Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

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So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

This is why both podbro centrists and Berniebro progressives tripped over Platner - both wings are courting white supremacy and misogyny, and are openly hostile to the actual base of the Democratic party.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d ago

Virtually all discourse re internal fighting within the Democratic Party is progressive versus centrist, and I think it's a counterfeit discourse, because that framing overlooks the fact that both take for granted the base as it exists in favor of chasing whiteness.

the modern job market

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS ARE VANISHING: NO-EXPERIENCE HIRING PLUNGES 73% IN JUST 4 YEARS

Y’all, midwesterners have the best Interjection for almost any situation (akin to how allora in Italian is an interjection that can mean almost anything): Ope! Surprised? Ope! Made a mistake? Ope! Calling to someone at a party from across the room? Ope! Accidentally offended? Ope! It’s great.

Downplay a book or a movie: Christopher Nolan's The Weekend Trip

Captain Awkward@captainawkward.bsky.social · 3d ago

Downplay a book or a movie: Before Curfew

When I was small, my father held a knife to my mom’s throat as I screamed and scratched at his legs. Later she made dinner, because refusing to do so would have been worse. That was a few days before we left in the night, her bleeding, me silent. It was the worst night of my life. And the best.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Jewish person: Magneto isn't played very Jewish in on-screen X-Men stuff. -cites sources- The rest of yinz: But have you considered -sources already cited-? This ain't anti-Semitism, but boy it makes me tired. And you don't just do it to Jews.

It's pretty bad when I can't tell who's the anti-Semite in a given exchange on this here wobsite.

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Bad news, everybody: I made myself a wobsite: sites.google.com/mrklaw.org/r... Feel free to point and laugh, I certainly do.

Trump was a kindergarden-level civics test the American electorate failed miserably, and the rest of the world now quite rightly regards us collectively as a toddler stumbling around with a Glock rather than an adult one can deal reasonably with.

I think Americans consistently assume that because they know nothing about other countries other countries know nothing about them, and nothing could be further from the truth

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last wk.

Always tricky to try to read the strategic thinking of another country by past experience, but Iran has, over the last ~4 decades, repeatedly shown an awareness of the US political calendar - gutting Carter, getting max leverage out of late-term Obama, etc. Push to Nov. is an obvious move.

Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11

every time i remember Wolverine is 5"3 in the comics i get hype all over again. the time of short kings is nigh

ok unironically though...do people using Instagram for their business today understand that *Instagram has cut off almost all access if you don't have an account there* stop making walled gardens your base!!

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great totally not creepy moments in Meta’s history:

Folks, after two days of searching the only foster I have found is willing to take only the babies and not the mother. I could make this happen, but it makes me sad. Do I do this? Do I leave them as they are? These are the only two choices.

Jessica Huseman@jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Folks, a mama cat has given birth to four kittens in my bf’s Not At All Safe garage in oak cliff in Dallas. We cannot foster (leaving the country in 5 days), and I doubt my ability to capture any of them. If you are in Dallas and have experience fostering cats, please reach out.

someone should invent good habits that are easy to keep and bad habits that are easy to break

You will never guess what this is in response to.

Progressive Mensch@rockprog.bsky.social · 2w ago

They did a movie about Henry Kissinger?!

"Okay, but what makes somebody American?" is a surprisingly hard question. Granting the premise of the statement doesn't end the conversation (not that you should grant the premise of the statement).

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w ago

His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.

Logged in to do the thing I've been dreading, did it in less than a minute, and now my anxiety is gone. Weird.

Having lived in Jonesboro, Arkansas, I am completely unsurprised by this video.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

"Israel manipulated Trump into going to war" is either a) 'the kind of thing you might say or write quickly as shorthand, but amend when you've had a chance to reflect on it' or b) what we commonly refer to as a 'tell.' 2/2

One day I will figure out how to stay calm when I see antisemitic “Stephen miller is a vampire” jokes but today is not the day.

Shit’s getting brutal out there

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

Nobody gets to move up a rung on the admin ladder for doing the things that work, so they dump money onto a succession of one-weird-tricks

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3w ago

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.