People what’s stopping you from dressing like this

Kahless tells us that in the face of censors, of oppressors who would use your words against you even if true, you must speak out all the more loudly. All you do by silencing yourself voluntarily is save them the effort of silencing you.

Happy Caturday 😽

Impressive. Via xcancel.com/The_x_Truth/...

If you don't know the lyrics to Barrett's Privateers, are you really even a broken man on a Halifax pier?

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

Sound on 🐈‍⬛

Perfection

Behind the scenes on the complicated sets of #StarTrek DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations."

#caturday Baz is comfy and purring loudly

Alec vs armchair

Finally, someone in our house will put our treadmill to good use!

Dogs were fussy all night. They know @jordansbrock.bsky.social isn’t here. They wanted out one at a time for some alone time. Right now Baz is wandering around letting me know he is Not Impressed that I got up again.

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

NATO has officially invoked Article 4 at Poland’s request following the Russian drone incursion. This is significant.

Baz, comfortable and purring.

Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/

Baz would like me to know that it’s nap time, not sitting in a chair reading time.

It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device). www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Use our new, easy tool to tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

Excellent fantasy continent map? (Apparently Europe 13 million years ago)

An October 1942 FBI leaflet asking the residents of Buffalo to report any "possible violation[s] of our national security statutes" or anything suspicious to the Buffalo Field Office. It concluded, however, with the paragraph below. Seemed relevant today somehow.

Baz has found his way upstairs and onto the new recliner so he can purr and make biscuits and generally complain @leavesdancing.bsky.social isn’t downstairs in bed.

A little purr fur your week 🐈‍⬛🤍

There are some who will tell you that empathy is tyranny, that equality is inequality, that oppression is freedom. See these for the lies they are, and know the liars for the enemies they are.

The US has been the de facto world leader for 80 years since WWII. In just a few months, Republicans have made the US far weaker and less relevant than at any time in living memory.

My take on Soft Power: "What the heck is “soft power” anyway? Namby-pamby power? Woke power? Mickey Mouse power? And should we even care, if it’s just “soft?” You bet!" gregdelawie.substack.com/p/hard-truth...

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

This is absolutely batshit and amazing. I didn’t even know that some ant species have to mate with a different species to produce workers (!!!) but they are literally mating with another species, ripping out their own DNA, and producing a clone of the male they mates with. That is NUTS

#CatDistributionSystem 🐈‍⬛

The problem with borzoi deep pressure therapy is OH GOD THE ELBOWS

Xena being all comforting

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

Even the strongest among us feel weak at times. Even the smartest of us feel stupid at times. Even the most confident feel doubt. There is no shame in feeling that you are not always at your best. A true warrior feels these things, but strives for better. That way lies glory.

An excellent essay on the rejection of experts, ignorance, RFK Jr., and "not-knowing, as a way of claiming the authority of ignorance." www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran... Reminds me of this adage: "Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

If hopelessness has made a home in your heart, it cannot be dislodged easily or all at once. Chip away at it with small victories, moments of hope and defiance. It is not easy and it will take time and effort, but strive to make it an uncomfortable home, a place where despair is no longer welcome.

pov: you've been knocked over #kdh #kpopdemonhunters #derpy #sussie

#kpopdemonhunters #polytrix

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

In my guise as Sister Hildegarde von BenmissinggDeadlines of the Little Sisters of Pen, Paper, and Penury, Patron Saint of Cartoonists. "Pray for us deadline problems now and at the hour of our invoice cut off date..."

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Despair, not fear, is the greater enemy. Fear can be overcome, but when you have lost all hope, you have already lost. A true warrior knows that the smallest thread can unravel the greatest tapestry. Find that thread, don't let it go, and persevere.