"If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better" — Anne Lamott

Night night sweet dreamies True control isn’t about hiding emotions, it’s about guiding them. Emotions will rise, but they don’t have to rule. Remember, your feelings are signals, not instructions, and your real freedom lies in choosing how you respond.

“May your Monday suck less.” #CatPopeBlessings #CatsOfBluesky

I havbin informd todaye isnot Toosday itis Moonday . Thank you fore yore attenshun to this matter.

I have to pick up the mail myself now. I started locking the screen door so the mailman would have to leave it on the porch instead of putting it through the slot, where Harpo would retrieve it. #CatsOfBluesky

Dandy meowed today. She doesn’t do that often. I went to check on her and she went to her empty offering bowl. The message seemed pretty clear.

This page I’m working on for the book ended up sorta being a distillation of the entire thesis of the whole book.

Happy New Year to pals celebrating! Here’s to a year as golden as honey and as fresh as fall apples.🍯🍎😻

good morning

In case anyone is confused, “antifa” isn’t an organization. It’s a moral and political stance shared with the Allies of WWIi.

Have finished Gorilla in the Groove, it was fun. If you are looking for a shifter romance series set in Ireland, I very much recommend. It is nuanced and funny. @cemurphy.bsky.social does it again #amreading #Ireland #Shifters #Irishdancing #Cork 💙📚

Stress Break, the art edition

Tylenol/acetaminophen is the one largely safe OTC painkiller that pregnant women can take. If you're wondering what's behind this move, there's your answer.

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Republican Freedom Fighters. They've snitched to more people's bosses by 6am than you will in an entire lifetime.

Blessed Alban Elfed to all /|\

Which leads me back to the drum I beat often: More people need to sit down and ask whether they're actually fit to be a parent. If they'd even WANT to do the hard parts. Unfortunately, reactionary parents are usually of the conservative mold, who still think being childfree is a moral failing.

Almost every reactionary movement is built on bad parents not wanting to admit they're bad parents.

Taking bets on the first entertainment journalist (assuming there are enough of us left to start a pool) to use the title Disney and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week. Will it be me? Maybe!

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Someone equated America today to middle school, and that really explains so very much. Also, I hated middle school and would not relive those years on a bet.

Kind of beside the point but nonetheless: We need MORE pain relief options, not fewer. Acetaminophen isn’t even very effective. People who are serious about providing effective alternatives that are also safe and non-addictive should be advancing research into cannabis related compounds.

I love how many of the comments are the simple advice to not change your last name. It’s now so evident How much life-long danage it does. Seriously, your name is your name. Nobody should take it from you, and don’t marry someone who insists. He won’t have your back.

I wasn't even thinking about how the latest rapture date is coincidentally timed to make Christians the center of attention during a Jewish holiday because god forbid anyone else be the protagonist for 5 seconds but now I can't unsee it.

There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues

When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

For Colorado, we only have to deal with the Nexstar stations. Colorado Springs-Pueblo: KXRM (fox), KXTU(CW) Denver : KWGN (CW), KDVR (fox) Durango: KREZ (CBS/Fox DT2) Fort Collins: KFCT (fox) Grand Junction: KFQX (fox), KREX (CBS/MyTV), KGJT (MyTV) Montrose: KREY (CBS/Fox) Focus on LOCAL biz.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Kenvue, which owns Tylenol, is issuing mildly worded statements when they need to say “we are going to sue you into the middle of next year.” There is no scientific basis whatsoever for people with zero medical expertise telling anybody to not take Tylenol, cut and dried interference-with-commerce

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

I know, my friends, that in this moment we have other things to worry about than this ongoing pandemic, and yet, my friends, that in this moment we have other things to worry about does not mean that we need not worry about this ongoing pandemic.

The latest from the indispensable @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "[T]here is no longer 'news' in the US: only speculation, propaganda in oligarch-run newspapers, dark money posts disguised as articles, the occasional well-researched but paywalled piece, and independent reporting blocked by algorithms."

Even if it was USEFUL (which it's not) how do you in good conscience elide the vast amounts of sea-boiling and the uncompensated and unconsented-to theft required to make it work even at a half-assed level 20% of the time, like HOW

Stress Break, the zen edition

"Fuck you. Make me." should be the response to ANYTHING from the Trump Administration.

COMFYS

TIL

Really feeling the Mondayness of it all 🐾

We’ve got a name! Meet Laser Wolf!

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

So the article quotes the question but doesn't answer the question. The answer is the Katy Police Department. Seems like that matters.

Tiny stalker

Koan: A cat curled inside a circle of yarn; the circle became a world. The echo wonders: “Does the world shrink, or the cat expand?” Occupy your circle. #koan #zen #philosophy

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Someone said “what does this mean” So I’ll try this My mom once told me “Sometimes the only way to be a good Christian you gotta stop going to a bad church” If you believe in love and peace , and they CHOOSE otherwise It becomes your duty to leave

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

Good Morning & welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.

The wizard reads a complex alchemical formula to the little cat, who looks nonplussed.