in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Hope everyone has had a lovely Stabbing British Colonizers In The Neck Day! ❤️

They were napping together adorably. But of course when I got my phone out, they switched to sniffing adorably. #PetRats

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Our cat Peter passed away yesterday. We were expecting it, though not quite this soon. He was an utter asshole to almost everyone who didn't live here, but was kind of a velcro kitty in private. A steady supervisor for remote work, too.

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

Conservative politics: society's most privileged & powerful, scared of their own shadows, imagining themselves victims, compensating for their insecurities by heaping abuse on society's weakest & most marginalized, and fashioning themselves heroes for doing it. It's repulsive.

Nom nom nom #PetRats

"Why do you care if you have to ID yourself online you have to ID if you go into a bar irl or buy booze or go into a sex shop" Yeah cool but the cashier behind the counter at the sex shop doesn't log my full government name, age, height, gender and birth place if I go in there to buy a dildo.

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

3 times IN HIS WHOLE LIFE

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

IDK man, GPS seems pretty noteworthy to me 🤷

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

NEW MEXICO DID THE THING!! www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

I thought today was supposed to be the day when the groundhog comes out of his hole to see if there's light, not Neil Gaiman. Fucker.

Baby tapir birthday!!

OH HELL YEAH!!

Sigh.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

Hey fellow nerds, is it known whether #TerryPratchett ever kept #PetRats? He wrote rats like someone who'd seen a lot of their shenanigans, IMHO. #Discworld #BookSky

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Alas I don't currently have spare money for yarn, but I'm keeping this in mind for later. What a gorgeous (and relevant) color!

together we are as strong as the mighty @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social, and the fascists will break upon us

DH: *sends clip of kittens on a human's shoulder* Me, instantly: Ooh ooh! That sweater has a nice classic Icelandic motif on the yoke! Maybe it's hand-knit? 👀👀👀👀 (Spoiler: It was not hand-knit. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE.) #KnitSky 1/9

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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Happy birthday to Wikipedia! 🥳

how to treat every single statement that comes out of the federal government or any of its spokespeople at this point:

At last!! These socks I knit throughout last year have finally made it to their new home, so now I can share here!! First up, Wedge! (A favorite pattern of mine, when I get an itch for some short rows.) ravel.me/kupgup/w6 #SockKnitting 1/7

Tonight's ratmoot incentive is MASHED POTATO! (And maybe some bonus pumpkin from my plate later.) #PetRats

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

#Tucson Heads up, loads of cops at and west of Grant and Alvernon right now. Lights flashing, sirens, maybe 10 TPD vehicles

Help I am overwhelmed by leftover soups, I have like 5 quarts ... This is a problem mostly because I still want to make MORE, NEW, DIFFERENT SOUPS but my ambitions exceed my freezer space :(

a fantastic thread

Biblically Accurate

Carcinization remains true, even in Norse mythology. (🧑‍🎨: TheEndofGrey, DeviantArt)

Attention! Toffee wants you all to know that there is RICE and it is DELICIOUS. #PetRats

There’s a scientist here who made a fleshlight for dolphins and I think that rocks 🤷🏻‍♀️

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

This makes me want to call it slop, like, at least 5x as much as I already did.

Toffee has finally decided to be more than casual acquaintances! He's been hanging out alongside Chiki a good bit instead of going off on his own the entire time. Giving them non-grabbable treats together was a good idea.

Two big damaged areas patched, one left to go.... I'm leaning away from doing a patch on this one. It's at the ankle so it's not a great place for extra bulk. And they ate over halfway around, so there's literally more hole than intact sock.