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It’s Chips the baby bobcat! She also briefly had a career in highway law enforcement, but I don’t talk about that here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/chips-the-baby-bobcat

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Late to the party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64

The Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It?

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Baby bobcat looks like smol kitten but is probably bigger than a full-grown housecat.

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CHIP!!!!😻😻😻 I do want to touch it. Thanks for the PUSA earworm, I will be hearing it all day in my head.

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That's all Rebecca's doing ;-)

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Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty TOUCH IT

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My greatest wildlife encounter was with a bobcat, which sprung up onto a remote unimproved road on which I was slowly driving in the Diablo Range of central California and just stopped there in the middle of the road to stare at me. I've never before or since seen a more beautiful animal. It had these incredibly long red and gold whiskers that made it looks like some kind of religious icon. I turned the car off. The bobcat continued to stand there and look at me, then indifferently strolled off onto the other side of the road, climbed a hill, looked back once, then disappeared among the oaks.

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They are so gorgeous and mysterious in nature - a cat made of flickering shadows.

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Beautifully and accurately put!

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Thank you. That's nice of you.

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Awwwwww, cute little fuzzball

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She's a narc!

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I love that little baby kitties are all the same!

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I there were two, the other one could be named Salsa!

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If I hadn't encountered an adult bobcat a time or two, I would announce that Chips the baby bobcat is welcome anytime at Playa Shocky.

She's magnificent

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The National Park Service tried to reintroduce bobcats to the subtropical maritime forest on Cumberland Island National Seashore. They put locators on them to keep track their progress and within days found out that they had all made the swim across the Intracoastal Waterway and were back on the mainland. The project came to an abrupt end.

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That's such a great story! Who knew bobcats had so much moxie?

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I'm surprised that they didn't leave a nasty note.

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I got a babby bobcat rescue story! Sorta, it more or less rescued itself.

When we were a'campin once, my brother and I decided to trace the nearby stream back to its source up the mountain. These were the days when children were a bit more free range, and so long as they showed up for meal times, it was all good.

Anyway, bout 2/3 or so up, we came across a baby bobcat, who looked kinda dirty and skinny and very sad. But we were good little Jr. Woodsies and knew do not go to babby, because momma will rip you a new one, so we turned around and went back.

It followed us. All the way back down the mountain, crying in its weird voice (they got weird voices)

My pops went and got the ranger who then took care of it, and it is not like we pet it or anything, but it was still kinda cool that we had a babby bobcat for a minute. Never heard what happened to the mother so I try not to think on that one.

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like

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Free-range children are considered by bobcats a delicacy. A lot of people don't know that.

(very cool story!)

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The bobcat ate my babby!

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I think if a bedraggled babby bobcat actually followed me crying I would be very hard pressed not to give in and pick it up eventually... So that’s probably how I’m going to die.

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lol, that Jr Woodsy program was no joke XD

Almost all of it was not littering, but a good deal of it was "do not fucking touch a wild animal or you will die"

But in a nice kid friendly way

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Edit: Also, it was bigger than the one in our header. Not quite so teeny XD

Or at least, it seems that way from recollections from more en 40 years ago now, jesus I am old

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YOU'RE old?

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Cute little fucker will rip your face off and eat it soon enough.

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Not 𝑚𝑦 face.

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"I voted for her!"

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I could see myself rescuing a Chips of my own and then after a few months thinking "Wow, this is going to be a big tabby."

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Tough on the furnishings too

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"It's got a short tail, I guess maybe it's part Maine Coon?"

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Ear tufts and a short tail, must be a Manx-Maine Coon mix

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So, basically, we do not discuss the Middle East here?

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Travel tips from the Daily Show's Michael Kosta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFvZeS744RU

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I said that too! It's hard not to like Stormy. Also, too much depressing, Becca. I know that's not your fault but yikes already. Well nothing for it but to indulge myself all weekend. Suggest everybody else do likewise.

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I think Jeri Ryan would be the perfect actress to play Stormy in a streamer about all of this some day

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k, I am reading the Brian Beutler piece. He says about the stolen documents

> Some of them had been scanned on to a private laptop by a political aide.

and have we been in denial about the fact that reclaiming the physical documents, while an important step, does not mean that the documents are not available to PAB for perusal, being printed out to wipe his gargantuan ass on, or, I dunno, selling to Vlad or MBS or Kim or one of his other pals?

'Cause we've kinda known - that shit is out there, the coop has been flown, the data has achieved its freedom.

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'Trix, about the TPM gift links. I've noticed that if you go straight to the article without doing anything else, they work. But if you open up other tabs or do anything that forces the browser to reload the page when you go to read it, TPM seems to "forget" that it's a gift link and gives you the paywall. Apparently, the part of the link data that tells their servers that it's a gift link isn't being stored. If you can pass that along to TPM, their techs may be able to fix the problem.

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"Trump’s stolen documents" That's STOLLEN!

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I believe the documents were written on ciabattaform tablets.

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You know what's coming next year? An attack on NSF grants and DoD contracts to colleges. Trust me. There's going to be language in the National Defense Authorization Act to stifle free speech wrt Gaza - Israel war.

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"The included defense is not representative of our airline, and we have directed it be amended this morning,” American Airlines said in a statement Wednesday. “We do not believe this child is at fault and we take the allegations involving a former team member very seriously.”

TL:DR

We don't know her.

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I think what they're trying to say is that victim-blaming is good and fine as long as the women are adults.

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Everyone knows Bitches be lyin...

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>>I’m always saying, the Amalfi Coast!<<

God does this bring back memories! That was almost another lifetime ago, but I fondly remember Amalfi.

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right there with you (and my ex husband).

beautiful couple weeks...

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I have taken the ferry to Positano. There was nothing stressful about it. But I wouldn't drive the Amalfi Coast road. In fact, I wouldn't drive in Italy at all. Italian drivers are crazy.

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Re American Airlines story: this is not what "AA" said. A young newbie lawyer said a stupid in a responsive pleading. That's all. It's not a press release, not an expression of corporate policy, hell, it's not even argument. It's a pleading, so the jury will never consider it, and a judge will only look at it some day if there is a dispute about what it DOESN'T say. Corporate doesn't bother approving answers before they're filed, and even supervising attorneys generally don't. An answer to a complaint is a high-priority, but low-level filing. You just need to deny everything and allege every affirmative defense you can think of. "It's plaintiff's own fault" is an affirmative defense that gets alleged in EVERY answer as a matter of basic competence -- he or she just phrased it idiotically.

I don't know for a fact it was a young newbie lawyer who did this, but if I had to bet money, this is where I'd place it. The affirmative defense is needlessly specific, indicating inexperience. The lawyer doesn't seem to realize that journalists always scan filings in cases involving well-known companies, so you have to be careful in how you phrase things.

And also, this is the kind of shit that young newbie lawyers do. Somewhat counterintuitively, it's their very idealism, their youthful idealism that makes them do this. They want the money and the bennies that comes with working in the corporate world, but they also fantasize about being Clarence Darrow. They have a deep psychological need to believe their client is good, and their adversary is evil, and they are fighting on the side of good, against evil. Or, alternatively, they can't distinguish between toughness and cynicism, because young and stupid. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this lawyer refers to Biden as "genocide Joe".

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I don't know anything about the Amalfi Coast. We love a little ancient town called Como, on Lake Como, just outside Milan. There used to be nobody there, our first guide book advised tourists to get on a boat and go elsewhere on the lake. But now there are a lot of people, especially Americans. A local told us that's because George Clooney's villa is just up the lake. "We are not here because of George Clooney! We didn't even know that!!" we told him. Still, it's a pretty little town that goes back to Roman days. I think Pliny the Younger and Pliny the Elder both lived there.

Also when we visited Florence and found it way too hot and crowded, we went a couple hours away to Pisa. Despite the famous tower, Pisa is also a nice sleepy little town. Italians told us we were crazy to not like Florence. "How can you not like the most beautiful city in the world!" Again, hot and crowded.

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And not a word about the biggest, saddest event of the week -- Kabosu's death. Tsk-tsk-tsk. Anyway, yay! Boo! Grr! There, I think I covered the tabs. As for Israel and Palestine, I wish I bobcats made good house pets.

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All the best people, part XXVII:

"Tom Cotton emerges as a top contender in Trump’s V.P. race." -NYT

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If you could see my face upon reading this.

I guess it's good news for the rest of us that Trump can't see any point in trying to broaden his appeal, and is doubling down on "loyal, white, racist Dunning Kruger poster children, that also give off closeted gay vibes."

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