 🥲

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

I want to love "cozy fantasy" and "romantasy" and they seem like lit subgenres I WOULD love, but unfortunately almost every book I've read that's marketed under those subgenres I've found to contain underdeveloped worldbuilding/plots and mostly insufferable characters 🫠

Trying to dust and vacuum before putting out the fall/Halloween decor but my allergies are protesting and Dipp starts screaming the second I stop giving him my undivided attention. I just wanna put out the pumpkins 🎃

I resisted ordering food delivery at work after poorly budgeting my time and not packing a lunch. Please clap.

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

Dipp when only one of us (or a stranger) administers his meds: feral, terrified, willing to commit atrocities to get away 👿🔪🩸 Dipp when we give him his meds together: sweet baby, perfect angel, patron saint of tolerating yucky medicine 😇💊✨️

Kill recreational nihilism — wherever it comes from, whatever ideological mask it happens to be wearing. Do not engage in it. Do not indulge it. It makes you weak and it makes you stupid. If you haven't found meaning in something, don't make the void you have chosen everyone else's problem.

The horrors persist, but so does soup 🥣

Feeling very besieged lately! My usually endless stores of optimistic whim have been depleted! Feeling kinda assailed by comprehensible man-made horrors! There is a chink in the armor of my silliness and life exploits it! My cup no longer runneth over, which bodes ill for me, indeed! Alas, we ball!

3 baddies with the power of music? sign me up #kdh #ffx2

I knew we would be learning a lot when we got a cat. I did not know that a lot of that learning would be about the pharmacokinetics/dynamics of different antibiotics and heart disease meds in cats.

Watching a movie on Kanopy for free because I have a library card which is also free. Folks, if this ain’t livin

The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.

1. They want to split CDC into: - an empowered institution that gathers data from the states, which should set off alarm bells, not just because of what else I'm about to tell you, but because O'Neill is a Thiel guy, and Palantir is currently building the great database to end freedom

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

You can’t make $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts and then try to deny that millions of people will lose their health insurance. Just like you can’t create massive tariffs and then try to deny that it’s raising prices on families. Reality doesn’t care about your political delusions.

There is a creature curled up next to me and now I can't get up for snacks. This is a suffering I willingly endure.

when the girlies ask for a fish with legs

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

It’s fine to say “y’all.” Tis a cromulent word.

Leant our neighbor a screwdriver for a few days while she's moving out and she returned it with snacks her dad brought from China. Asked if there was something similar I could get locally and was informed the specific brand is from her hometown and not sold internationally 🥲

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Haha," said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. “Hahaha. Fuck."

Mystical Library 👑📚 #art

It's hard when it's not Stew Weather. I feel pickles of various kinds would have featured highly. Nice and crisp and cool.

Tubing~

Spent the day suffering the consequences of sleeping on my neck wrong because I didn't want to wake the cat after he fell asleep on my arm. I will make this mistake again.

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.