Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

Again: trans people are a very small minority. If your *KNEEJERK* reaction when you encounter these rare & beautiful butterflies is *ANYTHING* other than “What can I do to make your life a little brighter?” you need to interrogate yourself. Impede the life of trans ppl & you’re in danger, from me. ❤️

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Updating my LEGO White House

Love this nerdy account… mostly boring complaints about broken coffee makers, but occasionally you get a real gem

Someone needs to air this as a Super Bowl ad

Bare minimum for a conversation: Shaka when the walls fell, Temba his arms wide, Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, Darmok at rest.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Last Exit To Springfield, Marge vs The Monorail, Homer Loves Flanders, Cape Feare, Itchy & Scratch Land, Bart Gets An Elephant, Homie The Clown, Lemon of Troy, You Only Move Twice and Who Shot Mr. Burns.

Cute sleeping kitty #whiskerwednesday

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

Back when I was cool, my nickname was H-Bomb.

Today’s #whiskerwednesday find the cat challenge, mirror edition.

On this #whiskerwednesday, I challenge you to find the catouflaged cat.

Captain Cat in my sweater drawer #caturday

It shouldn’t be a surprise by now that most of the first targets for this admin — humanitarian work, social services, education — disproportionately employ (and support!) women and underrepresented groups. The cowards think we are weak and that they can get away with it. We cannot let them be right.

The IRC was founded in the 1930s, partly at the urging of Albert Einstein, to help Jews who were fleeing Hitler's Germany. For almost a hundred years they've been helping the most vulnerable humans on Earth. Today they sent all their donors this email. Trump is a cancer on the world.

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

The Captain had a long week too #caturday

Just a normal day, letting my kid watch Indiana Jones movies so he knows who the bad guys are

For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc

Hello Bluesky! Quick intro: I’m a marketing technologist working for Rescue.org, remotely from Kansas City. Past lives: Russian scholar, rockstar, NYC, SF. Have a nice husband, a 9 yo son and here’s our new cat, Captain Emerald.

If you haven’t already, take the time to read this. It is a remarkable, luminous account of what it means to fall through what remains of our society’s safety net - and describes how most of us probably aren’t as far from suffering the same fate as we might hope

Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...