Cathy W
@cathyw.bsky.social
Lover of cheese, knitting, books, tea. The adultiest adult in my house. Possibly actually Gromit. She/Her.
(aka crwilley & afannishknitter over at the dead bird site.)
(aka crwilley & afannishknitter over at the dead bird site.)
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
terribleminds.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
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it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
Trump: "There's a big event on Friday at the Trump-Kennedy Center-- op -- excuse me, at the Kennedy Center"
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
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You cannot see on video what people will do with the boat they are trying to flip over. You're just making that shit up.
You cannot tell what the boat was loaded with.
You cannot tell what the boat was loaded with.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
You cannot see on video what people will do with the boat they are trying to flip over. You're just making that shit up.
You cannot tell what the boat was loaded with.
You cannot tell what the boat was loaded with.
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One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
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When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When all is done, the OU undergrad will have scored a 6 figure right-wing media contract, the higher ed press will still be talking about grading rubrics for conservative views, the trans grad student will still be getting death threats and have her life/job ruined. And everyone else will move on.
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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It’s time for folks at DoD and in the IC to start lawyering up.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It’s time for folks at DoD and in the IC to start lawyering up.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
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"I think episode 8 of ANDOR season 2 is the most important episode of television this year, and probably for many years to come...It’s a crime that Genevieve O'Reilly was not acknowledged with awards.”
~ Bryan Fuller, creator of HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 👍🏼
~ Bryan Fuller, creator of HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 👍🏼
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"I think episode 8 of ANDOR season 2 is the most important episode of television this year, and probably for many years to come...It’s a crime that Genevieve O'Reilly was not acknowledged with awards.”
~ Bryan Fuller, creator of HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 👍🏼
~ Bryan Fuller, creator of HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY 👍🏼
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Like man, genuinely, Trump is using a temple dedicated to the man who fought to bring an end to chattel slavery as though it were a platform at a slave market, weighing men like slabs of meat before having them beat the shit out of each other in his yard for his amusement.
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Like man, genuinely, Trump is using a temple dedicated to the man who fought to bring an end to chattel slavery as though it were a platform at a slave market, weighing men like slabs of meat before having them beat the shit out of each other in his yard for his amusement.
I remember my mother, who was then my Girl Scout leader, asking the troop: "When can you lose your American citizenship?" We made multiple good guesses until "The only way to lose your citizenship is to give it up" was revealed as the answer - as an example of something that made America great.
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country”
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I remember my mother, who was then my Girl Scout leader, asking the troop: "When can you lose your American citizenship?" We made multiple good guesses until "The only way to lose your citizenship is to give it up" was revealed as the answer - as an example of something that made America great.
Finished the latest Rivers of London audiobook on the way home from work. I can't help but imagine that @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is giving side characters *very specific accents* just to fuck with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (who, as always, made the listening experience a pleasure).
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Finished the latest Rivers of London audiobook on the way home from work. I can't help but imagine that @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is giving side characters *very specific accents* just to fuck with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (who, as always, made the listening experience a pleasure).
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Amaze 🤯
Those already exist! I kept forgetting my tea until it was cold and bitter and a coworker got me one shaped like a penguin with a timer. Teabag string goes in lowered beak, then it lifts when timer goes off. Startling noise, though www.amazon.com/Kuchenprofi-...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Amaze 🤯
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Disability accommodations help EVERYONE. Curb cuts were invented for wheelchairs, but are regularly used by cyclists, parents with strollers, people pushing shopping carts, etc
Frankly, I, a Disabled Person, don't care if people who "don't need" accommodations get them
Frankly, I, a Disabled Person, don't care if people who "don't need" accommodations get them
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Disability accommodations help EVERYONE. Curb cuts were invented for wheelchairs, but are regularly used by cyclists, parents with strollers, people pushing shopping carts, etc
Frankly, I, a Disabled Person, don't care if people who "don't need" accommodations get them
Frankly, I, a Disabled Person, don't care if people who "don't need" accommodations get them
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Some people really do terrible, terrible things. And a healthy society can find ways to hold them accountable that doesn't include murdering them (or, indeed, turning a blind eye when they're the targets of horrific violence and/or medical neglect while held in governmental legal facilities).
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December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Some people really do terrible, terrible things. And a healthy society can find ways to hold them accountable that doesn't include murdering them (or, indeed, turning a blind eye when they're the targets of horrific violence and/or medical neglect while held in governmental legal facilities).
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to more experienced sportsball fans:
I am an Eastern Time person who follows a league that just expanded to Pacific Time. Any tips for coping with games that are likely to run from 10 pm - 1:30 AM in one's own time zone when one must be up at 6:30 AM to report to work on time?
I am an Eastern Time person who follows a league that just expanded to Pacific Time. Any tips for coping with games that are likely to run from 10 pm - 1:30 AM in one's own time zone when one must be up at 6:30 AM to report to work on time?
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
to more experienced sportsball fans:
I am an Eastern Time person who follows a league that just expanded to Pacific Time. Any tips for coping with games that are likely to run from 10 pm - 1:30 AM in one's own time zone when one must be up at 6:30 AM to report to work on time?
I am an Eastern Time person who follows a league that just expanded to Pacific Time. Any tips for coping with games that are likely to run from 10 pm - 1:30 AM in one's own time zone when one must be up at 6:30 AM to report to work on time?
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Guillotines
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Guillotines
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To model mercy not in the abstract but in the tactile and tangible… what Peter Thiel and western evangelicalism miss … if you worship Christ but don’t follow Christ … you are not a Christian
You are a zealot
Worship is not the point … love is
You are a zealot
Worship is not the point … love is
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
To model mercy not in the abstract but in the tactile and tangible… what Peter Thiel and western evangelicalism miss … if you worship Christ but don’t follow Christ … you are not a Christian
You are a zealot
Worship is not the point … love is
You are a zealot
Worship is not the point … love is
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so what's the over/under on a pittsburgh waymo hurling itself down a stair street and off a cliff
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
so what's the over/under on a pittsburgh waymo hurling itself down a stair street and off a cliff
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as always, remember how Nancy Pelosi rallied the entire democratic establishment to help this guy barely win his primary against pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
as always, remember how Nancy Pelosi rallied the entire democratic establishment to help this guy barely win his primary against pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros
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just gonna put this here
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www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
just gonna put this here
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.