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A digital racoon with a massive furball sidekick. Dogs, FotS, wine, Star Trek, D&D, and good books. Lady of Glencoe (http://highlandtitles.com)
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters "‘He said Verence died of natural causes.’ ‘Well, being assassinated is natural causes for a king,’ said Granny."

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ganka fled the war to the U.S. to find safety. But now the country that was her refuge may tell her to leave. Trump may issue an order that could send 280,000 Ukrainians back to nightly explosions and shattered homes.

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

It's Shut The Fuck Up Friday! This below is good advice. Know how the state will come after you and adapt. Check out the @eff.org Border Search Pocket Guide: eff.org/document/eff... FUCK BORDER PATROL, FUCK ICE, FUCK DHS!

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.

NEW: while researching another story I stumbled across a group of AI slop farms on YouTube, churning out heartwarming fake stories about people in the Trump universe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

It's not just measles. Cases of whooping cough have skyrocketed more than 1,500% since 2021, as vaccination rates have dipped. In the past 6 months, two babies in Louisiana have died. Such critical reporting @deldeib.bsky.social + @sheinvestigates.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

if Jessica Simpson married Homer Simpson, she’d still be Jessica Simpson. only more animated . d’oh 😬

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

No energy to make several different ones but here's one bingo card for the Trump Physical today..

Terrifying www.newsweek.com/student-loan...

Home improvement writers Doug Mahoney and Liam McCabe are at your service 🫡 They’re answering questions on Reddit right now. Ask them anything: bit.ly/3RePm8H

The number of people who respond to this with “filibusters do nothing” or “they have to vote no!” makes me think that way too many people do not understand current Senate rules.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

Dear Senate Democrats, Don’t let us down on the Save Act!! Vote NO UNANIMOUSLY!!

Yesterday I told the story of an apparent request from a Trump-run government agency that Amazon de-list my book. As a result, in the last 16 hours, the book has shot to number 6 across all of Amazon out of millions of books. I am absolutely stunned.

Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

The drive to acquire more wealth than a person or their family could possibly use is a disease. It's hoarding. We see the folx living in mazes of newspaper stacks & want to get them psychiatric help. Billionaires are the ultimate hoarders & need to be treated as such before they destroy us.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov :: you better not be playing cute with your language about stopping the SAVE Act. I hope you intend to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE, as opposed to what you did with the CR when you told us you'd vote no on the bill, but still voted YES on cloture. We are in no mood for games.

The Nazis made Jews register as Jews, just in case you were looking for any historical parallels. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Good morning, Luxembourg! Today we get a guided tour of the city (or possibly country.) Our hotel room is very Euro-fusion which means that the bedroom was designed by IKEA and the bathroom by the Spanish Inquisition.

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

Half the books in my sci-fi series also feature telepathy because they involve genetically-created super-soldiers called "monsters." In this book, "Ms. Belle and the Gaiian Beast," Beast (who later goes by Ben) is a long-lost monster. Eva Belle is a former assassin. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

“paid for by cruise ship fees” is exactly why health officials should not be baffled tbh

Good advice from Canada. 🇨🇦

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

My editor at Harper just told me that the audiobook I did for my memoir, Still Just A Geek, is on sale all month for just $7.99. If you are enjoying my podcast, and you wanted to hear me tell you my own true story the same way I tell other people's fictional stories, now you know.

Whichever agency ends up resisting DOGE by creating spiked pit traps, poison gas rooms, and razorblade-lined chutes dropping victims into pools filled with hungry sharks will be hailed as heroes. FDIC, are you the heroes we've been looking for?

Can't be emphasized enough that the image of the US deporting people for things they said is so much more damaging to its foreign policy interests than anything a student might have said on the quad