To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 Some 3,000 years ago, the artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object... #Archaeology

"Europeans discover Americans aren't kidding about all that outside" and "Americans discover Europeans aren't kidding about all that history" are my two favorite travel genres

My personal sexual history absolutely exceeded the "oh they've fucked so much, they've probably got all the HPVs" And then my gyno did a test for 16 strains of HPV antibodies and guess who had zero HPV antibodies?! GUESS WHO GOT THE HPV VACCINE AT AGE FORTY-FOUR?!

Are they Unidentified Flying Objects or are you just bad at identifying flying objects

Juxtaposition. The stages of Saguaro blossoms… 🌵

Also, periodic reminder that the upper age on the vaccine represents an administrative estimate of when people have probably been exposed to too many strains of HPV for the vaccine to do any good. If your personal sexual history doesn't match with that, consider getting vaccinated anyway.

HPV doesn't just increase the risk of cervical cancer. It can lead to cancers of the throat, penis, and anus. You don't want your child to get cancer period, but those are particularly unpleasant ones. Whatever gender your child is, protect them.

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.

Mr. Baby, who was rescued last night from an uninterested owner who abandoned him outside, has found a permanent home!

kitten has discovered this toy on zeldams cat tree. he does not understand why he cannot take it down to the floor. he is enthralled

If you or I had installed a water connection without the utility company's knowledge that was not linked to our account, we all know they wouldn't be saying that we have to be partners. Link to article: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Some tarantulas keep frogs as 'pets'. The frogs eat ants & other small bugs that might attack the eggs or young spiderlings of the tarantula & the tarantula provides shelter in their burrows. What's more: the tarantula will attack predators that might threaten the frog. (📷: Emanuele Biggi)

I might *finally* have managed to capture the beauty of Bluegum for her adoption photos. She's being vaccinated tomorrow and should be available shortly!

If you start a sentence with, "I've put a couple of kids in the hospital," I don't think you should get to keep speaking long enough to get to the "but" part. Some people need to be pelted with rotten produce and banished from polite society.

We don't march angry mobs of villagers with pitchforks to people's homes like we used to but maybe we should

I don't know what sort of person tossed this sweet, social, two-month-old kitten outside, but aleta is kindly fostering him. Does anyone in the Minneapolis area want this very good baby full-time?

he says he’s working but

11. If you find an ancient book in a foreign language, DO NOT READ ALOUD FROM IT. EVER. 12. If you are a small town sheriff or police chief, do not smirk dismissively at the "little lady" telling you some dark shit is happening. 13. Never trust a small town sheriff or police chief.

Everything is expensive, but here are some things you can enjoy for free: - your local library - dreaming - creating trouble - talking with trees - collecting weird bones from the forest and fleeing from the creatures that want their weird bones back

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long this sale will last. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Oh wow. I'm not in Denver itself so didn't hear the sirens, but this is EXACTLY the kind of day when people are already worrying about tornadoes. Just a terrible time for false alarms.

Today's weather:

Mamdani has some of the best political instincts in the game.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

In many areas where a party holds an electoral edge — like Denver — the winner of the primary election will have a significant advantage heading into the general election.

I am at the shelter with Devon, who absolutely loves hugs. This darling boy is a FIV+ former stray being spoiled here until he finds the perfect home. Please consider donating to support cats like Devon if you can! givebutter.com/mollys-birth...

Partner getting a record player - supposedly for himself, but now being enjoyed by me - really hammered this home. I have a much clearer idea which singers and bands are my favorites than I did last month. The act of buying an LP is like 5 steps back from algorithmic playlists and is a shock.

Kickstand, our little gas station CH wobbly guy, was fixed and tested negative for FIV/FeLV, so now it’s time to see if he would like to be a friendly indoor guy.

Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean has been perfecting 🪼 this 🪼 design for more than 500 million years. That's right, sea jellies are older than the dinosaurs!

A prayer for our times 👇👇👇

Your daily affirmation: I am strong. I am proud. And it’s ok if folks are afraid of the ancient light of cosmic madness that shimmers in my eyes.

If you tell me I can read the rest of the article if I make a free account and then do not let me read it unless I purchase a subscription, I am not ever visiting your website again. I understand news has value and needs financial support. My time has value too, and your process wastes it.

I have this theory that founder-types want AI lawyers for the same reason they want AI girlfriends, which is that they’re tired of being told “no”

When disability is a central theme for many artists (Frida Kahlo!) what are we even doing if we don't make art accessible

> This week we're celebrating our two lynx sisters Sage and Poppy! Sage and Poppy were born at Montgomery Zoo in 2018 and made their way to Cosley Zoo in 2022. The word "Lynx" comes from the Greek word meaning "to shine" and may refer to their reflective eyes. [via Cosley Zoo)

Amazon appears to have lost its ability to distinguish between pop (the music style) and pop (the beverage). I will just shrug and not purchase anything from them, but holy shit, that seems like it's got to be some kind of AI fail. Surely the question has come up before.

Thought you guys might enjoy this enormous cat who manages a butcher shop

At Drag Me to the Opera, a certain kind of Republican's worst nightmare: drag queens, high culture, Pride, the big city. And just like every outdoor free concert everywhere, it's full of families with small children. All of which is great, as far as I'm concerned.

I'd be a lot more likely to believe travel doesn't teach you anything if the white guys advancing this opinion weren't also incredibly rigid and critical about cultural differences. Part of the lesson is, "...and it works just fine for them," and they're not getting it from Wikipedia.

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

If you demand art only be made by people who do it as a hobby, most art will be made by affluent people with affluent relatives who have few other competing responsibilities. It will be very white, very straight, very male, very detached from parenting and community care, and very pro-status quo.

I needed to hear this today and maybe you do too. See, my mind immediately went to Schumer and the like ... but that's not actually what 'entrenched bureaucracy' actually means, and ...our words matter. Especially when others are reading it accurately.

Last night, a book club friend who GMs a variety of tabletop games invited a group of very inexperienced players over for a one-shot. It was literary in theme, with a body walled up in a wine cellar and many worms turning! (So, so many worms...) Delightful!

My good and sweet boys, so handsome and so cute. They’re getting over a bit of the kitten cold but they’re growing fast and will be ready adopt soon. Theyre going to such good little friends for some lucky people. After the loss of my dear Smidge, it’s been nice to have their joy around.

I volunteer at an architectural salvage warehouse that has a pair of shop cats who take their job of greeting customers very seriously. Here they are exhausted after a busy day. #Caturday #CatSky

Muhahaha. When partner acquired his record player, he contemplated that we might enjoy listening to classical records together. He was not prepared for the possibility that I might use the same machine to fill the room with the corrupting sounds of folk pop and Lilith Fair.