This is always a terrific podcast, but @pjvogt.bsky.social ‘s episode this week was full of especially mind-popping insights on Internet culture.

Everything about #WaffleHouse is a treasure. www.wspa.com/video/man-fa...

Who would’ve guessed that the old “hoax” would be brought up and that everything else would sound like a deflating balloon flitting and falling to the ground? Oh right: everyone.

Of course it’s Australia.

Favorite #kohberger media moment today: NBC anchor: How *striking* is it that a judge would say something like that?? Legal expert: It’s actually pretty expected.

A local NYC baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents during a recent practice. Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer! Shoutout all of our local heroes!

She was, in certain terms, bribed.

Moira’s laying in the office chair, but I don’t think she’s focusing on work. Those dagger-eyes are saying “AHEM it’s bedtime!” #caturday #cattitude #catsofbluesky

This sick administration is signing the death warrants of people who helped the US military, people who we promised to protect. #vets #noICE

"[VA] workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law...Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity." #vets

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Watching #NathanFielder both condescend to and ingratiate himself with CNN anchors today was beautiful and hot. Haven’t seen that kind of handling since #PavelDatsyuk!

Happy #Caturday

If we’re gonna go around disregarding and changing #amendments now, I guess we can do that with the 2nd, too?

Watching/sleeping over his kill/baby, Care Bear Wand. #acatsbedtime #catsofbluesky

Sibling Caturday

Pope Hummus VIII, I am very lemony

I wondered why a Lexington office I called was closed today. This is still a thing in 2025, in a few US states: amp.thestate.com/opinion/arti...

I worked with current & former service members, some of them trans, for many years. To deny anyone the ability to serve their country through military service, because of being trans, is one of the dumbest & most deliberately hurtful acts supposedly regarding “national security” I’ve ever heard of.

I was supposed to be going to #Neotropolis again, for my 3rd year in a row, today. I’m heavy-hearted over missing it.

Finally relaxing after a morning at the vet. It was extremely harrowing having people fawn over him.

Why do we say “self-deporting?” Why don’t we call it what it is, “fleeing?” #deportations

CONGRATULATIONS CORY BOOKER!

To add to the daily crises, problems, and disappointments: the Hall & Oates Emergency Hotline seems to be extinct. #selfcare

A drugstore book for my British friends to chuckle over:

This is such a San Diego/Pacific Beach activity, and it's gross. Help put pressure on Shore Club owners to stop it. chng.it/8kGDZGVBRm

Congratulations Team Canada! 🇨🇦

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

The fact that "posses" still exist and need a bill to define them is wild to me. Hey, let's give authority to completely untrained civilians. I know corruption courses through the trained, too, but this is how we end up with empowered legions of that dude in SC ripping car keys out of ignitions.

I don’t know if Alanis should’ve sung that she was flickin a cigarette at the L.A. #FireAid concert.

Someone I personally know who thought their low-level government job would not be affected received the DEI memo yesterday. He was shocked. 1/

An administrative warrant is not enough for a search. An AW is what most ICE officials carry.

I hope all you kids pouring in from TikTok love puns and complaints about the major newspapers.

One thing I hope doesn’t happen to you is that a nurse walks into your hospital room and says “So, I’m sorry, but it looks like somebody made a mistake.” #er #friyay

Welp, I agree with Franklin: let’s just go to bed already. #effit #catsofbluesky #cats

The only way to mourn something like this is to throw yourself into art. Creativity is medicine. It heals the brain & the heart. Lynch understood the importance of art more than anybody. It's essential we don't forget this, that we don't lose it. It's the one dependable thing we have in this world.

The @penamerica.bsky.social Los Angeles team has gathered the following resources for those impacted by the fires: (1/) #LAfires #LAresources #losangeles #helpLA

“To see high quality publications bought and broken by rich people is like watching a drunk hedge fund dickhead throwing up on a Picasso that he hung in his yacht. It’s just a fucking shame.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

It is New Year's Eve. Ghosts crowd the pub's fire, tell stories to stitch centuries together. The year takes its last, rasping breaths. Every flame in the room trembles. The space between tick and tock on the mantel clock seems to lengthen. Hope struggles to be born again. – #CLNolan #NewYearsEve

#MerryChristmasBluesky from Franklin, Moira, and Me. We hope you’ve had a peaceful day and took time to do what you like. #happyholidays #sweaterweather #happychristmas

Yesterday I dreaded running my two necessary errands: post office and grocery store. But they both turned out to be absolutely delightful experiences. In the long line at the PO, people gave each other advice on shipping methods & laughed at each other’s procrastination.

I’ve been looking around for a snow cabin for Xmas for less than $600/night in CA, and have come up empty-handed or gotten sneered at. I didn’t quite realize that wherever there’s snow in the state, it’s automatically a resort! #christmastravel #snow #apresski #snowshoeing #housesitting

I know you probably don’t care, but Franklin is insisting I show you his new holiday bow tie.

I used to hate having to go to Twitter to check in with lit journals for submission periods. I stopped. Now they’re here (or now I’m here?) 😃 Hello friends! #journals #litmags #writingcommunity

Also, while doing that work I learned how much (most of?) the handlers really love those dogs. It was kind of heartwarming to see beyond the show-ring.

When I worked in film & TV production, I worked on dog shows. I love watching the AKC show and seeing how many breeds I can remember before they announce the name. #happythanksgiving #dogshow #dogsofbluesky

What’s something your parent/s did when you were a kid that annoyed you, and you find yourself doing it now as an adult? I’ll start: I turn the music off as I’m parallel parking the car. Someone help me.

Um excuse me I turned that heating pad on for me