anspoka.cz
Your favourite pragmatic poet, always angry or amused. Owner of too many plants, serving a cat, learning to speak in a mic, preferring the sun.
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Are those the ones in amazing colours - deep blue and sunshine yellow?
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My cat loves to stare right at my face and be stared back when we have cuddles.
I secretly think she does it for me, to keep _me_ content.
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Just now I caught a moment where the Kitto was sitting on the floor, busy cleaning her paw. I stood up to walk to the wardrobe and get my skirt out. Kitto noticed me and immediately ran and jumped in that shelf.
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Btw, customer service people who read those emails are usually pretty powerless in these situations. You’ll just make a bunch of individuals even more miserable. And left with tons of customer cases they can’t do anything with and that’s going to reflect badly on their “scores” and then pay.
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'read it out loud' is universal to all writing. I as an editor tell that to all writers - poets, essayists, fiction writers, etc. I usually accompany that with a nudge along the lines of: "if you choke up here, if it doesn't flow, think about rephrasing this."
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I hate when the hotel has a check-in deadline at 8 pm, but also has listed a benefit of 24 hr desk.
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I wrote it about some stupid shit going on at work, but these days it feels like applies to all sorts.
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If they are not allergic to cats and not opposed to sleeping on the sofa, I can at least be the short term host in Central Europe. Liking beer would make it easier.
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It's not what I meant, I apologise if it sounded like I did. I wasn't comparing our childhoods by presuming yours.
I was just stating what my personal priorities were when I was a kid.
And the child me would be so disappointed because I didn't grow up tall in the end.
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I hated being a child. I was well aware I was powerless.
I wanted to be tall and proud. I didn’t want to be the ice cream man, nor astronaut, no profession. I wanted to be *me* taken seriously.
In my case people eventually stopped asking :D
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(I haven't seen the film, because of the casting choice. Nothing particular, just not my thing)
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I must admit, I haven't seen the latest season. But I do love an emotionally stunned, yet practicing basic human decency character.
Which brings me back to when I was a kid and people would ask me: what do you want to be when you grow up?
And I'd say: TALL.
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Mind you, she was also prone to growing stones in her bladder, so over the counter food became not an option at some point. And then it was a bit of trial and error with the vet foods until we got there.
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My cat would get sickly if she ate the same food for a long period of time, haha. And that's on top of her being a picky eater, she refuses to consider stuff not made by Purina edible.
Our solution came from our vet. We tried a few food choices and found the one that agrees with her mind and body.
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I was in Catholic school for 9 years. I can vouch for absolute lack of ability to interpretation as such. Which becomes increasingly amusing once one starts reading the actual bible. But don’t fret, that’s why priests exist - to do all the interpreting for ya. It’s literally their job.
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Me too. And not just emotionally, but it's the (legally too, actually) responsibility that I took on when I got my cat. I'm the provider of food, access to healthcare and cuddles.
My cat tends to want peace when she's unwell, but I wouldn't impose that on her by shutting her in somewhere.
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I love my collection of notebooks. As a poet, I sometimes pick one of them up, and steal my own ideas, even specific lines to be transformed into new poems. It's a lot of fun.
(I also keep markers in the notebooks which poems are already used where to avoid duplicates :D)
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I was like that as a child. Adults directing me what I should be doing instead of the thing I wanted to do, and I’d nod, agree, then go to do the thing I wanted anyway.
Being an adult myself, this is not as easy as the consequences are in a whole different league. But my instinct is still the same
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if she is, I can tell you from personal experiences (with two cats) that allergies are usually very manageable with food choices. there's rarely need for additional medication. vets can advise the most appropriate diets.
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I think you might like Dead to Me: www.imdb.com/title/tt8064...
It's emotional, dramatic, funny, heartbreaking, soothing, and also interesting. (I'm not sure why Netflix puts it in the comedy section, it's a lot of other things more than that.)
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Me holding a poster: normalise salad for breakfast! (and seaweed if you have it.)
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There’s always MSD www.msd.com
They have offices around the world and I presume that could provide *some* flexibility with moving around and taking the job with you.
(I only know a bit about the local CZ office which is mostly IT.)
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I love writing by hand. I find it faster than typing. And as for creative writing - that's the way my brain explains my idea to me.
Having said that, my handwriting is terrible. As an act of rebellion at school, I purposefully ruined it. At the same time - I am the sole person who needs to read it
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4.
We didn't have Blockbuster where I grew up. and I haven't sent a fax, but I have received a fax once. that was terrifying and I decided I'm never going into admin work :D
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I remember we had to read one of Remark’s books and then do (written) exercises. As I had read 4 of them the year before, I spent some lesson time reading Shakespeare. For some reason I did not get the same reaction :D
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In the light of the Meta news, I think my response should be posting some whimsy on Bsky. (Instead of.)
And I moved my only Messenger chat to Discord. Mind you, the only semi-active chat I had there was me and another queer exchanging angry emojis from time to time. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I think this is worth reporting to Bsky support. It might be a bug.
(The quoted post shows as “blocked” for me too).
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I think life can get a bit hard and cooking can seem like making everything so much more harder. But tipping drivers could be your bit to make someone else’s life a bit less harsh.
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I've switched off reposts, but kept quoted posts. that has made my feed (and experience) so much better.
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Thank you for this thread! My neighbour's cat does this quite often. To us it looked like an involuntary surprise reaction, but now we know better! :)) and it tracks with her personality, she is a very curious animal, always interested in almost everything and ready to participate in anything.
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We have a tap with 2 nobs. One of them has 3 choices: lukewarm, cold and sparkling, cold not sparkling. The other does unfiltered hot-ish. We also have a kettle that I have more than once accidentally filled with sparkling water.
I’ve started to bring my own (tap) water when I go to the office