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Gus was a very cool cat. I’m not a cool cat. I’m a professor, a potter, a craft-collector, a reader of sci-fi.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Love love love fall weather
A picture of a green area surrounded by trees in fall colors, with a horse sculpture in the foreground.
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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coates is genuinely a generational writer
What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Callie, who cannot decide whether she wants cuddles or kills
Callie, a tortie cat, lays on a bed and looks (sorta) into the camera. A couple of seconds after taking this photo, the photographer (me) acquired several new scratches.
September 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Just a photo of a very orange cat being an orange cat.
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Sleeping in a sunbeam
Arnold, a super lovely orange cat, is curled up in a cat bed in a sunbeam. The cat bed is a cool dome made of reeds.
August 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Sweet Jane
Jane, a very timid brown and white tabby, looks up at the camera.
August 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Ada darling
Ada, a grey cat who looks far more innocent than she is, looks up at the camera.
August 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Nothin but the facts
June 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Creation and muse
Ada, a grey cat, sits and looks at the camera. At her feet is a grey ceramic cat that looks curled up in sleep.
May 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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iamhectordiaz.com
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This may look like just a cute cat photo. However it in fact represents an on-going feud between me (human, with opposable thumbs and a PhD) and Millie (6 lb cat whose nose hasn’t worked a day in her life) over who gets to use that chair.
Millie, an orange and white calico cat, is curled up asleep on an orange chair.
April 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Backlit by spring.
Two cats sit in a window looking out. They are silhouettes from backlighting, you can see a bright pink dogwood tree in full bloom in the background.
April 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Goofy cat is goofy
Arnold, an orange cat, is on a cat tree with his paw around a pillar, looking at the camera with a goofy look on his face.
April 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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One of the things I am forever grateful for is to have a job in a place that is a bit of a park and a bit of an outdoor sculpture walk. (And a bit of a nature documentary during duck mating season 🙈)
An idyllic scene with a small stream, flowering trees and a bit of lawn in the foreground. In the background, a glimpse of a colorful sculpture.
April 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A moment of calm
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Sweetheart McMillerton
Millie, a Persian cat, looks a bit beyond the camera. She’s laying on a teal couch with a yellow pillow. She appears to have a grumpy face but actually her grumpy face is just her happy face.
April 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Three from above
Arnold, and orange cat, looks up at the camera mid-meow. He is an exceedingly cute orange cat. His shape is long and skinny, rather noodle like. Ada, a grey cat with green eyes, looks up at the camera. She’s got a look of suspicion on her face, though actually it’s stubbornness that is only masquerading as suspicion. Callie, a black and orange tortie cat, is looking up at the camera with eyes that pierce your soul, ideally (to Callie) subliminally convincing you to open the door and let her outside.
April 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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propublica.org
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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April 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A legal resident being kidnapped by the secret police. That’s where we are right now.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM