Sarah LR
@kerendith.bsky.social
Kitty in pfp is my late Momo. I just adopted a dilute torbie named Gabi. All is in flux! Queer, disabled, nontheist (ex-vangelical), nerdy, depressive. Unusual likes: early music, black licorice, Tarkovsky movies.
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Sarah LR
@kerendith.bsky.social
· Nov 4
Unless I know you, I am unlikely to follow back if you do not use alt text or you repost many things without alt text. It isn't only exclusive of those with visual impairment; it impedes the utility of search and mute functions.
I started playing this and Gabi woke up and looked around like "What the heck?!" 🤣 I didn't know snores had that much significance for cats.
Oh. She's in slug pose now. Why does that make me feel bad? 😂
Oh. She's in slug pose now. Why does that make me feel bad? 😂
February 14, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I started playing this and Gabi woke up and looked around like "What the heck?!" 🤣 I didn't know snores had that much significance for cats.
Oh. She's in slug pose now. Why does that make me feel bad? 😂
Oh. She's in slug pose now. Why does that make me feel bad? 😂
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I think I drew a mole playing basketball
February 14, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I think I drew a mole playing basketball
Today I learned that some of Gabi's most pitiful vocalizations are actually just her "I see an insect. I see an insect" notification.
The insect in question this time wasn't even out of reach! It was on the floor 10 inches in front of her. It all sounded much more dramatic.
The insect in question this time wasn't even out of reach! It was on the floor 10 inches in front of her. It all sounded much more dramatic.
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Today I learned that some of Gabi's most pitiful vocalizations are actually just her "I see an insect. I see an insect" notification.
The insect in question this time wasn't even out of reach! It was on the floor 10 inches in front of her. It all sounded much more dramatic.
The insect in question this time wasn't even out of reach! It was on the floor 10 inches in front of her. It all sounded much more dramatic.
Dishwasher is running, dryer is running, I checked for updates to phone apps, Gabi's been fed, I'm caught up on meds (for the next 20 minutes)...
Hm. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Well, will play a puzzle game for a few minutes and see if I remember.
Hm. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Well, will play a puzzle game for a few minutes and see if I remember.
February 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Dishwasher is running, dryer is running, I checked for updates to phone apps, Gabi's been fed, I'm caught up on meds (for the next 20 minutes)...
Hm. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Well, will play a puzzle game for a few minutes and see if I remember.
Hm. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Well, will play a puzzle game for a few minutes and see if I remember.
I haven't come up with anything else yet, but I did buy one of Karen Baugh Menuhin's Heathcliff Lennox books, "St Valentine's Day Murder." I've read a few books in that series and liked them, so I took the chance.
Yeah, I bought the ebook. So I will start it tomorrow and finish, ahem... sometime.
Yeah, I bought the ebook. So I will start it tomorrow and finish, ahem... sometime.
I sort of meant to plan something for tomorrow so I wouldn't suddenly find myself with Valentine's and/or Cole Hall Shooting Anniversary blues, but my brain doesn't seem to have noticed the dates between the 9th and 13th. Oops.
February 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I haven't come up with anything else yet, but I did buy one of Karen Baugh Menuhin's Heathcliff Lennox books, "St Valentine's Day Murder." I've read a few books in that series and liked them, so I took the chance.
Yeah, I bought the ebook. So I will start it tomorrow and finish, ahem... sometime.
Yeah, I bought the ebook. So I will start it tomorrow and finish, ahem... sometime.
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A coyote taking a whiff to "gather intelligence" near the Reserve earlier last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).
February 14, 2026 at 12:02 AM
A coyote taking a whiff to "gather intelligence" near the Reserve earlier last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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[via Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium]
February 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
[via Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium]
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Are you anywhere near NW IL? The workshop list has been posted for the annual April Fiber Fair, so if that’s your jam give it a click.
(Two hrs west of Chicago, 45 mins from Rockford, 1.5 south of Madison.)
(Two hrs west of Chicago, 45 mins from Rockford, 1.5 south of Madison.)
Stephenson County Fiber Art Fair
A celebration of fiber and the fiber arts with workshops, demonstrations of spinning and weaving, vendors offering fibers for spinning plus finished yarn, dyes, books, gifts, equipment, handmade soap ...
www.scfiberartfair.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Are you anywhere near NW IL? The workshop list has been posted for the annual April Fiber Fair, so if that’s your jam give it a click.
(Two hrs west of Chicago, 45 mins from Rockford, 1.5 south of Madison.)
(Two hrs west of Chicago, 45 mins from Rockford, 1.5 south of Madison.)
I sort of meant to plan something for tomorrow so I wouldn't suddenly find myself with Valentine's and/or Cole Hall Shooting Anniversary blues, but my brain doesn't seem to have noticed the dates between the 9th and 13th. Oops.
February 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I sort of meant to plan something for tomorrow so I wouldn't suddenly find myself with Valentine's and/or Cole Hall Shooting Anniversary blues, but my brain doesn't seem to have noticed the dates between the 9th and 13th. Oops.
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I know it's a long shot, anyone here do medical billing to Medicare? I'm back on my bullshit of resolving denials.
please repost.
please repost.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I know it's a long shot, anyone here do medical billing to Medicare? I'm back on my bullshit of resolving denials.
please repost.
please repost.
Sigh.
Bloomberg: #AI company #Anthropic is near a deal to raise more than $20 billion from investors including Peter Thiel’s #FoundersFund and #D.E.Shaw, in one of the largest #startup funding rounds ever.
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Sigh.
I loved that song. So dark.
(Bluesky, home of those who were Gashlycrumb Tinies in previous lives.)
(Bluesky, home of those who were Gashlycrumb Tinies in previous lives.)
Today I finally learned what that "99 Luftballons" song is about and I must say I liked it much better when I didn't know this!
February 12, 2026 at 6:08 AM
I loved that song. So dark.
(Bluesky, home of those who were Gashlycrumb Tinies in previous lives.)
(Bluesky, home of those who were Gashlycrumb Tinies in previous lives.)
Current Gabi status:
Sitting on the stairs very sleepily, patiently listening to me tell her how bummed my mother was that Gabi did not run up and squeak at her when she was here this afternoon.
("Sometimes that girl is conked out HARD, Mom. I'm sorry.")
Sitting on the stairs very sleepily, patiently listening to me tell her how bummed my mother was that Gabi did not run up and squeak at her when she was here this afternoon.
("Sometimes that girl is conked out HARD, Mom. I'm sorry.")
February 12, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Current Gabi status:
Sitting on the stairs very sleepily, patiently listening to me tell her how bummed my mother was that Gabi did not run up and squeak at her when she was here this afternoon.
("Sometimes that girl is conked out HARD, Mom. I'm sorry.")
Sitting on the stairs very sleepily, patiently listening to me tell her how bummed my mother was that Gabi did not run up and squeak at her when she was here this afternoon.
("Sometimes that girl is conked out HARD, Mom. I'm sorry.")
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Please give this a look to help people kidnapped by ICE and shipped to jails in Nebraska.
Article ends with some positive news at least:
Local Nebraska org HOPE-Esperanza has been doing the work to help detainees in many, many ways.
Here’s their site if you’d like to support them.
Local Nebraska org HOPE-Esperanza has been doing the work to help detainees in many, many ways.
Here’s their site if you’d like to support them.
HOPE-Esperanza
hope4np.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Please give this a look to help people kidnapped by ICE and shipped to jails in Nebraska.
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For the first time a Flemish company has been prosecuted and found guilty of the transit of US weapons to Saudi Arabia, to whom weapon exports are banned under Flemish law.
Dankzij 1 van de organisaties in wiens subsidies drastig gesnoeid werd om politieke redenen...
Antwerps bedrijf veroordeeld voor wapentransporten naar Saudi-Arabië
www.demorgen.be/nieuws/antwe...
Antwerps bedrijf veroordeeld voor wapentransporten naar Saudi-Arabië
www.demorgen.be/nieuws/antwe...
Antwerps bedrijf veroordeeld voor wapentransporten naar Saudi-Arabië
Voor het eerst is een Vlaams bedrijf, en drie werknemers, veroordeeld voor de doorvoer van wapens naar conflictgebied. Dat moet een precedent scheppen voor een rist andere zaken bij het federaal parke...
www.demorgen.be
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 AM
For the first time a Flemish company has been prosecuted and found guilty of the transit of US weapons to Saudi Arabia, to whom weapon exports are banned under Flemish law.
Listening to episode 433 of Ben Franklin's World. It's really cool and I'm grateful my brain is letting me listen and not doing its "But I don't like sounds right now!" troublemaking.
benfranklinsworld.com?p=10141
benfranklinsworld.com?p=10141
Episode 433: Ronald Angelo Johnson, Entangled Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the American War for Independence
Did you know that the American and Haitian Revolutions were entangled? Explore Haiti's connections with the American War for Independence.
benfranklinsworld.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Listening to episode 433 of Ben Franklin's World. It's really cool and I'm grateful my brain is letting me listen and not doing its "But I don't like sounds right now!" troublemaking.
benfranklinsworld.com?p=10141
benfranklinsworld.com?p=10141
I thought I was trapped under a cat, but it seems to be a big-eared ferret or a furry eel. 🤔
February 10, 2026 at 7:57 AM
I thought I was trapped under a cat, but it seems to be a big-eared ferret or a furry eel. 🤔
I haven't watched any of the Olympics yet, but I think tomorrow I might find some figure skating videos. That sounds fun.
Right now, though, it's time for a nap.
Current falling-asleep reading is a hoopla loan, "A Field Guide to Murder" by Michelle L. Cullen, narrated by Eric Fox and Shaina...
Right now, though, it's time for a nap.
Current falling-asleep reading is a hoopla loan, "A Field Guide to Murder" by Michelle L. Cullen, narrated by Eric Fox and Shaina...
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 AM
I haven't watched any of the Olympics yet, but I think tomorrow I might find some figure skating videos. That sounds fun.
Right now, though, it's time for a nap.
Current falling-asleep reading is a hoopla loan, "A Field Guide to Murder" by Michelle L. Cullen, narrated by Eric Fox and Shaina...
Right now, though, it's time for a nap.
Current falling-asleep reading is a hoopla loan, "A Field Guide to Murder" by Michelle L. Cullen, narrated by Eric Fox and Shaina...
"Okay. I'm almost caught up. I did the 10 p.m. dry meds."
"Dry meds? 🤨"
"I... know what I meant."
"Dry meds."
"Dry meds? 🤨"
"I... know what I meant."
"Dry meds."
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 AM
"Okay. I'm almost caught up. I did the 10 p.m. dry meds."
"Dry meds? 🤨"
"I... know what I meant."
"Dry meds."
"Dry meds? 🤨"
"I... know what I meant."
"Dry meds."
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Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. After 38 days without precipitation and 80F+ weather, these plants will welcome the rain which we will hopefully get next week (Photos: Sicco Rood).
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. After 38 days without precipitation and 80F+ weather, these plants will welcome the rain which we will hopefully get next week (Photos: Sicco Rood).
Hadn't heard about this. Gallego saying there should be a general strike if there election interference. Not sure I expected that from him.
Belle of the Ranch
3m25s
youtu.be/rea6B-_arjM?...
Belle of the Ranch
3m25s
youtu.be/rea6B-_arjM?...
Let's talk about Senators, strikes, and your questions....
YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Hadn't heard about this. Gallego saying there should be a general strike if there election interference. Not sure I expected that from him.
Belle of the Ranch
3m25s
youtu.be/rea6B-_arjM?...
Belle of the Ranch
3m25s
youtu.be/rea6B-_arjM?...
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It's okay Discord says they'll use your data to see if you can skip the age verification photos, based on things like your played games, so if you've ever played a Myst game you're safe
February 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
It's okay Discord says they'll use your data to see if you can skip the age verification photos, based on things like your played games, so if you've ever played a Myst game you're safe
I listened to an episode of Ben Franklin's World about slavery in California last night. Or early this morning. It was very good, but maybe slightly too tough of a listen for me right now. I've been having dreams that are really mixed up, with some fun things, some gross things, and way too...
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I listened to an episode of Ben Franklin's World about slavery in California last night. Or early this morning. It was very good, but maybe slightly too tough of a listen for me right now. I've been having dreams that are really mixed up, with some fun things, some gross things, and way too...
Alrighty, I've spent my SNAP money for the month.
At least half of it on cheese.
I still need coffee and tapioca starch and stuff, but I have a gift card I can use when I can physically go to Meijer. Whenever that is.
At least half of it on cheese.
I still need coffee and tapioca starch and stuff, but I have a gift card I can use when I can physically go to Meijer. Whenever that is.
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Alrighty, I've spent my SNAP money for the month.
At least half of it on cheese.
I still need coffee and tapioca starch and stuff, but I have a gift card I can use when I can physically go to Meijer. Whenever that is.
At least half of it on cheese.
I still need coffee and tapioca starch and stuff, but I have a gift card I can use when I can physically go to Meijer. Whenever that is.
In Canada, those involve catching and riding meese!
(Oh no, I've forgotten the rest of the details my Manitoba friend and I made up. 😢)
(Oh no, I've forgotten the rest of the details my Manitoba friend and I made up. 😢)
I had to explain the genres of the Entwicklungsroman and the Bildungsroman today, and this week's workshop prompt involves strange coming-of-age rituals.
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
In Canada, those involve catching and riding meese!
(Oh no, I've forgotten the rest of the details my Manitoba friend and I made up. 😢)
(Oh no, I've forgotten the rest of the details my Manitoba friend and I made up. 😢)