I need to say the quiet part out loud: THEY ARE CRIPPLING THE CIVIL SERVICE TO MAKE THE COUP EASIER.

We are in the midst of an oligarchic coup and I have no idea what to do.

Best moments of yesterday: my husband's second cousin approached him to ask if he thought
"Musk's shakeup" would unearth "the stolen Nikola Tesla documents." I was just sitting there, eating my food, wondering where someone even hears of this crap?

Woo! I survived a Thanksgiving being civil to my husband's ultra-conservative extended family!

In grad school, I had a colleague in the physics department tell me they found astronomy interesting, but that the vastness of space scared them at a bone deep level. I find enormous comfort in the vastness of space because no matter what happens on Earth, the rest of the Universe will continue.

As always, I know that things are complicated. We are in the midst of a media revolution, in a nuclear age, with a populace who seems to be largely ignoring the same science that supports their lifestyles, in a climate crisis, but at the same time, in an era of progress never seen before. What now?

yep

Last weekend, one of my best friends said to me that they don't believe Trump will be able to get much done because congress won't want to give him their power. I really hope they are right.

"You can't be the good guys and do bad guy things." - Terry Pratchett. I think about this a lot.

Who is peeing and thinking "I wonder what the person next to me is doing with their genitalia right now?" I'm sitting there worried that I'm peeing too loud....

Let's see if I can get this trend right:
😻Cats
🐢Turtles
📖Books
🧶Crochet
✂️Miniatures
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
🎃Halloween
🧙‍♀️Democracy
👩‍🌾Gardening
🐟Fish
🆓Free Ukraine
🆓Free Palestinian Civilians
🆓Free Israeli Hostages
🖤Black Lives Matter
🧁Baking
💉Diabetes
🦐Neocardinia Shrimp Keeping
👩‍🏫Pro Choice

My new name is "no".

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

What they said!

I left Twitter's corpse after Musk bought it, so happy to have a new place to like find content that doesn't make me want to cry!