Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water. Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.
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🚨I IMPLORE YOU to use alt-text when you post any image, screen cap, or post of a screed/tidbit from this or a different site. Otherwise people using screen readers are seeing a steady flow of "OMG" "This seems bad" "👀" "Well that's not good" with no context & that is INCREDIBLY ANXIETY-INDUCING
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
Miss Hazelle Babycat is back from the vet. She has osteoarthritis & the lingering effects of her early days in a bad home are catching up in her old age. But nothing is broken, and she had a Delectable, and she is very very high. So basically, a win. #CatsOfBluesky
Looks like #perovskite and its fans did the thing! ◼️🎉
This is such a beautiful tarot deck #TarotSky
I have never encountered a creature who loves the bathtub the way Harry does.
Please let your client know that she is supported and respected and her courage is a beacon to others in public health.
50 minutes to go--if you haven't voted yet, I hope you'll support #perovskite in this round! Anyone can vote & it's a fun way to learn more about cool minerals (like perovskite). #MinCup25
Being able to say this WITHOUT adding "and therefore we have to stop worrying about protecting X group of people*" is pretty much the ball game for me ar this point. *except billionaires, we can stop protecting them any day
Oh wow, thank you for unearthing this in my memory...
Overcursed
He clearly still owns that title too. 😼
Perfect. And her eyes! (In your original pic, not the version Insta forced on her.) They look the same grey as her fur, so mesmerizing 😍
It's a reminder that we are all made of stars (as it's found in the Earth's mantle and in brown dwarf & other stars & some meteorites)! Cast your vote for our solid, interstellar, pseudo-cubic friend #Perovskite! #MinCup25 🌟
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I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?
Hey #Maine and beyond! Give a listen to today's Maine Calling on @mainepublic.org, all about vectorborne disease in Maine. Great show with solid experts & interesting callers (and yes, you can send your ticks to the Tick Lab!). 🪲🦟🦝🦨 #EpiSky
Okay so... Fiasco can explain It am not GOOD explanation mind u But can definitely explain if u have an OPEN MIND
FIASCO BACK bsky.app/profile/fias...
This is how I heard Fiasco is back!!!! OMG thank you!
2/ prescription for COVID boosters for every person in the state over the age of 5." Her standing order authorizes pharmacists "to administer four different types of booster shots and overruled in Massachusetts an FDA approval that limited use of the boosters to people over the age of 65 and...
Hooray for Healey!! The problem in MA was that PCPs are too busy to give vaccines, but the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy forbade pharmacists from giving the shots w/o sign off by the CDC ACIP. So today, Gov. Healey "essentially wrote a... 1/5 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
I know the melody still but not sure how to convey that here.
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social I have the sticky note I jotted it on--looks like it was Jan 27 and while I didn't note the year (arrrgh past me!) I know it was 2018 or 2019 because my mom was still alive.
I often taste and smell in my dreams quite clearly (this is how I recreate recipes from dreams) but the other night I could also feel puppy fur in a dream and that's never happened before! What senses do you have in your dreams?
I don't recall ever tasting or smelling things particularly, but I hear things clearly. I have a dream fragment of a voice intoning "the world's about to change" from sometime in 2019 and wish I'd written down the exact date.
So perfect. 💖
@kairyssdal.bsky.social it would be a great service to do a story about pertussis/whooping cough that includes audio of the coughing sounds that accompany the disease, in children and adults. It's painful to hear, let alone to experience.
"Oh you're calling to complain? Let's put you on hold for 30 minutes in hopes that you hang up." Well, guess what? I have nothing to do today and enough spite to fuel a small country.
OK, more praise for @nassos.bsky.social's debut novel--I tried re-reading my library copy & quickly realized no, I want my own, to underline & scribble margin notes to my past & present & future selves as I read it forward & back and back forward again. 📚 #BookSky
Hey #Maine and beyond! Give a listen to today's Maine Calling on @mainepublic.org, all about vectorborne disease in Maine. Great show with solid experts & interesting callers (and yes, you can send your ticks to the Tick Lab!). 🪲🦟🦝🦨 #EpiSky
Was coming here to say this. I started as a complete skeptic & wish I hadn't waited to try it... Feliway totally turned things around for former feral Mr. Moo. Also, cat tax:
So NO ONE was gonna tell me HBO has an ASL version of Sinners? All y'all fired.
OK I just looked up EGO lawnmowers and... Well, moment of silence in effect for sure. 😫
RODENTS! (waves fist at sky) They did my last car dirty too. Big old nest in the engine compartment when I didn't drive it one winter. Good idea to spray the leavings down with a bleach solution & wear a mask & gloves when you clean up. 🐭
BREAKING: In a shocking revolt, over 1,000 current and former Health and Human Services employees have released a letter calling for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. trib.al/mXSGNop
"haha who knows what great-grandma was up to" her: saving your asses from brucellosis
The only bathroom bill I want is mandating that the soap in the dispenser either be milk and honey or cherry blossom, no substitutes, no generic brands
Co-sign.
Colorado friends, the state Medical Officer is directing pharmacists to provide covid vaccines without a prescription. Tell your friends. Get your jab.
Fuck
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
They wanted to kill some Drug Guys for Fox News and they did. Simple as.
My sister in London just sent me this, seen in the £1 shop on Hounslow High Street.
Hit dogs hollering in these replies.
OMG Juniper. This slays! 😍
"We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” Jess Maurer, executive director of the Maine Council on Aging, told Bolts."
Yes but... noooooo
#Maine, vote NO on Question 1. Our mail-in ballot laws are the envy of the nation. They encourage civic participation. They're vital for our older, very rural state. Protect your and your neighbors' ability to vote!
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
He is elevating catting to fine art. (Also, he's gonna be a big kitteh when he's full-grown!) 😍
First day of school in Alberta. 14yo told me all books have been removed from classrooms & her library is locked until every single title is digitalized and sent to the government to approve or ban. I am so livid. There are a lot of kids whose access to books begins and ends at school. #ableg
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
English-Spanish Basic First Aid Vocabulary (just in case) I worked on this with a medical professional I'm close to & would trust with my life who's bilingual & has worked with Chicago's Spanish-speaking communities for years. 5/
🧵Oh boy. Here we go. Materials & resources for helping to protect our neighbors in this thread.
Some other time for that.
🌿 #Invertebrates Hi all--can anyone help me identify the fearless bug attached to this tussock moth caterpillar? The caterpillar was heading my way along the railing, then did a quick about-face & tried to beat feet w/the ?arachnid? riding alongside clearly attacking it. 🤔
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Since this weekend I have been able to drive around without being heard a half mile away. Grateful for a BFF who grew up working on cars... 😬🫣🚗🌟🙂
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
“Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City, received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel.”
My quote of the day Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get. William Foege
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Totally went for Pectolite this round... What's your pick?
I keep trying to post them but they get tagged as obscene almost instantly. My dreams of being a hand model are dashed. 😃
At this point, I know of NM & New England states. I'm sure we'll see more... "Health officials from MA, ME, VT, CT, RI, NY, NJ, and PA met this week to consider coordinating their own vaccine recommendations, separate from the federal govt." 🛟😷 Lawsky Medsky health policy
Apropos of nothing:
(flailing wildly, an entire dishtowel apparently married to my fake nails, caftan a wreck) HALP
BEEHOLDE MR MOO, WHO AM FANCY FESTIVE CATTE #CatsOfBluesky
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
From home, it is closer for you to get gas, beer & pizza from a corporate Irving/Rusty Bucket/Dunkin, or from the local General or Variety Store?
I might try again if they came in better colors & wider. I got OPI On Point short "squovals" (new shape, who knew). They were the only ones I was sure would fit width-wise, but they're pastel when I'm a blue/maroon/dark brown type. If I try again I'll report back!
Trust me, your day needs this! 🔥💫 (from hoop_therapist on IG)
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
-8 of my 10 nails have cat hair sticking out at the edges -Went to scratch nose & stabbed myself in the eye -Skin at tiptops of fingers firmly glued to underside of fake nails 2/10, would not repeat, but am in awe of those who can pull this off 💅🏼
-Why does the glue dry white around the edges? It looks like someone attacked my cuticles with a can of Elmer's. -My caftan is glued to itself in a crotch-level pleat (2/3)
Today I attempted to perform femininity by trying the cool, DIY fake nail kits that everyone at work uses. Takeaways: -We've come a long way from Lee press-on nails, baby (1/?)
Sunrise, Monday, September 1st (HAPPY FIRST SAY OF SPRING) from Makorori Headlands, Aotearoa / New Zealand. There’s a little stream here so you get wave sounds AND bubbling creek noises. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
Forgot this exchange we had with Jared Golden back in 2018 -- found it looking for something else. He made numerous promises like this but has since repudiated the pledge and hasn't held a town hall in years. (But if you give him $100+ you may be able to chat him up at a fundraiser.) #MEpolitics
Franca's been found but Fiasco (the grey one) is still at large, so if you're in Edmonton maybe you can share this / keep an eye out?
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
BEEHOLDE MR MOO, WHO AM FANCY FESTIVE CATTE #CatsOfBluesky
Oh, this one invites a close read! (Hence me circling back to it after inhaling it whole on round 1 😁 )
This is an extraordinary thread. Click here, but scroll back to the top. Extraordinary.
Let me know what you think!
We're back! Judge: All right, Mr. Ensign, do you have an update for me? DOJ: Yes, I've spoken with HHS and confirmed that plan is to deplane the children and return them to ORR custody during TRO Judge: OK. Will you file a status report on the docket to confirm when that's happened? DOJ: Yes
"The regional meeting last week centered on questions of infectious disease epidemiology, vaccines, laboratory sciences and emergency preparedness, Arel said. The coalition included all of the New England states except New Hampshire, as well as New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania."
I found & fixed 2 glitches so far. Go on, help me rustle up the rest of the gremlins!
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
On the water in front go Chief Justice John Roberts summer home on Upper Island. There were about 25 people in 17 boats ranging from paddle boards, kayaks, canoes, row boats and one motorized Zodiac. On the dock was several dozen people with signs. Thanks to Audacity CAT for pulling this together.
Beautiful. Libraries need all the love. 😺🦄🐲
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket! Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
Any Doubts 
