Huge news, it’s Archie & Greg’s first adoptaversary! Last year on Mother’s Day we told my family we were ready to adopt, and my brother pointed me to @crits4cats.org. And on May 17, 2025 we brought home our boys!

This cat is so fuckin big.

Archie is finally old enough to read to read his namesake’s zine. (When we adopted him from @crits4cats.org his name was Jorts Junior)

huge news: Greg fully snuggled in my lap!! We knew he was capable because @crits4cats.org has photos of him in laps but it finally happened for me!!! I’m over the moon

The only man allowed to yell at me

Just wanted to get on here and share pictures of my baby boys but I’ve already seen far too many horrors. Here are the boys anyway

He’s still a fan of this move 🥰

Greg is getting cozier by the day. He recently discovered that this bed is heated (!) and he’s quite pleased about it.

I love logging on and not having any idea what any of the discourse is about.

Greg was very brave and friendly at a little family gathering this weekend. He was also very committed to being the cutest little thief (don’t worry, we were monitoring more closely than it appears) @crits4cats.bsky.social

🚨folks…Archie just jumped up and made himself comfortable in my arms for the very first time. I’m crying, and obviously screaming internally. I have been waiting for this moment 😭💗🥹 @crits4cats.bsky.social

one minute of Archie purrs @crits4cats.bsky.social

Jimmy, 2011-2025. It doesn't feel real yet. If you see this, please give your animal companions a little extra snuggle tonight.

Things about Archie (fka JJ): chompy, puffiest tail, bathroom supervisor, always lets me remove his eye goop, fav spot:top of tree Things about Greg (fka baby ruth): cryptid, likes it when i use really high baby voice, extremely busy, countenance of perpetual shock, fav spot: shadow realm/cave bed

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

died as he lived (talking out the side of his neck)

finally got COVID! so far it sucks!

It’s honestly so cool to be able to scroll back and read about the little boys’ lives before they joined our fam. @crits4cats.bsky.social did so much great work, you wouldn’t even know Archie had some issues. He’s so secure and chill and good

Jimmy and Greg (aka Gorg, aka Gorse, aka little shadow cryptid man) remain…at odds! Archie remains a perfect baby angel blessing from heaven

He is still quite a shapely guy

Introducing new cats has been hard, but it doesn’t feel fully impossible anymore 🥹 Jimmy is just watching the little boys watch the birds.

if you run a busted neighborhood ice cream truck: 1) thank u, love u 2) please have some way that you tell me you’re coming around soon. put it online or text me or SOMETHING. I’m simply too stressed to deal with the added suffering of watching the truck drive by before anyone can put on pants

when i look at the news i get about 90 seconds before my limbs go numb! cool time to be alive!

LOOK AT HIM i love him

I’ve had the honor of knowing some feline cardboard artists in the past. I’m excited to nurture Greg’s creativity in this arena.

Archie is ON DUTY.

greg is less scared every day

I got a hidey cave bed for Greg hoping he would like feeling all secure in there and right after I left the room he went in it 🥹

Friends of Herc: frenship club membership requires you to contact your senators and let them know they need to vote against the reconciliation bill that aims to keep trans people from accessing lifesaving care.

Soooo, we brought these guys home yesterday and everything is going super well so far! JJ is so sweet and already purring for me. Ru is still hiding from us, but we can see him exploring on the privacy-violating kitty cam we set up. Resident Cat Jimmy is...unbothered?

Fat Cat seems to be a little lonely without Werny and tbh we are also not used to a 1 animal household. Sooooo we are meeting some potential new companions this weekend. I’m very anxious about it but also excited

Herc’s Mean Cat Brother, Werny, died at home this morning. He was probably ~16 years old. It had been clear for a while that his time was winding down. He was my friend for nearly 13 years…I barely know how to be an adult without him. We already miss him so much. He had a great life 💜

I'm pretty convinced no one but me watched The Brini Maxwell Show (circa 2005) but I think about her all the time and it is a CRIME that there were only a couple seasons.

I’m reporting to you from 2025 as a person watching Drag Race for the very first time and what the FUCK is this filter over the whole show? Is this what we were doing in 2009? Everything is blurry and awful

today @guitarsanta.bsky.social told me he's going to try reading books now that he's taking a step back from doomscrolling. i'm so excited! maybe we can even read a book together???? maybe a smutty baseball book heheheh

one thing that sucks shit about job searching is you gotta try not to get even the tiniest bit excited about any opportunity because probably you'll just get an auto rejection in like 2 weeks

I’m not even close to having a job but I AM already crying about the concept of being at work in some dank office when my old ass cat dies.

Personally, and I’m a little biased, I think someone should email me and offer me a job.

Okay so i do have a BA in poli sci from a top 50 liberal arts college and what that makes me uniquely qualified to say is that it doesn't fuckin matter

i sure hope no one goes off their drugs and does something silly

wow, really feeling my terrible lack of a rotund dog butt this morning

i'm so scared. for all the global event reasons and the unemployment reasons. i miss good twitter and the community of herc's friends. i'm trying to do all the things to take care of myself and keep it together but boy howdy my brain is telling me unsavory shit rn

something people on the Left need to internalize is that you have to commit to the long game. this commutation is the result of DECADES of persistence you have to commit to struggle for struggle’s sake and accept that “results” may not be seen in your lifetime. embrace selflessness and do the work.

linkedin on mlk day is so so so cursed!!!!!

so far Moby Dick is really good. This mf said “uh oh I’m spending too much time window shopping at the coffin store, better go to sea!” And you know what, hell yeah

job searchers are braver than the troops.

happie holiday from ghost herc. Heck to Santa

my DAD was a polio survivor and he might still be alive if not for the long term effects! i can't believe how absolutely hosed we are right now.