Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations). Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members. I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

The vet tech said Francie was "an angel" when they brought her back to get labs today. After she left the room I was like "Really? An angel?" and my boyfriend said "Well, Lucifer was an angel."

From Dean’s Mother Goose Book of Rhymes, illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone and Ann Grahame Johnstone. This book was published in 1977 but it was a compilation of several volumes from throughout the 70s.

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up. Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

Whenever I pop into X now, I'm just struck but how much worse the user experience is there with a timeline full of pointless ads, little engagement and pointless to post when external links are throttled. Once I've finished archiving my COVID threads, I'll close up that account.

Hi new butterflies. Welcome to the friendlier skies.

The cat sitter has got in touch with some bad news: turns out my cat is a *terrible* over-actor. Such melodrama!

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It’s me! I’m here!!!!

Do we post pictures of cats here or not?