Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

This fight is for everything.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

How stupid are these people?

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

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  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    That cat has more square feet of living space than I do.

    Also, my cat just uses my young son’s bunk bed as a cat tree. Cat gets high perch, son gets purring pet, everyone is happy.

  6. 6.

    PurpleGirl

    Steve should like that tree a lot. Lots of levels and places to sit and hide. I also like the blue color. Does it have a ramp to the first level box?

    However, you should move it about a foot to the left, away from the end table and the lamp. They are too close. Also change where you have the Cola sign hanging; it might get fixed by Steve. Or he may try to take it down. (Just some ideas based on the Farm Kittens and what they’ve done in their foster home. Cassie has the same tree in the foster kitten room.)

  8. 8.

    Princess Leia

    I think you should catnip all the way up. Just a little bit on each level all the way up. It is an awesome cat tree!

  10. 10.

    eemom

    Back from 10 glorious days of almost zero internet access. All’s I know is Manning was convicted and Boss is now Steve.

    If someone could give a quick update re Boss–>Steve, would appreciate.

  11. 11.

    karen marie

    All the populated towers that I know about are in front of windows. Not much inducement without the window.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    GOOGLE BANNED THIS VIDEO!

    It went viral in days…because we’re spamming this ad on every site we can!

  16. 16.

    MattR

    @Ruckus: I probably should have magnified the picture before making my comment. I am pretty sure it is just a shadow, but I could be convinced that is a blood stain on the carpet by the leg of the end table

    @Princess Leia: Looks like an extra piece of the tree. Perhaps a ramp between levels that John decided not to attach.

  17. 17.

    wasabi gasp

    I showed my lady the Amazon pic of that cat rack and her face lit up like a little girl. She began looking around the room for a place to put it. I could swear I heard her thinking that it looks way big enough for me to share with the cat if I get rid of the recliner.

    That lamp looks doomed.

  19. 19.

    TriassicSands

    Looks pretty scary to me — what no guard rails? Maybe you should put a couple of mattresses under it until he gets used to it.

  20. 20.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    I’m trying to figure out if that’s a portrait of Charlie Sheen off to the left…

  28. 28.

    HeartlandLiberal

    I am reminded of when we moved into our house over 20 years ago. One of the teenagers on the moving team paused from moving stuff into our master bedroom, peeked inside the walk-in closet, and remarked that it was as big as his bedroom at home.

    Of course John probably has one of these special storage closets in his home: youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZZreXEqSY

  32. 32.

    PurpleGirl

    @Bill: Cole wrote about Steve and the furminator last week. He liked it a lot.

    Looking at this photo and the Farm Kitten Cam, that board on the floor is probably the ramp to the first level box, which Cole can’t use because of the orientation of the tree in relation to the end table. If you want to see what the tree can look like in use, go to the Farm Kitten cam site:

    new.livestream.com/cassieskittenkastle/events/2246087

  33. 33.

    Debbie(aussie)

    @Bill: I think Steve was furminated(sp?) before he went the vet. A big success if I remember correctly.

  35. 35.

    ThresherK

    @Bill: Re brushing felines: We are a two-cat household, and have had three of them in a row (18 years and counting) of cats who barely tolerate a bit of brushing, to don’t like it at all.

    It’s easier for me to clip their nails than brush them. And this is with a few different brushing devices. Plus all sorts of things like rewarding them with treats afterwards.

    Any ideas?

    (I am aware of all “cat item purchase price inverse relationship” traditions, i.e. the more something I buy for my cat costs the more chance the cat won’t like it.)

  36. 36.

    Josie

    @PurpleGirl:
    You are right about moving the tree and the Coke sign. The tree could be angled to the left so that access to the first level box is better and there is more space all around. My cats tend to like space around anything they climb on rather than to have it hemmed in like that.

  37. 37.

    WereBear

    @ThresherK: Brushing is so STIMULATING that a lot of cats can’t take it; then they react with claws and biting. They can’t help it.

    With such cats I do one stroke at a time; keep the implement handy, bring it out with a treat or petting session, and do one stroke…. hours later, another stroke, higher up the body…. hours later, move more towards the head…

    By the time we get to the head (no rush!) they discover the bliss of having their head and face combed, even if we have to use another implement. This becomes the reward, and we can get more done at a session, because they will sit still longer to get to the face skritching.

    A classic mistake humans don’t know they are making is to look at cat brushing the way they do washing a big frying pan; let’s get this thing done.

    While the cat keenly feels every single tooth in the comb, every hair in the brush, and is driven crazy by it.

    Think of what we are doing as those nightmarish radiation-washing scenes in Silkwood; and you will go a lot easier during cat brushing!

  38. 38.

    RSA

    I agree that the lamp is doomed. Also whatever is to the right of the cat tree, on the border of the photo.

    Sometimes I’ve watched our cat, trying to figure out how he sees the world in terms of paths, ways of passage from one location to another. I haven’t figured it out, but if Steve were our cat, he’d be standing on the arm of the couch, thinking about whether he can hit that middle box. He’d give it a shot, with unpredictable results.

  39. 39.

    Citizen_X

    @eemom:

    Back from 10 glorious days of almost zero internet access.

    Hey, we enjoyed it too.

    What? You set yourself up for that.

    And Cole thought Boss didn’t fit, named him for The Tao of Steve something something. I didn’t get it either.

  45. 45.

    cindy

    that looks like a pretty sturdy cat tree, but if you can, it should be in a corner, supported by at least 2 walls. definitely should not be adjacent to the table/lamp (or at least move the lamp). when standing free, they tend to become rickety as the cat(s) jump up and around on them. and it might end up as cat/dog furniture (my uncle’s jrt has been using the cat perches).

  46. 46.

    Scott

    I have one of those as well. Where I located it, the top shelf is about 2′ from the ceiling AC vent and is the truly contested spot of the place. Hell, i wish I could fit up on it myself these brutal August days.

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