American politics could definitely do with more (intentionally) silly political parties.

Happy National Cat Day! Tabitha is celebrating by getting stoned out of her tiny kitten mind.

dick move by NASA to make the astronauts come back after they went through so much effort to get away from us

We invite you to treat yourself to the healing power of watching a rescued baby goat boinging around.

‘Cause if there’s a readership fantasy and sci-fi historically haven’t catered to, it’s men!

Today in Important Housecat Milestones, husband spent two hours building a cat tree for Tabitha that she has proceeded to almost completely ignore.

He is risen

He took the wheel

Our little obligate carnivore found an ossified curly fry yesterday. We also could not persuade her to drop it.

Community paint day is open to all! We'll have the wall prepped with paint by numbers, & have sidewalk chalk for the little guys who may not want to touch paint. Philly tree people will also be there planting trees around around the perimeter of the school & there will be vendors! luma.com/o89g7h05

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

A local writing group sent out their prank early about a “new initiative” centered on a bunch of book titles with cheese puns, and that is about the level of prank I am here for.

I cannot let the implication that I would EVER forget 17776 stand but if somehow it passed you by please read it, and also here’s an essay about it I commissioned

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

Today in Important Housecat Milestones, Tabitha has discovered the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the laser pointer.

*jingles sadly astride my mighty steed*

If the effects of war could be felt only on the people who want the war, we’d live in a much safer world.

All PPD’s women & PPD’s men, couldn’t get Gritty’s bike running again.

Happy Jewish American/Irish American Unity Week! (With deep love for any baffled people in Ireland)

Based on the picture I am significantly happier about this insect’s discovery than it is :<

I don't care if Monday's bad Tuesday, Wednesday, makes me sad Thursday how'd I get this mad it's Friday I'm online 🎶

Confirmed ICE sightings at the Ambler (R5) train station in MontCo this morning. Please stay safe. 🔔

We lost one of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st century 11 years ago today. Crack open "Small Gods" in his memory, or any other of his books. They are all masterpieces.

Today in Important Housecat Milestones, Tabitha finally understands toys enough to have identified a favorite. Which of course she promptly lost in a location we will probably not be able to locate until we decide to move.

A Texas woman spent 22 years of her life behind bars for a terrible crime she didn’t commit, finally was released & exonerated, but b/c the wrongful conviction destroyed her legal status, she’s now set to be deported. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

This is a fantastic development and long overdue. Wonderful news!

Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept

you were pokemon going to panopticon dystopia, whether you realized it or not

Since I can’t quote the original post, @ponder719.bsky.social just finished our returns using FreeTaxUSA and is about as happy as anyone can be in regard to doing taxes.

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving. here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!

As someone who grew up on NBC Washington reports, I find this pretty darn disappointing.

This Pirkei Avot quote helps me feel a little less like I have to solve everything (it’s literally been thousands of years of people feeling overwhelmed!) and it cracked me up when someone stuck it on the pics of the tiny backhoe trying to dig out the EverGiven ship when it got stuck.

Nooooo. 🙁 billypenn.com/2026/03/06/z...

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today. www.propublica.org/article/dill...

I knew I’d like this without even clicking, but I didn’t expect it to also provide a compelling theory for why I have a hard time getting into contemporary literary fiction so much of the time.

If you can, donate to queer/trans rights groups in red states!! There are so many queer people in red states who need our supoort, and who can't leave. I left Texas for a blue state last year, but still donate monthly to Equality Texas: they fight tirelessly for queer Texans.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

Hey Philly! I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city. Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible. Please help us spread the word! Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

The stupid thing about social media arguments about social media is that everyone who has them is a 40 year old arguing about which site frequented by 7% of the population is more relevant, meanwhile everyone under 25 is on something called Blooble inventing new words to scare us with

This guy was the most Philly guy ever. Local hero. Icon. I used to live on Rodman by the Magic Gardens. This is terrible news.

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala