My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

I had no idea so many animals consider Christmas trees a tasty snack!

When u buy books new, buy them from Firestorm! You'll get a cute bookmark and even sometime surprise stickers! Firestorm is the best!

Agree, and also, I think specifically if you are blaming tiktok and influencers for why your kids won't talk to you, you are taking any chance you may have had at repairing the relationship out back and shooting it in the head

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

Toddler is in their scissors and musicals era. Aka their favorite activity is just cutting up stuff with scissors (y'all cannot even imagine the amount of tiny paper scraps my house is littered with), they sing all their big feelings (I love this part and I will be devastated when they outgrow it)

Until we reckon with the fact that trans women's lives and bodies and experiences actually matter, that they actually tell us something about how violence happens on a SYSTEMIC level and is erased and offloaded on a SYSTEMIC level, then we will never get rid of intimate and family violence at all

Something I almost never talk about bc it seems like no one other than trans women care is that when we talk about being survivors of CSA, abuse, IPV, all the violences...people don't care. Or they think it's funny. Or we're like, "exaggerating." It's not REAL abuse. Like if a REAL woman was abused

One of the cats used my face as a head rest for a little while this morning, so honestly my day has been perfect, no notes

other way around in my case

law enforcement across the country does it all the time, always under the banner of "helping." it does not help that many law enforcement agencies rely on the ideas that girls have a form of stockholm syndrome and thus NEED to be arrested to be saved.

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

everyone should read sharma's home rule and adopt her framework of people as *migrantized* by the world nation-state system, like how people are *criminalized* by state justice systems, to mark them as undesirable and disposable, targets for policing, trafficking, confinement, and liquidation

Trump is building the infrastructure of a police state. People marked as "migrants" are its first and foremost targets. But anyone who thinks "citizens" will also not end up in these national gulags is not facing reality.

Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.

If I make 125k a year I'd *happily* see some of that money go to Preschool For All. Fuck, I wish that's what some of my damn taxes went to now. Do I want to pay more taxes? No, I'm fucking poor, but if they're going to take my fucking money the least they could do is spend it on non-evil shit

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Jack De Quidt once said that the only real benefit to Fahrenheit is how it allows people to measure heat in a way that feels *emotionally* correct. for example, "it must be 100° outside!" versus "it is a scorching 38° outside." you don't really need to explain how hot 100 feels. it feels 100 hot

The metric system makes more sense overall but Americans are correct on floor naming conventions and temperature. “I’m on floor 0” No. You are on floor 1.

i accept

lubna and her children need food and medicine 🖤

In case anyone was wondering how long after first wearing their first piece of custom clothing my toddler came up with a detailed list of items they want me to make for them it was bedtime of the same day

Toddler: "if they made a meat cereal I would be so excited!" Me: "that's pretty much what dog food is, actually"

Taking up sewing (a time intensive hobby) as a person without a lot of free time has been kinda good for me in a weird way, actually

Yes! We play the “good migrant” vs “bad migrant” or “good citizen” vs “bad citizen” game at our collective peril.

US supreme court blocks Trump bid to deploy national guard to Chicago In a 6-3 decision, the high court sided with a lower court ruling that blocked deployment of troops to the Illinois city www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dudes Rock

I wish that all of the US journalists who just started covering the issues around CECOT since Trump returned to power cited some of the Salvadoran journalists who have been covering it for years

Good news guys, they brought the quesarito back, everything will be ok!

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

weissand effect

Anyway, back to my regularly scheduled "being kinda bad at Canva, but in a silly way"

Lmao, ok, so apparently Keen's abusive ex is STILL running her mouth about me (which is hilarious bc I think I recall her accusing her survivor of being "obsessed" with her bc they were still talking about the abuse several months after the break up 🤔)

mfw watching "people over profits" become the slogan of people who want to help Nazis create the new cyber-panopticon where you have to surrender identification in order to use the internet at all while labouring under the delusion that this will somehow screw Big Tech

Dude, Mexican feminism just hits so differently. I'm looking at the website for Red Nacional de Refugios (mexico's national network of DV shelters) and they just have a quote from Simone de Beauvior on the front page

I have a lil hobby now 🤷‍♂️

in this respect it is the direct successor of the "false memory" and "parental alienation" movements, down to the specific individual pseudoscientists they cite as authorities

Bring back cars with buttons and knobs

New research finds that car touchscreens are so distracting that they induce "significant performance degradation" among drivers. Meanwhile, in-vehicle touchscreens remain completely unregulated in the US. doi.org/10.1145/3746...

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

This is amazing because it encapsulates two core characteristics of Trumpism: 1) the deep conviction that children are parental property; 2) a profound unwillingness to adjust one’s behaviour in order to live with others

let's go girls we're dissociating Chandrilan style

you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do

I’m exhausted

the child's body is the archetypal site of legitimate violence etc etc

Hilariously, we have created a commerce model where it’s increasingly impossible to buy something locally today, but you can have nearly anything on earth delivered tomorrow.

oppressed classes throughout history from women to slaves to the colonized have been analogized to children as a paternalist rationale for their subjugation

If you interview the kids you will find out exactly why the estrangement happened

Give Him Polio