Going to a Catholic health care facility is fucking wild because they just casually have a fucking execution device (complete with tiny corpse model!) in a place of prominence on the wall. Ghoulish behavior

My bedroom is a huge-yet-cozy converted attic in my friends’ 150-year-old farmhouse, and mice aren’t too uncommon in a house like this. Nbd. There is currently a skittering sound in the ceiling and my cat - who gleefully dispatched the last one a couple months ago - is Losing Her Fucking Mind

Important reminder: “AI” programs/LLMs cannot know things, feel things, understand things, synthesize information cogently, be reliable, and they most certainly cannot apologize. They are incapable of having “intelligence,” even. They are predictive text machines, not sentient beings.

Lots of silver-covered chocolate gelt coins in a pile on a wooden table. On the right, a blurred hand snatches away a blue dreidel that has gimel facing up

Played dreidel tonight. I got gimel like 10 times in a row and kept throwing extra coins into the pot to try to rebalance things a bit but still ended up with every coin in the game. Anyway here’s my friend fucking up the photo I was going to post to commemorate the occasion 😂

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

Maybe it’s just a “working on a college campus” thing but I was just asked if I’m almost done with finals 😂 ma’am I have been done with finals for a decade and a half

Delayed realization on my part I’m sure but is the trend of putting everything in video form basically just a result of teaching three-cueing as a method of “reading”? Because now there are that many people for whom watching a video is ACTUALLY faster than reading words? What a colossal fuckup.

Not to be all “omg millennials look soooo young teehee” or anything but I did just get asked, a month before my 39th birthday, what I am majoring in. Dude should definitely get his eyes checked but I’ll take it anyway 😂

Also this morning on the way to work I watched a Bald Eagle snatch a dead squirrel off the road and carry it off while being chased by several crows. Quicker than waiting in line at Dunkin I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I wasn’t kidding about this btw. That one job didn’t pan out but I’m now working at UMaine in Orono, just moved here last week, drove from Santa Fe by myself (with my cat), currently living with aforementioned bff. Hell yeah.

Started a new job recently, and I’m now realizing that I’m gonna have to get used to being expected to awwww over photos of people’s dogs and kids instead of cats and wildlife. I’m not a hater I’m just not actually interested in dogs or children and I’ve never had to fake it before 🫤

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

It’s the weird culty intensity that tips it into turbo-cringe. Look, if you’re into schmaltzy bland heterosexual pop music then good for you, have a blast, but like… she’s a product. You’re being advertised to. There’s no mystery there. It’s fine but pls touch grass and get it off my god damn feed

Keeping my mouth shut about this on other platforms bc I wanna Let People Enjoy Things but this feels more like shouting into a void so: OH MY GOD SHUT UP ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT WHO FUCKING CARES HOLY SHIT SHE SUCKS SO SO SO HARD

She’s not deep or special she’s just another boring-ass rich white lady

They are! I’ve definitely done the “what’s that weird small crow?” double-take 😅

Good news! This can still be your corvid photo of the year (grackles aren’t corvids 😉)

(And this photo is indeed excellent!)

In case anyone needs an 18-second distraction and/or mental health boost, here’s June getting lost in the sauce (the sauce being Churu)

Hopefully you’ll see this cool bird again! The damaged tail might make it harder for them to escape other predators, especially raptors, but here’s hoping for the best (and quick feather growth). 🤞🏻

Might’ve stood out as an easier target, yeah! I wouldn’t suspect a raptor necessarily (if a raptor starts plucking feathers, the prey has bigger things to worry about already), but feather plucking is classic cat damage. 😢 Long tail would be easy for a cat to grab and yank too.

Leucistic GTGR with missing tail feathers - I can say, as a wildlife rehabilitator, that when a bird comes in without any tail feathers, they’ve almost always been attacked by a predator, usually a domestic cat. A few missing is a molt, total loss is a traumatic event.

A brown tabby cat staring at the camera with enormous green eyes. On the floor in front of her is a plush toy shaped like a sandwich with a little kitty face on the bread

I start feeling the pressure from this girl around 9 or 10pm every night. Just staring at me with her gigantic eyes until I’m unnerved enough to give in.

Last night I found a paper I wrote in grad school, about 15 yrs ago, about ways to assess and improve students’ access to sex education materials in Indiana secondary school libraries.

That paper would look awfully different if I wrote it now, and not in ways I might have thought. 🫠

💯💯💯💯💯!!! It takes so much more than love and passion to care for animals. It even takes more than money (often in short supply). You HAVE TO have proper training, skills, depth and breadth of knowledge, ethics, oversight, support, infrastructure, certifications/licenses, etc, etc, etc

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

Brought to you by the dog who lost his goddamn mind at the auto glass place and his shithead human who just sat there like “aww, he’s all bark” as if that wasn’t the exact reason this autistic person was visibly flinching and shaking. Anyway I’m sitting outside now, where the dog should be 😒

Hey if you must bring your loud anxious dog into a public place (and here’s an idea: don’t), perhaps don’t bring them into a tiny waiting room and just stay there while they bark and growl anytime something happens. You can, and should, fuckin Leave

A bright rainbow is shining down from grayish evening clouds. The end of the rainbow is landing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There is scrubby grass in the foreground and mountains in the background.

The sky over Santa Fe says happy Pride month (more like Santa GAY amirite) #santafe #rainbow #pride

It was kind of a ripoff of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with an unreasonable number of Monty Python references and a very “awkward teenager” title (“Sanity is Never a Good Thing”). Writing it was a blast though and I still quote parts of it to myself occasionally haha

A brown tabby cat standing on her hind legs and putting her front paws up on the photographer’s (clothed in black) knee, staring very adorably at the camera or, more likely, at the off-camera ice cream treat that the photographer is holding.

I’m sitting here eating a Klondike bar and, apparently, about to find out what my cat would do for one

Not a lot to choose from since I haven’t been to many concerts, but Axel Flóvent opening for Radical Face was very, very good