Happy Halloween! Josie doesn’t mind costumes when treats are involved

Without saying Voltron, what is your favorite giant robot? My first love of course.

New foster baby

Bonded pairs are the best

“Why bring home cheap branded plushies from conferences?” My cats:

Josie discovered the toilet has water in it. She also discovered that discovering that results in a bath.

Brother is the best pillow

Josie is a dignified girl

Nimbus likes to snuggle Merida when she’s in her hide under the blanket moods

Josie is too tiny for even the smallest collar we could find

Your cute kitten picture for today

Josie and Nimbus

So if you couldn’t tell we are keeping the current foster babies and have renamed them. They’re so cute. We will foster more kittens after they’re settled in and fixed.

Kittens are very flexible

Nimbus is so cute

Josie and Nimbus are cuddle buddies and budding lap cats

Boo and Roo the current foster babies

Our first bottle baby grew up: www.azhumane.org/adopt/#A808795

The books Poison Squad by Deborah Blum and Unleaded by Carrie Nielson and the USCSB youtube channel should all be required in high school, and of anyone who wants to eliminate regulations.

We have foster kittens. I have slightly fragile skin.

New fosters! They need names

Alice finds niq’s wheelchair very comfy

Merida

Because why should a concert ever start on time.

This game is so pretty. Also full of great plot, a solid questline, and challenging but not impossible minigames/platforming

You can tell how cold the room is by how compact the cat is.

This is me. I love tea, I love good tea, but on days when even 5 minutes standing is a trial, it’s got to be bagged tea. POTS is just like that sometimes.

perhaps you could use a purring kitty, bluesky? Ivan is here to help.

Ivan also works as a laundry press

Loaf pan

Ivan makes a great footrest.

Alice likes to be tall.

Current feelings on the US: youtu.be/cTIPjmGXYDA?...

Fall challenge plot in Palia coming along.

Substack posts seem to be easier to share than threads so here’s my take on the scary plasma cell paper that just came out in Nature Medicine: open.substack.com/pub/deplatfo...

Blue Ridge Public Radio has a vetted list of orgs to donate to: www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

Accommodations, a thread: So, I'm an academic librarian. I'm also disabled. Many years ago I went to an Ivy league school for undergrad. Science required credit, I wanted to take astronomy. I love it. Classes in an ancient building on floors with no elevator. What were school proposed solutions?

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #854,243!

At ALA annual and there’s of course lots of AI talk and boy are so many avoiding answering what the hallucination rate is

Ah, that special experience of seeing an interesting place to eat, going there all excited. And then not being able to go in because the entrance is stairs and there’s no sign about access. But wait! A ramp! To a locked door. Guess we’ll eat elsewhere.

This is a lovely morning read, full of scorn and some really imaginatively written violence.

Multiple days of sitting through jackhammering in the living room (which I work from!). Worth it to finally have the most important part done.

Miles thinks work should be done for the day

I need to go to bed but they’re cute

She’s waiting for Miles to move so she can have lap.

Embodiment is a mistake. I miss being able to decorate the house in a weekend and not need to sit down every 10 minutes.

The problem with being executive function for multiple other people is sometimes that leaves very little left for my own shit.

Miles is a cuddle bug