If my BlueSky experience is an echo chamber, at least it's an echo chamber that says "Change is possible," "This is how we win," and "Look at my cat."

i love how people always forget that theres absolutely a scam that will work on them and then get all high and mighty about anyone who fell for a scam they wouldnt fall for

I am 30-40 years old, and too old for this shit. (A crowded bar)

It’s really frightening.

I've wasted the first really beautiful day of the year, and now I have Saturday scaries.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

It has been a day

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

Caturday

I told you I was on the case yesterday and here is the proof:

Just think in 100 years family heirlooms will be garbage from amazon with brand names like TFANYKO

My first employer - standing up for democracy by closing for 2 hours for the No Kings Rally. ❤️ Them.

How Bluesky feels on a #NoKings Day ☺️

Hey no biggie but if you watch the new Harry Potter show you aren't my friend.

Today I did the thing I was putting off for a month. It took me less than 5 minutes to fill out an online form. This will not help my future anxiety.

just fyi folks but in Vermont last night they illegally took three people while claiming a warrant there was a warrant for a whole other person and then when folks would not give way, they gassed us w local & state visibly collaborating with ICE www.sevendaysvt.com/news/immigra...

UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

You know what's fun, feeling like a fraud and I'm not sick enough to waste the doctor's time with an appointment, but then almost leaving the house without my glasses and nearly getting in a car accident on the way in because I'm half delirious.

I read two books this weekend

Oh hello

What an amazing love letter to Puerto Rico

My lungs are incredibly unhappy with this cold air - I went to the grocery store hours ago and I'm still having asthma symptoms.

Meanwhile in Holyoke

representative of the sisyphean task of home cleaning, curling is a memento mori

Re-reading Hunger Games- no reason.

Vermont had a rule that you couldn't have whole milk served in public schools back from when fat was bad for you. They just reversed it to "support dairy farms" but I really don't think they're going to convert more people to drinking milk who weren't doing it already.

Once again propped myself up and forced myself through a FULL week, and then fell so all-the-way-apart that I got sick as soon as I had downtime.

I’m not tired because I worked hard. I’m tired because I had to keep turning my real thoughts into polite and acceptable dialogue all day.

My BIL just honestly asked me if I'm excited for season 2 of Mr. Beast games. We live very different lives.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I love reading. in fact I love reading so much, that I will re-read the same paragraph 10 times over, in an attempt to pay enough attention to register it properly

And judging from the promo tonight, they played a story about, checks notes, hiking to Everest basecamp instead. Timely!

Depression? Evidence: 1. Not able to find the energy to do things I like doing: I baked zero Christmas cookies this year. I can't seem to read a book (only other time this happened was mid-2020).

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

I survived the work holiday party tonight.

So apparently my old house burned down today? That's fucked.

Every year, I forget that the holiday season f-ing breaks people. And then late November/December rolls around, and surprise! everyone falls apart, and sometimes it kills you.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

I keep eating them first thing in the morning and biggest one first, but it really feels like there have been more frogs to eat than usual.

ever since I was a little boy I wanted to check a box to receive email updates about new products and sales

Happy “Unsubscribe” to Black Friday deal emails, to all who celebrate!

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

....And I think I'm getting a cold

Trump is Mr. New York - Mandami is his mayor too?

Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender

I am full body itchy!