All those rooting against KC because they wanted "chaos" now get to watch the last four years' champions vie for the 2025 championship. It reminds me of the definition of oppression for privileged people. Spirit, Thorns, Gotham, and Pride were all oppressed by Current, ya know. #NWSLPlayoffs

The huge-market team in the world-famous city defeats the small-market team trying to make good in flyover country through *real* investment in womens' sport. Y'all really showed us how the "underdog" triumphs. Fuckin hell. How KC gets framed as a villain is mystifying. #nwsl

First we had to make the decision to euthanize our 12-y-o goat this week and now the #KCCurrent is losing its playoff game. I have *never* been into sports, let alone emotional about them. Today I just canNOT deal with something that isn't even important in the grand scheme. So stupid!

Look what New Zealand's public radio does for pets during their big fireworks holiday! This is so sweet. I wonder if I they would consider promoting this via streaming for U.S. pets on July 4?

There's one winning football team in town! Everyone should watch women's sports! #kccurrent

We are hanging out in the kitchen with ailing goatie, as are all 3 cats. And kitchen is cold with no soft cushions. Yet here they are. House cats are indeed social creatures. #cats #goats

When your pet is considered livestock, it's really hard to get veterinarians to treat them like pets. Mom of 12-year-old meat goat breed who is stressing out over an acute, but possibly end-of-life issue if we can't get treatment that "pet" vets would absolutely provide for dogs and cats. #goats

The U.S. needs the equivalent of an Aarhus Convention! Im so impressed with the legal cost cap thing.

Absolutely NOT going to allow hate to ruin this beautiful thing we have.

I *really* want to support quality, independent journalism, essays, and opinion covering a huge array of topics: local, national, int'l, political, science, arts. 1/4 #library #media #journalism

This explains a lot.

***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky

Already had near panic attack yesterday after reading about worldwide widening violence and financial ruin. Today got first stop work order on a federal grant. I have GOT to unplug for a few hours. My head and heart are too done-in.

This one on the heels of Zitron's piece should be a wakeup call to everyone whose city is poised to waste good land and tax breaks on a data center, or whose utility is about to build coal plants and leave us ratepayers with the bag. And that's just for starters.

@julie6700.bsky.social you can probably read this one article without the paywall getting you.

So enraging! This #NWSL commissioner has proven herself incompetent and unethical. Get her out. sports.yahoo.com/article/nwsl...

Received my 2nd everaper wasp sting last Monday. It hurt for an hour and then I forgot about it. Last night the sting started itching after 8 days of no symptoms. Turns out this is actually a thing! Now I'm hesitant to go check nest boxes bc I dont know if this means I've developed an allergy.

So NOT in anyone's best interests! (except fossil fuel assholes) Rooftop and BALCONY solar should be providing the energy freedom we all deserve. See www.wired.com/story/why-ba... because progress *was* being made. So angry.

Just chopped more than half my hair length. No premeditation. Just "Arghgh, another long, shed hair is clinging to me/my arm!" I do this often, always in a fit of pique, and don't do a very good job, but it feels good! Then, before I know it, my fucking hair is long again.

Paw paw leaves, with goat for scale

Look at the size of these oak leaves in comparison to our 135-lb goat

Never fear. We are a daughter of post-WWII Napa, now living in KS and making fun of those who make fun of us. For real though, fuck the wine monocrops. My family had a fruit ranch. Mom waxes nostalgic over Gravenstein apples.

Oh wow! What an unexpected, very, very pleasant surprise on a Friday afternoon when I am *so* in need of good news, anything, to help bump away the descending gloom I've been fighting. To my imagined analog in Utah, I'm sorry. You live in an amazing landscape tho! #kccurrent #nwsl

Listening to interview of Kate Smith, sociologist studying children's play, on ABC (Australia). This reminded me that when original Star Wars was released, there was a lag in branded toys (e.g. none in 1977 Xmas Wishbook). 1/5

Why aren't more waterfowl hunters clamoring to their federal reps to re-fund the USGS ecological mission area? They are poised to lose their hobby, but may be among those the Republicans actually listen to. #birdbanding #usgs

Listening to #ABCNightlife and getting huge kick out of current guest's take on Americans (I am American). His book is #TheEndofReading. We've taken to listening to ABC and RNZ bc we just can't bear very much domestic media. They have their own probs, but nothing like us.

Perhaps this is why I dread and hate this day more than my colleagues who live in other areas of the country, living as *I* do practically on the border between the top two states. It really is awful here. The few existing laws are never enforced. www.valuepenguin.com/who-uses-mos...

I feel like a ton of people making a lot of trouble for YES communities is in order here. Can we please help rectify one injustice in this world today?

I'm attending National Wildlife Federation's event, “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

The attacks just keep steamrolling on. Anyone at a nonprofit org should be paying attention (I know, there's soooo much to be alert to):

*Another* topic to make calls about: save the USGS biological research budget! They work across sectors and are very collaborative *with* universities and with state wildlife agencies. Zeroing out this budget will hurt hunting, fishing, bird banding, much more. #wildliferesearch

Making little wigs out of her shed hair will never not amuse me. #GoatsOfBluesky

We need millions of people to comment AGAINST this rule change! Please share widely and get everyone you know to comment! We have 30 days. A plain language summary of this proposed rule is available at www.regulations.gov in Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2025–0034. 1/3

Some friends published their work on HPAI vaccination of California Condors yesterday! #RaptorResearch #HPAI wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Is the 2026 World Cup really going to go down in the USA of today, or - horrors - whatever it is next year? Here in KC, organizers are blithely bopping along with their plans as if people will be willing to come here. I dunno...

I like "St Peter the Impossible" for a cathedral name, as one local newscaster just bungled it. Also glad mean old Naumann has retired. Hope new archbishop is more Liberation Theology. All this from a non-Catholic living in a very poor Catholic area. I have opinions bc they have power. #kck

It's simple, yes, but something about Nodes, an independent project similar to NYT'S retired Vertex, is so relaxing. I *really* need its calming effect more than ever! I usually do Nodes before other morning puzzles, while the coffee kicks in. Then my brain is warmed up for more challenge.

Whee! #Nwsl #kansascity #current

B prepping tacos for the Current game, which we are watching outside within earshot of #CPKC Stadium while I cat sit. We hope we can hear the train horn for all the #KCC goals! #KCCurrent #Current #KansasCity

Why aren't the incredibly wealthy private foundations in #KansasCity stepping up to fund these #HeadStart until federal funding is sorted? Early childhood ed has got to be the top thing that will improve our metro in the long-run! #Hall #Kauffman #Sunderland #Deffenbaugh #Patterson #Bloch

We area residents need to keep an eye on this in case a huge demonstration is called for. (Another one, among so many needed!) But one hopes the city of Leavenworth remains steadfast against this.

I am re-trying to learn crochet for probably the 5th time (avg 1x/decade?) and I canNOT keep track of where I am in a pattern of mere alternating SC and DC. And I can't tell the stitches apart. I am diagnosed ADD. Is this hopeless? #CROCHET #EasilyFrustrated #RepeatedFailureAtAllCrafts

We know we work for the federal government, and we know we have an obligation to the public whose lands we are tasked with protecting. So these are some strategies were using to cope and fight. As adapted from many places, including the CIA and On Tyrany by Timothy Snyder, and @algreen.house.gov

Nooooooa! Wind is causing power glitches ahead of NWSL season kickoff night! We've been looking forward for weeks to watching a game tonight! #NWSL

I was working at the Pizza Hut in Lindsborg that day. We also had a tornado warning & went in the walk-in. My friends at the Hesston Pizza Hut (mentioned in 3rd video) did the same, only they got hit! The tornado spared the back half of the bldg and the walk-in where they sheltered.

This "not real" Kansan (urban dweller, ooooh!) has a right to attend any g.d. town hall by any of my senators that I want. It's too bad my senators are both lying cowards who are verifiably *not* actual Kansans. They don't live here. #kansas

Noaa! (Both to the blizzard warning, and to the much larger threat to our fave agency)

Seventy-effing-four! Who wants to be the asshole who makes life impossible for our co-residents on earth? IMO, our responsibility to *not* ruin the home of all the other species is HUGE! That's why we fight the soulless marauders on every front. www.instagram.com/reel/DGoVywJ...

They are quite successfully incentivizing me to *never* buy a new car. This shit, added to the surveillance already bult in to all new vehicles, plus soaring insurance and interest rates, means I'll happily keep paying for repairs for a long, long time.

Hee hee! Get 'im, constituents!