My tulips are blooming. I dedicate these to everyone opposed to war, violence, and suffering. 🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

This is probably either a really good or really bad time to point out that this classic Roy Lichtenstein Pop art painting from 1962, showing a fighter pilot shooting down a military jet, is in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/en...

#DollyParton is the queen

#DollyParton is the queen

I’m not watching the #SOTU because I value my dishes enough not to want to hurl them at my TV in a rage. I’d rather look at the tulips that started blooming in my garden this week. #Bloomscrolling

What could possibly go wrong if Saudi Arabia is allowed to enrich uranium?

Heated Rivalry has really changed how my wife watches hockey. That mini-breakaway where Celebrini ended up in Hellebuyck’s arms... “That was a really intense moment, you could tell.”

An example of a good policy decision. Greening an industrial corridor. 🌳 🌳

First ladybug of the year in my garden, on my California fuchsia. 🌱 🐞 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

Happy Valentine’s to our first true love. 💕

This weekend’s reading. #BookSky

FDA's decision not to accept Moderna's flu vaccine filing has sent shock waves through pharma. "When there’s uncertainty about the path to approval & the reliability of the process, that really has pretty serious consequences,” one player told @jasonmast.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/f...

Be sure to get all your #vaccines this year. It might be the last year you can.

Penelope plans to enjoy the day by not thinking about the racist PoS who leads this country. #Caturday

RIP WaPo

Masked thugs on the streets. Measles outbreaks across the nation. Blatant government corruption. Coverup of group of elite sex offenders. Ruling party trying to rig elections. Leader building grandiose monuments to himself. Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service. Third world America.

If you aren’t following @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social, you should be. It shows what govt websites & data the felon & his henchmen are getting rid of & what new ones they are launching. Most of the latter benefit the grift. An example of what they deleted the other day. #Government #Transparency

Here’s a gift link to a NY Times story explaining Trump’s huge financial claims against the U.S. government and how he may use his position as president to order underlings to transfer taxpayer money to him personally. Outrageous.

Penelope is a fan of vaccines. 💉 She doesn’t want to get preventable diseases. She is confused about why any smart mammal would say no to vaccines, but then again she’s seen a lot of dumb mammals in her life. (Her humans excepted—they like vaccines too.) #Caturday #Vaccinate

#AbolishIce #Minnesota

Walking out tomorrow at noon with colleagues and students. #AbolishIce #Minnesota

Of course #Springsteen rises to the occasion. Thank you, Bruce.

People who think we should wait until we win everything think we should win forever. Celebrate interim victories, partial victories, imperfect victories, small victories, because celebrating strengthens the resolve to keep on, reminds us of our power, and also is fun.

Taking time out from doomscrolling to enjoy a virtually deserted Tunnel Tops. #GoldenGate #OptOutside

No normal human being thinks what ICE is doing is ok. #Minnesota

Unlike the ignorant, lunatic convicted felon and his MAGAts, Penelope knows there are no penguins in Greenland. #Caturday

Fused glass birds by Emma Butler-Cole Aiken, a stained glass artist working in the Scottish Borders #WomensArt

And he still is!

Here is a sunrise, ain't that enough? True as a clear sky, ain't that enough? - Teenage Fanclub

This is very much worth a read.

This week's comic on the radical libertarian fantasies of colonizing Greenland

Still relevant, still powerful. #UseYourVoice

#FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

Penelope is a fan of empathy and kindness. She’s not a fan of violent, lying fascists. #Caturday

Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know

An excellent memoir about a better type of #leadership. I recommend the audiobook, which is read by Ardern.

An excellent memoir about a better type of #leadership. I recommend the audiobook, which is read by Ardern.

In happier news, yesterday I organized all the thread we use for AIDS quilt repair. I was tired of the chaos of everything being thrown into a big box and tangled up. Now everyone who works on the quilts can easily find the thread colors they need. Fingers crossed it stays organized. 😂 🩷

Penelope just heard that the fascist, convicted felon is illegally overthrowing a sovereign nation for their oil reserves, in order to enrich himself and his corrupt billionaire oil-industry backers. She’s not happy. #Caturday

Last year I was at the #RoseParade in person with my sisters. This week they helped put flowers on several of the floats.

Last year I was at the #RoseParade in person with my sisters. This week they helped put flowers on several of the floats.

This year was difficult, on so many levels. I really hope next year is better. Happier New Year, friends. 💛 youtu.be/FVXdbJVjCD0

This year was difficult, on so many levels. I really hope next year is better. Happier New Year, friends. 💛 youtu.be/FVXdbJVjCD0