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Cathy
@cmims.bsky.social
Crazy cat lady who loves to knit, read, play piano and harp,make pottery.
Loki, chillin’ on a hot day
June 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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This is no time to bury your head.

Yes, take time for self care, but stay in the fight.
I keep hearing comments like “I plan to ignore it for the next four years”.
This Billionaire Bill shuts down democracy. Look away at your peril.
May 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Beloved Murphy crossed the rainbow bridge. He was 14-1/2 years old - a good life for a Springer, but I sure will miss that old boy.
May 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"America is a place of immeasurable wealth. It is quite literally the richest and most fortunate country that has ever existed. And yet its leader acts like such a pitiful cry-baby on the world stage, constantly talking about how mean everyone is and how horrible everyone has been to it"
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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🧶 #knit 😂
March 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Why am I up. Good morning! 😵‍💫
March 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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#Knitsky, got a ball of scrap yarn and wondering if it’s enough for your next project?

Here’s my go-to method for calculating how many metres/yards you have left!
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Goose sleeping hard
February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And then Loki!
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
George
February 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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“…we must remember that we are of value even when we’re not ‘doing.’

That even when the world is awful, we’re allowed to have joy. Perhaps especially when the world is awful.

That joy will help fuel and animate us, restore us when we’re feeling overwhelmed and depleted.” - @theradr.bsky.social
New:

Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—

And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.

Practical tips & bigger picture here:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My church, my bishop
The Episcopalians, the Lutherans … the mainline Protestant churches may not loom as mightily as they used to — but the civic muscle they can flex, or they choose to, is still formidable.
Oh wow.

Full video from Bishop Eaton, who concludes w/the story of Saint Lawrence, who defied a Roman emperor by insisting the riches of the church were the poor and needy.

Eaton concludes: “he was martyred for that. Be of good courage, church, and let us preserve.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqz...
February 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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These stupid mother fuckers are going to close hundreds of nursing homes, homeless shelters, abuse shelters, and transitional housing for hundreds of thousands of Americans including veterans, seniors, women, and children. These fucking monsters. Flynn is such a piece of shit.
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
One of all time favorite heroes. She was an amazing, brave woman.
I’m going to recognize one person each day during Black History Month.

Day 1: Josephine Baker 1906-1975

Vaudeville dancer, WWII resistance spy, and one of two women speakers at the March on Washington in 1963.
February 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are.

The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Lutheran Family Services and Global Refuge (Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Services) does amazing work, changes lives, and provides hope and opportunity for people in desperate situations. These attacks and threats will hurt so many people.
NEW: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton is releasing a video, saying the church remains “steadfast” in its work & accusing Musk/others of of spreading “misinformation” and “casting baseless doubt” about “funding that supports Lutheran (orgs) across our country.”
February 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, stickers, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, hoodies, compression leggings & more!

Store details below!
December 10, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Class warfare is when there’s a limit to what poor & disabled people can earn before losing their benefits, but no limit to what billionaires can hoard while avoiding taxes.

We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.
January 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The Oval Office is back on the market…
January 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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At a time when so many powerful people are bending the knee to Donald Trump, it’s incredibly important that we lift up acts of resistance.

Yesterday, the celebrated editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post when they killed the cartoon below. This is what courage looks like.
January 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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US Senate just passed NDAA 85-14 to allocate $895B for war. Reminder:
•End homelessness: $30B
•Insulin for diabetics: $40B
•Universal Pre-K: $60B
•Universal 4-yr-college: $70B
•SNAP for 40M Americans: $80B
•Cancel all medical debt: $140B

And we'd still have $475B left over

Got money for war but...
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
George and Loki are waiting for the recent college graduate to come home! 10 hours and counting!!
December 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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This cut off the first few seconds of the video which gives some context to what they're saying:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM