After eight years of this fucking cat sitting on the dehumidifier and changing the settings with his butthole I finally velcroed an acrylic sheet over the controls and can at last live in peace.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I’d been saving this one for the right moment and I realized you can’t wait for the right moment, you need to make the right moment.

This doesn’t quite belong, but it’s our rescue kitty Willow’s first Xmas. She manages to climb into and into trouble whenever she can, but surprisingly she has been an angel under the tree! We left her a cleared spot to hang out and she delicately bats ornaments in between loafing. We’re shook.

For anyone looking for some seasonal entertainment this evening

Rainy day vibes.

Doctors interviewed 21 deported mothers. More than half said ICE never asked if they had children before deporting them, leaving babies and young children behind in the U.S. sanfernandosun.com/2025/12/24/d...

Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.

Very intriguing look behind the curtain of a Texas evangelical megachurch; a congregation counted in the thousands and a church putting on productions that rival Broadway is both fascinating and completely alien to me.

Merry wormsmas!

It's been 35 years since the ADA passed. Inaccessiblity remains a systemic problem at hotels across the United States.

Please enjoy this @mjgault.bsky.social read on pornographic Shrek ornaments. Yes you read that right.

Very intrigued by a local real estate listing that includes not one but TWO 'chicken coups.'

Hoping all celebrants get that last-minute Christmas gift they're been wanting! You know the one.

Wishing all billionaires a pleasant Three Ghosts

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy this musical performance.

Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.

welcome to the Second Annual Bluesky Christmas Eve Snowball Fight! please drop a take in the replies and I or someone else will be along to belligerently interpret whatever you said in the worst possible light

A thing can be medically true for you but not for someone else with the same condition let alone someone you don’t know who hasn’t provided their medical history hope this helps.

PERFECT LAST MINUTE NO SHIPPING FEES ARRIVES ON TIME CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE BELOVED HELLBITCH IN YOUR LIFE

Looking at the PGE outage map and was just fondly reminded that the city inexplicably named the road leading to the sewage plant after a much-lionized murdered former mayor like I love infrastructure as much as the next guy but yikes.

the grinch literally stole christmas. and of course Dr. Seuss, who’s always been desperate for eyeballs and clicks and ad dollars, platforms him. 🙄

Speaking of voteor suppression.

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Reminder to those checking out the ocean during breaks in the rain/wind, storm surge is a very real thing. Keep a close eye on the ocean and uh maybe consider viewing from the headlands, not the beach itself. Those waves can reach further up the shore than you think!!

Wait are there more files??? What is happening.

The largest provider of "mental health services" in the US is the injustice system, and many "mental health facilties" ostensibly focused on patient care are actually carceral.

Officially, seven people have died in ICE detention this month. Thinking about the way the Trump admin vanishes both people and data, I suspect the real number is higher.

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Thanks, I hate it.

When the DOJ stops enforcing disablity rights law, many, MANY disabled people will be losing the right/ability to vote.

'Urban renewal' is often violent colonization and this Israeli destruction of millennia of heritage is a great example of it at its worst.

Been a while since I got an email clearly meant for one of the other s.e. smiths.

Still waiting on this alleged atmospheric river!!

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social all aboard!!

I have a lot of thoughts about why people devalue romance and romance writers and have expressed those thoughts in numerous long form places but it is INCREDIBLY telling that people doubt the technical and business savvy of people who work in an extremely feminized arm of publishing.

There is ALWAYS a completely astonishing and unpredictable way for this situation to get so much worse than you ever could have imagined so make sure you fill your klonopin

My house. Right now.

This calls out something I had been trying to place: “Constitutional sheriffs” appear to be trying to return to feudalism, with themselves as the local knight-in-charge.

Thing is: this should have been obvious BEFORE regulators greenlit Waymo. Having business be the tail that wags the dog of government--as neoliberal ideology would have it--simply privatizes gains and sticks ordinary people with the costs of being corporate guinea pigs.

People always yell at me when I say it's important to keep up on what's going on in the rural US, but it truly is if you want to understand larger cultural forces, and if you're not familiar with the constitutional sheriff movement, this is a good primer.

I'm shocked, the US has no history of meddling in South American countries and causing societal collapse and hardship for ordinary people, what a departure from our august foreign policy history.

God forbid women have hobbies.

The politics and ethics of paid living kidney donation are complicated; appreciated this thoughtful read on that ongoing conversation!

Intriguing look into Cubans in Miami and their relationship with Trump.

Really on a tpyo tear this morning apparently ugh and yet my computer changes and to abd and flags the and asks it if I want to correct to teh.

ABA is conversion therapy, full stop

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

The uncritical acceptance of ABA=good illustrates why we need not just more disabled reporters, editors, and other staff, but specifically disabled people covering disabiltiy and newsrooms respecting disability as a beat. Lot of parents-of quoted in here, but I don't see autistic self-advocates.

ABA is NOT the 'gold standard of autism care.' The lack of autistic staffers is showing here and with so many devastating Medicaid cuts to programs that serve children, focusing on a controversial one targeting autistics in this political climate is a loaded choice.

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