My cats aren’t allowed in my bedroom, but I tend to nap in the living room and Millie will be in my lap SECONDS after I’ve covered up with a blanket and is snoring almost immediately. She stays with me the whole time I’m asleep. It’s so endearing 💕
Voters in Frederick County, an increasingly liberal area north of Washington, D.C., this week ousted their notoriously anti-immigrant sheriff, who boasted of having helped deport 2,000 people.
https://boltsmag.org/voters-oust-notorious-pro-ice-sheriff-in-maryland/
I regret to inform you they’ve pulled out the Christmas music.
I don't know why people think it's a good idea to cite studies on news sites or in blog posts without linking to them or providing any identifying details. It bugs the crap outta me.
The day after the Blue Apocalypse ICE pushed aggressively in cities across the country, kidnapping people of their streets.
Don't lose sight of what we're fighting against.
It's about more than Congress and always has been.
Oh no, I didn't realize I would have to have a Switch 2 for Ocarina of Time. I don't want to buy a whole new console for a single game that I played 20+ years ago lolsob
Good morning, internet https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YTgWT0jrTFw&si=CpUHs-jePNQ8p2IE
Oath is having a big sale rn if you wanted to jump on the clear protein bandwagon. (Not an ad, just a good deal.) https://oathnutrition.com/collections/all-products
RE: https://mas.to/@dmacphee/117563992205302454
What is fucking WILD is that Aaron Swartz was hounded to his death for using a script to liberate this same info, at smaller scale, for free use by students
RE: https://pleroma.pch.net/objects/3c645426-5dba-49ce-a90d-e5b82ab91335
Love to live in the future
New book day! The latest Murderbot short story. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f5dea340-193f-4ca2-873b-52720d3fcf6f #reading #bookstodon
The next push to protect trans rights needs to be:
- Passing gender identity protections in state constitutions
- Repealing anti-trans laws where we have the numbers
- Calling in the Dems that got scared and flinched on sports and surgeries
- Challenging the laws in the new left-leaning state courts
Quite a lot of news about Flock this past week, including:
- people being pulled over due to "suspicious" driving patterns
- Flock re-installing cameras against a municipality's wishes
https://thesurveilledcity.com/articles/news-and-developments-nov-4-2026/
I hope the Democrats rise to the occasion and do what justice requires.
Otherwise, what’s the point?
If there aren’t consequences for a coup or concentration camps or deploying the military against peaceful protestors or villainizing the most marginalized amongst us, what exactly are there consequences for?
We have been letting these people get away with this nonsense since at least 1865 and it has done us zero good.
I sat at my desk yesterday and did a bunch of work and today, for the life of me, cannot figure out what that work was. Did I just dissociate a whole day?
it's now lake wokeist and the gulf of antifa
RE: https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/117549610789039640
I can’t wait for the day that we recognize that anti-LGBTQ parenting is just child abuse