Shower Cat
@shower-cat.bsky.social
A cat who took showers. 💔 Kittens who romp. 😻 My hooman is interested in cats, politics, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and nuclear weapons and nonproliferation but mostly cats
Pinned
Himb gib one peet. DO YOU ACCEMPT??
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Himb gib one peet. DO YOU ACCEMPT??
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This is a classic.
Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions?
Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...
slate.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is a classic.
The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
This is the way. I do almost everything myself and the lists start with tasks starting on Monday, to serve dinner at 6pm on Thursday. I’m excited because this year I have a countertop oven, which should somewhat relieve the elaborate ballet of the oven on Thanksgiving Day.
Make a spreadsheet. List cooking times (and resting for protein), device (oven, crock pot, stove top, smoker, grill, etc) and temperatures. Work backwards from when dinner is ready. Project manage this fucker.
most people just aren’t going to magically know how to juggle all those dishes just because it’s a holiday. there’s no shame in doing a couple of things really well
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is the way. I do almost everything myself and the lists start with tasks starting on Monday, to serve dinner at 6pm on Thursday. I’m excited because this year I have a countertop oven, which should somewhat relieve the elaborate ballet of the oven on Thanksgiving Day.
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The whole Trump foreign policy apparatus is three or four incompetent bumblers and a couple of rabid raccoons each doing 10 different jobs
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The whole Trump foreign policy apparatus is three or four incompetent bumblers and a couple of rabid raccoons each doing 10 different jobs
Cool, new Fed chairman
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Cool, new Fed chairman
Scrolling, I momentarily thought this was another Olivia Nuzzi quote about RFK.
he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading all around him
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Scrolling, I momentarily thought this was another Olivia Nuzzi quote about RFK.
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I'm getting increasingly optimistic that we can deter or defeat a coup, even if Trump is still alive and conscious in 2026 and 2028 — although I'm still terrified that there's not enough contingency planning among Democrats.
But what comes after? The scope of massive reforms needed? Not so much.
But what comes after? The scope of massive reforms needed? Not so much.
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm getting increasingly optimistic that we can deter or defeat a coup, even if Trump is still alive and conscious in 2026 and 2028 — although I'm still terrified that there's not enough contingency planning among Democrats.
But what comes after? The scope of massive reforms needed? Not so much.
But what comes after? The scope of massive reforms needed? Not so much.
Well that would explain why it’s peppered with bad translations.
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Well that would explain why it’s peppered with bad translations.
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It remains hilarious to me that Ryan Lizza is seemingly oblivious to the fact that he, too, was just a creepy older man taking advantage of Olivia Nuzzi
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It remains hilarious to me that Ryan Lizza is seemingly oblivious to the fact that he, too, was just a creepy older man taking advantage of Olivia Nuzzi
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As someone who nearly died in childbirth, despite excellent health and the medical care of a highly developed country (not the US), my anger at forced-birthers is matched only by that at "free birthers," who bully women into believing it's a status symbol to give birth without medical help.
At St James’ Church at Cooling in Kent are still to be seen the 13 children’s graves surrounding that of their parents that inspired Dickens to write the opening chapter of Great Expectations.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
I guess even the folk memory of the huge mortality of childbirth and early life is now disappearing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
As someone who nearly died in childbirth, despite excellent health and the medical care of a highly developed country (not the US), my anger at forced-birthers is matched only by that at "free birthers," who bully women into believing it's a status symbol to give birth without medical help.
I hope this is right. I feel like the mood is different than it was a few months ago. I don’t think we are out of the woods yet, but I also think our chances of making it through to the other side are much higher. The midterms remain critical but I am less pessimistic about the outcome.
I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...
MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption
They'd bring America down rather than face accountability, but accountability is not optional.
www.offmessage.net
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I hope this is right. I feel like the mood is different than it was a few months ago. I don’t think we are out of the woods yet, but I also think our chances of making it through to the other side are much higher. The midterms remain critical but I am less pessimistic about the outcome.
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Okay. Y'all owe me. Here it is.
ALL RIGHT YOU FREAKS
Telos News Telos News Read in the Substack app Open app Part 2: She Did It Again Ryan Lizza Nov 21, 2025 ∙ Paid If you are new to this series, start here. She did it again. It was four years later....
docs.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Okay. Y'all owe me. Here it is.
It’s just more grift—Part One of Lizza/Nuzzi saga was free to tease you in with a salacious train wreck but Part Two is “paying subscribers only”. Gotta monetize that scandal! All the worst people.
Part Two is really the ultimate in “Well I don’t know what I was expecting” but I definitely want to read the RFK poems that are too explicit to publish.
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It’s just more grift—Part One of Lizza/Nuzzi saga was free to tease you in with a salacious train wreck but Part Two is “paying subscribers only”. Gotta monetize that scandal! All the worst people.
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Yet another way that carpetbagger Elise Stefanik continues to sell out her constituents in the North Country.
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Yet another way that carpetbagger Elise Stefanik continues to sell out her constituents in the North Country.
Thank god
BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thank god
The clips are amazing comedy gold
hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The clips are amazing comedy gold
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People come up to me all the time, big strong men with tears in their eyes, and they ask me, Sir, why can't the workers control the means of production?
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
People come up to me all the time, big strong men with tears in their eyes, and they ask me, Sir, why can't the workers control the means of production?
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
There is synergy between RFK and Musk in their butcher’s bill.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
There is synergy between RFK and Musk in their butcher’s bill.
I accidentally shared a news article to my recipe organizer instead of to messages and the result is kind of hilarious.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I accidentally shared a news article to my recipe organizer instead of to messages and the result is kind of hilarious.
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public service announcement: do NOT casually scroll through the fae open source license and click 'agree'.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
public service announcement: do NOT casually scroll through the fae open source license and click 'agree'.
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...