new?? unnoticed?????

The testudo remains effective. 🐢

Someone said this last night, but if you look in the threads about "vibescession" the main thing people are talking about is the constant precarity. So what would happen if one wage-earner in your house got cancer and couldn't work?

It is extremely weird to go into the kitchen of a morning and realize for the first time in about ten years I don’t need to go into the kitty medical drawer. No prednisolone (mast cell cancer), no blood pressure medicine, no insulin (we had TWO diabetic cats simultaneously), nothing.

Aside from the fact that people are just looking at their grocery and rent bills going up while their salaries aren't, there's also the larger issue of seeing the government and every company visibly commit to slashing as many jobs as possible in the foreseeable future.

This isn't a million miles off from one rather compelling argument I've seen in urban planning: That the cities where people are happiest are 18th century cities with 21st century ammenities.

Thank you for all the lovely words yesterday, friends. ❤️ We are both pretty flattened, I’ve spent most of the morning trying not to listen to the echoing silence where the cat yelling used to be. (I just looked up and it was 1:30, when the hell did that happen.)

You know what's kind of awesome about living in the generative slop times? Seeing something new, doing some light searching to check if it's fake, and then realizing anew we actually live in a world of goshdanged spectacular wonders. time.com/article/2026...

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.

#HowDoTheyRiseUp #Glorious25thMay #Discworld

Murdock, Terror of Vets, Shrieker of Threats and Imprecations, Beloved Dirt-Collector And Crazy Foo. 2010-2026.

Temperature map right now for England and Wales. 33 (91) in London. May 25

I want 3 things for my birthday: 1. To watch Hill's mom try to wrangle this dog on a parade float. 2. To collect $300 towards teaching materials in my TPT classroom fund. 3. Crab rangoon. Please vote for Mick, and if you have $5 my fund is here: www.teacherspayteachers.com/ClassFund/Be...

and a lot of us have long covid and are trying to avoid becoming even more disabled. it’s always funny to me that they cast maskes as “fear” over what is just a simple, easy, and effective piece of preventative health care

Here's are some links to the trans and LGBTQ+ groups that have found themselves strained to the breaking point who are helping homless trans folks in Seattle today. First, there's KOI, which offers six months of housing and other support for trans people fleeing red states. koinitiative.org

Looking forward* to JD’s response: “The Pope doesn’t know what he’s talking about slavery is good and godly actually” * pre-emptively exhausted, embarrassed, and annoyed by.

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Caste is such a powerful driver of dynamics within Silicon Valley that they were able to get Newsom to veto a bill banning caste discrimination in California even though it had widespread support.

Me and my Bluesky bubble.

For everyone re skeeting this: do read the article. The system is under certification. Certification presumes safety-guaranteed features with low-probability occurrences of averse events (We can discuss those standards--see Boeing 737 max--but trust me ChatGPT is definitely not doing the flying)

The thing about automating tasks for pilots is that modern aviation already does a lot of that, I feel confident that aviation science has already been working on optimizing that automation or confirming that they’ve fully optimized, and jamming AI into everything fucks up perfectly good products.

*calmly munches popcorn from DC*

*looks around at all the discourse* So anyway I’ve got a little more cleaning to do and then I’m going to commit many heresies. 😁 Heretical My Little Space Marines.

Being a Black 🏳️‍⚧️ immigrant is already hard. Raising a child w no support feels impossible, especially w anti-trans laws targeting us daily. I still haven’t gotten much help, but I’m fighting to build a safer future for us. Pls repost/support if you can. #MutualAid #LGBTQ ko-fi.com/notyourbaeshae

Also, Words Mean Things. You didn't "invest" in a game buy buying it. You're not a partial owner. You don't receive dividends. YOU BOUGHT A GAME, POINDEXTER.

This shit is driving me crazy. I was unaware so many people were so unaware of why things cost things.

Now up at @globalvoices.org: dispatch from Palestine on the conditions of displacement shelters in Gaza globalvoices.org/2026/05/23/w...

Heretical space mariiiiiines! 😂🤣

Brb showing this little guy to my Navy vet husband.

Someone please make this into a college radio station.

feel like i maybe haven’t talked about this enough so shout out to Brian May of Queen for being a real one 🥹

because I know y’all can’t click and read

Apparently we’ve had 1.25” of rain in the last 24 hours and my god is it much needed. We’ve been in severe drought for months. It won’t take us out of drought but it I hope it takes us out of severe drought. I’d really like to go back to complaining about the humidity of living in a rainforest.

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

I had chocolate lava birthday cake.

*biting fist* I am not getting into a human evolution slapfight on the internet. I am not getting into a human evolution slapfight on the internet. I am not getting into a human evolution slapfight on the internet.

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

The social media team over there is doing strong work

Inject this into my VEINS

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

For the below. “We’re looking for Arabic-to-English and Arabic-to-Italian translators; a book designer; and book printers in the UK and Italy. Please reach out here: [email protected]” either email is fine. 🙏🏾🩷

Britt is my friend and WILL DIE if forced outside. They got some traction but they need REAL, CONTINUED support to SURVIVE. The work under fascism is keeping people alive. Keeping vulnerable people alive. Britt deserves to live. Please help them. Please. linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

DC friends, they've started up checkpoints again. There's a checkpoint at Rhode Island Ave NE and South Dakota Ave NE. And fuck ICE.

Per my calculation, I have to sell about 1100 shirts to fund our insect mural series. Which sounds nuts, ok? I know. That sounds nuts. However... We already sold 132 so... I dunno, maybe we CAN make good things happen with silliness joy and art? I kinda think we can.

This is DELIGHTFUL