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Check out this completely legitimate and not at all edited photo of Purrsident Horatio on the campaign trail. #caturday

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Once upon a time, I used to read the German newspaper for funsies. Now, I’m reading & watching the German news because it’s never been this useful to deliberately get my news from another country.

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Already removed- but a powerful visual protest at NSF of the lost scientists from the recent round of doge douchery

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Y’all, I took the funniest photo of Horatio 😹 He looks like he’s taking a selfie. #cats

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Literally today someone said we needed to be reminded of the JA incarceration so "it never happens again" and I was beside myself. IT IS HAPPENING. if you're willing to listen to a Japanese person talk about it but not a Hmong or Honduran or Haitian person you're a 🎶fuckinnnnggg racist🎶

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Wild Coast Raw, the company responsible for the tainted food which is causing indoor-only cats to die of bird flu, is deleting comments on their Instagram about the topic. So they're killing pets and trying to cover it up. Cool.

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500 days— that’s how long Ash & Willow have been waiting for the right family. Can you help us find them? Learn more at crits4cats.petfinder.com (The .org in the thread doesn’t work properly).

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He was doing a really cute upside-down thing earlier and I didn’t quite snap the photo in time. But this is still pretty funny.

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Happy Purrsident’s Day. Not Presidents’ Day. Purrsident’s Day.

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One of the worst things about 🎺 is how stupid he makes the US look. People all over the world have thought the US was stupid for a long time, but 🎺 is representing us badly to the whole world. And now he’s talking about taking over Canada as if that wouldn’t be like Napoleon trying to invade Russia.

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I never seem to be able to get very many people to vote on important things in my Instagram story such as what book I should read next, but a whopping 13 people have voted on whether Allister is a cat or a kiwi. (The consensus is, overwhelmingly, that he’s a cat)

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Here’s my video all about the books I read in the first half of February #booktube youtu.be/alaWp6bNmLY?...

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I accidentally put cayenne pepper on my veggies instead of cumin last night 😭 It tasted just fine, no big difference, just spicy all of a sudden.

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I’m going to start calling it the gulf of Thailand because if 🎺 thinks he can just arbitrarily rename landmarks random things then so can I.

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The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )

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The people who cried “children need to be in school” when an infectious disease was hurting them are real quick to say now that no one needs schools. 😡

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It’s not every day I get a good well-lit photo of Riku’s triangle nose and moth ears but here you go.

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An oldie but a goodie.

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These are the only 5 kitty keychains available at my online store at the moment, until the weather gets warmer again next month and I can make more. Check them out at unicornhunterdesigns.storenvy.com

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Fuck this very much. Mature labels like this is what they do in Russia to queer books. YA books already have age ranges inside or on the back of books. Introducing this kind of labeling in the age of censorship we're in is a very specific, very gross choice and it says a lot about the publishers.

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I just posted this meme as a reply to someone saying “but the people who got vaccines and wore masks still got covid”. And I kid you not, their reply to this meme was “see? You got hit with an arrow anyway. The armor didn’t do sh*t.” Like dude you literally are the guy in this meme.

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I have been trying to make plans to see my girlfriend in the next month and genuinely like I might just take the train to and from Vancouver and fly out of there 😬😬😬

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Behold, my new book, Fire Consumes Us! www.amazon.com/Fire-Consume...

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I love that we have some of my childhood chairs now, and my son 🐱 gets to sit on them.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s attack on USAID has cut HIV/AIDS workers off from medicine and money. The Trump Administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives. Read our scoop here:

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For decades, NSF broader impacts have been explicit that a target goal is increasing participation in STEM fields. I don't think I have ever read a proposal that does not include any of these flagged terms. Nearly every grant will fail in the decision tree later in the thread.🧪⚛️

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It’s ironic that I have to get up to go buy cat food…and there’s a cat in my lap.

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Notice the framing. Notice the headlines. Notice the photos. Notice how they portray the powerful, vs how they portray the powerless. These are all specific and intentional editorial choices used to manipulate how you receive and react to news.

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There have been 2 plane crashes in a week, and now today a plane’s engine caught fire. This is not a coincidence. This is a direct result of 45 gutting airline safety in the name of profit.

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I hate that I’m literally buying freeze-dried bunker food in case 45 breaks something that really turns this country into an apocalyptic world.

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This is what my living room looks like. Our animals are so spoiled. And yes, I feel very silly when washing those fitted sheets and thinking “yup, these are my animals’ sheets, they have their own sheets”. #cats

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Horatio had pieces of food in his fur this morning. I was petting him as I started my day, and I just kept picking crumbs out. It reminded me of the book The View from Saturday, where the girl with frizzy red hair always gets stuff like a puzzle piece stuck in her hair.

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“It was time for the manticore to choose.” Fire Consumes Us, out now.

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Here’s my video about what I read in the 2nd half of January. youtu.be/DPAJwOXr3YE?...

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So he’s gutting airline safety and prohibiting the food and health agencies from communicating with the public, so I guess it’s not safe to fly, or eat food. I sure hope the people who wanted cheaper groceries are happy 🙄

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All I want to do is read books, play in a band, make art, film book reviews, and post photos of my cats. But nooo, I have to worry that climate change will mess up the world and prevent me from having a good life by the time I’m 50. This is so not cool.

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Camouflaged.

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It wasn’t an accident.

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Don’t let her innocent face fool you.

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My husband thought Horatio hadn’t gotten his food, because he was sitting in front of his bowl. He got his food, I watched him eat it, but he was already waiting for his next meal, because his motto is “my stomach may be full but my mouth is empty”.

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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

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Thank you for making the world’s coolest cover, Halie! 🎉

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Who’s ready for my new book?

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January reading wrap-up part 1 is finally here! I caught a cold that totally killed my voice, but better late than never! #booktube youtu.be/bhbW7mDDhhU?...

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New book announcement coming soon!

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