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Medium Cool – Do You Stop Reading, Watching, Listening?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.
The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)
DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
… gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
This chaos was totally avoidable.
Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.
You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Jay C
There seems to be a lot of Steve missing there: is this a post-trimming photo?
With the “Moment of Zen” being “Steve quietly contemplates his bloody revenge for his viciously stolen fur”??
NotMax
@Jay C
Fur retrieved in order to knit a whole ‘nother cat?
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Cat quilt?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
DuMewvet?AnthroBabe
Steve looks like a happy sleepy kitty😍
Jackie
Better check Max; he might mysteriously be a lot floofier!
worn
I think it should be Believe in Steve.
At least that’s how I initially read it.
scav
I suddenly think I need a mop to sleep in. Clearly the way to go.
Joy in FL
Steve’s Zen is perfection.
Steeplejack
@worn:
I read it as “Be like Steve.”
Major Major Major Major
Aww, what a lovely picture!
Samwise and Momo are doing well. Momo is still quite small at 8-9 months and the vet says her vocal cords are still too short to produce a meow, so she just squeaks. Maybe this is just how small normal girl cats are?
Recent cute pic of the two of them… balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sunday-night-moment-of-zen-2.jpeg
Jackie
@Major Major Major Major: We had a regular sized long haired floofy calico. She squeaked; never meowed. Incidentally, her name became “Squeak” or “Squeakers.”
Major Major Major Major
@Jackie: Momo used to be too small to even reliably squeak. She’d open her mouth and what came out was almost a cough! You can reproduce it trying to make a sound too high for your voice.
Steeplejack
@Major Major Major Major:
Great picture! Good sleepin’.
Jackie
@Major Major Major Major: Too funny! It’s amazing how animals refuse to fit the status quo! Which is why we admire and love them for their uniqueness😊
sab
@Major Major Major Major: Our tiny girl kittens grew up to be huge. Took them a while. Shadow who is part Siamese could be quite loud even as a kitten. Meg, who grew into a 15 pound cat, still just quietly meeps. We are shocked on the rare occasions when we can actually hear her vocalisations. Same with the boys. StarScream was always loud. Mouf just meeps. Dobby is a bit louder but not much. Dobby’s major vocalisation is a weird chirping when he has caught a (fake) mouse. He trots around the house with the “mouse” in his mouth, chirping.
Major Major Major Major
@sab: Momo was the smallest of her rescue-mates (unknown if siblings—so she could be a runt), I sure hope she stays teeny tiny!
sab
@Major Major Major Major: We are trying to rescue a stray in our neighborhood. A big painfully thin ginger. I thought gingers are mostly males like calicos are mostly females, but I was wrong. Mostly male but 20% are female. Our inside cats are intrigued with the ginger. They watch him/her a lot from the window, and don’t seem stressed when he/she is in the yard.
Major Major Major Major
@sab: yeah it’s not sex-linked in the same way… calico is basically chromosomally *locked* but orange is more like color blindness.
Jackie
@sab: I love the sound they make when they’ve caught a fake mouse! Of course we all pretend it’s the real deal!
MobiusKlein
@Jackie:
Well, my cats caught a real mouse. Didn’t kill it yet, so they are not coming in yet. And it’s approaching 10 pm.
Very pleased with themselves, they are.
Major Major Major Major
@MobiusKlein: Momo has been catching and eating moths during moth season, it’s kinda weird to watch!
MobiusKlein
@Major Major Major Major:
And they are both back in, not coyote chow.
My older tabby likes to rest on your shoulder as you walk about. But once you walk 2 or 3 houses away from home, he knows he’s in some other cat’s territory, and becomes very anxious. He knows the border.
sab
@MobiusKlein: My husband tells me that cat turfs are territorial but also temporal. A cat can stroll through your yard safely at 7 am or 7 pm, but heaven help him if he strolls through at noon, when other cats rule.
ETA Theoretic cat time frames aren’t actual. My cats are causing issues at dusk and dawn. Noon they are asleep.
Amir Khalid
As ever, Steve is a magnificentlyhandsome boy. Even after his sjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj * summer haircut.
*Aoife’s contribution to the typing. (She also likes to lie on the laptop keyboard and block the screen.) Aoife’s a lively one. I think they call her colouring “cream”, which makes her the first cream tabby I’ve ever met.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Glad to hear she’s integrating into the household so well. Let’s see those pictures!
Major Major Major Major
@MobiusKlein: Samwise is an apartment cat and is scared of the outdoors, haha. Neither is allowed out on account of we live across the street from a wildlife preserve.
eclare
@Amir Khalid:
Glad to hear she is settling in and helping you out with your laptop!
opiejeanne
@Amir Khalid: She sounds beautiful. We had a flame point siamese according to our vet, which isn’t an officially recognized type of cat. He was a lovely boy, all cream with faint orange stripes on his tail and peach-colored ears.
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
Well I’ve been sleeping a lot, so I guess that counts?
prostratedragon
@Amir Khalid: Aoife’s typing!😄😄
geg6
@Major Major Major Major:
Our Cleo is a squeaker. She is also very small. We believe that she was abandoned in our garage because she was a runt. I love her little squeak. ❤️
geg6
@Amir Khalid:
Pictures or it didn’t happen. 😸
LiminalOwl
@Jackie: Zenna has a hunting meow when she is fetching sock-balls. Toby has a tiny mew that is always surprising coming from such a big cat, but recently (when he had to have a bath) we learned that he has the capacity for loud yowling.
Bobby Thomson
@Steeplejack:
Be
Live
Steve
Bobby Thomson
Those are some quality peets