Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

For those asking, my American Revolution lecture course is free online here:

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Sending love to both of you

Cheers!

I laughed 😂 And I hope you feel better soon!

Coney!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you! 🎉

Yay! How sweet!

I was so excited when I found this a few years back!

How sweet! I’m sure your students appreciated your thoughtfulness, and hopefully they got a chuckle out of it as well.

I’d love see it! I’m a fan of non-traditional tree decorating. A rainbow tree sounds quite lovely!

Those photos beautifully capture the sunrise. Thanks so much for sharing!

Very nice! I stocked up on things I expect will likely get a lot more expensive soon.

I appreciate your honesty. We all need to reflect on what we got wrong.

My EMDR therapist advised having some sort of grounding practice to come back to at the end of a session. She recommended a visualization - a “safe place” in my mind, so to speak. That didn’t work for me but I did come up with an “after therapy” playlist of songs to help me ground.

As someone with an MBA who works in tech, I whole-heartedly agree. 😂 Though I’m not Catholic, I HAVE been immersed in a spiritual community the past year to help deconstruct much of what I was indoctrinated to believe so I can find a new, more fulfilling (to both me & society at large), career path.

Whew! I can see that as being both exciting and a bit overwhelming. Glad you have your therapist to support you!

Agreed. As a young child I was an avid reader and I vividly remember my older sister telling me, “you talk funny” because I was using words I’d learned in the books I read. I learned to adjust my vocabulary/sentence structure based on who was in the conversation to be more effective in communication

Thank you.

Thank you for the update

If you have an iPhone 14 or up update to iOS 18 before #Milton hits on Wednesday night.

The new #SatelliteMessaging could literally save your life.

1. Open Messages
2. Tap on the message field when no signal is available
3. Choose ‘Emergency Text via Satellite’
4. Follow on-screen prompts

The very first goal I scored in basketball at age 5 was for the wrong team. 😂

Abolish the death penalty

Stress can really take you out of presence. Poetry can bring you back. Here’s hoping the extra stress you’re experiencing (moving) will be over soon so you can spend more time appreciating beauty & feeling it in your soul more regularly again.

Happy Birthday! That caramel frappe looks delicious!

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,040,044!
It’s also my 1 year anniversary.

It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift.

He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.