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liz
@catboss.bsky.social
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indoor cat, usually reading.

📚 anthropolopgy, ethics, marx, mil & civil service, romance, sf/f, tech, ux

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.
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catboss.bsky.social
if you see this, post 4 female characters you love
artemis, gail the snail, dee, and the waitress dressed in matching pink bowling shirts. please watch it’s always sunny in philadelphia.
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
catboss.bsky.social
me irl. come over to admire some quilts and drink some cider, but leave by 9pm sharp
me and the gang (mice wearing clothes doing autumnal things) the book Mousekin’s Golden House
September 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
catboss.bsky.social
quote with the energy you bring to bsky, #booksky
Robert The’s book-sculpture The Reader’s Digest (Cake Book)
September 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
catboss.bsky.social
this, too, is a dialectic
screencap of the two posts above this
September 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
catboss.bsky.social
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2?
Danny Devito in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, looking like a corpse and singing a song about how he does not diddle kids
September 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
catboss.bsky.social
drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future
baba yaga
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
catboss.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
catboss.bsky.social
god i love this website. yes, you sure showed the literal war crimes expert and his purity tests
August 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
catboss.bsky.social
“The USS Vincennes: A Ladies Night Tragedy” stylized as a title card for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
August 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
catboss.bsky.social
there’s a bit from bell hooks on this that haunts me
“Men did care enough to struggle with our demands. And some cared enough to convert to feminist thinking and to change. But only a very, very few loved us – loved us all the way. And that meant respecting our sexual rights. To this day I believe that feminist debate about love and sexuality ended precisely because straight women did not want to face the reality that it was highly unlikely in patriarchal society that a majority of men would wholeheartedly embrace women’s right to say no in the bedroom. Since the vast majority of heterosexual women, even those involved in radical feminist movement, were not willing to say no when they did not want to perform sexually for the fear of upsetting or alienating their mate, no significant group of men ever had to rise to the occasion. While it became more acceptable to say no now and then, it was not acceptable to say no for any significant amount of time. An individual woman in a primary relationship with a man could not say no, because she feared there was always another woman in the background who could take her place, a woman who would never say no.”
August 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
catboss.bsky.social
only truly incorrect thing is cutting people off easily. i only wish, lol
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
catboss.bsky.social
average american politician found
danny devito as frank in the television program “it’s always sunny in philadelphia,” proving he is not an american politician by singing a song about how it is bad to sexually assault children
August 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
catboss.bsky.social
u & me
mac & charlie (potato cat & catboss)
August 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
catboss.bsky.social
i resigned in early june. from jan 20 thru mid-july, i woke up every morning in a shock of panic & sharp pain, violently voided my bowels and/or vomited, and repeated episodes thru the day. averaged ~2 panic attacks per week during work. barely ate. slept from 9p-12 and 4a-6.
“It’s been overwhelmingly stressful. I already have anxiety from being a veteran so adding this to my life, I mean … I wake up having panic attacks at least four times a week. It’s affecting my entire life. Which means my family. My husband is trying to help but I cannot keep dumping everything on him. We also just had our oldest daughter graduate, our youngest just finished kindergarten. My stress has affected all of us and I hate myself for this,” another respondent wrote.
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
catboss.bsky.social
pulled a couple favorites with their captions
At the Chimelong penguin hotel in Guangdong, China, visitors can dine alongside captive penguins in a glacier-themed restaurant. Photograph: Zed Nelson/Institute/© not to be reproduced without permission Tropical Islands holiday resort in Krausnick, Germany, has a sandy beach, a butterfly house and the world’s largest indoor rainforest. Photograph: Zed Nelson/Institute/© not to be reproduced without permission A chimpanzee in Shanghai wild animal park, China. The painted backdrop represents its natural habitat in the forests of central Africa. Photograph: Zed Nelson/Institute © not to be reproduced without permission
July 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
catboss.bsky.social
definitely what you want to see in the “recommendations” section on page one lol
Recommendations: 1. Improve peer review of controversial assessments involving limited-access intelligence. 2. Require political appointees to recuse themselves from managing such assessments during a presidential transition. 3. Mandate that finished analysis citing substandard raw intelligence reports include a context footnote explaining all factors that reduce confidence in the information.
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
catboss.bsky.social
pictured: the icy blue eyes of a killer who knows neither fear nor mercy (swept shit all over my ankle while demanding breakfast)
mr. poopy tail gazes at the camera without shame or awareness of mortality.
July 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
catboss.bsky.social
killer set of paragraphs. love the closing phrase and the buildup to it. solid payoff to the earlier argument on narcissus too
In introspection-loops, when we use chatbots for hours to investigate their own mind and explode their own ideas by the knowledge encoded in latent space with a trillion billion parameters, we don't just read an external world and interpret natural phenomena as symbols -- we create our own symbolic logics by navigating that latent space, where we always will find symbolic representations of whatever is our interest, our curiosity, our preference -- or psychosis. Any user can reinforce her wildest beliefs by feeding them to ChatGPT, which will happily reaffirm them: A reinforcing loop of semiotic self-radicalization. For some vulnerable users, anthropomorphized mimetic AI-systems develop gravitational pull reaffirming their own pathologies, dragging them ever further into their own symbolic space. For them, the interpolatable archive is not a playground to filter your own symbolic meanings through external knowledge with the goal of extracting new insights, but a psychoactive substance -- a semiotic drug.
July 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
catboss.bsky.social
idk man it sounds like she did what the nps advises if you get attacked by a black bear. would have been better to be carrying mace but she reacted appropriately
Bear Attacks Bear attacks are rare; most bears are only interested in protecting food, cubs, or their space. However, being mentally prepared can help you have the most effective reaction. Every situation is different, but below are guidelines on how brown bear attacks can differ from black bear attacks. Help protect others by reporting all bear incidents to a park ranger immediately. Above all, keep your distance from bears! Brown/Grizzly Bears: If you are attacked by a brown/grizzly bear, leave your pack on and PLAY DEAD. Lay flat on your stomach with your hands clasped behind your neck. Spread your legs to make it harder for the bear to turn you over. Remain still until the bear leaves the area. Fighting back usually increases the intensity of such attacks. However, if the attack persists, fight back vigorously. Use whatever you have at hand to hit the bear in the face. Black Bears: If you are attacked by a black bear, DO NOT PLAY DEAD. Try to escape to a secure place such as a car or building. If escape is not possible, try to fight back using any object available. Concentrate your kicks and blows on the bear's face and muzzle. If any bear attacks you in your tent, or stalks you and then attacks, do NOT play dead—fight back! This kind of attack is very rare, but can be serious because it often means the bear is looking for food and sees you as prey.
July 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
catboss.bsky.social
@wesleymorgan.bsky.social i see u buddy, i’m coming for you once my dang library gets your ebook
screencap of Wesley Morgan’s book The Hardest Place on my Libby account, showing the active “notify me” tag
July 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
catboss.bsky.social
i’m not saying this is okay behavior, but i am saying that if you read it in the voice of Princess Donut it’s hilarious #booksky
long tedious list of qualifications to be an influencer’s boyfriend. it’s very long and unreasonable. it’s the op on a reddit pit. dead dove do not eat https://www.reddit.com/r/Nicegirls/comments/1l3h2th/influencer_posts_her_insane_standards_list_for/
July 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
catboss.bsky.social
these remind me a bit of brazilian modernist photographers i love, esp this one by Geraldo De Barros (link for more).
photograph by brazilian photographer Geraldo de Barros depicting a bunch of balloons visually (not physically) intersecting a set of power lines. the lines are neat.
July 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
catboss.bsky.social
who’s going to ohio with me abc6onyourside.com/news/local/n...
The Ohio Poultry Association unveiled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough as its featured deviled egg flavor for the fair this year. That flavor will debut on Wednesday, July 23, inside the Taste of Ohio Pavilion & Beer Garden. Over a dozen flavors will be available, including the all-new: Hot Honey Everything Sriracha Peach Columbus Pizza Spicy Crunchy Cranberry Feta Get a deviled egg flight and try all the new flavors!
July 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
catboss.bsky.social
here’s the floating engagement bait next to this article, following me hopefully down the page as i read. thanks for these super relevant recs! i’ll definitely cl [abruptly throws self out 2nd story window]
July 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
catboss.bsky.social
at first i thought your commentary was synthesizing several articles for a dark joke but it’s all RIGHT HERE.
“The effort reflects a broader scramble inside the Army to scrounge up funds wherever possible as the service ramps up investment in artificial intelligence, drone warfare, and deeper collaborations with Silicon Valley.”
July 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM