w-i-zard.bsky.social
Author of Metamancer - ★★★★⯨ (398)
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My family was adopted by a Tabby that needed a place to birth her kittens many years ago. Life in the wild is cold, dangerous, and hungry. It was the other two cats that had never lived outside that would try to escape...
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Other critics note that as soon as Epstein files made the news cycle there was a dire emergency (over there... look over there!)
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People with romanticized ideas of wild life: "Oh how can you keep him cooped up inside! The tragedy!"
Actual cats that once lived outdoors: "It's warm in here and I'm full <purrrrrr>"
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*RFK
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JFK wasn't infested by a brain worm, he was holding it hostage in an unused section of his body.
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🤣 Now that's some clever schist!
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If I got to make the rules, both forms would be 'it's'. 'its' would be reserved for the odball case of multiple instances of 'it'. Nobody is ever confused about which meaning is intended based on context, so there's no good reason to remove the apostrophe, but I don't get to make the rules.
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Not many folks are fishing on the front lines in Ukraine these days. LOTS of fiber-optic controlled drones, however.
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Don't worry, they haven't started yet.
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Aphids producing honeydew, I suspect.
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Nope. You've forgotten the bit where if you believe, it will show in your actions. If you don't believe, the words you might say are meaningless.
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Oh wow yeah I remember finding a copy at my grandmother's house and reading it several times. I think I still have that copy (it looked just like this)... haven't thought about it for years.
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The think tank is to figure out how to sound like they are saying that without actually doing anything their donors don't like.
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I want to see the ensuing argument about what proportion of spiders actually prey on hemiptera...
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I'm jealous, further north and probably more suburban we just don't get many snakes. I had a python and a corn snake in college. There's some memory fueling that one scene in my book with a snake :)
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Yes, sit down before you fall down!
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That's not how it works... the cat got you. (But you will enjoy it nonetheless)
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I'm so conflicted about these memes... I like tacos...
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I love wild animals, but one has to be careful about wishing to be them. Most wild animals spend a whole lot of time hungry or in constant mortal fear of much larger predators. Also, most animals are not social, so it's a lonely existence.
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✔️ I'm in this post and I don't like it.
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Because you got to buy an air compressor and an air stapler for attaching the carpet, of course.
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Ah. Too bad the prior owner didn't leave just a little space.
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Kind of a strange looking construction there. I'm guessing leave collecting against the removed portion it promoted rot/insects? But it's hard to picture how such a situation came to be in the first place.
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It's next up on the TBR!
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Yes, that's what I said. Focus on the goal, be flexible in how it's achieved. I'm sure If you ask anyone in either camp if the want health care to be affordable they all say yes. How to get there is the only contention.
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Unhelpful. Even if there is a difference (dubious), they are still people too, and the candidates need to work for them too. Never mind that my suggestion is actually to simplify by agreeing on goals first. So even if you believe that article you should be agreeing...
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The primary reason I've found that right wing folks don't like progressives, is that progressives advocate things achieved by government, but right-wing has fundamentally lost all trust of government. We need to focus on goals and ideas without being tied to a particular means of reaching the goal.
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Or they could arm themselves with policies that benefit people not corporations... Maybe try being good, rather than slightly less bad than something horrible.
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Don't worry, they haven't started yet...
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(Now I just loose income when I get sick)
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"Mental Health" sick days should be allowed, but one should be very careful with that concept. If one is ill and forced to go to work, that can harm the other employees and the business. I saved sick days like they were potions for a boss fight. Now I'm self-employed, so that's not a thing anymore.
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I bought cliff notes a couple times in high school, they were always less interesting and thus harder to read than the book itself.
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The ones you really want are the Phlocidae... they eat everything, including other spiders. Self regulating.
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Only spiders I persecute are the ones not easily distinguished from Yellow Sac spiders (Cheiracanthium) that do pose a some risk. The rest are very welcome. Had a Theridiidae house spider make a web behind my faucet in an apartment once. I noticed dead ants under the web and said, "YOU, can stay!".
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I just loved Life on Earth... it was shown in my 7th grade Bio class and I loved it (I earned a BA & MA in Biology). It's hard to fathom how much he's done for wildlife. I'm so very happy that he's had such a long life and hope it continues with happiness for as long as possible. Happy Birthday!
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One of my favorite bio-nerd words :)
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That's a book I keep thinking I should re-read... and then thinking No.. No, I really shouldn't re-read that. (Wait, is that double-think? ugh.)
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Not trillions. He saved less than 50 billion via DOGE, before adding long term costs incurred... such as Veterans who go to emergency rooms with acute problems because the VA couldn't help with chronic problems, or shelters to house those made homeless by the loss of food stamps.
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🤣
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Looks like a cream-point Siamese.
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No book? Some people like to hear about that ;)
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Or you can just read Bunnicula to him and really confuse things :).
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These goals are great. The thing that stands in the way is campaign finance. It's why the Dems continually put up toothless, lame leaders that do very little, and why republicans repeatedly cut taxes on corporations and the rich. How will you address campaign finance?
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Folks cheering the bird have never had to service a signage covered in bird crap.
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This is the sort of statement that expires the moment it is made.