Just felt like watching Empire Records which is one of my very favorite movies so I am doing that. And singing along with the soundtrack.

For some reason this is what I thought of.

Watching Esme build a next by holding part of the blanket in her mouth and then using her paws to ... oh my fucking god I'll be back to this.

I hate this timeline. The Onion is supposed to be satire, not prescient

Update 5.4! - Ok guys, I just dropped a money order in the box for my landlord for $480. Thank you so much. I still owe him $1040. I am currently stalled at $229/$500 of Part 2. I'm pretty much broke again now, I spent $14 on Waymo to get the MO and I'm spending $5.50 on CVS CarePass (delivery). 💕💸

Feels like a moment to remind everyone that when you know it’s time to fight but the targets aren’t accessible, you need to restrain/redirect the urge rather than just choose a target that‘s handy.

Bella has taken over my lap, using my wearable blanket like a hammock. She gave the laptop a very significant look until I moved it out of her way.

Note that it's the same in nz. Unfortunately

Wait no they're having a series of The 'Burbs?! What?! The 'Burbs?! Holy shit.

During season one of Fallout when everyone was apparently very turned on by Walton Goggins without a nose I could not stop thinking about when he played a white nationalist for six seasons.

This fucker I stg.

Personally I think the division rankings should be done by PF.

Honestly the numbers on the Steelers' jerseys always look so weird and I don't know why.

I have showered. Achievement unlocked.

Does anyone have $30 so I can order food 🥘 linktr.ee/jskylerinc

Boosting for Gin and hoping we can get her rent paid. She has a new job starting but won't see a paycheck until the end of the month.

Cheering for the Ravens. Not just because it means Detroit gets a better draft pick but also because I like seeing Aaron Rodgers lose.

This is now in effect (and has been for nearly four days).

This is Aaron Glenn's celebration and it is beautiful. And I will describe it in the next post.

I want people new to disability communities, mutual aid, disability justice to realize mutual aid network realities Assume helpers face tough symptoms and situations, some just as or even more severe than those they’re helping, and that we all need help — no false dichotomies

It is High Risk for disabled people on SSDI/SSI to help anyone If we do so (even rarely), we don’t or can’t take credit for many ways we help (why anonymous donations, leaving last names off volunteer work, avoiding public credit for mutual aid are common necessities)

It is always a risky act to volunteer time, effort or money to when a disabled person is on SSDI/SSI — malicious government agents acting on others’ accusations of disability policing (dismissing realities of dynamic disabilities) can and have stripped lifesaving benefits

Because your Republican aunt DEFINITELY knows someone who’s “cheating the system” and she managed to convince your liberal mother that’s a real thing.

Please note the part where there's a way to qualify / sign up other than by being on SSI.

The benefit of money in ABLE accounts is that up to a certain amount, that money doesn't count against you in terms of asset limits for social safety net programs like SSI and Medicaid, among others.

This is now in effect (and has been for nearly four days).

Can we please leave "good vibes only" in 2019 where it belongs? I don't give a shit about vibes. I care far more about human rights.

Meanwhile here at home the people best placed to obstruct this murderous nonsense are too busy trying to throw each other and potential allies and vulnerable folks under the bus to actually identify effective actions, let alone put together a plan to do what they should have been doing all along.

TFW I'm the emotionally prepared one and I already know how to cope with the State of the World Being Increasingly Shit and apparently that's uncommon.

This is a great thread about alt text and I learned some new things. Because we can all always learn more.

Again for thr folks in the back: Alt Text is NOT a caption or a comment. (I am on the editorial team for a peer-reviewed journal and we struggle to get non-caption alt text out of our contributors!)

FYI, if you've been trying to do the alt text thing without knowing any actual guidelines for it, Eb posted a tutorial.

Just saw the word "intelligent" used to mean "informed" and like... people, please, if you're going to say "intelligent", maybe replace it with a more specific word.

Absolutely not (to the WaPo). The purpose of entitlements is to help people because it's better for everyone when folks aren't starving and unhoused and suffering needlessly. Folks regularly forget about the administrative cost of doing all those checks. It's often more costly. 1/

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

For some reason this is what I thought of.

still at 🚨 $100 left to go for a week of housing with about 90 minutes before the office closes! anything helps ❤️‍🩹 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

still stalled at 🚨 $130 needed by the end of the day to pay for a full week of housing nearly 5pm so we’re rly getting down to the wire, but if I can pay this I won’t need to keep raising $80 a day! so anything helps 💸💞 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

abt 2hrs left tonight now to find this!

I still think it's super weird they're doing a U.S. adaptation of Doc Martin.

If 8 people have $25 to spare today I could get my first goal of the month cleared!

Amon-Ra out there and TeSlaa with that beautiful catch. That felt like a lot. Jamo! Listen all of these completions feel really important.

Everyone in the world, myself included, has opinions about what’s happened that don’t actually factor in how awful the day-to-day has been for so many people in country. We might acknowledge it, but in reality, the moment to tear down statues and feel a passing breeze is everything.

Amon-Ra is questionable. What looks like our entire defense is out or on IR and apparently our offensive line is all questionable and/or dying.

I just want to wrap them all in cotton wool after tomorrow's game and put them away like the fragile precious ornaments they are.

Jesus Fried Christ just looking at the Lions' injury list is giving me psychic damage.

20 minutes left and still at $111 needed JUST to pay the motel through today, or $271 for a full week so i can get some breathing room ❤️‍🩹 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

Listen, if you want the thing to spit out a pattern based on data input, fine. Have at it. This is the stuff of analysis and it can be useful. Just don’t call it intelligence or creative. It is a tool and we need to call it what it is: sophisticated pattern recognition technology.

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