Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In after Baud. Damn.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Petty moves from a petty man.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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Friday Night Diversions Open Thread: Double Dutch, Triple Dogs

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Didn't realize until my second watch that the lady was using two dogs to swing the ropes lol

— Toilet Atlas (@joxyandsuch.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM

I’m 90% sure the darling in the pink traction boots is a ‘border pap’ — crossbred border collie / papillon, intended to produce a more compact dog who’s almost as smart and speedy as a purebred border collie, but one less driven, more amenable to foolish human whimsies.

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Friday Catblogging in Memory of Kevin Drum

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Kevin would always post pictures of his cat, and if he didn’t invent Friday cat blogging, he sure perfected it.

So here’s my kid’s cat — Pearl. This is from a couple of years ago where she had a stint at our house. That “Smarty Kat” branding is for the toy, not the cat. She’s quite dumb, I’m afraid to report. She’s also a bit of a misogynist (not kidding). Guys are in. Gals, she’s not so certain about.

I’ve learned from Pearl that either indoor cats aren’t super smart, or maybe this particular cat isn’t. Pearl’s never been outside, and her world is the four walls of wherever my kid is living. We always had indoor/outdoor cats at home. They were just hunting and killing machines who roamed the neighborhood at night and came back with pieces of cat claw embedded in their fur from vicious fights. For them, it was a harsh existence that they seemed to crave. For Pearl, anything outside of the front door is a mysterious land of fearful monsters.

That all said, she likes me when I visit because I’m male and I give her good treats.

This is another cross-post from my new place — heymistermix.com. John graciously invited me to cross post here, with the comments off.  You’ll need to subscribe to comment. Subscriptions are free, and you can just visit the site to read my stuff. I’ll cross-post some of it here.  Kay is also posting there now if you’re interested in her take on things.

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Good News in My Backyard

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I went looking for my favorite photo of Miss Willow, but I couldn’t find it.  I did find this one of baby Henry, though!

Anything But the SOTU

This must have been from the first two weeks because we still had the tarp on the hardwood floor.  Pretty sure he weighted 4.5 pounds then!

I found my favorite photo of Miss Willow when I was changing the wallpaper on my iPhone, and now I can’t find that photo of her, so the best I can do is a screen capture from my phone.

Does anyone know if there’s a way to get information about the photo that’s your wallpaper?  Normally I would just poke around, but I don’t want to risk losing this photo, even as wallpaper, since I can’t seem to find it anywhere.  But it has to be on my phone in order to be the wallpaper.

The good news is that after 3 weeks of stress and worry, I got a call from the vet about Willow this afternoon.  Backstory: they had found a tumor on her neck when she went in to have her teeth cleaned.  So she had surgery last Thursday to remove the tumor, and today we got the results back.  This is not something that spreads, and the vet got the whole tumor and good margins, so she said there’s nothing to worry about now.

Whew!  My brain knows it’s great news, but it hasn’t quite sunk in yet; still totally wound up and shaky.

Anyway, yippee!

I know Josie got some great news today, but I’ll let her share that.

How about good news in some of the other backyards?

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Move Slow and Break Things RESPITE Thread

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This place needs a cat photo. Here:

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“Huh, I wonder who did that?”

I don’t know why Monty had something against that silver pothos cutting, but I was going to repot it anyway. The Child suggested Monty was “conducting experiments in gravity,” which made me chuckle.

There was a major meeting of European leaders in Paris today, but I’ll wait until there are more substantial links to share beyond immediate soundbites and reactions. Good noises from Starmer, at any rate.

Meanwhile, here is some news we all missed last week: via Forbes, Opossum Hospitalized After Gorging on a Costco Chocolate Cake

Sometimes, your eyes are bigger than your stomach. That’s what happened to a very relatable opossum in Omaha, Nebraska after it stuffed itself on a Costco chocolate cake. It turns out the furry cake queen’s overindulgence may have also saved her life. Wildlife doctors discovered she was suffering from unrelated lead toxicity and are now treating her for both the cake feast and the lead.

Real estate agent Kim Doggett and her family discovered the opossum on their deck furniture. The family ran out of space to store a Costco chocolate mousse cake. “I always have a house full and we cook a lot and when you run out of room in the fridge you just sit it on the table outside in the winter,” Doggett says over a Facebook chat.

Doggett’s son went to put some homemade peanut butter balls outside to set up and found the opossum with the mostly eaten cake. Chocolate-y footprints pointed to the thievery. The family tried to move the animal along but Doggets says “it just didn’t look right.”

Click through if you need some light relief.

I grew up in the Poconos, so Animals Where They Shouldn’t Be was a regular occurrence. A baby skunk once got itself trapped inside the front entry porch of my parents’ house. It did its best to spray the wildlife rescue person who came to help it, but apparently its stink glands weren’t mature enough to do anything yet, so it just looked like it was aggressively mooning her.

Share your moments of respite below. It’s cold where a lot of you are; anyone making any good winter comfort food?

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Essential Distractions Open Thread: Puppy Bowl!

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Tune in to the Puppy Bowl!
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Purr Therapy Respite Thread

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I moved into my current house during COVID lockdown #1. My cats came with the house. I started sending friends videos of Monty purring on particularly awful news days—the big shiny himbo has quite the motor. (His late colleague, Lola, just sort of silently vibrated.) I am embedding one of his bangers here:

Sound up to hear the Monty Motor, obvs. This was taken this past June.

Not much to say about today. It’s a sad day. I spent slightly too much time checking the USD to GBP exchange rate and scrolling on Bluesky, but it’s time to really rein that in. I intend to do what I did starting in 2017 and never let the president’s voice be heard in my house. The Child didn’t hear him speak until 2019, when we were visiting family in Pennsylvania, and she laughed out loud in disbelief.

Today she asked me why I was looking annoyed and I reminded her that Trump’s new term of office starts today.

“Ugh,” she said. “What a maroon.”

I’m not sure if I’m raising her right or if Bugs Bunny did, but that made me smile.

I now return to writing marketing article #14 of 2025. They’re keeping me busy, the clients, thank God. Talk about whatever—I’m sure there’s no avoiding discussing about the inauguration here, but this is a good space for light topics, recipes, etc.

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