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• Post #4175094

  Ever seen a #cat chase his own tail? And fall over because he was chasing so hard? Now you have. #catsofmastodon

• Post #4045821

  So I went to an allergy specialist at UW medicine recently and in the most Asian twist of all time, HER parents don’t believe that allergies are real either.

• Post #3970730

  Well, a surplus of fruit has made me go on an ice cream making spree. So far I’ve made a rainier cherry and lemon sorbet with rosé and blueberry, roasted cherry, matcha and butter pecan ice cream.

• Post #3774725

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116909664008218378 This is what it’s like being a woman in America (or any authoritarian state)

• Post #3752480

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ferryoons/116872107250631458 Has America crossed the asshole threshold and will it inevitably lead to collapse? America was in the same situation in the 1890s and turned it around. “Millions of people who had every reason to conclude that honesty was for suckers instead went out and found the other cooperators.” Mastodon is how we find each other.

• Post #3728527

  Thanks to SIGOPS for republishing my blog post on systems in the AI era. Possibly even more exciting, I found these photos of the women that programmed the ENIAC. While Ekhart and Mauchley got the credit for the ENIAC, it was the women — Jean Bartik, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence — that actually figured out how to implement their ideas for calculating ballistic trajectories. https://www.sigops.org/2026/slow-software-the-case-for-high-latency...

• Post #3710313

  I'm excited to announce that @dan@discuss.systems and I have been working on a new non-profit, Rootstock Northwest, with some folks in the local food industry: https://rootstocknw.org We have three goals: 1. Give fresh produce to the food insecure in our communities. 2. Support local producers and farmers to invest in our community food chain 3. Deliver direct to homes to make fresh, local food accessible for all and minimize overhead. We believe that everyone deserves access to fresh, hi...

• Post #3679020

  New blog post on how to think about systems development in the age of AI. https://www.irenezhang.net/blog/2026/07/06/ai.html #slowsoftware

• Post #3519886

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116845789468504056 I didn’t think that I could hate Brett Kavanaugh any more than I already did but when he “wrote that mass illegal immigration was “a new circumstance” the framers of the 14th Amendment “could not have fully anticipated” in 1868.” I lost it. WTF does he think this country was founded on??

• Post #3505718

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/science-and-environment-s66ehoj8z/-/a-PDFTRvxiQtmjmAOhNlIBbQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0 Beavers are so good.

• Post #3495548

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116840280971002207 What dystopian hellscape is this??

• Post #3114629

  Pixel’s vet today was telling me how happy she is that they have solensia now. Before solensia, cats were just in chronic pain and being prescribed gabapentin but it isn’t too effective for arthritis pain so they’d still be achy. Me with my #fibromyalgia being treated with gabapentin thinking … yes I know exactly what that feels like .. and would I get better medical care if I was a very large cat??

• Post #3114628

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116694096861121882 This is exactly the issue in academia and tech. It’s never going to change.

• Post #2422232

  Great long article from the author of Rage Becomes Her about the consequences of decentering men. Even if you think of yourself as a feminist, this is a view into how men justify violence against women. https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-decentering-men-is-not-misandry

• Post #2362094

  Do you read books by women and from the perspective of women? I’ve always thought that himpathy (a disproportionate level of empathy for men) was due to men simply not being able to imagine themselves as women, while women have been trained their entire lives to put themselves in men’s shoes. Highly recommend this article if you want to learn more. https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-its-not-only-the-violence-women

• Post #2327739

  If you were wondering, no, this is not comfortable at all. #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

• Post #2136051

  RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/116520614333689673 @dan and I literally looked at a house listing where one of the “features” of the house was that you could tell your friends that you are a Laurelhurstian and we looked at each other and immediately were like 🤮

• Post #2015752

  Me: My cat seems stressed lately. Vet: Has anything changed? Is there a specific reason for your cat’s stress? Me: He’s worried that someone might play him like the bagpipes Vet: … Me: here, let me demonstrate.

• Post #1796711

  Why must the outside be so nice and yet so polleny?? 😭😭

• Post #1776655

  I made this! I’ve moved on from cat beds to trying different #crochet stitches. This one is the jasmine stitch in a square, which makes a nice pot holder.

• Post #1759512

  RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116480041655707847 2026 is going so poorly that my #cat is on anti-anxiety meds. #cats #catsofmastodon

• Post #1572481

  RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116451292767774433 My latest bed for my #cats is coming along although finishing it is a challenge. I’ve learned that puff stitches actually hold up quite well as vertical walls. My previous attempts at bed were a little too soft. This one uses puff stitches in increasing and decreasing numbers. #crochet #catsofmastodon

• Post #1430950

  This is my closet and the #cat that lives in it rent free #catsofmastodon

• Post #1430948

  Any warm day and our cats immediately want to go out on a walk. They sat by the street and judged the dogs walking by. Then Pixel wanted to flop between the two cat mint plants. #cat #catsofmastodon

• Post #1303460

  I’ve been welcomed to my 40s by … being carded at dinner last night. Someone literally thinks I look half my age. Which would be flattering if it didn’t suck so much to be a 20 year old woman right now.

• Post #964548

  PSA: The Book of Doors and the Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown are two of the best books I’ve read in a while. Kind of reminds me of RF Kuang but more structured and plot-driven and less tedious. The magic system in both books is fun but also the love of books that comes out of the pages makes it really enjoyable to curl up with and read. #books #bookstodon

• Post #964545

  Me: I get so tired these days. If I skate, I’m out and exhausted for the whole day. I must be getting old My PT: that sounds like fibromyalgia. I’m older than you and I skate about the same amount and I’m not that tired and you shouldn’t be either after doing it for 2 years. Me: ohhhhhhh

• Post #921369

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nshrubs/116335919889857060 Whoo, we’re a country now? Let’s secede.

• Post #921366

  A coworker told me that she moved to Oregon in 4th grade and went to a magnet school in environmental conservation which mostly consisted of weekly field trips to remove invasive blackberry bushes and English ivy. This is the most PNW thing I’ve ever heard.

• Post #921365

  I’m so glad that I have a good podiatrist and man, that makes me feel old.