Three pounds is not half a domestic cat. Okay, maybe close to half of *one* of our previous cats, but she was smol. And she didn’t get down to 6 pounds until she was almost gone. Three pounds would be roughly 30%, 25% and 20% of our current crew and only around 14% of our largest specimen (sadly passed last April).
But he is an impressive little guy. Love the kohl around the eyes. He definitely wears it better than JD.
Buffy was 8 to 8 1/2 pounds until she began to decline, but she was unusually small. BIG personality though, and make no mistake, she was In Charge. Like Mary Poppins, but make her small… and a cat. She’s the smallest adult cat we ever had. Most of them have averaged 10-12 pounds, Pumpkin the Boing-Biong is a tick over 13 1/2. Dude weighed in at 21 and change at his biggest, but he was unusually large. One look at the head on that guy and you go, “Yeah, he’s fluffy, but he’s got the frame to carry it.”
I consulted sooooooo many sources for this piece, but I could find nowhere that specified exactly how, when or why the guy who found Tigrino had the "aha"/"oh shit" moment. Would be interesting to know.
A YT short I saw offered the explanation that the guy who found it noted that it ate a variety of foods, including noodles, before attacking his chickens. That twigged him to it not being a domestic cat.
He took it to a wildlife sanctuary, where they determined it was a new species. DNA analysis discovered that it was an adult.
Don't most cats have some weird non-meat thing they love to eat? We had one who ate nori, perhaps thinking it was funny-shaped fish. I'd get out a sheet and start tearing a strip, and he'd come running. He'd even eat sushi, except for the watercress.
“Humanity hasn’t gone backwards since the Middle Ages. Since the enlightenment. Since the Renaissance. The world’s been on a little bit of a hot streak, if you haven’t noticed.“
Beg to differ on your first point Jesse. Humanity has been going backwards for around 25 years. But yeah, it has been getting hotter — every year.
More like 45 years...From January 20, 1981, when Ronnie Raygun was inaugerated. The Repubbas (or is that Rebubbas?) have been dragging this country backwards since dimwitted Ron became Preznit(wit).
Fuck those two pastors with a hot glue gun. They sound like JD Vance without the cat insult. They're all reading from the same playbook. Good luck with that you stupid fucks. (I assume the pastor's wife has circumvented those "blocks" and spends her day watching porn and planning her divorce.)
NYT: "Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market -The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability."
Moar NYT: The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note recorded on Wednesday its biggest one-day jump since last year. The five-year Treasury yield rose above 5 percent, to its highest since 2007. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, which underpins corporate and consumer borrowing across the globe, remained around its highest level in roughly two decades, though it nudged slightly lower Thursday morning. Also on Thursday, the 30-year Treasury yield briefly extended its losses from Wednesday, with the yield rising to its highest level since 2004, before also turning lower for the day.
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I hate to be a real Newt Gingrich about the midterms, but I’m not counting any chickens in a country that elected Trump twice, especially not Florida or Texas chickens.
Yep and although I'm perennially hopeful...I'm still "concerned" that Our Lady of the Furrowed Brow will pull a win out of the rabbit-hiding hat, despite every indication plus a fair mound of evidence that she is as corrupt as every good Trumper Repubba ought to be. This Navatek thing is NOT pleasing to most Mainers. Susie is undoubtedly making Margaret Chase Smith cry in Heaven (if that is, in fact, where she is).
Agreed - polls have been wrong, wronger, and wrongest in a series of elections. The only think that makes me think there is some hope is the fact that they are all moving in the same direction after polling different populations. And both Kalshi and Polymarket have Democrats taking both the Senate and the House. In the last couple of election cycles, the betting markets more accurately forecast election results at a national level than professional survey and forecasting groups. (state/local, not so much)
I think that's always been true. But in a weird way, trump and his sycophants have so over-used to election cheating screech that it has become less powerful. There will be yelling and screaming no matter what.
Yes. The only poll that matters is the *election.* We have to turn out the vote in such great, overwhelming numbers that all the R (for regressive) efforts to gerrymander, ratfuck, and steal blow up in their faces.
"Somehow he [the judge] did not seem to believe Trump needed to ban the media for national security purposes!"
So they violate national security by citing things that Regime stated at press conferences, whose sole purpose is to inform the public of what the Regime wants us to know? I think there is a slight problem with this reasoning, somewhere, but I think I have figured it out. This here's ther problem! They have small particles of bwain lodged in ther skull. They will have to come out! Summon the bwain surgin.
SO, reporters from CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO tried to enter the White House this morning (based on the TRO) and they were refused entry. They've already filed notice of non-compliance and asked for a hearing.
Dang! Reading about how it's INSANE to allow women on the internet, I thought I was reading something from the Taliban, or Iran. These guys should visit Afghanistan and mingle with other like-minded radicals, then fight over whose god is the bigger misogynist.
But they sometimes allow their wives to go on a carefully-monitored & -timed trip to pick up groceries or their kids! How gracious & generous they are to their female property!
It's brand new (or newly classified, in any event) cat species in your hed gif. Check out the deets here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/new-cat-who-dis
I also have a meme chat for ya: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/45234055-4e11-4a44-b035-78b4e2e27762
I would adopt that kitty in a heartbeat.
Her little nosicle! And she weighs around three pounds! :)))
Three pounds is not half a domestic cat. Okay, maybe close to half of *one* of our previous cats, but she was smol. And she didn’t get down to 6 pounds until she was almost gone. Three pounds would be roughly 30%, 25% and 20% of our current crew and only around 14% of our largest specimen (sadly passed last April).
But he is an impressive little guy. Love the kohl around the eyes. He definitely wears it better than JD.
My cats are 18 pounds and 13 pounds respectively. Larger one is a Nebelung, they tend to range on the bigger size :)
The Dude:
https://substack.com/@maximumcanes/note/c-249520603
My cat is considered small at 9.7 lbs. OTH, being three lbs. must allow this wild kitty to hide extremely well.
Buffy was 8 to 8 1/2 pounds until she began to decline, but she was unusually small. BIG personality though, and make no mistake, she was In Charge. Like Mary Poppins, but make her small… and a cat. She’s the smallest adult cat we ever had. Most of them have averaged 10-12 pounds, Pumpkin the Boing-Biong is a tick over 13 1/2. Dude weighed in at 21 and change at his biggest, but he was unusually large. One look at the head on that guy and you go, “Yeah, he’s fluffy, but he’s got the frame to carry it.”
My two biggest cats weighed in at 19 (Tomato) and 22 (Jeeves) LBS. Both big boys. Both deceased.
Here kitty, kitty, kitty... Ouch!
Both adorable and dangerous in one tiny package.
Isn't that a general description of cats?
“I’m ferocious!”
You sure are you little cutie. ☺️
Smol jaguar aka pocket pussy.
He's adorbs. I'm thankful he can only snack on my face.
I know that kitteh, it's the new species found in Bolivia.
This kitty is a proud member of "Leopardus faceatingus". Walk tall, kitty...
"Stan back! I haz a fierce!"
Doesn't like crowds and is stressed by human presence?
Come sit next to me, lil' cat. We have much in common.
MURDER kitty catloaf!
Smol tigger!
Tigrino ain’t having none of your shit this morning! GTFO, hooman!
A seriously judgy lil' feline loaf.
"Whar are those faces I need to eat?"
Do NOT try this at home. Not nice kitty.
I love the bit in the story where dude was all wait a minute, this isn't a domestic cat!
I still wanna know what it did to make him realize that.
A story I saw said it started stalking chickens 🐔 🐈⬛ . . .
It's a cool-looking cat, and quite a hunter . . .
His friends have started calling him "Lefty"...
I consulted sooooooo many sources for this piece, but I could find nowhere that specified exactly how, when or why the guy who found Tigrino had the "aha"/"oh shit" moment. Would be interesting to know.
A YT short I saw offered the explanation that the guy who found it noted that it ate a variety of foods, including noodles, before attacking his chickens. That twigged him to it not being a domestic cat.
He took it to a wildlife sanctuary, where they determined it was a new species. DNA analysis discovered that it was an adult.
Noodles?! You want me to eat noodles when your fingers are right there?
Don't most cats have some weird non-meat thing they love to eat? We had one who ate nori, perhaps thinking it was funny-shaped fish. I'd get out a sheet and start tearing a strip, and he'd come running. He'd even eat sushi, except for the watercress.
Well, eating faces seems to be popular in the discourse.
It is a spotted cat!
Wee stripey-face kitty is wee! And also has a stripey face! And is also somehow a mighty tree hunter! Hooray! Eeee! <squee coma> *fllump*
Jesse Watters:
“Humanity hasn’t gone backwards since the Middle Ages. Since the enlightenment. Since the Renaissance. The world’s been on a little bit of a hot streak, if you haven’t noticed.“
Beg to differ on your first point Jesse. Humanity has been going backwards for around 25 years. But yeah, it has been getting hotter — every year.
https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/p/fox-news-who-cares-if-ai-kills-us
More like 45 years...From January 20, 1981, when Ronnie Raygun was inaugerated. The Repubbas (or is that Rebubbas?) have been dragging this country backwards since dimwitted Ron became Preznit(wit).
You mean, Newt Gingrich is trying to become even more of a fossil than *James Carville"? The mind reels.
The world has been pretty shit since women were first allowed to use the internet. Maybe that one fascist guy has a point...
Fuck those two pastors with a hot glue gun. They sound like JD Vance without the cat insult. They're all reading from the same playbook. Good luck with that you stupid fucks. (I assume the pastor's wife has circumvented those "blocks" and spends her day watching porn and planning her divorce.)
“Fuck those two pastors with a hot glue gun” is the name of my emo-industrial space reggae band.
She could do both at the same time at lawyersinlove dot com*
*site not checked for veracity.
NYT: "Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market -The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability."
Moar NYT: The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note recorded on Wednesday its biggest one-day jump since last year. The five-year Treasury yield rose above 5 percent, to its highest since 2007. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, which underpins corporate and consumer borrowing across the globe, remained around its highest level in roughly two decades, though it nudged slightly lower Thursday morning. Also on Thursday, the 30-year Treasury yield briefly extended its losses from Wednesday, with the yield rising to its highest level since 2004, before also turning lower for the day.
When it hits 15% I'll start getting nostalgic
Right-wing Theobro chauvinist Christian fascist is the reason I no longer grow a beard.
Fortunately I have never heard of this particular asshole, so I will keep mine.
It's not just this one asshole. There is plague of modern beardy assholes out there from whom I wish to distance myself.
I thought this opinion piece in The New Republic was very good – "Centrists Won’t Tell You Where 'Moderating' on Trans Rights Ends Up: The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that 'compromising' rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint." https://newrepublic.com/article/215575/centrists-moderating-trans-rights-labour-party-uk
When it comes to dealing with fascists, "compromise" is another word for 'backing down' or 'giving up' or ...
Peace in our time?
Ta, Evan. Ta, Martini. It's a gorgeous day in the northern Catskills. We have luscious breakfast bowls and beautiful, flowery white tea; soon we'll have strong coffee and elitist avocado toast. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last, catch up on any other vaccines you need, and get any kids in your family vaccinated as well, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, Dolly Parton, who put up a million dollars of her own money to make the Moderna vaccine possible, and nearly eight million dead worldwide, possibly including Gav, who had long COVID. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love you, medicos of Wonkette, from student to active to retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!!
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
I love you, darling. And we love you all!
I hate to be a real Newt Gingrich about the midterms, but I’m not counting any chickens in a country that elected Trump twice, especially not Florida or Texas chickens.
Yep and although I'm perennially hopeful...I'm still "concerned" that Our Lady of the Furrowed Brow will pull a win out of the rabbit-hiding hat, despite every indication plus a fair mound of evidence that she is as corrupt as every good Trumper Repubba ought to be. This Navatek thing is NOT pleasing to most Mainers. Susie is undoubtedly making Margaret Chase Smith cry in Heaven (if that is, in fact, where she is).
Agreed - polls have been wrong, wronger, and wrongest in a series of elections. The only think that makes me think there is some hope is the fact that they are all moving in the same direction after polling different populations. And both Kalshi and Polymarket have Democrats taking both the Senate and the House. In the last couple of election cycles, the betting markets more accurately forecast election results at a national level than professional survey and forecasting groups. (state/local, not so much)
My concern has now switched to "not accepting the results". And I'm thinking in particular of Senator-Elect Talarico.
I think that's always been true. But in a weird way, trump and his sycophants have so over-used to election cheating screech that it has become less powerful. There will be yelling and screaming no matter what.
Yes. The only poll that matters is the *election.* We have to turn out the vote in such great, overwhelming numbers that all the R (for regressive) efforts to gerrymander, ratfuck, and steal blow up in their faces.
"Somehow he [the judge] did not seem to believe Trump needed to ban the media for national security purposes!"
So they violate national security by citing things that Regime stated at press conferences, whose sole purpose is to inform the public of what the Regime wants us to know? I think there is a slight problem with this reasoning, somewhere, but I think I have figured it out. This here's ther problem! They have small particles of bwain lodged in ther skull. They will have to come out! Summon the bwain surgin.
Is Susan Collins corrupt? Doesn’t matter really, as long as we’re “just asking questions.” How does that feel, GOP rage machine?
I believe Susan Collins is corrupt, and belief is just as valid as verifiable fact.
Say something loud enough and enough times…
Naturally, I imagine they are concerned
A leaking JD Vance is indeed very gross.
Why do you think they invented Scotchguard?
Brain leaks - this entire administration has brain leaks
SO, reporters from CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO tried to enter the White House this morning (based on the TRO) and they were refused entry. They've already filed notice of non-compliance and asked for a hearing.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74823502/26/cable-news-network-inc-v-trump/
ETA: Judge has ordered DOJ to respond in writing by 12:30 today.
Dang! Reading about how it's INSANE to allow women on the internet, I thought I was reading something from the Taliban, or Iran. These guys should visit Afghanistan and mingle with other like-minded radicals, then fight over whose god is the bigger misogynist.
But they sometimes allow their wives to go on a carefully-monitored & -timed trip to pick up groceries or their kids! How gracious & generous they are to their female property!
🤬🤬🤬🤬☠️☠️☠️☠️