Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

me explaining daylight saving time to the cat

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

do it. pet him. do not be afraid. he has only good intentions. he is a cat, with fur. why not pet him? this is an easy decision. stop overthinking this

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

New on Knock: Trump calls the homeless a blight and demands that they be jailed or swept out of the city. He’s late to the party; LA officials like Traci Park have pushed the same line for years. Let’s reckon with the fascism in our backyard—@cartermoon.bsky.social knock-la.com/when-donald-...

deforestation *caused primarily by cows and soy for factory farmed animals* reduce rainfall in the amazon. this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.

Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.

i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass

She’s not a fan of the boom booms.

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

zohran come to Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

Superb

LA has good short-term rental laws but no capacity to enforce them. Better Neighbors LA is raising the alarm about partnering with megaevents with no enforcement plan: "This deal will promote the expansion of short-term rentals into Los Angeles communities at a time of historically high rents"

It’s his home too ❤️

if you've been watching the community defenses against ICE and thinking, "i support my comrades but i don't feel comfortable being on the ~front lines~" please know there are many other ways to support! you can drop off a case of water and snacks, buy medical supplies, donate to jail support, etc

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

every single time a pundit or politician says “he can’t do that it’s illegal” an angel gets a machete

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Spontaneous massive resistance and protests are good. America is starting to really wake up it appears. We are all in the fight of our lives and it’s good to see people realizing it.

Taping up a picture of David Zaslav on the wall over my computer monitor to permanently cure me of imposter syndrome

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

This little pup has managed to stay dry despite wearing so much drip. 12/10

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

🐶 MAYOR'S PROPOSED ANIMAL SERVICES BUDGET 🐱🐰 Total Cost: $47,283,226 Operating Budget: $25,470,257 ($4.8M decrease) ~0.5% of General Fund Changes include: ⬇️ 32% decrease in job positions (120 job eliminations, including 62 layoffs) ⬇️ $100k decrease or 33% for Animal Food

Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.

Another addition from @nathannun.bsky.social’s Soviet Cat collection just arrived.

I’m a volunteer at LA Animal Services. They might have to close one of their shelters due to Mayor Bass’s proposed budget cuts. This is beyond shameful, @mayor.lacity.gov

The vet said 〝He's not overweight at all, but he has a round and big head.‘’

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

“What would I have done?” Bruh. You voted to confirm Rubio, Duffy, Collins, Rollins, and Chavez-DeRemer.

Yes, unfortunately.

Good news. The American empire is falling. Bad news. I’m an American