Happy New Year and happy spring!

Health care providers: stop telling patients with traumatic medical histories that they're "lucky to be alive," and for the love of god don't refer to it as a "time bomb."

#chronicillness #medicaltrauma #anxiety

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.

On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

Great point.

hand drawn protest sign showing the doge dog with a rainbow border and words around it reading "fake agency / much illegal / very data breach / such treasury / unelected / very coup / wow"

One of the best hand-drawn protest signs I've seen in a while.

Morning Bluesky ☕️ ✌️
Mood🫤:

Deserves repeating.

The accessibility page of the White House website is offline for no reason besides the exclusion of people with disabilities from public discourse. It's only been four days. Document. Remember. Read history. We are not overreacting.

www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility

As best you can, ignore him.

People with eyes: "Elon Musk make a Nazi salute."

Historians who have studied the rise of fascism: "Elon Musk made a Nazi salute."

Mainstream Media: "Elon Musk made a heartfelt gesture that was misconstrued as a Nazi salute."

The Band has left the stage.

Biden affirms Equal Rights Amendment is part of Constitution President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as the…

Thank you President Joe Biden for affirming the Equal Rights Amendment has overcome the hurdles to become the 28th Amendment. Please ratify it for the millions of Americans who need their rights protected.

This is part of the dumbing down that started with Forrest Gump. I'll never forgive that movie.

Bowie says what's up.

Accurate.

Are you fucking kidding?

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#makeamericasmartagain

#makeamericasmartagain

Just remembering that Spencer and Hank are walking together forever on the sidewalk in front of our old house. #ghostsonstreetview

We absolutely don't deserve dogs, but I'm glad they don't care.

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Good morning from Bowie.

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”

A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:

STAND OUT

“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.