I once had a cat who had thumbs. Instead of just sticking his face in his dry fud bowl to eat, he would reach in, grab the fud, then pick it up and eat it like some common hooman. Sadly, he didn't live very long, so he never had the opportunity to take over the world.
The Puerto Rico article... Frak me. JFHC... Trump and Co should be jailed for their lack of response alone. Also, when I hit the line about privitizing the health care industry, I knew that was fraked even before I read the lines after it. 🙁😭
Okay, so kudos to Branson for using SAF, but isn't loading a 737 with a few of your friends to make a transatlantic flight part of the problem? I get that they probably need to test the stuff to figure out fuel consumption and other factors before putting it to general use. But how about instead of a publicity stunt you load the plane full of food assistance and deliver it to some place that needs it?
Well, look at it this way: If something were to have gone wrong, which would you regret more? A plane full of needed supplies, or a billionaire and his close buddies?
"...while the state 'investigates' the school for the offense of allowing a transgender student to play on a girls’ volleyball team"
I'm really fucking sick of Republicans' exploitation of LGBTQ+ kids (and adults) for short term political gain (or so they think). The Nazis scapegoated trans people and Jews for the same reason, and there's just no difference between what they did to gain power and what the Republicans are doing right now (glaring especially at you, Nikki Haley, as a self-anointed "moderate voice" in this cabal of neo-fascists).
Anyway, everyone in this fucking country should be reading Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler" RIGHT NOW.
Okay so we finally purchased plane tickets for the kids’ spring break in March. We’re going to London! I’ve never been and I’m so torn between staying in Britain the whole week or taking the Eurostar to Paris for a couple of days. I’ve never been there either and I’m dying to take the train across the Channel and see Versailles. Please help!
tough call. both great. so much to do in London / environs. so much to do in Paris /environs (me personally, i'd skip Versailles, but I'm more a medieval-y girl).
if you're the type of family OK with seeing X, Y, Z in london and moving on, I'd do both. if you like to meander, a week in London would be divine.
btw: food is just as good - if not better in London these days. don't let the French tell you otherwise...
Yes, I too have a furry supervisor who sits to the side of the monitor, rubs the corner of the screen to the point where I'm afraid she's going to poke her eye out, then springs over the keyboard, and presents her butt until she is properly admired and pet. 😻
My cat walks back and forth in front of my computer keyboard in an attempt to distract me. She then slides from the desk into my lap and stares at me, blocking my view of the screen. She has this down to a science.
My late great tortoiseshell Phanny, loved sleeping by the keyboard. One time she just shifted her position and stitched a bit and she made the display on my monitor go upside down. She claimed that she was not a hacker but there had been a previous incident where she walked across my keyboard and when I tried to type out an email, the letters typed were Greek letters.
LOL! I had to disable the touchscreen on my monitor because my cat would lie next to it, flick her tail back and forth and nit it, and the screen would scroll madly.
Lookeet dis babby! Sourced via the Pet Collective:
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/wee-baby-thumb-sucking-kitten
That gif made me squeee out loud ❤️😻
A cat with thumbs!
We are doomed!
I once had a cat who had thumbs. Instead of just sticking his face in his dry fud bowl to eat, he would reach in, grab the fud, then pick it up and eat it like some common hooman. Sadly, he didn't live very long, so he never had the opportunity to take over the world.
Is possibly the most squeee-ist of Tabs ever!!
Lmao. I wrote about my squeee before I saw yours. 😆
Wee sweetie.
LOOK AT THAT BABBY KITTEH SUCKING ITS THUMB! LOOK AT IT! SQUEEEEEEE!
I’m usually in too much of a hurry in the morning to sit through the whole Tabs (sorry!) but today I was completely mesmerized! 😍
I thought perhaps I might just faint dead away from the "SqueeeEEEEeee!!" after gazing upon that precious little thumb sucking kitten.
It had NEVER even occurred to me that a lil kitty could suckle its' thumb. <3
At least the cat has a good sense of how to extort scritches. 😊
The Puerto Rico article... Frak me. JFHC... Trump and Co should be jailed for their lack of response alone. Also, when I hit the line about privitizing the health care industry, I knew that was fraked even before I read the lines after it. 🙁😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k
The Bad Touch (We're Nothing But Animals)
I’ve got a good joke; An Irishman walks out of a bar.
Our Beaker the cat does that also too, he is also a gray brown tabby (more brown than Thornton)
I can feel the judgement radiating off Thornton.
Okay, so kudos to Branson for using SAF, but isn't loading a 737 with a few of your friends to make a transatlantic flight part of the problem? I get that they probably need to test the stuff to figure out fuel consumption and other factors before putting it to general use. But how about instead of a publicity stunt you load the plane full of food assistance and deliver it to some place that needs it?
Well, look at it this way: If something were to have gone wrong, which would you regret more? A plane full of needed supplies, or a billionaire and his close buddies?
def in favor of losing a billionaire & Buddies before losing supplies. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
So that bat is, as my buddy Joe used to say, hung like a can of tuna?
"...while the state 'investigates' the school for the offense of allowing a transgender student to play on a girls’ volleyball team"
I'm really fucking sick of Republicans' exploitation of LGBTQ+ kids (and adults) for short term political gain (or so they think). The Nazis scapegoated trans people and Jews for the same reason, and there's just no difference between what they did to gain power and what the Republicans are doing right now (glaring especially at you, Nikki Haley, as a self-anointed "moderate voice" in this cabal of neo-fascists).
Anyway, everyone in this fucking country should be reading Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler" RIGHT NOW.
I think about 50% of the country reads below a sixth grade level. They don’t need no stinkin’ books.
this could be good news. Jezebel is bought by some company I never heard of (Paste?) and should be relaunched soon.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/29/jezebel-paste-magazine-buys-feminist-news-site
Paste is a magazine based in Atlanta.
Okay so we finally purchased plane tickets for the kids’ spring break in March. We’re going to London! I’ve never been and I’m so torn between staying in Britain the whole week or taking the Eurostar to Paris for a couple of days. I’ve never been there either and I’m dying to take the train across the Channel and see Versailles. Please help!
Go to Scotland.
Scotland is best in late summer when the whole countryside is purple.
tough call. both great. so much to do in London / environs. so much to do in Paris /environs (me personally, i'd skip Versailles, but I'm more a medieval-y girl).
if you're the type of family OK with seeing X, Y, Z in london and moving on, I'd do both. if you like to meander, a week in London would be divine.
btw: food is just as good - if not better in London these days. don't let the French tell you otherwise...
so jealous!
Yes, I too have a furry supervisor who sits to the side of the monitor, rubs the corner of the screen to the point where I'm afraid she's going to poke her eye out, then springs over the keyboard, and presents her butt until she is properly admired and pet. 😻
My cat walks back and forth in front of my computer keyboard in an attempt to distract me. She then slides from the desk into my lap and stares at me, blocking my view of the screen. She has this down to a science.
https://substack.com/profile/155713940-queen-meabh/note/c-44463431
My late great tortoiseshell Phanny, loved sleeping by the keyboard. One time she just shifted her position and stitched a bit and she made the display on my monitor go upside down. She claimed that she was not a hacker but there had been a previous incident where she walked across my keyboard and when I tried to type out an email, the letters typed were Greek letters.
LOL! I had to disable the touchscreen on my monitor because my cat would lie next to it, flick her tail back and forth and nit it, and the screen would scroll madly.
Wooooow, that's one fucked up "school board" story.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1729866145975418994.html
"Economists Expect Sluggish Holiday Season" - headline of pretty much every national news outlet
"Cyber Monday sales increase 10%, hit $12.4 billion, setting a new record" - what really happened
"American economy grew at a faster-than-expected rate of 5.2% last quarter" - that also really happened
We don't know about any of this because Joe Biden's senile and doesn't know about it so he can't tell us about it.
Get it?