Definite uptick in Bluesky content aggregators taking legit clips regarding Minnesota from a few days or weeks ago and posting them without any sort of timestamp context, which gives the impression of them happening today, which then gets clicks. Be vigilant with what and how you share.

I did not cry at the vet, N is taking over Milton meds and fluids to give my nervous system a break, and despite his poor appetite Milton has gained weight since the last time they weighed him.

Every one of these is cracking me up and I desperately want to see a “tier list” one

There are lots of things I’m worried about for Milton’s vet visit tomorrow and unfortunately one of them is that I won’t be able to stop crying. My anxiety (? I’m not good at emotions) is so high that I seriously am losing my grip and idk how to have the “what if I can’t do this” convo w the vet

Details for the memorial ride for Alex Pretti in Chicago this weekend. - Meet at 1:15pm, Roll at 1:30pm - John Walsh Park (E end of The 606) - Route to come, we will roll @ party pace (casual, no drop) toward the VA on Damen where a memorial is set up for Alex. See you Saturday.

On the bright side, Milton has a donut instead of a cone now and it’s adorable

I know everything is horribly dangerous and awful right now but regular Americans actively loving their neighbors is so beautiful and spiritually fulfilling to see and participate in. AND ALSO it's very very funny that the right does not understand what it means to have friends and community.

Giving your cat fluids and having to go to work are not compatible. Rushed it too much this morning and started them when we was clearly antsy and sure enough he noped out halfway through. I will have to try again tonight which sucks for both of us.

This is hilarious. I have worked in marketing for professional membership associations for more than 20 years and it is known that if you send the local chapters some copy for a social post, at least one of them will copy the instructional words around the social copy too.

Poor Milton in jail *and* wearing a cone. I feel so bad 😢

I’m not gonna post every day about this but we were successful again today and somehow I ended up with the most perfect cat who purrs the whole time he’s getting his fluids. He also takes all but one of the pills voluntarily as long as they are covered in churu.

Am I the only one who had no idea it was gonna snow this much???

I wonder if Jewel knows that their app is so bad it brings total strangers together to complain about it in the crackers aisle

I did it I did it I did it yesterday was a sad, bad time with Milton, trying to get him his many meds and subq fluids. the subq in particular I really failed at. But just now I think I got close to 100ml in him and he was calm and I was (faking) calm and he even purred

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

this is true both about what is happening in Minnesota and about Milton.

Haven’t heard from the vet yet so I called and they’re waiting for his IM vet to review his bloodwork results before they will let him go home. (His IM vet only works M-Th but apparently reviews records on weekends?) IDK if they need his review b/c the results are bad or if this is routine.

I think the entire agency and every one of their enablers should be melted in the vat of acid from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and that would be a mercy.

Turn off autoplay video if you haven’t already.

Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long. We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:

Minnesota, I am awed by you. 💕

it's wild how the vet's tone of voice can make the same information sound hopeful or ominous. the IM team taking care of Milton only works M-TH so the vet who called me just now was from the ICU. She seemed so dour and had such a flat affect I thought something terrible had happened!

Lake forever problems now (pic from yesterday, I’m not leaving the house today)

Taps dripping ✅ Cabinets open ✅ Heavy curtains closed ✅ Curtains and blankets hanging in front of doors ✅ Heated mattress pad on ✅ Missing one of our space heaters ❌ (we do have others)

just talked to the vet and Milton is doing really well. his creatinine is dropping, and he is eating well so he doesn't require a feeding tube. they said we should plan to pick him up saturday.

If anyone in Chicago wants to temp foster a little greyhound lady w/ a healing broken leg, Greyhounds Only is desperate to get her out of the indoor/outdoor kennel into a warm foster home because the plate in her leg is very very cold! Honestly I'd consider it but she's not small dog or cat safe.

I think the entire agency and every one of their enablers should be melted in the vat of acid from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and that would be a mercy.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Milton made it through surgery!

nearest book p42, 2nd sentence “Even when I was a little kid, what always gripped me most about my dad’s Synanon stories was the group’s special language—terms like ”in the Game” and “out of the Game,” “love match” (meaning Synanon marriages)…” (cont in alt text)

they are starting Milton's surgery now. good vibes please.

as someone who goes to bed very early, it’s always funny to try to piece together an Event the next morning via my timeline, but it does get a little challenging when you have that guy’s name muted.

i do not recommend having two dogs die and your cat going through a major medical event that may or may not also kill him within 6 months! i am hanging on by a thread, a thread mostly made of stress hormones and maladaptive coping mechanisms by my best analysis. a breakdown is looming.

just remember folks, it can always get worse (this is a post about my personal life and mental health, not the state of things more generally)

my one and only meeting today just got rescheduled (not by me) so i took that as a sign to take PTO after all. there are around the house things i didn’t get done this weekend for obvious reasons and tackling those will be better than sitting in front of a computer unable to concentrate.

It's my understanding that Glasgow is just full of artists and their city council has said 'fuck you' to all of them. And everyone else who will have to look at that before it gets destroyed.

Milton has a blockage of unknown origin in his left ureter and needs surgery first thing tomorrow. there is no other treatment, so the alternative would be saying goodbye to our third pet in 6 months. he’s not old in cat terms and we think he deserves a fighting chance, so we’re gonna give him one.

When I lived in Europe, I would get into nice convos with various kinds of Europeans, and when I told them my Slavic-sounding surname, about 1/4 would have a physical reaction of disgust. But when they asked where exactly it came from and I said "It's Romani", more than half would simply walk away.

Milton’s bloodwork came back with super elevated kidney levels so we are now at the emergency vet awaiting likely hospitalization

because we haven’t been through enough lately, Milton isn’t eating normally (and he’s our Fat Cat who will eat anything and everything and is the reason we had to get RFID feeders) so we have to take him to the vet tomorrow.

We watched Tron:Ares tonight and it’s as bad as everyone said (great Trent Reznor/NIN soundtrack tho, which is why we watched it)

i cannot for the life of me figure out why this vlookup is working for the numbers that start with 0 (all cells formatted as text because we keep the leading 0) and not any of the others. this makes no sense! it should be comparing text strings the same way! i feel very dumb rn.

One fun symptom of perimenopause is that now when I am recovering from a respiratory virus I get phantom smells, and lemme tell you they are never good phantom smells like brownies or flowers. It's always diesel exhaust and cigarette smoke.

Have you gotten in on the Chicago food scrap dropoff program? They just added a ton of new locations. I generally compost at home in the summer and drop off in the winter and if I have more scraps than my home setup can handle. www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

snow

the less i drink the more i think people drink too much and talk about drinking too much but even Shitshow 20s Kaz and Problematic Drinker 30s Kaz would think this is stupid.

I fucking called this in my friend slack. No barista is stupid enough to put a pig drawing of any kind, even a meme, on a cup that's going to a cop.

i regret to admit that my back is killing me and it's 100% because i haven't been to the gym in 2 weeks due to illness. looking forward to getting back there except N. reports that the new years resolutioners have filled the place up and it's packed at 6am now.

i do not enjoy the jitters from the inhaler nosiree i had them last night too but she had me take 4 puffs then, i was hoping only 2 puffs wouldn't be as bad