The wizard puts a very gentle heat spell on a pillow for the little cat to sit on.

🐋 Nice terrifyingly white polar bear there too

I have been ordering their coffee for years, but I guess that ends when what I have on hand runs out.

Catching up on the Moby Dick Big Read (I've been both reading and listening), and someone desperately needs to cast Jon Cleave - who appears to be a musician rather than an actor - as Ahab in something. He's delightful. 🐋

> Nashville Zoo welcomed its first-ever aardvark calf at 6:06 am on New Year’s Day. Born to first-time mom Karanga and dad Winsol, this New Year’s baby weighs about four pounds and is roughly the size of a rolling pin. [via Nashville Zoo]

On the one hand, it's on Fox, it's bullshit, & I'm repeating myself. On the other, short of the Furies themselves, the most terrifying women in the ancient Greek world were the maenads, & Fox just put the idea of maenads in the streets of America out into the aether like it's nothing.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

4yrs ago today, we helped @catsprotection.bsky.social trap this tiny, hungry, limping feral kitty. He wasn't happy about staying in our spare room for a month after a vet visit. But then he discovered duvets. And after we released him, i went for a nap. Woke up to discover he'd decided to move in.

Happy Manul Monday!

Somali aunties were giving out samosas to the anti ICE protesters in Minneapolis.

So the niecelets made themselves some cute signs and protested today. I get it. Their classmates are directly affected. They've seen the interrogations in grocery store parking lots. I'm guessing being able to join in anything feels better. But they're so young. The little one's only 9.

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

Scenes from the easy chair.

Attn: @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social

For @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social and everyone else reading Moby-Dick!

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

The season’s first orphaned Ruru was admitted to Birdcare Aotearoa's nursery. BCA says with food, rest, and flight practice this feisty youngster can be released in a safe location. Want to donate? birdcareaotearoa.org.nz/donate/ Video source: instagram.com/p/DR-9wwck0OQ #owlsintowels 💛🦉 🇳🇿

forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet

#Caturday 🐱: Edward Gorey (USA, 1925-2000) #Cat Fancy, 1993 Original cover illustration created for The New Yorker magazine Watercolor, graphite, & ink on paper 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8 1/2 in.) thehotbid.com/2019/06/05/s... #CatsInArt

This is one of my oldest friends. We've known each other for thirty years. Yesterday she had to help stop a kidnapping of her neighbor and then helped a fellow observer recover from federal assault. She says if you want to help Minneapolis right this minute, donate ice crampons and yaktrax.

Maneki neko statues at Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. #Caturday #ManekiNeko #LuckyCat

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One of Kish's illustrations for Ch 35: "There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea" 🐋 everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/2010/02/moby...

Meet the caracal. Scientists think this cat twitches its ear tassels to communicate with others (in addition to meowing, purring, hissing, and more). It can jump up to 3 m (10 ft) & can even swat birds out of the air for a meal! Photo: Paul Fenwick, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

This is Violet - isn't she beautiful? For some reasons the other outdoor ducks all picked on her and no matter what social combination we tried she ended up hiding, so we brought her indoors to live with the bunnies and special needs birds.

Well, that was a funny conversation. Weeks of vague miscommunications, and we just realized that despite our job titles, we are each informally "the lawyer" at work. We were both trying to translate legalese into numbers and business jargon, but it turns out we could just speak lawyer to each other!

Forgot the 🐋📖

I saw we had a cat on the surgical roster named Nuno Gloop this morning and was not at all disappointed by how great he is. And he is going to be available for adoption shortly too!

"God keep me from ever completing anything", I say as I stack the 7 books I'm in the middle of, start a craft project before I finish that quilt I've been working on for 3 years, and clean up a cold, half-empty cup of tea. 🐋 #adhd

"Hey Siri, how do I talk to my 6yo about masked secret police assaulting their elementary school?" (Don't @ me about AI. I don't even have an iPhone. this is a joke, random stranger.)

Do you know how hard is was for these folks to not utter the words "You just have to rock it out, back and forth. You got this."

I'm not sure people who live outside of snowy Northern regions understand the level of hostility required to ignore a stuck motorist. It's almost like the hospitality taboo in the desert, where you know it could be you some other day. This basically means ICE is being completely shunned.

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat https://theonion.com/ken-burns-announces-new-10-part-mr-biscuits-documentary-after-adopting-cat/

Speaking of narwhals, have you seen the narwhal that adopted a beluga? 🐋📖https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/adopted-lone-narwhal-traveling-among-belugas-may-produce-narluga-calves-180979695/

Fork-marked lemurs and African needle-clawed galagos are a classic case of convergent evolution—they’re both small, nocturnal, primates with strikingly similar looks and lifestyles. The twist? They live about 3,000 miles apart and aren’t closely related 📷: Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino

Don't ever do business with someone who's weird and defensive and lashes out about money. Not even if you're both supposedly anti-capitalist types who are supposed to be focused on the art or the cause or the mission. Maybe especially if you're both those types.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic

DEEP. SEA. SHIPWRECK. 🐋

By request: an baby

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

I see that Cybertruck Guy is the kind of person who only clears the snow off his windshield and lets the wind take care of the rest. For everyone else's sake, I hope the rest is gone by the time he gets to the I-70 ramp.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

Adult black-footed cats only weigh around four pounds when fully grown! This means kittens are only a few ounces at birth 😻

New Riley Black book! New Riley Black book!

I've told myself more or less the same thing at 7:59 AM on the due date of the term paper, after 8 cups of coffee and zero sleep, no longer fully remembering everything I wrote. 🐋