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Leonardo da Vinci watches a cat. And draws it (and friends) over and over. Today is his birthday.

Y’all gotta let them go.

Welcome @debbiestot.bsky.social to bluesky. Great to see you here. Go give Debbie a follow. Personally really appreciate her no-nonsense, occasionally firery way of speaking truth & educating on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

It Only Tuesday

Lots of folk wondering how this can be, but most NYers are working like mad to keep their head above water. We've memory-holed EVERYTHING that happened during Covid lockdown, including Cuomo being a sexist abuser who killed a bunch of seniors. It's frustrating but w/o media attacking him...

going to find my forever home (a cemetery)

This story is absolutely getting overlooked. They are deploying the military within US borders. This is so dangerous for Natives from border tribes, and all public lands users in this region. And they won't restrict it to the border, this is just where they are starting.

New— Trump's crusade against the American Bar Association continues, this time terminating all grants via DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women. This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):

it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more

i hate these people so much. they were a bunch of fascist seat warmers, and we're going to need to deal with a lot more than trump to get out of this hole

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Reminder than if you use the advanced search function on Google and look for images from before 2022 you don't see Ai shit anymore.

A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Kokomo, Miss., weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak.

we're gonna fund COMMUNITY COLLEGES we're gonna fund SCHOOL LUNCHES we're gonna tax THE SHIT out of tesla

no kings implies no king shit

wearing the @moxiest.art shirt for the day

do we have to do discourse on nazi occupied poland? because i'm not sure i'm up for it.

todo • catch a light sneeze • dream a little dream • make my own pretty hate machine

little beast monopolizing my CLEAN SHEETS

Praise the lord, yes. Jesus. Let everybody grow up and grow old enough for us to finally reach this point. Amen.

you don't, in fact, have to had it to my smooth muscles

i am fucking crampy

Ubisoft open-sources color blindness accessibility tool Chroma

is there any reason to get out of bed that isn't compulsory?

[soviet lesbian woman on april 12th 1961] Боже мой, они отправили Юрия в космос!

Some reading material on a general strike. 1) Jeremy Brecher's recent piece on what a general/social strike in response to Trump might look like

So much to unpack with this sandwich...so much... youtu.be/GWgQAnz5_gk?...

Rosemary’s Baby is a masterpiece. It’s also a completely realistic NYC real estate story where you give your firstborn to a buncha satanists for a hot apartment at The Dakota with a wood-burning fireplace.

the bed, is a decent invention

oh. okay

Get ICE off Rikers and then get everyone else off Rikers

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

Portage County Sheriff who wanted to list neighbors with Kamala signs in their yards, signs a contract to assist ICE. Updated my Ko-fi ko-fi.com/post/The-Ges...

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

On top of everything else Columbia is the largest private landowner in NYC and because it's an educational institution that land is not taxed. A couple of years ago Zohran Mamdani who is running for mayor sponsored a bill trying to get these "University developers" taxed

just got an email from unite here about contacting reps demanding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release. He’s a sheet metal worker. Good to see labor stepping up here

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

americans love to remember the guillotine aspect of the french revolution but bastille day not so much

like after all this, they're still going to elect cuomo.

Newsletter tomorrow, queen??? buttondown.com/loather

monochrome monday

dads who stand in front of the tv to watch movies after elon musk spends their social security check on a diablo skin

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do