who's ready to be the baddest laura ingalls wildcore bitches on the prairie

"Valeria" tells us "The 2026 canning tomato harvest season is about the begin. We are hoping for an hourly wage increase above minimum wage as we have only been paid minimum wage year after year and that just is not enough to pay your bills." #WeFeedYou

Today I’m a witch without her familiar, a girl who lost her kitty, and a middle-aged woman who made a hard decision for and is mourning the loss of a remarkable being and beloved companion. Yesterday @blarkytopia.bsky.social and I said goodbye to Ike. His absence is everywhere.

Who gave That Guy™️ an actual job connected to Philosophy? Wasn’t dealing with him in an 8am class bad enough?

"Maximino" works in Oxnard CA preparing for the romaine lettuce season. "I weed for 7 hrs/day using a long hoe. It's hard work especially the last few days have been HOT. Thankfully this company provide shade and water." #WeFeedYou

What. The fuck. How dare you. How dare you put us back in the closet. How dare you blame us for our own victimization. How dare you point the finger at my trans friends and SUGGEST they deserve less than any of the rest of us. How dare you strengthen fascism. How fucking dare.

you can’t follow me if you follow 75k people that’s stupid what are you even doing here

Apple workers in western NY doing maintenance in a nursery, aerating soil. "This work is hard on our lower backs. Because of the H2A wage cuts, our pay has gone down $1.04 per hour compared to last year, but the work doesn’t get any easier.” #WeFeedYou

Land’s End is doing some super creepy cartoon Barbie AI clothing model stuff. The uncanny valley is vast and deep 😵‍💫 (I don’t actually do Lands End, they’re just in my search results at another store.)

Star Trek convention.

CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT.

I have an Ike

"Cruz" shared this pic of his full 30 lb bucket from where he's picking cherries in Stockton CA. "I get paid $6/bucket. I do my best to work very fast and not take breaks. I can pick 25 buckets in 7 hours during the peak harvesting season." #WeFeedYou

Bluesky moderation so doesn’t get me. Someone posts a good night message with sweet photo with their person, just chillin in their nighties smiling - Warning! Warning! Adult Content! Hide! Quote post of a Playboy article about sex w photo of naked woman straddled across a horse’s back - no warning.

It was 86° at 1pm in Bakersfield CA. A tractor driver runs a water sprayer along the edge of a citrus orchard. This is important work as it keeps the soil and trees properly irrigated. It's hot work as the cab is open and doesn't have AC. #WeFeedYou

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

It was 2pm and 92° in Mettler CA as this crew continue to harvest and then load the boxes onto a tractor. The boxes were then transported to a nearby packing house. Temps this day reached 95°. #WeFeedYou

My cat: Please, sir, may I have adventure? Under here? Me: Still no. But I will document your interest.

🚨 NO CONCENTRATION CAMP IN GILROY! ICE OUT! 🚨 Join us for a march and protest at Mexican Heritage Plaza at 3pm to demand no concentration camps in the Bay Area and to stop GSA plans to build a detention center in #Gilroy. #AbolishICE #SanJose CC: @projectsaltbox.com

“randomized alphabet” order is fun with that order not given and 61 candidates (names, party preference, occupation, translations)

MrrRrr?

good questions

It was 99° in the Bakersfield CA area when "Ian" sent us this photo. "My co-worker is cleaning dry weeds from around a irrigation reservoir for a green chili farm. This is hard work at any time but with this heat it was harder than usual." #WeFeedYou

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

I’m about 1/4 of the way through Pope Leo’s encyclical and really struck by how often he specifies “men and women”. Very Uncomfortable with how that leaves out enbies and kids. The first, not surprising (🤬). The second, well, that’s a telling hefty omission.

New Little Guy just dropped.

We are about to fight Magma Fiends!

Unless this is sort of a national day of mourning for goths as they prepare to go into the None Of My Clothes Are Practical For This Weather time of year Which, I guess a national day of mourning does seem on character

I have been promised* I will get to use explodey things. *okay not exactly promised, but enticed sufficiently that I might have a three year old not getting ice cream tantrum if it doesn’t happen.

Just scrolling through Nextdoor, noting the glory of healthcare and insurance in these USofA.

Error message on mutuals feed occurring several times today @skyfeed.xyz

Guess what? Bird butt! Underbirdage?

Ike, Destroyer of Zippers

Dune Cat Budget Version

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

They keep throwing money at a problem that money can't solve. Want your customers back? 1. Sincerely apologize for capitulating to a racist administration. 2. Ban ICE from all locations including parking lots. 3. Want to throw money around? Donate to immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ charities.

I feel like German would have one word.

Next book after The 5th Gender

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: Why would you say that you know I’m not normal, I’m not going to try to be whatever you think normal is for importanty pants to like me, they’re not […rant continiues while People show up] but I can be nice. People: hi Me: Me: Me: Hi!

Hallelujah, someone’s pushing back!!!

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Time to prep my gaming slippers! Updated link to the good nonsense: tilt.fyi/gSXyqHpIoy

Gail to a Nose Friend: But how do I get the perfume off? NF: Olive oil and then soap. * few moments later* G: I had no olive oil, so I used toasted sesame oil. And now I smell DELICIOUS.

When you’re trying to have your nap but the neighborhood is full of gardeners and tree cutting

Anyone else just gonna have to rewatch all of The X-Files (for the nth time) to consider this reported Gen Z longing for a time they didn’t get to live found in a culty show? How else will I understand today’s younger adults and teens? I regret throwing away my VHS recordings with commercials.