Dj Connell

🚨 New study: “Over 42% of active-duty military personnel who contracted COVID-19 developed long-lasting post-COVID syndrome—dominated by pulmonary, neurological, & fatigue issues… The cohort was predominantly male (74.1%), young (mean age 31.3 years)…”

I am so sorry.

A very fuzzy tuxedo cat named Joey is waiting for his tummy rub.

A large, long haired tuxedo cat named Joey is resting near his carrier which is his safety zone. He is waiting for dinner to be served.

Our other emergency rescue, Big Joey, goes to his new home tomorrow. He will have a Mom, a kitty gal pal this age, and a good life as an indoor cat. We took him in after his human mom died, and he is now ready for his second act.
Be happy sweet boy.
#HappyCaturday
#AdoptDontShop

Happy to see a friend’s new fur buddies.
#cats

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Oregon folks: This fuzzy guy will watch all the superhero movies on the couch by your side. He likes extra butter on the popcorn.
#cats

The library is here for you. We've always been resisting subjection.

Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.

📖 🔊We have your weekend reading (and listening)!

The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.

Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.

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DISPOSITIONAL GREED is characterized by an insatiable, chronic desire to acquire more resources, status, or admiration, regardless of possessions. It is linked to low life satisfaction, selfishness, envy, and impulsivity, and "dark traits" like psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

Shameful 😡

It’s been a year of a week.

An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick Dogs sees us as their masters while cats sees us as their slaves. - Anonymous The next time your friend’s pet cat sinks its fangs into your wrist, bear in mind that the beast is probably still laborin...

An Animated History of Cats: How Over 10,000 Years the Cat Went from Wild Predator to Sofa Sidekick

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I want to know each of their names.

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

Ecologist and environmental educator, Jessie Panazzolo, founded the global community, Lonely Conservationists, a pioneering platform that provides resources, advocacy, and a voice to environmentalists, advocating for the need to provide care to members of an often forgotten care-based industry.

Timeline cleanse
#dogs Photo of an adorable little golden dog with long fluffy ears wearing a puffy, gold doggy winter jacket. Her human is holding her up, behind them is a snow covered mountain.

Been there. I can’t spell my way out of a paper bag so in notes to our shelter’s vet about a sickly foster kitten I steal from Terry Pratchett and write “dire rear”.

Drawing. A black silhouette of a young girl with a pony tail against a fiery background.

The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated - Tolstoy
#Putin #Trump
#Netanyahu #WarCrimes

I’m old enough to remember when Israel said it would never bomb schools or hospitals.
#schoolgirls #Gaza #Iran
#WarCrimes

I had to stop working with several groups who wouldn’t encourage people to mask or mask at events or offer masks to the public, staff and volunteers.
😷💀💔

Don’t get me started on conventions.

Heaven forfend we ruin their good time with facts.

Drawing of a heart shape. The bottom half is yellow and the top half is blue like the Ukrainian flag. Words on the front read, “My heart is with Ukraine”

I find myself thinking “How dare they?!” several times a day now but truly HOW DARE THEY ?!?!?!
#Ukraine 💛💙#Paraolympics
#AdaptiveSports

Preventing Cancer – The Role of Food and Household Chemicals - Vitality Magazine The epidemic of cancer, thyroid disease, infertility, learning disabilities, weakened immunity is linked to toxic food and chemicals

The role of household chemicals, pesticides and microplastics in cancer, asthma, thyroid disease etc. #science 🔬

Includes an alternative list of products by Greenpeace 🪴

Madame, I am at your service. 🐈🐈‍⬛

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Emergency kitten, baby Junior edition

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Donated jeans become hammocks for raccoons at Austin Wildlife Rescue Raccoons at Austin Wildlife Rescue are getting some unexpected comfort during rehabilitation, lounging in denim hammocks fashioned from donated jeans.The nonpro

Donated jeans become hammocks for raccoons at Austin Wildlife Rescue