THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

I quite like this.

Falsely accused of "unspeakable violent crimes" against their twin 4 year old kids. "The separation lasted for 24 hours and required their children to sit for interviews with Children’s Protective Services."

Fox News could say in this headline that the crash occurred in China, but they choose to hide that key fact to get people to click. Trickery is how Fox rolls.

“A huge amount of the economy is driven by people who are, simply put, highly suggestible.” This is really good on the general cluelessness of the c-suite class

“No loitering in the park” is a concept that only makes sense in America and a surveillance machine accidentally telling it to a military force is just the icing on the cake.

There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.

Honestly it's way more than a handful. It includes Albania (Shqipëria) Bhutan (Druk Mul) China (Zhongguo) Egypt (Misr) Finland (Suomi) Georgia (Sakartvelo) Germany (Deutschland) Greece (Ellada) India (Bharat and similar) Hungary (Magyarország) Japan (Nihon) Both Koreas (Choson and Hanguk)

Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.

600,000 leaves create a surface area of ​​1,500 square meters. Mature trees filter 6 tons of CO2 and 1 ton of particulate matter from our air. They provide us with 4.5 tons of pure oxygen and transpire up to 400 liters of water a day—the best and most natural air conditioning system in the world!

This confirms what the CDC leader said before she was fired. Kennedy wanted the science to be cooked until it aligned with his politics.

The Colorado river water system is collapsing, and a data center operator is suing to consume even more water. Unreal. www.kpbs.org/news/environ...

They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.

If you haven’t read “The Privatization of Everything” there’s a chapter on Chicago’s parking meter situation including enraging details like “the company that owned the meters sued the city to stop them from increasing buses bc it might decrease the use of the meters”

Hasbro is facing backlash after reportedly telling Peppa Pig's cast of child actors to sign new contracts that allow the company to reproduce their voices using AI. https://bit.ly/4vqs0iJ

And yes, I have tons of empathy for Europeans who are dealing with major structural issues around installing AC so they don’t die in summer - but to get policies to fix that, we all must bark at the heels of privileged, powerful twits who still cling to the false belief AC is a luxury.

A nightmare scenario I didn't quite expect: I get clients that say they already have the "art" ready (AI generated), they just want it re-done by a human. So they want to essentially "wash" the AI generated trash so they don't get any flack for it.

i don’t know how you can watch every single person in trump’s orbit (which is the entire republican party and then some) become objectively worse — no matter how bad they were to start — and fail to understand this

On the fourth anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade remember that they lied to get their seats on the Supreme Court

what if they fought back against republicans instead

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

In entirely off-the-wall genealogical news, H. P. Lovecraft was a six-times-great grandson of Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson (1591-1643), the antinomian rebel whose challenge to Puritan patriarchal authority shook the early Massachusetts Bay Colony down to its very roots. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hu...

Institutional dems would rather fight progressives than fascists and that tells you all you need to know about "centrism" in this country.

I'm not in the best place right now so watching stuff that makes me happy. Like the tom holland lip sync battle. You know what to do. youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q?...

Sigh… cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...

New evidence casts doubt on what RFK Jr told the US Senate about his 2019 trip to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak. Kennedy said the trip had 'nothing to do with vaccines.' But an email his colleague sent just before the visit said they were on a vaccine-related 'mission' #FOIA

A bunch of gay bars in San Francisco just started using facial recongition surveillance on customers. Madison Square Garden was just caught keeping "dossiers" on facial recognition activists ... including me Now is a great time to ask your fave artists to sign this banfacialrecognition.com/venues

Almost like the NHS has a serious problem with all funding, all hospitals, all staffing, and especially labor, delivery, and neonatology units, and it’s not the fault of one whistleblowing nurse. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was NOT expecting that

They’re giving protesters 50+ year sentences down in Texas, while this loon gets clemency.

Hard to fully express the contempt I feel for this gutter racist, nor the horror of living in proximity to both him and the people who would sustain him in high office. To spend your privileged time on earth spreading calumnies about your neighbors is just incomprehensibly bleak and vile.

Unlike many NY Dems, Hochul deftly managed the rise of Mamdani and allied with him to avoid a primary challenge. The Times recasts her savvy maneuvering as a naive fuck up because they hate Mamdani and are looking for any angle they can to halt his momentum.

Okay clearly everyone needs a refresher on some nautical terminology definitions. I'm posting this.

The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser

If you compared Hickenlooper v. Gonzales by just looking at what they said, you might conclude they were very similar. They are not, because Hick is completely full of shit: he's only saying that because he wants us to THINK he's similar to Gonzales, so we vote for him as the more familiar name.

Mainly: I remember that Bennet ran for president in 2019. I also remember that Bennet voted for a slew of Trump nominees at the beginning of the second term.

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

NEW: Mamdani’s rent freeze APPROVED. Tell me again how he’ll “never get anything done.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

I have never experienced a publication fighting THIS hard against reality. The sneering, patronising bullshit that they choose to publish should embarrass them - the problem being, after so many years of sliding down into tabloid status, they have zero shame left. None.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

Americans fired over their Charlie Kirk comments are fighting back, being reinstated in their jobs, and winning big settlements. They’re also modelling courage by fighting for their first amendment rights—and winning. Thanks to NPR for reporting!

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

yes i know this is engagement bait but it's so fucking infuriating. "are the transes *too* visible??" is the shit that leads to people who were just daring to exist in public to lose their jobs, their housing, and sometimes even their lives. shame on you.

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface