Rebel Rebel Rebel

Cinnabar so photogenic on #caturday

Ok, so we're going to do something now, right? Right? He tweeted a threat of genocide to a whole country so were going to take action, right? We can all see the emperor has no clothes now and he's a homicidal maniac, right?

#caturday snuggles

We had a rough day waiting 10hrs to be seen at the veterinary ER yesterday. Hoping for a more restful one today

Things are bad but nothing is inevitable. The ones that OK with this are wrong. Whether they ever acknowledge this or not doesn't matter. We know its wrong, so we are not lost.

He was down on the ground under a pile of ICE. They took his gun. Then they shot him in the back. Then they shot him some more. One of the agents clapped his hands as he watched it. We all saw this.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities."

Sayre: My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones …Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there, a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people….

It occurs to me that in order to be a rich person in our modern world requires one to overlook an awful lot of suffering and injustice. Thus, it must be impossible to be exponentially rich and a good person simultaneously.

70s vibes in Lisbon

So, I'm laying on a bed with my three cats in a Lisbon hotel room eating vegetarian Burger King right now. I have succeeded in taking the road less traveled.

Regardless of legality, slapping your name over a memorial to JFK is fucking weird

Over ten years ago, I bought the #Philips #Sonicare toothbrush on the left. After a year charging it on a us to pt converter, it finally brushed it's last tooth. The new box guarantees 2 years. Let's see! With all the quickly dying electronics out on the market i think this was a quality outlier

I'm not sure why bluesky doesn't allow me to edit my posts, but often, if I find a typo, I delete my post without bothering with the hassle of rewriting it

A wall of art at Soares dos Reis School of the Arts. #Porto

Portugal has the best street art

Sunset on the Douro 😍

Portugal knows how to do doorways

This is how the world views the US. Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Snuggle level: Master

View of Porto from #Gaia. The little white bird in the lower left is a spoonbill

I'm an American in Portugal and I had to learn about a digital #coup from my #bluesky feed and not from #WashingtonPost or #newyorktimes. They were however right on top of letting me know about Beyoncé's Grammy. Thanks

This is a coup. This is a coup This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup. This is a coup.

Capela de São Paio

#Guarda in winter

Knock knock #guarda

A romantic gate #guarda

Trying to level pictures in Portugal is a fool's errand. It's all beautiful and wonky #guarda

Count Orlok never spent time in Guarda Portugal right? Just need to make it to my immigration appointment in the morning

At moments like these, I always remember...donkeys live a long time.

I cannot imagine not living near a river but I really got lucky living on the Douro. The European shags stretch out their wings to dry after a dive. Serene

#Tech

I know the US legal system is deeply flawed, to put it mildly, but I am immensely embarrassed to have a president who received unconditional discharge of 34X felonies. #nationalshame

It's crazy but between the time the Gutenberg press was invented and 2010, apparently an estimated 129,864,880 novels were published globally. I wonder how many amazing works I'll never read because I just never heard of them 🤔

I will swim new paths, bank new arcs, play and improvise until the day the great orca eats me.

"God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay...each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other." -Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury A much more poetic horror/fantasy novel than I would have guessed. A quick, enjoyable read.

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?

Graffiti is one of my favorite art forms. This fresh beauty just went up under a bridge on the douro in Gaia

Getting in a dog walk before the storm

I realized a dream today of working on a novel while sitting in a cafe in Europe. It was exactly the same as writing in a US cafe. Pretty good though