they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Desperately filling my cup for a few days so I have the mental and emotional energy to keep going.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

No matter how many awful things come out of this White House, you can organize your community at the state and local level to fight back against the oligarchy. Kudos to everyone who organized and won against Big Tech last year. Let’s keep up the fight this year and beyond.

It's a really scary time. Our president is rattling sabers across the globe. Government thugs are shooting people in the streets. This is a good week to go to a meeting in your community, in person if possible. Be with others and remember: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Happy #Caturday because I haven't really stopped being in a bad mood since before Thanksgiving and every time I get online to catch up on the world, it's non-stop awful.

The grief is immense. Our movements grow. May the joys we tend sustain us. ✨✨✨ My “Sustain Us Solstice” design for this year. Wishing you all an easeful and nourishing winter solstice! 💚

Northwest Stream Center is an enjoyable visit. I love the little creek viewing tanks. They've still got living Christmas trees available, which can be returned and planted to support local watershed, plus they come with a membership to the center. #snohomishcounty

This #Caturday is brought to you by ✨biiiiig stretch✨ #blackcats #catsofbluesky

This #Caturday is brought to you by ✨chair demons✨

Finished first batches of Christmas cookies. Clockwise: Caramel latte shortbread - perfect, no notes Maple apple butter walnut - can only taste walnut but I'm not remaking them again Ube crinkles - bake issues, needs extract not just halaya Iced ginger molasses - perfect, no notes #cookieparty

Same recipe, top is unsulphered molasses, the bottom is blackstrap. Wee bit of difference in dough temperature caused the variation in texture. Taste nearly the same. #cookieparty

Normally I would have at least one good batch of each Christmas cookie recipe done by now, but my test batches have been garbage this year. The ube crinkles are finally done - didn't come out great, but I'm not remaking them again! And caramel latte shortbreads are done! #cookieparty

It has been a day, and it's not over. Got the cheap brie from Costco so it is a delicious dinner for 1 ahead of several meetings this evening. Bonus #blackcat #catsofbluesky

Who else is excited for COOKIE WEEK? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/d... #cookieparty @eileen4ever.bsky.social

Thanksgiving bakes - pumpkin cinnamon rolls for breakfast, garlic dinner rolls, and apple pie. The teen helped with the rolls and pie, especially the decorations! One of the best Thanksgiving meals ever tbh. #bakingsky #secularpiethursday #breadsky

Holiday baking prep today. Local apples to be used for cookies, cakes, and pies. Mostly right now I'm cooking some down into a sauce with whiskey to be used in whiskey apple hazelnut cake, which is the most delicious cake I've ever eaten and my new Christmas tradition.

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

My fuchsia has given more blooms at the end of November. #flowerreport

I just checked, and after almost 20 years of paying student loans, we're finally under 100k in debt. Big thanks to Biden narrowly getting through the dismissal of a huge chunk of debt my spouse was saddled with from a school found guilty of fraud, elminating about 25k. 🎉

Leftover Halloween M&M cookies, which were consumed while watching a Christmas movie, 2 weeks before Thanksgiving 🙃 #cookieparty

Every single ad I've ever seen for AI anything shows people I don't ever want to be like doing the dumbest, most mundane tasks that could have just as easily been accomplished without AI. It's because it's being crammed down our throats by these whackjobs.

Would you be willing to testify in support of Washington's wildlife? The WDFW Commission meeting is 11/13-15 where you have the opportunity to lend your voice for our endangered and at-risk wildlife across the state and Puget Sound.

Let’s all get each other pitchforks for Christmas

This #Caturday is brought to you by ✨attack mode✨ #blackcats #catsofbluesky

When your teenager asks you to make Hungry Caterpillar cookies, you have a Very Hungry Caterpillar #cookieparty

For almost 15 years I worried about being pulled over in the carpool lane while having kids in the back seat. It finally happened this evening, which is weird considering my 11yo is 5'7 and definitely not hard to see.

This morning I went for a lovely walk in the woods. Then after the house emptied & the rain started dumping this afternoon, I turned on some jazz, got a soda cake in the oven, did some crafting while it baked & now enjoying it with nettle tea. Best Halloween ever! #bakingsky #samhain

Refuse Fascism Friday is still happening tomorrow! Yes on Halloween. Yes in the rain. Need a last minute weather appropriate costume? I got you.

Hmmm. Reminds me of the massive corporations raking in BILLIONS that “can’t afford” to pay us a living wage. 🤔

Pumpkin time! Fizzy had to check on how the excavation was going. #blackcats #catsofbluesky #halloween #samhain

Pot pie soup because I couldn't be bothered to make pie, with cheddar buttermilk biscuits. It was damn good eating. 🍜🍽️

Realistic Halloween decor, take 2. We've been trying to get Fizzy into the cauldron for the last month and she just wouldn't stay put, even after dumping catnip in it. I just looked over and there she was, sitting perfectly. #blackcats #catsofbluesky

Brown sugar buttermilk cookies with vanilla glaze. They tasted kind of like scones, bit dry, not too sweet. #cookieparty

I love getting a CSA box for the things I wouldn't normally buy otherwise. A scramble with the usual bacon and onions, but including chanterelles, watermelon radish, and heirloom tomatoes on top, with a little provolone 🍜🍽️ And a giant cup of coffee ☕

Looking at the 10 day forecast and seeing little rain cloud icons across the board makes me so damn happy.

I love the way the mossy branches bend.

It was a busy day and I am so sore this morning 🥲

Gorgeous sunrise in Snohomish county to start the day for No Kings 2

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I miss Oregon.

Whidbey weekend adventure with my absolute favorite weather. I could stand for it to be a bit colder and a bit windier tbh. You will never, ever hear me complain about grey skies and rain.

In an ongoing effort to not rely on the internet for everything, we've been thrifting old cookbooks we'll actually use. I picked up this baby today, and let it be known, brownies and bars count! #cookieparty

Going to a new specialist with 2 pages of notes because I'm so tiiiiired of not being taken seriously and having my issues brushed off.

I was going to make pumpkin cinnamon rolls for Sunday breakfast, but time wasn't on my side so pumpkin biscuits! With pumpkin spice whipped cream cheese. I botched the bake again so they're flat, but tasted amazing 😍 #baking #bakesky

My baby is 15! And I didn't mess up the cake! Well, technically I did, and had to remake it with a box mix for time, but the decorating doesn't look terrible, so I'm still counting it. #baking #bakesky

Realistic Halloween decor Late #caturday #blackcats #catsofbluesky

I had some Hwy 20 adventures this weekend.

Vanilla with chocolate dip+drizzle #cookieparty and banana protein mousse

Shedding a happy tear of relief for 7 days of rain in the forecast 🥲 I need all these people who bitch about not having enough sun west of the Cascades to take their bad attitude back to wherever they're from.