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cari@cari1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you want your reluctant impatiens plant to suddenly start blooming I guess let your kittens chew the leaves up and the stress will do it

white flowers on a potted impatiens plant which has bitten-off leaf tips
cari@cari1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

am I ever supposed to get over how amazing it is that you can just. go to your local animal shelter and bring home a tiny family 🥲

close up of a pair of kittens lying next to each other on a blue pillow; one is black with gold eyes looking over its shoulder, the other is gray and asleep
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4mo ago

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before
cari@cari1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. Star Trek Deep Space Nine Doctor Who ER The West Wing Star Trek Enterprise Numb3rs Star Trek The Next Generation The Flash (2014) Simon & Simon Stargate SG-1 Star Trek Voyager The A-Team MacGyver SportsNight Boston Legal

Yor-ICK!@salamurai.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. Gilligan's Island Supernatural Transformers Beast Wars Firefly Buffy TVS/Angel DC Animated Universe SportsNight HHGTTG Star Trek TOS & TNG Robotech Twilight Zone (60s & 80s) Dragnet (60s) Mr Belvedere Star Wars Rebels Gilmore Girls Monty Python

cari@cari1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

listening to philip glass albums on bandcamp today and thinking about why I like his piano etudes on accordion very much but I don’t like his glassworks chamber work on organ. more texture is better? idk

cari@cari1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

said goodbye to my last remaining cat today. we never got a definitive diagnosis on his gi disease but it acted like cancer and he went downhill pretty fast, so it was time. fuck, I miss him already 💔

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 9mo ago

JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

cari@cari1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

little cat dude is back at the hospital for his stomach ulcers, just in time for a weekend of severe weather which is either gonna cost me a fortune in weekend care or force me to nurse him over said weekend with no access to the emergency vet 😐

cari@cari1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

little cat dude’s biopsies are finally back (turns out they’ve been back for a week, no one had time to call 🙃), nothing looks like cancer (although this was just an upper GI scope so it still doesn’t fully rule it out). His steroids might be starting to help but he still feels pretty icky 😔