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Medium Cool – Do You Stop Reading, Watching, Listening?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
Petty moves from a petty man.
All hail the time of the bunny!
Let there be snark.
“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)
I really should read my own blog.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.
Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.
The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
75% of people clapping liked the show!
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
“woke” is the new caravan.
One way or another, he’s a liar.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.
“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.
If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.
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… https://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