tom brandt

there is a dire shortage of cats on the feed. do your civic duty and post a cat

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is renewing its longstanding commitment to its Cuban neighbors as a worsening humanitarian crisis threatens access to food, medicine and other basic necessities across the island. Read more: pcusa.org/news-storyte... #PCUSA #Cuba #Advocacy

Other than that, it’s a great investment.

In the past deposed dictators fled to places like Uganda or Saudi Arabia.

This is a repost of my "three glasses of wine" story, first posted on the other site. Read on for all the sordid details:

Saw an electronic billboard urging people to vote for Sherrod Brown (Dem candidate for Senate in OH) on SB I-275 near DTW, which is in MI around 35 miles north of the OH border.

This story is about a Republican candidate for U-M Regent.

I applied for a job at Braintree once. Fortunately I received a better offer from another company and I took that instead.

Can’t wait for Nov. 4 just so all these effing texts stop.

Got an email from DTE that colder weather is coming so my heating bill is likely to be higher.

Gas prices are “temporarily” high, says the president. That’s because Republicans are temporarily in power. Vote.

This is lovely.

I’ve been using @fastmail.com for several years now and like it. They are an Australian (so not US-based) privacy-focused company that is run by people who are apparently not awful.

Exhibit 523,741 that it’s a cult.

Oh no! R.I.P. Walter Koenig (aka Pavel Chekov). You were my favourite Star Trek actor, after Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura) www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

So Literati is moving to the old Downtown Home and Garden space.

Wow, giving retired workers financial security made them active participants in the economy, and taking that security away made them retreat from spending, clearly the solution is to convince all the individual retirees to pretend their individual, exhaustible savings are perpetual income

Sounds like a plan to me

I’ve actually never been to a Cheesecake Factory.

Rather glad I don’t have Fox atm

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

This Day in Labor History: October 24, 1975. Women in Iceland went on a one-day strike to protest both the unequal pay conditions they faced in the country and men’s refusal to recognize the reproductive labor they did at home. This is the largest protest in Iceland's history! Let's talk about it!

Today, in DD/MM/YY form, is 24/10/26, a Pythagorean triple, the last one this century apparently

Translation: We aren’t good at coaching, so we outsourced our thinking to a machine.

Suddenly interested in moving to Montana.

So they’re thinking of making one of the most inept MI5 agents ever the new Bond?

For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

It is a gorgeous gorgeous day out there, fellow ‘ganders. Get outside if you can.

This showed up in my inbox this morning 🤮

So the answer really was 4.

It’s… interesting being an older white gay man. On the one hand, as a white guy I have one foot in the dominant culture and swim in a sea of privilege I barely perceive. On the other hand, as a gay man I am constantly reminded that I am an outsider to the dominant culture and don’t really belong.

Fuck all y’all that support this administration and continue to vote MAGA.

It’s not a flying car, it’s a nitrogen powered pogo stick.

Signing off the anxiety machine for a while. See you in a bit.

send this man to the senate, my michigander friends

Poor Tommy is going to be internet famous for all the wrong reasons.