Brian R. Sala 🍻

He/him. #California #publicpolicy #data nerd. #Cat servant. Long-suffering MN sports fan. #Carleton College alum. #UCSD #PoliticalScience Ph.D. Personal account. Same handle on Twitter, which I still check for DMs only. 🤷‍♂️

Bluesky account mirrored at docbs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

My header is a picture of James T. Kirk addressing a lineup of #Redshirts who, no doubt, are about to be slaughtered.

My avatar is a picture of me, no doubt sharing an insightful bon mot.
@docbs.bsky.social

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@LanaArts Indeed. Even just the eyes and airplane ears are enough sometimes. I especially like that even their fur can tell a story. My Penguin's fur is slightly "rougher" if she is annoyed at someone who isn't me, while being extraordinarily soft at her most belly of belly showings.

Picture of my black cat Penguin and my most dearly missed orange tuxedo cat Mango. Penguin on the stairs in front of a shut door with a cat door at the bottom of it. Peaking through the obstructed cat door is Mango. Penguin is looking at the camera with a an annoyed face and airplane ears.
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-04-15

Watch out, I keep that thang on me.

I'd rather have it and not use it than need it not I have it.

📸 Three photos of a veterinarian with a white kitten in their pocket. The little kitty cat is poking its head out and looking around.
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Jessica Dennis 👩🏻‍💻jessicadennis@appdot.net
2024-11-13

I bought a little couch for the cats because I thought that would be funny, and today one of them sat on it for the first time — and it was

A small torbie cat is curled up on a pink cat-sized couch
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2024-11-13

Nobody expected Teen Vogue to become one of the very best outlets for political journalism, but here we are. Welcome to Bluesky.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tabiejtbwtcxuc2vxmk63uwj/post/3lamfu45nnz2v

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2024-11-13

Trapped.

Russian Blue cat lying on my, uh, lap, and down between my legs. Pictured from above and behind. I'm wearing black sweatpants and socks. He has no intention of moving. Ever.
Brian R. Sala 🍻docbrianS@mastodon.online
2024-11-12

@docbs.bsky.social

It seems that gifs do not bridge well from Bluesky.

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2024-11-12
Ivan the Russian Blue on a gray blanket IN MY SPOT ON THE SOFA. My 8-week old, still unfinished Economist is next to him.
Brian R. Sala 🍻docbrianS@mastodon.online
2024-11-12

@docbs.bsky.social
This is my Bluesky mirror

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2024-11-12

12 November 1895 | A Czech Jew, Artur Berger, was born in Butovice. A mechanic.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

Portrait of a man, dressed in a suit and tie, looking directly at the camera.
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Katy ElphinstoneKatyElphinstone@mas.to
2024-11-12

Cunk on America 🇺🇲

Picture of Philomena Cunk, saying on her TV show, "With its cowboys and guns and steam train rides, America became known as the land of the free.

Second picture, also of her talking. "... which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves."
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2024-11-11

Attorney General Kris Mayes tells MSNBC she has "no intention" of dropping the criminal case against the fake electors who sought to overturn the state's 2020 election results.

"A grand jury in the state of Arizona decided that these individuals who engaged in an attempt to overthrow our democracy in 2020 should be held accountable, so we won't be cowed, we won't be intimidated."

Brian R. Sala 🍻docbrianS@mastodon.online
2024-03-16

@TechConnectify
Well, they reversed the flow to pump sewage away from their drinking water supply. Which didn't exactly endear themselves to communities newly "downstream."

Otherwise, what you said.

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Mike Taylor 🦕mike@sauropods.win
2024-03-14

It does seem extraordinary that in a PMQ largely about racist and sexist insults and death threats made to black woman who is a sitting MP, the discussion was held between white men as the black woman in question tried 46 times to contribute to the discussion was consistently overlooked.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/politic

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2024-01-26

Habba said that Trump’s response to #EJeanCarroll was his “truth.” Now Crowley responds. “Ladies & gentlemen his truth was a lie,” she says. “And he had no right to say it. That may be how Donald Trump lives his life telling a truth that is a lie, but that's not how it works under the #law.”

#Trump's lawyer Madaio tried to object in the midst of that, but was overruled.

#law #rape #defamation #BelieveSurvivors

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Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org
2024-01-26
Brian R. Sala 🍻docbrianS@mastodon.online
2024-01-25

Stuck inside the bedroom with the Contractor Blues again.

Ivan the Russian Blue sitting on the bed to the left of me, sunlight on his right cheek. Wondering if/when this remodel will finally be finished.

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