Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...? Yes yes we can reward the truly hungry young among us. The patriots with a yawning appetite for security. We will choose a hungry warrior from among their kin. Maybe we call them to D.C. — the capitol, as it were — and promise them satiation. A game. For the hungry.

Evergreen post

Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree! Other holiday dangers for cats: Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!) Poinsettias Essential Oils (Lavender and others) Grapes/Raisins Garlic & Onions Chocolate

The Yule Cat, pet of the troll-like monster Gryla, eats those who don’t receive new clothes for Christmas. Some believe the legend stems from cautionary tales about processing wool and finishing chores before the holiday. 🎨 from Wikimedia Commons #FolkloreThursday #troll #Gryla #yulecat #iceland

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

I guess the designer *wants* this to make me angry!

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

maybe i am going insane

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%

@aptshadow.bsky.social ,I think you need to see this. youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

Dear "news" web site owners: if your "news" article doesn't have in the first paragraph information about the actual thing I clicked through to learn about, I will block your entire domain henceforth, learn how to fucking write a news article god damn it

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

This is Colonel Nicole Malachowski. A 21-year veteran of the #AirForce, she is the first woman to fly with the #Thunderbirds & flew 26 missions in Iraq. #Trump has removed all mention of her from federal websites. Please reshare if you stand with @RealMalachowski against Trump!

Bruh

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.

This is lovely.

People like this are why I had to stop Napoleonposting to clown on Brits because I always had to say out of the side of my mouth “of course he sucked ass tho, fuck him for Haiti forever”

#Fragrancesky #Perfumesky

My father had a subscription to this.

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing *settled*, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

How it started - How it's going

Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

me interviewing every animal to see if their politics align with mine before raising money for an animal shelter

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

...the spoon guy????

I will never apologize for a post

Replacing peer review with "some coked up 19 year old libertarian" review does not strike me as a positive development. Imo.

Our boy Scooter got some time in the KittenPocket sweater. He was blissing out. (Video description: Scooter, a little black kitten, purrs happily from inside a Sherpa-lined pocket of a sweater, making biscuits).

"Toothless in Texas" is the name of my next big country song

I know I have cat person friends on here!

From the New York Times editorial board this morning: "He (Trump) has reoriented federal programs to focus less on race, which many voters support." Pray tell, is this what they were referring to? www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

“The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting wisdom, but to set a limit on everlasting error.” - Bertolt Brecht

Farewell to the great Jean Marsh.

We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"

The Pet Placement Center is a little indie no-kill operation that's been saving animals in the southeast for *40 years* on a shoestring. I am not great with grief, but raising money for their continued operation is making me feel better - so please enable my selfishness (if you haven't yet) 👇