At least we have neighbors whose government isn’t actively trying to overthrow science. And democracy.

War crimes are real. Just in case any members of the military are wondering. I myself would really hate to be in a position where I had to refuse an illegal order, and I just hope I’d have the courage to follow through with the refusal. I hope that for our current men and women in uniform.

Luna vocalizes as the wet food approaches. Note that the yellow tennis ball is not hers. It’s the dog’s. The dog never plays with it. We put it up on the cat tree so nobody would sprain an ankle on Thanksgiving. #Caturday #lunakitty #catsky

Kind of covers all the bases here.

Luna guilt-trips the human by sitting sadly next to her empty food bowl. #Caturday Eve.

Translation: "PLEEEEASE forget about the EPSTEIN FILES!"

In the wake of the senseless deployment of National Guard troops to the District of Columbia, which resulted in traffic and pointless deaths, this video seems extra important.

That is exactly what it is.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Is it just me or is Amazon Prime streaming of #Warriors vs #Nuggets game absolutely abysmal? Checked internet speed, it’s fine. Ads are streaming with total clarity. But the stream has been a stuttering, jerking buffery mess. What up, #Amazon?

The NY Times continues to cover itself in glory …

Putting the public back in public health. Gonsalves argues that the “rapacious, extractive, and exploitative system” of American life has been making us sick for decades (strongly agree!) and proposes mass organizing to expand the brief of public health.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

“We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price” —NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

#Mamdani is SLAYING this speech! I haven’t felt this good about a political speech maybe…ever? Kick off with Eugene Debs, and just keep laying down truth after truth, this fucking slaps. #NYCMayor #NewAgeinPolitics

Despite billionaires spending obscene amounts of money and the Trump regime putting the entire weight of its propaganda machine behind slandering Mamdani, he still won, because we, the people, will always be more powerful than them. They want us to believe they’re inevitable—the truth is: we are.

Quoting Eugene Debs in your victory speech is another thing that sounds great to me. #Zohran #Mamdani #NYCMayor #mandateforchange

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI! Damn I like the sound of that.

How long can you leave your #halloween ghouls up before the suburban neighbors start giving you side-eye in the street? Asking for me. I’m sad Halloween is over because I just got my ghouls done the day before.

I am super-duper tired of the self-appointed food police weighing in on what poor people should or shouldn’t be buying w/SNAP benefits. And also of billionaires avoiding consequences for all their crimes, always. And also of billionaires existing, in general. Billionaire=immoral. Period.

Luna likes to show off the #murdermittens for #caturday

Made some ghouls, sang a little song about it.

Fuzzy dog not impressed by spooky skull. #halloween #halloweendogs #havanese #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #timelinecleanse

I’m running out of laughs on the “laugh so you don’t cry” menu but this is good.

Luna kitty works it on the couch for #caturday

Am escaping my current unpleasant reality by immersing myself in Hemlock & Silver by @tkingfisher.com, who’s rapidly becoming my favorite living author. The highlighted sentence was a bolt of pure glee and a balm to the spirit. Thanks, T. #bookssaveme #booksky #hemlockandsilver

Recycling my protest penguin from earlier #nokings demo. #Chronicillness is keeping me home today, but please go out and make good trouble, safely.

Ha! I love this to bits. #nokings

This has to stop

Hoping weather is cool enough on Saturday to wear this to #nokings. In Spanish, “La derecha oprima, la izquierda libera” is “righty-tighty, lefty-loosey,” but literally it’s “the right oppresses, the left liberates.” (Yes the left can oppress, but that’s not what I’m most worried about right now)

I just saved myself $144 a year and stopped supporting a company that allows recruitment for fascism. Yay! #winwin #cancelspotify

Best scenery in Chicago

Things have been hard AF lately. I lost someone who was extremely dear to me, suddenly, no chance to say goodbye. And also there is this tabby, asking for pets with a giant extended murder mitten. #mixedbag #lifeishard #lifeisamazing

You might think from looking at this picture that the fluffy white dog has exhausted herself chasing the tennis ball next to her. This would not in fact be true.

If this was in fact a federal agent — and who can tell? Uniforms? ID? — than it is a violent assault on an unarmed , nonviolent civilian— again— and there needs to be accountability.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Timeline cleanse: fluffy oscillating pupper.

Please show me your #warravagedportland photos.

Well, we see the side that mainstream media outlets are taking. Totally acceptable to preach genocide, homophobia and the necessity of gun violence. Not acceptable to mention that the victim of one of America’s recent gun violence incidents was a hateful, harmful, hypocritical bigot.

Yes. Friendship can help stop you from doing lots of antisocial stuff, like becoming a billionaire and fucking up the planet.

Kat Abu is the real deal. Vote for her in Illinois 9th District! And stand up to ICE wherever you are.

This feels like it’s worth a repost …

“We interrupt news of this shooting to bring you news of another shooting. Don’t be sad about the second shooting though, it was just some kids at a school. Be sad about the first guy, an adult man who encouraged shooting kids at schools“

If there are going to be gun deaths as the cost of having the Second Amendment, I can think of many worse gun deaths to have.

Just gonna leave this here.

Deliveristas are taking home more money per hour. Delivery app companies are getting more orders than ever. New data from @hellodcwp.bsky.social proves that NYC’s minimum pay laws are working.⬇️