Chronic insomnia sometimes means foggy walks at 3:09am.

Photographers at the flats were complaining about this guy spending too much time perching. “I have ten thousand perching photos!” But they aren’t just perching. They’re listening for rustling in the grass. They scan the sky for potential prey poachers. They’re doing owl survival stuff. 🪶

I've been refusing to look at my phone for more than the time for the first hour after I wake up and it does help.

I'd sign up for this in a hot second if it existed.

I love good news about clean energy too, but there is only one scoreboard for climate and this is it and we are losing. This is not defeatism, this is a call to action. (via @rhg.com)

🌞🌚The Sun and The Moon have blessed us in the form of kitties. This is the only time these boys are at peace lol

Here's a threaded version of the 🚨 posts below, for easier sharing beyond this platform: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... [Note: all of the original posts by RTHM have alt text 🎉🙏]

#TimelineCleanse Here, have a snuggled up drowsy Lilac. #CatsOfBlueSky

Hellenistic gold wreath, 3rd century BC. A dazzling example of ancient goldsmithing! 🤩 From Pergamon (modern-day Bergama), Turkey. Istanbul Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

There is no virus that “only” causes serious harm in people who are high-risk. And even if there were, it would still be important to protect yourself and others. Please take steps to prevent getting and spreading illness in order to protect your own health and the health of others.

When you're living with chronic illness... learning to rest becomes critical. You must learn to slow down. If you don't listen to your body, it forces the issue. This is your reminder that it's ok to rest. It's ok to take a break. It's ok to want to protect your baseline.

Heart Failure Deaths Have Accelerated in US Since Covid Pandemic "The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."

"Real reason you're so much sicker than before: No, you're not going mad, your immune system's struggling to cope with everyday bugs." "When a peer-reviewed article in the BMJ suggested last summer that Covid may have been quietly weakening our immune systems, it passed largely unnoticed."

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Happy sleepy #Caturday from Lilac! #CatsOfBlueSKy #CatSky

9th January 2026 08.29

Another🎯🧵 by @1goodtern.bsky.social... on delayed onset "The minimisers would have you believe that every bad health condition develops immediately, symptoms of it appear immediately, medical attention is found immediately, and the condition is..." 17-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20093...

Good news for us all—but particularly for COVID safe & airborne-aware advocates. “Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient…”

Charlotte. Cowcat. Legend. Kitty with a heart shape on her head. #CowCat #CatsOfBlueSky #CatSky

turns out a lot of veterinarians are owned by Mars, the candy bar company, no joke. They have a monopoly on veterinary clinics in north america.

Good Morning. Something isn’t right. Heat records are being smashed in Eastern Europe, as far as Russia, large parts of Australia baking at over 40 deg C with accompanying bushfires, whilst a polar vortex dislocation & #StormGoretti homes in on Western Europe. Climate change has to be involved!

Do what you can to allow yourself some time, grace, and compassion. It’s important now as much as ever. Take care of yourselves out there. Notice each other. ♥️

replacing terrible useless kitchen items that you have to use three times a week with cheap but functional alternatives is one of the most underrated ways to cure ALL of life’s ills

Penultimate laundry load in, at least one surface clear, calls made. Now I just need to keep this up.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

New research finds people with ME/CFS have a striking deficiency in vasopressin - a hormone that helps the body retain water. This could explain common symptoms like constant thirst and dizziness upon standing. Let's break down the findings.

Washington is close to opening a new incentive program for commercial fleet operators to transition trucks and other vehicles to models that run on electric or hydrogen power. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/05/1...

Miscommunication is a huge trope in romantic literature for a reason. Learning how to communicate is a fucking skill. Period. And it's so much harder when emotions are on the line. And i think there's actually real harm in pathologizing this.

Lilac is a supermodel with a past. Born on the streets, she was picked up for loitering. Life on the catwalk suited and her beauty made her a legend. Good natured & dim, she's often taken advantage of by others. She loves sunshine, Charlotte and eschews catnip to keep her girlish figure.

Fiona is a medium level m*bster who has worked her way up by establishing a reputation for brutality & general bad temper. She should be considered clawed and dangerous. Repeatedly picked up for menacing and disturbing the peace. Weaknesses: toys & treats. Approach w/caution or Churus.

Charlotte is a punk rocker turned successful small business owner. Known for her tiny feet and the heart marking on her head, she divides her time between the office and the heating pad in the den. She has a compelling purr and a competitive spirit. Her worst habit is cutting in line for pets.

Stardust is a 9 yo artist whose creations & appearance rocked the fashion world. Timid and eccentric, she's been compared to Kate Bush & Twiggy for her surreal behaviour and fashion sense. Vogue asked her to pose often. Rumor has it she dated Catnip Barlow, the feather toy bootlegger.

Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above: Patient-reported improvements from use of IMC-2 alone and IMC-2 and Paxlovid® in a Long COVID cohort: a case series (Jan 4, 2026) www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm... [ FREE PDF available ]

Go outside, spend 30min, an hour, or however long it takes until you are good and ready to come inside where it is nice and temperature controlled and you can change your clothes, make yourself some tea, get a book, and realize that hanging out inside your house is really lovely. Just as it is.

I suppose I'll share some photos of my three beloved cat daughters, each one having a normal one obviously.

The report shows that solar & wind power grew faster than global electricity demand, with solar alone covering 83% of the increase and shattering records worldwide. Amidst this global rise, output from renewables overtook coal for the first time on record. www.iflscience.com/a-historic-s... #cdnpoli

4th January 2026 22.14

So, Dark Matter timeline? You know what, fine.

When will we NOT mask, you back-to-normies ask? When we have UVC light & HEPA filtered air everywhere—like we have clean water. When everyone has paid sick days & normalize staying home. When masking is required in hospitals & medical settings. Even then, some of us still have to 😷 so get over it.

untitled daily #poetry for today

Stuck in admin hell where I can find all but one of the documents I need to fill in a form.

Laundry in progress and I tidied, picking up and putting away 100 things. It almost looks like a real house these days.

Tiny conference. #Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky #CowCat

Whoops the dissonance between the horrors and banal goals and plans has arisen again

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

I'm not going to get into an indoor vs. outdoor cat debate but I want to point out that Jan - Mar is coyote mating season in North America, which means coyotes are more agitated and territorial and therefore an increased danger to outdoor cats. Make the best decisions you can for your pets, please.

🧪More good news on science advances in 2025: 1. A small clinical trial harnessing gene therapy caused a 75% decline in Huntington's disease progression. 2. The ozone layer may be healing. Scientists at MIT & Cal Tech confirmed this retrospectively. 3. We are close to removing forever chemicals.

I'm "excited about new socks" years old.