Slowly catching up on Abbott Elementary. I am still convinced that Mr Johnson is a time lord.

😬 I am so worried about this--got a friend on SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid, & SNAP that was already rationing food before this who lives hours away, can't drive, & I'm terrified for them. I feel like Abbott & his pals were already killing this person slowly & now they're hitting the accelerator

I've written a weird, short, jazzy thing on guitar today. We'll see what happens with it. It's currently too hard for me to execute smoothly, but that's always the way with me--my mind's ear is always out ahead of my brain-hand coordination.

I will translate from NPRese Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now. 🩺🧪

help I think my cat is broken, part 7486

Hoping the combination of nerve glides, NSAID, heat, & ice packs do something, because today is painful

Loreena McKinnett still enchants. She's an autumnal/winter listen for me. The days get short & I want to hear her gorgeous soprano & harp youtu.be/-N4cbVlEw4Y?...

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Thank you, California, NYC, Virginia!!! & look at Georgia & Mississippi! We all needed this.

Don't want to be overly optimistic, but this is probably the biggest positive sign for the future we've had in some time.

Pretty clear response to the redistricting that took place earlier this year in Texas -->

this is delightful, and may it delight you

Pantsuit girl boss ad exec, Work from home apparatchik, Skittle haired, Soy faced, Abolitionist Nasally voiced, Soros funded, Adderall dog mom consultants Obese, Hipster trust fund socialist We didn't start the fire

This is...not good.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

This sounds delicious...🧡🍊

*wondering if we're in for 18 innings or if this is over shortly*

Thanks I hate it. Also like I enjoy artisinal blocking, and I want to know if people are saying toxic things to me so I can deny them access to my posts in the future???

This is not even close to what I signed up for when I came here. I did not come to @bsky.app so that you could decide FOR ME what I want my social media to be like. Control over my own experience was the whole entire draw.

The most completely mundane replies being hid in my mentions without my consent or control is absolutely ridiculous and outrageous. @pfrazee.com y’all gotta give us back control of our own accounts this is out of hand. Literally hid a cat picture someone sent me.

the criminal tortie snuggles of course, now I can't move to go go to bed or get a snack or anything

nightmare before Christmas tree wondering how long it'll take Stella to attempt to murder it... Mosaic seems uninterested in it

As it turns out, Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Only California has more LGBTQ+ identifying residents. Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

Because it's Halloween week & I'm missing Z (the little black cat) & Pandora, here's a little spooky song I made in Ableton sampling them, myself, some tweezers I turned into an instrument, etc. I performed it live, recorded it, then did a pass recording visualization live youtu.be/iCQJyPTOJ9o?...

Remembering my precious purrbot on National Black Cat Day. I miss her so much right now

Jeff Buckley's All Flowers in Time is stuck in my head this weekend--both the version with Elizabeth Fraser & the solo live version. I think I read somewhere that it's in Open C tuning or something. Definitely sounds like an open tuning. Oh, what could have been...

“Women are not usually interested in science fiction” is hilarious considered the genre was invented by a woman

......of course they name it after LotR, but they were probably more inspired by Mr Burns

look stop asking him the details, he doesn't know, he's busy, and it's not his lane, ok??

So we just had to rescue Stella, who was somehow standing *IN* the blinds, between them & the window above the kitchen sink. She was 8 ft up in the air, over a bunch of breakable & pointy stuff like mugs & eating/cooking utensils...& the plants on the windowsill in their ceramic pots.

Texans fighting back in Dallas. This is so great.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

Today was a good day, despite the fact that my allergies have been horrendous. After I went out to the nearby No Kings protest, I practiced this cool little modal guitar piece I'm writing, then took ibuprofen & ice packs & collapsed. Tomorrow, I'll probably just have to rest & recover.

All the No Kings photos are giving me life. I've got an N95 & sign, so I'm going to add to the voices defending democracy, even if I'm not out long.

Happy Caturday! Some recent sun-cat Stella pics & Mosaic being silly on the couch.

Dozens of rallies across the state will take place on Saturday to oppose President Donald Trump. Here's what to know and when to go. 🔗 https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-texas-no-kings-protests-when-where-what-to-know-40605749/ 

Worst allergies ever now. I was hardly able to sleep & I desperately need more. I know we've got ragweed & mountain cedar, which are my 2 mortal enemies, but this is ridiculous even for me. Sneezing & coughing (had to take my inhaler) all night, maddeningly itchy eyes, nose, skin...Yuck.

9 years before Starbucks, always ahead of her time. Her referring to her pumpkin pie flavored latte as a "witch warmer" is so perfect! I was getting into her at the time this article came out; had I seen this back in the day, I probably would've tried to make a cafe au lait version at home!

doing journalism

I'm in such a weird place right now--I've been on a creative spurt, writing a bunch of stuff in altered tunings, drawing spooky season stuff, running around with the adrenaline that comes from that...in between awful spurts of chronic pain & everything being *so freaking much* on so many levels...

The video of Vought talking about how glorious oranges is an imperfect instrument (people laugh 😒) just underscores how smug & arrogant these people are: they clearly think they have the direct line to God, who, amazingly, tells them everything they want to hear & justifies their every whim.

Hey y’all- a great, small rescue in Austin can use some help. They’re trying to get a badly injured kitten from the border up to Austin. If you’ve got a few bucks to add, that would be huge. Anne is a trained pediatric anesthesiology nurse who uses her skills to help tinies Venmo in the alt text

With alt text. Greg Abbott is sending the National Guard to the Capitol for No Kings. It is imperative we make them look ridiculous.

middle of the night lizard invasion it has escaped us, but a kitty is on high alert

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

Well, I played some guitar & started writing a modal piece in an open tuning, & (unrelated) now it's time for more nsaids, allergy meds, a heating pad, & making a nest in some fleece blankets to hopefully lure a cat into curling up with me while I try to distract myself with TV.

Prescribing myself extra coffee today, because I need it & I can.

The joy of "bubble," "thought police" discourse from those who must think flyover country red states just don't exist (or that they can shove "forgotten white supremacist, Dominionist dude in a diner" down all of our throats), from people whose local & state gov't aren't literally threatening them.

this is what the AI bros sound like