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kittywampuss.bsky.social
Kittywampus on the Twit app. Came here for feminism & cats. Sticking around for the fight for democracy & the rule of law. Anti-Dark Enlightenment. Would rather be dancing to Phish.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1047 comments

Anyone of middle intelligence will be able to understand why this is a horrible idea. But the thread is still worth reading all the way through. This shit is happening just one state over from me (I’m in Ohio, where we have our own GOP woes).

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

we could have had a vax for TUBERCULOSIS

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it's like believing a blender grows the food

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

For a pro-life party, they’re kind of pro-death.

submitted 4 days ago • 209 comments

Someone referred to Karoline Leavitt as Taco Belle, and I just couldn’t resist.🤭

submitted 4 days ago • 369 comments

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Sharp blow = utter destruction. More than many posters on Bluesky, I understand why the mainstream media resists explicitly political framing. Fairness still matters. But my goodness, sometimes journalists, editors, and above all headline writers need to be frank about what’s happening!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is accurate. I’m not sentimental about motherhood. Two truths: my adult kids are the best thing I’ve given this world. And the price for my raising them with my then-partner is old-age poverty. But that’s not an argument against procreating. It’s an indictment of patriarchal parenting.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is essential to get. Some longtermists think it’s ~fine for all organic humans to be wiped out as long as the digital scans of our brains can compete for survival in data centers on Mars.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

My priority is to fund breakthroughs that’ll improve all our lives. Lots of Alzheimer’s in my family. Heart disease. Cancer. Who doesn’t fear these scourges? My next concern is for the vibrancy of our universities. I teach at one. China is a distant third. But maybe that speaks to some GOPers?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If someone comes out with a new version of Settlers of Catan, they need to have university cards and/or tokens. In the meantime, a majority of the American public doesn’t understand that the cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s their loved ones need relies on federal funding of university research.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

submitted 5 days ago • 201 comments

Middle America won’t grasp the problem because most people right of center are in a disinformation bubble. Moreover, in states like mine (Ohio), public universities are constrained by law to freeze tuition w/ meager adjustments year by year. Profs will be blamed. I know because I’m one such prof.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Killing Grandma and Grandpa to own the libs

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“The solar garlic starts to rot “Maybe so, and maybe not” @tommarshall111.bsky.social and @trey.com, who got there first? It would bring no shame if Frog and Toad were our forerunners. Much love to all the amphibians and humans who pry open a zipper on the wall to open deeper horizons 🐸♥️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

it’s vibes-based policy, and those vibes are malice and negligence

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment