At the moment I'm wondering if there's enough O+ blood available at the local blood bank in the event I ever try to dress Cat the Ripper up like the beautiful, inquisitive Buttercream.
I had a cat who was always trying to escape. So I bought a small chest harness. After leaving it around for a few days to let her get used to it, I managed to get her securely buckled in. I walked away for 30 seconds to get my keys, went back to the door. She was proudly sitting on top of the harness and meowing at me. One more good idea shot to hell.
Hey Buttercream, have mom and dad take you sledding on the hill next to the Dyckman Street subway station on the 1 line that goes to Van Cortlandt park. That was fun sledding back in the day.
I got percy a sweater for christmas, for he is thin furred and our house drafty, and for warm he will burrito himself in blankets and then get stuck, because he is made of dumb, and have to be rescued.
OH the drama! He did the dead kitty flop and everything XD I tried to do the training like the intertubes said but after a week I was all nope, he is not enjoying this, that is enough.
It's all good, not too hard to rescue him from his self wrapping
Yay USA Women’s Hockey! Boo to the Men’s team! Additional boo to Gov Gav for douching out. “Pronouns” is such a gross, dismissive term for people’s fucking HUMAN RIGHTS.
It’s 6:45 AM in the morning in the procrastinators time zone, and I am now back in bed. Wood on the fire, four of the six cats are fed. Alice is pretending to be asleep so we don’t have to do eye drops yet. Jax gets fed twice what the others do, and they are all, “what’s for breakfast? Oh. I’m not really hungry…“, but he is, “oh, boyoboyoboy! Breakfast? Again? I am your HUCKLEBERRY!” and he gobbles whatever flavor of Friskies I am serving up, gives me hugs and nuzzles like I just returned from the wars.
Stuck my head outside, and the wind in the trees is roaring like the ocean, and from what I could see, pretty much all of the shoveling I did yesterday has been filled in or rearranged. I brought up some apple and cheese, and I’m going to watch something silly that doesn’t have any snow in it later today I’m gonna make death by chocolate pop tarts and maybe go outside and move snow around some more. Remains to be seen.
So, in 125 years of men's Olympic hockey, they have won 11 medals, or one medal every 11.4 years
In the 27 years of women's Olympic hockey, they have won 8 medals, one every 3.4 years. Oh and 3 golds against 2.... but sure, 'graciously' invite the women to the WH to celebrate
I have a fervent wish that the Women's hockey team really turned down the invite prior to hearing about Trump's misogynistic "joke"; that they weren't going to anyway, just on general principles.
Also Too, and ohmigod, now Evan is issuing orders that we go over to his very own site, not just veiled suggestions. Why don't you fire that traitorous bum, Robyn?
The Pentagon doesn’t want to lose access to Claude but is furious with Anthropic
Oh really, Axios? The building is mad? Or, do you mean the entire DOD is angry, about Claude having security features? Somehow, I doubt that. If you mean the leadership is smashing their empty vodka bottles, fine, say that.
Ryan Goodman at Just Security unearthed documents showing that five days after Epstein’s July 2019 arrest, the FBI directed NYPD’s Special Victims Unit to halt all Epstein investigations. The email is explicit: “SVU has been directed to stand down and that all Epstein stuff needs to go to and through us.”
I know we like to rag on Trump for being a very big liar who lies about everything, but we really should give him credit when he is honest. Such as when he says he'd kill everybody. Pretty sure, given the chance, that is his plan.
Ever since the overlords of free market capitalism saw labor unions rise up and ordinary working people start working 40 hour weeks, overtime pay, children going to school instead of into mines and mills etc etc etc the plan has been to "DO SOMETHING about that". The plan has been over a century in the works.
He is just the lapdog chosen to do that 'something'. And it is no accident that his HHS Secretary is a Medical Science skeptic with a hard-on for removing vaccines from the reach of ordinary people. The best way to remove the most people in one fell swoop is another pandemic.
Yeah, Newsom should stop rolling trans people under the bus. You know why trans rights have become a political football? Because the right wing has been lying their ass off about trans people. For example: gender dysphoria is not a real thing, kids are getting "multilating" surgeries, trans people will assault someone in a gender-conforming restroom (so we can't have them there), etc. Instead of going quiet about the issue, I'd like my poliiticans to push back against this lie machine.
Claude’s current ad campaign emphasizes the fact that they’re not running ads in the chat. So now I’m picturing Pentagon officials having to sit through a pitch for the cybertruck before being able to order a drone strike against Iran.
Buttercream knows how experience snow (hed gif info). https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/buttercream-sleds-in-central-park
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/8ccb4d57-8800-422b-b0d6-587922c0a22d
Stay safe out there, snowbound friends.
Buttercream has style, and knows it!
I think this started with *punch punch* “HUMAN! Take me outside. I should like to investigate this ‘snow’ stuff. Be quick, now, it might melt!”
At the moment I'm wondering if there's enough O+ blood available at the local blood bank in the event I ever try to dress Cat the Ripper up like the beautiful, inquisitive Buttercream.
There definitely isn’t. DO NOT ATTEMPT.
I had a cat who was always trying to escape. So I bought a small chest harness. After leaving it around for a few days to let her get used to it, I managed to get her securely buckled in. I walked away for 30 seconds to get my keys, went back to the door. She was proudly sitting on top of the harness and meowing at me. One more good idea shot to hell.
Luge!
I've known some adorable cats in my time. Buttercream should be in the Adorable Cat Hall of Fame.
When it comes to sledding
Buttercream knows how to do it
But when it comes to winter cold
That cat is welcome to it
It's 21 degrees outside
And a month til Winter's done
Juan and I are waiting for
The warming springtime sun.
Which 21? The above one? Or the default one?
It was 26 degrees in Atlanta this am, took Molly took the dog park anyway, she was fine but I froze my fingers off even with gloves.
I know, I'm a wimp.
It reached about 21 here today, too.
C.
☀️
I’m picturing Juan looking out the window and sighing deep sighs.
Me too. We had highs near 80° last week. It spoiled the two of us
Aww . . .
He's looking at the snow so he can figure out how to murder you with it, Lady!
Hey Buttercream, have mom and dad take you sledding on the hill next to the Dyckman Street subway station on the 1 line that goes to Van Cortlandt park. That was fun sledding back in the day.
OMG, I don’t normally endorse dressing cats up in costumes but that little tam! Squuuhweee!
Buttercream looked fine with it!
I got percy a sweater for christmas, for he is thin furred and our house drafty, and for warm he will burrito himself in blankets and then get stuck, because he is made of dumb, and have to be rescued.
OH the drama! He did the dead kitty flop and everything XD I tried to do the training like the intertubes said but after a week I was all nope, he is not enjoying this, that is enough.
It's all good, not too hard to rescue him from his self wrapping
It's the hat. The wearing of the hat will cause mayhem to their human. Count on it.
https://y.yarn.co/f0f28fc3-95ae-41c6-8a86-477572b84434_text.gif
A kitteh in a tam o' shanter? Ded. DEE EE DEE ded.
Buttercream sez, "What's dis cold, white stuff?"
You will pay for this, with blood as red as this outfit, hooman!
Will we be live-blogging Trump's travesty? Hope so.
In the comments perhaps, sounds like the WonkTeam won't be giving it any air time.
Yay USA Women’s Hockey! Boo to the Men’s team! Additional boo to Gov Gav for douching out. “Pronouns” is such a gross, dismissive term for people’s fucking HUMAN RIGHTS.
It’s 6:45 AM in the morning in the procrastinators time zone, and I am now back in bed. Wood on the fire, four of the six cats are fed. Alice is pretending to be asleep so we don’t have to do eye drops yet. Jax gets fed twice what the others do, and they are all, “what’s for breakfast? Oh. I’m not really hungry…“, but he is, “oh, boyoboyoboy! Breakfast? Again? I am your HUCKLEBERRY!” and he gobbles whatever flavor of Friskies I am serving up, gives me hugs and nuzzles like I just returned from the wars.
Stuck my head outside, and the wind in the trees is roaring like the ocean, and from what I could see, pretty much all of the shoveling I did yesterday has been filled in or rearranged. I brought up some apple and cheese, and I’m going to watch something silly that doesn’t have any snow in it later today I’m gonna make death by chocolate pop tarts and maybe go outside and move snow around some more. Remains to be seen.
So, in 125 years of men's Olympic hockey, they have won 11 medals, or one medal every 11.4 years
In the 27 years of women's Olympic hockey, they have won 8 medals, one every 3.4 years. Oh and 3 golds against 2.... but sure, 'graciously' invite the women to the WH to celebrate
I have a fervent wish that the Women's hockey team really turned down the invite prior to hearing about Trump's misogynistic "joke"; that they weren't going to anyway, just on general principles.
Also Too, and ohmigod, now Evan is issuing orders that we go over to his very own site, not just veiled suggestions. Why don't you fire that traitorous bum, Robyn?
The Pentagon doesn’t want to lose access to Claude but is furious with Anthropic
Oh really, Axios? The building is mad? Or, do you mean the entire DOD is angry, about Claude having security features? Somehow, I doubt that. If you mean the leadership is smashing their empty vodka bottles, fine, say that.
Inflation is apparently more than just an economic concept.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/23/multimedia/23ST-BEZOS-MET-zfgc/23ST-BEZOS-MET-zfgc-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp
That is not a flattering pic.
It's good thing that security lines don't have silicone detectors.
Olivia Benson would never stand for this:
Ryan Goodman at Just Security unearthed documents showing that five days after Epstein’s July 2019 arrest, the FBI directed NYPD’s Special Victims Unit to halt all Epstein investigations. The email is explicit: “SVU has been directed to stand down and that all Epstein stuff needs to go to and through us.”
https://narativ.substack.com/p/npr-fbi-covered-up-trump-rape-claims?r=x9ha&utm_medium=ios
I know we like to rag on Trump for being a very big liar who lies about everything, but we really should give him credit when he is honest. Such as when he says he'd kill everybody. Pretty sure, given the chance, that is his plan.
Ever since the overlords of free market capitalism saw labor unions rise up and ordinary working people start working 40 hour weeks, overtime pay, children going to school instead of into mines and mills etc etc etc the plan has been to "DO SOMETHING about that". The plan has been over a century in the works.
He is just the lapdog chosen to do that 'something'. And it is no accident that his HHS Secretary is a Medical Science skeptic with a hard-on for removing vaccines from the reach of ordinary people. The best way to remove the most people in one fell swoop is another pandemic.
In other Shitfaced news:
“Hegseth Shares Update on Government Release of UFO Files”
https://apple.news/AY81D-EGZTwimIa6PR6jxTg
With everything going on:
Bobby Brain Worm and Skid Mark doing whatever the fuck that workout montage was supposed to be.
Bug Eyes partying with the men’s hockey team.
Cosplay Barbie and her side piece doing Blankygate.
Etc, etc, it’s hard to take these clowns seriously as threats to democracy.
Then we see that Shitfaced wants Grok to spy on all of us.
Sigh.
If you mix those Tennessee lawmakers together you see the guy who presided over my husband’s grandmother’s funeral in Mississippi last week.
They’re all giving “Pastor whose search history you definitely do not want to look it.”
What, Pody and Jody? They’re fine boys, I’m sure.
While I wouldn't want to look at it, I would also classify it as "Pastor whose search history you definitely want a functioning FBI to look at."
Yeah, Newsom should stop rolling trans people under the bus. You know why trans rights have become a political football? Because the right wing has been lying their ass off about trans people. For example: gender dysphoria is not a real thing, kids are getting "multilating" surgeries, trans people will assault someone in a gender-conforming restroom (so we can't have them there), etc. Instead of going quiet about the issue, I'd like my poliiticans to push back against this lie machine.
As Charlotte Clymer likes to formulate it, the hockey team will not be going to the WH, but the men's hockey team will.
The Pentagon has reached a deal with Musk that will allow use of xAI's Grok chatbot in classified systems (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/musks-xai-and-pentagon-reach-deal-to-use-grok-in-classified-systems/ar-AA1WVtlB). You know, the one that has few guardrails and a bunch of Nazi content. However, reportedly, replacing Claude entirely would not be easy: it is embedded in many DoD (I refuse to call it DoW) systems.
Claude’s current ad campaign emphasizes the fact that they’re not running ads in the chat. So now I’m picturing Pentagon officials having to sit through a pitch for the cybertruck before being able to order a drone strike against Iran.
Pornhub for the Pentagon!
I'm pretty sure if you pay them enough billions, they'd axe the ads.
You’d think, but with MechaHitler, you never know what could happen.