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FWIW, Wonkers, ya filthy fuckaducks, Yer Elder Evil is gonna humble brag for just a second or three.

I've had chronic (heh) severe pain issues since breaking my back in 2004 and getting my ride side and pelvis crushed 2 weeks before back surgery in 2005. (Throw in 3 hurricanes in a row and having a baby, and yeah, those were some frisky GD years)

Anywho, I've been on Morphine ER since late 2005. It's been slowly but surely paralyzing my intestines and esophagus. It Sucks.

So, with the support of my darling fiance', my friends who know much about pain and "alternative" things, and my local dispensary/Apothecary, I am Morphine free for the first time in 23 years.

I got fed up with the stepping down process dragging it out, so a week ago I just quit, cold turkey. It wasn't pleasant, but it was necessary. The worst side effects are gone, now I'm just dealing with the BP spikes and drops.

So now I'm managing my pain with this Mushroom and CBD concoction my apothecary whips up for me, with CBD oil for breakthrough pain. I'm not as good as I was on morphine, but I'm getting better daily.

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Well! I'm pretty sure the grotesque part is behind you. I hope yr body does the right thing now it has its marching orders. Best wishes to you.

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She was plunged into many things at age 7, and has had her hands full. I doubt if her life resembles yours.

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Explain to Robyn why vaping and drinking wine during on her air time is unprofessional and not helpful for Wonkette's reputation .

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I'm sure she'd take it better from you, Mark!

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She's a woman who managed to evade a ruined life somehow. But she didn't also get to college, I guess, or she'd have learned about strikes. I'm glad somebody talked her around. I think she's shown many times that she's a generous person, and a really good person.

What did Bill Maher say? Is his show on all this time?

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She's been in the entertainment industry since she was seven, and she was surrounded by people in other unions like IATSE that whole time. She didn't have to go to college to learn about unions, she been in one since childhood.

She doesn't make most of her money from acting anymore, as she's trying to be the next Martha Stewart. Either she forgot how unions work, or she thought "I'm Drew, I'm special, people won't care."

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Nope. She's been in one and around them, it doesn't mean she's struggled through a strike. That's when you learn about strikes and you also learn about the stark severity for everyone involved-- either that or when you study the union movement. If she'd understood, she'd never have made a choice that would make people hate her.

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Dude, I was in a union only for a year, and I knew all about strikes. I still have not studied the labor movement, and it was never mentioned at all in college.

It's just not plausible that someone who's been in a union for 40+ years doesn't know about unions and strikes. She's been in a union longer than she's been an adult.

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Plus, unions aren't quiet. They are CONSTANTLY sending you stuff about them, emails, etc. She would have to ignore 40+ of literature and emails.

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That idiot Maher deserves to lose everything. First for his crappy show to begin with, second for this.

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Sep 18, 2023·edited Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Black feral kitteh has returned to my aunts farm and had another litter of kittens.

Bit the bullet and ordered a live trap myself, cause it is quite the hassle to get one trough the local rescues. They might need them themselves, involves lots of driving etc. Figured this would keep happening anyway, there is always some feral moving in and starting the cycle a new.

Hopefully we will be succesfull doing TNR on her this time.

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sorry, what's "TNR" in this context?

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Trap, Neuter, Return.

It is an adult cat, that has no trust in humans and no socialisation. It's probably happiest if it is allowed to keep living it's life how it has been... just without creating more new cats.

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round here, we get abandoned pets for this reason. People will let their cats go outside, and then kick them out when they get pregnant orworse, drive them somewhere secluded and drop them off to "take their chances" because in their stupid heads, it is kinder than taking them to the pound.

Or just getting them fixed.

It's quite infuriating.

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I have met a few men who just dissolve in to a puddle of goo when they just THINK about getting their male pet fixed.

It's like, my dude, your dog/cat has not been socialized to think of their balls that way. Unlike you, they haven't been told to value their testes as precious manhood gems since birth.

The animal doesn't even know what those do, and is certainly not going to feel like less of a dog/cat afterwards. The other animals aren't going to bully and mock him for not having balls, they don't care either.

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Those men fetishize their balls, so of course they fetishize their animals. HE'D be less of a man if his dog was balless. No, it doesn't make sense, but toxic masculinity never does.

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Fritzie is a kitten like that too.

The sheep barn has a mix of neutered and non neutered cats. They do TNR eventually, but not with trapping the most shy ones.. or let it lapse when new cats wander in for a while.

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There is still a lot of farms that just let cats multiply, get sick and die, without intervention, cause it is just how its always been. When the population pressure gets too high, some of these cats wander off to farms/people, that handle it differently, therefore, there is "space.", starting a new colony if swift action isn't taken.

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Is more or less how I got Mei

There's an army base nearby and lots of farms around it, and cats can walk so the base gets cats sometimes

The pest control guy is a super soft touch and will trap the cats and then try to rehome them among the workers or people he knows. And he knows I am a sucker,so I got Mei

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Hell, if I had my way, I'D never go outside either.

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The barn cats here have a "job", which is keeping vermin away from livestock. Nonetheless, overpopulation is an ecological disaster and I really wish more farmers would be on board with neutering their colonies.

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some cats can't be held indoors cause they was borned feral and the drive is too strong. But I very very very strongly urge folk to not think a cat cannot live its best life indoors

Better for them, better for the wildlife around you

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One of my cats is like this. He is fixed and we do what we can to keep him from murdering birds, but even belled my god he’s an insane hunter. But we tried to keep him locked inside and he was vicious when we did. All my other cats have been indoor kitties

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Running on fumes today. I was awoken constantly by text messages last night. Long story short, the hospital, after a battery of tests, finally realized by 89-year-old dad has Covid. So probably my mother and sister and her husband and kid all have it. Probably due to my brother bringing it home to them. This is the downside of living with a bunch of people. Anyway, they gave my dad a 'script for Paxlovid, but they won't give my mother who was there for something like 6 hours at the ER with him one. She has to go to her PCP. I don't get why the ER (who is after all not my father's PCP either) can't just give her a test and give her the meds she needs too, but anyway...

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Once the tests are free nationally it seems like they could give her a test while she's waiting in the waiting room. Or do they think they'll eventually be sued if they do that???? Imagine if all the wasteful ignorant stories about our healthcare providers in the last 10 years even, were stacked up in a tower! Or just ask any person with a chronic pain problem-- how they'll narrow their eyes at you and challenge you and say suddenly "YOU'RE SLURRING YOUR WORDS-- WHY?" It's fun in retrospect but not otherwise. Sorry to be so talkative. I trust your father will be fine AND hope they get around to your mother if she turns out to have it.

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Sep 19, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

$$$$$

that's why

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Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

I hope everyone recovers well.

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Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Hoping for a swift recovery for all.

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This is one of the many issues I have with modern medicine. They treat parts and not the whole. And your parents are one unit. My husband is going through the same thing. His lungs are better, but he's still going to a lung specialist today, but his body aches are not any better and that has yet to be addressed. They only see people for one issue at a time, instead of looking at the whole body.

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When you have cancer they put one person in charge. They CAN do it. I guess covid is too simple, tho I know it isn't.

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Sep 18, 2023·edited Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Oh dear. A swift recovery to the Martini Consulars. (I assume that's how the hierarchy works)*

*And another damn pack of Paxlovid

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It is absolutely how the hierarchy works :-)

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Sep 24, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Get well soonest!

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Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Don't we all just love bureacracy.

She prob didn't have a case number, since she is not a patient, and they didn't wanna go trough the hassle of creating one. Plus, if she doesn't even have symptoms much (like him), if you go by triage standards, she'd probably have to wait hours to be seen for it. You'd think it's not much effort, but it's certainly not how the system is usually designed.

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What a terrible pity that your father was shaking a pill into his hand above the sink while water was running to get a drink to wash it down with and the whole bottle spilled, pills swirled around the drain three times and disappeared, and now he's going to need his medication replaced! So careless of him, and he'll be sure to be more watchful next time.

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There’s always ways to work the system… indeed. ;)

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Oh she has the symptoms. Coughing like crazy. Same with my sister.

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Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Fun!

The system is mostly designed to be able to write bills. Not so much to be the most efficient at helping. God knows it can be frustrating as hell, not just for sick people, but also for us providers.

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Ain't US healthcare grand?

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If I had been there I would have read them the riot act. But nicely. But insistently.

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Wow. The AP calls the republicans cheating, lying authoritarians.

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𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/republican-legislatures-flex-muscles-to-maintain-18372564.php

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If it goose steps like a fascist.....

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yeah but they call it "flexing muscles" instead of "do some outrageous and probably not entirely legal shit"

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My headline would have read:

Republican Nazis Try to Keep Power by Lying and Cheating

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oh they've called them Too Liberal for years, same with the rest of the media

It is the ploy for when they get actually more and more conservative for those that own said media to go "see? Both sides say it so we must be ok"

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Missed the usual--population and flag on bonus rounds.

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'Oh power, passion plays a double hand

Union, Union Union City man

Arrive, climb up four flights

To the orange side

Rearrange my mind

In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue

Skyline, passion, Union City blue

Power, passion plays a double hand

Union, Union, Union City man

I say he's mine

I have a plan

I say he's my Union City man

Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?

Union, Union, Union City blue'

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Morning all. ☕

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Sep 18, 2023·edited Sep 18, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Thank the Goddess that you people are here. And that at least it's not 4 in the morning.

Woke up too early from a dream. Long story short, I was supposed to have "brunch" (at 8 a.m.) with Hillary Clinton and two of her aids in DC. Met them at the restaurant at 8:30, not realizing I was late, apologized profusely and specifically to "Madam President," then proceeded to get lost as the waiter lead us to a table in this very busy and labyrinthian restaurant. Spent the rest of the dream wandering back alleys in DC, desperately trying to find the restaurant, and Hillary, crying and desolate that I had disappointed her. Ended up stuck half in and half out of a tiny window I was crawling through to get to the street.

And the minute I woke up I knew that I was not only myself in the dream, but also Hillary. I have disappointed myself. Tried to go back to sleep, but no dice. There's no denying the truth of this. Another "old age" dream to wrestle with. Damn it, Subconscious, take a rest!

So I got up, made coffee, fed the cats, and it was a full five minutes downstairs before I remembered that actually, Hillary Clinton never was President. And that's when my eyes suddenly filled with tears.

So maybe it's not JUST me that has disappointed me, but the whole country. Nice that it's not just my fault, I guess.

No more of that John Wick movie for me.

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You shouldn't have to bear the burden of dreaming for all adult US womanhood. It's too much.

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Good morning!

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Cool and rainy out tonight (mid-fortiesF), and Wild Thing, she who came to me as a young, mistrustful stray thirteen years ago, decided to go walkabout earlier this evening. Weighing the perils of her becoming benighted vs. her point-walking on me repeatedly during the night to remind me of her request, I folded and let her out. Looked for her and called a few times, and then went to sleep.

Awake to pee in the night, and there she was, a dark blob against the darkness at the door to my upper-story deck. She wraps around the 4x6 corner post and shimmies up, then crawls through the railing while grasping the edge of the deck.

I let her in, and found her rain bespattered, and towel-dried her. And reflecting, realized she's never been sick. Never even had a cold in all the years I've known her, not as far as I remember. The usual shots, some dental cleaning. Never been hurt.

I should take her to Cancun or something in thanks for all she's saved me in vet bills.

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Shadow had a UTI when he was a few years old, and had diarrhea a few months ago. He's 20, and that is it, so far, for his illnesses. Just the usual shots, and no dental cleanings, as he loves dry food more than wet.

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Fritzie is like two years old and already the most expensive pet I ever had.

He should take some notes.

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I made the decision to never add it up for Máebh, because I didn't want that to be a lingering factor in our relationship. ("I spent XK$ and this is the thanks I get? Hacking up hairballs next to my bed?")

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That said, I get so many gifts in return! XD

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I don’t have an exact tally either, but he racked up most of it up within a month and it’s kind of hard to miss or forget that no other cat had more than 2k in bills within just one month.

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I get it. And truly, I don't regret a penny. I just wish we'd found her diagnosis earlier.

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I applied to work at the local milk factory once upon a time, when the udder-jerkers union went on strike. To hate on a scab is to hate on a worker. A union can strike all it wants, but there may be other hungry people who would do the same work for less pay.

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Scabbing is workers, sticking it to other workers, for the benefit of the ruling class. It is telling the ruling class that it is ok to treat their workers like shit because there is always someone willing to be the serf that they want.

There's other jobs.

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There's other jobs? That pay more than $5.15 per hour? Glad you know where to find work in Cabool Missouri in 2007. Now there is precisely 1 unionized job in town; the clerk at the little post office. The milk co-op sold out years ago. Wish I could afford to be holier-than-thou about my labor, but the simple fact is that unions did a piss-poor job of organizing in the South.

And don't even get me started on the rural letter carrier's union! I've been better represented by department store mannequins.

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Unions are needed, I agree. Those cows HAVE to be milked, though. Thank goodness Momo could help if the managers were too stupid to step in. Milking is not just screwing on a widget.

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Nope... with respect...

Scabbing it the worst. We have a stronger union movement in Australia.

Scabbing is not making scratch. Here, it is war.

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Must be nice. Still, to hate a scab is to hate a worker, and the worker's family.

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And you ensure that your family continues to live in poverty.

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I'm trying to be charitable here, but scabbing is putting your needs above all of the other workers and their families by undercutting them. If you can't see why that might engender strong feelings from the people that are being undermined, well, I just don't know what to say. Unemployment in the US is low right now, so low. A hungry person should be able to find something if they are desperate. Businesses are clamoring for help.

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"... same work for less pay."

And without strong unions the owner class can get away with giving less pay for the same work. A scab is cutting their own throat.

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No, a scab is putting food on the table and paying the mortgage.

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If you don't see it you don't see it. Just be prepared for a lot of (justified) hate when you cross that picket line, because you're certainly cutting their throats.

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Hungry people will do all sorts of things for food.

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And apparently can’t see why they remain hungry for years

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possibly true, but a falling tide grounds all boats...

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In that analogy, a falling tide gives small boats an opportunity to get into the water. Like suddenly having a public access beach where there used to be Private Property: No Trespassing signs everywhere.

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and those smaller boats can never get out past the breakwater

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no, it is going to the public beach and pushing everyone else out of the way

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Just now seeing this Luke Beasley cat. Watch him and his co-host call out the gross propaganda of Harris Faulkner and her fellow Uncle Tom over "Biden's child poverty problem":

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

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