This thing gave me such a lift. Is this what drugs are like?

Hi there @repsuhas.bsky.social thanks for not voting for that dumb "Socialism is Bad" resolution today. That was really embarrassing. Please feel free to tell @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social how disappointed I am in his vote on that nonsense. Have a nice weekend!

This Mamdani/Trump presser is blowing my fuckin' mind. If you aren't watching in real time, I suggest you find it on the internet and watch it. You won't be sorry.

Update: My 10:30 call went until after noon but Clown Shoes was on it. He loves being on calls. It is really important that he shows everyone else on the call how he can fit both his paws in my mouth when I am trying to say something.

Psst. It's Friday and I am off after 1130 am until December 4! Clown Shoes is anxious about what I have planned

I have a treat for you people today! Waffles catches one of Rufus's stuffies!

update: Waffles just caught one of Rufus' stuffies (an alligator that also looks like a hotdog) THREE TIMES IN A ROW. the 4th time my throw was bad but then he caught it on the 5th throw. THIS IS UNPRESIDENTED! No picture though because I was the one doing the throwing. Gotta catch him on the cam!

Why am I so tired all the time?

Update: I did not get donuts today but as luck would have it it was just two of us in the office today. I think we'll have a full house tomorrow though....

I'm awake!

Ok light and tv are off. Listening to an audiobook biography on Lin-Manuel Miranda. Thinking about donuts tomorrow for the office.

Update: still awake.

I just asked Blueberry 🫐 about whether it is bedtime. He said I should get a job. I reminded him that I have a job, which is why I'm so tired and he just looked away. He might have rolled his eyes a little.

Quick question to the group: Is it bedtime? I'll take my question off the air.

Quick question on the back of the @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social Twitter subscribers thing--do I have this right--Twitter deactivated the sub service for creators/accounts whose subscribers weren't ALSO paying twitter for a blue checkmark? So folks needed to pay twitter in order to have a sub?

Tent isn't big enough for her bullshit. She can be an independent.

For my friends who are also members of the Two Chocolate Cakes Patreon (and members of other patreons--) Patreon seems to be down. It is not you (or me!)

You know how I like to indulge in a little AI with some of my photographs and especially with Fatniss? I can't tell if she's inhaling glitter or barfing it.

Also, Ladybug had one blind eye and one not so good ete and she was a baller. She detected my cancer.

I do not know how things will shake out but I do not believe for one hot New Baltimore minute that Youngkin has a chance at Senator with the damage he's done in service to this administration.

Have you seen Blueberry 🫐 lately? *Four pictures of Blueberry, a lynx point Siamese mix cat with white feet and blue eyes, lucking one of those paws that looks a little like a fist.

Remember that Williams-Sonoma Le Creuset cakelet pan that makes tiny little dutch oven cakelets but cost $75?? Well (in Sister Helen Voice) Good news. It was NOT at the outlet so I did not get it. BUT I SURE TURNED THAT STORE UPSIDE DOWN LOOKING FOR IT

The Lion in Winter The Lion King Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Coco

I might be misremembering but isn't it because John McCain was literally dying and there were no consequences to him voting no on scuttling the ACA?

I was watching and i thought he said that they are NOT a tax on consumers, not that he doesn't BELIEVE they are but perhaps I was just hearing what I assumed he said.

This morning I learned (and hopefully he's not lying like when he said a tariff is not a tax on American consumers) that the Treasury Secretary had to sell all his stocks in order to take that job. Who would have believed someone in this admin. would do that?

When thanking @markwarner.bsky.social and others, start telling them to demand new leadership in the Senate. If they aren't sounding the alarm, ask yourself if maybe a lot of them knew, but didn't pull the short straw. I am a skeptical Virginia voter.

Tim Kaine saying he got his first good night's sleep since Oct 1 must be because his offices don't let you leave messages.

Katy Tur who is usually a disappointment, kind of gave @kaine.senate.gov a tune up this afternoon. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

Good. Then every goddamn mealy mouthed centrist who isn't railing about this with their whole chest today can be primaried.

This is how you acknowledge that folks are mad. Not "I told you months ago and now I'm gonna be smug about it."

And another fucking thing-anyone I see saying "I told you so" and is unwilling to just let people be angry today-is getting blocked by me and the only one who gets satisfaction from that is me because I'm not some important person denying people to my pearls of wisdom but FUCK YOU.

I woke up mad and everyone is going to hear about it. Feds, and contractors in Virginia have been taking the hit for the greater good and @kaine.senate.gov just made it for nothing. The new Dem majority in Virginia better hold his feet in the fire, and support a robust primary challenge.

And yet, look at how the US, especially the Democrats, support Israel.

Tonight Democrats proved that old quip. If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like. We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.

I guess we know now why he turned all the voicemail off in his offices.

This is bullshit.

We are total naming those squishy senators The Cave Caucus and make a shitty theme song and primary every fucking one of them.

Hey @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social this sure as hell better not be you.

I was able to leave a message for @markwarner.bsky.social though. NO CAVING. NO NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS.

I just tried to leave a message at @kaine.senate.gov 's local office and his Washington office about this Schumer deal & guess what? Neither office takes messages. The only way to get a message to him is to send it via the web, which I suspect won't get read for a few days, so that's some bullshit.

Who are the squishy Senators?

Look at the difference between these two headlines. This is why I pay for The Guardian.

I am still not used to the time change a week later and that's ok. because I like these quiet hours between 530 and 730. On the agenda today: Farmers Market for apples/pears/whatnot; LOCAL hardware store for a thing to shore up the new fence (Thanks Jose!) + grocery store (Food Lion/Harris Teeter)

I sometimes have a hard time finishing good books because once they are over I can never finish them for the first time ever again, but I had trouble sleeping so I finished Remarkably Bright Creatures last night/this morning and of course, I am bereft. Yes I can read it again, but not for 1st time.

So I was sure I had seen that Trump said earlier in the day he was sending the $ to SNAP but that was a lie (no surprise but I just want confirmation) because his DOJ had no plans to comply with yet another order that hadn't even come down yet and just did an auto appeal to their besties at the SC?

Good night, farewell, aufweidershein, goodbye! I'd like to see you charged for your war crimes!

BTW Yes I worked all day today, AM was a little stressful, but we had a really nice day today- we had a good meeting with a colleague we hadn't met before, then we all had lunch together and shared factoids and then a field trip to collect colorful leaves for a project next week!

Also, did you all see the moon?