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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Same, looking at rural Ohio. I live in Athens, a deep blue college town. There’s a rally in McArthur, a hamlet ~30 minutes from me that was a food desert without a grocery store in the entire county until a few years ago. Poverty is through the roof. Lots of Trump voters. And yet, a rally! ♥️
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Yes. She became a country star ~as social media was born. Around the time Kanye picked a beef, she went pop & built her empire, using SM brilliantly, ultimately garnering more sympathy than Ye. I’m not into pop, but she’s a consummate pro, strong in her craft, & my students love her. My hat’s off!
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Right? This is too much highroad for me. Releasing the read out won’t convince any of Trump‘s diehard fans, but it might reach someone in the middle. Even if it’s one soul, it’s worth it.
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I thought both he and Chris Murphy were in absolute top form today. Murphy has been leading so consistently and intelligently, getting the word out on the threat to democracy in concrete ways. Or maybe it’s just what I’m seeing on my social media feed. But what I see from him is very good indeed.
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I would like for my piano playing while under the influence of the demonic weed to rise to Brian Wilson’s standard.
Pls advise.
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Sincere question: now that an entire clown car of quacks has been appointed to Senate-confirmed positions, what would be the mechanism for senators to unseat them?
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There’s definitely a huge element of necropolitics in both MAGA and the tech broligarch movements. It’s downstream from their fear of death and desire to exert control over life in myriad ways.
But I’d also flag supremacist thinking, which is only partly about race, and also about sex and class.
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Ditto for my dad! And he was even a music major, music teacher, later a piano technician, and a damn good piano player.
(Dad taught me to love jazz and the Great American Songbook. I wish I could’ve gotten him excited about music from the Beatles on. His last capacity in dementia was a jazz riff.)
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I got the MMR shot with no copay. I have no idea what the titers would’ve cost, but it would’ve been considerably more. I’m one of those 1960s births who presumably got a less effective version of the vaccine than what came along later.
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That Yamaha would be my new roommate if I could afford one!
Seriously, I fell in love with the band in part because of how much texture Page adds, and his piano is still number one on my list, much as I also adore his clavinet.
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Mike. Those of us who love you would love to see a flurry of your cat photos, and Trey’s, too. 😻 I sometimes try to explain to guests when they roll into my house that the shredded state of my upholstery mirrors Trey’s sofa. This is not an apology, just context.
Reba Kitty & Tela Kitty send purrs.
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I came here just to rebuke anyone who’s hating on Cherry Garcia!
In a world full of shitty cherry-flavored products, Cherry Garcia rises above.
Dammit, now I wish I had a pint in the freezer.
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I think it’s a mistake to protest in DC unless those who assemble are both far more disciplined than anything we on the left have seen since the Civil Rights movement and also ready to pay a price like John Lewis paid. That’s an awfully high bar.
Trump intends to spin any property damage as evil. 😿
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All these people posting, “Yeah! Fuck ‘em. They voted for Trump!” aren’t helping.
I live in deep-blueAthens, Ohio. I know Trump voters who are deluded, not evil. We need to keep a door open for when they see reality. We need to remember lots of ppl are harmed in red states, including Dem voters.
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Either Columbus or here in little Athens, Ohio.
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Some cops were totally off the chain at protestors and journalists. That doesn’t negate the fact that some people go to protests to fuck shit up and they don’t care what is being protested.
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Of course! But that’s kind of beside the point in our present moment. We’re up against an awful right-wing media ecosphere that’ll take every image of something burning and use it to proclaim that these “riots“ must be quelled by force. Our job is to sway normies, not other people on Bluesky.
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A “natural family” is the family envisioned in Project 2025: father is head of household – a king in miniature. Mother is a homemaker who doesn’t work full-time but might have an MLM side hustle. Kids number at least two, preferably more. All attend church weekly. If POC, they know their place. 🤢
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I agree with this
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On top of SB1, this is too much. And knowing how university “leadership” in Ohio means copycatting whatever brainfarts OSU emits, I’m bracing for OU to follow suit. Ugh.
My curriculum: Stop cheating with LLMs. Pass my quiz on the top 100 social ills of AI. Use AI to show how it’s sexist-racist. 😻
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Exactly this. We who oppose the Trumpist coup are the actual patriots. This sits uneasily with me and many others who witnessed the flag and other “patriotic“ symbols be co-opted after 9/11.
But I think I need to get me some red white and blue paraphernalia, and so should we all.
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We do indeed. And my standpoint as someone who earned a PhD in modern German history is: This country is in for a long fight. I don’t teach in history now, having switched to women’s and gender studies, but I’m so grateful for understanding historical touchpoints relevant to our present struggle.
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Making faith healers great again 😵💫😾
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Let these doofuses establish special economic zones in space at their private expense.
Meanwhile, those of us living in reality/on earth should tax the broligarchs until they are mere multimillionaires, not billionaires.