CK DexterHaven
@ckshowalter.bsky.social
Chief Cat wrangler @ HouseOfPotats. I foster cats and tiny kittens. I also do pet hospice mentoring. [email protected]
Home of KittenHappyHour
♿️ Long🦠,🐈, TexPat, CO, Wx junkie, Swiftie,
https://ko-fi.com/houseofpotats
Home of KittenHappyHour
♿️ Long🦠,🐈, TexPat, CO, Wx junkie, Swiftie,
https://ko-fi.com/houseofpotats
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CK DexterHaven
@ckshowalter.bsky.social
· Feb 17
The best part of my “I don’t get into arguments and have a relationship with my block button approach?” Smiting people is an excellent stress management tool ;)
Emergency kitten- explorer edition
January 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Emergency kitten- explorer edition
And a reminder-Stop using biometric ID. Don’t assume you can do a lock down involving multiple key presses fast enough.
I promise, in an emergency, you will struggle with that step.
Passcode, single press to lock. (Use full lock measures when able) 1/
I promise, in an emergency, you will struggle with that step.
Passcode, single press to lock. (Use full lock measures when able) 1/
(5b) Cellphones are key to our work. Communication, photos and videos, etc. But they often have our whole lives on them. If you go out w/ your main phone, you should back up and remove as much of your personal data from the phone as possible. Disconnect every account but the ones you absolutely need
January 22, 2026 at 3:07 AM
And a reminder-Stop using biometric ID. Don’t assume you can do a lock down involving multiple key presses fast enough.
I promise, in an emergency, you will struggle with that step.
Passcode, single press to lock. (Use full lock measures when able) 1/
I promise, in an emergency, you will struggle with that step.
Passcode, single press to lock. (Use full lock measures when able) 1/
This is very much a horrors persist night and I am not okay with it
Deploying kitten shortly
Deploying kitten shortly
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 AM
This is very much a horrors persist night and I am not okay with it
Deploying kitten shortly
Deploying kitten shortly
If firefighters operated the way a significant chunk of law enforcement do, we’d all die in burning buildings.
If you’re in a public service facing job where your drive is going home at night, and NOT making sure your neighbors and fellow citizens make it home at night- fucking quit.
If you’re in a public service facing job where your drive is going home at night, and NOT making sure your neighbors and fellow citizens make it home at night- fucking quit.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Texas jury acquits Uvalde schools officer on charges he failed in duty to confront gunman in Robb Elementary attack.
January 22, 2026 at 1:56 AM
If firefighters operated the way a significant chunk of law enforcement do, we’d all die in burning buildings.
If you’re in a public service facing job where your drive is going home at night, and NOT making sure your neighbors and fellow citizens make it home at night- fucking quit.
If you’re in a public service facing job where your drive is going home at night, and NOT making sure your neighbors and fellow citizens make it home at night- fucking quit.
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courage is contagious
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
courage is contagious
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A tiny insight into Long Covid
January 21, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A tiny insight into Long Covid
Do we want this up or down?
US NATURAL GAS FUTURES TOUCH $5, FIRST TIME SINCE DECEMBER
January 21, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Do we want this up or down?
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The cruelty is the point.
The incompetence is ironically a result of the cruelty, as most of the competent stay away from it as far as they can.
The incompetence is ironically a result of the cruelty, as most of the competent stay away from it as far as they can.
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The cruelty is the point.
The incompetence is ironically a result of the cruelty, as most of the competent stay away from it as far as they can.
The incompetence is ironically a result of the cruelty, as most of the competent stay away from it as far as they can.
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Throwing experienced operators into a conventional fight at a firepower disadvantage is like using a scalpel to split logs.
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Throwing experienced operators into a conventional fight at a firepower disadvantage is like using a scalpel to split logs.
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Wait. People assume —
Boy, we need some remedial classes on colonialism
Boy, we need some remedial classes on colonialism
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Wait. People assume —
Boy, we need some remedial classes on colonialism
Boy, we need some remedial classes on colonialism
Emergency kitten or priority potat?
(Workshopping names)
(Workshopping names)
January 21, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Emergency kitten or priority potat?
(Workshopping names)
(Workshopping names)
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I think we can all use a wee timeline cleanse, no?
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I think we can all use a wee timeline cleanse, no?
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Said now-
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Said now-
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
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Useful thread on private equity and hospice care! For more on this, I recommend the New Yorker article from a few years ago (it's horrifying) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Useful thread on private equity and hospice care! For more on this, I recommend the New Yorker article from a few years ago (it's horrifying) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Okay, so he’s garbling this but there’s an issue with how hospice is used nationally. Because private equity has bought up so many of these companies, there is a push to get family members on hospice. Traditionally hospice kicks in when you’re looking at a few months max. 1/
Dr Oz makes stuff up: "The survival rate for hospice in California if you're one of these fraudulent centers is 100%. No one is dying. I mean, there's a higher death rate on this set in Davos. Everyone lives. So we obviously are going to go after that."
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Okay, so he’s garbling this but there’s an issue with how hospice is used nationally. Because private equity has bought up so many of these companies, there is a push to get family members on hospice. Traditionally hospice kicks in when you’re looking at a few months max. 1/
Guess what? If you expand work at
Home and flex work options, people can stay in the workforce longer.
Home and flex work options, people can stay in the workforce longer.
Dr. Oz: "If we can get the average person to work one more year in their whole lifetime -- just stay in your workplace for one more year -- that is worth about $3 trillion to the US GDP. That's the productivity we would unleash ... if you're sick, you can't work."
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Guess what? If you expand work at
Home and flex work options, people can stay in the workforce longer.
Home and flex work options, people can stay in the workforce longer.
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If there is no appetite for the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and the House/Senate cannot impeach and remove, an alternative would be to try to return us to something more like Trump 1.0 by impeaching and removing the individuals who are driving and influencing the worst things that are happening and/or
January 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM
If there is no appetite for the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and the House/Senate cannot impeach and remove, an alternative would be to try to return us to something more like Trump 1.0 by impeaching and removing the individuals who are driving and influencing the worst things that are happening and/or
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They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.
Two big guys walked up front and started yelling at the pilot and the pilot screamed that they weren't going to Davos, they were going to Vienna, Virginia and that he had to get home to his family.
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 AM
They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.
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Two big guys walked up front and started yelling at the pilot and the pilot screamed that they weren't going to Davos, they were going to Vienna, Virginia and that he had to get home to his family.
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Two big guys walked up front and started yelling at the pilot and the pilot screamed that they weren't going to Davos, they were going to Vienna, Virginia and that he had to get home to his family.
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THANK YOU to all who pre-ordered my book! In the category of New Releases in Immigration Policy. I'm at #3 and it's for a book that isn't out yet until March 10. I'm speechless and grateful to all of you who bought, or asked your libraries to order. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
THANK YOU to all who pre-ordered my book! In the category of New Releases in Immigration Policy. I'm at #3 and it's for a book that isn't out yet until March 10. I'm speechless and grateful to all of you who bought, or asked your libraries to order. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Absolutely unreal.
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Absolutely unreal.
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There's a terrific MA or Ph.D. thesis to be written comparing the tactics, strategy, and ideology of 1970s US Christian conservative pivot to abortion after segregation was lost, and the 2010s/2020s pivot to transphobia after equal marriage was won.
Historically, this is exactly how ending abortion became a major issue. Christian Nationalists decided to make it one when it wasn’t one and as per their plan, it developed a life of its own. Most activists in the movement never know it was designed to organize them. bsky.app/profile/spar...
I'm used to seeing this work starting with or soley on an anti-abortion stance.
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
There's a terrific MA or Ph.D. thesis to be written comparing the tactics, strategy, and ideology of 1970s US Christian conservative pivot to abortion after segregation was lost, and the 2010s/2020s pivot to transphobia after equal marriage was won.
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Baba Yaga has extremely specific rules about how you address her house, Strega Nona has extremely specific rules about how you address her spaghetti pot.
January 21, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Baba Yaga has extremely specific rules about how you address her house, Strega Nona has extremely specific rules about how you address her spaghetti pot.
Said now-
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Said now-
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
Don’t climb on the appliances! (water heater)
Don’t climb in the appliances!! (Dryer)
Don’t do anything else life threatening!
And don’t chew on Unca Nutsy’s tail stump
(Brought to you by Turkey)
Dear @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social- this article is AMAZING. I laughed more than once. Awesome work and Constitutional scholarship is better because of people like you.
No notes. Also, buy her book on originalism y’all
No notes. Also, buy her book on originalism y’all
Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism
The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Dear @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social- this article is AMAZING. I laughed more than once. Awesome work and Constitutional scholarship is better because of people like you.
No notes. Also, buy her book on originalism y’all
No notes. Also, buy her book on originalism y’all