I forgot to take a nap today, and now it is very late 🤦🏻‍♀️

Big cooking day around these parts. I’ve made Italian sausage and kale for pasta, shaved ribeye and onion, carrinara sauce, and colcannon. (Some still in progress.) tomorrow is butchery day: ground beef, roast beef, and breakfast sausage

Cat ornaments. Kitty Skye was a special request. The others I just doodles tonight. I’m sure more kitties will follow. 😻

I regret to inform myself that it’s time to eat AGAIN.

I would just about kill for a piece of buttered toast right now

Yah babbys, thatis me on tha shelve!

Finally! A book chapter I drafted in March/April 2020, it's been a long time coming. I have a whole different brain and life now. Weird. 'Religion and American Military History', in Samuel J Watson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Military History, doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Body: HAHA! You will NOT forget that you are chronically ill. [THWACK! 💥 BAM! 💥 POW!💥]

I’m back home, but I feel absolutely awful. All of my worst neuro and dysautonomic symptoms are flaring HARD right now. It’s so bad. Headed to bed to see if rest and hydration will do the trick.

WOW, I just don’t want to get in the car and start driving back home today.

Mombandade briefly left tha hause todaye i DONOT approove

The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Please note, I would ALSO like to be asleep on the green blanket. Or perhaps under it.

General Sherman (the gray beast) walked up to Admiral Farragut aka Davey aka Pirate Baby Cat (the sweet orange dumb dumb), occupying the much-coveted green fuzzy blanket, thwacked him HARD (usually Davey is the aggressor), then curled up and went to sleep. Davey still looks dazed and confused.

The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Current favorite low-histamine side dish (all measures approx.) two onions, one large sweet potato, two c. par-cooked brown rice, 2T. butter (or fat you tolerate), 1 c. stock, salt. I also add 2/8-1/4 c. flax seed and psyllium fiber husk Freezes beautifully!! Simple instructions in comment below

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Not only is this a bald-faced lie, it is also a pernicious and blatantly white nationalist one that reeks of “lebensraum.” Stagnant WAGES have not kept up with housing costs. ZONING and NIMBYism prevent building high-density housing. INVESTORS snap-up homes for sale, crowding out homeowners

These little wildflowers are hanging on for dear life out in my back yard, and I love them.

Yes, and? Expose them all. Shame them all. Make every last one of them a social and political pariah. PNG every motherfucking one.

I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.

A happy little doodle magnet. What do we think? (Painted over a weird inspirational magnet from the Dollar Store)

Back to work tomorrow mans it’s past my bedtime, for real. Night, y’all.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

The Affordable Care Act turned 15 this year.

News Release 10-Nov-2025 Scientists reveal another piece in Long COVID puzzle New study reveals a structural association between circulating microclots & neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in patients with Long COVID. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #LongCovid @resiapretorius.bsky.social

So what I’m hearing is he wants to send money to people to say, subsidize their purchase of private insurance off of a centralized marketplace? Genius! Why didn’t we do that earlier?!?!?

Feature not a Shutdown bug.

So this is about the fourth time I've seen a media outlet blare out that President Trump is doing Tariff Checks!!!!!!! before about 2-3 paragraphs in they finally mention "Oh yeah, by the way this would require congress and also they aren't collecting enough money to actually do this."

Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office

Happy week, everyone! 🌲

Or, you actually understand PERFECTLY WELL how insurance works, you’re just a dissembling, ingenious, asshole

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

Or, hear me out: only 8 voted for it because that was the exact number that needed to vote for the kind-of-shitty best-worst option, and the Caucus (yeah, all of ‘em) spent Wednesday to Sunday figuring out who was going to take the hit and how. Politics, baby!

Someone asked me to share what the (secret?) strategy was for the Dems, because I said something about Strategy being hard. I made no claim to KNOW anything, or to have inside knowledge. I certainly don’t. But here’s my take:

It’s almost like the federal government does actual work

The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

Through the luck of the draw I’m not dependent on SNAP to eat and so one thing I’m not going to do is sit under my roof with a full belly and demand the shutdown go on indefinitely. And stop screaming about Dems caving and being cowards. You and I have NO idea what’s happening in private.

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

I can't vote for this post as long as it includes this pro-dog language, however parenthetical.

Asking for 1.1 million federal employees (not including the military): how long should the government have been kept shut down to obtain a bicameral and presidential concession on ACA subsidies OR the Senate nuking the filibuster? Seriously. What *evidence* suggests either of these was close?

While I am as disappointed in the 8 cowards as anyone I will say it’s been pretty shocking how cavalier so many of you are with my ability to feed my family and keep a roof over our heads.

I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly: 1. The deal sucks. 2. Probably not as much as you think it does. 3. It’s good to be mad. 4. FFS, be madder at the GOP. 5. Strategy is hard. 5b. Timing matters. 6. The fight isn’t over. 7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)

No health care, no deal.

Mark Kelly is a NO on the continuing resolution deal