It's embarrassing how long I will go without seeing a doctor because I hate having to call to make an appointment.

I would hire a household staff: personal chef, cleaning service, and a personal assistant to make appointments for me.

time to make some disrespectful ass phone calls to your congressional reps

I get claustrophobic in airplanes. I am not built for space flight.

A drawing titled "Wild Rabbit vs. Easter Bunny". On the left, there's a wild cottontail bunny sitting down looking alert. On the right, there's a cartoonish Easter Bunny wearing a little polkadot vest and standing next to some colorful eggs. The wild bunny is labeled "Eyes on the sides of the head to watch for predators." and the Easter Bunny "Forward-facing eyes to hunt for meat." Wild bunny: "Active all year." Easter Bunny: "Only active in Spring - otherwise in diapause as a cyst?" Wild bunny: "Walks on four legs." Easter Bunny: "Unusual bipedal stance." Wild bunny: "Plain brown and white fur." Easter Bunny: "Distinctive vest-like markings." Wild bunny: "Gives birth to live young." Easter Bunny: "Steals and redistributes eggs; parasitic reproductive strategy?"

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

A jewel-toned lobster faces the camera, with long horns and spiky bits all over the exoskeleton. It's on a wooden board. The coloration is ornate and very multi-colored, from purple to yellow to blue to orange. There are five species of rock lobster found in tropical Australian waters, but by far the most abundant is the Ornate Rock Lobster, Panulirus ornatus. This species forms the basis of dive fishery in both the Torres Straits and in the Gulf of Papua. CSIRO scientists have traced the movements of these lobsters to reveal a remarkable picture of animal migration. The lobsters undertake a journey that takes them hundreds of kilometres across the Torres Strait to their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Papua. After breeding, they seem to disappear. November 1985. Photo credit: Robert Kerton

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster.

They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters.

So why so colorful?

A black poster with a hand drawn picture of a cat. The sign says "Fascist Get Scratches." The cat also has a little speech bubble that says "No war! Eat the rich."

My favorite sign from the Long Beach #NoKings protest today.

This book sounds rad and I will be ordering a copy for the little free book cart.

@stephcherrywell.com

Happy St Patrick's Day.

Illustration of a chibi-style Mothra with block text that reads HAPPY MOTHRA’S DAY

Happy Mothra’s Day to all who celebrate
#art #Kaiju

You should celebrate with two blueberry muffins: one to eat now and one to go.

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

A stack of books. From bottom to top: Lumber Janes Parents Day, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Chuck Tingle's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, Lee Ostertag's The Witch Boy, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys, Becky Chambers, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Akeaeke Emezi's Pet, Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club, TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door, George M Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, and Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth.

Added some fun LGBTQ+ books to the free book cart outside my office.

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Two panes of a comic. In the first, Jimmy Olson steals a giant wheel. In the second, a reporter is seen saying "...obile has, I repeat, lost its wheel "

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

The morning so far

Cover of the book Don't Trust Fish

An orange cat curled most of the way into a ball, but with his back legs stretched out so he looks like a shrimp.

We also have a Stormageddon, aka Stormy!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"LGBTQ children's books ≠ teaching kids about sex."

Oooh! Just remembered Sufjan Stevens' "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!"

Turns out I have a ton of favorite songs w/ absurdly long titles:
Radiohead "Where I End & You Begin"
STP "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
Caroline Polacheck "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings"
Death Cab "I Will Follow You into the Dark"
Nirvana "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"

My husband's going to disown me for this one, but also The Breeders' "Drivin' on 9." Like nails on a chalkboard.

I should not have read this thread, b/c now I have ALL of the worst songs stuck in my head.

My personal contribution to the list is Smashing Pumpkins' 1979. Absolutely the most tediously bland song I've ever had the misfortune of hearing.

Timeline cleanse ❄️

I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME.